Signet Classics, May 1990. Mass Market PaperBack. 1984 has come and gone, but George Orwell's prophetic, nightmare vision in 1949 of the world we were becoming is timelier than ever. "1984" is still the great modern classic "negative Utopia" - a startling original and haunting novel that creates an imaginary...
Open Media, December 2001. Trade Paperback. Now more timely than ever, Alice Walker's Sent By Earth reflects on the tragedy of September 11, 2001, and addresses the anger many Americans felt at the presumed perpetrator of the attack: Osama bin Laden. In powerfully reflective, nuanced, and above all heartfelt prose...
Belknap Press, April 2014. Hardcover. What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. But satisfactory answers have been hard to find...
William Morrow, March 1991. Hardcover. All the answers are here. "Jewish Literacy, " written by an esteemed rabbi, is a compendium of 346 short chapters on the essential trends, concepts, and personalities of Jewish history, religion, and culture. Light shelf wear on the jacket. Price clipped. Name in pen on...
Alfred A. Knopf, November 2000. Hardcover. In this indispensable volume of kitchen wisdom, Julia Child gives home cooks the answers to their most pressing kitchen questions. How many minutes should you cook green beans? What are the right proportions for a vinaigrette? How do you skim off fat? What is...
Houghton Mifflin, March 2000. Hardcover. Moderate shelf wear on the jacket.
Yale University Press, March 2015. First Edition. Cloth. A fascinating exploration of the life and work of one of America's most famous and enigmatic postwar visual artists Mark Rothko, one of the greatest painters of the twentieth century, was born in the Jewish Pale of Settlement in 1903. He immigrated...
Knopf, October 2010. First Edition. Cloth. From the author of the best-selling Musicophilia (hailed as luminous, original, and indispensable by The American Scholar), an exploration of vision through the case histories of six individuals including a renowned pianist who continues to give concerts despite losing the ability to read the...
Knopf, July 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Set in our own time along the bloody frontier between Texas and Mexico, this is Cormac McCarthy's first novel since "Cities of the Plain "completed his acclaimed, best-selling "Border Trilogy." Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, instead finds men shot dead, a....
Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), June 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Calvin Trillin begins his wise and charming ruminations on family by stating the sum total of his child-rearing advice: "Try to get one that doesn't spit up. Otherwise, you're on your own." Suspicious of any child-rearing theories beyond "Your children...
Nan A. Talese, October 2003. Hardcover. The Greeks invented everything from Western warfare to mystical prayer, from logic to statecraft. Many of their achievements, particularly in art and philosophy, are widely celebrated; other important innovations and accomplishments, however, are unknown or underappreciated. In Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea, Thomas Cahill explores...
Knopf, May 1972. Cloth. Moderate shelf wear on the jacket. Some light foxing on the endpapers and the edges of the print block.
Penguin Books, May 2004. Stapled Soft Cover. The thirteenth novel in Émile Zola's great Rougon-Macquart sequence, Germinal expresses outrage at the exploitation of the many by the few, but also shows humanity's capacity for compassion and hope. Etienne Lantier, an unemployed railway worker, is a clever but uneducated young man...
Dover Pubns, June 1965. Trade Paperback. The Blue Fairy Book was the first volume in the series and so it contains some of the best known tales, taken from a variety of sources: not only from Grimm, but exciting adventures by Charles Perrault and Madame D'Aulnoy, the Arabian Nights, and...
Dover Publications, June 1966. Trade Paperback. "The Yellow Fairy Book" is a wonderful collection of tales from all over the world. There are such familiar old favorites as the Story of The Emperor's New Clothes, The Tinder-box, How to Tell a True Princess, and The Nightingale. There are lesser familiar...
Vintage, September 1992. Trade Paperback. Tom Ripley has a lovely house in the French countryside, a beautiful and very rich wife, and an art collection worthy of a connoisseur. But this gracious life has not come easily; it is based on murder, forgery, and smuggling, and could topple at any moment.
Univ of Chicago Pr, March 1983. Trade Paperback.
Penguin Books, February 1998. Trade Paperback. With its publication in 1922, Virginia Woolf revolutionized the modern novel with Jacob's Room. Based on the life of her own brother, this unforgettable book chronicles the life and times of Jacob Flanders, from childhood to his death in World War I. An untraditional...
New Issues Poetry & Prose, October 2008. Trade Paperback. Please explores the points in our lives at which love and violence intersect. Drunk on its own rhythms and full of imaginative and often frightening imagery, Please is the album playing in the background of the history and culture that surround...
South End Press, July 1999. Trade Paperback. Essays discuss homophobia, everyday feminism, the portrayal of women in films, autobiography, Black women writers, and white supremacy.
W W Norton & Co Inc, December 1993. Trade Paperback. Letters written over a period of several years on the vocation of writing by a poet whose greatest work was still to come.
Spinsters, Ink, January 1980. Trade Paperback.
Penguin Books, September 2015. Trade Paperback. 'An indispensable work of reference' Times Literary Supplement The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory is firmly established as a key work of reference in the complex and varied field of literary criticism. Now in its fifth edition, it remains the most...
Basic Books, January 2003. Trade Paperback. The classic, bestselling book on the psychology of racism-now fully revised and updated Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see Black, White, and Latino youth clustered in their own groups. Is this self-segregation a problem to address or a coping...
Nok Publishers Intl, June 1973. Trade Paperback.
