aNobii: News from Eric's shelf

The Image

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 1:52:00 PST

Eric put "The Image" onto shelf

First Published In 1962, This Wonderfully Provocative Book Introduced The Notion Of "pseudo-events" -- Events Such As Press Conferences And Presidential Debates, Which Are Manufactured Solely In Order To Be Reported -- And The Contemporary Definition Of Celebrity As "a Person Who Is Known For His Well-knownness." Since Then Daniel J. Boorstin's Prophetic Vision Of An America Inundated By Its Own ...

A Way in the World

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 1:51:02 PST

Eric put "A Way in the World" onto shelf

In his long-awaited, vastly innovative new novel, Naipaul, "one of literature's great travelers" (Los Angles Times), spans continents and centuries to create what is at once an autobiography and a fictional archaeology of colonialism. "Dickensian . . . a brilliant new prism through which to view (Naipaul's) life and work."--New York Times.

The Dispossessed

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 1:09:55 PST

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Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. he will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and attempt to tear down the walls of hatred that have isolated his planet of anarchists from the rest of the civilized universe. To do this dangerous task will mean giving up his family and possibly his life. Shevek must make the unprecedented journey to the utopian mother planet, Anarres, t ...

Darwin's Children

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 1:09:24 PST

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Greg Bear’s Nebula Award–winning novel, Darwin’s Radio, painted a chilling portrait of humankind on the threshold of a radical leap in evolution—one that would alter our species forever. Now Bear continues his provocative tale of the human race confronted by an uncertain future, where “survival of the fittest” takes on astonishing and controversial new dimensions. DARWIN’S CHILDREN Eleven yea ...

Millennial Monsters

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 1:08:49 PST

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From sushi and karaoke to martial arts and technoware, the currency of made-in-Japan cultural goods has skyrocketed in the global marketplace during the past decade. The globalization of Japanese "cool" is led by youth products: video games, manga (comic books), anime (animation), and cute characters that have fostered kid crazes from Hong Kong to Canada. Examining the crossover traffic between J ...

The Railway Journey

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 1:06:30 PST

Eric put "The Railway Journey" onto shelf

Because it made possible rapid movement and shipping across large distances, joining far-off towns to economic and cultural capitals, many people who lived in the early 19th century regarded the railroad as an instrument of progress. Because anyone with the price of a ticket could board a train, regardless of social class, the railroad was also seen as a democratizing technology. But, Wolfgang S ...

Invisible Cities

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:28:45 PST

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Imaginary conversations between Marco Polo and his host, the Chinese ruler Kublai Khan, conjure up cities of magical times. “Of all tasks, describing the contents of a book is the most difficult and in the case of a marvelous invention like Invisible Cities, perfectly irrelevant” (Gore Vidal). Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

Plague

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:26:54 PST

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The definitive history of the greatest catastrophe in human history, which wiped out 50 percent of Europe’s population.

Maisie Dobbs

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 5:23:27 PST

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Hailed by NPRs Fresh Air as part Testament of Youth, part Dorothy Sayers, and part Upstairs, Downstairs, this astonishing debut has already won fans from coast to coast and is poised to add Maisie Dobbs to the ranks of literatures favorite sleuths. Maisie Dobbs isnt just any young housemaid. Through her own natural intelligenceand the patronage of her benevolent employersshe works her wa ...

The power of place

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 0:40:49 PST

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Based on her extensive experience in the urban communities of Los Angeles, historian and architect Dolores Hayden proposes new perspectives on gender, race, and ethnicity to broaden the practice of public history and public art, enlarge urban preservation, and reorient the writing of urban history to spatial struggles. In the first part of The Power of Place, Hayden outlines the elements of a s ...

City Life

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 0:39:50 PST

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Calculating God

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:29:26 PST

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In the near future, an alien craft lands outside the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. A six-legged, two-armed alien named Hollus relates to paleontologist Tom Jericho that the Earth, Hollus's home planet, and the planet of another alien species all experienced the same five cataclysmic events that prove the existence of God. [예스24 제공]

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:24:42 PST

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A classic since its publication in 1961, this book is the defintive statement on American cities: what makes them safe, how they function, and why all too many official attempts at saving them have failed.

An Artist of the Floating World

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:38:12 PST

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This is the story of an artist as an aging man, struggling through the wreckage of Japan's World War II experience. Ishiguro's first novel.

The Telling

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 5:27:18 PST

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"In The Telling...Le Guin combines the gifts of a pure storyteller at the height of her powers with a wise and passionate heart and the disciplined, ceaselessly questioning mind of a true philosopher." (Peter S. Beagle, author of The Last Unicorn) From award-winning author Ursula K. Le Guin comes a highly anticipated addition to her acclaimed Hainish cycle, "a social anthropology of the future, ...

Imagined Communities

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 3:05:25 PST

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What makes people love and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name? In this important work, Benedict Anderson focuses a much-needed clear eye on nationalism as cultural artefact, created and transformed through historical processes--a fated and thus pure attachment experienced every day through the connections language forges with a living and dead community.In selecting the genea ...

Spice

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 0:19:31 PST

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There was a time, for a handful of peppercorns, you could have someone killed. Throw in a nutmeg or two, you could probably watch. There was a time when grown men sat around and thought of nothing but black pepper. How to get it. How to get more. How to control the entire trade in pepper from point of origin to purchase. In Spice: The History of a Temptation, classics scholar Jack Turner opens up ...

A Small Place

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 0:17:49 PST

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A brilliant look at colonialism and its effects in Antigua--by the author of Annie John "If you go to Antigua as a tourist, this is what you will see. If you come by aeroplane, you will land at the V. C. Bird International Airport. Vere Cornwall (V. C.) Bird is the Prime Minister of Antigua. You may be the sort of tourist who would wonder why a Prime Minister would want an airport named after h ...

鹿男

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 4:08:11 PST

Eric put "鹿男" onto shelf

太過分了！究竟要寫到多有趣才肯罷休？！這絕對不是一般天才寫得出來的小說！ ●入圍日本文壇最高榮譽直木賞！ ●入圍日本全國書店店員票選本屋大賞！ ●日本超過200,000讀者壓倒性好評！ ●入選日經新聞讀書週間特集『今年在我胸中迴響不已的十本書』！ ●改編電視劇，由【交響情人夢】玉木宏主演，勇奪最佳日劇等三項大獎！《陰陽師》名譯者日本文化專家茂呂美耶專文導讀鹿以低沉的聲音告訴我：你被選為『送貨人』，一定要把『眼睛』拿回來，不然就會有大事發生！我雖然百般抗拒，卻發現頭上竟然長出了鹿耳、鹿角…… 這、這究竟是怎麼回事啊？『老師，神無月到了，該你出馬啦！』你相信鹿會說話嗎﹖當我聽到鹿竟然開口跟我說話時，簡直快昏過去了。但鹿卻告訴我，要我去把寶物──『眼睛』拿回來，那是每隔六十年，就由奈良的鹿、京都的狐狸和大阪的老鼠輪流保管的東西。『為什麼是我 ...

糊塗蟲(下)

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 4:02:42 PST

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宮部美幸時代小說的圓熟之作！描繪江戶下町風情，人情滿溢的生動作品承繼《本所深川詭怪傳說》、《幻色江戶曆》珠玉短篇風格的前五篇章竟只是前哨戰波瀾萬丈的正宗長篇時代推理才將要展開鐵瓶雜院接二連三發生異常事件。蔬菜店的長子被殺；木桶匠沉迷賭博竟想賣女抵債；雜貨鋪掌櫃之子走失；茶水鋪的話題女侍遷入；拜壺信仰的莫名流行…… 平凡樸實雜院生活的彼端，深埋多少變相扭曲的愛憎？又隱藏了什麼樣的陰謀？糊塗度日的捕快井筒平四郎；計量成癖的美少年弓之助；過耳不忘的寬額少年三太郎；唯有宮部美幸筆下才有的絕妙組合，將聯手恢復鐵瓶雜院的平和。法理常規並非解決事情的唯一途徑，發自內心的善意關懷才會是救贖。作者簡介宮部美幸日本推理文壇最耀眼的天后！七連霸！《達文西》雜誌票選日本最受歡迎女作家！被譽為「平成國 ...

荷爾摩六景

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 3:57:12 PST

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「荷爾摩」大戰落幕了，但愛情與友情的戰爭卻才正要開打！　　天才作家萬城目學暢銷成名作《鴨川荷爾摩》最精采的番外篇！　　日本亞馬遜網路書店讀者4.5顆星超人氣熱烈好評！　　《鴨川荷爾摩》改編電影，由「電車男」山田孝之、栗山千明主演！　　王盛弘、玥璘、劉韋廷、寵物先生一致好評推薦！　　古人從信箋和木片中復活，只為成就永恆不滅的真情。　　一場跨越時空、撼動歷史的大混戰即將引爆，今年的命名，就叫做「戀愛荷爾摩」！　　「荷爾摩」，一種操控小鬼來作戰的神秘競賽。以「青龍、白虎、朱雀、玄武」四神為名的四隊人馬相互較勁，輸的人將遭受最「可恥」的懲罰。但要操控小鬼還算簡單，在荷爾摩的戰場之外，這群身經百戰的戰士們將面臨比小鬼更難操控的東西：愛情與友情...... 　　比「鴨川荷爾摩」更驚險的「鴨川（小）荷爾摩」激戰，起因竟是為了一個蠢男人？楠木看似滑稽的「阿凡頭」怎麼會魅力無 ...

Recentering Globalization

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:26:04 PST

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Globalization is usually thought of as the worldwide spread of Westernparticularly Americanpopular culture. Yet if one nation stands out in the dissemination of pop culture in East and Southeast Asia, it is Japan. Pokémon, anime, pop music, television dramas such as Tokyo Love Story and Long Vacationthe export of Japanese media and culture is big business. In Recentering Globalization, Koichi ...

糊塗蟲 (上)

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:23:48 PST

Eric put "糊塗蟲 (上)" onto shelf

宮部美幸時代小說的圓熟之作！描繪江戶下町風情，人情滿溢的生動作品承繼《本所深川詭怪傳說》、《幻色江戶曆》珠玉短篇風格的前五篇章竟只是前哨戰波瀾萬丈的正宗長篇時代推理才將要展開鐵瓶雜院接二連三發生異常事件。蔬菜店的長子被殺；木桶匠沉迷賭博竟想賣女抵債；雜貨鋪掌櫃之子走失；茶水鋪的話題女侍遷入；拜壺信仰的莫名流行…… 平凡樸實雜院生活的彼端，深埋多少變相扭曲的愛憎？又隱藏了什麼樣的陰謀？糊塗度日的捕快井筒平四郎；計量成癖的美少年弓之助；過耳不忘的寬額少年三太郎；唯有宮部美幸筆下才有的絕妙組合，將聯手恢復鐵瓶雜院的平和。法理常規並非解決事情的唯一途徑，發自內心的善意關懷才會是救贖。作者簡介宮部美幸日本推理文壇最耀眼的天后！七連霸！《達文西》雜誌票選日本最受歡迎女作家！被譽為「平成國 ...

Security, Territory, Population

Mon, 5 Oct 2009 7:02:17 PST

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Marking a major development in Foucault's thinking, this book takes as its starting point the notion of "biopower," studying the foundations of this new technology of power over populations. Distrinct from punitive disciplinary systems, the mechanisms of power are here finely entwined with the technologies of security. In this volume, though, Foucault begins to turn his attention to the history o ...

Keynes

Mon, 5 Oct 2009 6:56:11 PST

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... 'What to do', New York Review of Books, 18 December 2008. 25. William Warren , 'The top ten bottom feeders', at http:// ...

The James Joyce Murder

Sat, 3 Oct 2009 13:19:55 PST

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"If by some cruel oversight you haven't discovered Amanda Cross, you have an uncommon pleasure in store for you." THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Kate Fansler is vacationing in the sweet and harmless Berkshires, sorting through the letters of Henry James. But when her next-door neighbor is murdered, and all her houseguests are prime suspects, her idyll turns prosaic, indeed....

Practical Reason

Fri, 2 Oct 2009 13:14:37 PST

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Do social classes really exist? Is disinterested action really possible? What do the family, the church, and the intellectual world have in common? Can morality be founded on hypocrisy? What is the “subject” of action? In this new volume, one of France’s foremost social thinkers of our time responds to these major questions and to others, thus tracing the outlines of a work that could be called “ ...

World-Systems Analysis

Fri, 2 Oct 2009 4:50:32 PST

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In World-Systems Analysis, Immanuel Wallerstein provides a concise and accessible introduction to the comprehensive approach that he pioneered thirty years ago to understanding the history and development of the modern world. Since Wallerstein first developed world-systems analysis, it has become a widely utilized methodology within the historical social sciences and a common point of reference i ...

Field Notes on Democracy

Sat, 19 Sep 2009 13:28:55 PST

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"The fierceness with which Arundhati Roy loves humanity moves my heart."-Alice WalkerCombining fierce conviction, deft political analysis, and beautiful ...

The Tourist

Wed, 9 Sep 2009 16:42:32 PST

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Long regarded as a classic, The Tourist is an examination of the phenomenon of tourism through a social theory lens that encompasses discussions of authenticity, high and low culture, and the construction of social reality. It brings the concerns of social science to an analysis of travel and sightseeing in the postindustrial age, during which the middle class acquired leisure time for internatio ...

National Past-Times

Wed, 9 Sep 2009 16:41:36 PST

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In National Past-Times, Ann Anagnost explores the fashioning and refashioning of modern Chinese subjectivity as it relates to the literal and figurative body of the nation. In essays revealing the particular temporality of the modern Chinese nation-state, Anagnost examines the disparate eras of its recent past and its propensity for continually looking backward in order to face the future. Usin ...

Modernities

Wed, 9 Sep 2009 16:41:03 PST

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States and sovereignty in the global economy

Wed, 9 Sep 2009 16:40:41 PST

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... billion in February 1 994 to just USS6.3 billion in December 1994, a particularly alarming turn when one realized (and some soon did) that nearly ...

How Many Exceptionalisms?

Tue, 8 Sep 2009 2:18:31 PST

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The essays in "How Many Exceptionalisms?" span the long history of the intellectual output of Aristide Zolberg, one of the most distinguished social scientists of our time. In this collection, Zolberg shows his originality, insights, and breadth of thought as he addresses subjects including theories of immigration policy, the making of Belgium, and the origins of the modern world system. Writing ...

Planet of Slums

Fri, 4 Sep 2009 15:09:16 PST

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Celebrated urban historian's bestselling account of the global explosion of slums, with a major new introduction. According to the United Nations, more than one billion people now live in the slums of the cities of the South. In this brilliant and influential book, Mike Davis explores the future of a radically unequal and explosively unstable urban world. From the sprawling barricadas of Lima t ...

The Bagel

Thu, 3 Sep 2009 9:17:49 PST

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There the story moves from the bakeries of New York’s Lower East Side to the BagelBakers’ Local 388 Union of the 1960s, and the attentions of the mob.

China Urban

Thu, 3 Sep 2009 9:17:22 PST

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China Urban is an ethnographic account of China's cities and the place that urban space holds in China's imagination. In addition to investigating this nation's rapidly changing urban landscape, its contributors emphasize the need to rethink the very meaning of the urban and the utility of urban-focused anthropological critiques during a period of unprecedented change on local, regional, nation ...

Liquid Modernity

Wed, 2 Sep 2009 5:44:23 PST

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In this new book, Bauman examines how we have moved away from a 'heavy' and 'solid', hardware-focused modernity to a 'light' and 'liquid', software-based modernity. This passage, he argues, has brought profound change to all aspects of the human condition. The new remoteness and un-reachability of global systemic structure coupled with the unstructured and under-defined, fluid state of the immedi ...

Globalization and Its Discontents

Tue, 1 Sep 2009 3:46:48 PST

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Groundbreaking essays on the new global economy from an "expert observer" (Forecast). Saskia Sassen is an internationally recognized expert on globalization whose writings have appeared in journals and magazines worldwide. Now available in paperback, Globalization and Its Discontents is a collection of Sassen's essays dealing with topics such as the "global city," gender and migration (reconceive ...

Economies of Desire

Tue, 1 Sep 2009 3:39:37 PST

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Encountering Development

Tue, 1 Sep 2009 3:34:49 PST

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How did the industrialized nations of North America and Europe come to be seen as the appropriate models for post-World War II societies in Asia, Africa, and Latin America? How did the postwar discourse on development actually create the so-called Third World? And what will happen when development ideology collapses? To answer these questions, Arturo Escobar shows how development policies became ...

The Anthropology of Globalization

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 5:55:47 PST

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Updated with a fresh introduction and brand new selections, the second edition of The Anthropology of Globalization collects some of the decade’s finest work on globalization, focusing on the increasing interconnectedness of people around the world, and the culturally specific ways in which these connections are mediated. Provides a rich introduction to the subject Grounds the study of glob ...

The World That Trade Created

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 5:51:12 PST

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The Mother Tongue

Mon, 3 Aug 2009 22:41:13 PST

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With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Bryson--the acclaimed author of The Lost Continent--brilliantly explores the remarkable history, eccentricities, resilience and sheer fun of the English language. From the first descent of the larynx into the throat (why you can talk but your dog can't), to the fine lost art of swearing, Bryson tells the fascinating, often uproarious story of an ina ...

The Potato

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 0:48:28 PST

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The Potato tells the story of how a humble vegetable, once regarded as trash food, had as revolutionary an impact on Western history as the railroad or the automobile. Using Ireland, England, France, and the United States as examples, Larry Zuckerman shows how daily life from the 1770s until World War I would have been unrecognizable-perhaps impossible-without the potato, which functioned as fast ...

三月的紅色深淵

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:52:48 PST

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　　只因為履歷表興趣欄填上了「閱讀」兩字，鮫島巧一被派去參加董事長的三月茶會，茶會上，四個老人陶醉地談起十多年來一直在尋找的一本奇書，這本書由作者自費出版送人，而且還訂下了奇怪的規矩：一，不能透露作者身分；二，不能影印；三，如果想借人，只能借給一個人，而且只有一個晚上。　　這本令鮫島心生悸動的推理小說，就叫《三月的紅色深淵》……　　恩田陸，日本文壇少數多方位的女性作家，知名度與人氣度居高不下，作品量少質精，並融合推理、幻想、懸疑、科幻等各種元素，這本《三月的紅色深淵》也同樣具備了恩田陸特有的「推理加幻想」之迷人風格。她將故事分為表裡兩側，並讓故事重疊，營造出謎團重重的氣氛，讓人沉醉在恩田陸的世界中。本書特色★日本亞馬遜網路書店四顆星好評！ ★入選「一九九八Ｏ本格推理小說 BEST 10」、「這本推理小說好棒！一九九八年版」 ★恩田陸第四長篇作，奠定其專職作家的里程碑。 ★不只有推理 ...

Cosmopolitan Vision

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 9:49:40 PST

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In this new book, Ulrich Beck develops his now widely used concepts of second modernity, risk society and reflexive sociology into a radical new sociological analysis of the cosmopolitan implications of globalization. Beck draws extensively on empirical and theoretical analyses of such phenomena as migration, war and terror, as well as a range of literary and historical works, to weave a rich dis ...

The Diversity of Life

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 9:45:17 PST

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Harvard Professor and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Edward Wilson takes readers through time--tracing the processes that create new species, the five cataclysmic events that have disrupted evolution over the past 600 million years, and how humans are destroying diversity at a projected rate of 20 percent over the next 30 years. "In the Amazon Basin the greatest violence sometimes begins as a fl ...

Essays in Persuasion

Sat, 18 Jul 2009 2:10:34 PST

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The Last Days of the Renaissance

Sat, 18 Jul 2009 1:59:43 PST

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A leading Renaissance scholar shows how the end of one of history's most fascinating eras gave rise to the modern world. The Renaissance may have emerged out of the upheavals of the fourteenth century--but when did it end? And why? The renowned historian Theodore Rabb tackles these questions in this engaging and deeply learned book, and in so doing recasts our understanding of European histor ...

Medici Money

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 0:52:10 PST

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The remarkable story of the Renaissance's preeminent financiers. "A swift and brilliant synthesis of finance, politics, and history."Ben Sisario, New York Times Book Review Their name is a byword for immense wealth and power, but before their renown as art patrons and noblemen the Medicis built their fortune on bankingspecifically, on lending money at interest. Banking in the fifteenth centur ...

Capital

Tue, 7 Jul 2009 4:00:46 PST

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Capital, one of Marx's major and most influential works, was the product of thirty years close study of the capitalist mode of production in England, the most advanced industrial society of his day. This new translation of Volume One, the only volume to be completed and edited by Marx himself, avoids some of the mistakes that have marred earlier versions and seeks to do justice to the literary qu ...

Go Tell It on the Mountain

Tue, 7 Jul 2009 3:58:35 PST

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James Baldwin's stunning first novel is now an American classic. With startling realism that brings Harlem and the black experience vividly to life, this is a work that touches the heart with emotion while it stimulates the mind with its narrative style, symbolism, and excoriating vision of racism in America. Moving through time from the rural South to the northern ghetto, starkly contrast ...

Blindness

Tue, 7 Jul 2009 3:58:15 PST

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In an unnamed city in an unnamed country, a man sitting in his car waiting for a traffic light to change is suddenly struck blind. But instead of being plunged into darkness, this man sees everything white, as if he "were caught in a mist or had fallen into a milky sea." A Good Samaritan offers to drive him home (and later steals his car); his wife takes him by taxi to a nearby eye clinic where t ...

Fahrenheit 451

Mon, 6 Jul 2009 4:27:02 PST

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This is Bradbury's best-known novel. The science fiction tale concerns censorship and anti-intellectualism, carried on in an alternate society that conducts huge book burnings as part of the social agenda. It is a spooky and yet uplifting book.

Ravelstein

Sun, 5 Jul 2009 13:33:42 PST

Eric put "Ravelstein" onto shelf

Abe Ravelstein is a brilliant professor at a prominent midwestern university and a man who glories in training the movers and shakers of the political world. He has lived grandly and ferociously-and much beyond his means. His close friend Chick has suggested that he put forth a book of his convictions about the ideas which sustain humankind, or kill it, and much to Ravelstein's own surprise, he d ...

At Home with the Empire

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 0:11:04 PST

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This pioneering volume addresses the question of how Britain's empire was lived through everyday practices - in church and chapel, by readers at home, as embodied in sexualities or forms of citizenship, as narrated in histories - from the eighteenth century to the present. Leading historians explore the imperial experience and legacy for those located, physically or imaginatively, 'at home,' from ...

Open Veins of Latin America

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:01:41 PST

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Prisoner of the State

Tue, 9 Jun 2009 23:31:45 PST

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Twelfth Night or What You Will

Tue, 26 May 2009 23:53:51 PST

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Using the complete, unabridged New Cambridge Shakespeare edition text of the play, this recording of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night (available on cassette or CD) uses a full professional cast, sound effects and accompanying music. The set is accompanied by notes and a play synopsis. Starring Stella Gonet as Viola, with Christopher Godwin as Malvolio, Lucy Whybrow as Olivia, Jane Whittenshaw as Maria ...

Tastes of Paradise

Sun, 24 May 2009 21:56:16 PST

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From the extravagant use of pepper in the Middle Ages to the Protestant bourgeoisie's love of coffee to the reason why fashionable Europeans stopped sniffing tobacco and starting smoking it, Schivelbusch looks at how the appetite for pleasure transformed the social structure of the Old World. Illustrations.

Tourism in History

Fri, 15 May 2009 14:04:08 PST

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Empire Writing

Wed, 13 May 2009 12:23:23 PST

Eric put "Empire Writing" onto shelf

`The contact with . . .primitive nature and primitive man brings sudden and profound trouble into the heart.' (Joseph Conrad) `Flowers look loveliest in their native soil . . .plucked, they fade, And lose the colours Nature on them laid.' (Toru Dutt) This is the first anthology to gather together British imperial writing alongside native and settler literature in English, interweav ...

Empire

Wed, 13 May 2009 12:22:30 PST

Eric put "Empire" onto shelf

Imperialism as we knew it may be no more, but Empire is alive and well. It is, as Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri demonstrate in this bold work, the new political order of globalization. It is easy to recognize the contemporary economic, cultural, and legal transformations taking place across the globe but difficult to understand them. Hardt and Negri contend that they should be seen in line ...

Spices

Sat, 9 May 2009 23:17:13 PST

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Waiting for the Weekend

Thu, 7 May 2009 10:13:27 PST

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Seeing

Fri, 1 May 2009 21:45:06 PST

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On election day in the capital, it is raining so hard that no one has bothered to come out to vote. The politicians are growing jittery. Should they reschedule the elections for another day? Around three o’clock, the rain finally stops. Promptly at four, voters rush to the polling stations, as if they had been ordered to appear. But when the ballots are counted, more than 70 percent are blank. ...

Postcolonial Theory

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:33:24 PST

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The book provides an overview of postcolonialism's pervasiveness in the academy, and lucidly illustrates the debates about the often conflicting consensus regarding the proper content, scope and relevance of its concerns. From its influence in Marxism and poststructuralism, from the work of Edward Said to Salman Rushdie, from feminist imperialism to globalization and hybridity, Gandhi demonstrate ...

An Edible History of Humanity

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:06:15 PST

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Violence

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 8:40:08 PST

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Philosopher, cultural critic, and agent provocateur Slavoj Žižek constructs a fascinating new framework to look at the forces of violence in our world. Using history, philosophy, books, movies, Lacanian psychiatry, and jokes, Slavoj Žižek examines the ways we perceive and misperceive violence. Drawing from his unique cultural vision, Žižek brings new light to the Paris riots of 2005; he questio ...

The Hobbit

Sat, 18 Apr 2009 12:07:15 PST

Eric put "The Hobbit" onto shelf

Written for J.R.R. Tolkien"s own children, The Hobbit met with instant critical acclaim when first published more than sixty years ago. Now recognized as a timeless classic with sales of more than 40 million copies worldwide, this introduction to Bilbo Baggins, Gandalf the Wizard, and the spectacular world of Middle-earth tells of the adventures of a reluctant hero, a powerful and dangerous ring, ...

Time Enough for Love

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 6:19:23 PST

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Methuselah's Children

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 3:44:08 PST

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The Farthest Shore

Sat, 11 Apr 2009 1:54:59 PST

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Book Three of Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea CycleDarkness threatens to overtake Earthsea: the world and its wizards are losing their magic. Despite being wearied with age, Ged Sparrowhawk -- Archmage, wizard, and dragonlord -- embarks on a daring, treacherous journey, accompanied by Enlad's young Prince Arren, to discover the reasons behind this devastating pattern of loss. Together they will sail ...

The Long Tomorrow

Tue, 7 Apr 2009 12:28:58 PST

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In The Long Tomorrow, Rose offers us a delightfully written account of the modernscience of aging, spiced with intriguing stories of his own career and...

The Magician's Nephew

Tue, 7 Apr 2009 7:59:21 PST

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The secret passage to the house next door leads to a fascinating adventure.

The Tombs of Atuan

Fri, 3 Apr 2009 10:17:54 PST

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THE TOMBS OF ATUANBook Two of Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea CycleNow a SCI FI Original Miniseries! When young Tenar is chosen as high priestess to the ancient and nameless Powers of the Earth, everything is taken away from her-home, family, possessions, even her name. She is now known only as Arha, the Eaten One, guardian of the labyrinthine Tombs of Atuan, shrouded in darkness. When a young wizar ...

A Wizard of Earthsea

Fri, 3 Apr 2009 3:21:43 PST

Eric put "A Wizard of Earthsea" onto shelf

Ged was the greatest sorcerer in all Earthsea, but once he was called Sparrowhawk, a reckless youth, hungry for power and knowledge, who tampered with long-held secrets and loosed a terrible shadow upon the world. This is the tale of his testing, how he mastered the mighty words of power, tamed an ancient dragon, and crossed death's threshold to restore the balance. From the Paperback ed ...

American Studies

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 23:29:21 PST

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From the author of The Metaphysical Club--"a richly nuanced reading of American intellectual history" praised for its "rare common sense and graceful, witty prose" (Jean Strouse, The New York Times Book Review)--comes a major collection of essays on American art, American thought, and American life.

The Renaissance Bazaar

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 12:58:31 PST

Eric put "The Renaissance Bazaar" onto shelf

More than ever before, the Renaissance stands as one of the defining moments in world history. Between 1400 and 1600, European perceptions of society, culture, politics and even humanity itself emerged in ways that continue to affect not only Europe but the entire world. This wide-ranging exploration of the Renaissance sees the period as a time of unprecedented intellectual excitement and cultura ...

Inside the Fed

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 3:27:53 PST

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Chain of Blame

Sat, 28 Mar 2009 10:34:41 PST

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The Arcanum

Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:37:05 PST

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It is 1919 and the Great War has come to a close. But in the shadows of the world’s major cities, the killing has just begun. In this perilous time, as the division between order and chaos grows increasingly slim, a select group of visionaries have taken it upon themselves to ensure the safety of humanity. They are known as the Arcanum. In London’s stormy Hyde Park, Konstantin Duvall, the Arcan ...

The Secret Museum

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 12:54:44 PST

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Examines the history of pornography in literature from the nineteenth-century obscenitytrials to the days of the Meese Commission, with accounts of the...

Bad Money

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 10:18:35 PST

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The bestselling author of "American Theocracy" reveals how the US financial sector has hijacked the economy and put America's global future at risk.

The Ten-Cent Plague

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 10:12:27 PST

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The Great Contraction, 1929-1933

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 1:56:07 PST

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Friedman and Schwartz's A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960, published in 1963, stands as one of the most influential economics books of the twentieth century. A landmark achievement, the book marshaled massive historical data and sharp analytics to support the claim that monetary policy--steady control of the money supply--matters profoundly in the management of the nation's econo ...

Bernanke's Test

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 9:49:49 PST

Eric put "Bernanke's Test" onto shelf

The consensus on Alan Greenspan's performance as Fed chair used to be extremely positive, but more and more it's been called into question. Now, 2008 has seen Ben Bernanke in the eye of a storm that was created largely during Greenspan's tenure. His management of the bubble of all bubbles will be a decisive factor in whether this crisis will be limited in its impact on the real economy or whether ...

The Two Trillion Dollar Meltdown

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 7:27:45 PST

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Sweetness and Power

Sat, 14 Mar 2009 13:26:52 PST

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Leaves of Grass (Classics Deluxe Edition)

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:02:53 PST

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Abraham Lincoln read it with approval, but Emily Dickinson described its bold language and themes as "disgraceful." Ralph Waldo Emerson found it "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet produced." Published at the author's expense on July 4, 1855, Leaves of Grass inaugurated a new voice and style into American letters and gave expression to an optimistic, bombastic vis ...

Alice, Let's Eat

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:50:13 PST

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“Trillin is our funniest food writer. He writes with charm, freedom, and a rare respect for language.” –New York magazine In this delightful and delicious book, Calvin Trillin, guided by an insatiable appetite, embarks on a hilarious odyssey in search of “something decent to eat.” Across time zones and cultures, and often with his wife, Alice, at his side, Trillin shares his triumphs in the ar ...

The World Atlas of Wine

Thu, 5 Mar 2009 23:05:15 PST

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Something rotten

Thu, 5 Mar 2009 0:21:28 PST

Eric put "Something rotten" onto shelf

The popularity of Jasper Fforde's one-of-a-kind series builds with each new book. Now in the fourth installment, the resourceful literary detective Thursday Next returns to Swindon from the BookWorld accompanied by her son Friday and none other than the dithering Hamlet. But returning to SpecOps is no snapas outlaw fictioner Yorrick Kaine plots for absolute power, the return of Swindon's pat ...

The Well of Lost Plots

Thu, 5 Mar 2009 0:21:05 PST

Eric put "The Well of Lost Plots" onto shelf

Jasper Fforde has done it again in this genre-bending blend of crime fiction, fantasy, and top-drawer literary entertainment. After two rollicking New York Times bestselling adventures through Western literature, resourceful literary detective Thursday Next definitely needs some downtime. And what better place for a respite than in the hidden depths of the Well of Lost Plots, where all unp ...

Lost in a Good Book

Wed, 4 Mar 2009 13:01:51 PST

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움베르토 에코의 박식함, 어슐러 K. 르귄의 상상력, 테리 프래쳇의 위트가 한 자리에! 이 작품은 1980년대 영국(그러나 우리가 아는 역사적 현실과는 전혀 다른)을 배경으로 한 소설이다. 영국과 러시아는 백 년이 넘게 크림전쟁을 계속하는 중이고, 사람들은 월드컵과 온라인게임 대신 문학에 열광한다. 부모들은 대문호의 이름을 따 아이의 이름을 짓고, 고전의 희귀 초판본은 세기적 절도의 대상이 된다. 이처럼 문학이 문화의 으뜸가는 코드가 되다 보니, 문학 관련 범죄만 따로 조사하는 부서(리테라텍)이 생긴다. 주인공 서즈데이 넥스트는 바로 이 문학조사과의 특수작전요원이다. 재스퍼 포드의 작품은 현란한 수사와 딱히 한마디로 규정할 수 없는 장르 성격으로 유명하다. 어떤 이는 SF로 분류하고, 어떤 이는 ...