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Sisterhood is Forever: The Women's Anthology for a New Millenium

Sisterhood is Forever: The Women's Anthology for a New Millenium

Thirty years after Robin Morgan's groundbreaking anthology, Sisterhood Is Powerful -- named by The American Librarians' Association one of "The 100 Most Influential Books of the Twentieth Century" -- comes this landmark new collection for the twenty-first century. Sisterhood Is Forever -- with over 60 original essays Morgan commissioned from well-known feminist leaders plus energetic Gen X and Y activists... (more)

What the L

by Kate Clinton

What the L? is a new collection of published and unpublished writings that showcases Kate Clinton’s gifts as one of the all-time favorite lesbian comics. Like Ellen DeGeneres and Rosie O’Donnell, Clinton is a nationally acclaimed quick-witted, laugh-out-loud funny comic whose hilarious takes on everything from gay marriage ("mad vow disease") and Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, to gay Republicans and the War on... (more)

Land of Lincoln

by Andrew Ferguson

Before he grew up and became one of Washington’s most respected reporters and editors, Andrew Ferguson was, of all things, a Lincoln buff — with the photos hung on his bedroom wall to prove it. Decades later, Ferguson’s latent buffdom is reignited. In Land of Lincoln , he embarks on a curiosity-fueled coast-to-coast journey through contemporary Lincoln Nation, encountering everything from hatred to adoration to... (more)

The female woman

by Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington

In Search of the Indo-Europeans: Language, Archaeology, and Myth

In Search of the Indo-Europeans: Language, Archaeology, and Myth

by J. P. Mallory

Common Courtesy: In Which Miss Manners Solves the Problem That Baffled Mr. JeffersonJudith Martin

Common Courtesy: In Which Miss Manners Solves the Problem That Baffled Mr. Jefferson

by Judith Martin

The Life We Are Given (Inner Work Book)

by George Leonard

Two pioneers of the human potential movement offer this new edition of their classic work, updated for a new generation of readers. George Leonard and Michael Murphy's groundbreaking human realization program has helped thousands of people harness their potential and capitalize on their ability for growth to enrich their lives. Through balanced and comprehensive long-term practice, we can transform our lives... (more)

Home: A Short History of an Idea

by Witold Rybczynski

This immensely popular, witty, and highly provocative book is changing people's attitudes about convenience, decor, and technology in home design and furnishing. 10 black-and-white illustrations.

Looking Around: A Journey Through Architecture

Looking Around: A Journey Through Architecture

by Witold Rybczynski

An inspired, engaging look at what architecture is and how we live and work in it--by the acclaimed author of Home and The Most Beautiful House in the World. Rybczynski discusses buildings like the Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, demonstrates how architecture actually works, and more.

How to DJ Right: The Art and Science of Playing Records

How to DJ Right: The Art and Science of Playing Records

by Frank Broughton, Bill Brewster

DJs have gone from being underpaid live jukeboxes to becoming premier entertainers, producers, businessmen, and musicians capable of commanding admiration from thousands and earning serious money. Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton's Last Night a DJ Saved My Life was the definitive history of the DJ. Now they gather their mastery of the artistic and technical aspects of being a DJ into a clear, accessible, and... (more)

The Last Station: A Novel of Tolstoy's Last Year

The Last Station: A Novel of Tolstoy's Last Year

by Jay Parini

Set in the last tumultuous years of Leo Tolstoy's life, The Last Station centers on the battle for his soul waged by his wife, Sofya Andreyevna, and his leading disciple, Vladimir Cherkov. Torn between his professed codtrine of poverty and chastity and the reality of his enormous wealth, his thirteen children, and a life of hedonism, Tolstoy makes a dramatic flight from his home. Too ill to continue beyond the... (more)

Against Christianity

by Peter Leithart

How could a conservative Christian—an ordained minister with a beard, no less—be against not only Christianity, but theology, sacraments, and ethics as well? Yet that is the stance Peter Leithart takes in this provocative "theological bricolage." Seeking to rethink evangelical notions of culture, church, and state, Leithart offers a series of short essays, aphorisms, and parables that challenge the current... (more)

French or Foe?: Getting the Most Out of Visiting, Living and Working in France

French or Foe?: Getting the Most Out of Visiting, Living and Working in France

by Polly Platt

Let's face it: the French have gotten a bad rap. Mention that you're considering a trip to France and everyone will warn you about rude waiters, supercilious shopkeepers, and snooty concierges who won't give you the time of day--and worse, pretend not to understand your high-school French. Not so, says Polly Platt, author of French or Foe? ; "The French are generous, exhilarating friends," but they ... (more)

Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community: Eight Essays

Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community: Eight Essays

by Wendell Berry

The celebrated essayist and poet offers a collection of essays dealing with important social issues, stressing the importance of communities, the need for diversity in local economies, and the dangers of globalization. 12,500 first printing.

The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many (The Real Story Series)

The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many (The Real Story Series)

by Noam Chomsky, David Barsamian

These wide-ranging interviews, from 1992 and 1993, cover everything from Bosnia and Somalia to biotechnology and nonviolence, with particular attention to the "Third Worldization" of the United States.

Biko

by Donald Woods

Subjected to 22 hours of interrogation, torture and beating by South African police on September 6, 1977, Steve Biko died six days later. Donald Woods, Biko's close friend and a leading white South African newspaper editor, exposed the murder helping to ignite the black revolution.

Japanese Death Poems: Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death

Japanese Death Poems: Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death

by Yoel Hoffmann

Although the consciousness of death is in most cultures very much a part of life, this is perhaps nowhere more true than in Japan, where the approach of death has given rise to a centuries-old tradition of writing jisei, or the "death poem" written in the very last moments of the poet's life. From passionate samurai writins and meditative Zen haiku to the satirical poems of later centuries, Hundreds of jisei have... (more)

Manchild in the Promised Land

by Claude Brown

Manchild in the Promised Land is indeed one of the most remarkable autobiographies of our time. This thinly fictionalized account of Claude Brown's childhood as a hardened, streetwise criminal trying to survive the toughest streets of Harlem has been heralded as the definitive account of everyday life for the first generation of African Americans raised in the Northern ghettos of the 1940s and 1950s. When the... (more)

Barren in the Promised Land: Childless Americans and the Pursuit of Happiness

Barren in the Promised Land: Childless Americans and the Pursuit of Happiness

by Elaine Tyler May

Chronicling astonishing shifts in public attitudes toward reproduction, from the association of barrenness with sin in colonial times, to the creation of laws for compulsory sterilization in the early twentieth century, from the baby craze of the 1950s, to the rise in voluntary childlessness in the 1990s, to the increasing reliance on startling reproductive technologies today, Elaine Tyler May reveals the... (more)

Ocean of Sound: Aether Talk, Ambient Sound and Imaginary Worlds

Ocean of Sound: Aether Talk, Ambient Sound and Imaginary Worlds

by David Toop

Ocean of Sound begins in 1889 at the Paris Exposition when Debussy first heard Javanese music performed. An ethereal culture absorbed in perfume, light and ambient sound developed in response to the intangibility of 20th century communications. David Toop traces the evolution of this culture, through Erik Satie to the Velvet Undergound; Miles Davis to Jimi Hendrix.

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by Kate Clinton

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