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Texas

The Sentimental Education

Samantha Power

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America and the Age of Genocide

Winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize For General Nonfiction National Book Critics Circle Award Winner In her award-winning interrogation of the last century of American history, Samantha Power -- a former Balkan war correspondent and founding executive director of Harvard's Carr Center for Human Rights Policy -- asks the haunting question: Why do American leaders who vow "never again" repeatedly fail to stop genocide? Drawing upon exclusive interviews with Washington's top policy makers, access to newly declassified documents, and her own reporting from the modern killing fields, Power provides the answer in "A Problem from Hell" -- a groundbreaking work that tells the stories of the courageous Americans who risked their careers and lives in an effort to get the United States to act.

A Problem from Hell

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Roland Huntford

Definitive biography of Ernest Shackleton 

Shackleton

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Newman W. Dorland

Ellen Drake

Carol A. Stillman

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

A definitive A to Z source for spelling and hyphenation of the medical words, phrases, and eponyms in current use. Includes all the terminology transcriptionists need to know but often cannot find in standard references. What's more, words are spelled and hyphenated specifically for medical writing - - with approved syllable breaks for medical reports. Subentries and cross references speed access to specific terms.

Dorland's Medical Speller

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Robert Wright

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

The Logic of Human Destiny

At the beginning of Nonzero, Robert Wright sets out to "define the arrow of the history of life, from the primordial soup to the World Wide Web." Twenty-two chapters later, after a sweeping and vivid narrative of the human past, he has succeeded -- and has mounted a powerful challenge to the conventional view that evolution and human history are aimless. Ingeniously employing game theory -- the logic of "zero-sum" and "non-zero-sum" games -- Wright isolates the impetus behind life's basic direction: the impetus that, via biological evolution, created complex, intelligent animals and then, via cultural evolution, pushed the human species toward deeper and vaster social complexity. In this view, the coming of today's interdependent global society was "in the cards" -- not quite inevitable, perhaps, but, as Wright puts it, "so probable as to inspire wonder." So probable, indeed, as to invite speculation about higher purpose, especially in light of "the phase of history that seems to lie immediately ahead: a social, political, and even moral culmination of sorts." In a work of vast erudition and pungent wit, Wright takes on some of the past century's most prominent thinkers, including Isaiah Berlin, Karl Popper, Stephen Jay Gould, and Richard Dawkins. He finds evidence for his position in unexpected corners, from native American hunter-gatherer societies and Polynesian chiefdoms to medieval Islamic commerce and precocious Chinese technology; from conflicts of interest among a cell's genes to discord at the World Trade Organization. Wright argues that a coolly scientific appraisal of humanity's three-billion-year past can give new spiritual meaning to the present and even offerpolitical guidance for the future. Nonzero will change the way people think about the human prospect.

Nonzero

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Glen Waggoner

Kathleen Moloney

Hugh Howard

The Stories Behind the Rules of Baseball

For sports fans who have ever wondered about spitballs, pine tar, or the sizeof the diamond, this book has all the fascinating stories behind the rules ofbaseball. Archival photos.

Spitters, Bean Balls and the Incredible Shrinking Strike Zone

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Christina Stead

Randall Jarrell

A Novel

After ten years of marriage, Sam and Henny Pollit find themselves with too many children, insufficient money, and an abundant loathing for each other.

The Man Who Loved Children

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Roberto Bolaño

Mass-murdering authors. Writers at the head of a football-hooligan ring. A pilot who crafts his poetry in the sky. A tour de force of black humour and imaginary erudition, Nazi Literature in the Americaspresents itself as a biographical dictionary of pan-American writers who espoused extreme right-wing ideologies in the 20th and 21st centuries. Terrifyingly witty and remarkably inventive, this is the virtuosic, one-of-a-kind masterpiece which brought Bolano fame throughout the Spanish-speaking world. TRANSLATED BY CHRIS ANDREWS 'The best and weirdest kind of literary game... A strangely profound place to get lost' Financial Times 'A darkly comic celebration of the wilder horizons of writing, good, plodding, lunatic and terrible' London Review of Books

Nazi Literature in the Americas

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Thomas Frank

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How Conservatives Won the Heart of America

With a New Afterword by the Author

The New York Times bestseller, praised as "hilariously funny . . . the only way to understand why so many Americans have decided to vote against their own economic and political interests" -(Molly Ivins)

Hailed as "dazzlingly insightful and wonderfully sardonic" (Chicago Tribune), "very funny and very painful" (San Francisco Chronicle), and "in a different league from most political books" (The New York Observer),What's the Matter with Kansas? unravels the great political mystery of our day: Why do so many Americans vote against their economic and social interests? With his acclaimed wit and acuity, Thomas Frank answers the riddle by examining his home state, Kansas-a place once famous for its radicalism that now ranks among the nation's most eager participants in the culture wars. Charting what he calls the "thirty-year backlash"-the popular revolt against a supposedly liberal establishment-Frank reveals how conservatism, once amarker of class privilege, became the creed of millions of ordinary Americans.

A brilliant analysis-and funny to boot-What's the Matter with Kansas? is a vivid portrait of an upside-down world where blue-collar patriots recite the Pledge while they strangle their life chances; where small farmers cast their votes for a Wall Street order that will eventually push them off their land; and where a group of frat boys, lawyers, and CEOs has managed to convince the country that it speaks on behalf of the People.

What's the Matter with Kansas?

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William A. Cohen

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The "management classic" (Library Journal) that packs a huge amount of practical wisdom is now in paper. This clearly written guide details proven strategies for becoming a leader in any organization or group. Selected in hardcover as one of the Best Business Books of 1989 by Library Journal.

The Art of the Leader

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Annie Proulx

"Barkskins opens in New France in the late 18th century as Renae Sel, an illiterate woodsman makes his way from Northern France to the homeland to seek a living. Bound to a 'seigneur' for three years in exchange for land, he suffers extraordinary hardship and violence, always in awe of the forest he is charged with clearing. In the course of this epic novel, Proulx tells the stories of Renae's children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren, as well as the descendants of his friends and foes, as they travel back to Europe, to China, to New England, always in quest of a livelihood or fleeing stunningly brutal conditions--war, pestilence, Indian attacks, the revenge of rivals. Proulx's inimitable genius is her creation of characters who are so vivid--in their greed, lust, vengefulness, or their simple compassion and hope--that we follow them with fierce attention. This is Proulx's most ambitious novel ever, and her master work"--

Barkskins

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William Shakespeare

King Lear

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Dorothy Dunnett

Back in print by popular demand--"A stunning revelation of the historical Macbeth, harsh and brutal and eloquent." --Washington Post Book World. With the same meticulous scholarship and narrative legerdemain she brought to her hugely popular Lymond Chronicles, our foremost historical novelist travels further into the past. In King Hereafter, Dorothy Dunnett's stage is the wild, half-pagan country of eleventh-century Scotland. Her hero is an ungainly young earl with a lowering brow and a taste for intrigue. He calls himself Thorfinn but his Christian name is Macbeth. Dunnett depicts Macbeth's transformation from an angry boy who refuses to accept his meager share of the Orkney Islands to a suavely accomplished warrior who seizes an empire with the help of a wife as shrewd and valiant as himself. She creates characters who are at once wholly creatures of another time yet always recognizable--and she does so with such realism and immediacy that she once more elevates historical fiction into high art.

King Hereafter

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Bill Simmons

Malcolm Gladwell

The NBA According to the Sports Guy

An opinionated tour of the past, present, and future of pro basketball, written by ESPN's "Sports Guy" columnist, shares insights on everything from major NBA events and underrated players to how Hall of Famers should be selected.

The Book of Basketball

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Hilary Mantel

Wolf Hall

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Ivo Andric

Lovett F. Edwards

William H. Mcneill

The Bridge on the Drina is a vivid depiction of the suffering history has imposed upon the people of Bosnia from the late 16th century to the beginning of World War I. As we seek to make sense of the current nightmare in this region, this remarkable, timely book serves as a reliable guide to its people and history.

"No better introduction to the study of Balkan and Ottoman history exists, nor do I know of any work of fiction that more persuasively introduces the reader to a civilization other than our own. It is an intellectual and emotional adventure to encounter the Ottoman world through Andric's pages in its grandiose beginning and at its tottering finale. It is, in short, a marvelous work, a masterpiece, and very much sui generis. . . . Andric's sensitive portrait of social change in distant Bosnia has revelatory force."--William H. McNeill, from the introduction

"The dreadful events occurring in Sarajevo over the past several months turn my mind to a remarkable historical novel from the land we used to call Yugoslavia, Ivo Andric's The Bridge on the Drina."--John M. Mohan, Des Moines Sunday Register

Born in Bosnia, Ivo Andric (1892-1975) was a distinguished diplomat and novelist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1961. His books include The Damned Yard: And Other Stories, and The Days of the Consuls.

The Bridge on the Drina

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Bridget Jones

Madeleine Brehaut

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Beautifully Styled Napkins for Every Occasion

Complete step-by-step instructions on how to fold intriguing designs in napkins.

Napkin Folds

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Kris Carr

Sheryl Crow

Describes the author's experience with cancer and provides personal stories of other hip, young women with cancer, tips on everything from stylish hospital gowns to insurance, and resources for living with cancer.

Crazy Sexy Cancer Tips

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Thomas Sugrue

The Story of Edgar Cayce

There Is a River

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Bob Berkowitz

Roger Gittines

The authors offer the real truth from behind the locker-room door: the sometimes unwelcome facts about communication (or lack thereof), sex, etiquette, dating, working, marriage (and divorce); and all those other things that men never get around to talking about with the women in their lives.

What Men Won't Tell You but Women Need to Know

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Alastair Fowler

Paradise Lost

This volume contains the fully-annotated text of Paradise Lost. A companion volume, Milton: Complete Shorter Poems, contains all Milton's remaining poetry, including the Latin poems, edited by John Carey.

Milton

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