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Florida

1966 5th Print

Albert Camus and the Literature of Revolt

Timothy Lehmann

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

* Explocit Content Warning on Cover

With its stylistic characters and vivid colors, manga has captured the imagination of millions. Now, Manga: Masters of the Art goes straight to the source -- the artists themselves -- for the ultimate insider's look at this global phenomenon.

Each section includes a question-and-answer session, allowing the reader first-hand access to the artist's thoughts and ideas. They discuss how they became interested in manga, their first published work, where they get their ideas, the creative process, tips and techniques, artistic influences, the genre itself, and much more. Illustrations and photographs of each artist's most seminal works are accompanied by extensive, explanatory captions.

Manga: Masters of the Art is a practical reference book, a fascinating look at how this incredible artwork makes it from concept to reality, and a thoughtful commentary on the genre -- perfect for the growing legions of manga fans.

The artists featured are:

 * Kia Asamiya (Silent Möbius, Batman: Child of Dreams)
 * CLAMP (Chobits, Tsubasa)
 * Takehiko Inoue (Vagabond, Slam Dunk)
 * Erica Sakurazawa (Between the Sheets, The Aromatic Bitters)
 * Jiro Taniguchi (Icaro, The Walking Man)
 * Yuko Tsuno (Swing Shell)
 * Tatsuya Egawa (Golden Boy, Tokyo University Story)
 * Suehiro Maruo (Mr. Arashi's Amazing Freak Show)
 * Reiko Okano (Onmyoji, Fancy Dance)
 * Mafuyu Hiroki (Apples)
 * Miou Takaya (Crazy Heaven, Map of Sacred Pain)
 * Usamaru Furuya (Short Cuts, Palepoli)

Manga: Masters of the Art

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Tom Reiss

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life

A thrilling page-turner of epic proportions, Tom Reiss’s panoramic bestseller tells the true story of a Jew who transformed himself into a Muslim prince in Nazi Germany. Lev Nussimbaum escaped the Russian Revolution in a camel caravan and, as “Essad Bey,” became a celebrated author with the enduring novel Ali and Nino as well as an adventurer, a real-life Indiana Jones with a fatal secret. Reiss pursued Lev’s story across ten countries and found himself caught up in encounters as dramatic and surreal–and sometimes as heartbreaking–as his subject’s life.

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The Orientalist

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The Hafner Library of Classics

William James Essays in Pragmatism

Ernest Drucker

“Drucker, an internationally recognized public health, scholar and researcher, spent 20 years treating drug addiction and studying aids in some of the porous neighborhoods of the south Bronx. He compares mass and incarceration to other well recognized epidemics using basic public health concepts.”

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

The Epidemiology of Mass Incarceration in America

Sure to provoke debate and shift the paradigm of how we think about punishment, A Plague of Prisons offers a totally novel perspective on criminal justice in twenty-first-century America. --Book Jacket.

A Plague of Prisons

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Daniel F. Ford

Drawing on government documents and private records of plant designers, Mr. Ford exposes the cost cutting practices permitted by lacks federal standards, and shows how in adequate instruments, the ineptitude of plant operators, and this management, by everyone from the nuclear regulatory commission on down, inevitably led to the new disaster of March 28, 1979

Thirty Minutes to Meltdown

Three Mile Island

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Gayle L. Ormiston

Raphael Sassower

“…refreshing perspective to the domains of inquiry we call “science”and “technology” asserting the traditional definitions (like classical idealism and materialism) fail to suggest the rich and complex cultural/linguistic interplay occurring between them.”

The Discursive Authority of Science and Technology

Narrative Experiments was first published in 1989. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. In Narrative Experiments, Gayle Ormiston and Ralph Sassower bring a refreshing perspective to the domains of inquiry we call "science" and "technology," asserting that traditional definitions (like classical idealism and materialism) fail to suggest the rich and complex cultural/linguistic interplay occurring between them. This context is not merely a background, nor is Ormiston and Sassower's just one more interdisciplinary approach to the subject. Instead, their book argues, science, technology, and the humanities developed in concert with one another, and their reciprocity obliterates all traditional disciplinary boundaries. Ormiston and Sassower build their case by devoting a chapter to each of the four themes emerging from the etymological introduction. First, they look at the role fiction and other literary modes play in developing our attitudes toward science and technology -- how the visions of Bacon, Hobbes, Galileo, Rousseau, Mary Shelley, and Orwell evoke both anxiety and hope. Next, they examine a series of eighteenth-century "fictions" -- the Enlightenment texts of Kant, Rousseau, and Hume -- and the elevated (but ambiguous) status science and technology associated with them. The last two chapters evaluate modes of discursive authority and its dissemination -- classical and modern extralinguistic approaches; the contemporary-linguistic view espoused by Rorty, Quine, and others; and their own avowedly experimental journey through the labyrinths of cultural and linguistic usage.

Narrative Experiments

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Directing Motion Pictures

A book with dope cover design to complete your spectrum library

Howards End

Marge’s wild South Pacific vacation! What happens in Bali stays in Bali

A Study of Sexes in a Changing World

Male and Female

Robert Schnakenberg

“He’s been a dancer, a baker, a lion-tamer, and to know the rest you gotta buy the book”
- Winaki

The Man - The Movies - The Legend

Over a career spanning 30+ years, Christopher Walken has generated an enormous cult following. (If you need proof, just search for "cowbell" on YouTube.) Christopher Walken A to Z offers the first biography of this quirky show-business legend, with entries on everything from Actor's Studio (the legendary theater workshop where Walken spent 11 years as a janitor) to Zombie Movies (one of his favorite film genres). Along the way, readers will discover that. Walken has worked as a lion tamer.. Walken has appeared in music videos for Madonna, Duran Duran, and Fatboy Slim.. Walken is the most popular guest host in the history of Saturday Night Live.. Walken has filmed a pilot for a cooking show, Cooking with Chris.. Most incredibly, Walken has starred in some of the worst films of all time-everything from Heaven's Gate to Kangaroo Jack and Gigli-and yet his popularity never wanes.Complete with more than 50 behind-the-scenes photographs and tons of fascinating trivia, Christopher Walken A to Z offers a fascinating portrait of a Hollywood legend.

Christopher Walken A to Z

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The Man and the Theories

Stephen Hawking’s Universe

American Trilogy (3)

A college professor with a sexual indiscretion in his past is hounded from his job by academic enemies who label him a racist.

The Human Stain

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

UNEXPLAINED FACTS: Enigmas and Curiosities

Hard card cover, scarlett inner cover, RED TYPE on the inside.

Time Special Edition

Notre Dame of Paris

Cryptonomicon

Critical Essays

The Theatre of the Absurd

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Classic Art 

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A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution

A renowned biologist provides a sweeping chronicle of more than four billion years of life on Earth, shedding new light on evolutionary theory and history, sexual selection, speciation, extinction, and genetics.

The Ancestor's Tale

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My Life in Science

In this hugely entertaining sequel to the New York Times bestselling memoir An Appetite for Wonder, Richard Dawkins delves deeply into his intellectual life spent kick-starting new conversations about science, culture, and religion and writing yet another of the most audacious and widely read books of the twentieth century—The God Delusion. Called “one of the best nonfiction writers alive today” (Stephen Pinker) and a “prize-fighter” (Nature), Richard Dawkins cheerfully, mischievously, looks back on a lifetime of tireless intellectual adventure and engagement. Exploring the halls of intellectual inquiry and stardom he encountered after the publication of his seminal work, The Selfish Gene; affectionately lampooning the world of academia, publishing, and television; and studding the pages with funny stories about the great men and women he’s known, Dawkins offers a candid look at the events and ideas that encouraged him to shift his attention to the intersection of culture, religion, and science. He also invites the reader to look more closely at the brilliant succession of ten influential books that grew naturally out of his busy life, highlighting the ideas that connect them and excavating their origins. On the publication of his tenth book, the smash hit, The God Delusion, a “resounding trumpet blast for truth” (Matt Ridley), Richard Dawkins was catapulted from mere intellectual stardom into a circle of celebrity thinkers dubbed, “The New Atheists”—including Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, and Daniel Dennett. Throughout A Brief Candle in the Dark, Dawkins shares with us his infectious sense of wonder at the natural world, his enjoyment of the absurdities of human interaction, and his bracing awareness of life’s brevity: all of which have made a deep imprint on our culture.

Brief Candle in the Dark

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Teaching Practice Enlightenment 

The Three Pillars of Zen (1965)

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