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  The Kitchen God's Wife

  by Amy Tan

  With the same narrative skills and evocative powers that made her first novel, The Joy Luck Club, a national bestseller, Tan now tells the story of Winnie Louie, an aging Chinese woman unfolding a life's worth of secrets to her suspicious, Americanized daughter.
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  The Money Culture

  by Michael Lewis

  The author of the best-selling Liar's Poker offers a witty, trenchant analysis of the world of high finance in the 1980s and the cult of wealth that produced such moguls as Michael Milken and Donald Trump. Reprint.
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  Shattered Dreams: The Story of Charlotte Fedders

  by Charlotte O'Donnell Fedders

  As related to Elliott, Fedders's story moves from her birth in Maryland in 1943, through 16 years as an abused wife, to her divorce in 1985 from John R. Fedders, an official of the Securities Exchange Commission. The couple lived graciously in Washington, where in the privacy of their home the husband beat his wife and browbeat their five sons. In a less melodramatic telling, the book would more forcefully call... (more)
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  Practice in Christianity

  by Søren Kierkegaard, Howard Vincent Hong, Edna Hatlestad Hong

  This indispensable guide to the search for kinship with God was written by the great nineteenth-century Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855), whose writings set the stage for existentialism and continue to exert a lasting influence on believers and nonbelievers alike. Kierkegaard struck out against all forms of established order–including the established church–that work to make men complacent with... (more)
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  Darwin (Norton Critical Editions)

  by Philip Appleman

  "The best Darwin anthology on the market" (Stephen Jay Gould, Harvard) has just become better, in this newly revised version of the now classic Norton Critical Edition, first published in 1970. The impact of Charles Darwin's work on Western civilization has been broad and deep. As much as anyone in the modern era, he changed human thought, and his influence is still felt in virtually all aspects of our lives. This... (more)
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  Iron and Silk

  by Mark Salzman

  Salzman captures post-cultural revolution China through his adventures as a young American English teacher in China and his shifu-tudi (master-student) relationship with China's foremost martial arts teacher.
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  Showa: The Japan of Hirohito

  by Carol Gluck

  The death of Emperor Hirohito in 1989 ended Japan's Showa era (1926–1989) and provided the occasion for the Japanese to confront their past and the roots of their present success. This "stimulating and comprehensive" ( Kirkus Reviews ) collection of original essays on twentieth-century Japan's history and culture provides a unique mix of American and Japanese perspectives on Showa. With an important,... (more)
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  Silicon Boys

  And Their Valley of Dreams

  by David A. Kaplan

  In "the best book to date on the subject" ( San Francisco Chronicle ), prize-winning journalist David A. Kaplan brings to life the culture and history of Silicon Valley. The symbol of high-tech genius and ineffable wealth, a place that competes with Hollywood and Washington in the zeitgeist of success and excess, the Valley is the epicenter of the New Economy. Depending on yesterday's stock market close, roughly a... (more)
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  Care of the Soul

  A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life

  by Thomas Moore, Peter Thomas

  This New York Times bestseller (more than 200,000 hardcover copies sold) provides a path-breaking lifestyle handbook that shows how to add spirituality, depth, and meaning to modern-day life by nurturing the soul.
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  The Female Eunuch

  by Germaine Greer

  The clarion call to change that galvanized a generation. When Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch was first published it created a shock wave of recognition in women, one that could be felt around the world. It went on to become an international bestseller, translated into more than twelve languages, and a landmark in the history of the women's movement. Positing that sexual liberation is the key to women's... (more)
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  Getting into Print: The Decision-Making Process in Scholarly Publishing (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)

  by Walter W. Powell

  Based on extensive fieldwork at two well-known commercial publishers of scholarly books, Walter W. Powell details the different ways in which both internal politics and external networks influence decisions about what should be published. Powell focuses on the work of acquisitions editors: how they decide which few manuscripts, out of hundreds, to sponsor for publication; how editorial autonomy is shaped, but... (more)
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  Modern World: Todayªs Atlas for Stamp Collectors, 1987

  by Kenneth A. Wood

  An atlas providing maps of current stamp-issuing countries and their subdivisions that have stamps of their own, together with an outline of their geography, history, and economic status.
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  Storytellers, Saints, and Scoundrels: Folk Narrative in Hindu Religious Teaching (Contemporary Ethnography)

  by Kirin Narayan

  Supplements eight folk narratives with discussion of audience participation and response as well as relevant Hindu themes.
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  Walden

  or, Life in the Woods

  by Henry David Thoreau

  Henry David Thoreau's masterwork, Walden, is a collection of his reflections on life and society. This groundbreaking book has influenced generations of readers and continues to inspire and inform anyone with an open mind and a love of nature.
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  WHAT DO YOU KNOW? (And Not So Common Knowledge)

  by Jaime O'Neill

  A treasury of trivia tests on every subject imaginable, covering people, places, and events on everything from art to rock and roll-even crooks and con artists, TV shows, advertising jingles. Each subject has a brief introduction on what the test is intended to show. And there's even an introduction by celebrated TV journalist, Mike Wallace.
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  The Renaissance And Reformation - A Short History

  by John F. H. New

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  Overweight (Spectrum Books)

  by jean mayer

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  Comparative World Atlas

  by Hammond World Atlas Corporation

  The Hammond Comparative World Atlas is a computer generated reference designed for students, families or anyone interested in current global issues. This completely up-to-date, affordably priced atlas features detailed maps for each continent and the world so that users can examine and compare both the physical terrain and political boundaries of each region. Extensive thematic data - interpreted through maps,... (more)
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  Encyclopedia of World History (Facts on File Library of World History)

  This single-volume encyclopedia is global in its coverage and attempts to present balanced treatment of all geographic regions. The intended audience is students from high school through undergraduate school, and the volume is designed to meet the National Standards for World History and the standards for major curricula.Coverage extends from earliest history to 2000. More than 6,500 alphabetically arranged... (more)
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  Intimate Behaviour