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1.
No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories(Hardcover (Cloth))
by
July, Miranda
Format: Hardcover (Cloth)
Price:
$23.00
Published: Scribner Book Company, 2007
Inventory Status: On Our Shelves Now
Award-winning filmmaker and performing artist Miranda July brings her extraordinary talents to the page in a startling, sexy, and tender collection. In these stories, July gives the most seemingly insignificant moments a sly potency. A benign encounter, a misunderstanding, a shy revelation can reconfigure the world. Her characters engage awkwardly -- they are sometimes too remote, sometimes too intimate. With great compassion and generosity, July reveals their idiosyncrasies and the odd logic and longing that govern their lives. "No One Belongs Here More Than You" is a stunning debut, the work of a writer with a spectacularly original and compelling voice.
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Stoner
(New York Review Books Classics)(Trade Paperback)
by
Williams, John,
McGahern, John
Format: Trade Paperback
Price:
$14.95
Published: New York Review of Books, 2006
Inventory Status: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar’ s life, so different from the hardscrabble existence he has known. And yet as the years pass, Stoner encounters a succession of disappointments: marriage into a “ proper” family estranges him from his parents; his career is stymied; his wife and daughter turn coldly away from him; a transforming experience of new love ends under threat of scandal. Driven ever deeper within himself, Stoner rediscovers the stoic silence of his forebears and confronts an essential solitude.
John Williams’ s luminous and deeply moving novel is a work of quiet perfection. William Stoner emerges from it not only as an archetypal American, but as an unlikely existential hero, standing, like a figure in a painting by Edward Hopper, in stark relief against an unforgiving world.
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The Janissary Tree(Trade Paperback)
by
Goodwin, Jason
Format: Trade Paperback
Price:
$14.00
Published: Picador USA, 2007
Inventory Status: On Our Shelves Now
Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel It is 1836. Europe is modernizing and the Ottoman Empire must follow suit. But just before the sultan announces sweeping changes, a wave of murders threatens the fragile balance of power in his court. Who is behind them? Only one intelligence agent can be trusted to find out: Yashim, a man both brilliant and near-invisible in this world, an investigator who can walk with ease in the great halls of the empire, in its streets, and even within its harems--because, of course, Yashim is a eunuch. His investigation points to the Janissaries, who, for four hundred years were the empire's elite soldiers. Crushed by the sultan, could they now be staging a brutal comeback? And can they be stopped without throwing Istanbul into political chaos?
This first book in the Investigator Yashim series is a richly entertaining tale, full of exotic history and intrigue.
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The Zurau Aphorisms of Franz Kafka(Trade Paperback)
by
Kafka, Franz
Format: Trade Paperback
Price:
$15.95
Published: Schocken Books, 2006
Inventory Status: On Our Shelves Now
The essential philosophical writings of one of the twentieth century's most influential writers are now gathered into a single volume with an introduction and afterword by the celebrated writer and publisher Roberto Calasso.
Illness set him free to write a series of philosophical fragments: some narratives, some single images, some parables. These "aphorisms" appeared, sometimes with a few words changed, in other writings-some of them as posthumous fragments published only after Kafka's death in 1924. While working on "K.," his major book on Kafka, in the Bodleian Library, Roberto Calasso realized that the Zurau aphorisms, each written on a separate slip of very thin paper, numbered but unbound, represented something unique in Kafka's opus-a work whose form he had created simultaneously with its content.
The notebooks, freshly translated and laid out as Kafka had intended, are a distillation of Kafka at his most powerful and enigmatic. This lost jewel provides the reader with a fresh perspective on the collective work of a genius.
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After Dark(Hardcover (Cloth))
by
Murakami, Haruki,
Rubin, Jay
Format: Hardcover (Cloth)
Price:
$22.95
Published: Knopf Publishing Group, 2007
Inventory Status: On Our Shelves Now
A short, sleek novel of encounters set in Tokyo during the witching hours between midnight and dawn, and every bit as gripping as Haruki Murakami’ s masterworks "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" and "Kafka on the Shore."
At its center are two sisters— Eri, a fashion model slumbering her way into oblivion, and Mari, a young student soon led from solitary reading at an anonymous Denny’ s toward people whose lives are radically alien to her own: a jazz trombonist who claims they’ ve met before, a burly female “ love hotel” manager and her maid staff, and a Chinese prostitute savagely brutalized by a businessman. These “ night people” are haunted by secrets and needs that draw them together more powerfully than the differing circumstances that might keep them apart, and it soon becomes clear that Eri’ s slumber— mysteriously tied to the businessman plagued by the mark of his crime— will either restore or annihilate her.
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After Dark "moves from mesmerizing drama to metaphysical speculation, interweaving time and space as well as memory and perspective into a seamless exploration of human agency— the interplay between self-expression and empathy, between the power of observation and the scope of compassion and love. Murakami’ s trademark humor, psychological insight, and grasp of spirit and morality are here distilled with an extraordinary, harmonious mastery.
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The Politics of Aesthetics: The Distribution of the Sensible(Trade Paperback)
by
Ranciere, Jacques
Format: Trade Paperback
Price:
$16.95
Published: Continuum International Publishing Group, 2006
Inventory Status: On Our Shelves Now
Aiming to rethink the relation between art and politics, this title seeks to reclaim aesthetics from its contemporary narrow confines to reveal its significance for contemporary experience. It ranges across art and politics, the uses and abuses of modernity, the role of visual technologies, and the relationship between history and fiction.
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A Guide to Philosophy in Six Hours and Fifteen Minutes(Trade Paperback)
by
Gombrowicz, Witold,
Ivry, Benjamin
Format: Trade Paperback
Price:
$15.00
Published: Yale University Press, 2007
Inventory Status: On Our Shelves Now
In this inspired book, the eminent Polish author Witold Gombrowicz reflects on seven great philosophers. He discusses Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Sartre, and Heidegger in six “ one-hour” essays, then allows Marx a short “ fifteen-minute” piece.
“ Brilliantly, savagely funny. . . . Gombrowicz is that rare writer in whom the weight of a powerful intellect is leavened by both linguistic daring and an infectious sense of whimsy.” — Benjamin Paloff, "The Nation
"“ This book] is like the course in philosophy you wish you had taken.” — David Lehman, "Bloomberg News
""Vintage Gombrowicz: concise, sober, lucid, and radically agnostic."— Ewa Thompson, "Slavic and East European Journal
"“ A must for every reader of Gombrowicz.” — Denis Hollier, New York University
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8.
Seeker(Mass Market Paperback)
by
McDevitt, Jack
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Price:
$7.99
Published: Ace Books, 2006
Inventory Status: On Our Shelves Now
Alex Benedict and his assistant, Chase Kolpath, return to solve a riddle that leads them to the edge of known space in this tale from a multiple Nebula Award-nominee.
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The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature(Trade Paperback)
Format: Trade Paperback
Price:
$14.95
Published: New Press, 2006
Inventory Status: On Our Shelves Now
Two of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers debate a perennial question.
In 1971, at the height of the Vietnam War and at a time of great political and social instability, two of the world's leading intellectuals, Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault, were invited by Dutch philosopher Fons Edlers to debate an age-old question: is there such a thing as "innate" human nature independent of our experiences and external influences?
The resulting dialogue is one of the most original, provocative, and spontaneous exchanges to have occurred between contemporary philosophers, and above all serves as a concise introduction to their basic theories. What begins as a philosophical argument rooted in linguistics (Chomsky) and the theory of knowledge (Foucault), soon evolves into a broader discussion encompassing a wide range of topics, from science, history, and behaviorism to creativity, freedom, and the struggle for justice in the realm of politics.
In addition to the debate itself, this volume features a newly written introduction by noted Foucault scholar John Rajchman and includes additional text by Noam Chomsky.
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