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The Aeneidby Virgil, Charles James BillsonISBN 0486287491 (0-486-28749-1)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Aeneid'Book summary:Considered the greatest Roman poet, Vergil spent over a decade working on this monumental epic poem, which has been a source of inspiration for more than 2,000 years. Its twelve books tell the heroic story of Aeneas, a Trojan who escaped the burning ruins of Troy to found Lavinium, the parent city of Rome, in the west.
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Alice's Abenteuer Im Wunderland German Translationby Carroll LISBN 0486206688 (0-486-20668-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice's Abenteuer Im Wunderland German Translation'Book summary:Supervised by Carroll himself, here is the first foreign language translation of the children's book classic after its original 1865 publication. While the humor, verses, songs, and puns made many consider the work untranslatable, translator Antonie Zimmermann solved that problem by substituting common German phrases for the English originals. Includes 42 John Tenniel illustrations.[via]More editions of Alice's Abenteuer Im Wunderland German Translation:
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderlandby Lewis CarrollISBN 0486416585 (0-486-41658-5)
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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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Alice's Adventures in Wonderlandby Robert Blaisdell, Lewis Carroll, Marty NobleISBN 0486403459 (0-486-40345-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'Book summary:A little girl falls down a rabbit hole and discovers a world of nonsensical and amusing characters. [via]
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland/With All the Original Illustrations by Sir John Tennielby Lewis Carroll, John TennielISBN 0486275434 (0-486-27543-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland/With All the Original Illustrations by Sir John Tenniel'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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The Ambassadorsby Henry JamesISBN 048642457X (0-486-42457-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ambassadors'Book summary:The Ambassadors, which Henry James considered his best work, is the most exquisite refinement of his favorite theme: the collision of American innocence with European experience. This time, James recounts the continental journey of Louis Lambert Strether--a fiftysomething man of the world who has been dispatched abroad by a rich widow, Mrs. Newsome. His mission: to save her son Chadwick from the clutches of a wicked (i.e., European) woman, and to convince the prodigal to return to Woollett, Massachusetts. Instead, this all-American envoy finds Europe growing on him. Strether also becomes involved in a very Jamesian "relation" with the fascinating Miss Maria Gostrey, a fellow American and informal Sacajawea to her compatriots. Clearly Paris has "improved" Chad beyond recognition, and convincing him to return to the U.S. is going to be a very, very hard sell. Suspense, of course, is hardly James's stock-in-trade. But there is no more meticulous mapper of tone and atmosphere, nuance and implication. His hyper-refined characters are at their best in dialogue, particularly when they're exchanging morsels of gossip. Astute, funny, and relentlessly intelligent, James amply fulfills his own description of the novelist as a person upon whom nothing is lost. --Rhian Ellis [via]
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America Unbound: The Bush Revolution in Foreign Policyby Ivo H. Daalder, James M. LindsayISBN 0471741507 (0-471-74150-7)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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The New York TimesLike it or not, George W. Bush has launched a revolution in American foreign policy. He has redefined how America engages the world, shedding the constraints that friends, allies, and international institutions once imposed on its freedom of action. In America Unbound, Ivo Daalder and James Lindsay caution that the Bush revolution comes with serious risksand, at some point, we may find that Americas friends and allies will refuse to follow his lead, leaving the U.S. unable to achieve its goals. This edition has been extensively revised and updated to include major policy changes and developments since the books original publication. [via]
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America's Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975by George HerringISBN 0471015474 (0-471-01547-4)
Softcover, Wiley
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American Fairy Talesby L. Frank Baum, N. P. HallISBN 0486236439 (0-486-23643-9)
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The Architecture of Country Houses: Including Designs for Cottages, and Farmhouses, and Villas, With Remarks on Interiors, Furniture, and the Best Mby Andrew Jackson DowningISBN 0486220036 (0-486-22003-6)
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Aventures d Alice Au Pays Des Merveillesby Lewis CarrollISBN 0486228363 (0-486-22836-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aventures d Alice Au Pays Des Merveilles'Book summary:This magnificent translation of Alice in Wonderland into French was supervised by Lewis Carroll himself. Remarkably fresh and original, it renders the English puns and parodies with French equivalents. A treat for students of French, it features no English text and all 42 of the original illustrations by John Tenniel.[via]More editions of Aventures d Alice Au Pays Des Merveilles:
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Babbittby Sinclair LewisISBN 0486431673 (0-486-43167-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Babbitt'Book summary:Prosperous and socially prominent, George Babbitt appears to have everything. But when a personal crisis forces the middle-aged real estate agent to reexamine his life, Babbitt mounts a rebellion that jeopardizes everything he values. Widely considered Sinclair Lewis' greatest novel, this satire remains an ever-relevant tale of an individual caught in the machinery of modern life.[via]More editions of Babbitt:
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The Beast in the Jungle and Other Storiesby Henry JamesISBN 0486275523 (0-486-27552-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Beast in the Jungle and Other Stories'Book summary:Regarded by many as James's greatest achievement in short fiction, "The Beast in the Jungle" is a portrait of a man alienated from life and love. "The Jolly Corner" and "The Altar of the Dead" are two tales that explore the complex interlacings of loss, love and the ever-present past in the lives of their protagonists. Note. [via]
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Burgess Bird Book for Childrenby Thornton W. BurgessISBN 0486428400 (0-486-42840-0)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Burgess Bird Book for Children'Book summary:Renowned naturalist and author of children's books on wildlife successfully blends information and entertainment in his book about birds, among them saucy Jenny Wren, Redwing the Blackbird, Melody the Wood Thrush, Spooky the Screech Owl, Creaker the Purple Grackle, Downy the Woodpecker, and other feathered friends. 32 black-and-white illustrations.[via]More editions of Burgess Bird Book for Children:
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Carrying the Flag: The Story of Private Charles Whilden, the Confederacy's Most Unlikely Heroby Gordon C. RheaISBN 0465069576 (0-465-06957-6)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Carrying The Flag: The Story of Private Charles Whilden, the Confederacy's Most Unlikely Hero'Book summary:For forty years, Charles Whilden lived a life noteworthy for failure. Then, in a remarkable chain of events, this aging, epileptic desk clerk from Charleston found himself plunged into the brutal battlefields of the Wilderness (May 57, 1864) and Spotsylvania Court House (May 820, 1864). In an astonishing act of bravery, he wrapped the flag around his body and led a charge that won critical ground for the Confederates, changing the course of one of the war's most significant battles.Gordon C. Rhea combines his deep knowledge of Civil War history with original sources, such as a treasure trove of letters written by Charles Whilden, to tell the story of this unusual life. Growing up in a prominent family that had fallen on hard times, Charles received a good education, and his letters reveal flashes of intelligence. But he failed at the practice of law in his home state and in his endeavors elsewhere, including copper speculation, real estate ventures, and farming. After the attack on Fort Sumter, Charles returned to Charleston to enlist in Confederate service, only to be turned down until the rebellion was on its last legs. Even then he saw only a few weeks of combat. But in that time, he discovered a bravery within himself that nothing in his former existence suggested he had.[via]More editions of Carrying the Flag: The Story of Private Charles Whilden, the Confederacy's Most Unlikely Hero:
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Chicago Poemsby Carl SandburgISBN 0486280578 (0-486-28057-8)
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The Cocktail Waitress: Woman's Work in a Man's Worldby James P. Spradley, Brenda J. MannISBN 0471817686 (0-471-81768-6)
Hardcover, Wiley
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Colonial and Early American Lightingby Arthur H. HaywardISBN 048620975X (0-486-20975-X)
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Common Sense: Library Editionby Thomas PaineISBN 0486296024 (0-486-29602-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Common Sense: Library Edition'Book summary:"These are the times that try men's souls," begins Thomas Paine's first Crisis paper, the impassioned pamphlet that helped ignite the American Revolution. Published in Philadelphia in January of 1776, Common Sense sold 150,000 copies almost immediately. A powerful piece of propaganda, it attacked the idea of a hereditary monarchy, dismissed the chance for reconciliation with England, and outlined the economic benefits of independence while espousing equality of rights among citizens. Paine fanned a flame that was already burning, but many historians argue that his work unified dissenting voices and persuaded patriots that the American Revolution was not only necessary, but an epochal step in world history. [via]
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Countdown: A History of Space Flightby T. A. HeppenheimerISBN 0471291056 (0-471-29105-6)
Softcover, Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
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Crime and Punishmentby Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Constance Black GarnettISBN 0486415872 (0-486-41587-2)
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The Cultural Life of the American Coloniesby Louis B. Wright, Henry Steele Commager, Richard Brandon Morris, Steele Henry CommagerISBN 0486422232 (0-486-42223-2)
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Daisy Millerby Henry JamesISBN 0486287734 (0-486-28773-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Daisy Miller'Book summary:Famous novella chronicles a young american girl's willful yet innocent flirtation with a young italian, and its unfortunate consequences. Throughout, james contrasts american customs and values with european manners and morals in a narrative rich in psychological and social insight [via]
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Data Structures And Algorithms in Javaby Roberto Tamassia, Michael T. GoodrichISBN 0471738840 (0-471-73884-0)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Data Structures And Algorithms in Java'Book summary:Using the power of technology to go beyond the borders of the printed page, Goodrich and Tamassia have created a book that is conceptually elegant and innovative. It incorporates the object-oriented design paradigm, using Java as the implementation language while also providing the fundamental intuition and analysis of each data structure studied. [via]
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Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded As Peculiar to the United Statesby John Russell BartlettISBN 047122877X (0-471-22877-X)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded As Peculiar to the United States'Book summary:A rediscovered classic of American slangnow with a Foreword by bestselling language maven Richard Lederer, author of Anguished English and The Miracle of Language
From abisselfa to yourn, John Russell Bartletts groundbreaking Dictionary of Americanisms celebrated the language of a budding nation, whose rebellious declaration of independence was most evident in its own evolving colloquialisms. Originally published in 1848, the Dictionary of Americanisms was the first lexicon to portray the entire tapestry of uniquely American expressions in one volume, from the New England coast to the Far West and everything in between. The result is a window into everyday life and culture in a rapidly growing United States, with entries representing every region, linguistic heritage, and field of interest:
- New England: funkify, plaguy sight, kedge
- The South: marooning, catawamptiously chawed up
- New York: clockmutch, rullichies, soap-lock
- The West: scrouger, prairie bitters, I dad!
- Spanish: sangaree, chaparral, vamos
- Native American languages: netop, sagamore, supawn
- Politics: slang-whanging, Dough-Faces, to row up Salt river
- Business: wild cat bank, corner, Peter Funk
Filled with amusing anecdotes, editorial asides, and some surprisingly modern slang, this facsimile of the books first edition is a great rediscovery for a new generation of readers and a fascinating snapshot of life in the early decades of the United States of America. [via]
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Dr. Faustusby Christopher MarloweISBN 0486282082 (0-486-28208-2)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dr. Faustus'Book summary:Doctor Faustus exists in two versions, both of which were edited from performances in the time of Marlowe. Both are considered to be authentic, but there are notable differences, both the b text containing additional scenes as well as different wording. Doctor Faustus: A text *Written to help students make the transition from GCSE to AS/A level;*Contains a detailed introductory section that puts the play in its historical context;*Provides in-depth textual notes;*Contains exam-style questions;*Includes carefully selected extracts from key critical works on the play;*Offers additional study skills for AS and A2 learning. [via]
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Dublinersby James JoyceISBN 0486268705 (0-486-26870-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dubliners'Book summary:Declared by their author to be a chapter in the moral history of Ireland, this much-acclaimed collection of 15 tales features timeless insights into the human condition. A fine and accessible introduction to the work of one of the 20th-century's most influential writers, it includes a masterpiece of the short-story genre, "The Dead."[via] -
An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United Statesby Charles Austin BeardISBN 048643365X (0-486-43365-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States'Book summary:This famous study one of the most influential in the area of American economic history brought a halt to Americans' uncritical reverence for their country's revolutionary past. Questioning the Founding Fathers' motivations in drafting the Constitution, it viewed the results as a product of economic self-interest. Perhaps the most controversial books of its time.[via]More editions of An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States:
Every Day Life in the Massachusetts Bay Colonyby George DowISBN 0486255654 (0-486-25565-4)
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A Few Acres of Snow: The Saga of the French and Indian Warsby Robert LeckieISBN 0471390208 (0-471-39020-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Few Acres of Snow: The Saga of the French and Indian Wars'Book summary:Historian Robert Leckie is renowned for his combative prose and pugnacious opinions concerning the major triumphs and tragedies of the U.S. armed forces, and fans will not be disappointed in A Few Acres of Snow, in which he tackles Britain's conquest of North America. Beginning with Europe's first contact with the Americas, Leckie lays a solid geopolitical foundation for his discussion of the various conflicts that tore across Canada and the northern American colonies in the 17th and 18th centuries. Leckie betrays his Francophilia with extensive court gossip and decadent anecdotes of the European elite; the most detailed accounts of colonialism concern New France and the efforts of its military governors, traders, and priests to wrest order from a landscape imperiled by Iroquois attackers, British invaders, and, perhaps most fatally, corruption from within the governing body itself. (In his concluding chapter on Montcalm's defeat on the Fields of Abraham, Leckie speculates that Quebec's governor, Vaudreuil, might have deliberately sabotaged his nation's defenses out of monetary self-interest.)
A Few Acres of Snow also rejects recent scholarship on the French-Indian Wars by Richard White and Robert Merrill, which has revised traditional Native American roles from that of bloodthirsty savages to active participants in the Northwest Territory's political economy. Leckie's account often reads like a cantankerous, politically incorrect throwback to an era of historical writing where the Iroquois spent most of their time torturing Jesuits and roasting babies while the European civilizations, corrupt and flawed as they were, ultimately claimed an unruly empire. --John M. Anderson [via]
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The Gold-Bug and Other Talesby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 0486268756 (0-486-26875-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gold-Bug and Other Tales'Book summary:Nine gripping tales of psychological terror and the supernatural, by the undisputed master of the American Gothic horror story: "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Masque of the Red Death," "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Pit and the Pendulum," and 4 others. Includes a selection from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.[via]More editions of The Gold-Bug and Other Tales:
The Golden Age of the Posterby Cirker, Hayward, CompISBN 0486227537 (0-486-22753-7)
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Great Poems by American Women: An Anthologyby Susan RattinerISBN 0486401642 (0-486-40164-2)
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Guardians of the Arsenal: The Politics of Nuclear Strategyby Janne E. NolanISBN 046509807X (0-465-09807-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Ageby Walter A. McDougallISBN 0465028888 (0-465-02888-8)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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The Higher Arithmeticby H. DavenportISBN 0486244520 (0-486-24452-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Higher Arithmetic'Book summary:Updated in a seventh edition, The Higher Arithmetic introduces concepts and theorems in a way that does not require the reader to have an in-depth knowledge of the theory of numbers, and also touches on matters of deep mathematical significance. This new edition includes state of the art material on the use of computers in number theory, as well as taking full account of the proving of Fermat's last theorem. [via]
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How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New Yorkby Jacob A. RiisISBN 0486220125 (0-486-22012-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York'Book summary:This famous journalistic record of the filth and degradation of New York's slums at the turn of the century is a classic in social thought and a monument of early American photography. Captured on film by photographer, journalist, and reformer Jacob Riis, more than 100 grim scenes reveal man's struggle to survive. [via]
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The Infernoby Dante Alighieri, Henry Wadsworth LongfellowISBN 0486442888 (0-486-44288-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Inferno'Book summary:The first of the 3 canticles in La divina commedia (The Divine Comedy), this 14th-century allegorical poem begins Dante's imaginary journey from Hell to Purgatory to Paradise with his sojourn among the damned. There he encounters historical and mythological creatures each symbolic of a particular vice or crime. Translated beautifully by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.[via]More editions of The Inferno:
The Innocents Abroadby Mark TwainISBN 048642832X (0-486-42832-X)
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An Intellectual In Publicby Alan WolfeISBN 0472068652 (0-472-06865-2)
Softcover, Univ of Michigan Pr
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Land of Little Rainby Mary Hunter AustinISBN 0486290379 (0-486-29037-9)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Let the Sea Make a Noise...: A History of the North Pacific from Magellan to Macarthurby Walter A. McDougallISBN 0465051529 (0-465-05152-9)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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A Little Princessby Frances Hodgson Burnett, Robert Blaisdell, Thea KlirosISBN 0486291715 (0-486-29171-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Little Princess'Book summary:When Sara's privileged status at her boarding school comes to an abrupt end, the former favorite finds herself penniless and at the mercy of a vindictive headmistress. This Victorian-era tale's use of imagination and generosity to make the best of life and losses remains a source of inspiration and enchantment.[via]More editions of A Little Princess:
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Looking Backwardby Edward BellamyISBN 0486290387 (0-486-29038-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Looking Backward'Book summary:Stimulating, thought-provoking utopian fantasy about a young man who's put into a hypnotic sleep in the late 19th century and awakens in the year 2000 to find a vastly changed world where crime, war, and want no longer exist. A provocative study of human society as it is and as it might be. [via]
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Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980by Charles MurrayISBN 0465042333 (0-465-04233-3)
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Museum Of Early American Toolsby Eric SloaneISBN 0486425606 (0-486-42560-6)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'MUSEUM OF EARLY AMERICAN TOOLS'Book summary:Absorbing book describes, in detail, farm tools and kitchen implements and how they were made. Includes devices used by curriers, wheelwrights, coopers, blacksmiths, loggers, tanners, coachmakers, and other craftsmen of the pre-industrial age. An informal, expressively written book for cultural historians, woodcrafters, and Americana enthusiasts. 184 black-and-white illustrations.[via]More editions of Museum Of Early American Tools:
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My Antoniaby Willa CatherISBN 0486282406 (0-486-28240-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Antonia'Book summary:It seems almost sacrilege to infringe upon a book as soulful and rich as Willa Cather's My Ántonia by offering comment. First published in 1918, and set in Nebraska in the late 19th century, this tale of the spirited daughter of a Bohemian immigrant family planning to farm on the untamed land ("not a country at all but the material out of which countries are made") comes to us through the romantic eyes of Jim Burden. He is, at the time of their meeting, newly orphaned and arriving at his grandparents' neighboring farm on the same night her family strikes out to make good in their new country. Jim chooses the opening words of his recollections deliberately: "I first heard of Ántonia on what seemed to be an interminable journey across the great midland plain of North America," and it seems almost certain that readers of Cather's masterpiece will just as easily pinpoint the first time they heard of Ántonia and her world. It seems equally certain that they, too, will remember that moment as one of great light in an otherwise unremarkable trip through the world.
Ántonia, who, even as a grown woman somewhat downtrodden by circumstance and hard work, "had not lost the fire of life," lies at the center of almost every human condition that Cather's novel effortlessly untangles. She represents immigrant struggles with a foreign land and tongue, the restraints on women of the time (with which Cather was very much concerned), the more general desires for love, family, and companionship, and the great capacity for forbearance that marked the earliest settlers on the frontier.
As if all this humanity weren't enough, Cather paints her descriptions of the vastness of nature--the high, red grass, the road that "ran about like a wild thing," the endless wind on the plains--with strokes so vivid as to make us feel in our bones that we've just come in from a walk on that very terrain ourselves. As the story progresses, Jim goes off to the University in Lincoln to study Latin (later moving on to Harvard and eventually staying put on the East Coast in another neat encompassing of a stage in America's development) and learns Virgil's phrase "Optima dies ... prima fugit" that Cather uses as the novel's epigraph. "The best days are the first to flee"--this could be said equally of childhood and the earliest hours of this country in which the open land, much like My Ántonia, was nothing short of a rhapsody in prairie sky blue. --Melanie Rehak [via]
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The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinciby Leonardo Da Vinci, Jean Paul RichterISBN 0486225720 (0-486-22572-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci'Book summary:[via]Volume 2 of 2-volume set. Total of 1,566 extracts reveal full range of Leonardos versatile genius: his writings on painting, sculpture, architecture, anatomy, mining, inventions, music. Dual Italian-English texts, with 186 plates, plus faithful reproductions of more than 500 additional drawings.More editions of The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci:
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O Pioneers!by Willa CatherISBN 0486277852 (0-486-27785-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'O Pioneers!'Book summary:[via]This powerful early Cather novel, a landmark of American fiction, tells the story of the young Alexandra Bergson, whose dying father leaves her in charge of the family and of the Nebraska lands they have struggled to farm. In Alexandra's lifelong fight to survive and succeed, Cather relates an important chapter in the history of the American frontier.More editions of O Pioneers!:
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The Odysseyby Homer, George Herbert PalmerISBN 0486406547 (0-486-40654-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Odyssey'Book summary:The Odyssey is considered to be one of the greatest pieces of world literature. Its basic story--the homecoming of Odysseus--is widely known. Although it has often been translated, earlier versions do not give the reader the full sense of its oral epic nature as a song that came into being through a long tradition of sung performances before writing was widely practiced. When finally written down, it retained its oral-formulaic nature in ways that are clearly discernible, and which this translation successfully captures. Rodney Merrill strictly adheres to the use of dactylic hexameter, the meter by which the formulaic language of Homeric poetry is rendered as musical phrasing rather than as a simple repetition of ideas. Reading this version--especially aloud--will grant both students and teachers fresh insight into the nature of Greek epic and Homer's song about one of the most famous characters of all time.This epic began life as the music composed by a "singer of tales," not as words on a page. As such, its meter allows for pleasing variations with a strong basic "beat," thus providing a rhythmic impetus that carries the story swiftly forward. The resulting "music" has important repercussions for the reader's perception of the many repeated elements that provide structure for the poem and bring out significant themes, just as the repetitions in a piece of music do.This edition of the Odyssey includes selections for further reading, a list of proper names (with a guide to pronunciation), and three maps. It also provides introductory discussions of how the work came into being and was transmitted until it became the work we read, how it is divided into six "performance sessions" of four books each, and how the poem's various themes are developed. Rodney Merrill's Odyssey is thus an ideal edition for students, teachers, and general readers.The audiobook is available on twelve cassettes, and is read by Rodney Merrill. This version will bring Homer's epic masterpiece to life like never before. Perfect for the car or classroom!Rodney Merrill is retired and an independent scholar. He has taught at Stanford University, the University of San Francisco, and the University of California, Berkeley.Thomas R. Walsh, Senior Professor at Occidental College, has written articles on Homeric poetics, with a forthcoming book on anger in Homer.[via] -
Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920'sby Frederick Lewis AllenISBN 0471189529 (0-471-18952-9)
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The Oresteia Trilogy: Agamemnon, the Libation-Bearers and the Furiesby Aeschylus, E. D. A. MorsheadISBN 0486292428 (0-486-29242-8)
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Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grantby Ulysses S. GrantISBN 0486285871 (0-486-28587-1)
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Postethnic America: Beyond Multiculturalismby David A. HollingerISBN 0465030653 (0-465-03065-3)
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A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocideby Samantha PowerISBN 0465061508 (0-465-06150-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide'Book summary:During the three years (1993-1996) Samantha Power spent covering the grisly events in Bosnia and Srebrenica, she became increasingly frustrated with how little the United States was willing to do to counteract the genocide occurring there. After much research, she discovered a pattern: "The United States had never in its history intervened to stop genocide and had in fact rarely even made a point of condemning it as it occurred," she writes in this impressive book. Debunking the notion that U.S. leaders were unaware of the horrors as they were occurring against Armenians, Jews, Cambodians, Iraqi Kurds, Rwandan Tutsis, and Bosnians during the past century, Power discusses how much was known and when, and argues that much human suffering could have been alleviated through a greater effort by the U.S. She does not claim that the U.S. alone could have prevented such horrors, but does make a convincing case that even a modest effort would have had significant impact. Based on declassified information, private papers, and interviews with more than 300 American policymakers, Power makes it clear that a lack of political will was the most significant factor for this failure to intervene. Some courageous U.S. leaders did work to combat and call attention to ethnic cleansing as it occurred, but the vast majority of politicians and diplomats ignored the issue, as did the American public, leading Power to note that "no U.S. president has ever suffered politically for his indifference to its occurrence. It is thus no coincidence that genocide rages on." This powerful book is a call to make such indifference a thing of the past. --Shawn Carkonen [via]
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Ralph Ellison: Emergence of Geniusby Lawrence JacksonISBN 0471354147 (0-471-35414-7)
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Reason in Art: The Life of Reasonby George SantayanaISBN 0486243583 (0-486-24358-3)
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The Recognition of Sakuntalaby Kalidasa, Rabindranath Tagore, Arthur W. RyderISBN 048643169X (0-486-43169-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Recognition of Sakuntala'Book summary:Written by the greatest of the ancient Indian playwrights, this 5th-century work of Sanskrit drama offers a classic introduction to Indian theater and aesthetics. A king encounters a lovely maiden by chance, and the course of their passionate love sweeps the audience from a forest hermitage to a dazzling palace to ethereal celestial realms.[via]More editions of The Recognition of Sakuntala:
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The Red Badge of Courageby Stephen CraneISBN 0486264653 (0-486-26465-3)
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The Road to Guilford Courthouse: The American Revolution in the Carolinasby John BuchananISBN 0471327166 (0-471-32716-6)
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Rogue Nation: American Unilateralism and the Failure of Good Intentionsby Clyde V. PrestowitzISBN 0465062806 (0-465-06280-6)
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Roughing Itby Mark TwainISBN 0486427048 (0-486-42704-8)
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Selected Poemsby Emily DickinsonISBN 0486264661 (0-486-26466-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Poems'Book summary:Over 100 best-known, best-loved poems by one of America's foremost poets, reprinted from authoritative early editions. "The Snake," "Hope," "The Chariot," many more, display unflinching honesty, psychological penetration, and technical adventurousness that have delighted and impressed generations of poetry lovers. Includes 3 selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.[via]More editions of Selected Poems:
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Sister Carrieby Theodore DreiserISBN 0486434680 (0-486-43468-0)
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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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The Souls of Black Folkby W. E. B. Du BoisISBN 0486280411 (0-486-28041-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Souls of Black Folk'Book summary:William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) is the greatest of African American intellectuals--a sociologist, historian, novelist, and activist whose astounding career spanned the nation's history from Reconstruction to the civil rights movement. Born in Massachusetts and educated at Fisk, Harvard, and the University of Berlin, Du Bois penned his epochal masterpiece, The Souls of Black Folk, in 1903. It remains his most studied and popular work; its insights into Negro life at the turn of the 20th century still ring true.
With a dash of the Victorian and Enlightenment influences that peppered his impassioned yet formal prose, the book's largely autobiographical chapters take the reader through the momentous and moody maze of Afro-American life after the Emancipation Proclamation: from poverty, the neoslavery of the sharecropper, illiteracy, miseducation, and lynching, to the heights of humanity reached by the spiritual "sorrow songs" that birthed gospel and the blues. The most memorable passages are contained in "On Booker T. Washington and Others," where Du Bois criticizes his famous contemporary's rejection of higher education and accommodationist stance toward white racism: "Mr. Washington's programme practically accepts the alleged inferiority of the Negro races," he writes, further complaining that Washington's thinking "withdraws many of the high demands of Negroes as men and American citizens." The capstone of The Souls of Black Folk, though, is Du Bois' haunting, eloquent description of the concept of the black psyche's "double consciousness," which he described as "a peculiar sensation.... One ever feels this twoness--an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder." Thanks to W.E.B. Du Bois' commitment and foresight--and the intellectual excellence expressed in this timeless literary gem--black Americans can today look in the mirror and rejoice in their beautiful black, brown, and beige reflections. --Eugene Holley Jr. [via]
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Story of the Titanic As Told by Its Survivorsby Jack Winocour, Lawrence BeesleyISBN 0486206106 (0-486-20610-6)
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Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial And America's Continuing Debate over Science And Religionby Edward J. LarsonISBN 046507510X (0-465-07510-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial And America's Continuing Debate over Science And Religion'Book summary:If you haven't seen the film version of Inherit the Wind, you might have read it in high school. And even people who have never heard of either the movie or the play probably know something about the events that inspired them: The 1925 Scopes "monkey trial," during which Darwin's theory of evolution was essentially put on trial before the nation. Inherit the Wind paints a romantic picture of John Scopes as a principled biology teacher driven to present scientific theory to his students, even in the teeth of a Tennessee state law prohibiting the teaching of anything other than creationism. The truth, it turns out, was something quite different. In his fascinating history of the Scopes trial, Summer for the Gods, Edward J. Larson makes it abundantly clear that Truth and the Purity of Science had very little to do with the Scopes case. Tennessee had passed a law prohibiting the teaching of evolution, and the American Civil Liberties Union responded by advertising statewide for a high-school teacher willing to defy the law. Communities all across Tennessee saw an opportunity to put themselves on the map by hosting such a controversial trial, but it was the town of Dayton that came up with a sacrificial victim: John Scopes, a man who knew little about evolution and wasn't even the class's regular teacher. Chosen by the city fathers, Scopes obligingly broke the law and was carted off to jail to await trial.
What happened next was a bizarre mix of theatrics and law, enacted by William Jennings Bryan for the prosecution and Clarence Darrow for the defense. Though Darrow lost the trial, he made his point--and his career--by calling Bryan, a noted Bible expert, as a witness for the defense. Summer for the Gods is a remarkable retelling of the trial and the events leading up to it, proof positive that truth is stranger than science. [via]
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Swann's Wayby Marcel Proust, C. K. Scott-Moncrieff, C. K. Scott MontcrieffISBN 0486421236 (0-486-42123-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Swann's Way'Book summary:[via]The first volume of the 7-part masterpiece In Search of Lost Time, Swann's Way introduces the novel's major themes and narrator. Its focus then shifts to Charles Swann, a wealthy connoisseur who moves in high-society circles in 19th-century Paris and a victim of an agonizing romance.More editions of Swann's Way:
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T.R: The Last Romanticby H. W. BrandsISBN 0465069592 (0-465-06959-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'T.R: The Last Romantic'Book summary:In his time, there was no more popular national figure than Theodore Roosevelt. It was not just the energy he brought to every political office he held or his unshakable moral convictions that made him so popular, or even his status as a bonafide war herothe man who led the Rough Riders up San Juan Hill in Cuba during the Spanish-American war. Most important, Theodore Roosevelt was loved by the people because this scion of a privileged New York family loved America and Americans.And yet, according to Bill Brands, if we look at the private Roosevelt without blinders, we see a man whose great public strengths hid enormous personal deficiencies. His highly exaggerated, and often uncompromising ways drove many of his business and personal friends crazy. His historical writings, which Brands quotes from extensively, are nothing if not a portrait of a boys endless macho fantasies. He was often so full of himself that his speeches and writings were the frequent subject of fierce satire in their time.Even more revealing, according to Brands, was Roosevelt as son, brother, husband, and father. According to Brands, to understand both the public and private Roosevelt one must understand the impact of his fathers death while he was still a child, denying him the opportunity to come to terms with his own manhood. When his first wife Alice died of complications from childbirth, leaving behind a baby daughter Alice, his response was to run away to shoot Buffalo in the west, leaving the newborn infant to the care of his unmarried sister Bamie. When his second wife Edith was seriously, perhaps fatally ill, he left her to fight in the Spanish-American war. His only concern when his brother Elliot, who had been his only friend as a child, became an alcoholic was to hide the news from the public. Determined that his four sons would not dishonor his belief that men, to achieve their manhood, must test themselves in war, he arranged for each to serve, often in the frontlines, during WWI. His youngest son Quentin would die in that cause.Beautifully written, powerfully moved by its subject, TR is nonetheless a biography more appropriate to todays critical times.[via] -
This Side of Paradiseby F. Scott FitzgeraldISBN 0486289990 (0-486-28999-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'This Side of Paradise'Book summary:Fitzgerald's first novel, reprinted in the handsome Everyman's Library series of literary classic, uses numerous formal experiments to tell the story of Amory Blaine, as he grows up during the crazy years following the First World War. It also contains a new introduction by Craig Raine that describes critical and popular reception of the book when it came out in 1920. [via]
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Trading Places: How We Allowed Japan to Take the Leadby Clyde PrestowitzISBN 0465086802 (0-465-08680-2)
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Up from Slavery: An Autobiographyby Booker T. WashingtonISBN 0486287386 (0-486-28738-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Up from Slavery: An Autobiography'Book summary:Nineteenth-century African American businessman, activist, and educator Booker Taliaferro Washington's Up from Slavery is one of the greatest American autobiographies ever written. Its mantras of black economic empowerment, land ownership, and self-help inspired generations of black leaders, including Marcus Garvey, Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X, and Louis Farrakhan. In rags-to-riches fashion, Washington recounts his ascendance from early life as a mulatto slave in Virginia to a 34-year term as president of the influential, agriculturally based Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. From that position, Washington reigned as the most important leader of his people, with slogans like "cast down your buckets," which emphasized vocational merit rather than the academic and political excellence championed by his contemporary rival W.E.B. Du Bois. Though many considered him too accommodating to segregationists, Washington, as he said in his historic "Atlanta Compromise" speech of 1895, believed that "political agitation alone would not save [the Negro]," and that "property, industry, skill, intelligence, and character" would prove necessary to black Americans' success. The potency of his philosophies are alive today in the nationalist and conservative camps that compose the complex quilt of black American society. [via]
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The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trapby Stephanie CoontzISBN 0465090974 (0-465-09097-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap'Book summary:Did you ever wonder about the historical accuracy of those "traditional family values" touted in the heated arguments that insist our cultural ills can be remedied by their return? Of course, myth is rooted in fact, and certain phenomena of the 1950s generated the Ozzie and Harriet icon. The decade proved profamily--the birthrate rose dramatically; social problems that nag--gangs, drugs, violence--weren't even on the horizon. Affluence had become almost a right; the middle class was growing. "In fact," writes Coontz, "the 'traditional' family of the 1950s was a qualitatively new phenomenon. At the end of the 1940s, all the trends characterizing the rest of the twentieth century suddenly reversed themselves." This clear-eyed, bracing, and exhaustively researched study of American families and the nostalgia trap proves--beyond the shadow of a doubt--that Leave It to Beaver was not a documentary.
Gender, too, is always on Coontz's mind. In the third chapter ("My Mother Was a Saint"), she offers an analysis of the contradictions and chasms inherent in the "traditional" division of labor. She reveals, next, how rarely the family exhibited economic and emotional self-reliance, suggesting that the shift from community to nuclear family was not healthy. Coontz combines a clear prose style with bold assertions, backed up by an astonishing fleet of researched, myth-skewing facts. The 88 pages of endnotes dramatize both her commitment to and deep knowledge of the subject. Brilliant, beautifully organized, iconoclastic, and (relentlessly) informative The Way We Never Were breathes fresh air into a too often suffocatingly "hot" and agenda-sullied subject. In the penultimate chapter, for example, a crisp reframing of the myth of black-family collapse leads to a reinterpretation of the "family crisis" in general, putting it in the larger context of social, economic, and political ills.
The book began in response to the urgent questions about the family crisis posed her by nonacademic audiences. Attempting neither to defend "tradition" in the era of family collapse, nor to liberate society from its constraints, Coontz instead cuts through the kind of sentimental, ahistorical thinking that has created unrealistic expectations of the ideal family. "I show how these myths distort the diverse experiences of other groups in America," Coontz writes, "and argue that they don't even describe most white, middle-class families accurately." The bold truth of history after all is that "there is no one family form that has ever protected people from poverty or social disruption, and no traditional arrangement that provides a workable model for how we might organize family relations in the modern world."
Some of America's most precious myths are not only precarious, but down right perverted, and we would be fools to ignore Stephanie Coontz's clarion call. --Hollis Giammatteo [via]
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The Way We Really Are: Coming to Terms With America's Changing Familiesby Stephanie CoontzISBN 0465090923 (0-465-09092-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Way We Really Are: Coming to Terms With America's Changing Families'Book summary:Once again, as in her groundbreaking study on the American family, The Way We Never Were, Coontz cuts through mind-numbing nostalgia and rigid righteousness that has made the debates about the American family's decline even more volatile. Coontz asks if we can learn from history. Never one to disavow the complexity of today's socioeconomic issues and their impact on families, she tackles a gamut; a few of them are: working mothers, the future of marriage, the well being of children in gay and lesbian families, the strengths and weaknesses of single-parent households, and the significant lag between our new social realities and the values, behavior, and institutions struggling to adjust. Coontz calls not for oversimplified analyses or tweaked consensus, but the sensitive assessments of problems unique to the day.
Stressing the importance of using history and sociology as tools to generate solutions to today's problems, she reframes our perception of certain crises. In a discussion, for example, of the classic clash between teens and adults, she isolates the adolescent's lack of role and purpose in society as the major culprit. Finding themselves in a myriad of double binds, "what we often call the youth culture is actually adult marketers seeking to commercially exploit youthful energy and rebellion." What's the point of framing problems in the larger historical context? A larger view diffuses tensions and can place blame in its appropriate baskets. Ultimately, it leads to a kinder way of judging one's circumstances. And it is less lonely.
The Way We Really Are grew out of the discussions, speaking engagements, talk-show gigs and interviews that followed the publication of The Way We Never Were. What do people miss about the '50s, our favorite decade? "Nostalgia for the 1950s is real and deserves to be taken seriously," Coontz writes, "but it usually shouldn't be taken literally." Families seemed more cohesive then; indeed, family life seemed easier to shape and hold. Coontz reviews the evolution toward this unprecedented ear of privilege that was the '50s from post-World War II through the end of the "fifties experiment."
Perhaps not as innovative as The Way We Never Were, this volume is nonetheless thoughtful, somber, and realistic. It's impossible not to agree that grieving for a misremembered past dulls our wits and incapacitates our imaginations. Coontz asks us to quit kvetching and face the music. "With 50 percent of American children living in something other than a married-couple family with both biological parents present, and with the tremendous variety of male and female responsibilities in today's different families, the time for abstract pronouncements about good or bad family structures and correct or incorrect parental roles is past." A viable future for the American family can be generated based on accepting the truth of where we are today. --Hollis Giammatteo [via]
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Wyatt Earp: The Life Behind the Legendby Casey TefertillerISBN 0471283622 (0-471-28362-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wyatt Earp: The Life Behind the Legend'Book summary:"Quite impressive. I doubt if there has been or will be a more deeply researched and convincing account." --Evan Connell, author Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn
"The book to end all Earp books--the most complete, and most meticulously researched." --Jack Burrows, author John Ringo: The Gunfighter Who Never Was
"The most thoughtful, well-researched, and comprehensive account that has been written about the development and career of an Old-West lawman." --The Tombstone Tumbleweed
"A great adventure story, and solid history." --Kirkus Reviews
"A major contribution to the history of the American West. It provides the first complete and accurate look at Wyatt Earp's colorful career, and places into context the important role that he and his brothers played in crime and politics in the Arizona territory. This important book rises above the realm of Western biography and shows the development of the Earp story in history and myth, and its effect on American culture." --John Boessenecker, author Gold Dust and Gunsmoke
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Le Avventure D'Alice Nel Paese Delle Meraviglieby Lewis Carroll, John TennielISBN 0486232778 (0-486-23277-8)
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Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderlandby Lewis Carroll, Vladimir Vladimirovich NabokovISBN 0486233162 (0-486-23316-2)
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