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Ahmad's War, Ahmad's Peace: Surviving Under Saddam, Dying In The New Iraqby Michael GoldfarbISBN 0786717742 (0-7867-1774-2)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ahmad's War, Ahmad's Peace: Surviving Under Saddam, Dying in the New Iraq'Book summary:From public radio journalist Michael Goldfarb comes the most stirring narrative to emerge from the Second Gulf War, from the frontlines of battle, to the home of an Iraqi Kurdish family, and into the hearts of two men from different cultures whose friendship and passion for freedom will inspire all. Ahmads War, Ahmads Peace is Goldfarbs moving tribute to Ahmad Shawkat, the Iraqi Kurd who served as his translator during Major Combat Operations, whose lifes work was to promote freedom, and who was ultimately murdered during the American occupation. Goldfarb recounts his powerful relationship with Ahmad and introduces readers to the life of a true Iraqi hero.[via]
Eighteen years old when the Baath Party seized control of Iraq, Ahmad was imprisoned and tortured twice by Saddam Husseins regime, was forced to fight in the Iraqi army against Iran, and was banished from his hometown of Mosul for his anti-Saddam political writings. Just as he began to taste freedom with the fall of Saddam and his large familys return to Mosul, Ahmad was murdered for publicly decrying Islamic terror. As Goldfarb investigates his friend's murder, he mourns this loss and contemplates what dangers await the Iraqi people in their uncertain future.More editions of Ahmad's War, Ahmad's Peace: Surviving Under Saddam, Dying In The New Iraq:
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Alan Turing: The Enigmaby Andrew Hodges, Douglas HofstadterISBN 0802775802 (0-8027-7580-2)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alan Turing: The Enigma'Book summary:Alan Turing died in 1954, but the themes of his life epitomize the turn of the millennium. A pure mathematician from a tradition that prided itself on its impracticality, Turing laid the foundations for modern computer science, writes Andrew Hodges:
Alan had proved that there was no "miraculous machine" that could solve all mathematical problems, but in the process he had discovered something almost equally miraculous, the idea of a universal machine that could take over the work of any machine.
During World War II, Turing was the intellectual star of Bletchley Park, the secret British cryptography unit. His work cracking the German's Enigma machine code was, in many ways, the first triumph of computer science. And Turing died because his identity as a homosexual was incompatible with cold-war ideas of security, implemented with machines and remorseless logic: "It was his own invention, and it killed the goose that laid the golden eggs."
Andrew Hodges's remarkable insight weaves Turing's mathematical and computer work with his personal life to produce one of the best biographies of our time, and the basis of the Derek Jacobi movie Breaking the Code. Hodges has the mathematical knowledge to explain the intellectual significance of Turing's work, while never losing sight of the human and social picture:
In this sense his life belied his work, for it could not be contained by the discrete state machine. At every stage his life raised questions about the connection (or lack of it) between the mind and the body, thought and action, intelligence and operations, science and society, the individual and history.
And Hodges admits what all biographers know, but few admit, about their subjects: "his inner code remains unbroken." Alan Turing is still an enigma. --Mary Ellen Curtin [via]
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The Amber Room: The Fate of the World's Greatest Lost Treasureby Adrian LevyISBN 0802714242 (0-8027-1424-2)
Hardcover, Walker & Co
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The Archer's Taleby Bernard CornwellISBN 0786238984 (0-7862-3898-4)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Archidamian Warby Donald KaganISBN 0801497140 (0-8014-9714-0)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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Back to the Front: An Accidental Historian Walks the Trenches of World War Iby Stephen O'SheaISBN 0802776183 (0-8027-7618-3)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Back to the Front: An Accidental Historian Walks the Trenches of World War I'Book summary:[via]World War I is beyond the memory of almost everyone alive today. Yet it has left as deep a scar on the imaginative landscape of our century as it has on the land where it was fought. Nowhere is that more evident than on the Western Frontthe sinuous, deadly line of trenches that stretched from the coast of Belgium to the border of France and Switzerland, a narrow swath of land in which so many million lives were lost.
For journalist Stephen O'Shea, the legacy of the Great War is personal (both his grandfathers fought on the front lines) and cultural. Stunned by viewing the "immense wound" still visible on the battlefield of the Somme, and feeling that "history is too important to be left to the professionals," he set out to walk the entire 450 miles through no-man's-land to discover for himself and for his generation the meaning of the war.
Back to the Front is a remarkable combination of vivid history and opinionated travel writing. As his walk progresses, O'Shea recreates the shocking battles of the Western Front, many now legendaryPasschendaele, the Somme, the Argonne, Verdunand offers an impassioned perspective on the war, the state of the land, and the cultivation of memory. His consummate skill with words and details brings alive the players, famous and faceless, on that horrific stage, and makes us aware of why the Great War, indeed history itself, still matters. An evocative fusion of past and present, Back to the Front will resonate, for all who read it, as few other books on war ever have.More editions of Back to the Front: An Accidental Historian Walks the Trenches of World War I:
Battlegroundby W. E. B. GriffinISBN 079248472X (0-7924-8472-X)
Hardcover, Bdd Promotional Book Co
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Behind the Linesby W. E. B. GriffinISBN 0783817223 (0-7838-1722-3)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Berserkerby Fred SaberhagenISBN 0786254858 (0-7862-5485-8)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Blood, Tears and Folly: An Objective Look at World War IIby Len DeightonISBN 0785811141 (0-7858-1114-1)
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The Book of War Letters: 100 Years of Private Canadian Correspondenceby Paul Grescoe, Audrey GrescoeISBN 0771035578 (0-7710-3557-8)
Softcover, McClelland & Stewart Ltd
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Cat's Cradleby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0791071685 (0-7910-7168-5)
Softcover, Facts on File
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The Chosenby Harold BloomISBN 0791081737 (0-7910-8173-7)
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The Civil War Short Stories of Ambrose Bierceby Ambrose BierceISBN 0803260873 (0-8032-6087-3)
Softcover, Bison Books
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Code-Name Bright Light: The Untold Story of U.S. Pow Rescue Effortsby George J. VeithISBN 0788197347 (0-7881-9734-7)
Hardcover, Diane Pub Co
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The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierceby Ambrose Bierce, Ernest Jerome HopkinsISBN 0803260717 (0-8032-6071-7)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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Counterattackby W. E. B. GriffinISBN 0792481348 (0-7924-8134-8)
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Day of Wrathby Larry BondISBN 0786216166 (0-7862-1616-6)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Deafeningby Frances ItaniISBN 080214165X (0-8021-4165-X)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Essential Militaria: Facts, Legends, and Curiosities About Warfare Through the Agesby Nicholas HobbesISBN 0802117724 (0-8021-1772-4)
Hardcover, Atlantic Monthly Pr
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Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum 1941-1943by Arnold J. Pomerans, Etty Hillesum, Klaas A. D. SmelikISBN 0802839592 (0-8028-3959-2)
Hardcover, Eerdmans Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum 1941-1943'Book summary:Commissioned by the Etty Hillesum Foundation, "Etty" is the only complete, unabridged edition of the letters and diaries of a singular hero - and victim - of the Nazi Holocaust. This fascinating, profound, and often moving body of work reveals the interior life of a brilliant young Jewish woman. Born in January 1914, Etty Hillesum began her diary in 1941, nine months after Hitler invaded her home country of the Netherlands. The record she kept for the next two years contains arresting personal reflections and chronicles her social, intellectual, and - most significantly - spiritual growth. In addition to her ongoing search for God and truth, one of the most noted and instructive features of Etty's development was her recognition of, and her struggle to overcome, the disorder within her own being. It was her success in finally transcending her own sense of captivity within that allowed her to rise above cruel and fearsome circumstances without. Indeed, in the midst of the horrors of the Nazi Holocaust, Etty's writings reveal a woman who celebrated life and remained an undaunted example of courage, sympathy, and compassion. Letters that she wrote to friends during her internment at the Westerbork transit camp poignantly describe the day-to-day horrors that the Jewish prisoners faced. Nonetheless, Etty's courage and determination remained strong, allowing her to rise above the hate around her and express her irrepressible faith in humanity. As she wrote in her last letter, thrown from the train that took her to her death at Auschwitz, "We left the camp singing." Through this splendid edition of Etty's writing, edited by Klaas A. D. Smelik and translated by Arnold J. Pomerans, readers everywhere will resonate with the spirit of this remarkable woman. [via]
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Eye-Deep in Hell: Trench Warfare in World War Iby John EllisISBN 0801839475 (0-8018-3947-5)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Fighter: The True Story of the Battle of Britainby Len DeightonISBN 0785812083 (0-7858-1208-3)
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Fortunate Son: The Autobiography of Lewis B. Puller, Jr.by Lewis B. PullerISBN 0802136907 (0-8021-3690-7)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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The Forty Days of Musa Daghby Franz WerfelISBN 0786711388 (0-7867-1138-8)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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Gardens of the Moonby Steven EriksonISBN 0765348780 (0-7653-4878-0)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gardens of the Moon'Book summary:Sometimes books are big because the author doesn't know how to stop, and writes right over that line where more becomes less. Other books, though, are big because they have to be, because the story, the drama, and the characters are just too large to fit into a compact volume. Steven Erikson's Gardens of the Moon is that kind of big book. Gardens of the Moon, first volume in the Malazan Book of the Fallen, is an epic fantasy story of war, sorcery, politics, and revenge. There is an Empire that must be thwarted, as well as gods desperate to prove they still count for something in the world of human beings. The main story concerns intrigue surrounding the Malazan Empire's coming assault on the city of Darujhistan. Characters include Whiskeyjack, leader of a military band pushed to the edge; Baruk, an alchemist and leader of the mages of Darujhistan; and Sorry, a young woman possessed by a vicious killer.
Erikson brings a gritty realism to his fantasy that sets it apart from most others. Magic is difficult and dangerous, often harming its practitioners. Erikson's world has a long history of violence and struggle: people get dirty and tired, and there are not many lives without suffering. The realism makes the characters that much more sympathetic and their successes and failures more meaningful. Gardens of the Moon amply fulfills the main requirement of a big fantasy novel: the world it creates is so compelling that it pulls you right in and leaves you wanting more. --Greg L. Johnson [via]
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German Boy: A Child in Warby Wolfgang W. E. SamuelISBN 0767908244 (0-7679-0824-4)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Gettysburgby Newt Gingrich, William R. Forstchen, Albert S. HanserISBN 0786259574 (0-7862-5957-4)
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The Ghost Brigadesby John ScalziISBN 0765354063 (0-7653-5406-3)
Softcover, Tor Science Fiction
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Goshawk Squadronby Derek RobinsonISBN 0786715952 (0-7867-1595-2)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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Gulliver's Travelsby Jonathan Swift, Gill Harvey, Peter DennisISBN 0794503292 (0-7945-0329-2)
Softcover, Edc Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gulliver's Travels'Book summary:Gulliver sets sail for adventure and finds a country beyond his wildest dreams. He's certainly never met anyone like the people of Lilliput. But then the people of Lilliput have never met anyone quite like Gulliver. Usborne Young Reading books combine exciting stories with easy reading text. [via]
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The Handmaid's Taleby Margaret AtwoodISBN 0770428207 (0-7704-2820-7)
Softcover, Bantam Books of Canada Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Handmaid's Tale'Book summary:Throughout her career, Margaret Atwood has played with different literary genres in her novels--historical fiction (Alias Grace), pulp fiction (The Blind Assassin), the comedy of manners (The Robber Bride)--but no foray into genre fiction has been as successful as her turn to speculative fiction in The Handmaid's Tale. Published in 1985, it echoes Orwell's 1984 and Huxley's Brave New World, but a vibrant feminism drives Atwood's portrait of a futuristic dystopia. In the Republic of Gilead, we see a world devastated by toxic chemicals and nuclear fallout and dominated by a repressive Christian fundamentalism. The birthrate has plunged, and most women can no longer bear children. Offred is one of Gilead's Handmaids, who as official breeders are among the chosen few who can still become pregnant.
The Handmaid's Tale is an imaginatively audacious novel that is at once a page-turning psychological thriller, a moving love story, and a chilling warning about what might be waiting for us around the corner. What ultimately makes it stand out is Atwood's ability to balance a passionate political statement with finely wrought literary fiction. The Handmaid's Tale is a remarkable work by one of Canada's most inventive writers. --Jeffrey Canton [via]
The Hidden War: A Russian Journalist's Account of the Soviet War in Afghanistanby Artem BorovikISBN 080213775X (0-8021-3775-X)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Hiroshima Mon Amourby Marguerite Duras, Alain Resnais, Richard SeaverISBN 0802131042 (0-8021-3104-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hiroshima Mon Amour'Book summary:Au cours du tournage d'une coproduction sur la paix, une comédienne française noue une relation éphémère mais passionnée avec un Japonais. Sur cette mince intrigue, Duras est chargée par Alain Resnais d'élaborer le scénario et les dialogues d'un film, Hiroshima mon amour, titre étrange et poétique malgré la référence évidente aux atrocités de la guerre. Avec un art de l'ellipse parfaitement maîtrisé, Duras orchestre une danse sensuelle entre deux personnages qui luttent contre le temps. Lui refuse d'admettre que les atrocités d'Hiroshima ont eu lieu, Elle se tait sur son passé ; pourtant, ces fantômes ressurgissent en fragments, lambeaux d'un passé qui se superposent au moment présent. Les corps des amants se confondent peu à peu et Hiroshima se fond dans Nevers, cadre de la jeunesse de l'actrice marquée par l'opprobre parce qu'elle a aimé un jeune Allemand durant la guerre. Les gros plans sur les corps amoureux sont entrecoupés de scènes de foule et de détails d'une crudité sordide, comme si l'horreur devait, elle aussi et malgré tous les films sur la paix, lutter contre le déni pour se faire entendre. --Sana Tang-Léopold Wauters [via]
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History of Britain: The Wars of the British, 1603 - 1776by Simon SchamaISBN 0786867523 (0-7868-6752-3)
Hardcover, Hyperion Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'History of Britain: The Wars of the British, 1603 - 1776'Book summary:Inside these pages lies the bloody epic of liberty, the British Iliad.
The second volume of Simon Schama's A History of Britain brings the histories of Britain's civil wars -- full of blighted idealism, shocking carnage, and unexpected outcomes -- startlingly to life. These conflicts were fought unsparingly between the nations of the islands -- Ireland, England, and Scotland -- and between parliament and the crown. Shattering the illusion of a "united kingdom," they cost hundreds of thousands of lives: a greater proportion of the population than died in the First World War.
When religious passion gave way to the equally consuming passion for profits, it became possible for the pieces of Britain to come together as the spectacularly successful business enterprise of "Britannia Incorporated." And in a few generations that business state expanded in a dizzying process that transformed what had been an obscure, off-shore footnote to Europe's great powers into the main event -- the most powerful empire in the world.
Yet somehow, it was the "wrong empire." The British considered it a bastion of liberty, yet it was based on military force and the enslavement of hundreds of thousands of Africans. In America, the emptiness of British claims to protect "freedom" was thrown back into the teeth of colonial governors and redcoat soldiers, while the likes of Sam Adams and George Washington inherited the mantle of Cromwell.
Simon Schama grippingly evokes the horror of the battle, famine, and plague; the flames of burning cities; the pathos of broken families, with fathers and sons forced to choose opposing sides. But he also captures the intimacies of palace and parliament and the seductions of profit and pleasure. Geniuses like John Milton, Thomas Hobbes, and Benjamin Franklin stalk vividly through his pages, but so do Scottish clansmen, women pamphleteers, and literate, eloquent African slaves like Olaudah Equiano. [via]
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Hitler's Generalsby Corelli BarnettISBN 0802139949 (0-8021-3994-9)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Holocaust Chronicle: A History in Words and Picturesby John Roth, Dieter Kuntz, John K. Roth, Russel Lemmons, Robert Ashley Michael, Keith RickusISBN 0785329633 (0-7853-2963-3)
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Ignorant Armies: Sliding into War in Iraqby Gwynne DyerISBN 0771029772 (0-7710-2977-2)
Softcover, McClelland & Stewart Ltd
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Is Paris Burning?by Larry CollinsISBN 0785812466 (0-7858-1246-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Is Paris Burning?'Book summary:[This is the Audiobook CASSETTE Library Edition in vinyl case.]
[Read by Frederick Davidson]
''Is Paris burning?'' is the question Hitler asked over and over as the French Second and American Fourth Divisions battered their way into the city.
Few moments in history are as stirring as the Allied liberation of Paris, yet few people are aware of how narrowly -- and how miraculously -- the city escaped Hitler's secret plan to reduce it to ashes. Is Paris Burning? reconstructs, in meticulous and riveting detail, the network of fateful events -- day by day, moment by moment -- that saved the City of Light.
Bestselling authors and renowned journalists Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre spent three years researching this book, drawing on French Resistance radio messages, German military records, countless interviews, and secret correspondence between de Gaulle, Churchill, Roosevelt, and Eisenhower. Here they re-create the drama, the fervor, and the triumph that heralded one of the most dramatic events of our time. [via]More editions of Is Paris Burning?:
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Julius CaesarISBN 0789160838 (0-7891-6083-8)
Softcover, Perfection Learning
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Julius Caesarby William Shakespeare, Maurice Charney, William ShakepeareISBN 0789122502 (0-7891-2250-2)
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Kushiel's Dartby Jacqueline CareyISBN 0765342987 (0-7653-4298-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kushiel's Dart'Book summary:The land of Terre d'Ange is a place of unsurpassing beauty and grace. It is said that angels found the land and saw it was good...and the ensuing race that rose from the seed of angels and men live by one simple rule: Love as thou wilt.[via]
Phèdre nó Delaunay is a young woman who was born with a scarlet mote in her left eye. Sold into indentured servitude as a child, her bond is purchased by Anafiel Delaunay, a nobleman with very a special mission...and the first one to recognize who and what she is: one pricked by Kushiel's Dart, chosen to forever experience pain and pleasure as one.
Phèdre is trained equally in the courtly arts and the talents of the bedchamber, but, above all, the ability to observe, remember, and analyze. Almost as talented a spy as she is courtesan, Phèdre stumbles upon a plot that threatens the very foundations of her homeland. Treachery sets her on her path; love and honor goad her further. And in the doing, it will take her to the edge of despair...and beyond. Hateful friend, loving enemy, beloved assassin; they can all wear the same glittering mask in this world, and Phèdre will get but one chance to save all that she holds dear.
Set in a world of cunning poets, deadly courtiers, heroic traitors, and a truly Machiavellian villainess, this is a novel of grandeur, luxuriance, sacrifice, betrayal, and deeply laid conspiracies. Not since Dune has there been an epic on the scale of Kushiel's Dart-a massive tale about the violent death of an old age, and the birth of a new.More editions of Kushiel's Dart:
Lieutenant Hornblowerby Cecil Scott ForesterISBN 0786202858 (0-7862-0285-8)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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Love Your Enemies : Discipleship, Pacifism, and Just War Theoryby Lisa S. CahillISBN 0800627008 (0-8006-2700-8)
Softcover, Augsburg Fortress Canada
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Macbethby William Shakespeare, Daniel J. LearyISBN 078077034X (0-7807-7034-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Macbeth'Book summary:One of Shakespeare's greatest, but also bloodiest tragedies, was written around 1605/06. Many have seen the story of Macbeth's murder and usurpation of the legitimate Scottish King Duncan as having obvious connection to contemporary issues regarding King James I (James VI of Scotland), and the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. King James was particularly fascinated with witchcraft, so the appearance of the witches chanting "Fair is foul, and foul is fair" at the opening of the play seemed particularly topical, as was Macbeth's betrayal of Banquo, from whom James claimed direct descent.
However, the play is clearly far more than a piece of royal entertainment. It is also a fast-moving and dramatically satisfying piece of theatre. Macbeth's existential struggle between loyalty to his King and his "Vaulting ambition" is fascinating to watch, as his is struggle with Lady Macbeth, and her own terrifying refusal of her maternal role. The play shows an intensification of Shakespeare's interest in mothers and their effect upon ruling masculinity, and also contains some of the most memorable speeches in the entire canon, including Macbeth's reflections that ultimately life "is a tale / Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, / Signifying nothing". --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Magicianby Raymond E. FeistISBN 078578781X (0-7857-8781-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Magician'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Once he was an orphan called Pug, apprenticed to a sorcerer of the enchanted land of Midkemia. Then he was captured and enslaved by the Tsurani, a strange, warlike race of invaders from another world.There, in the exotic Empire of Kelewan, he earned a ne [via]
Magician Apprentice 1 Premiereby Raymond E. Feist, Bryan Jason Lee Glass, Brett Booth, Ryan StegmanISBN 0785127224 (0-7851-2722-4)
Hardcover, Marvel Enterprises
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The Mammoth Book of War Correspondentsby Jon E. LewisISBN 0786708662 (0-7867-0866-2)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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Margaret Atwood's the Handmaid's Taleby Harold BloomISBN 0791075699 (0-7910-7569-9)
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Margaret Atwood's the Handmaid's Taleby Margaret Eleanor AtwoodISBN 079105926X (0-7910-5926-X)
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The title, Margaret Atwoods The Handmaid's Tale, part of Chelsea House Publishers Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on Margaret Atwoods The Handmaid's Tale through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics. This collection of criticism also features a short biography on Margaret Atwood, a chronology of the authors life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University. [via]
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Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, And Warby Nathaniel PhilbrickISBN 0786286202 (0-7862-8620-2)
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Memories of Iceby Steven EriksonISBN 0765348802 (0-7653-4880-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Memories of Ice'Book summary:The third tale from the Mazalan Book of the Fallen, Memories of Ice is a convoluted military fantasy even more dense than its two predecessors. A deranged and not necessarily human prophet has set a cannibal rabble to conquer a continent, and various armies and wizards are out to stop him--but their reasons for doing this are many, various and often conflicting. The previous two books Gardens of the Moon and Deadhouse Gates were full of mysteries, some of them answered here--Erikson's is a world in which gods ascend from humanity to replace gods that fall or are overthrown and in which the world and the supernatural warrants that surround it are full of relics of past gods and past cultures. Young officer Paran tries to make sense of the return of his dead beloved as one of the four souls of a magical child; his commander Whiskeyjack tries to do the right thing as both soldier and human being; the scout Toc tries to survive hideous torture and pass on information he only partly knows. Erikson creates an impressive dark world of brutality and sudden beauty in which dizzying vistas of times past suddenly open; his work repays the concentration needed to follow his complex plotting and sentences. --Roz Kaveney [via]
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Middlesexby Jeffrey EugenidesISBN 0786257008 (0-7862-5700-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Middlesex'Book summary:"I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974." And so begins Middlesex, the mesmerizing saga of a near-mythic Greek American family and the "roller-coaster ride of a single gene through time." The odd but utterly believable story of Cal Stephanides, and how this 41-year-old hermaphrodite was raised as Calliope, is at the tender heart of this long-awaited second novel from Jeffrey Eugenides, whose elegant and haunting 1993 debut, The Virgin Suicides, remains one of the finest first novels of recent memory.
Eugenides weaves together a kaleidoscopic narrative spanning 80 years of a stained family history, from a fateful incestuous union in a small town in early 1920s Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit; from the early days of Ford Motors to the heated 1967 race riots; from the tony suburbs of Grosse Pointe and a confusing, aching adolescent love story to modern-day Berlin. Eugenides's command of the narrative is astonishing. He balances Cal/Callie's shifting voices convincingly, spinning this strange and often unsettling story with intelligence, insight, and generous amounts of humor:
Emotions, in my experience aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or "regret." & I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic traincar constructions like, say, "the happiness that attends disaster." Or: "the disappointment of sleeping with one's fantasy." ... I'd like to have a word for "the sadness inspired by failing restaurants" as well as for "the excitement of getting a room with a minibar." I've never had the right words to describe my life, and now that I've entered my story, I need them more than ever.
When you get to the end of this splendorous book, when you suddenly realize that after hundreds of pages you have only a few more left to turn over, you'll experience a quick pang of regret knowing that your time with Cal is coming to a close, and you may even resist finishing it--putting it aside for an hour or two, or maybe overnight--just so that this wondrous, magical novel might never end. --Brad Thomas Parsons [via]
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Military Errors of World War Twoby Kenneth MacKseyISBN 0785815988 (0-7858-1598-8)
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Mists of Avalonby Marion Zimmer BradleyISBN 0785787135 (0-7857-8713-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mists of Avalon'Book summary:Even readers who don't normally enjoy Arthurian legends will love this version, a retelling from the point of view of the women behind the throne. Morgaine (more commonly known as Morgan Le Fay) and Gwenhwyfar (a Welsh spelling of Guinevere) struggle for power, using Arthur as a way to score points and promote their respective worldviews. The Mists of Avalon's Camelot politics and intrigue take place at a time when Christianity is taking over the island-nation of Britain; Christianity vs. Faery, and God vs. Goddess are dominant themes.
Young and old alike will enjoy this magical Arthurian reinvention by science fiction and fantasy veteran Marion Zimmer Bradley. --Bonnie Bouman [via]
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The Monumentby Gary PaulsenISBN 0785712089 (0-7857-1208-9)
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More Than Courageby Harold CoyleISBN 0765341093 (0-7653-4109-3)
Softcover, Tor Books
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The Mouse That Roaredby Leonard Patrick O'Connor WibberleyISBN 0783881894 (0-7838-8189-4)
Hardcover, G K Hall & Co
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Naval Warfare in the Age of Sail: The Evolution of Fighting Tactics 1650-1815by Brian Turnstall, Nicholas TracyISBN 0785814264 (0-7858-1426-4)
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Never Again : A History of the Holocaustby Martin GilbertISBN 0789304090 (0-7893-0409-0)
Hardcover, Universe Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Never Again : A History of the Holocaust'Book summary:The almost unbelievable story of the Holocaust, told by the authoritative Martin Gilbert, is augmented by firsthand accounts and poignant illustrations. Owing much to "those who have assembled the basic Documentation,", his text is easy to follow and matter-of-fact, allowing the horror of the events to speak for itself. Gilbert's chronological narrative captures, in a tragically compelling way, the dark progress of the gathering evil--from a background of "century after century" of anti-Semitic persecution to the Nuremberg Laws and the death camps. Never Again powerfully counteracts the dehumanizing nature of Nazi extermination. As the statistics "represent real people," names are put to faces in photographs and the stories of individuals (some now household names) are told. Ending with coverage of survivors' postwar lives and the war crimes trials, which have continued practically into the new century, the book gives past events a closer reality. Peppered with "acts of individual and collective bravery," Never Again is also a reminder that hope was never extinguished.
As one of the first German books on the Holocaust stated, "Only if we come to terms with it and understand the lessons of those years, can we free ourselves of the legacy of Hitlerite barbarism." Completed by an extensive bibliography and separate indices of people and places, Never Again makes a superbly lucid and accessible contribution toward creating and maintaining that understanding. --Karen Tiley, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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The Notebookby Alan Sheridan, David Watson, Marc Romano, Agota KristofISBN 0802135064 (0-8021-3506-4)
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One of Oursby Willa Cather, Frederick M. Link, Kari Ronning, Richard C. HarrisISBN 0803214316 (0-8032-1431-6)
Hardcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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Peace and War: A Theory of International Relationsby Raymond Aron, Daniel J. Mahoney, Brian C. AndersonISBN 0765805049 (0-7658-0504-9)
Softcover, Transaction Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Peace and War: A Theory of International Relations'Book summary:Peace and War by Raymond Aron is one of the greatest books ever written on international relations. Arons starting point is the state of nature that exists between nations, a condition that differs essentially from the civil state that holds within political communities. Ever keeping this brute fact about the life of nations in mind and ranging widely over political history and many disciplines, Aron develops the essential analytical tools to enable us to think clearly about the stakes and possibilities of international relations.
In his first section, Theory, Aron shows that, while international relations can be mapped, and probabilities discerned, no closed, global science of international relations is anything more than a mirage. In the second part, Sociology, Aron studies the many ways various subpolitical forces influence foreign policy. He emphasizes that no rigorous determinism is at work: politicsand thus the need for prudent statesmanshipare inescapable in international relations. In part three, History, Aron offers a magisterial survey of the twentieth century. He looks at key developments that have had an impact on foreign policy and the emergence of what he calls universal history, which brings far-flung peoples into regular contact for the first time. In a final section, Praxeology, Aron articulates a normative theory of international relations that rejects both the bleak vision of the Machiavellians, who hold that any means are legitimate, and the naiveté of the idealists, who think foreign policy can be overcome.
This new edition of Peace and War includes an informative introduction by Daniel J. Mahoney and Brian C. Anderson, situating Arons thought in a new post-Cold War context, and evaluating his contribution to the study of politics and international relations.
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Pegasus Bridge: D-Day, the Daring British Airborne Raidby Stephen E. AmbroseISBN 0786256656 (0-7862-5665-6)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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Red Rabbitby Tom ClancyISBN 0786240644 (0-7862-4064-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Red Rabbit'Book summary:In "Red Rabbit" Tom Clancy gives Jack Ryan fans an insight into his greatest hero's first years fighting terrorism. Jack Ryan. The early CIA days...When young Jack Ryan joins the CIA as an analyst he is thrust into a world of political intrigue and conspiracy. Stationed in England, he quickly finds himself debriefing a Soviet defector with an extraordinary story to tell: senior Russian officials are plotting to assassinate Pope John Paul II. The CIA novice must forget his inexperience and rely on all his wits to firstly discover the details of the plot - and then prevent its execution. For it is not just the Pope's life that is at stake, but also the stability of the Western World. "Red Rabbit" is the thrilling eighth novel featuring Jack Ryan, following "The Sum of All Fears" and "Debt of Honour". Published after "Executive Orders", the novel charts Jack Ryan's earliest mission for the CIA, and is the stunning prequel to "The Hunt For Red October". Praise for Tom Clancy: "Truly riveting, a dazzling read". ("Sunday Express"). "A brilliantly constructed thriller". ("Daily Mail"). Thirty years ago, Tom Clancy was a Maryland insurance broker with a passion for naval history. His first novel, "The Hunt for Red October', catapulted on to the "New York Times" bestseller list after President Reagan pronounced it 'the perfect yarn'. Since then Clancy has established himself as an undisputed master at blending exceptional realism and authenticity, intricate plotting and razor-sharp suspense. [via]
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The Saboteursby W. E. B. Griffin, William E. ButterworthISBN 0786286318 (0-7862-8631-8)
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The Scarlet Pimpernel: The New Musical Adventureby Frank Wildhorn, Nan KnightonISBN 0769258476 (0-7692-5847-6)
Softcover, Alfred Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Scarlet Pimpernel: The New Musical Adventure'Book summary:The songs are: Believe Into the Fire Falcon in the Dive When I Look at You The Scarlet Pimpernel Where's the Girl? The Creation of Man The Riddle They Seek Him Here Only Love She Was There Storybook You Are My Home. [via]
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Secession to Fort Henryby Editors of Time Life BooksISBN 0783501005 (0-7835-0100-5)
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The Secret Warriorsby W. E. B. GriffinISBN 0786215550 (0-7862-1555-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Secret Warriors'Book summary:Washington D.C., 1942. With the help of Charles A. Lindbergh, ace OSS pilot Richard Canidy sets up an air maneuver that will drop agents into the Belgian Congo to smuggle out uranium ore essential to the arms race. But this time, Canidy is not in the saddle; he's the backup pilot. And though he's not used to waiting for something to go wrong, he knows that it will... [via]
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Seven Roads to Hell: A Creaming Eagle at Bastogneby Donald R. BurgettISBN 0783889941 (0-7838-8994-1)
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The Siegeby Helen DunmoreISBN 0802139582 (0-8021-3958-2)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Siege'Book summary:The Siege is one of those novels that is as redemptive as it is shattering, and they don't come much more shattering than this. The year is 1941, and the good people of Leningrad are squeezed between fear of Stalin's secret police and rumors that the Germans, despite the incredulity of military experts, are rapidly advancing on their great city. When the inevitable happens, 22-year-old Anna, an artist and the sole support for her young brother, invalid father, and the latter's former mistress, learns to survive the devastation and mass starvation that the siege brings. In the worst days of winter, Anna falls in love with a doctor, Andrei, who returns her passion, creating an oasis of emotional privacy within the hell of war. The Siege is expertly anchored in sometimes unbearable details of the assault on Leningrad; the book's sense of place and the author's great skill at pumping immediacy into the cold facts is something to behold. But this is, finally, a novel about extremes of experience, from rampant cruelty to the redemptive power of one person's love. --Tom Keogh [via]
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Snow Gooseby Paul GallicoISBN 0771032501 (0-7710-3250-1)
Softcover, McClelland & Stewart Ltd
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The Social History of the Machine Gunby John EllisISBN 0801833582 (0-8018-3358-2)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Startide Risingby David BrinISBN 0785787380 (0-7857-8738-0)
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State of War: The Secret History of the CIA And the Bush Administrationby James RisenISBN 0786286512 (0-7862-8651-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'State of War: The Secret History of the CIA And the Bush Administration'Book summary:The winter holidays are usually a quiet time for news, but the December 2005 revelations of the Bush administration's extensive, off-the-books domestic spying program by New York Times reporters James Risen and Eric Lichtblau made headline after headline, raising criticism from both sides of the aisle and an immediate, unapologetic response from President Bush himself. On the heels of those scoops comes Risen's State of War, which goes beyond his Times stories to provide a wide-ranging, if anecdotal, "secret history" of U.S. intelligence following 9/11.
Risen's description of what he says was called "the Program"--the ongoing eavesdropping operation, done with almost no judicial or congressional oversight, on the phone calls and emails of hundreds of Americans (and potentially millions more)--is only a chapter in his larger tale of the recent missteps and oversteps of U.S. intelligence. His evidence ranges from insider White House accounts of Donald Rumsfeld, "the ultimate turf warrior," outmaneuvering his rivals to make the Defense Department the dominant voice in foreign policy, to on-the-ground reports of the administration's willful ignorance of crucial intelligence on the dormancy of Saddam's weapons programs, Saudi support for al Qaeda, and the startlingly rapid transformation of Afghanistan into a "narco-state" under American authority. Some of the episodes he recounts--Saudi security officials with Osama bin Laden screensavers, an Iraqi scientist who had told the CIA his country had no nuclear program watching Colin Powell testify to the UN that they did--would be comical were the stakes less high.
Risen's loyalties are not with the opposition party--he's sharply critical of Clinton's disinterest in the CIA--but with the career field agents who are his best sources. Those agents and their expertise, he argues, have been cast aside, along with the long centrist tradition of U.S. foreign policy and the basic checks and balances of the American system of government, by the Bush administration's radical politicization and militarization of intelligence. He covers a lot of ground in a book of just over 200 pages, some of it familiar from other accounts, and at times his tradecraft anecdotes can be hard to assess without context. But his specific revelations and his well-sourced, angry overview of the way the battles against terror have been fought make for startling, newsmaking reading. --Tom Nissley [via]
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Storming Heavenby Dale BrownISBN 078620334X (0-7862-0334-X)
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Stupid White Men: And Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation!by Michael MooreISBN 0786244046 (0-7862-4404-6)
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The Thirteen Gun Saluteby Patrick O'BrianISBN 0786219378 (0-7862-1937-8)
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Captain Jack Aubrey sets sail for the South China Sea with a new lease on life. Following his dismissal from the Royal Navy (a false accusation), he has earned reinstatement through his daring exploits as a privateer, brilliantly chronicled in The Letter of Marque. Now he is to shepherd Stephen Maturinhis friend, ship's surgeon, and sometimes intelligence agenton a diplomatic mission to prevent links between Bonaparte and the Malay princes which would put English merchant shipping at risk.
The journey of the Diane encompasses a great and satisfying diversity of adventures. Maturin climbs the Thousand Steps of the sacred crater of the orangutans; a killer typhoon catches Aubrey and his crew trying to work the Diane off a reef; and in the barbaric court of Pulo Prabang a classic duel of intelligence agents unfolds: the French envoys, well entrenched in the Sultan's good graces, against the savage cunning of Stephen Maturin. [via]More editions of The Thirteen Gun Salute:
Twelve Bar Bluesby Patrick NeateISBN 0802140564 (0-8021-4056-4)
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The Victorian Interpretation of Racial Conflict: The Maori, the British, and the New Zealand Warsby James BelichISBN 0773507396 (0-7735-0739-6)
Softcover, McGill Queens Univ Pr
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Villa Incognitoby Tom RobbinsISBN 0786258055 (0-7862-5805-5)
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War And Faith In Sudanby Gabriel Meyer, James NichollsISBN 0802829333 (0-8028-2933-3)
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War Law: Understanding International Law And Armed Conflictby Michael ByersISBN 0802118097 (0-8021-1809-7)
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The Wars of Americaby Robert LeckieISBN 0785809147 (0-7858-0914-7)
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White Ghost Girlsby Alice GreenwayISBN 0802170188 (0-8021-7018-8)
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The Wine Dark Seaby Patrick O'BrianISBN 0786201339 (0-7862-0133-9)
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Wizard's First Ruleby Terry GoodkindISBN 0765346524 (0-7653-4652-4)
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In the aftermath of the brutal murder of his father, a mysterious woman, Kahlan Amnell, appears in Richard Cypher's forest sanctuary seeking help . . . and more. His world, his very beliefs, are shattered when ancient debts come due with thundering violence.
In a dark age it takes courage to live, and more than mere courage to challenge those who hold dominion, Richard and Kahlan must take up that challenge or become the next victims. Beyond awaits a bewitching land where even the best of their hearts could betray them. Yet, Richard fears nothing so much as what secrets his sword might reveal about his own soul. Falling in love would destroy them--for reasons Richard can't imagine and Kahlan dare not say.
In their darkest hour, hunted relentlessly, tormented by treachery and loss, Kahlan calls upon Richard to reach beyond his sword--to invoke within himself something more noble. Neither knows that the rules of battle have just changed . . . or that their time has run out.
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World History of Warfareby Holger H. Herwig, Timothy H. E. Travers, John Robert Ferris, Christon I. ArcherISBN 0803244231 (0-8032-4423-1)
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The Wretched of the Earthby Frantz FanonISBN 0802150837 (0-8021-5083-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wretched of the Earth'Book summary:Frantz Fanon (1925-61) was a Martinique-born black psychiatrist and anticolonialist intellectual; The Wretched of the Earth is considered by many to be one of the canonical books on the worldwide black liberation struggles of the 1960s. Within a Marxist framework, using a cutting and nonsentimental writing style, Fanon draws upon his horrific experiences working in Algeria during its war of independence against France. He addresses the role of violence in decolonization and the challenges of political organization and the class collisions and questions of cultural hegemony in the creation and maintenance of a new country's national consciousness. As Fanon eloquently writes, "[T]he unpreparedness of the educated classes, the lack of practical links between them and the mass of the people, their laziness, and, let it be said, their cowardice at the decisive moment of the struggle will give rise to tragic mishaps."
Although socialism has seemingly collapsed in the years since Fanon's work was first published, there is much in his look into the political, racial, and social psyche of the ever-emerging Third World that still rings true at the cusp of a new century. --Eugene Holley, Jr. [via]
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The Wretched of the Earthby Richard Philcox, Frantz FanonISBN 0802141323 (0-8021-4132-3)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wretched of the Earth'Book summary:Frantz Fanon (1925-61) was a Martinique-born black psychiatrist and anticolonialist intellectual; The Wretched of the Earth is considered by many to be one of the canonical books on the worldwide black liberation struggles of the 1960s. Within a Marxist framework, using a cutting and nonsentimental writing style, Fanon draws upon his horrific experiences working in Algeria during its war of independence against France. He addresses the role of violence in decolonization and the challenges of political organization and the class collisions and questions of cultural hegemony in the creation and maintenance of a new country's national consciousness. As Fanon eloquently writes, "[T]he unpreparedness of the educated classes, the lack of practical links between them and the mass of the people, their laziness, and, let it be said, their cowardice at the decisive moment of the struggle will give rise to tragic mishaps."
Although socialism has seemingly collapsed in the years since Fanon's work was first published, there is much in his look into the political, racial, and social psyche of the ever-emerging Third World that still rings true at the cusp of a new century. --Eugene Holley, Jr. [via]
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Cinquieme Emploiby Robertson DaviesISBN 0775300586 (0-7753-0058-6)
Hardcover, Cercle Du Livre De France
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