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Deep Economy

Fri, 4 Mar 2011 8:13:30 PST

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“Masterfully crafted, deeply thoughtful and mind-expanding.”—Los Angeles Times In this powerful and provocative manifesto, Bill McKibben offers the biggest challenge in a generation to the prevailing view of our economy. Deep Economy makes the compelling case for moving beyond “growth” as the paramount economic ideal and pursuing prosperity in a more local direction, with regions producing more o ...

Yes!

Fri, 4 Mar 2011 8:11:20 PST

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Most of us are only too aware that, whatever roles we have in today's fast-moving world, much of our success lies in getting others to say 'Yes' to our requests. What many people might not be aware of, though, is the vast amount of research that has been conducted on the influence process. What factors cause one person to say 'Yes' to the request of another? "Yes!" is full of practical tips based ...

The Stuff of Thought

Fri, 4 Mar 2011 8:09:14 PST

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Errornomics

Fri, 4 Mar 2011 8:06:43 PST

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How did security staff at LA International Airport miss 75 per cent of bomb-making materials that went through screening? Which way should you turn before joining a supermarket queue? Why should a woman hope it was a man who witnessed her bag being snatched? And what possessed Burt Reynolds to punch a guy with no legs? Human beings can be stubbornly irrational and wilfully blind ...but at least w ...

I Am Muslim

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:19:25 PST

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Articles exploring Islamic religious life as seen and lived by Muslims themselves inMalaysia.

What Do You Care What Other People Think?

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:17:05 PST

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One of the greatest physicists of the twentieth century, Richard Feynman possessed an unquenchable thirst for adventure and an unparalleled ability to tell the stories of his life. "What Do You Care What Other People Think?" is Feynman's last literary legacy, which he prepared as he struggled with cancer. Among its many tales--some funny, others intensely moving--we meet Feynman's first wife, Arl ...

Marry Me

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:11:47 PST

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Sally is big, blonde and pampered. She's married to Richard. But she loves Jerry. Jerry loves Sally in return, but he's also still in love with his wife Ruth. Who's been sleeping with Richard ...As a hot, feverish summer of snatched weekends, secret phone calls and illicit lovemaking on the beach comes to a head, it turns out everyone knows more than they've been letting on. And that no one knows ...

The Unfolding of Language

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:09:00 PST

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Blending the spirit of Bill Bryson’s Mother Tongue with the science of Steven Pinker’s The Language Instinct, The Unfolding of Language is a remarkably original inquiry into the development of that most essential — and mysterious — of human creations: language. ‘Language is mankind’s greatest invention — except of course, that it was never invented.’ So begins this enthralling investigation in ...

Collapse

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:06:20 PST

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In his runaway bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond brilliantly examined the circumstances that allowed Western civilizations to dominate much of the world. Now he probes the other side of the equation: What caused some of the great civilizations of the past to fall into ruin, and what can we learn from their fates? Using a vast historical and geographical perspective ranging from ...

Collected Prose

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:04:21 PST

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An essential collection from one of the finest thinkers and stylists in contemporary letters. The celebrated author of The New York Trilogy, The Book of Illusions, and Oracle Night presents here a highly personal collection of essays, prefaces, true stories, autobiographical writings, and collaborations with artists, as well as occasional pieces written for magazines and newspapers, including The ...

The Quiet American

Wed, 2 Jul 2008 15:33:39 PST

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"The Quiet American" is a terrifying portrait of innocence at large. While the French Army in Indo-China is grappling with the Vietminh, back at Saigon a young and high-minded American begins to channel economic aid to a 'Third Force'. Fowler, a seasoned foreign correspondent, observes: 'I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused.' As young Pyle's policies blunder on ...

The New York Trilogy

Wed, 2 Jul 2008 15:31:23 PST

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Paul Auster's signature work, The New York Trilogy, consists of three interlocking novels: City of Glass, Ghosts, and The Locked Roomhaunting and mysterious tales that move at the breathless pace of a thriller.

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Wed, 2 Jul 2008 15:29:55 PST

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Thomas S. Kuhn's classic book is now available with a new index."A landmark in intellectual history which has attracted attention far beyond its own immediate field. . . . It is written with a combination of depth and clarity that make it an almost unbroken series of aphorisms. . . . Kuhn does not permit truth to be a criterion of scientific theories, he would presumably not claim his own theory ...

Malaysia

Wed, 2 Jul 2008 15:28:15 PST

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Malaysia is an increasingly important player. Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad is now Asia's longest-serving leader. This work on Malaysian politics offers an analysis of the Mahathir project, examining how Mahathir has, over 20 years, translated the basis of the ruling bloc's legitimacy from one of coercive domination and ethnic card-playing into a more consensual form of hegemonic support. It ...

The Coming Economic Collapse

Wed, 2 Jul 2008 15:26:49 PST

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Stephen Leeb shows how hard times can be a boon for smart investors. As the world faces an energy crisis of unprecedented scope, renowed economist Stephen Leeb shows how surging oil prices will contribute to an economic collapse. With meticulous research and analysis, Leeb shows that due to strong competition from India and China, prices could soon double, a cost for which most countries and inve ...

Malaysia's Political Economy

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:54:40 PST

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This book is an insightful and accessible analysis of contemporary Malaysian business and politics. Using the concepts of rent and rent-seeking as tools to study the Malaysian political economy, the authors explore how political patronage influences the accumulation and concentration of wealth. The book considers the impact of party politics and economic development on the relationship between po ...

Faith Verus Materialism

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:51:09 PST

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This exegesis of Surat al Kahf explains, in the light of the Quran, the challenging issues of the modern times and what guidance we can get from this surah to find a solution.

Faith And Reason In Islam

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:48:28 PST

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The first translation available in English of a key work by the twelfth-century Muslim philosopher Averroes, which reveals his controversial views about reason, religion, and humankind's relationship with God. Suitable both for scholars and interested readers, this unique text proves that today's disputes between religion, reason, and science are far from a new phenomenon. [예스24 제공]

Critical Thinking

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:47:15 PST

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Gregory Bassham is Director of the Center for Ethics and Public Life and Chair of the Philosophy Department at King's College (Pa.). He is the co-editor of "The Lord of the Rings and Philosophy" (Open Court, 2003), author of "Original Intent and the Constitution: A Philosophical Study" (Rowman & Littlefield, 1992), and co-editor of "Powerweb: Critical Thinking" (McGraw-Hill, 2003-2004).William Ir ...

Windblown World

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:45:19 PST

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Jack Kerouac is best known through the image he put forth in his autobiographical novels. Yet it is only his private journals, in which he set down the raw material of his life and thinking, that reveal to us the real Kerouac. In Windblown World, distinguished Americanist Douglas Brinkley has gathered a selection of journal entries from the most pivotal period of Kerouac's life, 1947 to 1954. Her ...

Lovers for a Day

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:42:16 PST

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Ivan Klima has been called a "Czech genius" by the Los Angeles Times Book Review. In these stories spanning his long career from the 1960s to the present, he gives us a gallery of people searching, in love, for escape: factory girls on their day off and assembly-line workers lost in Walter-Mittyesque fantasies; a young woman on a honeymoon with the man she did not marry; a divorce-court judge who ...

Essays on Economics and Economists

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:41:58 PST

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How do economists decide what questions to address and how to choose their theories? How do they tackle the problems of the economic system and give advice on public policy? With these questions, Nobel laureate R.H. Coase reflects on some of the most fundamental concerns of economists over the past two centuries. In 15 essays, he evaluates the contributions of a number of figures, including Adam ...

A Short History of Myth

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:17:06 PST

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We want to tell the story again. This book details about major international marketing and PR campaign at publication, including a national newspaper partner, events at the Royal Festival Hall and blanket review and feature coverage. Karen Armstrong is one of Britain's most renowned religious and social commentators. "Human beings have always been mythmakers." What are myths? How have they evolve ...

Trust Me

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:51:52 PST

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John Updike's short story collections are occasions for celebration -- the pleasures to be found in them are great indeed. This marvelous volume contains one gem after another, stories to be savored one at a time and returned to again and again. Here is trust betrayed -- and fulfilled. Here are parents struggling to maintain that fragile claim on their offspring's childish awe....Here are husba ...

The Naked Soldier

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:41:14 PST

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This powerful look at the French Foreign Legion explores the authors' experiences with the brutalities, adventure, destruction, danger, and criminal encounters over his five years of service in this dehumanizing regime. Well known as the most notorious, bloody, and ruthless band of mercenaries in the world, in 1998 the Legion accepted Tony Sloane at the age of 18, inviting him as an elite member ...

Phantoms in the Brain

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:36:20 PST

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Neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran is internationally renowned for uncovering answers to the deep and quirky questions of human nature that few scientists have dared to address. His bold insights about the brain are matched only by the stunning simplicity of his experiments -- using such low-tech tools as cotton swabs, glasses of water and dime-store mirrors. In Phantoms in the Brain, Dr. Ramachand ...

Sexuality and The Psychology of Love

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:28:58 PST

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Solitude

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:26:47 PST

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A provocative and highly articulate meditation on solitude, Anthony Storr explores the connection between solitude and the creative personality. From the great to the obscure, Storr examines the uses that all kinds of people make of solitude in times of bereavement and depression, in escaping from the pressures of daily life, in communing with a higher power through prayer, and in finding and exp ...

Inner Happiness

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:25:07 PST

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A simple and effective program to find peace of mind and inner harmony based on positive thinking techniques.

The Paradox of Choice

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:12:38 PST

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The author of The Battle for Human Nature explains why too much choice has led to the ever increasing complexity of everyday decisions, why too much of a good thing has become detrimental to human psychological and emotional well-being, and how to focus our lives on making the right choices. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.

Plexus

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:08:36 PST

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Forbidden Colors

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:06:49 PST

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Driven To Distraction

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:03:32 PST

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Through vivid stories of the experiences of their patients (both adults and children), Drs. Hallowell and Ratey show the varied forms ADD takes -- from the hyperactive search for high stimulation to the floating inattention of daydreaming -- and the transforming impact of precise diagnosis and treatment.

The Hidden Face of God

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:02:08 PST

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In his first two books, Gerald L. Schroeder illustrated how science and the Bible can be reconciled without violating the letter, or spirit, of either. Now he takes a step back, offering a tour of modern science, from the universe as a whole to the smallest particles of matter, to show that there is an underlying wisdom beneath it all. From the subtle forces of nature that make life possible to t ...

Common Sense Economics

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:01:13 PST

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* Do taxes help more than they hurt?* What effect does redistributing wealth have on our economy---and those who participate in its redistribution?* What is the role of government?* How does an economy work?James Gwartney, Richard L. Stroup, and Dwight R. Lee are three of the most prominent economists today, and in Common Sense Economics they show us why economic understanding is an essential ing ...

Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom and Other Writings

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:31:27 PST

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Story of O

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:30:24 PST

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The classic French erotic bestseller that preceded Fifty Shades of Grey. A beautiful young French woman, known only as 'O', is taken by her lover Rene to a splendid mansion near Paris. Here, she is initiated into an elite secret society, where she must learn to serve the sexual fantasies of Rene and his fellow members. But she must also explore the nature of her own darkest desires - and confront ...

Tropic of Capricorn

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:25:40 PST

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Companion to Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer which shifts the scene from France to his life in the United States, covering his experience growing up in Brooklyn in the 1920s.

The Heart of the Matter

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:18:39 PST

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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JAMES WOOD. Scobie, a police officer serving in a wartime West African state, is distrusted, being scrupulously honest and immune to bribery. But then he falls in love, and in doing so he is forced to betray everything he believes in, with drastic and tragic consequences.

Complete Short Stories

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:18:39 PST

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Affairs, obsessions, ardors, fantasy, myth, legend and dream, fear, pity, and violence—this magnificent collection of stories illuminates all corners of the human experience. Previously published in two volumes—Collected Short Stories and The Last Word and Other Stories—these forty-nine stories reveal Graham Greene in a range of contrasting moods, sometimes cynical and witty, sometimes searching ...

Sense and Sensibility

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:16:26 PST

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Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willougby, she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Meanwhile Elinor, always sensitive to social convention, is struggling to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. Through their paral ...

The Music of Chance

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:14:38 PST

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Following the death of his father, Jim Nashe takes to the open road. But there he picks up Pozzi, a hitchhiking gambler, and is drawn into a dangerous game of high-stakes poker with two eccentric and reclusive millionaires.

Jane Eyre

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:03:57 PST

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Sophie's Choice

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:02:22 PST

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In this extraordinary novel, Stingo, an inexperienced twenty-two year old Southerner, takes us back to the summer of 1947 and a boarding house in a leafy Brooklyn suburb. There, he meets Nathan, a fiery Jewish intellectual; and Sophie, a beautiful and fragile Polish Catholic. Stingo is drawn into the heart of their passionate and destructive relationship as witness, confidant and supplicant. Ulti ...

Debt and Delusion

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:00:15 PST

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It's been almost seven years since I wrote Debt and Delusion. So naturally, readers have a right to ask, "Why produce an updated version at this time?" There are at least three reasons, the cheapest of which is that the author is surprised and flattered to find that it is in demand and there has long ceased to be any supply. More than that, like an abandoned mine, the book stands as a monument to ...

Wuthering Heights

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:51:17 PST

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The novel "Wuthering Heights" is the name of the large home of the family, located on the isolated moorlands of England. One of the main themes in this novel is love and hate between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff. It is not your typical romance novel. It unquestionably has its dark moments, as well as its brilliant moments.

Pride and Prejudice

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:50:15 PST

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Few have failed to be charmed by the witty and independent spirit of Elizabeth Bennet. Her early determination to dislike Mr. Darcy is a prejudice only matched by the folly of his arrogant pride. Their first impressions give way to true feelings in a comedy profoundly concerned with happiness and how it might be achieved.

A Room with a View

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:49:28 PST

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E.M. Forster's vision of love struggling to assert itself in spite of the rigid class boundaries of Edwardian England, "A Room with a View" contains an introduction by Malcolm Bradbury in "Penguin Classics". Visiting Florence with her prim and proper cousin Charlotte as a chaperone, Lucy Honeychurch meets the unconventional, lower-class Mr Emerson and his son, George. Upon her return to England, ...

Little Women

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:48:36 PST

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In picturesque nineteenth-century New England, tomboyish Jo, beautiful Meg, fragile Beth, and romantic Amy come of age while their father is off to war.

The Satanic Verses

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:46:44 PST

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Just before dawn one winter's morning, a hijacked jetliner explodes above the English Channel. Through the falling debris, two figures, Gibreel Farishta, the biggest star in India, and Saladin Chamcha, an expatriate returning from his first visit to Bombay in fifteen years, plummet from the sky, washing up on the snow-covered sands of an English beach, and proceed through a series of metamorphos ...

Paris

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:42:39 PST

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"Paris is the World, the rest of the Earth is nothing but its suburbs" - Marivaux. In this intelligently-written and supremely entertaining new history, Colin Jones seeks to give a sense of the city of Paris as it was lived in and experienced over time. The focal point of generation upon generation of admirers and detractors, a source of attraction or repulsion even for those who have never been ...

Islam and Secularism

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:34:50 PST

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What Is the Origin of Man?

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:33:53 PST

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What is the origin of AMn? is the work of a mature reflection written with the aim of exposing outmoded antagonisms between science and religion and showing that far from standing in opposition, the two are perfectly compatible. This book has been cast on Holy Scriptures.

The Selfish Gene

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:29:11 PST

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The million copy international bestseller, critically acclaimed and translated into over 25 languages. This 30th anniversary edition includes a new introduction from the author as well as the original prefaces and foreword, and extracts from early reviews. As relevant and influential today as when it was first published, The Selfish Gene has become a classic exposition of evolutionary thought. P ...

The Meme Machine

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:27:46 PST

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What is a meme? First coined by Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene, a meme is any idea, behavior, or skill that can be transferred from one person to another by imitation: stories, fashions, inventions, recipes, songs, ways of plowing a field or throwing a baseball or making a sculpture. The meme is also one of the most important--and controversial--concepts to emerge since The Origin of the Sp ...

Mintzberg on Management

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:22:37 PST

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In this exploration of the function of management, the author focuses on how companies work, challenging traditional assumptions from a "grass roots" point of view. He answers questions such as "how do organizations function and structure themselves?", "how do their power relationships develop and their goals form?" and "by what processes do managers make important strategic decisions?". He shows ...

The Road to Serfdom

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:20:58 PST

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Perfume

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:16:44 PST

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Survivor, genius, perfumer, killer: this is Jean-Baptiste Grenouille. He is abandoned on the filthy streets of Paris as a child, but grows up to discover he has an extraordinary gift: a sense of smell more powerful than any other human's. Soon, he is creating the most sublime fragrances in all the city. Yet, there is one odour he cannot capture. It is exquisite, magical: the scent of a young virg ...

Juliette

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:25 PST

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Savage Beauty

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:12:53 PST

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Thomas Hardy once said that America had two great attractions: the skyscraper and the poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay. The most famous poet of the Jazz Age, Millay captivated the nation: She smoked in public, took many lovers (men and women, single and married), flouted convention sensationally, and became the embodiment of the New Woman. Thirty years after her landmark biography of Zelda Fit ...

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:05:58 PST

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A ne'er-do-well exploits his gentle daughter's beauty for social advancement in this masterpiece of tragic fiction. Hardy's 1891 novel defied convention to focus on the rural lower class for a frank treatment of sexuality and religion. Then and now, his sympathetic portrait of a victim of Victorian hypocrisy offers compelling reading.

The Wings of the Dove

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:04:20 PST

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From Miramax, directed by Ian Softley, Helena Bonham-Carter, Linus Roache, Elizabeth McGovern, and Charlotte Rampling star in this film about a gravely ill young woman searching for happiness and self-fulfillment.

The Portrait of a Lady

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:04:20 PST

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An American heiress newly arrived in Europe, Isabel Archer does not look to a man to furnish her with her destiny; instead she desires, with grace and courage, to find it herself. Two eligible suitors approach her and are refused. She then becomes utterly captivated by the languid charms of Gilbert Osmond. To him, she represents a superior prize worth at least seventy thousand pounds; through him ...

The Great Gatsby

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:01:19 PST

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The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. This exemplary novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on Long Island at a time when The New York Times noted "gin was the national drink and sex the national ...

The End of the Affair

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 13:59:58 PST

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The novelist Maurice Bendrix's love affair with his friend's wife, Sarah, had begun in London during the Blitz. One day, inexplicably and without warning, Sarah had broken off the relationship.

England Made Me

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 13:58:53 PST

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Anthony Farrant has always found his way, lying to get jobs and borrowing money to get by when he leaves them in a hurry. His twin sister Kate persuades him to move and sets him up with a job as a bodyguard to Krogh, her lover and boss, an all-powerful Swedish financier. But Farrant does have a sense of decency. When Krogh gives orders that offend him, he leaks information to Minty, a down-trodde ...

Making Things Better

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 12:22:16 PST

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Facing life alone at an advanced age, Julius Herz cannot shake the sense that he should be elsewhere, doing other things. Walking through bustling streets that seem increasingly alien to him, he's confronted by life's pressing questions with an urgency he has never known before: what do we owe the people in our lives? How should we fill our days? Feeling fortified despite the growing ache in his ...

Leaving Home

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 12:21:34 PST

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Fraud

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 12:20:54 PST

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At the heart of Anita Brookner's new novel lies a double mystery: What has happened to Anna Durrant, a solitary woman of a certain age who has disappeared from her London flat? And why has it taken four months for anyone to notice? As Brookner reconstructs Anna's life and character through the eyes of her acquaintances, she gives us a witty yet ultimately devastating study of self-annihilating ...

Incidents In The Rue Laugier

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 12:20:00 PST

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Maud Gonthier yearns for an escape from the cocoon of the bourgeois modesty. The splendid, caddish David Tyler appears to offer one. In this stylish, deeply knowing novel by the author of Hotel du Lac, Maud's seduction creates a chemistry of longing, sensuality, and betrayal--with a surprising climax. 240 pp.

Undue Influence

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 12:19:10 PST

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In Undue Influence, acclaimed novelist Anita Brookner proves once again that even in the most closely circumscribed of lives, hearts can venture into unknown-and potentially explosive-territory. Claire Pitt is nothing if not a practical young woman, living a life in contemporary London that is to all appearances placid, orderly and consciously lacking in surprise. And yet Claire's tangled inter ...

Hotel du Lac

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 12:18:45 PST

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Into the rarefied atmosphere of the Hotel du Lac timidly walks Edith Hope, romantic novelist and holder of modest dreams. Edith has been exiled from home after embarrassing herself and her friends. She has refused to sacrifice her ideals and remains stubbornly single. But among the pampered women and minor nobility Edith finds Mr Neville, and her chance to escape from a life of humiliating spinst ...

Falling Slowly

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 12:18:19 PST

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In Falling Slowly, Anita Brookner brilliantly evokes the origins, nature, and consequences of human isolation. As middle age settles upon the Sharpe sisters, regret over chances not taken casts a shadow over their contented existence. Beatrice, a talented if uninspired pianist, gives up performing, a decision motivated by stiffening joints and the sudden realization that her art has never brought ...

The Bay of Angels

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 12:17:53 PST

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When her widowed mother marries a wealthy older man and moves to Nice, Zoe's life changes forever. Alone in London, she discovers a new-found freedom and independence - until a sudden and tragic accident forces her to re-examine her life and expectations: maybe settling down isn't for everyone. For the first time Anita Brookner lays out the ground rules for a single life - not necessarily an unco ...

States of Mind

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 12:09:23 PST

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An all-star lineup of scientists takes you to the front lines of brain research. Are we born to be shy? Why do we remember some events so clearly and others not at all? Are creativity and depression somehow linked? Do our dreams really have deeper meanings? Now in paperback, here is a wonderfully accessible introduction to the most important recent findings about how our health, behavior, feeling ...

The Bridges of Madison County

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 12:02:10 PST

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Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 12:02:10 PST

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The author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller The Bridges of Madison County once again brings characters and situations with his special blend of lyricism and magic. This is a bittersweet story about two good people who discover that true love, when it comes, is rarely fair, or right--or without pain.

A Year in Provence

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:59:41 PST

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Enjoy an irresistible feast of humour and discover the joys of French rural living with Peter Mayle's bestselling, much-loved account of "A Year In Provence". Peter Mayle and his wife did what most of us only imagine doing when they made their long-cherished dream of a life abroad a reality: throwing caution to the wind, they bought a glorious two hundred year-old farmhouse in the Luberon Valley ...

Hotel Pastis

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:59:41 PST

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With his national bestsellers A Year in Provence and Toujours Provence, Peter Mayle gave new meaning to the phrase "great escape." Now he has written a delightful novel of romance, adventure, and tongue-in-cheek suspense, set in the beguiling French region he has staked out as his own.

The Essential Drucker

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:48:58 PST

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Father of modern management, social commentator, and preeminent business philosopher, Peter F. Drucker has been analyzing economics and society for more than sixty years. Now for readers everywhere who are concerned with the ways that management practices and principles affect the performance of the organization, the individual, and society, there is "The Essential Drucker" -- an invaluable compi ...

The Dirt

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:47:11 PST

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The members of the heavy metal band M]tley Cre--Tommy Lee, Mick Mars, Vince Neil, and Nikki Sixx--reveal all in this provocatively written and brilliantly designed account of the most infamous rock band in the world. Includes more than 100 photos, some in color. [예스24 제공]

Post-Capitalist Society

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:38:26 PST

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Business guru Peter Drucker provides an incisive analysis of the major world transformation taking place, from the Age of Capitalism to the Knowledge Society, and examines the radical affects it will have on society, politics, and business now and in the coming years. This searching and incisive analysis of the major world transformation now taking place shows how it will affect society,economics ...

Lewis Percy

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:34:13 PST

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Destined to be a haunter of libraries, Lewis's cautious progress through life reveals to him only his own shortcomings. Estranged from his wife and daughter, he searches for an alternative. This novel presents the life and aspirations of one man who remains out of step with his times.

Brief Lives

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:32:51 PST

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Fay, celebrated ex-singer, meets the theatrical Julia and they begin a relationship of mutual distrust. It is a friendship sustained through loneliness, desperation and the morbid attraction of opposite characteristics as both women remain out of step with the time in which they live.

Marie Antoinette

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:30:55 PST

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In Marie Antoinette leading French historian Evelyne Lever tells the compelling story of the last, and most infamous Queen of France. She draws on little explored sources including Austrian and Swedish archives and the correspondence of foreign ambassadors to Paris to paint vivid portraits of the Queen, her inner circle and the lavish court life at Versailles, as well as the tragic events leading ...

Bonjour Tristesse

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:28:39 PST

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The French Riviera: home to the Beautiful People. And none are more beautiful than Cecile, a precocious seventeen-year-old, and her father Raymond, a vivacious libertine. Charming, decadent and irresponsible, the golden-skinned duo are dedicated to a life of free love, fast cars and hedonistic pleasures. But when Raymond decides to marry, he lets loose in Cecile raw, ungovernable impulses to dest ...

Fanny Hill

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:27:38 PST

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Fanny Hill, shrouded in controversy for most of its more than 250-year life, and banned from publication in the United States until 1966, was once considered immoral and without literary merit, even earning its author a jail sentence for obscenity. The tale of a naïve young prostitute in bawdy eighteenth-century London who slowly rises to respectability, the novel–and its popularity–endured man ...

The Sexual Life of Catherine M.

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:26:18 PST

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Called "a fantastic breakthrough into the dark content of female desire" (France-Soir), The Sexual Life of Catherine M. was the literary success of the year in France, selling over 300,000 copies and becoming the most controversial book on sexuality since The Story of O. Catherine Millet, the prominent editor of Art Press, has led an extraordinarily active and free sexual life -- from alfresco en ...

Lolita

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:24:34 PST

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Awe and exhiliration--along with heartbreak and mordant wit--abound in Lolita, Nabokov's most famous and controversial novel, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. Lolita is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America. Most of all, it is a meditation on lo ...

The Art of Loving

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:17:48 PST

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에리히 프롬 [사랑의 기술 (The Art of Loving)] 출간 50주년 기념 에디션. Peter D. Kramer의 서문과 함께, 작품 이해를 돕기 위해 작가와 책에 관한 자료를 32페이지에 걸쳐 싣고 있다. 사랑을 하려고 애써도 사랑에 실패하는 원인은 사랑에 대한 기술의 미숙성 때문이다. 인간이 사랑을 상실한 것은 신을 잃어버렸기 때문이며, 사회 관계와 대인 관계의 빈틈없는 조직화 때문이며, 인간의 본성으로 보아 사랑은 원래 환상이고 허영이기 때문이라고 말한다. 개인의 무의식층에까지 파고들어가 인간의 내면 세계를 분석해 보이면서 인간이 사랑의 능력을 상실하게 된 것은 인간 스스로 참된 자아를 상실했기 때문이라고 말한다. Most people are unable to love on the ...

Why We Buy

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:15:52 PST

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In an effort to determine why people buy, Paco Underhill and his detailed- orientated band of retail researchers have camped out in stores for over 20 years, dedicating their efforts to the "science of shopping." Armed with an array of video equipment, store maps, and customer profile sheets, Underhill and his consulting firm Envirosell have observed over 900 aspects of shopper/store interacti ...

Villages

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:10:36 PST

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Owen Mackenzie's life story abounds with sin and seduction, domesticity and debauchery. His marriage to his college sweetheart is quickly followed by his first betrayal and he embarks upon a series of affairs. His pursuit of happiness, in a succession of small towns from Pennsylvania to Massachusetts, brings him to the edge of chaos, from which he is saved by a rescue that carries its own fatal p ...

The 'Handmaid's Tale' by Margaret Atwood

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:08:39 PST

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The most supportive, easy-to-use and focussed literature guides to help your students understand the texts they are studying at GCSE and A Level

The Killjoy

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:04:23 PST

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Ian Laidlaw is an equable man. Quiet, cultivated, efficient, he is head of the department of politics at a Scottish universiy. His uneventful days are measured out with scrupulous care until Alicia Anna Davie laughs in his face one afternoon - and his ordered world crumbles around him.

Getting it Right

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:02:48 PST

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Since 1991, Robert Barro has been a lively contributor to the Wall Street Journal and other popular financial media. Getting It Right brings together, updates, and expands upon these writings that showcase Barro's agility in applying economic understanding to a wide array of social issues.Barro, a "conservative who takes no prisoners," and a self-described libertarian, believes that most governme ...

Song of the Silent Snow

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:00:28 PST

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Hubert Selby is probably one of the six best novelists writing in the English language.?Financial Times Author of controversial cult classic, Last Exit to Brooklyn, Hubert Selby began as a writer of short fiction. He excels in this form, plunging the reader head-first into the densely realized worlds of his protagonists, in which the details of daily life rub shoulders with obsession and madnes ...

The Kamasutra of Vatsyayana

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:57:38 PST

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The Birth of the Mind

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:54:57 PST

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The first book to show precisely how genes build the wonders of the human brain, and why the Human Genome project could radically alter our view of the world. In The Birth of the Mind, award-winning cognitive scientist Gary Marcus irrevocably alters the nature vs. nurture debate by linking the findings of the Human Genome project to the development of the brain. Startling findings have recently ...

Straight Lead

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:50:42 PST

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It also offers a thorough instruction in the complexity and power of the move-showing martial artists of any discipline how to incorporate this devastating attack into their repertoire.

Altered States

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:48:24 PST

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Standing on a railway platform in a Swiss resort town, sensibly clad in his Burberry raincoat and walking shoes, a man thinks he may be looking at the woman for whom he ruined his life many years earlier. Alan Sherwood, a quiet English solicitor, remembers back to a time when he stepped briefly out of character to indulge in a liaison with Sarah Miller, an intriguing but heartless distant relativ ...