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An ordinary man is unwittingly caught up in a senseless murder in Algeria.

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Describes the influence of spoken and written language and rational thinking on man's perception of the natural world around him.

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Truly deserving of the accolade a modern classic, Donna Tartt's novel is a remarkable achievement-both compelling and elegant, dramatic and playful. Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits ...

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"He told her he was a one-woman man and she was it for him. Teal said that was good because he was it for her. It and It. Both of them were It." Two teenagers, in love and insane, journey across the United States in this Bonnie and Clyde...

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An epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, Blood Meridian brilliantly subverts the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the "wild west." Based on historical events that took p...

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In a Spanish-language edition of Sweet Diamond Dust, the author explores the history of political and cultural struggle in her native Puerto Rico through the story of one fractious family of aristocrats. Original. 17,500 first printing.

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John D. Rockefeller, Sr.--history's first billionaire and the patriarch of America's most famous dynasty--is an icon whose true nature has eluded three generations of historians. Now Ron Chernow, the National Book Award-winning biographer of the M...

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Through explorations of the three pillars of Zen--teaching, practice, and enlightenment--Roshi Philip Kapleau presents a comprehensive overview of the history and discipline of Zen Buddhism. An established classic, this 35th anniversary edition fe...

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The president of Silicon Valley's Intel Corporation sets forth the three basic ideas of his management philosophy and details numerous specific techniques to increase productivity in the manager's work and that of his colleagues and subordinates.

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Guides young revolutionaries in the art of human communication and explains the tactics of organizing others to work within the system for social change.

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From one of America's most acclaimed directors comes a book that is both a professional memoir and a definitive guide to the art, craft, and business of the motion picture. Drawing on 40 years of experience on movies ranging from Long Day's Journe...

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Twelve stories deal with loneliness, loss, the tragic banality of everyday life, and redemption.

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It is widely understood that Charles Darwin's theory of evolution completely revolutionized the study of biology. Yet, according to David Sloan Wilson, the Darwinian revolution won't be truly complete until it is applied more broadly--to everythin...

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Hemingway's famous first novel tracks the Lost Generation of the 1920s from the nightclubs of Paris to the bullfighting arenas of Spain. Ernest Hemingway, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954, exerted a lasting influence on fiction in E...

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A delightful and hilarious classic about the joys of the table, "The Physiology of Taste "is the most famous book about food ever written. First published in France in 1825 and continuously in print ever since, Jean Anthelme Brillat-Sava...

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In an epic set in Iceland in the early twentieth century, Gudbjartur Jonsson buys his own croft after eighteen years of service to the local bailiff, and brings his wife and his small flock of sheep there to build a new, independent life for himself.

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Somewhere on the borders of what is now Russia, in the late 9th century A.D., the great Khan, ruler of the Khazars, summons the three leading scholars to determine which religion--Christian, Jewish, Moslem--his people will adopt. The tribe is utte...

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"Originally published in the United States in the collection "Buried child, seduced, & suicide in B by Urizen Books, Inc., New York, in 1979"--T.p. verso.

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Awe and exhiliration--along with heartbreak and mordant wit--abound in Lolita, Nabokov's most famous and controversial novel, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haz...

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A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, "The Death and Life of Great American Cities" has, since its first public...

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Seligman draws on more than 20 years of clinical research to demonstrate how optimism enhances the quality of life, and how anyone can learn to practice its skills.

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Poems exploring the experiences of the author are accompanied by essays on writing and a selection of short stories.

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Tim Laughlin, a recent college graduate and devout Catholic eager to join the crusade against Communism, finds his first love affair with a handsome State Department official. As Joe McCarthy mounts an increasingly desperate bid for power, Tim and...

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The prestigious annual story anthology, now in its fourth year with a guest editor format and with a new bestselling track record Continuing a century-long tradition of cutting-edge literary excellence, this year's edition contains twenty prizewin...

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Set in Jaffa in between 1947 and 1951, this “fable-like historical novel of young love ... darkly humorous and touching” ( Oprah Daily ) is based on a true story during the beginning of the destruction of Palestine and displacement of ...

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ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR NPR • THE A.V. CLUB From the creator of the beloved and universally acclaimed television series BoJack Horseman, a fabulously off-beat collection of short stories about love-the best and worst thing in the un...

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One of the most influential works of this century, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays is a crucial exposition of existentialist thought. Influenced by works such as Don Juan and the novels of Kafka, these essays begin with a meditation on suici...

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"O'Boyle has researched and written a monumental book that should be mandatory reading for all CEOs and anyone concerned with business ethics." --"The Philadelphia Inquirer <BR>"Superb . . . a spirited study of General El...

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Cut off from the life of ranching he has come to love by his grandfather's death, John Grady Cole flees to Mexico, where he and his two companions embark on a rugged and cruelly idyllic adventure.

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Presents and analyzes two major works on ethics, dealing with morality, goodness, guilt, and ascetic ideals.

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