Publication date: 2004-03-02
Dewey code: 509
List Price: $25.00
Price: $80.00
Review Emperor Of Scent: A Story Of Perfume, Obsession, And The Last Mystery Of The Senses / Diane Pub Co:Luca Turin was born with an uncannily powerful nose, able to distinguish the components of any scent, from the world's most refined perfumes to the air on the New York subways. A scientist, he kept his powers to himself, concentrating on other fields. But when, for the love of it, he began to write reviews of fragrances, and those reviews took the world by storm, everything changed. The secret world of scent creation opened up, and Turin discovered something astonishing: No one understands how our noses work. Billions and billions of dollars are spent creating the scents all around us in a manner that amounts to a glorified trial and error. The solution to the mystery of every other human sense had led to a Nobel Prize. Why should smell be any different? Turin has given his life to this great riddle. And in the end, incredibly, after an epic struggle, he solved it. Then things got really interesting. [+]Chandler Burr tells the extraordinary story of Luca Turin, his incredible sense of smell and his battles with the scientific establishment in as a remarkable quirky a tale of obsession as Susan Orlean's bestseller "The Orchid Thief".
Publication date: 2004-06
Dewey code: 306.42
List Price: $81.00
Price: $80.96
Review Going Down for Air: A Memoir in Search of a Subject (Great Barrington Books) / Paradigm Publishers:What is hidden in the taste of a madeleine cookie-or in snatches of Bob Dylan songs, operatic arias, and the remembered sting of a rattan cane? An exploration of memory, Going Down for Air artfully combines two very different yet connected texts. A Memoir is richly evocative not only of times past, but also of a very English, imperial, queerly masculine subjectivity, caught on the cusp of the extinction of the world in and of which it made sense. Derek Sayer's allusive writing succeeds as few have done before in capturing the leaps and bounds of memory itself. Rich in its detail, unstinting in its honesty, this beautifully written memoir is a considerable literary achievement. The memoir is complemented by Sayer's provocative theoretical essay on memory and social identity. Drawing on linguistic and psychoanalytic theory, photographic images, and literary texts, In Search of a Subject argues that it is memory above all that maintains the imagined identities upon which society rests.
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2008-10-31
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $120.00
Price: $80.30
Review Mr. Playboy: Hugh Hefner and the American Dream, Library Edition / Blackstone Audiobooks:From his spectacular launch of Playboy magazine to his recent television hit The Girls Next Door, Hugh Hefner has attracted public attention and controversy for decades. But how did a man who is at once socially astute and morally unconventional, part Bill Gates and part Casanova, also evolve into a figure at the forefront of cultural change? Granted unprecedented access to the man and his enterprise, historian and biographer Steven Watts argues that Hefner has profoundly altered American life and values. Punctuated with anecdotes of life at the Playboy Mansions, the book tells the compelling and uniquely American story of how one person with a provocative idea, a finger on the pulse of popular opinion, and a passion for his work altered the course of modern history. Amazon Exclusive: 10 Things You Didn't Know About Hugh Hefner and the Playboy Mansion 1. He has been keeping an exhaustive “scrapbook” of his life since adolescence, which now consists of over 1800 volumes and takes up much of the third floor of the Mansion. 2. His favorite weekly event is Monday’s “Manly Night,” a gathering of longstanding male friends for an evening devoted to eating, trading friendly insults and stories, and watching old films. 3. Hefner became obsessed with backgammon in the 1970s, playing in tournaments at the Mansion that attracted world-class players and lasted for hours, sometimes days. 4. [+]He was deeply traumatized during his college days when his fiancé confessed that she was involved in a sexual affair. 5. He nearly choked to death in the late 1970s after ingesting a small sex toy during a raucous lovemaking session with his girlfriend. She dislodged it with the Heimlich maneuver. 6. Hefner was a strong backer of the civil rights movement in the late 1950s and early 1960s, contributing money and booking African American entertainers for his television show and the Playboy Clubs. 7. The Mansion library still prominently displays a large ceramic bust of Barbi Benton, Hefner’s girlfriend from the late 1960s and early 1970s. 8. The Mansion staff is inundated with requests for invitations to Hefner’s big parties. Some are from celebrities who want to bring their friends, and many are from young women who send photos of themselves in skimpy clothing and provocative poses. Nearly all are turned down. 9. Every bathroom at the Mansion is equipped with a bottle of baby oil, bottle of aspirin, and Jergens cherry-almond skin lotion. During big parties, many of them also have bowls filled with condoms. 10. Hefner has all of his meals brought to him in his bedroom suite at the Mansion. Even when the Mansion is filled with dozens of guests enjoying an elegant buffet meal for movie nights on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, he eats in his room before joining the crowd.
Publication date: 1992-04
Dewey code: 630.92
Price: $4.95
Review George Washington Carver (Melrose Square Black American Series) / Holloway House Publishing Company:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2005-04-15
Dewey code: 190
List Price: $95.00
Price: $81.00
Review Derrida / Routledge:"What if someone came along who changed not the way you think about everything, but everything about the way you think?" That question is the path that leads us through Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering Kofman's award-winning Derrida. A film "about" the late philosopher and his work is more than a challenge, but Dick and Ziering Kofman's portrait of the philosopher is a remarkable achievement. Witty and affectionate, while repeatedly exploring the nature of cinema, identity, and even of questions themselves, DERRIDA follows Jacques Derrida from his work to his home as the filmmakers search for the "Derrida" that can be captured on film. This beautifully produced oversize volume presents the complete text of Derrida, along with an extensive interview with Jacques Derrida and introductory essays by the filmmakers and by Nicholas Royle.
Creator: Harold D. Moser
Publication date: 2005-03-30
Dewey code: 016.9735092
List Price: $125.00
Price: $80.00
Review Daniel Webster: A Bibliography (Bibliographies of American Notables) / Praeger Publishers:Daniel Webster captured the hearts and imagination of the American people of the first half of the nineteenth century. This bibliography on Webster brings together for the first time a comprehensive guide to the vast amount of literature written by and about this extraordinary man who dwarfed most of his contemporaries. This bibliography also provides references to materials on slavery, the tariff, banking, Indian affairs, legal and constitutional development, international affairs, western expansion, and economic and political developments in general. This bibliography is divided into fifteen sections and covers every aspect of Webster's distinguished career. Sections I and II deal primarily with Webster's writings and with those of his contemporaries. Sections III through X cover the literature dealing with his family background; childhood and education, his long service in the United States House of Representatives and in the Senate, his two stints as secretary of state, and his career in law. Section X provides guidance in locating materials relating to his associates. Finally, Sections XI through XV provide coverage of his personal life, his death, historiographical materials, and iconography.
Authors
- Wayne Lott
- Wayne Lott Brawner
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- Steve Brawner
Dewey code: 617.67
List Price: $30.99
Price: $80.69
Review Dr. Charles Bass / Xlibris Corporation:
Authors
- Eva Germaine Rimington Taylor
Dewey code: 500
List Price: $85.00
Price: $85.00
Review The Mathematical Practitioners Of Tudor & Stuart England / Martino Pub:
Publication date: 1995-05
Dewey code: 001.092
Price: $35.00
Review John Dee: The Politics of Reading and Writing in the English Renaissance (Massachusetts Studies in Early Modern Culture) / Univ of Massachusetts Pr:This text presents a reassessment of the career and cultural background of John Dee (1527-1609), one of Elizabethan England's most interesting figures. Challenging the conventional image of the isolated eccentric philosopher, Sherman situates Dee in a fresh context, revealing that he was a well-connected adviser to the academic, courtly and commercial circles of his day. The centrepiece of Dee's life is shown to be the massive library and museum at Mortlake, perhaps the first modern "think tank". There he lived, worked and entertained some of the period's most influential intellectuals and politicians. Sherman discusses Dee's household arrangements, reading practices, and writings on subjects ranging from calendar reform to imperial policy. He also offers an account of the broad network of scholars and other experts who, along with Dee, operated behind the political scenes, providing textual and technological support during this time of unprecedented intellectual and global expansion.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1996-02-02
Dewey code: 301.092
List Price: $160.00
Price: $117.75
Review Daniel Bell (Key Sociologists) / Routledge:Malcolm Waters presents a clear introduction to Bell's arguments and a critical appreciation of the strengths and weaknesses of his work. He draws mainly on the three books that have made Bell famous, The End of Ideology, The Coming of Postindustrial Society and The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism, but Waters also covers lesser-known works on education and social forecasting. Daniel Bell is a thoroughly comprehensive account of the work of a key, albeit highly controversial, contemporary sociological figure.
Creator: Gerhard Wagner
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2008-09-25
Dewey code: 301.092
List Price: $95.00
Price: $81.45
Review Communicating in the Third Space (Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies) / Routledge:Communicating in the Third Space aims to clarify Homi K. Bhabha’s theory of the third space of enunciation by reconstructing its philosophical, sociological, geographical, and political meaning with attention to the special advantages and ambiguities that arise as it is applied in practical-as well as theoretical-contexts. The idea of "third space" conceives the encounter of two distinct and unequal social groups as taking place in a special third space of enunciation where culture is disseminated and displaced from the interacting groups, making way for the invention of a hybrid identity, whereby these two groups conceive themselves to partake in a common identity relating to shared space and common dialogue. The essays collected in Communicating in the Third Space-including a preface by Bhabha himself-brilliantly introduce readers to this exciting topic in Cultural and Post-Colonial theory and offers insightful elaboration and critique of the meaning and relevance of life in the "third space".
Publication date: 2008-05-30
Dewey code: 501
List Price: $88.00
Price: $81.65
Review Analogies in Physics and Life: A Scientific Autobiography / World Scientific Publishing Company:Analogies play a fundamental role in science. To understand how and why, at a given moment, a certain analogy was used, one has to know the specific, historical circumstances under which the new idea was developed. This historical background is never presented in scientific articles and quite rarely in books. For the general reader, the undergraduate or graduate student who learns the subject for the first time, but also for the practitioner who looks for inspiration or who wants to understand what his colleague working in another field does, these historical circumstances can be fascinating and useful. This book discusses a series of analogy effects in subatomic physics, the prediction and theory of which the author has contributed to in the last 50 years. These phenomena are presented at a level accessible to the non-specialist, without formulae but with emphasis on the personal and historical background: memoirs of meetings, discussions and correspondence with collaborators and colleagues. As such, besides its scientific aspects, the book constitutes an absorbing witness account of a holocaust survivor who subsequently illegally crossed the Iron Curtain to escape communist persecution.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1998-08-01
Dewey code: 370.1
List Price: $180.00
Price: $81.18
Review The Passionate Mind of Maxine Greene: 'I am ... not yet' / Routledge:Maxine Greene is arguably the most important philosopher of education in the US today, but until now she has not been the subject of sustained scholarly analysis and investigation. This study of Green's contribution is organized from several points of view: studies of her four books; studies of the intellectual and aesthetic influences upon her theory; and her influence on the various specialization within the broad field of education-the teaching of English, arts education, philosophy of education, curriculum studies, religious education, cognitive theory, and theory of teaching.
Publication date: 2007-03-29
Dewey code: 956.053
List Price: $85.00
Price: $81.00
Review Broken Promises, Broken Dreams: The Stories of Jewish and Palestinian Trauma and Resilience / Pluto Press:The tragedies of the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians are never far from the pages of the mainstream press. Yet it is rare to hear about the reality of life on the ground, and it is rarer still when these voices belong to women. This book records the intimate journey of a Jewish-American physician travelling and working within Israel and the Occupied Territories. Alice Rothchild grew up in a family grounded by the traumas of the Holocaust and passionately devoted to Israel. This book recounts her experiences as she grapples with the reality of life in Israel, the complexity of Jewish Israeli attitudes, and the hardships of Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza. Through her work with a medical and human rights project, Rothchild is able to offer a unique personal insight into the conflict. Based on interviews with a number of different women, she examines their diverse perspectives and the complexities of Jewish Israeli identity. Rothchild's memorable account brings to life the voices of people mutually entwined in trauma, and explores individual examples of resilience and resistance. Ultimately, the book raises troubling questions regarding U. S. [+]policy and the insistence of the mainstream Jewish community on giving unquestioning support to all Israeli policy. Alice Rothchild, M. D. , serves on the steering committee of Jewish Voice for Peace, Boston. She has worked with medical delegations to Israel and the Occupied Territories with the JVP Health and Human Rights Project. A Boston-based physician, she has sought to build alliances between Israelis and Palestinians in opposition to Israeli policies of occupation and to promote a more honest dialogue within the Jewish community in the United States. Visit the author's website at www. brokenpromisesbrokendreams. com.
Publication date: 2008-08-19
Dewey code: 330.092
List Price: $85.00
Price: $80.42
Review Dennis Robertson (Great Thinkers in Economics) / Palgrave Macmillan:This book provides a comprehensive overview of Robertson's life and work. Uncovering the sources of Robertson's inspiration and ideas and the all-important causal relationship between the man and his work, this fascinating account is a must-read for all interested in rediscovering this great economist.
Publication date: 2003-08-31
Dewey code: 941.063092
List Price: $85.00
Price: $81.00
Review John Lambert, Parliamentary Soldier and Cromwellian Major-General, 1619-1684 / Boydell Press:John Lambert's life and career have long deserved this revealing study. The man who made Cromwell Lord Protector in 1653 also stopped him becoming king in 1657; and Lambert was the originator of the Instrument of Government, on which Cromwell's Protectorate was based. Committed to his deeply held, radical beliefs, Lambert first rose to prominence as a dashing cavalry commander in the civil wars of 1642 - 51, and he was a prominent upholder of the power of the New Model Army, particularly in his creation of the Major Generals, who ruled England in 1655. Lambert's refusal to countenance Cromwell as king saw his temporary fall from power, but he emerged after the Protector's death as a possible successor. His radical ideas seemed to threaten even 'his own side', and led to his imprisonment in the Tower in 1660, but he escaped and staged a last desperate republican stand against the return of Charles II. Although Lambert was subsequently convicted of treason, Charles did not have him executed - sure recognition that his character, private actions and beliefs were those of a man who was much more than a military revolutionary. DAVID FARR is head of history at Norwich School.
Publication date: 2003-05
Dewey code: 940.54213092
List Price: $31.99
Price: $80.02
Review One Down, One Dead: The Personal Adventures of Two Fourth Fighter Group Combat Pilots As They Face the Luftwaffe over Germany / Xlibris Corporation:Two WWII fighter pilots, raised on different continents and trained in different countries, fight life or death combat with the Luftwaffe over Europe. They flew P-51 Mustangs in the 4th Fighter Group and contributed to the Group score of a record 1000-plus enemy planes destroyed, the highest total of any Allied Group. They became Aces within a day of each other; then one was killed in combat on D-Day, while the other, having been shot down, trekked across northern Germany in a futile effort to evade capture. He is finally captured and as a POW, is forced to participate in a "Death March. " After several unsuccessful attempts, he and a fellow POW finally escape. Leading a handful of French forced-laborers they capture 25 German soldiers, turn them over to Patton's advancing Third Army and eventually return to the U. S. by hospital ship.
Publication date: 2008-05-12
Dewey code: 338
List Price: $81.99
Price: $81.99
Review A Unique Story of a Marvellous Career / IndyPublish:
Creator: Raymond
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2008-05-01
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $130.00
Price: $81.89
Review Edison / Blackstone Audiobooks, Inc.:Thomas Edison, historys most prolific inventor, was a man of genius and astounding foresight who established the prototype for todays think tanks and research firms. In this peerless biography, Paul Israel exposes for the first time the man behind the inventions.
Publication date: 1997-01
List Price: $69.95
Price: $177.75
Review Vets Might Fly (Vet) / Chivers Audio Books:A few months of married bliss, a lovers' nest in Darrowby and the wonders of home cooking are rudely interrupted for James Herriot by the Second World War. James Herriot's fifth volume of memoirs relocates him to a training camp somewhere in England. And in between square pounding and digging for victory, he dreams of the people and livestock he left behind him. 'There are funny cases, sad cases, farm animals and pets, downright farmers, ladies of refinement, hard-bitten NCOs and of course, the immortal Siegfried and Tristan' - "The Sunday Times". 'Another winner. as always hilariously funny' - "The Sunday Telegraph". 'It is a pleasure to be in James Herriot's company' - "Observer".
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Emperor Of Scent: A Story Of Perfume, Obsession, And The Last Mystery Of The Senses, Going Down for Air: A Memoir in Search of a Subject (Great Barrington Books), Mr. Playboy: Hugh Hefner and the American Dream, Library Edition, George Washington Carver (Melrose Square Black American Series), Derrida, Daniel Webster: A Bibliography (Bibliographies of American Notables), Dr. Charles Bass, The Mathematical Practitioners Of Tudor & Stuart England, John Dee: The Politics of Reading and Writing in the English Renaissance (Massachusetts Studies in Early Modern Culture), Daniel Bell (Key Sociologists), Communicating in the Third Space (Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies), Analogies in Physics and Life: A Scientific Autobiography, The Passionate Mind of Maxine Greene: 'I am ... not yet', Broken Promises, Broken Dreams: The Stories of Jewish and Palestinian Trauma and Resilience, Dennis Robertson (Great Thinkers in Economics), John Lambert, Parliamentary Soldier and Cromwellian Major-General, 1619-1684, One Down, One Dead: The Personal Adventures of Two Fourth Fighter Group Combat Pilots As They Face the Luftwaffe over Germany, A Unique Story of a Marvellous Career, Edison, Vets Might Fly (Vet)Top headlines: Jobless claims show recession strikes deep: More evidence of the nation's deteriorating job market came Thursday with reports that people continuing to draw unemployment benefits climbed to a 26-year high. ›20:36 Putin: Russia will survive 'difficult period': Prime Minister Vladimir Putin predicted that Russia would weather the global economic crisis with "minimal losses" and he pledged to maintain rises in social spending and avoid a sudden devaluation. ›12:51 Q&A: Shawn Hornbecks Parents: The parents of kidnap victim Shawn Hornbeck speak out on the sentencing of their sons tormentor and the status of the boys recovery. ›20:50 12 Oct, Fri Drugs: Meet Mexicos Suspected Queenpin: Sexy, stylish and female. 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