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1066 And All Thatby W. C. Sellar, R. J. Yeatman, Steven ApplebyISBN 0413775275 (0-413-77527-5)
Hardcover, Methuen Publishing Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: '1066 and All That : The History Book to End All History Books'Book summary:A comic satire upon textbook history squeezing in all the history you can remember from the Olden Days and dashing Queen Woadicea to the reigns of the Eggkings (Eggberd, Eggbreth and Eggforth, and their mysterious Eggdeath), from the dreadful story of Stephen and his aunt Matilda to the Magna Charter, from the six burglars of Calais to the disillusion of the monasteries and the life of Broody Mary, from William and Mary, when England was ruled by an orange, to the Boston Tea-Party and the annoying confusion between Napoleon and Nelson, to the Peace to end all Peace. This light-hearted look at England and history provides a colorful commentary for all those with a curiosity for the past. [via]
The Age of Capitalby E. J. HobsbawnISBN 0451617630 (0-451-61763-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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The Age of Uncertaintyby John Kenneth GalbraithISBN 0395249007 (0-395-24900-7)
Hardcover, Bookthrift Co
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The Age of Uncertainty: Points of Departureby John Kenneth GalbraithISBN 0395259479 (0-395-25947-9)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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All the Right Places: Traveling Light Through China, Japan and Russiaby Bradley NewshamISBN 0394574109 (0-394-57410-9)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Among the Believers: An Islamic Journeyby Vidiadhar Surajprasad NaipaulISBN 0394711955 (0-394-71195-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey'Book summary:Naipaul's controversial account of his travels through the Islamic world was hailed by The New Republic as "the most notable work on contemporary Islam to have appeared in a very long time."
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Atlas Shruggedby Ayn RandISBN 0451191145 (0-451-19114-5)
Softcover, Signet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Atlas Shrugged'Book summary:Special 35th anniversary edition of the book that moved the world--and about the man who almost stopped it. Setting forth the fundamentals of Ayn Rand's unique philosophy of Objectivism, Atlas Shrugged is an acclaimed work about the murder--and rebirth--of a man's spirit. [via]
Big Game, Small World: A Basketball Adventureby Alexander WolffISBN 0446679895 (0-446-67989-5)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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Catch-22by Joseph HellerISBN 0440204399 (0-440-20439-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Catch-22'Book summary:There was a time when reading Joseph Heller's classic satire on the murderous insanity of war was nothing less than a rite of passage. Echoes of Yossarian, the wise-ass bombardier who was too smart to die but not smart enough to find a way out of his predicament, could be heard throughout the counterculture. As a result, it's impossible not to consider Catch-22 to be something of a period piece. But 40 years on, the novel's undiminished strength is its looking-glass logic. Again and again, Heller's characters demonstrate that what is commonly held to be good, is bad; what is sensible, is nonsense.
Yossarian says, "You're talking about winning the war, and I am talking about winning the war and keeping alive."
"Exactly," Clevinger snapped smugly. "And which do you think is more important?"
"To whom?" Yossarian shot back. "It doesn't make a damn bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead."
"I can't think of another attitude that could be depended upon to give greater comfort to the enemy."
"The enemy," retorted Yossarian with weighted precision, "is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on."
Mirabile dictu, the book holds up post-Reagan, post-Gulf War. It's a good thing, too. As long as there's a military, that engine of lethal authority, Catch-22 will shine as a handbook for smart-alecky pacifists. It's an utterly serious and sad, but damn funny book. [via]More editions of Catch-22:
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Charles Berlitz's World of the Odd and the Awesomeby Charles BerlitzISBN 0449220133 (0-449-22013-3)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughterby Adeline Yen MahISBN 0440228654 (0-440-22865-4)
Softcover, Laurel Leaf
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter'Book summary:Chinese Cinderella is the perfect title for Adeline Yen Mah's compelling autobiography in which, like the fairy-tale maiden, her childhood was ruled by a cruel stepmother. "Fifth Younger Sister" or "Wu Mei," as Yen Mah was called, is only an infant when her father remarries after her mother's death. As the youngest of her five siblings, Wu Mei suffers the worst at the hands of her stepmother Niang. She is denied carfare, frequently forgotten at school at the end of the day, and whipped for daring to attend a classmate's birthday party against Niang's wishes. Her father even forgets the spelling of her name when filling out her school enrollment record. In her loneliness, Wu Mei turns to books for company: "I was alone with my beloved books. What bliss! To be left in peace with Cordelia, Regan, Gonoril, and Lear himself--characters more real than my family... What happiness! What comfort!" Even though Wu Mei is repeatedly moved up to grades above those of her peers, it is only when she wins an international play-writing contest in high school that her father finally takes notice and grants her wish to attend college in England. Despite her parent's heartbreaking neglect, she eventually becomes a doctor and realizes her dream of being a writer.
Teens, with their passionate convictions and strong sense of fair play, will be immediately enveloped in the gross injustice of Adeline Yen Mah's story. A complete glossary, historical notes on the state of Chinese society and politics during Yen Mah's childhood, and the legend of the original Chinese Cinderella round out this stirring testimony to the strength of human character and the power of education. (Ages 10 to 15) --Jennifer Hubert [via]
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Chronicle of a Death Foretoldby Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gregory RabassaISBN 0394530748 (0-394-53074-8)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chronicle of a Death Foretold'Book summary:"EXQUISITELY HARROWING . . . . Very strange and brilliantly conceived. . . . A sort of metaphysical murder mystery. . . . The murder will stand among the innumerable murders of modern literature as one of the best and most powerfully rendered."
A mysterious and haunting tale of romance and murder, that begins with the marriage of a man and a woman in love. But when he inexplicably mistreats his beloved on the night of the wedding, he is in turn murdered by her brothers, and we are left with a strange sense of inevitability and passions gone terribly awry.
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Cities in Civilizationby Peter HallISBN 0394587324 (0-394-58732-4)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cities in Civilization'Book summary:Ranging over 2,500 years, Cities in Civilization is a tribute to the city as the birthplace of Western civilization. Drawing on the contributions of economists and geographers, of cultural, technological, and social historians, Sir Peter Hall examines twenty-one cities at their greatest moments. Hall describes the achievements of these golden ages and outlines the precise combinations of forces -- both universal and local -- that led to each city's belle epoque.
Hall identifies four distinct expressions of civic innovation: artistic growth, technological progress, the marriage of culture and technology, and solutions to evolving problems. Descriptions of Periclean Athens, Renaissance Florence, Elizabethan London, and nineteenth-century Vienna bring to life those seedbeds of artistic and intellectual creativity. Explorations of Manchester during the Industrial Revolution, of Henry Ford's Detroit, and of Palo Alto at the dawn of the computer age highlight centers of technological advances. Tales of the creation of Los Angeles' movie industry and the birth of the blues and rock 'n' roll in Memphis depict the marriage of culture and technology.
Finally, Hall celebrates cities that have been forced to solve problems created by their very size. With Imperial Rome came the apartment block and aqueduct; nineteenth-century London introduced policing, prisons, and sewers; twentieth-century New York developed the skyscraper; and Los Angeles became the first city without a center, a city ruled instead by the car. And in a fascinating conclusion, Hall speculates on urban creativity in the twenty-first century.
This penetrating study reveals not only the lives of cities but also the lives of the people who built them and created the civilizations within them. A decade in the making, Cities in Civilization is the definitive account of the culture of cities. [via]More editions of Cities in Civilization:
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The Classic Slave Narrativesby Henry Louis GatesISBN 0451528247 (0-451-52824-7)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Classic Slave Narratives'Book summary:No group of slaves anywhere, in any era, has left such prolific testimony to the horror of bondage as African-American slaves. Here are four of the most notable narratives: The Life of Olaudah Equiano; The History of Mary Prince; Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass; and Incidents in the Life of Slave Girl.[via]More editions of The Classic Slave Narratives:
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The Communist Manifestoby Friedrich Engels, K. MarxISBN 0451527100 (0-451-52710-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Communist Manifesto'Book summary:"A spectre is haunting Europe," Karl Marx and Frederic Engels wrote in 1848, "the spectre of Communism." This new edition of The Communist Manifesto, commemorating the 150th anniversary of its publication, includes an introduction by renowned historian Eric Hobsbawm which reminds us of the document's continued relevance. Marx and Engels's critique of capitalism and its deleterious effect on all aspects of life, from the increasing rift between the classes to the destruction of the nuclear family, has proven remarkably prescient. Their spectre, manifested in the Manifesto's vivid prose, continues to haunt the capitalist world, lingering as a ghostly apparition even after the collapse of those governments which claimed to be enacting its principles. [via]
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Count of Monte Cristoby Alexandre Dumas, Roger CelestinISBN 0451529707 (0-451-52970-7)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Count of Monte Cristo'Book summary:Alexandre Dumas' thrilling classic, now with an introduction by Patricia C. Wrede.[via]
Edmond Dantès has a perfect life. He is engaged to a beautiful woman and has just been named captain of a ship. But when three jealous friends conspire to destroy him, Dantès is locked away for life in the infamous Chateau d'If.
In prison, Dantès learns of an island where vast treasure is hidden. He plots a daring escape, then uses the treasure to transform himself into the Count of Monte Cristo. Equipped with power, wealth, and disguise, he seeks out his enemies. Nothing can stand between the count and his obsession...revenge.More editions of Count of Monte Cristo:
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Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated - Count of Monte Cristo: ISBN 0396082556 (0-396-08255-6)
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The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imaginationby Daniel J. BoorstinISBN 0394543955 (0-394-54395-5)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Damascus Gateby Robert StoneISBN 0395665698 (0-395-66569-8)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Dictionary of World Place-Names Derived from British Namesby Adrian RoomISBN 0415028116 (0-415-02811-6)
Hardcover, Routledge
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The End of the Twentieth Century: And the End of the Modern Ageby John LukacsISBN 0395584728 (0-395-58472-8)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Environment and Politicsby Doug McEachern, Timothy DoyleISBN 041514776X (0-415-14776-X)
Softcover, Routledge
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Falkland Road : Prostitutes of Bombayby Mary E. MarkISBN 0394740009 (0-394-74000-9)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Falkland Road: Prostitutes of Bombay Photographs and Textby Mary Ellen MarkISBN 0394509870 (0-394-50987-0)
Hardcover, Knopf
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Family of WomanISBN 0399509666 (0-399-50966-6)
Softcover, Perigee
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The Fateful Alliance: France, Russia, and the Coming of the First World Warby George F. KennanISBN 0394722310 (0-394-72231-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Favorite Folktales from Around the Worldby Jane YolenISBN 0394751884 (0-394-75188-4)
Softcover, Pantheon Books
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Frantz Fanon: A Critical Studyby Irene GendzierISBN 039446205X (0-394-46205-X)
Hardcover, Pantheon Books
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Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Mindsby Harold BloomISBN 0446691291 (0-446-69129-1)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds'Book summary:From the Bible to Ralph Ellison, America's most prominent and bestselling literary critic takes an enlightening look at the concept of genius through the ages in a celebration of the greatest creative writers of all time. 50 photos. [via]
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Gilgameshby John Gardner, John Maier, Richard A. HenshawISBN 0394740890 (0-394-74089-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gilgamesh'Book summary:The story of Gilgamesh, an ancient epic poem written on clay tablets in a cuneiform alphabet, is as fascinating and moving as it is crucial to our ability to fathom the time and the place in which it was written. Gardner's version restores the poetry of the text and the lyricism that is lost in the earlier, almost scientific renderings. The principal theme of the poem is a familiar one: man's persistent and hopeless quest for immortality. It tells of the heroic exploits of an ancient ruler of the walled city of Uruk named Gilgamesh. Included in its story is an account of the Flood that predates the Biblical version by centuries. Gilgamesh and his companion, a wild man of the woods named Enkidu, fight monsters and demonic powers in search of honor and lasting fame. When Enkidu is put to death by the vengeful goddess Ishtar, Gilgamesh travels to the underworld to find an answer to his grief and confront the question of mortality. [via]
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The Great Railway Bazaarby Paul TherouxISBN 0395207088 (0-395-20708-8)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great Railway Bazaar'Book summary:Bewitched by trains since childhood, this is Paul Theroux's account of an epic train-hopping journey in the 1970s from London to Japan and back again. His perceptions and anecdotes transport the listener beyond the unfolding landscape into a world of traveller's tales and mysterious events. [via]
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Gulliver's Travelsby Jonathan SwiftISBN 0395051460 (0-395-05146-0)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gulliver's Travels'Book summary:This masterpiece tells the incredible tale of Lemuel Gulliver, an English ship's surgeon. He is shipwrecked upon the shores of Lilliput, where the residents are only six inches high, then journeys takes him to the land of Brobdingnag, populated by giants, a floating island in the sky, and a land where horses have intelligence and man lives as a beast. His adventures, while read by children as an adventure story, are a devastating satire of society and human foibles. Part travelogue, part realism, part symbolism, Gullivers Travels remains a treasured classic of literature. [via]
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Hardcover, Price Stern Sloan - Gulliver's Travels: ISBN 0440333083 (0-440-33308-3)
Softcover, Bantam Books - Gulliver's Travels: ISBN 0451522192 (0-451-52219-2)
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Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group - Gulliver's Travels: ISBN 0448058103 (0-448-05810-3)
Hardcover, Grosset & Dunlap - Gulliver's Travels: ISBN 0451511697 (0-451-51169-7)
Hardcover, New Amer Library - Gulliver's Travels: ISBN 0395051460 (0-395-05146-0)
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Hidden Agendasby Tom ClancyISBN 0425171396 (0-425-17139-6)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hidden Agendas'Book summary:In the year 2010, computers are the new superpower. Those who control them control the world. To enforce the New Laws, Congress creates the ultimate computer security agency with the FBI: the Net Force. Instructions on how to make a bomb...a list of every U.S. spy in the Euro-Asian theater...Someone with access to classified information is posting it on the Internet-and it's costing lives. Net Force Commander Alex Michaels is in the hot seat. Now, before a hostile Senate committee, he must justify the very existence of the Net Force. Meanwhile, a virus is unleashed that throws the federal financial systems into chaos. And the Net Force operatives must hunt the wily hacker through the twists and turns of cyberspace-down a path that leads them dangerously close to home... [via]
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A History of the Modern Worldby R. R. Palmer, Joel G. ColtonISBN 0394336003 (0-394-33600-3)
Softcover, Knopf
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The House of the Spiritsby Isabel AllendeISBN 0394539079 (0-394-53907-9)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The House of the Spirits'Book summary:A best seller and critical success all over the world, The House of the Spirits is the magnificent epic of the Trueba family -- their loves, their ambitions, their spiritual quests, their relations with one another, and their participation in the history of their times, a history that becomes destiny and overtakes them all. We begin -- at the turn of the century, in an unnamed South American country -- in the childhood home of the woman who will be the mother and grandmother of the clan, Clara del Valle. A warm-hearted, hypersensitive girl, Clara has distinguished herself from an early age with her telepathic abilities -- she can read fortunes, make objects move as if they had lives of their own, and predict the future. Following the mysterious death of her sister, the fabled Rosa the Beautiful, Clara has been mute for nine years, resisting all attempts to make her speak. When she breaks her silence, it is to announce that she will be married soon. Her husband-to-be is Esteban Trueba, a stern, willful man, given to fits of rage and haunted by a profound loneliness. At the age of thirty-five, he has returned to the capital from his country estate to visit his dying mother and to find a wife. (He was Rosa's fiance, and her death has marked him as deeply as it has Clara.) This is the man Clara has foreseen -- has summoned -- to be her husband; Esteban, in turn, will conceive a passion for Clara that will last the rest of his long and rancorous life. We go with this couple as they move into the extravagant house he builds for her, a structure that everyone calls "the big house on the corner," which is soon populated with Clara's spiritualist friends, the artists she sponsors, the charity cases she takes an interest in, with Esteban's political cronies, and, above all, with the Trueba children...their daughter, Blanca, a practical, self-effacing girl who will, to the fury of her father, form a lifelong liaison with the son of his foreman...the twins, Jaime and Nicol [via]
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The Illuminatus Trilogyby Robert Shea, Robert Anton Wilson, Robert AntonISBN 0440539811 (0-440-53981-1)
Softcover, Dell Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Illuminatus Trilogy'Book summary:Product Description "The biggest sci-fi cult novel to come along since Dune."--The Village Voice. From the Publisher Filled with sex and violence--in and out of time and space--the three books of The Illuminatus are only partly works of the imagination. They tackle all the coverups of our time--from who really shot the Kennedys to why there's a pyramid on a one-dollar bill. [via]
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The Infernoby Dante Alighieri, John CiardiISBN 0451527984 (0-451-52798-4)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Inferno'Book summary:Considered to be one of the greatest literary works of all time- equal only to those of Shakespeare-Dante's immortal drama of a journey through Hell is the first volume of his Divine Comedy. The remaining canticles, The Purgatorio and The Paradiso, will be published this summer in quick succession. [via]
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Let's Get Lost: Adventures in the Great Wide Openby Craig NelsonISBN 0446676039 (0-446-67603-9)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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Life Through the Agesby Giovanni CaselliISBN 0448189968 (0-448-18996-8)
Hardcover, Grosset & Dunlap
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Life Through the Ages'Book summary:Presents in brief text and illustrations an overview of western history from prehistory to the present day. [via]
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Lords of the Rim: The Invisible Empire of the Overseas Chineseby Sterling SeagraveISBN 0399140115 (0-399-14011-5)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Love in the Time of Choleraby Gabriel Garcia MarquezISBN 0394561619 (0-394-56161-9)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Love in the Time of Cholera'Book summary:Nobel prize winner and author of "One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez" tells a tale of an unrequited love that outlasts all rivals in his masterpiece "Love in the Time of Cholera". "It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love". Fifty-one years, nine months and four days have passed since Fermina Daza rebuffed hopeless romantic Florentino Ariza's impassioned advances and married Dr Juvenal Urbino instead. During that half-century, Flornetino has fallen into the arms of many delighted women, but has loved none but Fermina. Having sworn his eternal love to her, he lives for the day when he can court her again. When Fermina's husband is killed trying to retrieve his pet parrot from a mango tree, Florentino seizes his chance to declare his enduring love. But can young love find new life in the twilight of their lives? "The most important writer of fiction in any language." Bill Clinton . "An exquisite writer, wise, compassionate and extremely funny." "Sunday Telegraph" . "An amazing celebration of the many kinds of love between men and women." "The Times" . As one of the pioneers of magic realism and perhaps the most prominent voice of Latin American literature, Gabriel Garcia Marquez has received international recognition for his novels, works of non-fiction and collections of short stories. Those published in translation by Penguin include "Autumn of the Patriarch", "Bon Voyage Mr.President", "Collected Stories", "Chronicle of a Death Foretold", "The General in his Labyrinth", "Innocent Erendira and Other Stories", "In the Evil Hour", "Leaf Storm", "Living to Tell the Tale", "Memories of My Melancholy Whores", "News of a Kidnapping", "No-one Writes to the Colonel", "Of Love and Other Demons", "One Hundred Years of Solitude", "The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor" and "Strange Pilgrims". [via]
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Major Problems in American Foreign Relations: Since 1914 Documents and Essaysby Thomas G. Paterson, Dennis MerrillISBN 0395938856 (0-395-93885-6)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Mediaby Edward S. Herman, Noam ChomskyISBN 0394549260 (0-394-54926-0)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media'Book summary:An absolutely brilliant analysis of the ways in which individuals and organizations of the media are influenced to shape the social agendas of knowledge and, therefore, belief. Contrary to the popular conception of members of the press as hard-bitten realists doggedly pursuing unpopular truths, Herman and Chomsky prove conclusively that the free-market economics model of media leads inevitably to normative and narrow reporting. Whether or not you've seen the eye-opening movie, buy this book, and you will be a far more knowledgeable person and much less prone to having your beliefs manipulated as easily as the press. [via]
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The Map Catalog: Every Kind of Map and Chart on Earth and Even Some above Itby Joel Makower, Laura BergheimISBN 0394746147 (0-394-74614-7)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Marxist Theories of Imperialismby Anthony BrewerISBN 0415043077 (0-415-04307-7)
Softcover, Routledge
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Marxist Theories of Imperialism: A Critical Surveyby Anthony BrewerISBN 0415044693 (0-415-04469-3)
Softcover, Routledge
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Of Virtue Rare: Margaret Beaufort, Matriarch of the House of Tudorby Linda SimonISBN 0395315638 (0-395-31563-8)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Orientalismby Edward W. SaidISBN 039474067X (0-394-74067-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Orientalism'Book summary:For generations now, Edward W. Said's "Orientalism" has defined our understanding of colonialism and empire, and this "Penguin Modern Classics" edition contains a preface written by Said shortly before his death in 2003. In this highly-acclaimed work, Edward Said surveys the history and nature of Western attitudes towards the East, considering orientalism as a powerful European ideological creation - a way for writers, philosophers and colonial administrators to deal with the 'otherness' of eastern culture, customs and beliefs. He traces this view through the writings of Homer, Nerval and Flaubert, Disraeli and Kipling, whose imaginative depictions have greatly contributed to the West's romantic and exotic picture of the Orient. Drawing on his own experiences as an Arab Palestinian living in the West, Said examines how these ideas can be a reflection of European imperialism and racism. Edward W. Said (1935-2003) was a Palestinian-American cultural critic and author, born in Jerusalem and educated in Egypt and the United States. His other books include "The Question of Palestine", "Culture and Imperialism" and "Out of Place: A Memoir". If you enjoyed "Orientalism", you might like Frantz Fanon's "The Wretched of the Earth", also available in "Penguin Modern Classics". "Stimulating, elegant and pugnacious". ("Observer"). "Beautifully patterned and passionately argued". ("New Statesman"). "Very exciting ...his case is not merely persuasive, but conclusive". (John Leonard, "New York Times"). "Magisterial". (Terry Eagleton). [via]
Our World: A Country-by-country Guideby Millie MillerISBN 0439550041 (0-439-55004-1)
Hardcover, Scholastic
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The Outline of Historyby H. G. WellsISBN 040303082X (0-403-03082-X)
Hardcover, Native Amer Books Distributor
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Paradisoby Dante Alighieri, John Ciardi, John FrecceroISBN 0451627008 (0-451-62700-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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The Paradisoby John Ciardi, Dante AlighieriISBN 0451528050 (0-451-52805-0)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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Religion and the Rise of Western Cultureby Christopher DawsonISBN 0404604994 (0-404-60499-4)
Hardcover, Ams Pr Inc
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Rich and Poor Countries: Consequences of International Economic Disorderby Javed A. Ansari, Hans W. SingerISBN 0415094593 (0-415-09459-3)
Softcover, Unwin Hyman
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Rome: In Spectacular Cross Sectionby Andrew Solway, Stephen BiestyISBN 0439455464 (0-439-45546-4)
Hardcover, Scholastic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rome: In Spectacular Cross Section'Book summary:Million-copy best-selling creator of the "Incredible Cross-Sections" series now brings his talent to a new challenge: Ancient Rome.[via]
"Rome in a Day" is set in 128 AD, on a festival day and follows one day in the life of a father and his 9-year-old son, Titus Cotta Maximus, as they spend a public holiday together in ancient Rome.
Spend the day with father and son as they awake and breakfast in their home; make their way down to the busy streets; follow the procession to the Temple of Jupiter; take in the game at the Colosseum; conduct some family business at the busy docks; relax at the Baths of Trajan; and watch the races at the Circus Maximus before returning home at the end of the evening. A very full day!More editions of Rome: In Spectacular Cross Section:
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Russian Fairy Talesby Aleksandr Nikolaevicher AfanasyevISBN 0394730909 (0-394-73090-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Russian Fairy Talesby Roman Jakobson, Norbert Guterman, A. N. Afanasev, Alexandre AlexeieffISBN 039449914X (0-394-49914-X)
Hardcover, Pantheon Books
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Sarum: Curriculum Unitby Edward RutherfurdISBN 0449000729 (0-449-00072-9)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Scholastic Atlas of the Worldby Scholastic, Jane WalkerISBN 043952797X (0-439-52797-X)
Softcover, Scholastic
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Scholastic Book of World Records 2003by Jenifer Corr MorseISBN 0439420970 (0-439-42097-0)
Softcover, Scholastic
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Shabanu: Daughter of the Windby Suzanne Fisher StaplesISBN 0440238560 (0-440-23856-0)
Softcover, Laurel Leaf
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Shorebirds: An Identification Guide to the Waders of the Worldby Peter Hayman, John Marchant, Tony PraterISBN 0395379032 (0-395-37903-2)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Soccer Warby Ryszard Kapuscinski, William R. BrandISBN 0394584139 (0-394-58413-9)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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A Taste for Travelby John Julius NorwichISBN 0394558553 (0-394-55855-3)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Throw Your Tooth on the Roof: Tooth Traditions from Around the Worldby Selby B. Beeler, G. Brian KarasISBN 0395891086 (0-395-89108-6)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Travelsby Michael CrichtonISBN 0394562364 (0-394-56236-4)
Hardcover, Book Sales
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The Varieties of History: From Voltaire to the Presentby Fritz Richard SternISBN 039471962X (0-394-71962-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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"This book contains not only an excellent selection of passages which characterize the ideas and the work of leading historians from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, but the book in its entirety provides a stimulating survey of the entire development of modern historiography." Felix Gilbert, The Institute for Advanced Study
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The Vaudevillesby Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Ann DunniganISBN 0451522702 (0-451-52270-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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We Dream of a WorldISBN 0439368871 (0-439-36887-1)
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What If? 2: Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Beenby James Bradley, Robert CowleyISBN 042518613X (0-425-18613-X)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'What If? 2: Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been'Book summary:Many armchair historians have spent hours daydreaming of what might have been if some turning point in history had gone another way. The appeal of the What If? books is that editor Robert Cowley gets professional historians to concentrate on these imaginative questions. The first volume focused entirely on military matters; What If? 2 leans heavily but not exclusively in that direction. Victor Davis Hanson wonders about the consequences for Western philosophy if Socrates had died in battle, Thomas Fleming ponders a Napoleonic invasion of North America, and Caleb Carr argues the Second World War lasted longer than it should have because George Patton's superiors restrained their energetic general. More than two dozen contributors offer bold speculation: If the Chinese had committed themselves to ocean exploration, asks Theodore F. Cook Jr., might they have discovered the New World and even prevented "the worst horrors of the Atlantic Slave Trade [by halting] Portuguese expansion along the African coast at this early date?" Other times they are pleasantly modest: In one of the book's best sections, John Lukacs describes the fantasy of Teddy Roosevelt defeating Woodrow Wilson in the 1912 election--and decides the long- term effects would not have been great. Like its predecessor, What If? 2 is delicious mind candy for readers willing to believe there's nothing inevitable about what has come before us. --John Miller [via]
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What If? : Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Beenby Robert CowleyISBN 0399147950 (0-399-14795-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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When the Lion Feedsby Wilbur SmithISBN 0449215539 (0-449-21553-9)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Who Was Ferdinand Magellan?by S. A. Kramer, Elizabeth WolfISBN 044843105X (0-448-43105-X)
Softcover, Grosset & Dunlap
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The World Atlas of BirdsISBN 0394494830 (0-394-49483-0)
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The World System: Five Hundred Years of Five Thousand?by Barry K. Gills, Andre Gunder FranISBN 0415150892 (0-415-15089-2)
Softcover, Routledge
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