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1 Orientalism

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Orientalism


Edward W. Said

A provocative critique of Western attitudes about the Orient, this history examines the ways in which the West has discovered, invented, and sought to control ...
2 Rumi: The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing

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Rumi: The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing


Coleman Barks

Perfect for Valentine's Day, a lavish collection of poems from the highly regardedSufi mystic celebrates the joy and wonder of love.
3 E. E. Cummings: Complete Poems, 1904-1962 (Revised, Corrected, and Expanded Edition)

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E. E. Cummings: Complete Poems, 1904-1962 (Revised, Corrected, and Expanded Edition)


E. E. Cummings

A collection of the modern poet's work shows his use of satire and sentiment inunconventional verse styles
4 Vegan Family Favorites: Tasty And Satisfying Recipes Even Your Kids Will Love

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Vegan Family Favorites: Tasty And Satisfying Recipes Even Your Kids Will Love


Erin Pavlina

Hundreds of vegan recipes created and compiled by Erin Pavlina, Editor of VegFamily.com magazine. Will appeal to vegans and those interested in eating an ...
5 Ecstasy

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Ecstasy


Irvine Welsh

Three stories explore different aspects of love, with a bedridden romance writer exacting revenge on her husband, a flawed beauty trying to get back at the man ...
6 Sex, Drugs & Magick: A Journey Beyond Limits

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Sex, Drugs & Magick: A Journey Beyond Limits


Robert Anton Wilson

All of this is accomplished in an easy spirit of author-reader camaraderie.
7 There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in The Other America

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There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in The Other America


Alex Kotlowitz

This is the moving and powerful account of two remarkable boys struggling to survive in Chicago's Henry Horner Homes, a public housing complex disfigured by crime and neglect.
8 Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us

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Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us


Robert D. Hare PhD

The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us Robert D. Hare. too long in the sun, can be pleasant at first but painful in the end. If you have a bit of larceny in your soul you are particularly vulnerable to schemes that are a bit shady.
9 The Raven Ring: A Lyra Novel (Tor Fantasy)

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The Raven Ring: A Lyra Novel (Tor Fantasy)


Patricia C. Wrede

A proud young mountain woman must leave her stronghold to travel to the city to retrievethe Raven Ring, an ancient family heirloom that her mother left behind ...
10 Love in the Time of Cholera

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Love in the Time of Cholera


Gabriel Garcia M%E1rquez

11 The Game

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The Game


Ken Dryden

This commemorative edition marks the 20th anniversary of The Game's originalpublication.
12 500 Treasured Country Recipes from Martha Storey and Friends : Mouthwatering, Time-Honored, Tried-and-True, Handed-Down, Soul-Satisfying Dishes

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500 Treasured Country Recipes from Martha Storey and Friends : Mouthwatering, Time-Honored, Tried-and-True, Handed-Down, Soul-Satisfying Dishes


Martha Storey

(Marcia Adams, Author of More Recipes From Quilt Country and Producer of PBS's Marcia Adams' Kitchen) Martha Storey, country-living publisher for more than ...
13 Brahms (Life&Times)

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Brahms (Life&Times)


Hans A. Neunzig

A biography of the nineteenth-century German composer of many works for individual instruments, voices, orchestras, and choirs, including "Wiegenlied," or ...
14 Quick-Fix Vegetarian: Healthy Home-Cooked Meals in 30 Minutes or Less

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Quick-Fix Vegetarian: Healthy Home-Cooked Meals in 30 Minutes or Less


Robin Robertson

Quick-Fix Vegetarian by Robin Robertson recently was named Best New Cookbook by PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
15 Cunt: A Declaration of Independence  Expanded and Updated Second Edition

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Cunt: A Declaration of Independence Expanded and Updated Second Edition


Inga Muscio

This edition is fully revised with updated resources, a new foreword from sexual pioneerBetty Dodson, and a new afterword by the author. “Bright, sharp, ...
16 Last Exit to Brooklyn. Hubert Selby, JR (French Edition)

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Last Exit to Brooklyn. Hubert Selby, JR (French Edition)


Hubert, JR. Selby

Described by various reviewers as hellish and obscene, it tells the stories of New Yorkers who at every turn confront the worst excesses in human nature. Yet there are moments of exquisite tenderness in these troubled lives.
17 Being Right Is Not Enough: What Progressives Must Learn from Conservative Success

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Being Right Is Not Enough: What Progressives Must Learn from Conservative Success


Paul Waldman

18 The Autobiography of Malcolm X (As told to Alex Haley)

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The Autobiography of Malcolm X (As told to Alex Haley)


Alex Haley

Om den sorte, muslimske, politiske lederskikkelse Malcolm X (1925-1965), der efter en fattig barndom og en ungdom med kriminalitet kæmpede for ophævelse af ...
19 The Dispossessed

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The Dispossessed


Ursula K. Le Guin

Unwilling to accept that his anarchist world must be separated from the rest of thecivilized universe, Shevek, a brilliant physicist, risks his life by ...
20 Uncover a Frog (Uncover Books)

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Uncover a Frog (Uncover Books)


Aimee Bakken

There are poisonous frogs, hairy frogs, singing frogs, albino frogs, and even glass frogs with translucent skin you can actually see through! Uncover the ...
21 Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger

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Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger


Ronald J. Sider

Can we grasp the awful truth that thirty thousand children die every day of hunger and preventable diseases?2 To help us imagine what poverty means, ...
22 50 Awesome Ways Kids Can Help Animals: Fun and Easy Ways to Be a Kind Kid (Alex Toys)

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50 Awesome Ways Kids Can Help Animals: Fun and Easy Ways to Be a Kind Kid (Alex Toys)


Ingrid Newkirk

Written by the founder of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), this fun and innovative guide explains how children can help protect almost ...
23 The Dictators: Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia

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The Dictators: Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia


Richard Overy

24 Me and Her, Me and Him

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Me and Her, Me and Him


Shontaine

In inner-city Philly, Me and Her, Me and Him is a story about two young Black adults in a tale of family, parenthood, and love. They share the turmoil of ...
25 Screwed: The Undeclared War against the Middle Class and What We Can Do About It

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Screwed: The Undeclared War against the Middle Class and What We Can Do About It


Thom Hartmann

National radio host Hartmann takes on the issues surrounding the assault on the middle class and discusses what can be done to counteract it.
26 Days and Nights of Love and War

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Days and Nights of Love and War


Eduardo Galeano

"Days and Nights succeeds not only because of its socio-political authenticity and lyrical style but because of its interweaving of anger and tenderness, ...
27 The navigator

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The navigator


Morris L West

SIX Next morning they woke early, to a lowering sky and an oily sea, and a windless hush that presaged a big blow. ...
28 Dreams

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Dreams


Derrick Jensen

29 Super Natural Cooking: Five Delicious Ways to Incorporate Whole and Natural Foods into Your Cooking

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Super Natural Cooking: Five Delicious Ways to Incorporate Whole and Natural Foods into Your Cooking


Heidi Swanson

A stylish and creative introduction to cooking with nutritional superfoods features eighty healthful and delicious recipes that emphasize whole grains, natural ...
30 I and Thou (Continuum Impacts)

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I and Thou (Continuum Impacts)


Martin Buber

This volume should provide a new basis for all future discussions of Buber.
31 Man's Search for Meaning

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Man's Search for Meaning


Viktor E. Frankl

Based on his experiences in Nazi death camps, including Auschwitz, from 1942 to 1945,Frankl's timeless memoir and meditation on finding meaning in the midst of ...
32 Liberation Theology

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Liberation Theology


Robert McAfee Brown

Brown explains and illuminates liberation theology for North American readers who may have no previous knowledge of this recent dynamic Christian movement.
33 The Rivers North of the Future: The Testament of Ivan Illich

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The Rivers North of the Future: The Testament of Ivan Illich


David Cayley

I believe that what Illich says in the following pages completes and clarifies what he was ... remains a surprise, and could not exist as anything else. ...
34 The Greener Shore: A Novel of the Druids of Hibernia

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The Greener Shore: A Novel of the Druids of Hibernia


Morgan Llywelyn

Fleeing the destruction of the Sacred Grove by the invading Roman army, Ainvar the druid and the remnants of his clan flee Gaul to settle in Hibernia, where ...
35 A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)

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A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)


Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein

Two hundred and fifty-three archetypal patterns consisting of problem statements, discussions, illustrations, and solutions provide lay persons with a framework ...
36 Poetry as Insurgent Art

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Poetry as Insurgent Art


Lawrence Ferlinghetti

In this work, he offers--in prose--what poetry is, could be, and should be.
37 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring


J. R. R. Tolkien

The first volume of The Lord of the Rings, now featuring Tolkien's original unuseddust-jacket design.
38 Druids

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Druids


Morgan Llywelyn

Taken in by the chief druid of the Carnutes in Gaul, the Celt orphan Ainvar learns to master the druid mysteries of thought, healing, and magic, and discovers ...
39 Revolution!: South America and the Rise of the New Left

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Revolution!: South America and the Rise of the New Left


Nikolas Kozloff

40 Basic Wilderness Survival Skills

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Basic Wilderness Survival Skills


Bradford Angier

For every outdoors person, there may come a time when you will need to know how to stay alive in the backcountry. Author Bradford Angier and editor Lamar Underwood set these basic, crucial skills out of you in clear and concise pages.
41 Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel

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Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel


Kurt Vonnegut

Billy Pilgrim returns home from the Second World War only to be kidnapped by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore, who teach him that time is an eternal present
42 Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California's Natural Resources

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Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California's Natural Resources


M. Kat Anderson

"This is a highly significant--one might argue revolutionary--book.
43 The Uprising: An Unauthorized Tour of the Populist Revolt Scaring Wall Street and Washington

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The Uprising: An Unauthorized Tour of the Populist Revolt Scaring Wall Street and Washington


David Sirota

Examines a burgeoning movement among ordinary Americans from both the Left and the Right who are fed up with the gross mismanagement of American government and ...
44 The Unconscious Civilization

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The Unconscious Civilization


John Ralston Saul

John Ralston Saul argues that while Fascism was defeated in World War II, its"corporatist" doctrines powerfully influence our own society today.
45 Long Walk to Freedom

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Long Walk to Freedom


Nelson Mandela, Chris Van Wyk

To millions of people around the world, Nelson Mandela stands, as no other living figuredoes, for the triumph of dignity and hope over despair and hatred, of ...
46 Manchild in the Promised Land

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Manchild in the Promised Land


Claude Brown

This autobiographic novel, in print for more than 30 years, portrays the "lost" generation of African-Americans whose parents left the sharecropping lifestyle ...
47 Woman: An Intimate Geography

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Woman: An Intimate Geography


Natalie Angier

The Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist and author of Natural Obsessions explores the essence of what it means to be a womanin body and mindas she shares her ...
48 One in a Million

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One in a Million


Nicholas Read

It’s scary enough without the stories he hears about mysterious disappearances ofother dogs who have shared his situation.
49 Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton

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Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton


Bobby Seale

Every time I saw a paddy roll by in a car, I picked up one of the half-bricks, and threw it at the motherfuckers. I threw about half the bricks, ...
50 Chávez, Venezuela and the New Latin America: An interview with Hugo Chávez

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Chávez, Venezuela and the New Latin America: An interview with Hugo Chávez


Aleida Guevara, Hugo Chávez

"This book documents an encounter between Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, and Aleida Guevara, daughter of the legendary revolutionary Che Guevara and a ...
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