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A new collection from David Sedaris is cause for jubilation. His recent move to Paris has inspired hilarious pieces, including Me Talk Pretty One Day, about his attempts to learn French. His family is another inspiration. You Cant Kill the Rooster is a portrait of his brother who talks incessant hip-hop slang to his bewildered father. And no one hones a finer fury in response to such modern annoyances as... (more)

The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women

The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women

by Naomi Wolf

The bestselling classic that redefined our view od the relationship between beauty and female identity. In today's world, women have more power, legal recognition, and professional success than ever before. Alongside the evident progress of the women's movement, however, writer and journalist Naomi Wolf is troubled by a different kind of social control, which, she argues, may prove just as restrictive as the... (more)

Understanding Fundamentalism and Evangelicalism

Understanding Fundamentalism and Evangelicalism

by George M. Marsden

In this historical overview of American fundamentalism and evangelicalism, Marsden provides an introduction to these growing religious movements and a deeper analysis of two themes that have been especially prominent and controversial in these traditions--views of science and views of politics.

The Rise and Fall of British Empire

by Lawrence James

Great Britain's geopolitical role has undergone many changes over the last four centuries. Once a maritime superpower and ruler of half the world, Britain now occupies an isolated position as an economically fragile island often at odds with her European neighbors. Lawrence James has written a comprehensive, perceptive, and insighful history of the British Empire. Spanning the years from 1600 to the present day,... (more)

Release 2.0

by Esther Dyson

Welcome to Esther Dyson's provocative and visionary new book, Release 2.0: A Design for Living in the Digital Age. In this eagerly anticipated book, Dyson--an entrepreneur, high-tech industry analyst, government adviser, and the "most powerful woman in the Net-erati," according to the New York Times Magazine --presents a fascinating exploration of our new digital society. She offers a detailed view of the... (more)

The Pity of War: Explaining World War I

by Niall Ferguson

A landmark work of history that challenges our most basic assumptions about the causes and consequences of the First World War In The Pity of War, Niall Ferguson makes a simple and provocative argument: that the human atrocity known as the Great War was entirely England's fault. Britain, according to Ferguson, entered into war based on nave assumptions of German aims-and England's entry into the war... (more)

The Fundamentalist Phenomenon/the Resurgence of Conservative ChristianityEd Dobson, Edward E. Hindson, Jerry Falwell

The Fundamentalist Phenomenon/the Resurgence of Conservative Christianity

by Ed Dobson

The Death Of Woman Wang

by Jonathan D. Spence

Four years ago Jonathan Spence's Emperor of China: Self-Portrait of K'ang-hsi scored as a tour de force of creative scholarship and literary reconstruction; simply for reading, the present volume is less satisfying - a composite, not a sustained narrative - but it has the distinction of burrowing into the lives of ordinary people in one rural fastness of 17th-century China. "T'an-ch'eng is only a tiny area, and it... (more)

The Man Who Mistook His Job for a Life: A Chronic Overachiever Finds the Way Home

The Man Who Mistook His Job for a Life: A Chronic Overachiever Finds the Way Home

by Jonathon Lazear

At the end of the day, what really matters? Maybe it's been too long since you've asked yourself this question, because the workday is never-ending. You just don't have time. Indeed, if you're like Jonathon Lazear was for years, you don't seem to have time for much of anything besides work. More recently, Lazear, a blindingly successful entrepreneur, found himself lost, burnt out, and wondering, not for the first... (more)

Cult of InformationTheodore Roszak

Cult of Information

by Theodore Roszak

The computer revolution has been overhyped and oversold to the American public, charges the author of The Making of a Counter-Culture, in what may be his best book. Roszak believes that the cybernetic model of the human mind as a thinking machine is fundamentally wrong; ideas have living meanings and produce convictions, something machines will never have. He debunks the information economy touted by futurologists... (more)

College Algebra (AMS Chelsea Publishing)

College Algebra (AMS Chelsea Publishing)

by Henry B. Fine

At the beginning of the twentieth century, college algebra was taught differently than it is nowadays. There are many topics that are now part of calculus or analysis classes. Other topics are covered only in abstract form in a modern algebra class on field theory. Fine's College Algebra offers the reader a chance to learn the origins of a variety of topics taught in today's curriculum, while also learning... (more)

Puritan Christianity in America: Religion and Life in Seventeenth-Century MassachusettsAllen Carden

Puritan Christianity in America: Religion and Life in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts

by Allen Carden

Modern Literary Theory: A Comparative IntroductionAnn Jefferson

Modern Literary Theory: A Comparative Introduction

by Ann Jefferson

In Defence of ElitismWilliam A. Henry

In Defence of Elitism

by William A. Henry

From Economic Debacle to Economic Miracle, hc w/ dust jacket,1998Chiang

From Economic Debacle to Economic Miracle, hc w/ dust jacket,1998

by Chiang

Wealth of Man

by Peter Jay

Road to Riches is the story of the rise and fall of whole economies and nations, and the ascent of man as the only economic animal - as producer, consumer and accumulator of wealth. Ideas about the story of the wealth of man are constantly changing. Peter Jay explains how the economic machine works and how far beyond our control it really is. Peter Jay has spent his working life in both Britain and America,... (more)

Singapore's extraordinary peopleEu Meng Khng

Singapore's extraordinary people

by Eu Meng Khng

Crypto

by Stephen Levy

Paranoia is a useful code to live by in the digital age. Consider, every time you use a credit card, the Internet or your mobile phone, the one thing that stands between you and everyone else knowing your business is cryptography - the making of secret ciphers. Yet rather than safeguarding this fragile privacy, powerful government forces have been fighting since the 1980s to keep crypto under their control. But... (more)

Modern literary theory : a comparative introduction

Since the publication of the first edition of this book, literary theory is a field which has expanded and the theory has become a subject in its own right. New schools of theory have come into prominence and the editors of this work have continued to emphasize cross-reference and comparison. This edition contains new chapters which cover reading and interpretation - hermeneutics, phenomenology, reception theory -... (more)

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Me Talk Pretty One Day

by David Sedaris