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The Quotable Writer: Words of Wisdom from Mark Twain, Aristotle, Oscar Wilde, Robert Frost, Eric Jong, and More

The Quotable Writer: Words of Wisdom from Mark Twain, Aristotle, Oscar Wilde, Robert Frost, Eric Jong, and More

"The Quotable Writer taps the power of words for the wordsmiths who live and make their living by them. Dip into it and see if you don't find yourself driven to write some yourself." David A. Fryxell, editorial director and nonfiction columnist for Writer's Digest, and author of How to Write Fast (While Writing Well) and Elements of Article Writing: Structure and Flow William A. Gordon has created a Barlett's... (more)

Brief Interviews With Hideous Men: Stories

Brief Interviews With Hideous Men: Stories

by David Foster Wallace

An exuberantly acclaimed collectiontwenty-two stories that com-- bine hilarity and an escalating disquiet as they expand our ideas of the pleasures fiction can afford. Wallace was recently selected by Time as one of the four outstanding young American writers. The hardcover was a bestselleron the Independent, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, and the San Francisco Chronicle bestseller lists.

Rescuing Prometheus: Four Monumental Projects That Changed the Modern World

Rescuing Prometheus: Four Monumental Projects That Changed the Modern World

by Thomas Parke Hughes

"A rare insight into industrial planning on a huge scale...Excellent." -- The Economist Rescuing Prometheus is an eye-opening and marvelously informative look at some of the technological projects that helped shape the modern world. Thomas P. Hughes focuses on four postwar projects whose vastness and complexity inspired new technology, new organizations, and new management styles. The first use of computers... (more)

Lost In Place: Growing Up Absurd in Suburbia (Vintage)

Lost In Place: Growing Up Absurd in Suburbia (Vintage)

by Mark Salzman

From the author of Iron & Silk comes a charming and frequently uproarious account of an American adolescence in the age of Bruce Lee, Ozzy Osborne, and Kung Fu. As Salzman recalls coming of age with one foot in Connecticut and the other in China (he wanted to become a wandering Zen monk), he tells the story of a teenager trying to attain enlightenment before he's learned to drive.

The Overspent American: Why We Want What We Don't Need

The Overspent American: Why We Want What We Don't Need

by Juliet Schor

The Overspent American explores why so many of us feel materially dissatisfied, why we work staggeringly long hours and yet walk around with ever-present mental "wish lists" of things to buy or get, and why Americans save less than virtually anyone in the world. Unlike many experts, Harvard economist Juliet B. Schor does not blame consumers' lack of self-discipline. Nor does she blame advertisers. Instead she... (more)

Opium: A History

by Martin Booth

Known to mankind since prehistoric times, opium is arguably the oldest and most widely used narcotic. Opium: A History traces the drug's astounding impact on world culture-from its religious use by prehistoric peoples to its influence on the imaginations of the Romantic writers; from the earliest medical science to the Sino-British opium wars. And, in the present day, as the addict population rises and... (more)

THE OXFORD HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE

Genes, Peoples, and Languages

by Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza

Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza was among the first to ask whether the genes of modern populations contain a historical record of the human species. Cavalli-Sforza and others have answered this question-anticipated by Darwin-with a decisive yes. Genes, Peoples, and Languages comprises five lectures that serve as a summation of the author's work over several decades, the goal of which has been nothing less than tracking... (more)

The Wisdom of the Body

by Sherwin B. Nuland

"An anatomy of human life, vividly illustrated. . . . Awe-inspiring <and> sublimely uplifting." --Time Having won the National Book Award for How We Die, his best-selling inquiry into the causes and modes of death, Sherwin Nuland now turns his attention to the miraculous resiliency of human life. For this lucid, wonderful, and wonder-filled new book explores the body's mysterious capacity to marshal... (more)

Emergence

The Jadu House

by Laura Roychowdhury

Through the retelling of people's personal stories and experiences, this cultural and confessional journey into the heart of the Anglo-Indian community in India, a caste held in contempt by the British and Indians alike, unsettles our received ideas about the fixed boundaries of race, culture and nationality.

FAMILY MEDICAL REFERENCE

by F. EVANS

(Un)arranged Marriage

by Bali Rai

MANNY WANTS TO BE A FOOTBALLER. OR A POP STAR. OR WRITE A BESTSELLER. HE DOESN'T WANT TO GET MARRIED...'Harry and Ranjit were waiting for me - waiting to take me to Derby, to a wedding. My wedding. A wedding that I hadn't asked for, that I didn't want. To a girl who I didn't know...If they had bothered to open their eyes, they would have seen me: seventeen, angry, upset but determined - determined to do my own... (more)

Between CampsPAUL GILROY

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