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  Java in a Nutshell

  by David Flanagan

  This bestselling quick reference contains an accelerated introduction to the Java language and its key APIs, so seasoned programmers can start writing Java code right away. The third edition of Java in a Nutshell covers Java 1.2 and Java 1.3 beta. This book includes O'Reilly's classic-style quick-reference material for all the classes in the essential Java packages, including java.lang, java.io, java.beans... (more)
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  The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (P.S.)

  by Jared Diamond

  The Development of an Extraordinary Species We human beings share 98 percent of our genes with chimpanzees. Yet humans are the dominant species on the planet -- having founded civilizations and religions, developed intricate and diverse forms of communication, learned science, built cities, and created breathtaking works of art -- while chimps remain animals concerned primarily with the basic necessities of... (more)
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  Dark Genius of Wall Street: The Misunderstood LIfe of Jay Gould, King of the Robber Barons

  by Edward Renehan

  "<A> revisionist biography of the man whom a London newspaper eulogized as a 'wrecker of industries and an impoverisher of men'.... Mr. Renehan describes <Gould's business deals> with zest." ( New York Times ) Though reviled for more than a century as Wall Street's greatest villain, Jay Gould was in fact its most original creative genius. Gould was the robber baron's robber baron, the most astute... (more)
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  The Ancestor's Tale

  A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution

  by Richard Dawkins

  also published in German as "Geschichte vom Ursprung des Lebens"With unparalleled wit, clarity, and intelligence, Richard Dawkins, one of the world's most renowned evolutionary biologists, has introduced countless readers to the wonders of science in works such as The Selfish Gene. Now, in The Ancestor's Tale, Dawkins offers a masterwork: an exhilarating reverse tour through evolution, from present-day... (more)
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  London

  The Biography

  by Peter Ackroyd

  Here are two thousand years of London’s history and folklore, its chroniclers and criminals and plain citizens, its food and drink and countless pleasures. Blackfriar’s and Charing Cross, Paddington and Bedlam. Westminster Abbey and St. Martin in the Fields. Cockneys and vagrants. Immigrants, peasants, and punks. The Plague, the Great Fire, the Blitz. London at all times of day and night, and in all kinds of... (more)
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  Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms

  Essays on Natural History

  by Stephen Jay Gould

  Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms is the newest collection of best-selling scientist Stephen Jay Gould's popular essays from Natural History magazine (the longest-running series of scientific essays in history). It is also the first of the final three such collections, since Dr. Gould has announced that the series will end with the turn of the millennium.          In this collection, Gould... (more)
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  A History of the Arab Peoples

  by Albert Habib Hourani

  No region in the world today is more important than the Middle East: no people more misunderstood than the Arabs. In this definitive masterwork, distinguished Oxford historian Albert Hourani offers the most lucid, enlightening history ever written on the subject. From the rise of Island to the Palestinian issue, from the Prophet Mohammed to Mu'ammar al-Qadhafi. A History of the Arab Peoples chronicles... (more)
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  Pop Internationalism

  by Paul R. Krugman

  "Everything Mr. Krugman has to say is smart, important and even fun to read. Paul Krugman is no household name, but probably should be . . . he is one of a handful of very bright, relatively young economists who do everything well." -- Peter Passell, New York Times Book Review "Pop internationalists" -- people who speak impressively about international trade while ignoring basic economics and misusing... (more)
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  In an Uncertain World: Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington

  by Jacob Weisberg, Robert Edward Rubin

  Robert Rubin was sworn in as the seventieth U.S. Secretary of the Treasury in January 1995 in a brisk ceremony attended only by his wife and a few colleagues. As soon as the ceremony was over, he began an emergency meeting with President Bill Clinton on the financial crisis in Mexico. This was not only a harbinger of things to come during what would prove to be a rocky period in the global economy; it also... (more)
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  Europe after Rome

  A New Cultural History 500-1000

  by Julia M. H. Smith

  This is the first single-author study in over fifty years to offer an integrated appraisal of the early Middle Ages as a dynamic and formative period in European history. Written in an attractive and accessible style, it makes extensive use of original sources to introduce early medieval men and women at all levels of society from slave to emperor, and allows them to speak to the reader in their own words. It... (more)
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  UML in a Nutshell

  by Sinan Si Alhir

  Modeling languages have been used by system developers for decades. But the Unified Modeling Language (UML), for the first time in the history of systems engineering, gives practitioners a common language. Accepted as a standard by the Object Management Group (OMG) in 1997, the language has already achieved more success than any previous contenders. With a firm conceptual and pragmatic basis, it is well suited to... (more)
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  Life's Grandeur

  by Stephen Jay Gould

  In his characteristically iconoclastic and original way, Gould argues that progress and increasing complexity are not inevitable features of the evolution of life on Earth. Further, if we wish to see grandeur in life, we must discard our selfish and anthropocentric view of evolution and learn to see it as Darwin did, as the random but unfathomably rich source of 'endless forms most beautiful and wonderful'.
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  The Chan's Great Continent: China in Western Minds

  by Jonathan D. Spence

  China has transfixed the West since the earliest contacts between these civilizations. With his characteristic elegance and insight, Jonathan Spence explores how the West has understood China over seven centuries. Ranging from Marco Polo's own depiction of China and the mighty Khan, Kublai, in the 1270s to the China sightings of three twentieth-century writers of acknowledged genius--Kafka, Borges, and... (more)
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  Lying Stones of Marrakech

  Penultimate Reflections in Natural History

  by Stephen Jay Gould

  In his latest collection of essays, bestselling scientist Stephen Jay Gould once again offers his unmistakable perspective on natural history and the people who have tried to make sense of it. Gould is planning to bring down the curtain on his nearly thirty-year stint as a monthly essayist for Natural History magazine, the longest-running series of scientific essays in history. This, then, is the next-to-last... (more)
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  The Natural and the Supernatural in the Middle Ages (The Wiles Lectures)

  by Robert Bartlett

  How did people of the medieval period explain physical phenomena, such as eclipses or the distribution of land and water on the globe? What creatures did they think they might encounter: angels, devils, witches, dogheaded people? This fascinating book explores the ways in which medieval people categorized the world, concentrating on the division between the natural and the supernatural and showing how the idea of... (more)
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  Economic Gangsters: Corruption, Violence, and the Poverty of Nations

  by Raymond Fisman

  Meet the economic gangster. He's the United Nations diplomat who double-parks his Mercedes on New York City streets at rush hour because the cops can't touch him--he has diplomatic immunity. He's the Chinese smuggler who dodges tariffs by magically transforming frozen chickens into frozen turkeys. The dictator, the warlord, the unscrupulous bureaucrat who bilks the developing world of billions in aid. The... (more)
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  Mao (Lives)

  by Jonathan Spence

  In this blend of history, literature and politics, Jonathan Spence gets to the heart of the complex personality of Chairman Mao Zedong. The biography penetrates Mao's rhetoric and infamous self-will to distil an intimate portrait of a man as withdrawn and mysterious as the emperors he disdained.
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  The Ends of Life: Roads to Fulfillment in Early Modern England

  by Keith Thomas

  Stretching from the beginning of the Reformation to the heyday of the Enlightenment, here is a masterful exploration of the ways in which people sought to lead fulfilling lives, illuminating the central values of this key period, while casting incidental light on some of the perennial problems of human existence. Keith Thomas, one of the foremost historians of our time, sheds light on the origins of the modern... (more)
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  Eccentrics

  by David Weeks

  Eccentrics is a mixture of fascinating anecdotes about eccentrics past and present and up-to-date medical view with important insights for everyone's mental and physical health.
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  Eight Little Piggies

  Reflections in Natural History

  by Stephen Jay Gould

  In the sixth volume of essays from Natural History magazine, the nation's foremost science writer discusses environmental spoliation and the massive extinction of the earth's species. Reprint. 30,000 first printing. National ad/promo. Tour.