| Search | About | Preferences | Interact | Help | |
| 150 million books. 1 search engine. | ||
books tagged “war”
books tagged “war”
›› Find signed collectible books by ''
-
An Acceptable Timeby Madeleine L'EngleISBN 0374300275 (0-374-30027-5)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'An Acceptable Time'Book summary:A flash of lightning, quivering ground, and, instead of her grandparents' farm, Polly sees mist and jagged mountains -- and coming toward her, a group of young men carrying spears.[via]
Why has a time gate opened and dropped Polly into a world that existed 3,000 years ago? Will she be able to get back to the present before the time gate closes -- and leaves her to face a group of people who believe in human sacrifice?More editions of An Acceptable Time:
All Day Permanent Red: The First Battle Scenes of Homer's Iliad Rewrittenby Christopher LogueISBN 0374529299 (0-374-52929-9)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'All Day Permanent Red: The First Battle Scenes of Homer's Iliad Rewritten'More editions of All Day Permanent Red: The First Battle Scenes of Homer's Iliad Rewritten:
-
All Day Permanent Red: The First Battle Scenes of Homer's Iliad Rewrittenby Homer, Christopher LogueISBN 0374102953 (0-374-10295-3)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'All Day Permanent Red: The First Battle Scenes of Homer's Iliad Rewritten'Book summary:The first clash of the armies in Logues Heroic . . . brilliant version of Homers Iliad (The New York Times Book Review)[via]
Setting down her topaz saucer heaped with nectarine jelly,
Emptying her blood-red mouthset in her ice-white face
Teenaged Athena jumped up and shrieked:
Kill! Kill for me!
Better to die than live without killing!
Who says prayer does no good?
Christopher Logues work in progress, his Iliad, has been called the best translation of Homer since Popes (The New York Review of Books). Here in All Day Permanent Red is doomed Hector, the lion, slam-scattering the herd at the height of his powers. Here is the Greek army rising with a sound like a sky-wide Venetian blind. Here is an arrows tunnel, the width of a lipstick, through a neck. Like Homer himself, Logue is quick to mix the ancient and the new, because his Troy exists outside time, and no translator has a more Homeric interest in the truth of battle, or in the absurdity and sublimity of war.More editions of All Day Permanent Red: The First Battle Scenes of Homer's Iliad Rewritten:
American Black Chamberby Herbert O. YardleyISBN 0345298675 (0-345-29867-5)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'American Black Chamber'More editions of American Black Chamber:
Another Worldby Pat BarkerISBN 0374105251 (0-374-10525-1)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Another World'More editions of Another World:
Austerlitzby Winfried Georg Sebald, Anthea BellISBN 0375756566 (0-375-75656-6)
Softcover, Modern Library
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Austerlitz'-
Bible and Sword: England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to Balfourby Barbara Wertheim TuchmanISBN 0345314271 (0-345-31427-1)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Bible and Sword: England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to Balfour'Book summary:With the lucidity and vividness that characterize all her work, two-time Pulitzer Prize winning historian, Barbara Tuchman, explores the complex relationship of Britain to Palestine that led to the founding of the modern Jewish state--and to many of the problems that plague the Middle East today.
"Barbara Tuchman is a wise and witty writer, a shrewd observer with a lively command of high drama."
PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER [via]More editions of Bible and Sword: England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to Balfour:
The Burma Road: The Epic Story of the China-Burma-India Theater in World War IIby Donovan WebsterISBN 0374117403 (0-374-11740-3)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Burma Road: The Epic Story of the China-Burma-India Theater in World War II'More editions of The Burma Road: The Epic Story of the China-Burma-India Theater in World War II:
-
Castles Of Steel: Britain, Germany, And The Winning Of The Great War At Seaby Robert K. MassieISBN 0345408780 (0-345-40878-0)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Castles Of Steel: Britain, Germany, And The Winning Of The Great War At Sea'Book summary:In a work of extraordinary narrative power, filled with brilliant personalities and vivid scenes of dramatic action, Robert K. Massie, the Pulitzer Prizewinning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and Dreadnought, elevates to its proper historical importance the role of sea power in the winning of the Great War.
The predominant image of this first world war is of mud and trenches, barbed wire, machine guns, poison gas, and slaughter. A generation of European manhood was massacred, and a wound was inflicted on European civilization that required the remainder of the twentieth century to heal.
But with all its sacrifice, trench warfare did not win the war for one side or lose it for the other. Over the course of four years, the lines on the Western Front moved scarcely at all; attempts to break through led only to the lengthening of the already unbearably long casualty lists.
For the true story of military upheaval, we must look to the sea. On the eve of the war in August 1914, Great Britain and Germany possessed the two greatest navies the world had ever seen. When war came, these two fleets of dreadnoughtsgigantic floating castles of steel able to hurl massive shells at an enemy miles awaywere ready to test their terrible power against each other.
Their struggles took place in the North Sea and the Pacific, at the Falkland Islands and the Dardanelles. They reached their climax when Germany, suffocated by an implacable naval blockade, decided to strike against the British ring of steel. The result was Jutland, a titanic clash of fifty-eight dreadnoughts, each the home of a thousand men.
When the German High Seas Fleet retreated, the kaiser unleashed unrestricted U-boat warfare, which, in its indiscriminate violence, brought a reluctant America into the war. In this way, the German effort to seize the trident by defeating the British navy led to the fall of the German empire.
Ultimately, the distinguishing feature of Castles of Steel is the author himself. The knowledge, understanding, and literary power Massie brings to this story are unparalleled. His portrayals of Winston Churchill, the British admirals Fisher, Jellicoe, and Beatty, and the Germans Scheer, Hipper, and Tirpitz are stunning in their veracity and artistry.
Castles of Steel is about war at sea, leadership and command, courage, genius, and folly. All these elements are given magnificent scope by Robert K. Massies special and widely hailed literary mastery.
From the Hardcover edition. [via]More editions of Castles Of Steel: Britain, Germany, And The Winning Of The Great War At Sea:
Close Quartersby Larry HeinemannISBN 0374125236 (0-374-12523-6)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Close Quarters'More editions of Close Quarters:
Colditz: The Definitive Historyby Henry ChancellorISBN 0340794941 (0-340-79494-1)
Hardcover, Hodder & Stoughton
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Colditz: The Definitive History'More editions of Colditz: The Definitive History:
The Complete Star Wars Trilogy: The Original Radio Dramasby George Lucas, Alan Dean Foster, Donald F. Glut, James KahnISBN 0345475828 (0-345-47582-8)
Softcover, Del Rey
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Star Wars Trilogy: The Original Radio Dramas'More editions of The Complete Star Wars Trilogy: The Original Radio Dramas:
-
Corsets To Camouflage: Women And Warby Kate AdieISBN 0340820594 (0-340-82059-4)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Corsets To Camouflage: Women And War'Book summary:Uniform is universally seen as both a stamp of authority and of official acceptance. But the sight of a woman in military uniform still provokes controversy. Although more women are now taking prominent roles in combat, the status implied by uniform is often regarded as contrary to the general perception of womanhood. This study of the image of uniformed women, both in conflict and in civilian roles throughout the 20th century examines the extraordinary range of jobs that uniformed women have performed, from nursing to the armed services. Through complementary correspondence and many personal stories Kate Adiee brings the enormous and often unsung achievements of women in uniform to life and looks at how far women have come in a century which, for them, began restricted in corsets and has ended on the battlefield in camouflage. [via]
More editions of Corsets To Camouflage: Women And War:
Crucibleby Robert R. ChaseISBN 0345366565 (0-345-36656-5)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Crucible'More editions of Crucible:
Defying Hitler: A Memoirby Sebastian Haffner, Oliver PretzelISBN 0374161577 (0-374-16157-7)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Defying Hitler: A Memoir'More editions of Defying Hitler: A Memoir:
-
Designated Targetsby John BirminghamISBN 0345457145 (0-345-45714-5)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Designated Targets'Book summary:Its World War II and the A-bomb is here to stay.
The only question: Whos going to drop it first?
The Battle of Midway takes on a whole new dimension with the sudden appearance of a U.S.-led naval task force from the twenty-first century, the result of a botched military experiment. State-of-the-art warships are scattered across the Pacific, armed to the teeth with the latest instruments of mass destruction.
Nuclear warheads, rocket-propelled grenades, AK-47s, computer-guided missilesall bets are off as the major powers of 1942 scramble to be the first to wield the weapons of tomorrow against their enemies. The whole world now knows of the Allied victory in 1945, and the collapse of communism decades later. But that was the first time around.
With the benefit of their newly acquired knowledge, Stalin and Hitler rapidly change strategies. A Russian-German ceasefire leaves the Führer free to bring the full weight of his vaunted Nazi war machine down on England, while in the Pacific, Japan launches an invasion of Australia, and Admiral Yamamoto schemes to seize an even greater prize . . . Hawaii.
Even in the United States the newcomers from the future are greeted with a combination of enthusiasm and fear. Suspicion leads to hatred and erupts into violence.
Suddenly its a whole new war, with high-tech, high-stakes international manipulations from Tokyo to D.C. to the Kremlin. As the world trembles on the brink of annihilation, Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, Hitler, and Tojo confront extreme choices and a future rife with possibilitiesall of them apocalyptic. [via] -
The Diamond Throneby David EddingsISBN 0345367693 (0-345-36769-3)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Diamond Throne'Book summary:New cover reissue of Book One of the classic ELENIUM series introducing the Pandion Knight Sparhawk and his horse Faron, a sleeping queen, and a jewel that can save her! After a long spell of exile, Sparhawk, Pandion Knight and the Queen's champion, returns to his native land to find it overrun with evil and intrigue -- and his young Queen grievously ill. Indeed, Ehlana lies magically entombed within a block of crystal, doomed to die unless a cure can be found within a year. But as Sparhawk and his allies -- who include Sephrenia, the ageless sorceress, and Flute, the strange and powerful girl-child -- seek to save Ehlana and the land, they discover that the evil is even greater and more pervasive than they feared! Truly a gem of epic fantasy from the modern master of the genre, THE DIAMOND THRONE is a must for Eddings fans -- and an excellent introduction for those who have yet to discover the delights of his work. [via]
-
Dog Soldiersby Robert StoneISBN 0345275748 (0-345-27574-8)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Dog Soldiers'Book summary:Like Michael Herr's Dispatches, Robert Stone's National Book Award-winning novel Dog Soldiers trades on a hallucinatory vision of Vietnam as a place in which all honor and morality are ceded to the mere business of survival -- and, better, survival with personal profit. "This is the place where everybody finds out who they are," says the novel's protagonist, the journalist Converse, to which his friend and partner in crime Ray Hicks replies, "What a bummer for the gooks." Converse convinces Hicks to smuggle a shipment of heroin back to the United States, renegade CIA agents pop up, and all hell breaks loose in this beautifully written, dark study of the soul in anguish. [via]
More editions of Dog Soldiers:
Double Visionby Pat BarkerISBN 0374209057 (0-374-20905-7)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Double Vision'More editions of Double Vision:
Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour : Armistice Day, 1918: World War I and Its Violent Climaxby Joseph PersicoISBN 0375508252 (0-375-50825-2)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour : Armistice Day, 1918: World War I and Its Violent Climax'More editions of Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour : Armistice Day, 1918: World War I and Its Violent Climax:
-
An End To Evil: How To Win The War On Terrorby Richard Perle, David FrumISBN 0345477170 (0-345-47717-0)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'An End To Evil: How To Win The War On Terror'Book summary:An End to Evil charts the agenda for whats next in the war on terrorism, as articulated by David Frum, former presidential speechwriter and bestselling author of The Right Man, and Richard Perle, former assistant secretary of defense and one of the most influential foreign-policy leaders in Washington.
This world is an unsafe place for Americansand the U.S. government remains unready to defend its people. In An End to Evil, David Frum and Richard Perle sound the alert about the dangers around us: the continuing threat from terrorism, the crisis with North Korea, the aggressive ambitions of China. Frum and Perle provide a detailed, candid account of Americas vulnerabilities: a military whose leaders resist change, intelligence agencies mired in bureaucracy, diplomats who put friendly relations with their foreign colleagues ahead of the nations interests. Perle and Frum lay out a bold program to defend Americaand to win the war on terror.
Among the topics this book addresses:
" why the United States risks its security if it submits to the authority of the United Nations
" why France and Saudi Arabia have to be treated as adversaries, not allies, in the war on terror
" why the United States must take decisive action against Irannow
" what to do in North Korea if negotiations fail
" why everything you read in the newspapers about the Israeli-Arab dispute is wrong
" how our government must be changed if we are to fight the war on terror to victorynot just stalemate
" where the next great terror threat is coming fromand what we can do to protect ourselves
An End to Evil will define the conservative point of view on foreign policy for a new generationand shape the agenda for the 2004 presidential-election year and beyond. With a keen insiders perspective on how our leaders are confrontingor not confrontingthe war on terrorism, David Frum and Richard Perle make a convincing argument for why the toughest line is the safest line.
From the Hardcover edition. [via]More editions of An End To Evil: How To Win The War On Terror:
Endgame: The Betrayal and Fall of Srebrenicaby David RohdeISBN 0374253420 (0-374-25342-0)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Endgame: The Betrayal and Fall of Srebrenica'More editions of Endgame: The Betrayal and Fall of Srebrenica:
-
Eyre Affairby Jasper FfordeISBN 0340820470 (0-340-82047-0)
Hardcover, Hodder & Stoughton
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Eyre Affair'Book summary:The first of Fforde's superior literary mysteries featuring Thursday Next and set in a strange, parallel 1985 where you can make a dodo from a home-cloning kit and the arch-villain hijacks beloved characters from the citizenry's favorite books. Author's first novel. [via]
More editions of Eyre Affair:
Fighterby Len DeightonISBN 0345298217 (0-345-29821-7)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Fighter'More editions of Fighter:
-
Fridayby Robert HeinleinISBN 034530988X (0-345-30988-X)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Friday'Book summary:"AS JOYOUS TO READ AS IT IS PROVOCATIVE . . . Friday is all woman . . . She is as strong and resourceful and decisive as any Heinlein hero; in addition she is loving (oh, yes) and tender and very, very female."
--Los Angeles Times
Friday is a secret courier. She is employed by a man known to her only as "Boss." Operating from and over a near-future Earth, where chaos is the happy norm, she finds herself on assignment at Boss's seemingly whimsical behest. From New Zealand to Canada, from one to another of the new states of America's disunion, she keeps her balance nimbly with quick, expeditious solutions to one calamity and scrape after another.
Not since Valentine Michael Smith, hero of the bestselling Stranger in a Strange Land, has Robert Heinlein created a more captivating protagonist. Friday proves once again why Robert Heinlein's novels have sold more than 50 million copies, have won countless awards, and have earned him the title of Grand Master of Science Fiction.
"FRIDAY IS A SUPERBEING. . . . Engineered from the finest genes, and trained to be a secret courier in a future world of chaotic ferocity and intrigue, she can think better and make love better than any of the normal people around her."
--The New York Times Book Review [via] -
The Glass Palaceby Amitav GhoshISBN 0375758771 (0-375-75877-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Glass Palace'Book summary:Brilliant and impassioned, The Glass Palace is a masterly novel by Amitav Ghosh, the gifted novelist Peter Matthiessen has called an exceptional writer. This superb story of love and war begins with the shattering of the kingdom of Burma and the igniting of a great and passionate love, and it goes on to tell the story of a people, a fortune, and a family and its fate.
The Glass Palace tells of Rajkumar, a poor boy lifted on the tides of political and social chaos, who creates an empire in the Burmese teak forest. During the British invasion of 1885, when soldiers force the royal family out of the Glass Palace and into exile, Rajkumar befriends Dolly, the woman whose love will shape his life. He cannot forget her, and years later, as a rich man, he goes in search of her. [via] 
The Good Man of Nanking: The Diaries of John Rabeby John Rabe, Erwin Wickert, John E. WoodsISBN 0375701974 (0-375-70197-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Good Man of Nanking: The Diaries of John Rabe'More editions of The Good Man of Nanking: The Diaries of John Rabe:
Goodbye, Mickey Mouseby Len DeightonISBN 0345311469 (0-345-31146-9)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Goodbye, Mickey Mouse'More editions of Goodbye, Mickey Mouse:
The Great War : Perspectives on the First World Warby Robert CowleyISBN 0375509097 (0-375-50909-7)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great War : Perspectives on the First World War'More editions of The Great War : Perspectives on the First World War:
Gulliver's Travelsby Jonathan Swift, Derick BownISBN 0361031580 (0-361-03158-0)
Hardcover, Prentice Hall of Canada Ltd
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Gulliver's Travels'Book summary:Gulliver's Travels remains one of the most popular and widely-studied of literary classics. This edition reprints an authoritative text together with five newly-commissioned essays designed to introduce the text to students from a variety of contemporary critical perspectives. [via]
Hannibal Risingby Thomas HarrisISBN 0375435417 (0-375-43541-7)
Hardcover, Random House Large Print
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Hannibal Rising'More editions of Hannibal Rising:
IBM and the Holocaust : The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporationby Edwin BlackISBN 0375431241 (0-375-43124-1)
Hardcover, Random House Large Print
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'IBM and the Holocaust : The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation'More editions of IBM and the Holocaust : The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation:
-
Julius Caesarby Richard WilsonISBN 0333754662 (0-333-75466-2)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Julius Caesar'Book summary:This new critical edition of Julius Caesar provides a selection of important essays by leading contemporary critics on Shakespeare's first "Globe" play. New historicist, feminist, psychoanalytic, and Marxist readings of the tragedy have been chosen to highlight the urgency with which this drama of prophecy, interpretation, and political crisis speaks to 21st-century concerns about democracy, the medi,a and communication.[via]More editions of Julius Caesar:
The Killing of SS Obergruppenfuhrer Reinhard Heydrichby C. A. MacDonaldISBN 0333540263 (0-333-54026-3)
Hardcover, Pan Macmillan
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Killing of SS Obergruppenfuhrer Reinhard Heydrich'More editions of The Killing of SS Obergruppenfuhrer Reinhard Heydrich:
-
Ladysmithby Giles FodenISBN 0375708375 (0-375-70837-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Ladysmith'Book summary:In the dying days of the 19th century, the world's eyes turned to the small South African town of Ladysmith, whose inhabitants spent 118 days besieged by Boer forces while waiting for General Buller's army. Giles Foden tells his tale through a host of characters. There's the Irish hotelier Leo Kiernan and his daughters, Bella and Jane; the barber Antonio Torres, from Portuguese East Africa; the various British war correspondents, including a young Winston Churchill; the Indian stretcher bearers, among them Mohandas Gandhi; a Zulu named Muhle Maseku, his wife, Nandi, and their son, Wellington; and two young English soldiers, Tom and Perry Barnes, whose letters home--in which straightforward description approaches the surreal--were inspired by those of Foden's great-grandfather. Early on, Perry and his fellows capture one woman hiding in a farmhouse:
When we got to her, she was crouched in a shed with her arms round a goose. Seeing us approach, she buried her head in its feathers and started crying. As we surrounded her, she kept repeating something in Dutch. An African scout who spoke the language said what she was saying was: "Leave me my man-goose! Do not take my man-goose! Do not hurt my man-goose!" We had to take her in of course, but we let her keep the goose. As she was a farmer, I felt sorry for her, but they have plenty of our fellows in Pretoria, so there.
Ladysmith is a busy book, and it's not always clear what's going on. But that's Foden's point. At heart it is a novel about the writing of history, set on the verge of modernity, where old ways of assessing the truth are being cruelly questioned. So correspondent George Steevens still reads his Greek historians and Gibbons, while his messages are being sent (and censored) by the newfangled heliograph. "Sieges are out of date," Steevens realizes. "To the man of 1899 ... with five editions of the evening papers every day, a siege is a thousandfold a hardship. We make it a grievance nowadays if we are a day behind the news--news that concerns us not at all!" With such pressures to provide news, news, news, it's no surprise when the correspondents end up producing the Ladysmith Lyre, full of fake news. And on the margins, there's the unnamed Biographer, eschewing words in favor of visual images with his Biograph, but soon finding that he too can't tell the whole story.In its considerable range and ambition--Churchill and Gandhi's encounter prefiguring events of the 1940s, Bella's personal rebellion standing in for the advance of women, the place of Ireland in Britain's colonial plans, Wellington's experiences informing his work with the ANC--Ladysmith sometimes falls short. But in his battle scenes and evocation of the town's drawn-out suffering, Foden is very good, producing some startling images: the town's mockingbirds, for instance, "take to imitating the whine and buzz of shells." This is never anything less than a fascinating, ambitious novel, and to see a young author taking on the huge question of how to write history is inspiring indeed. --Alan Stewart [via]
The Last Shipby William BrinkleyISBN 0345359828 (0-345-35982-8)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Last Ship'More editions of The Last Ship:
The Lessons of Terror : A History of Warfare Against Civilians: Why It Has Always Failed and Why It Will Fail Againby Caleb CarrISBN 0375508430 (0-375-50843-0)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lessons of Terror : A History of Warfare Against Civilians: Why It Has Always Failed and Why It Will Fail Again'More editions of The Lessons of Terror : A History of Warfare Against Civilians: Why It Has Always Failed and Why It Will Fail Again:
-
Life, the Universe and Everythingby Douglas AdamsISBN 0345391829 (0-345-39182-9)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Life, the Universe and Everything'Book summary:The unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky above their headsso they plan to destroy it. The universe, that is. Now only five individuals stand between the killer robots of Krikkit and their goal of total annihilation.
They are Arthur Dent, a mild-mannered space and time traveler who tries to learn how to fly by throwing himself at the ground and missing; Ford Prefect, his best friend, who decides to go insane to see if he likes it; Slartibartfast, the indomitable vice president of the Campaign for Real Time, who travels in a ship powered by irrational behavior; Zaphod Beeblebrox, the two-headed, three-armed ex-president of the galazy; and Trillian, the sexy space cadet who is torn between a persistent Thunder God and a very depressed Beeblebrox.
How will it all end? Will it end? Only this stalwart crew knows as they try to avert universal Armageddon and save life as we know itand dont know it! [via]More editions of Life, the Universe and Everything:
Love and War in the Apenninesby Eric NewbyISBN 0340105585 (0-340-10558-5)
Hardcover, Hodder and Stoughton
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Love and War in the Apennines'More editions of Love and War in the Apennines:
-
Macbethby William Shakespeare, D. R. EllowayISBN 0333135717 (0-333-13571-7)
Hardcover, Macmillan
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Macbeth'More editions of Macbeth:
Machete Season: The Killers In Rwanda Speakby Jean Hatzfeld, Susan Sontag, Linda CoverdaleISBN 0374280827 (0-374-28082-7)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Machete Season: The Killers In Rwanda Speak'More editions of Machete Season: The Killers In Rwanda Speak:
-
A Man Called Intrepidby William StevensonISBN 0345310233 (0-345-31023-3)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'A Man Called Intrepid'Book summary:A true story of espionage.
[via]More editions of A Man Called Intrepid:
-
A Man Rides Throughby Stephen R. DonaldsonISBN 0345459849 (0-345-45984-9)
Softcover, Del Rey
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'A Man Rides Through'Book summary:In the thrilling conclusion to THE MIRROR OF HER DREAMS, Terisa Morgan finds herself face to face with the monstrous evil that threatens to destroy everyone and everything. Now, the masterful storytelling that is A MAN RIDES THROUGH, will delight readers everywhere--and reaffirm Stephen R. Donaldson's position as the foremost practitioner of the epic fantasy form in the world today!
"Donaldson has created his best work yet."
SCIENCE FICTION CHRONICLE [via] -
Marianne in Chains : In Search of the German Occupation 1940-45by Robert GildeaISBN 0333782305 (0-333-78230-5)
Hardcover, Pan Macmillan
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Marianne in Chains : In Search of the German Occupation 1940-45'Book summary:Full of the telling anecdote, written at a fast pace, "Marianne in Chains" is both readable and scholarly, provocative and convincing' - Ruth Harris, author of "Lourdes: Body and Spirit in the Secular Age". A radical examination of France in the Occupation, "Marianne in Chains" focuses on the area around Tours in the Loire and in so doing, Robert Gildea provides us with a microcosmic view of everyday life during the Occupation. Traditionally, this story is told in one of two ways: first, the French are all seen as doughty resistance fighters constantly subverting German rule; second, the French are all dismissed as spineless traitors who gave in immediately and whose only interests were selfish ones. Gildea is searching for the middle path between these two extremist views. His book shows how the vast majority of the French people reached an accommodation with their German masters and looks in riveting detail at just how this was done. It is a major work of revisionist history and is certain to excite comment and debate. [via]
More editions of Marianne in Chains : In Search of the German Occupation 1940-45:
-
Middlesexby Jeffrey EugenidesISBN 0374199698 (0-374-19969-8)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
Find This Book
› 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]
More editions of Middlesex:
-
The Misenchanted Swordby Lawrence Watt-EvansISBN 0345318226 (0-345-31822-6)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Misenchanted Sword'Book summary:The old wizard wasn't exactly happy with Valder, who'd led his enemy to his hut. Now hut and magical supplies were destroyed. But he'd promised the young scout a magic sword to get him safely back to his own lines -- and a much enchanted sword Valder would get!
The resulting sword gave perfect protection -- sometimes! It could kill any man -- or even half demon. In fact, once drawn, it had to kill before it could be put down or sheathed.
Army wizards told Valder that the sword would keep him alive until he'd drawn it 100 times; then it would kill him! It wouldn't prevent his being wounded, maimed or cut to pieces, but it wouldn't let him die. If his new job as Chief Assassin for the army didn't make him use up the spell, he'd be practically immortal.
Not bad, it seemed. There had to be a catch somewhere.
There was -- and it was a lulu! [via]More editions of The Misenchanted Sword:
-
Mists of Avalonby Marion Zimmer BradleyISBN 0345350499 (0-345-35049-9)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
Find This Book
› 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]
The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identityby Jill LeporeISBN 0375702628 (0-375-70262-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity'More editions of The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity:
News from No Man's Land: Reporting the Worldby John SimpsonISBN 0333905741 (0-333-90574-1)
Hardcover, Macmillan
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'News from No Man's Land: Reporting the World'More editions of News from No Man's Land: Reporting the World:
Panzer Leaderby Heinz GuderianISBN 0345290461 (0-345-29046-1)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Panzer Leader'More editions of Panzer Leader:
-
Persepolisby Marjane SatrapiISBN 0375423966 (0-375-42396-6)
Softcover, Pantheon Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Persepolis'Book summary:NA [via]
More editions of Persepolis:
-
The Pieces from Berlinby Michael PyeISBN 0375714162 (0-375-71416-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Pieces from Berlin'Book summary:In the great disorder of wartime Berlin, Lucia Muller-Rossi was an unofficial star: mistress to an Ambassador, the whole world to her young son, and guardian of all the lovely things her Jewish friends were forced to leave behind as they took the trains tothe death camps. Sixty years later, one of those fine pieces sits for sale in the window of Lucia's antiques shop-- and its true owner happens to pass by. In that moment, a whole lifetime of silence cracks open and Lucia's family face the wrenching duty of examining a past almost too horrifying to remember. [via]
Polish Officerby Alan FurstISBN 0375758275 (0-375-75827-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Polish Officer'More editions of Polish Officer:
-
Postcards From No Man's Landby Aidan ChambersISBN 0370323769 (0-370-32376-9)
Softcover, Bodley Head
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Postcards From No Man's Land'More editions of Postcards From No Man's Land:
Rise to Rebellion: American Revolutionby Jeff ShaaraISBN 0345427548 (0-345-42754-8)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Rise to Rebellion: American Revolution'Book summary:Jeff Shaara dazzled readers with his bestselling novels Gods and Generals, The Last Full Measure, and Gone for Soldiers. Now the acclaimed author who illuminated the Civil War and the Mexican-American War brilliantly brings to life the American Revolution, creating a superb saga of the men who helped to forge the destiny of a nation.
In 1770, the fuse of revolution is lit by a fateful command Fire! as Englands peacekeeping mission ignites into the Boston Massacre. The senseless killing of civilians leads to a tumultuous trial in which lawyer John Adams must defend the very enemy who has assaulted and abused the laws he holds sacred.
The taut courtroom drama soon broadens into a stunning epic of war as King George III leads a reckless and corrupt government in London toward the escalating abuse of his colonies. Outraged by the increasing loss of their liberties, an extraordinary gathering of Americas most inspiring characters confronts the British presence with the ideals that will change history.
John Adams, the idealistic attorney devoted to the law, who rises to greatness by the power of his words . . . Ben Franklin, one of the most celebrated men of his time, the elderly and audacious inventor and philosopher who endures firsthand the hostile prejudice of the British government . . . Thomas Gage, the British general given the impossible task of crushing a colonial rebellion without starting an all-out war . . . George Washington, the dashing Virginian whose battle experience in the French and Indian War brings him the recognition that elevates him to command of a colonial army . . . and many other immortal names from the Founding Family of the colonial struggleAbigail Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Joseph Warren, Samuel Adams, Richard Henry Lee captured as never before in their full flesh-and-blood humanity.
More than a powerful portrait of the people and purpose of the revolution, Rise to Rebellion is a vivid account of historys most pivotal events. The Boston Tea Party, the battles of Concord and Bunker Hillall are recreated with the kind of breathtaking detail only a master like Jeff Shaara can muster. His most impressive achievement, Rise to Rebellion reveals with new immediacy how philosophers became fighters, ideas their ammunition, and how a scattered group of colonies became the United States of America. [via]More editions of Rise to Rebellion: American Revolution:
-
Rising '44: The Battle for Warsawby Norman DaviesISBN 0333905687 (0-333-90568-7)
Hardcover, Macmillan
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Rising '44: The Battle for Warsaw'Book summary:The story of the Warsaw Rising from the author of The Isles and Europe: A History who is also the leading British authority on the history of Poland. Rising '44 is a brilliant narrative account of one of the most dramatic episodes in 20th century history, drawing on Davies' unique understanding of the issues and characters involved. In August 1944 Warsaw offered the Wehrmacht the last line of defence against the Red Army's march from Moscow to Berlin. When the Red Army reached the river Vistula, the people of Warsaw believed that liberation had come. The Resistance took to the streets in celebration, but the Soviets remained where they were, allowing the Wehrmacht time to regroup and Hitler to order that the city of Warsaw be razed to the ground. For 63 days the Resistance fought on in the cellars and the sewers. Defenceless citizens were slaughtered in their tens of thousands. One by one the City's monuments were reduced to rubble, watched by Soviet troops on the other bank of the river. The Allies expressed regret but decided that there was nothing to be done, Poland would not be allowed to be governed by Poles. The sacrifice was in vain and the Soviet tanks rolled in to the flat [via]
More editions of Rising '44: The Battle for Warsaw:
The Rules of Engagementby Catherine BushISBN 0374528705 (0-374-52870-5)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rules of Engagement'-
Saturday : A Novelby Ian McEwanISBN 0375435328 (0-375-43532-8)
Hardcover, Random House Large Print
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Saturday : A Novel'Book summary:From the pen of a master the #1 bestselling, Booker Prizewinning author of Atonement comes an astonishing novel that captures the fine balance of happiness and the unforeseen threats that can destroy it. A brilliant, thrilling page-turner that will keep readers on the edge of their seats.
Saturday is a masterful novel set within a single day in February 2003. Henry Perowne is a contented man a successful neurosurgeon, happily married to a newspaper lawyer, and enjoying good relations with his children. Henry wakes to the comfort of his large home in central London on this, his day off. He is as at ease here as he is in the operating room. Outside the hospital, the world is not so easy or predictable. There is an impending war against Iraq, and a general darkening and gathering pessimism since the New York and Washington attacks two years before.
On this particular Saturday morning, Perownes day moves through the ordinary to the extraordinary. After an unusual sighting in the early morning sky, he makes his way to his regular squash game with his anaesthetist, trying to avoid the hundreds of thousands of marchers filling the streets of London, protesting against the war. A minor accident in his car brings him into a confrontation with a small-time thug. To Perownes professional eye, something appears to be profoundly wrong with this young man, who in turn believes the surgeon has humiliated him with savage consequences that will lead Henry Perowne to deploy all his skills to keep his family alive. [via]More editions of Saturday : A Novel:
-
The Scarlet Pimpernelby OrczyISBN 0375406581 (0-375-40658-1)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Scarlet Pimpernel'Book summary:The first and most successful in the Baronesss series of books that feature Percy Blakeney, who leads a double life as an English fop and a swashbuckling rescuer of aristocrats, The Scarlet Pimpernel was the blueprint for what became known as the masked-avenger genre. As Anne Perry writes in her Introduction, the novel has almost reached its first centenary, and it is as vivid and appealing as ever because the plotting is perfect. It is a classic example of how to construct, pace, and conclude a plot. . . . To rise on the crest of laughter without capsizing, to survive being written, rewritten, and reinterpreted by each generation, is the mark of a plot that is timeless and universal, even though it happens to be set in England and France of 1792.
From the Trade Paperback edition. [via]More editions of The Scarlet Pimpernel:
-
Settling Accounts: Drive to the Eastby Harry TurtledoveISBN 0345464060 (0-345-46406-0)
Softcover, Del Rey
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Settling Accounts: Drive to the East'Book summary:Harry Turtledovethe master of alternate historyhas recast the tumultuous twentieth century and created an epic that is powerful, bold, and as convincing as it is provocative. In Drive to the East he continues his saga of warfare that has divided a nation and now threatens the entire world.
In 1914, the First World War ignited a brutal conflict in North America, with the United States finally defeating the Confederate States. In 1917, The Great War ended and an era of simmering hatred began, fueled by the despotism of a few and the sacrifice of many. Now its 1942. The USA and CSA are locked in a tangle of jagged, blood-soaked battle lines, modern weaponry, desperate strategies, and the kind of violence that only the damned could conjure upfor their enemies and themselves.
In Richmond, Confederate president and dictator Jake Featherston is shocked by what his own aircraft have done in Philadelphiakilling U.S. president Al Smith in a barrage of bombs. Featherston presses ahead with a secret plan carried out on the dusty plains of Texas, where a so-called detention camp hides a far more evil purpose.
As the untested U.S. vice president takes over for Smith, the United States face a furious thrust by the Confederate army, pressing inexorably into Pennsylvania. But with the industrial heartland under siege, Canada in revolt, and U.S. naval ships fighting against the Japanese in the Sandwich Islands, the most dangerous place in the world may be overlooked.
From the Hardcover edition. [via]More editions of Settling Accounts: Drive to the East:
-
Settling Accounts#2 : Drive to the Eastby Harry TurtledoveISBN 0345457242 (0-345-45724-2)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Settling Accounts#2 : Drive to the East'Book summary:Harry Turtledovethe master of alternate historyhas recast the tumultuous twentieth century and created an epic that is powerful, bold, and as convincing as it is provocative. In Drive to the East he continues his saga of warfare that has divided a nation and now threatens the entire world.
In 1914, the First World War ignited a brutal conflict in North America, with the United States finally defeating the Confederate States. In 1917, The Great War ended and an era of simmering hatred began, fueled by the despotism of a few and the sacrifice of many. Now its 1942. The USA and CSA are locked in a tangle of jagged, blood-soaked battle lines, modern weaponry, desperate strategies, and the kind of violence that only the damned could conjure upfor their enemies and themselves.
In Richmond, Confederate president and dictator Jake Featherston is shocked by what his own aircraft have done in Philadelphiakilling U.S. president Al Smith in a barrage of bombs. Featherston presses ahead with a secret plan carried out on the dusty plains of Texas, where a so-called detention camp hides a far more evil purpose.
As the untested U.S. vice president takes over for Smith, the United States face a furious thrust by the Confederate army, pressing inexorably into Pennsylvania. But with the industrial heartland under siege, Canada in revolt, and U.S. naval ships fighting against the Japanese in the Sandwich Islands, the most dangerous place in the world may be overlooked. [via]More editions of Settling Accounts#2 : Drive to the East:
The Shining Companyby Rosemary SutcliffISBN 0374466165 (0-374-46616-5)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Shining Company'Book summary:Young Prosper joins the fighting forces of Prince Gorthyn as they prepare to fight the fierce Saxons gaining strength in the East. Word comes that the Saxons have taken another kingdom, and Prosper, Prince Gorthyn, and his Three Hundred Companions must stop the marauders in an all-out war! [via]
The Smoke Jumperby Nicholas EvansISBN 0375431403 (0-375-43140-3)
Hardcover, Random House Large Print
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Smoke Jumper'More editions of The Smoke Jumper:
A Song of Stoneby Iain BanksISBN 0375501053 (0-375-50105-3)
Hardcover, Villard
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'A Song of Stone'More editions of A Song of Stone:
-
The Star Wars Trilogyby George LucasISBN 0345384385 (0-345-38438-5)
Softcover, Del Rey
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Star Wars Trilogy'Book summary:paperback, fine [via]
More editions of The Star Wars Trilogy:
-
Star Wars Trilogy : Star Wars; The Empire Strikes Back; Return of the Jediby George Lucas, James Kahn, Donald F. Glut, Stan ShankISBN 0345348060 (0-345-34806-0)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Star Wars Trilogy : Star Wars; The Empire Strikes Back; Return of the Jedi'Book summary:For the first time, here is a Special Omnibus Edition of the complete texts of the three novels that tell the complete story of everyone's favorite adventure--The Star Wars Trilogy. Including: STAR WARS, THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK, and RETURN OF THE JEDI. [via]
More editions of Star Wars Trilogy : Star Wars; The Empire Strikes Back; Return of the Jedi:
-
A Stranger to Myself : The Inhumanity of War: Russia, 1941-44by Willy Peter Reese, Max Hastings, Michael Hofmann, Stefan SchmitzISBN 0374139784 (0-374-13978-4)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'A Stranger to Myself : The Inhumanity of War: Russia, 1941-44'Book summary:A Stranger to Myself: The Inhumanity of War, Russia 1941-44 is the haunting memoir of a young German soldier on the Russian front during World War II. Willy Peter Reese was only twenty years old when he found himself marching through Russia with orders to take no prisoners. Three years later he was dead. Bearing witness to--and participating in--the atrocities of war, Reese recorded his reflections in his diary, leaving behind an intelligent, touching, and illuminating perspective on life on the eastern front. He documented the carnage perpetrated by both sides, the destruction which was exacerbated by the young soldiers' hunger, frostbite, exhaustion, and their daily struggle to survive. And he wrestled with his own sins, with the realization that what he and his fellow soldiers had done to civilians and enemies alike was unforgivable, with his growing awareness of the Nazi policies toward Jews, and with his deep disillusionment with himself and his fellow men.[via]
An international sensation, A Stranger to Myself is an unforgettable account of men at war.More editions of A Stranger to Myself : The Inhumanity of War: Russia, 1941-44:
-
The Sunne in Splendourby Sharon Kay PenmanISBN 0345363132 (0-345-36313-2)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sunne in Splendour'Book summary:"The reader is left with the haunting sensation that perhaps the good a man does can live after him--especially in the hands of a dedicated historian."
SAN DIEGO UNION
In this stirring historical novel, Sharon Kay Penman redeems Richard III from his villainous role in history as the hulking, evil hunchback. This dazzling recreation of his life is filled with the sights and sounds of battle, and the passions of the highborn. Most of all, it brings to life a gifted man whose greatest sin was that he held principles too firmly for the times in which he lived, and loved too deeply to survive love's loss. [via]More editions of The Sunne in Splendour:
Thank God for the Atom Bombby Fussell, Paul, Jr.ISBN 0345361350 (0-345-36135-0)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Thank God for the Atom Bomb'More editions of Thank God for the Atom Bomb:
Time Out of Jointby Philip K. DickISBN 037571927X (0-375-71927-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Time Out of Joint'More editions of Time Out of Joint:
To Bear Any Burden : The Vietnam War and Its Aftermath in the Words of Americans and Southeast Asiansby Al SantoliISBN 0345331885 (0-345-33188-5)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'To Bear Any Burden : The Vietnam War and Its Aftermath in the Words of Americans and Southeast Asians'More editions of To Bear Any Burden : The Vietnam War and Its Aftermath in the Words of Americans and Southeast Asians:
-
Unfinished Talesby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 0345357116 (0-345-35711-6)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Unfinished Tales'Book summary:Mythic lore and forgotten legends are unveiled in stories of the three ages of Middle-earth unearthed by Christopher Tolkien from his father's archives. [via]
More editions of Unfinished Tales:
Warrior Politics : Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethosby Robert D. KaplanISBN 0375505636 (0-375-50563-6)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Warrior Politics : Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos'More editions of Warrior Politics : Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos:
Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Requires a Pagan Ethosby Robert D. KaplanISBN 0375726276 (0-375-72627-6)
Softcover, Vintage Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Requires a Pagan Ethos'More editions of Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Requires a Pagan Ethos:
When Christ and His Saints Sleptby Sharon Kay PenmanISBN 0345396685 (0-345-39668-5)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'When Christ and His Saints Slept'More editions of When Christ and His Saints Slept:
Winter: A Berlin Family 1899-1945by Len DeightonISBN 0345359313 (0-345-35931-3)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Winter: A Berlin Family 1899-1945'More editions of Winter: A Berlin Family 1899-1945:
-
The World According to Garpby John IrvingISBN 034536676X (0-345-36676-X)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The World According to Garp'Book summary:"Garp was a natural storyteller," says the narrator of John Irving's incandescent novel, referring to the book's hero, the novelist Garp, who has much in common with Irving himself. "He could make things up one right after the other, and they seemed to fit."
Irving packs wild characters and weird events into his classic--officially recognized as such in a Modern Library edition with a new introduction by the author--while amazingly maintaining the rough feel of realism in every scene and the pulse of life in every heart. Many novelists of his time might have populated a novel with a novelist protagonist whose life and books comment on each other and the novel we're reading. Transsexual football players, ball turret gunners lobotomized in battle, multiple adultery, unicycling bears, mad feminists who amputate their tongues in sympathy with the celebrated victim of a horrifying rape--Irving made them all people. Even the bear is a fitting character.
In a crucial episode, Garp's wife's seduction of a young man coincidentally occurs at the moment when Garp is delighting their young sons with a reckless car trick (one of the few scenes beautifully, eerily, heartbreakingly captured in the film version as well). Many authors would have been content with the harsh comedy of the scene, but Irving respects its integrity, and he builds the rest of the book on the consequences of the event. How does he get away with his killer cocktail of slapstick and horror? Because it's simply what we all face daily, rearranged into soul-satisfying art. "Life is an X-rated soap opera," according to Garp, and who can contradict him?
Rereading Garp 20 years later, one is struck by how elegantly Irving structures his bizarre and complex story. Take the two most celebrated bits in the book, the Under Toad and Garp's story "The Pension Grillparzer," which shimmers like an exquisite Kafkaesque insect in the amber of the novel. When Garp warns his son about the "undertow" at the beach, the boy imagines a monster out of Beowulf who lurks beneath the waves to suck you under: the "Under Toad." It's funny at first, but we soon find that the Under Toad is a metaphor with teeth--he connects with a prophetic dream of death in "The Pension Grillparzer," set in Vienna. Garp's son's last words are, "It's like a dream!" And as Irving--who studied at the University of Vienna--can certainly tell you, the German word for "death" sounds precisely like the English word "toad."
All that death, and yet Garp is mainly exuberant. This story is, as Garp's stuttering writing teacher puts it, "rich with lu-lu-lunacy and sorrow." It enriches literature, and our lives. --Tim Appelo [via]
More editions of The World According to Garp:
-
Worlds in Collision: Terror and the Future of Global Orderby Ken Booth, Tim DunneISBN 0333998057 (0-333-99805-7)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Worlds in Collision: Terror and the Future of Global Order'Book summary:Bringing together an outstanding group of thinkers, Worlds in Collision is the essential book for understanding the debate about the future of global order in the wake of international terrorism and the war in Afghanistan. When the victim of such horrific terror attacks happens to be the world's only superpower, the agenda is set for the future global order. This book will help readers understand the ways in which our worlds collided on September 11, 2001. Not only does it comprehensively address the first phase of the war against international terrorism, the book also looks at the wider regional and global ramifications. Worlds in Collision is ultimately about more than the war on terrorism, it concerns itself with the possibilities for re-shaping global order on the basis of new kinds of politics.[via]
Contributers: Ken Booth & Tim Dunne " Francis Fukuyama " Lawrence Freedman " Steve Smith " Desmond Ball " Thomas J. Bierstekker " Barry Buzan " Immanuel Wallerstein " James Der Derian " Michael Byers " Noam Chomsky " Robert O. Keohane " Michael Cox " Abdullahi A. An-Na'im " Avi Shlaim " William Maley " Amitav Acharya " C. Raja Mohan " Paul Rogers " Colin Gray " Fred Halliday " Benjamin Barber " Jean Bethke Elshtain " Bhikhu Parekh " Sissela Bok " Chris Brown " Andrew Linklater " Saskia Sassen " Richard Falk " Patricia Williams " Kenneth N. WaltzMore editions of Worlds in Collision: Terror and the Future of Global Order:
Results page: PREV 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101-188 NEXT
![[powered by Muze Inc.]](http://i.bookfinder.com/images/site/muze/powered_by_muze.gif){kind=small}