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Against the Dayby Thomas PychonISBN 159420120X (1-59420-120-X)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Against the Day'Book summary:Spanning the period between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, this novel moves from the labor troubles in Colorado to turn-of-the-century New York, to London and Gottingen, Venice and Vienna, the Balkans, Central Asia, Siberia at the time of the mysterious Tunguska Event, Mexico during the Revolution, postwar Paris, silent-era Hollywood, and one or two places not strictly speaking on the map at all.[via]With a worldwide disaster looming just a few years ahead, it is a time of unrestrained corporate greed, false religiosity, moronic fecklessness, and evil intent in high places. No reference to the present day is intended or should be inferred.
The sizable cast of characters includes anarchists, balloonists, gamblers, corporate tycoons, drug enthusiasts, innocents and decadents, mathematicians, mad scientists, shamans, psychics, and stage magicians, spies, detectives, adventuresses, and hired guns. There are cameo appearances by Nikola Tesla, Bela Lugosi, and Groucho Marx.
As an era of certainty comes crashing down around their ears and an unpredictable future commences, these folks are mostly just trying to pursue their lives. Sometimes they manage to catch up; sometimes it's their lives that pursue them. Meanwhile, the author is up to his usual business. Characters stop what they're doing to sing what are for the most part stupid songs. Strange sexual practices take place. Obscure languages are spoken, not always idiomatically. Contrary-to-the-fact occurrences occur. If it is not the world, it is what the world might be with a minor adjustment or two. According to some, this is one of the main purposes of fiction.
Let the reader decide, let the reader beware. Good luck.
-Thomas Pynchon
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The American Political Tradition And the Men Who Made Itby Richard HofstadterISBN 1597400599 (1-59740-059-9)
Hardcover, Scholarly Pub Office Univ of
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The American Political Tradition And the Men Who Made It'Book summary:A revised edition of the clasic study of American politics from the Founding Fathers to FDR. [via]
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American Queer, Now And Thenby David Shneer, Caryn AvivISBN 1594511721 (1-59451-172-1)
Softcover, Paradigm Pub
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Andrew Carnegieby David NasawISBN 1594201048 (1-59420-104-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Andrew Carnegie'Book summary:Celebrated historian David Nasaw, whom "The New York Times Book Review" has called "a meticulous researcher and a cool analyst", brings new life to the story of one of America's most famous and successful businessmen and philanthropists - in what will prove to be the biography of the season. Born of modest origins in Scotland in 1835, Andrew Carnegie is best known as the founder of Carnegie Steel. His rags to riches story has never been told as dramatically and vividly as in Nasaw's new biography. Carnegie, the son of an impoverished linen weaver, moved to Pittsburgh at the age of thirteen. The embodiment of the American dream, he pulled himself up from bobbin boy in a cotton factory to become the richest man in the world. He spent the rest of his life giving away the fortune he had accumulated and crusading for international peace. For all that he accomplished and came to represent to the American public - a wildly successful businessman and capitalist, a self-educated writer, peace activist, philanthropist, man of letters, lover of culture, and unabashed enthusiast for American democracy and capitalism - Carnegie has remained, to this day, an enigma. Nasaw explains how Carnegie made his early fortune and what prompted him to give it all away, how he was drawn into the campaign first against American involvement in the Spanish-American War and then for international peace, and how he used his friendships with presidents and prime ministers to try to pull the world back from the brink of disaster. With a trove of new material - unpublished chapters of Carnegie's Autobiography; personal letters between Carnegie and his future wife, Louise, and other family members; his prenuptial agreement; diaries of family and close friends; his applications for citizenship; his extensive correspondence with Henry Clay Frick; and, dozens of private letters to and from presidents Grant, Cleveland, McKinley, Roosevelt, and British prime ministers Gladstone and Balfour, as well as friends Herbert Spencer, Matthew Arnold, and Mark Twain - Nasaw brilliantly plumbs the core of this fascinating and complex man, deftly placing his life in cultural and political context as only a master storyteller can. [via]
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Anne of Green Gablesby L.M. MontgomeryISBN 1595401105 (1-59540-110-5)
Softcover, Authorhouse
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anne of Green Gables'Book summary:Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. 1st World Library-Literary Society is a non-profit educational organization. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - Mrs. Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down into a little hollow, fringed with alders and ladies' eardrops and traversed by a brook that had its source away back in the woods of the old Cuthbert place; it was reputed to be an intricate, headlong brook in its earlier course through those woods, with dark secrets of pool and cascade; but by the time it reached Lynde's Hollow it was a quiet, well-conducted little stream, for not even a brook could run past Mrs. Rachel Lynde's door without due regard for decency and decorum; it probably was conscious that Mrs. Rachel was sitting at her window, keeping a sharp eye on everything that passed, from brooks and children up, and that if she noticed anything odd or out of place she would never rest until she had ferreted out the whys and wherefores thereof. [via]
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The Areas Of My Expertiseby John HodgmanISBN 1594482225 (1-59448-222-5)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Areas Of My Expertise'Book summary:With his Daily Show appearances and his "I'm a PC" Apple ads, John Hodgman has only become more famous since the hardcover edition of his all-you-need compendium of facts, The Areas of My Expertise was released. He has also become smarter. To reflect this, the paperback edition of The Areas of My Expertise has been expanded to include 100 new hobo names and new, additional complete world knowledge. John Hodgman and his fur-hatted associate, Jonathan, have prepared an exclusive video for Amazon customers explaining the above.
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The Autobiography of Ben Franklinby Benjamin FranklinISBN 1595479562 (1-59547-956-2)
Softcover, Nuvision Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Autobiography of Ben Franklin'Book summary:Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography is one of the most famous works in American literature. He started it as a private collection of anecdotes for his son, but soon it was transformed into a work of history. This is a charming, self-portrait of one of America's greatest forefathers. [via]
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The Cat Who Dropped a Bombshellby Lilian J. BraunISBN 1594131643 (1-59413-164-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cat Who Dropped a Bombshell'Book summary:The residents of Pickax are about to celebrate the 150th anniversary of its founding. But in the midst of all the preparations, Qwill has to take time out to deal with Koko's strange new habit of dropping from balconies and landing in the oddest of places-and a couple that has mysteriously gone missing.[via]More editions of The Cat Who Dropped a Bombshell:
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Courtby Mark TwainISBN 159818587X (1-59818-587-X)
Softcover, Alan Rodgers Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court'Book summary:This novel of Mark Twain's -- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court -- gives us an odd view of the American literary genius: it shows his bent toward science fiction. Twain developed a close and lasting friendship with scientific wunderkind Nikola Tesla, and the two spent quite a bit of time together (in Tesla's laboratory, among other places). Twain's fascination appears in his time traveler (from contemporary America, yet!), using his knowledge of science to introduce modern technology to Arthurian England. As with all works of a master like Twain, we highly recommend this novel -- but just between us, this book is a lot of fun, too. Go ahead, read it now. [via]
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David Boringby Daniel ClowesISBN 1594971226 (1-59497-122-6)
Softcover, Public Square Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'David Boring'Book summary:Meet David Boring: a nineteen-year-old security guard with a tortured inner life and an obsessive nature. When he meets the girl of his dreams, things begin to go awry: what seems too good to be true apparently is. And what seems truest in Boring's life is that, given the right set of circumstances (in this case, an orgiastic cascade of vengeance, humiliation and murder) the primal nature of humankind will come inexorably to the fore.For those interested in comic art's potential, Clowes's work offers exciting literary possibilities. Boring is Anything but. --Time Dan Clowes [via]
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Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialismby Cornel WestISBN 1594200297 (1-59420-029-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism'Book summary:In his major bestseller, Race Matters, philosopher Cornel West burst onto the national scene with his searing analysis of the scars of racism in American democracy. Race Matters has become a contemporary classic, still in print after ten years, having sold more than four hundred thousand copies. A mesmerizing speaker with a host of fervidly devoted fans, West gives as many as one hundred public lectures a year and appears regularly on radio and television. Praised by The New York Times for his "ferocious moral vision" and hailed by Newsweek as "an elegant prophet with attitude," he bridges the gap between black and white opinion about the country's problems.
In Democracy Matters, West returns to the analysis of the arrested development of democracy-both in America and in the crisis-ridden Middle East. In a strikingly original diagnosis, he argues that if America is to become a better steward of democratization around the world, we must first wake up to the long history of imperialist corruption that has plagued our own democracy. Both our failure to foster peace in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the crisis of Islamist anti-Americanism stem largely from hypocrisies in our dealings with the world. Racism and imperial expansionism have gone hand in hand in our country's inexorable drive toward hegemony, and our current militarism is only the latest expression of that drive. Even as we are shocked by Islamic fundamentalism, our own brand of fundamentalism, which West dubs Constantinian Christianity, has joined forces with imperialist corporate and political elites in an unholy alliance, and four decades after the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., insidious racism still inflicts debilitating psychic pain on so many of our citizens.
But there is a deep democratic tradition in America of impassioned commitment to the fight against imperialist corruptions-the last great expression of which was the civil rights movement led by Dr. King-and West brings forth the powerful voices of that great democratizing tradition in a brilliant and deeply moving call for the revival of our better democratic nature. His impassioned and provocative argument for the revitalization of America's democracy will reshape the terms of the raging national debate about America's role in today's troubled world. [via]More editions of Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism:
Dermaphoriaby Craig ClevengerISBN 1596921021 (1-59692-102-1)
Softcover, Lawson Library
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A Dirty Jobby Christopher MooreISBN 1597223166 (1-59722-316-6)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Dirty Job'Book summary:Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy. A little hapless, somewhat neurotic, sort of a hypochondriac. He's what's known as a Beta Male: the kind of fellow who makes his way through life by being careful and constant -- you know, the one who's always there to pick up the pieces when the girl gets dumped by the bigger/taller/stronger Alpha Male.
But Charlie's been lucky. He owns a building in the heart of San Francisco, and runs a secondhand store with the help of a couple of loyal, if marginally insane, employees. He's married to a bright and pretty woman who actually loves him for his normalcy. And she, Rachel, is about to have their first child.
Yes, Charlie's doing okay for a Beta. That is, until the day his daughter, Sophie, is born. Just as Charlie -- exhausted from the birth -- turns to go home, he sees a strange man in mint-green golf wear at Rachel's hospital bedside, a man who claims that no one should be able to see him. But see him Charlie does, and from here on out, things get really weird. . . .
People start dropping dead around him, giant ravens perch on his building, and it seems that everywhere he goes, a dark presence whispers to him from under the streets. Strange names start appearing on his nightstand notepad, and before he knows it, those people end up dead, too. Yup, it seems that Charlie Asher has been recruited for a new job, an unpleasant but utterly necessary one: Death. It's a dirty job. But hey, somebody's gotta do it.
Christopher Moore, the man whose Lamb served up Jesus' "missing years" (with the funny parts left in), and whose Fluke found the deep humor in whale researchers' lives, now shines his comic light on the undiscovered country we all eventually explore -- death and dying -- and the results are hilarious, heartwarming, and a hell of a lot of fun.
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The Elements of Styleby William Strunk, E. B. White, Maira KalmanISBN 1594200696 (1-59420-069-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Elements of Style'Book summary:[via]Every English-language writer knows Strunk and White's famous little writing manual, The Elements of Style. Many people between the ages of seventeen and seventy can recite the book's mantramake every word telland still refer to their tattered grade school copy when in need of a hint on how to make a turn of phrase clearer, or a reminder on how to enliven prose with the active voice. Considering that millions of copies have been sold to millions of devotees, you might not think to ask what could enhance this (almost) perfect classic. In fact, the addition of illustrations allows readers to experience the book's contents in a completely new way, making the whole learning experience more colorful and clear, as well as adding a whimsical element that compliments the subtly humorous tone of the prose. The Elements of Style Illustrated will come to be known as the definitive, must-have edition.
Maira Kalman is the offbeat and wildly talented illustrator of twelve children's books, numerous covers for The New Yorker magazine, fabrics for the fashion designers Isaac Mizrahi and Kate Spade, watches and accessories for the Museum of Modern Art, and a mural at the elegant Wavehill estate in Riverdale, among other projects. Her sophisticated and witty images that are yet bright and fanciful have won her a devoted following, especially among young urbanites. Maira Kalman is acknowledged by the E. B. White estate as the single artist trusted to illustrate the revered The Elements of Style.
The Elements of Style Illustrated brings a fresh immediacy to the well-loved, much-valued, and still on-point work that has become an institution. While giving the classic work a jolt of new energy to appeal to contemporary readers, Kalman's illustrations are themselves timeless, designed to sit alongside the ever-enduring manual for another fifty years and more.
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The Everything Family Guide To RV Travel And Campgrounds: From Choosing The Right Vehicle To Planning Your Trip--All You Need For Your Adventure On Wheelsby marian EureISBN 1593373015 (1-59337-301-5)
Softcover, Adams Media Corp
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Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraqby Thomas E. RicksISBN 159420103X (1-59420-103-X)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq'Book summary:Fiasco is a more strongly worded title than you might expect a seasoned military reporter such as Thomas E. Ricks to use, accustomed as he is to the even-handed style of daily newspaper journalism. But Ricks, the Pentagon correspondent for the Washington Post and the author of the acclaimed account of Marine Corps boot camp, Making the Corps, has written a thorough and devastating history of the war in Iraq from the planning stages through the continued insurgency in early 2006, and he does not shy away from naming those he finds responsible. His tragic story is divided in two. The first part--the runup to the war and the invasion in 2003--is familiar from books like Cobra II and Plan of Attack, although Ricks uses his many military sources to portray an officer class that was far more skeptical of the war beforehand than generally reported. But the heart of his book is the second half, beginning in August 2003, when, as he writes, the war really began, with the bombing of the Jordanian embassy and the emergence of the insurgency. His strongest critique is that the U.S. military failed to anticipate--and then failed to recognize--the insurgency, and tried to fight it with conventional methods that only fanned its flames. What makes his portrait particularly damning are the dozens of military sources--most of them on record--who join in his critique, and the thousands of pages of internal documents he uses to make his case for a war poorly planned and bravely but blindly fought. --Tom Nissley
Making a Fiasco
Thomas Ricks spent five tours in Iraq during the war, reporting for the Washington Post and researching and writing Fiasco. Like many of the officers he most admires, when he wanted to understand what was happening as American troops encountered stronger and longer-lived resistance to the occupation than expected, he turned to recent and classic accounts of insurgencies and counterinsurgencies, from the U.S. occupation of the Philippines through the lessons of Vietnam, and he reports on his favorites for us in his list of the 10 books for understanding Iraq that aren't about Iraq. You can also get a glimpse into his writing process with a much different list he has prepared for us: the music he listened to while writing and researching the book, from Stevie Wonder and Joni Mitchell to Ryan Adams and Josh Ritter. And he took the time to answer a few questions about Fiasco: Amazon.com: As military correspondent for the Post, you have made five trips to Iraq over the last four years. How has it changed over that time?
Thomas E. Ricks: It has been markedly worse each time, in terms of security. On my first trip, in April-May 2003, we would walk out on the streets of Baghdad at night, albeit with caution. Even on my second trip, in the summer of 2003, I would feel comfortable hopping in a car and driving 100 miles north from Baghdad to Tikrit. To do either of those things now would be suicidal. In January and February of this year, Baghdad felt worse to me Mogadishu did when I was there in 1993 or Sarajevo did when I was there a few years later. It appeared to me that there was no security, except what you provided for yourself with armed men and careful planning. One Army major described the city to me as being in "the pure Hobbesian state" in which everybody is fighting everybody.
By the way, contrary to what I see asserted occasionally, most reporters don't live in the Green Zone, the walled-off area in central Baghdad that is the headquarters of the American effort in Iraq. Reporters live out in the city, and I think generally have a better feel for what is going on than do people living in the Zone or on big American military bases. In the area of Baghdad I stayed in, I constantly heard gunfire and explosions. Yet an American colonel told me that my neighborhood was deemed "secure." I think that really meant that U.S. troops could drive through it while heavily armed--say, with a .50 caliber machine gun atop a Humvee--and usually not be attacked.
I worry that what the Americans measure are threats to U.S. troops and the killings of Iraqis. That neglects a huge spectrum of other significant activities--rapes, robberies, kidnappings, acts of extortion, and, most importantly, acts of violent intimidation.
Amazon.com: You cite many strategic errors in the planning and execution of the war, but perhaps the central one is that the U.S. military leadership failed to recognize that they were fighting an insurgency, and their methods of fighting in fact helped to create that insurgency. Can you explain those methods, and their effects?
Ricks: The U.S. military that went into Iraq in 2003 was the best military in the world for fighting another military. But it was woefully unprepared for the task at hand. For example, U.S. military culture believes in bringing overwhelming force to bear. Yet classic counterinsurgency doctrine calls for using only the minimal amount of force necessary to get the job done. U.S. soldiers and their commanders, untrained and unschooled in the difficult art of counterinsurgency, tended to improvise. So in the summer of 2003, some soldiers in Baghdad decided that the best way to deter looters was to make them cry--and they sometimes did this by threatening to shoot the children of looters, and even conducting mock executions.
More broadly, the Army in the fall of 2003 fell back on what it knew how to do, which was conduct large-scale "cordon-and-sweep" operations. These missions scarfed up thousands of Iraqis, most of them fence-sitting neutrals, and detained them. U.S. military intelligence officials later concluded that 85% of those detained were of no intelligence value. The detention experience frequently was humiliating for Iraqis, a violation of another key counterinsurgency principle: Treat your prisoners well. (Your readers who want to know more about this should read a terrific little book by David Galula titled Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice.)
Not every unit was ineffective or counterproductive. I was struck at how successful the 101st Airborne was in Mosul in 2003-04. And some units showed remarkable improvement--the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment had a mediocre first tour of duty in Iraq, but when it went back in 2005 for a second tour, it did extremely well. Col. H.R. McMaster, the regimental commander (and author of a very good book about the Vietnam War, Dereliction of Duty) told his troops that, "Every time you disrespect an Iraqi, you are working for the enemy." I was especially struck by how his regiment handled its prisoners--it even had a program called "Ask the Customer" that quizzed detainees when they were released about whether they felt treated well. This recognized the lesson of past wars that the best way to end an insurgency is to get its leaders to put down their guns and enter the political system, and to get the rank-and-file to desert or switch sides. But it will be harder to discuss the sewage system with the new mayor next year if your troops beat him in his cell when he was your prisoner last year.
Amazon.com: But today's military leadership was formed in Vietnam, when all of those lessons of counterinsurgency were supposedly learned before. Why didn't that experience translate into a preparation for the current conflict?
Ricks: Military experts, such at Andrew Krepinevich (The Army and Vietnam) and Lt. Col. John Nagl (Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife) say that after that war ended, the Army washed its hands of the entire experience and essentially concluded that it was never going to do anything like that again. It was almost as if the very word "counterinsurgency" was banned from official Army discourse.
In Iraq, there was a tiny minority of American soldiers early on who understood how to win the occupation. These generally were civil affairs officers and other Special Forces types. But their wisdom often was disregarded. "What you are seeing here is an unconventional war being fought conventionally," one Special Forces lieutenant colonel glumly commented one day in Baghdad.
Amazon.com: You've been writing about the military for the Post and the Wall Street Journal for years now, and Fiasco is built from the testimony of a remarkable array of sources up and down the chain of command, some off the record but many more on the record. Can you talk about your sources? Is this level of public criticism of a war from within the military precedented??
Ricks: Yeah, reporting the book was a pretty emotional experience. Even having covered this war as it unfolded, I was taken aback by the rage that some officers felt toward the Bush Administration, and especially toward Defense Secretary Rumsfeld. And also toward Paul Wolfowitz, who was then the no. 2 guy at the Pentagon. I think the rage is probably like what the military felt about Robert McNamara during the Vietnam War. What is unprecedented, I think, is that many officers had doubts about the wisdom of invading Iraq, especially in the way we did it.
The emotions also hit me pretty hard at times, especially when I was writing my chapter 13, about how widespread abuse was by American soldiers in 2003-04, often because they hadn't been trained for the mission they faced. I have spent more than 15 years covering the military. I tend to like and admire these people. So when I learned about a 4th Infantry Division soldier shooting an unarmed, handcuffed Iraqi detainee in the stomach, and the investigating MPs saying the soldier should be charged with homicide, and instead the commander simply discharged the soldier from the Army--well, that bothered me.
Another thing that struck me with sources was the mountain of information that was available. I read over 30,000 pages of documents for this book. At the end of one interview a guy gave me a CD-ROM with every e-mail he had sent to Ambassador Bremer, who ran the civilian end of the first year of the occupation. Other people showed me diaries, unit logs, official briefings, and such. Also the ACLU did a great job of obtaining and releasing piles of official U.S. military documents related to abuse--so I could see the time stamp on an e-mail in which an intelligence officer stated that "the gloves are coming off" in interrogations, and one soldier recommended blows to the chest while another wrote back recommending low-level electrocution.
Unfortunately the Army wouldn't release the details of citations for valorous acts by soldiers, which means that the Pentagon made it easier for me to learn about the sins of soldiers than about their acts of bravery. The Marine Corps did give me those "narratives" that support the bestowing of medals, which I really appreciated. Those documents really brought home to me the fierceness of the two Battles of Fallujah, in April and November 2004--probably the toughest fighting American troops have seen since Hue and Khe Sanh in the Vietnam War.
Amazon.com: In the last section of the book, you project a variety of possible scenarios for the next 10 years in the Middle East, mostly grim ones, and just in the past two weeks the sudden violence between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon is leading to talk of a wider regional conflict. Where do you think those events are leading us?
Ricks: We are really in unexplored territory. We are carrying out the first-ever U.S. occupation of an Arab nation. This is also almost the first time we have engaged in sustained combat ground war with an all-volunteer force. (I think the suppression of the Philippines insurrection might count as a small precedent.)
Even more significantly, I think the Bush Administration doesn't really like "stability" in the Middle East. In its view, "stability" has been the goal of previous administrations, but pursuing it led to 9/11. It is not the goal, it is the target. So they are for rolling the dice, both in Iraq and in Lebanon. I think the big worry is those wars spilling over borders. Fasten your seat belts.
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Forever Oddby Dean KoontzISBN 1594131554 (1-59413-155-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Forever Odd'Book summary:The follow-up novel to Odd Thomas, from worldwide bestselling author, Dean Koontz. Odd Thomas, that unlikely hero, once more stands between us and our worst fears. Odd never asked to communicate with the dead -- they sought him out. As the unofficial goodwill ambassador between our world and theirs, he has a duty to do the right thing. That's the way Odd sees it, and that's why he has already won over hearts on both sides of the great divide. For though Odd lives in the small desert town of Pico Mundo, he stands between two worlds, and for him the heroic and the harrowing are everyday occurrences. A childhood friend of Odd's has disappeared and the worst is feared. But as Odd applies his unique talents to the task of finding the missing person, he discovers something worse than a dead body. New allies and new enemies gather around Odd, some living and some not. But the enemy he encounters is unspeakably cunning, and every sacrifice is needed to tip the balance between despair and hope as a life-changing revelation rushes towards us. In the battle to come, there can be no innocent bystanders ! [via]
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Gag Rule: On the Suppression of Dissent and the Stifling of Democracyby Lewis LaphamISBN 1594200173 (1-59420-017-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gag Rule: On the Suppression of Dissent and the Stifling of Democracy'Book summary:From one of America's most important voices of protest, an urgent new polemic about the stifling of the American public's capacity for meaningful dissent, the lifeblood of our democracy, at the hands of a government and media increasingly beholden only to the country's wealthy few.
Dissent is democracy. Democracy is in trouble. Never before, argues Lewis Lapham, have voices of protest been so locked out of the mainstream political conversation: they are criminalized, marginalized, and muted by a government that recklessly disregards civil liberties and by an ever-more concentrated and profit-driven media, in which the safe and the selling sweep all uncomfortable truths from view. As a result, we face a crisis of democracy as serious as any in our history. Never has the public conversation been more in need of dissent, and never has protest been more effectively quarantined into zones where it has so little effect on the political process. Under the noses of a cowed and silenced populace, Lapham posits, the Bush regime is "assembling from the ruins of a democratic republic the corporate splendor of a precision-guided empire....What the Bush administration has in mind is not the defense of the American citizenry against a foreign enemy, but the protection of the American oligarchy from the American democracy."
Dissent has always had a hard time of it, Lapham shows in a bravura short tour of political dissent in American history, and an especially hard one in time of war. The more ill defined the conflict and the more invisible the enemy, the worse it is for civil liberties, particularly the liberty to disagree. And now, just when the electorate is most narcotized and apathetic, spoon-fed its infotainment by a small gang of gigantic media conglomerates, and the government is in the hands of a terrifyingly self-righteous crew, comes a conflict, the "war on terror," that makes the hunt for Communists in the 1950s look like the Normandy landings on D-Day in its clarity of aim and purpose. It's a witch's brew that is pure poison for a living democracy.
Gag Rule is a rousing and necessary call to action in defense of one of our most important liberties-the right to raise our voices against the powers that be and have those voices heard. [via]More editions of Gag Rule: On the Suppression of Dissent and the Stifling of Democracy:
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Ghost World/ Mundo fantasmalby Daniel ClowesISBN 1594971102 (1-59497-110-2)
Softcover, Public Square Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ghost World/ Mundo fantasmal'Book summary:Dan Clowes described the story in Ghost World as the examination of "the lives of two recent high school graduates from the advantaged perch of a constant and (mostly) undetectable eavesdropper, with the shaky detachment of a scientist who has grown fond of the prize microbes in his petri dish." From this perch comes a revelation about adolescence that is both subtle and coolly beautiful. Critics have pointed out Clowes's cynicism and vicious social commentary, but if you concentrate on those aspects, you'll miss the exquisite whole that Clowes has captured. Each chapter ends with melancholia that builds towards the amazing, detached, ghostlike ending. [via]
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The Heart of Darknessby Joseph ConradISBN 1599869500 (1-59986-950-0)
Softcover, Filiquarian Pub Llc
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The Highest Tideby Jim LynchISBN 1599901161 (1-59990-116-1)
Softcover, Bloomsbury USA
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Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellowby Jerome K. JeromeISBN 1595690247 (1-59569-024-7)
Softcover, Mondial
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Imperial Earthby Arthur C. ClarkeISBN 1596872918 (1-59687-291-8)
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Imperial Germany and the Industrial Revoby Thorstein VeblenISBN 159605882X (1-59605-882-X)
Softcover, Cosimo Inc
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Indiscretions of Archieby P.G. WodehouseISBN 159540340X (1-59540-340-X)
Softcover, 1st World Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Indiscretions of Archie'Book summary:Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. 1st World Library-Literary Society is a non-profit educational organization. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - It wasn't Archie's fault really. Its true he went to America and fell in love with Lucille, the daughter of a millionaire hotel proprietor and if he did marry her--well, what else was there to do? From his point of view, the whole thing was a thoroughly good egg; but Mr. Brewster, his father-in-law, thought differently, Archie had neither money nor occupation, which was distasteful in the eyes of the industrious Mr. Brewster; but the real bar was the fact that he had once adversely criticised one of his hotels. Archie does his best to heal the breach; but, being something of an ass, genus priceless, he finds it almost beyond his powers to placate "the man-eating fish" whom Providence has given him as a father-in-law [via]
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Inside Jobby Connie WillisISBN 1596060247 (1-59606-024-7)
Hardcover, Subterranean
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Israel Potterby Herman MelvilleISBN 1598184083 (1-59818-408-3)
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Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divineby Harold BloomISBN 1594482217 (1-59448-221-7)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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Jimmy Corriganby Chris WareISBN 1594972079 (1-59497-207-9)
Hardcover, Public Square Books
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The Kid Stays in the Pictureby Robert EvansISBN 1597775258 (1-59777-525-8)
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Little Girl Lostby Richard AleasISBN 1594141118 (1-59414-111-8)
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A Little Princessby Frances Hodgson Burnett, Pablo Marcos, Eliza Gatewood WarrenISBN 1596792469 (1-59679-246-9)
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Lonely Planet Bostonby Kim GrantISBN 1740591062 (1-74059-106-2)
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Lonely Planet 2002 Out to Eat San Franciscoby Kim ZetterISBN 1740592700 (1-74059-270-0)
Softcover, Lonely Planet
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Lonely Planet Alaskaby Jim Dufresne, Aaron SpitzerISBN 1740599918 (1-74059-991-8)
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- from grizzly bear habitats to funky eats in Anchorage - feed your taste for adventure
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Lonely Planet Las Vegasby Scott DoggettISBN 1740591690 (1-74059-169-0)
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Lonely Planet Los Angelesby David Peevers, Andrea Schulte-PeeversISBN 174059021X (1-74059-021-X)
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Lonely Planet Miami & the Keysby Kim GrantISBN 1740591836 (1-74059-183-6)
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Lonely Planet San Francisco Condensedby Tom GivenISBN 1740593804 (1-74059-380-4)
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Looking Backward, 2000-1887by Edward BellamyISBN 1594084882 (1-59408-488-2)
Hardcover, Cork Hill Press
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Madame De Treymesby Edith WhartonISBN 159818377X (1-59818-377-X)
Hardcover, Alan Rodgers Books
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Making Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Work: Clinical Process For New Practitionersby Richard G. Heimberg, Brian P. MarxISBN 1593851421 (1-59385-142-1)
Hardcover, Guilford Pubn
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A Man to Call My Own: A Novelby Johanna LindseyISBN 1594130159 (1-59413-015-9)
Softcover, Gale / Cengage Learning
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Amanda and Marian Laton are identical twins, but they are as different as night and day. When their wealthy father dies, the two are sent to live with their aunt on a sprawling Texas ranch. There the twins meet Chad Kinkaid. Marian knows that like every other man she and her twin have met, he will pursue Amanda, not her. After witnessing Marian's taste for adventure, her sense of humor and bravery in the face of danger, Chad finds himself wanting her. [via]
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The Monster at Our Door: The Global Threat of Avian Fluby Mike DavisISBN 1595580115 (1-59558-011-5)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Morrigan's Crossby Nora RobertsISBN 159413149X (1-59413-149-X)
Softcover, Large Print Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Morrigan's Cross'Book summary:Standing on the cliffs of 12th century Ireland following the disappearance of his twin, Hoyt Mac Cionaoith is visited by the goddess Morrigan and is charged with the ultimate of tasks: saving his and all future worlds. His enemy, the beautiful but deadly vampire queen Lilith, has had over two thousand years experience in cruelly killing and changing humans into one of her own - including Hoyts brother, Cian.
Now, Hoyt, a sorcerer, must travel across the world and through time to find and train the five others Morrigan has prophesized will join him as a circle and do battle against Liliths army of vampires on Samhain in the land of Geall. But just who is the witch, the shape-changer, the scholar, the warrior and the vampire? How will this unlikely band of six prepare and become one with less than three months until the possible end of the world?
Following the arrival of Glenna Ward - a modern day witch with a knack for making her own kind of magic, the kind that makes his heart melt - Hoyt must find the strength to save the world, and a love that knows no bounds.
First in a trilogy from the #1 New York Times bestselling author
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Mrs. Bridgeby Evan S. ConnellISBN 1593760590 (1-59376-059-0)
Softcover, Shoemaker & Hoard
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New Englandby Randy Peffer, Kim Grant, Andrew Rebold, John SpelmanISBN 1740590252 (1-74059-025-2)
Softcover, Lonely Planet Publications
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O Pioneers!by Willa CatherISBN 1603120505 (1-60312-050-5)
Softcover, Alan Rodgers Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'O Pioneers!'Book summary:"The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman." . . .
"The land belongs to the future . . . that's the way it seems to me. . . . I might as well try to will the sunset over there to my brother's children. We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it -- for a little while." -- Willa Cather, O Pioneers!
Willa Cather -- born in Back Creek, Virginia, in 1873 -- was nine when she and her family moved to Red Cloud, Nebraska. She grew up on the plains -- and the plains grew into her as she did. This 1913 novel -- the story of an immigrant family's struggle to save their Nebraska farm -- grew out of her, and, of course, through her: there's a reason that this -- Cather's second novel -- is the famous book it has become. Cather attended the University of Nebraska, and worked six years on the editorial staff at McClure's Magazine in New York City; she won the Pulitzer Prize in 1923 for One of Ours. [via]
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Oh The Glory Of It Allby Sean WilseyISBN 1594200513 (1-59420-051-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Ordinary Loveby Jane SmileyISBN 1740307178 (1-74030-717-8)
Hardcover, Center Point
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Other People's Property: A Shadow History of Hip-Hop in White Americaby Jason TanzISBN 1596912731 (1-59691-273-1)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Paperback Romanceby Karin KallmakerISBN 1594930333 (1-59493-033-3)
Softcover, Perseus Distribution Services
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The Piazza Talesby Herman MelvilleISBN 159818458X (1-59818-458-X)
Hardcover, Alan Rodgers Books
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Playing for Uncle Sam : The Brits' Story of the North American Soccer Leagueby David TossellISBN 1840187484 (1-84018-748-4)
Softcover, Mainstream Publishing Company, Limited
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The Politics of Devianceby Anne HendershottISBN 1594030480 (1-59403-048-0)
Softcover, Encounter Books
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Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945by Tony JudtISBN 1594200653 (1-59420-065-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945'Book summary:World War II may have ended in 1945, but according to historian Tony Judt, the conflict's epilogue lasted for nearly the rest of the century. Calling 1945-1989 "an interim age," Judt examines what happened on each side of the Iron Curtain, with the West nervously inching forward while the East endured the "peace of the prison yard" until the fall of Communism in 1989 signaled their chance to progress. Though he proposes no grand, overarching theory of the postwar period, Judt's massive work covers the broad strokes as well as the fine details of the years 1945 to 2005. No one book (even at nearly a thousand pages) could fully encompass this complex period, but Postwar comes close, and is impressive for its scope, synthesis, clarity, and narrative cohesion.
Judt treats the entire continent as a whole, providing equal coverage of social changes, economic forces, and cultural shifts in western and eastern Europe. He offers a county-by-county analysis of how each Eastern nation shed Communism and traces the rise of the European Union, looking at what it represents both economically and ideologically. Along with the dealings between European nations, he also covers Europe's conflicted relationship with the United States, which learned much different lessons from World War II than did Europe. In particular, he studies the success of the Marshall Plan and the way the West both appreciated and resented the help, for acceptance of it reminded them of their diminished place in the world. No impartial observer, Judt offers his judgments and opinions throughout the book in an attempt to instruct as well as inform. If a moral lesson is to come from World War II, Judt writes, "then it will have to be taught afresh with each passing generation. 'European Union' may be an answer to history, but it can never be a substitute." This book would be an excellent place to start that lesson. --Shawn Carkonen [via]
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The Practice of the Wild: Essaysby Gary SnyderISBN 1593760167 (1-59376-016-7)
Softcover, Counterpoint
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The Prince and the Pauper: A Tale for Young People of All Agesby Mark TwainISBN 159818444X (1-59818-444-X)
Hardcover, Alan Rodgers Books
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"Twain was . . . enough of a genius to build his morality into his books, with humor and wit and -- in the case of The Prince and the Pauper -- wonderful plotting."
-- E.L. Doctorow [via]
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R Is for Ricochetby Sue GraftonISBN 1594130876 (1-59413-087-6)
Softcover, Thorndike Press
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The Rape of the Masters: How Political Correctness Sabotages Artby Roger KimballISBN 1594031215 (1-59403-121-5)
Softcover, Encounter Books
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Rat Pack Confidentialby Shawn Levy, Paul SirettISBN 1840023414 (1-84002-341-4)
Softcover, Oberon Books Ltd
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The Reefby Edith WhartonISBN 1598182420 (1-59818-242-0)
Softcover, Alan Rodgers Books
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Restlessby William BoydISBN 1596912367 (1-59691-236-7)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Differentby Gordon S. WoodISBN 1594200939 (1-59420-093-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different'Book summary:Even when the greatness of the founding fathers isn't being debunked, it is a quality that feels very far away from us indeed: Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison and Co. seem as distant as marble faces carved high into a mountainside. We may marvel at the fact that fate placed such a talented cohort of political leaders in that one place, the east coast of North America, in colonies between Virginia and Massachusetts, and during that one fateful period, but that doesn't really help us explain it or teach us the proper lessons to draw from it. What did make the founders different? Now, the incomparable Gordon Wood has written a book that shows us, among many other things, just how much character did matter.
Revolutionary Characters offers a series of brilliantly illuminating studies of the men who came to be known as the founding fathers. Each life is considered in the round, but the thread that binds the work together and gives it the cumulative power of a revelation is this idea of character as a lived reality for these men. For these were men, Gordon Wood shows, who took the matter of character very, very seriously. They were the first generation in history that was self-consciously self-made, men who understood the arc of lives, as of nations, as being one of moral progress. They saw themselves as comprising the world's first true meritocracy, a natural aristocracy as opposed to the decadent Old World aristocracy of inherited wealth and station.
Gordon Wood's wondrous accomplishment here is to bring these men and their times down to earth and within our reach, showing us just who they were and what drove them. In so doing, he shows us that although a lot has changed in two hundred years, to an amazing degree the virtues these founders defined for themselves are the virtues we aspire to still. [via]More editions of Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different:
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The Rule Of Fourby Ian Caldwell, Dustin ThomasonISBN 1594130779 (1-59413-077-9)
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An ivy league murder, a mysterious coded manuscript, and the secrets of a Renaissance prince collide - a brilliant work of fiction that weaves together suspense and scholarship, high art and unimaginable treachery. Princeton. Good Friday, 1999. On the eve of graduation, two students are a hairsbreadth from solving the mysteries of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, a Renaissance text that has baffled scholars for centuries.
Famous for its hypnotic power over those who study it, the book may finally reveal its secrets - to Tom Sullivan, whose father was obsessed with it, and Paul Harris, whose future depends on it - when an ancient diary surfaces. Armed with the final clue, the two friends delve into a world of forgotten erudition, strange sexual appetites, and terrible violence. But just as they begin to realize the magnitude of their discovery, the campus is rocked: a longtime student of the book has been murdered.
Ian Caldwell was Phi Beta Kappa in history at Princeton University. He lives in Newport News, Virginia. Dustin Thomason won the Hoopes Prize at Harvard University. He lives in New York City. They began writing The Rule of Four after graduating in 1998. The two have been best friends since they were eight years old. [via]
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Scottsboro Boyby Earl Conrad, Haywood PattersonISBN 1597401021 (1-59740-102-1)
Hardcover, Acls History E-Book Project
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Seasons Of The Heartby Jackie CalhounISBN 1594930309 (1-59493-030-9)
Softcover, Perseus Distribution Services
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Seven Types of Ambiguityby Elliot PerlmanISBN 1594481431 (1-59448-143-1)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Seven Types of Ambiguity'Book summary:[via]Seven Types of Ambiguity is a psychological thriller and a literary adventure of breathtaking scope. Celebrated as a novelist in the tradition of Jonathan Franzen and Philip Roth, Elliot Perlman writes of impulse and paralysis, empty marriages, lovers, gambling, and the stock market; of adult children and their parents; of poetry and prostitution, psychiatry and the law. Comic, poetic, and full of satiric insight, Seven Types of Ambiguity is, above all, a deeply romantic novel that speaks with unforgettable force about the redemptive power of love.
The story is told in seven parts, by six different narrators, whose lives are entangled in unexpected ways. Following years of unrequited love, an out-of-work schoolteacher decides to take matters into his own hands, triggering a chain of events that neither he nor his psychiatrist could have anticipated. Brimming with emotional, intellectual, and moral dilemmas, this novel-reminiscent of the richest fiction of the nineteenth century in its labyrinthine complexity-unfolds at a rapid-fire pace to reveal the full extent to which these people have been affected by one another and by the insecure and uncertain times in which they live. Our times, now.More editions of Seven Types of Ambiguity:
Snowstorms in a Hot Climateby Sarah DunantISBN 1597222453 (1-59722-245-3)
Softcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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A Spy's Lifeby Henry PorterISBN 1596880198 (1-59688-019-8)
Hardcover, Large Print Book Co
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Summerby Edith WhartonISBN 1596058889 (1-59605-888-9)
Softcover, Cosimo Inc
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Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Childrenby Theodore RooseveltISBN 1596058188 (1-59605-818-8)
Softcover, Cosimo Inc
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Those Who Waitby Peggy J. HerringISBN 1594930325 (1-59493-032-5)
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Three Livesby Gertrude Stein, Andrew Moore, Carl Van VechtenISBN 1595690425 (1-59569-042-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Three Lives'Book summary:Three Lives (1909) was Gertrude Stein's first published work of fiction. The book is comprised of three tales -- two short stories: "The Good Anna," and "The Gentle Lena"; and the novella. "Melanctha." Each one is a portrait of the title character and all of the women are members of the lower class living in a fictional town called Bridgepoint. Anna is a German immigrant who keeps house for Miss Mathilda and falls in love with another woman, Mrs. Lehntman. Lena is also a German woman who marries badly and dies in childbirth. Melanctha is a mulatto woman with unhappy love affairs. All three, however, face their various disappointments and their lots in life with resignation and acceptance. [via]
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Tom Sawyer Abroadby Mark TwainISBN 1595403299 (1-59540-329-9)
Softcover, 1st World Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tom Sawyer Abroad'Book summary:Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. 1st World Library-Literary Society is a non-profit educational organization. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - DO you reckon Tom Sawyer was satisfied after all them adventures? I mean the adventures we had down the river, and the time we set the darky Jim free and Tom got shot in the leg. No, he wasn't. It only just p'isoned him for more. That was all the effect it had. You see, when we three came back up the river in glory, as you may say, from that long travel, and the village received us with a torchlight procession and speeches, and everybody hurrah'd and shouted, it made us heroes, and that was what Tom Sawyer had always been hankering to be. For a while he WAS satisfied. Everybody made much of him, and he tilted up his nose and stepped around the town as though he owned it. Some called him Tom Sawyer the Traveler, and that just swelled him up fit to bust. You see he laid over me and Jim considerable, because we only went down the river on a raft and came back by the steamboat, but Tom went by the steamboat both ways. The boys envied me and Jim a good deal, but land! they just knuckled to the dirt before TOM. [via]
Tom Sawyer, Detectiveby Mark Twain, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Amy Sterling CasilISBN 1598185829 (1-59818-582-9)
Softcover, Alan Rodgers Books
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The Touchstoneby Edith WhartonISBN 1598189077 (1-59818-907-7)
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The Truth About Hillary: What She Knew, When She Knew It, And How Far She'll Go To Become Presidentby Edward KleinISBN 1595230238 (1-59523-023-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Undead And Unappreciatedby Maryjanice DavidsonISBN 1597221287 (1-59722-128-7)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Undead And Unappreciated'Book summary:A New York Times Bestseller
Most women would love to live as royalty, but Betsy has found that being vampire queen has more problems than perks - except for always being awake for Midnight Madness sales. But Betsy's "life" takes an interesting turn at a shower for her wicked stepmother, who lets it slip that Betsy has a long-lost half sister . . . who just so happens to be the devil's daughter, destined to rule the world. [via]
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Undead And Unemployedby Maryjanice DavidsonISBN 1597221937 (1-59722-193-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Undead And Unemployed'Book summary:Being royally undead isn't all it's cracked up to be--there are still bills to be paid. Luckily, new Queen of the Vampires Betsy Taylor lands her dream job selling designer shoes at Macy's.
But when a string of vampire murders hits St. Paul, Betsy must enlist the help of the one vamp who makes her blood boil: the oh-so-sexy Sinclair. Now, she's really treading on dangerous ground--high heels and all. [via]More editions of Undead And Unemployed:
The Uss Essex and the Birth of the American Navy: And the Birth of the American Navyby James Vescovi, Frances Diane RobottiISBN 1593371926 (1-59337-192-6)
Softcover, Adams Media Corp
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Wal-Mart: The Face Of Twenty-First-Century Capitalismby Nelson LichtensteinISBN 1595580212 (1-59558-021-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wal-Mart: The Face Of Twenty-First-Century Capitalism'Book summary:An indispensable introduction to the company that will define the twenty-first century economy.
Edited by one of the nation's preeminent labor historians, this book marks an ambitious effort to dissect the full extent of Wal-Mart's business operations, its social effects, and its role in the U.S. and world economy. Wal-Mart is based on a spring 2004 conference of leading historians, business analysts, sociologists, and labor leaders that immediately attracted the attention of the national media, drawing profiles in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and the New York Review of Books. Their contributions are adapted here for a general audience.
At the end of the nineteenth century the Pennsylvania Railroad declared itself "the standard of the world." In more recent years, IBM and then Microsoft seemed the template for a new, global information economy. But at the dawn of the twenty-first century, Wal-Mart has overtaken all rivals as the world-transforming economic institution of our time.
Presented in an accessible format and extensively illustrated with charts and graphs, Wal-Mart examines such topics as the giant retailer's managerial culture, revolutionary use of technological innovation, and controversial pay and promotional practices to provide the most complete guide yet available to America's largest company. [via]More editions of Wal-Mart: The Face Of Twenty-First-Century Capitalism:
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The War of the World: Twentieth-century Conflict And the Descent of the Westby Niall FergusonISBN 1594201005 (1-59420-100-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The War of the World: Twentieth-century Conflict And the Descent of the West'Book summary:Niall Fergusson's most important book to date-a revolutionary reinterpretation of the modern era that resolves its central paradox: why unprecedented progress coincided with unprecedented violence and why the seeming triumph of the West bore the seeds of its undoing.
From the conflicts that presaged the First World War to the aftershocks of the cold war, the twentieth century was by far the bloodiest in all of human history. How can we explain the astonishing scale and intensity of its violence when, thanks to the advances of science and economics, most people were better off than ever before-eating better, growing taller, and living longer? Wherever one looked, the world in 1900 offered the happy prospect of ever-greater interconnection. Why, then, did global progress descend into internecine war and genocide? Drawing on a pioneering combination of history, economics, and evolutionary theory, Niall Ferguson-one of Time magazine's "100 Most Influential People"-masterfully examines what he calls the age of hatred and sets out to explain what went wrong with modernity.
On a quest that takes him from the Siberian steppe to the plains of Poland, from the streets of Sarajevo to the beaches of Okinawa, Ferguson reveals an age turned upside down by economic volatility, multicultural communities torn apart by the irregularities of boom and bust, an era poisoned by the idea of irreconcilable racial differences, and a struggle between decaying old empires and predatory new states. Who won the war of the world? We tend to assume it was the West. Some even talk of the American century. But for Ferguson, the biggest upshot of twentieth-century upheaval was the decline of Western dominance over Asia.
A work of revelatory interpretive power, The War of the World is Niall Ferguson's masterwork. [via]
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The War of the Worldsby H. G. WellsISBN 1595400303 (1-59540-030-3)
Softcover, Authorhouse
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The War of the Worlds'Book summary:This is the granddaddy of all alien invasion stories, first published by H.G. Wells in 1898. The novel begins ominously, as the lone voice of a narrator tells readers that "No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's..."
Things then progress from a series of seemingly mundane reports about odd atmospheric disturbances taking place on Mars to the arrival of Martians just outside of London. At first the Martians seem laughable, hardly able to move in Earth's comparatively heavy gravity even enough to raise themselves out of the pit created when their spaceship landed. But soon the Martians reveal their true nature as death machines 100-feet tall rise up from the pit and begin laying waste to the surrounding land. Wells quickly moves the story from the countryside to the evacuation of London itself and the loss of all hope as England's military suffers defeat after defeat. With horror his narrator describes how the Martians suck the blood from living humans for sustenance, and how it's clear that man is not being conquered so much a corralled. --Craig E. Engler [via]
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What Katy Did at Schoolby Susan Coolidge, Kathleen LucasISBN 1594624720 (1-59462-472-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'What Katy Did at School'Book summary:Dr Carr's mind is firmly made up. Katy and her little sister Clover are to spend a whole year away at boarding school. A strange place, far from home, but on arrival the girls have an inkling that it might turn out to be rather different from their expectations. One thing is for sure, it certainly isn't going to be dull with a girl like Rose Red as an ally. [via]
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Winesburg, Ohioby Irving Howe, Sherwood AndersonISBN 1598186809 (1-59818-680-9)
Softcover, Alan Rodgers Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Winesburg, Ohio'Book summary:No sooner did Winesburg, Ohio make its appearance than a number of critical labels were fixed on it: the revolt against the village, the espousal of sexual freedom, the deepening of American realism. Such tags may once have had their point, but by now they seem dated and stale. The revolt against the village (about which Anderson was always ambivalent) has faded into history. The espousal of sexual freedom would soon be exceeded in boldness by other writers. And as for the effort to place Winesburg, Ohio in a tradition of American realism, that now seems dubious. Only rarely is the object of Anderson's stories social verisimilitude, or the "photographing" of familiar appearances, in the sense, say, that one might use to describe a novel by Theodore Dreiser or Sinclair Lewis. Only occasionally, and then with a very light touch, does Anderson try to fill out the social arrangements of his imaginary town -- although the fact that his stories are set in a mid-American place like Winesburg does constitute an important formative condition. [via]
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The World's Banker: A Story of Failed States, Financial Crises, and The Wealth and Poverty of Nationsby Sebastian MallabyISBN 1594200238 (1-59420-023-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Frank Miller's Sin City 2: Mataria Por Ella / A Dame To Kill Forby Frank MillerISBN 159497019X (1-59497-019-X)
Softcover, Public Square Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frank Miller's Sin City 2: Mataria Por Ella / A Dame To Kill For'Book summary:The story of Dwight McCarthy, a clean-living photographer who tries to avoid trouble because he knows what he's capable of. His tactics don't do him much good when a girl from his past shows up and professes her love for him. When he finds out she's in way over her head, it looks as though trouble has found him. A Dame to Kill For (mataria por ella) won a 1995 Eisner Award for Best Limited Series. [via]
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Frank Miller's Sin City: El Duro Adios/the Hard Goodbyeby Frank Miller, Mike RichardsonISBN 1594970149 (1-59497-014-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frank Miller's Sin City: El Duro Adios/the Hard Goodbye'Book summary:The Hard Goodbye (el duro adios) launches the award winning, internationally famous series of graphic novels by Frank Miller, and is one of the three graphic novels upon which the Sin City film is based (release date 4/1/05), which the author co-wrote and co-directed with Robert Rodriguez (Once Upon a Time in Mexico). Tough-guy Marv finds the girl of his dreams, an incredible beauty named Goldie. But when Goldie is murdered on their first night together, Marv scours the bars and back alleys of Sin City to find her killer in hopes of avenging her death. The Hard Goodbye won 1993 Eisner Awards for Best Graphic Album, Best Writer/Artist and Best Inker. [via]
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Strangers in Paradise 2by Terry MooreISBN 1594972168 (1-59497-216-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Strangers in Paradise 2'Book summary:Strangers in Paradise is the story of three friends, Francine, Katchoo and David, and the people they fall in and out of love with. It's a tale of dark pasts and hopeful futures, double-crosses and true friendship, love and hate. In other words, it's a story of real life, kicked up a notch. His characters live and breathe so vividly that it shows how much he loves them and induces the reader to love them, too. Moore's artwork is consistently gorgeous--darkly cute, conveying emotion with subtle grace and a human touch. Strangers in Paradise is one soap opera no one should miss. --Booklist [via]
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