Selling this book to create space on my shelf. The top-left hand corner of the back cover has some shelf wear on the jacket. Otherwise, this book has never been read. 
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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Puerto Rico

Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science

Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize | Finalist for the 2022 Edgar Award

An innovative biography of Edgar Allan Poe--highlighting his fascination and feuds with science.

Decade after decade, Edgar Allan Poe remains one of the most popular American writers. He is beloved around the world for his pioneering detective fiction, tales of horror, and haunting, atmospheric verse. But what if there was another side to the man who wrote "The Raven" and "The Fall of the House of Usher"?

In The Reason for the Darkness of the Night, John Tresch offers a bold new biography of a writer whose short, tortured life continues to fascinate. Shining a spotlight on an era when the lines separating entertainment, speculation, and scientific inquiry were blurred, Tresch reveals Poe's obsession with science and lifelong ambition to advance and question human knowledge. Even as he composed dazzling works of fiction, he remained an avid and often combative commentator on new discoveries, publishing and hustling in literary scenes that also hosted the era's most prominent scientists, semi-scientists, and pseudo-intellectual rogues. As one newspaper put it, "Mr. Poe is not merely a man of science--not merely a poet--not merely a man of letters. He is all combined; and perhaps he is something more."

Taking us through his early training in mathematics and engineering at West Point and the tumultuous years that followed, Tresch shows that Poe lived, thought, and suffered surrounded by science--and that many of his most renowned and imaginative works can best be understood in its company. He cast doubt on perceived certainties even as he hungered for knowledge, and at the end of his life delivered a mind-bending lecture on the origins of the universe that would win the admiration of twentieth-century physicists. Pursuing extraordinary conjectures and a unique aesthetic vision, he remained a figure of explosive contradiction: he gleefully exposed the hoaxes of the era's scientific fraudsters even as he perpetrated hoaxes himself.

Tracing Poe's hard and brilliant journey, The Reason for the Darkness of the Night is an essential new portrait of a writer whose life is synonymous with mystery and imagination--and an entertaining, erudite tour of the world of American science just as it was beginning to come into its own.

The Reason for the Darkness of the Night

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#bodymindspirit #dreams #analysis #hardcover #dreamdictionary 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Pennsylvania

The illustrated dream dictionary

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David B. Agus

Dr. Agus reveals innovative steps he takes to prolong lives of cancer patients and all who want to enjoy a better life 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Texas

The New York Times bestselling book of simple rules everyone should follow in order to live a long, healthy life, featuring illustrations throughout, from the author of The End of Illness.

In his international bestseller, The End of Illness, Dr. David B. Agus shared what he has learned from his work as a pioneering cancer doctor, revealing the innovative steps he takes to prolong the lives of not only cancer patients, but all those who want to enjoy a vigorous, lengthy life. Now Dr. Agus has turned his research into a practical and concise illustrated handbook for everyday living.

A Short Guide to a Long Life is divided into three sections (What to Do, What to Avoid, and Doctor's Orders) that provide the definitive answers to many common and not-so-common questions: Who should take a baby aspirin daily? Are flu shots safe? What constitutes "healthy" foods? Are airport scanners hazardous? Dr. Agus believes optimal health begins with our daily routines. His book will help you develop new patterns of personal health care, using inexpensive and widely available tools that are based on the latest and most reliable science.

An accessible and essential handbook for preparing for visits to the doctor and maintaining control of your future, "A Short Guide to a Long Life explores the simple idea that a healthy tomorrow starts with good habits today" (Fortune).

A Short Guide to a Long Life

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New York

Inside the Baseball Revolution

"A delight for baseball lovers" (Kirkus Reviews) and "one of the most significant baseball books of the year" (Bob Costas) Ahead of the Curve uses stories from baseball's present and past to examine why we sometimes choose ignorance over information, and how tradition can trump logic.

Forget batting average. Kill the "Win." Say goodbye to starting pitchers. And please, please stop bunting. MLB Network anchor and commentator Brian Kenny provides "an excellent, entertaining read for the all-around baseball fan" (Library Journal) and shows how baseball has been revolutionized--not destroyed--by analytical thinking.

Most people who resist logical thought in baseball preach "tradition" and "respecting the game." But many of baseball's traditions go back to the nineteenth century, when the pitcher's job was to provide the batter with a ball he could hit and fielders played without gloves. Instead of fearing change, Brian Kenny wants fans to think critically, reject outmoded groupthink, and embrace the changes that have come with the sabermetric era. In his entertaining and enlightening book, Kenny discusses why the pitching win-loss record, the Triple Crown, fielding errors, and so-called battling titles should be ignored. He also points out how fossilized sportswriters have been electing the wrong MVP's and ignoring legitimate candidates for the Hall of Fame; why managers are hired based on their looks; and how the most important position in baseball may just be "Director of Decision Sciences."

"Prepare to have your brain and your assumptions challenged. Guided by data and a deep love of the game, Brian Kenny takes a cutting-edge look at where baseball is and where it is going" (Tom Verducci, Sports Illustrated). Illustrated with unique anecdotes from those who have reshaped the game, Ahead of the Curve is "a great story about the game in the age of information and technology" (Billy Beane).

Ahead of the Curve

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Bloom's notes test prep

-- Presents concise, easy-to-understand biographical, critical, and bibliographical information on a specific literary work -- Provides multiple sources for book reports and term papers with a wealth of information on literary works, authors, and major characters -- Digests of critical extracts prefaced by headnotes -- The perfect resource for introducing readers to the analytical techniques of literary criticism

Vergil's Aeneid

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#hardcover #ex-lib #redpony #Steinbeck #literaryanalysis #annotate #analysis 

Literary companion 

Contains fifteen essays that examine various aspects of the novel "The Red Pony," covering major themes, characters, narrative structure and style, and film adaptations; and includes biographical information about author John Steinbeck.

Readings on "The Red Pony"

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Harold Bloom

I Am Fire and Air

From Harold Bloom, one of the greatest Shakespeare scholars of our time, comes an intimate, wise, deeply compelling portrait of Cleopatra--one of the Bard's most riveting and memorable female characters.

Cleopatra is one of the most famous women in history--and thanks to Shakespeare, one of the most intriguing personalities in literature. She is lover of Marc Antony, defender of Egypt, and, perhaps most enduringly, a champion of life. Cleopatra is supremely vexing, tragic, and complex. She has fascinated readers and audiences for centuries and has been played by the greatest actresses of their time, from Elizabeth Taylor to Vivien Leigh to Janet Suzman to Judi Dench.

Award-winning writer and beloved professor Harold Bloom writes about Cleopatra with wisdom, joy, exuberance, and compassion. He also explores his own personal relationship to the character: Just as we encounter one Anna Karenina or Jay Gatsby when we are in high school and college and another when we are adults, Bloom explains his shifting understanding of Cleopatra over the course of his own lifetime. The book becomes an extraordinarily moving argument for literature as a path to and a measure of our own humanity.

Bloom is mesmerizing in the classroom, wrestling with the often tragic choices Shakespeare's characters make. With Cleopatra, he delivers exhilarating clarity and invites us to look at this character as a flawed human who might be living in our world. The result is an invaluable resource from our greatest literary critic.

Cleopatra

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The Strategies of Evil

From one of the greatest Shakespeare scholars of our time, Harold Bloom presents Othello’s Iago, perhaps the Bard’s most compelling villain—the fourth in a series of five short books about the great playwright’s most significant personalities. In all of literature, few antagonists have displayed the ruthless cunning and unscrupulous deceit of Iago, the antagonist to Othello. Often described as Machiavellian, Iago is a fascinating psychological specimen: at once a shrewd expert of the human mind and yet, himself a deeply troubled man. One of Shakespeare’s most provocative and culturally relevant plays, Othello is widely studied for its complex and enduring themes of race and racism, love, trust, betrayal, and repentance. It remains widely performed across professional and community theatre alike and has been the source for many film and literary adaptations. Now award-winning writer and beloved professor Harold Bloom investigates Iago’s motives and unthinkable actions with razor-sharp insight, agility, and compassion. Why and how does Iago uses fake news to destroy Othello and several other characters in his path? What can Othello tell us about racism? Bloom is mesmerizing in the classroom, treating Shakespeare’s characters like people he has known all his life. He delivers that kind of exhilarating intimacy and clarity in these pages, writing about his shifting understanding—over the course of his own lifetime—of this endlessly compelling figure, so that Iago also becomes an extraordinarily moving argument for literature as a path to and a measure of our humanity. This is a provocative study for our time.

Iago

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A Dagger of the Mind

From the greatest Shakespeare scholar of our time, comes a portrait of Macbeth, one of William Shakespeare’s most complex and compelling anti-heroes—the final volume in a series of five short books about the great playwright’s most significant personalities: Falstaff, Cleopatra, Lear, Iago, Macbeth. From the ambitious and mad titular character to his devilish wife Lady Macbeth to the moral and noble Banquo to the mysterious Three Witches, Macbeth is one of William Shakespeare’s more brilliantly populated plays and remains among the most widely read, performed in innovative productions set in a vast array of times and locations, from Nazi Germany to Revolutionary Cuba. Macbeth is a distinguished warrior hero, who over the course of the play, transforms into a brutal, murderous villain and pays an extraordinary price for committing an evil act. A man consumed with ambition and self-doubt, Macbeth is one of Shakespeare’s most vital meditations on the dangerous corners of the human imagination. Award-winning writer and beloved professor Harold Bloom investigates Macbeth’s interiority and unthinkable actions with razor-sharp insight, agility, and compassion. He also explores his own personal relationship to the character: Just as we encounter one Anna Karenina or Jay Gatsby when we are seventeen and another when we are forty, Bloom writes about his shifting understanding—over the course of his own lifetime—of this endlessly compelling figure, so that the book also becomes an extraordinarily moving argument for literature as a path to and a measure of our humanity. Bloom is mesmerizing in the classroom, wrestling with the often tragic choices Shakespeare’s characters make. He delivers that kind of exhilarating intimacy and clarity in Macbeth, the final book in an essential series.

Macbeth

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Eric Hoffer

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Oregon

Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

The True Believer

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What does a person’s hand writing tell us about his personality? How does a trained graphologist analyze a writing sample? ￼ what signs indicate sickness rather than health? An aggressive character rather than a passive one? ￼Creativity? Egotism? A generous spirit? ￼
These questions and many more are answered in this intriguing and authoritative introduction to the science of graphology. ￼ Huntington Hartford — internationally known businessman, patron of the arts, and founder of The Handwriting Institute, Inc. — draws upon his own research, as well as the writings of many other authorities in the field, to examine handwriting’s basic elements and their significance. ￼
Each important factor is illustrated, usually with samples from the famous and infamous of history, ￼ and examined in detail. Individual chapters are devoted to rhythm; connective forms; speed; pressure; spacing, width, size; slant; capitals and signatures; the small letters; beginning strokes; the small “g,” “d,” and “f.”
In addition, there is a concise history of the development of graphology and its long struggle for scientific acceptance, along with a survey of its practical applications, such as diagnosing serious illnesses, treating mental and emotional disorders, detecting potential criminals, and evaluating present and prospective employees. Finally, Mr. Hartford offers brief graphological biographies of 40 prominent individuals who have given him samples of their writing. ￼
Throughout the book, Mr. Hartford combines clarity with thoroughness, writing in language a layman can follow, yet never slighting the fascinating complexities of this uniquely challenging and uniquely informative science. ￼

An informed introduction to the science of graphology: its history, techniques, and application.

You Are What You Write

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And What You Can Learn from Their Mistakes

Identifies companies that made critical business mistakes that resulted in their downfalls soon after receiving recognition as successful empires, inviting corporate leaders to learn from the examples of others in order to avoid common vulnerabilities. Reprint.

Why Smart Executives Fail

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Minnesota

The Moor of Venice

A discussion of the sources and historical background of the play accompanies the text and critical commentaries

Othello

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Joan Magretta

Indiana

The Essential Guide to Competition and Strategy

A guide to Michael Porters thinking on competition and strategy, classic and current.

Understanding Michael Porter

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#paperback #film #essays #critics #analysis #filmschool #directing #performing 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

New Perspectives

Clint Eastwood Actor and Director

Sigmund Freud

James Strachey

Peter Gay

Lightly tanned pages. Only markings pictured.

North Carolina

The question he addresses here is, What are the emotional bonds that hold collective entities, such as an army and a church, together? It is a fruitful question, and Freud offers some interesting answers. But Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego stands chiefly as an invitation to further psychoanalytic exploration.

Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego

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A Primer of Freudian Psychology

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Louisiana

Guide to Analysis of Language Transcripts

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Steven D. Levitt

Stephen J. Dubner

Iowa

The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain

The New York Times bestselling Freakonomics changed the way we see the world, exposing the hidden side of just about everything. Then came SuperFreakonomics, a documentary film, an award-winning podcast, and more. Now, with Think Like a Freak, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner have written their most revolutionary book yet. With their trademark blend of captivating storytelling and unconventional analysis, they take us inside their thought process and teach us all to think a bit more productively, more creatively, more rationally—to think, that is, like a Freak. Levitt and Dubner offer a blueprint for an entirely new way to solve problems, whether your interest lies in minor lifehacks or major global reforms. As always, no topic is off-limits. They range from business to philanthropy to sports to politics, all with the goal of retraining your brain. Along the way, you’ll learn the secrets of a Japanese hot-dog-eating champion, the reason an Australian doctor swallowed a batch of dangerous bacteria, and why Nigerian e-mail scammers make a point of saying they’re from Nigeria. Some of the steps toward thinking like a Freak: First, put away your moral compass—because it’s hard to see a problem clearly if you’ve already decided what to do about it. Learn to say “I don’t know”—for until you can admit what you don’t yet know, it’s virtually impossible to learn what you need to. Think like a child—because you’ll come up with better ideas and ask better questions. Take a master class in incentives—because for better or worse, incentives rule our world. Learn to persuade people who don’t want to be persuaded—because being right is rarely enough to carry the day. Learn to appreciate the upside of quitting—because you can’t solve tomorrow’s problem if you aren’t willing to abandon today’s dud. Levitt and Dubner plainly see the world like no one else. Now you can too. Never before have such iconoclastic thinkers been so revealing—and so much fun to read.

Think Like a Freak

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Florida

A Novel

The Dante Club

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Germaine Greer

Germaine Greer examines Shakepeare's plays in detail, showing how he dramatized moral and intellectual issues in such a way that his audience became dazzlingly aware of an imaginative dimension to daily life. She argues that as long as Shakespeare's work remains central to English cultural life, it will retain the values which make it unique in the world.

Shakespeare: a Very Short Introduction

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California

The ethnographic interview

I use this to teach the inaccuracies of childrens "historical" fiction.  This book is NOT accurate but great to analyze. 

Inaccurate "history"

The First Thanksgiving Day A Counting Story 

Arthur Asa Berger

Business & Economics

Providing concise explanations of four perspectives on media analysis - semiological, psychoanalytical, sociological and Marxist - and demonstrating their application, this second edition will help students to understand crucial concepts.

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John Tresch

The Reason for the Darkness of the Night

Russell Grant

The illustrated dream dictionary

David B. Agus

A Short Guide to a Long Life

Brian Kenny

Ahead of the Curve

Harold Bloom (Editor, Introduction by)

Vergil's Aeneid

Clarice Swisher

Readings on "The Red Pony"

Harold Bloom

Cleopatra

Harold Bloom

Iago

Harold Bloom

Macbeth

Eric Hoffer

The True Believer

Huntington Hartford

You Are What You Write

Sydney Finkelstein

Why Smart Executives Fail

William Shakespeare; Alvin B. Kernan (Contribution by)

Othello

Joan Magretta

Understanding Michael Porter

Leonard Engel

Clint Eastwood Actor and Director

Sigmund Freud; James Strachey; Peter Gay

Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego

Calvin S. Hall

A Primer of Freudian Psychology

Kristine S. Retherford

Guide to Analysis of Language Transcripts

Steven D. Levitt; Stephen J. Dubner

Think Like a Freak

Matthew Pearl

The Dante Club

Germaine Greer

Shakespeare: a Very Short Introduction

James P. Spradley

The ethnographic interview

Laura krauss Melmed and Mark Buehner

The First Thanksgiving Day A Counting Story

Arthur Asa Berger

Media Analysis Techniques