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Vietnam, Now: A Reporter Returns "This is a truly magnificent book and the first ever to accurately capture Vietnam as it is today. David's comparative analysis takes us into the complex fabric of Vietnam's history, culture, politics and its people, first as a young combat journalist in the '60s and now as a seasoned reporter. He skillfully exposes contemporary realities in Vietnam against the myths that have lingered since the end of the Vietnam War. David had a ringside seat as Vietnam transitioned from a backward, agrarian, and militant country to an important economic and political entity in southeast Asia. In his fascinating portrayal of Vietnam's society he pulls the sheets off of the mysterious political system and lets the reader see deeply into the psyche of the Vietnamese people through their own words and deeds." Peter Peterson, former POW and U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam
Things You Should Know: A Collection of Stories The most daring voice of her generation, A. M. Homes writes with terrifying compassion about the things that matter most. Homes's distinctive narratives illuminate our dreams and desires, our memories and losses, and our profound need for connection, and demonstrate how extraordinary the ordinary can be. In these beautifully written stories, we find shpeshifters, children running headlong into the darkness of adolescent sexuality, a man passionately wanting to live but not knowing how. And, most important, we find ourselves. An expert literary witness, A. M. Homes takes us places we would not go alone and brings us back, always with uncanny emotional accuracy, wit, and empathy. She is one of the master practitioners of American fiction, and Things You Should Know is a landmark collection.
The Path to the Spiders' Nests Italo Calvino's controversial first novel, The Path to the Spiders' Nests, has been updated to include changes from Calvino's definitive Italian edition, previously censored passages, and his newly translated, unabridged preface. This novel, written when Calvino was twenty-three and first published in 1947, tells the story of Pin, a cobbler's apprentice in a town on the Ligurian Coast during World War II. He lives with his sister, a prostitute, and spends as much time as he can at the lowlife bar where he amuses the grown-ups. After a mishap with a Nazi soldier, Pin becomes involved with a band of partisans. Calvino's portrayal of these characters, seen through the eyes of the child, is not only a revealing commentary on the Italian resistance but an insightful coming-of-age story.
Crossing Over: Where Art and Science Meet Crossing Over, the latest of three collaborations between scholar Stephen Jay Gould and artist Rosamond Wolff Purcell, brings together thought-provoking essays and uncannily beautiful photographs to disprove the popular notion that art and science exist in an antagonistic relationship. The essays and photographs collected here present art and science in conversation, rather than in opposition. As Gould writes in his preface, although the two disciplines may usually communicate in different dialects, when juxtaposed they strikingly reflect upon and enhance one another. Working together, Purcell's photographs and Gould's scientific musings speak to us about ourselves and our world in a hybrid language richer than either could command on its own.
To Kill a Mockingbird One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has earned many distinctions since its original publication in 1960. It won the Pulitzer Prize, has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than thirty million copies worldwide, and been made into an enormously popular movie. Most recently, librarians across toe country gave the book the highest of honors by voting it the best novel of the twentieth century.
Fire A riveting collection of literary journalism by the bestselling author of The Perfect Storm, capped off brilliantly by a new Afterword and a timely essay about war-torn Afghanistan; a superb eyewitness report about the Taliban's defeat in Kabul; new to book form. Sebastian Junger has made a specialty of bringing to life the drama of nature and human nature. Few writers have been to so many disparate and desperate corners of the globe. Fewer still have met the standard of great journalism more consistently. None has provided more starkly memorable evocations of extreme events. From the murderous mechanics of control in the diamond trade in Sierra Leone, to an inferno forest fire burning out of control in the steep canyons of Idaho, to the forensics of genocide in Kosovo, this collection of Junger's reporting will take readers to places they need to know about but wouldn't dream of going on their own. In his company we travel to these places, pass through frightening checkpoints, actual and psychological, and come face-to-face with the truth. |
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Make Way For Ducklings Just any old place won't do for raising a family of ducklings. Mr. Mallard thought the pond in the Boston Public Garden would be just right, especially with the swan boats bringing all those people, and all those peanuts. But Mrs. Mallard knew right away that the park was not a safe place for babies. A quiet island in the Charles River, however, proved just right for bringing up a new family, eight fluffy duckling in all. This brilliantly illustrated, amusingly observed tale of Mallards on the move has won the hearts of generations of readers. Awarded the Caldecott Medal as "the most distinguished American picture book for children" in 1941, it has since become a favorite of millions, children and adults alike, as "one of the merriest picture books ever… told in very few words with a gravity that underscores the delightful comedy of the pictures." The New York Times
Madeline In an old house in Paris
Recollections of My Life as a Woman Diane di Prima grew up in Brooklyn in the 1930s and '40s in an Italian American family, and only by heroic effort was she able to break away and follow through on a lifelong commitment to become a poet, first made when she was in high school. Immersing herself in the exciting world of Manhattan's early 1950s Bohemia, di Prima quickly emerged as a major force, becoming a renowned poet, an influential editor, and a single mother at a time when that was unheard of. Recollections of My Life as a Woman chronicles the intense, creative cauldron of those years as the Beat movement emerged on both coasts and the country accelerated on into the sixties. Di Prima's relationships and her sexuality were as revolutionary as her writing; in this gritty and passionate memoir, she explores what she was taught by her family and culture about what it meant to be a woman.
Time's Pendulum The story of humankind's struggle to measure the hours, days, and years with accuracy is nothing short of epic. In Time's Pendulum, Jo Ellen Barnett traces the important developments in our quest to capture time and shows how our concept of time and of the world has changed with each technological breakthrough. Illustrated with entertaining anecdotes, this fascinating history of timekeeping covers everything from the earliest sundials to the pendulum clock, on to the more recent advances of battery-powered, quartz-regulated wrist watches and communications systems synchronized by atomic clocks. "A triumph of interdisciplinary scholarship" (Publishers Weekly), Time's Pendulum is a lively tour through 4,000 years of discovery.
A Vaudeville of Devils: 7 Moral Tales Above the lavender bay of Naples, an American exile is pulled into the hot, erotic machinations of a mysterious woman in "Sunday Evenings at Contessa Pasquali's." In "The Primordial Face" two men search for the mythical treasure at the bottom of the sea while competing for the love of the expedition leader's daughter. From an SS officer chosen to assassinate a "subversive" artist in the heart of World War II to a man who watches an exploding landscape from within a decadent, macabre last supper, these seven moral tales capture lives in need of saving in a world only we can save; tales of doomed lovers and fantastical voyages, of souls won and lost on the simple weight of everyday choices. Fiercely original, rich in history and irony, A Vaudeville of Devils is the work of a writer whose imagination is boundless, and whose vision is at once brutal and sensual.
The Erotic Whitman Vivian Pollak skillfully explores the intimate relationships that contributed to Walt Whitman's imagination of masculinity in crisis. She maintains that in representing himself as a characteristic nineteenth-century American and in proposing to heal national ills, the poet was trying to temper his own inner conflicts as well. Integrating biography and criticism, Pollak employs a loosely chronological organization to describe the poet's multifaceted "faith in sex." Drawing on his early fiction, journalism, letters, and notebook entries, she shows how in spite of his personal ambivalence about sustained erotic intimacy, Whitman came to imagine himself as "the phallic choice of America." |
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