Liz's bookshelf: all en-US Thu, 09 Jan 2025 09:18:35 -0800 60 Liz's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Wool - Holston (Wool, #1) 12287209
Or you'll get what you wish for.]]> 56 Hugh Howey Liz 0 to-read, dystopia 4.14 2012 Wool - Holston (Wool, #1)
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]]> 101 Great American Poems 21686303 167 0486110265 Liz 4 poetry 4.08 1998 101 Great American Poems
author: The American Poetry and Literacy Project
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average rating: 4.08
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rating: 4
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]]> Tao Te Ching 20173569 Tao Te Ching, the esoteric but infinitely practical book written most probably in the sixth century B.C. by Lao Tsu, has been translated more frequently than any work except the Bible. This translation of the Chinese classic, which was first published twenty-five years ago, has sold more copies than any of the others. It offers the essence of each word and makes Lao Tsu's teaching immediate and alive.

The philosophy of Lao Tsu is simple: Accept what is in front of you without wanting the situation to be other than it is. Study the natural order of things and work with it rather than against it, for to try to change what is only sets up resistance. Nature provides everything without requiring payment or thanks, and also provides for all without discrimination—therefore let us present the same face to everyone and treat all men as equals, however they may behave. If we watch carefully, we will see that work proceeds more quickly and easily if we stop "trying," if we stop putting in so much extra effort, if we stop looking for results. In the clarity of a still and open mind, truth will be reflected. We will come to appreciate the original meaning of the word "understand," which means "to stand under." We serve whatever or whoever stands before us, without any thought for ourselves. Te—which may be translated as "virtue" or "strength"—lies always in Tao, or" natural law. In other words: Simply be.]]> 144 Lao Tzu 0060778075 Liz 5 religious-studies 4.48 -350 Tao Te Ching
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]]> Blindsight (Firefall, #1) 48484 Two months since the stars fell...

Two months since sixty-five thousand alien objects clenched around the Earth like a luminous fist, screaming to the heavens as the atmosphere burned them to ash. Two months since that moment of brief, bright surveillance by agents unknown.

Two months of silence while a world holds its breath.

Now some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune’s orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam. Whatever’s out there isn’t talking to us. It’s talking to some distant star, perhaps. Or perhaps to something closer, something en route.

So who do you send to force introductions on an intelligence with motives unknown, maybe unknowable? Who do you send to meet the alien when the alien doesn’t want to meet?

You send a linguist with multiple personalities, her brain surgically partitioned into separate, sentient processing cores. You send a biologist so radically interfaced with machinery that he sees X-rays and tastes ultrasound, so compromised by grafts and splices he no longer feels his own flesh. You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won’t be needed, and a fainter hope she’ll do any good if she is needed. You send a monster to command them all, an extinct hominid predator once called “vampire,� recalled from the grave with the voodoo of recombinant genetics and the blood of sociopaths. And you send a synthesist � an informational topologist with half his mind gone � as an interface between here and there, a conduit through which the Dead Center might hope to understand the Bleeding Edge.

You send them all to the edge of interstellar space, praying you can trust such freaks and retrofits with the fate of a world. You fear they may be more alien than the thing they’ve been sent to find.

But you’d give anything for that to be true, if you only knew what was waiting for them…]]> 384 Peter Watts 0765312182 Liz 0 to-read, science-fiction 4.01 2006 Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
author: Peter Watts
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]]> <![CDATA[Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection]]> 157981748 Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780593243916.

Who and what are supercommunicators? They're the people who can steer a conversation to a successful conclusion. They are able to talk about difficult topics without giving offence. They know how to make others feel at ease and share what they think. They're brilliant facilitators and decision-guiders. How do they do it?

In this groundbreaking book, Charles Duhigg unravels the secrets of the supercommunicators to reveal the art - and the science - of successful communication. He unpicks the different types of everyday conversation and pinpoints why some go smoothly while others swiftly fall apart. He reveals the conversational questions and gambits that bring people together. And he shows how even the most tricky of encounters can be turned around. In the process, he shows why a CIA operative was able to win over a reluctant spy, how a member of a jury got his fellow jurors to view an open-and-shut case differently, and what a doctor found they needed to do to engage with a vaccine sceptic.

Above all, he reveals the techniques we can all master to successfully connect with others, however tricky the circumstances. Packed with fascinating case studies and drawing on cutting-edge research, this book will change the way you think about what you say, and how you say it.]]> 320 Charles Duhigg Liz 0 4.00 2024 Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
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]]> <![CDATA[The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)]]> 40197832 This is the most current edition of ISBN: 0345339703 (ISBN13: 9780345339706).
The previous covers can be found there: 2012, 2007, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1993, 1987, 1986.

THE GREATEST FANTASY EPIC OF OUR TIME

The dark, fearsome Ringwraiths are searching for a Hobbit. Frodo Baggins knows that they are seeking him and the Ring he bears—the Ring of Power that will enable evil Sauron to destroy all that is good in Middle-earth. Now it is up to Frodo and his faithful servant, Sam, with a small band of companions, to carry the Ring to the one place it can be destroyed: Mount Doom, in the very center of Sauron’s realm.

--back cover]]> 458 J.R.R. Tolkien 0345339703 Liz 0 currently-reading 4.39 1954 The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
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]]> A Treatise on Human Nature 23507413 A Treatise on Human Nature, Scottish philosopher David Hume examines the psychological influences on human nature. Taking a naturalistic position, Hume posited that human nature is guided by desire rather than rational thought, and that humans could only have knowledge of those things that they themselves directly experienced.

Published in 1738, A Treatise on Human Nature is considered one of the most important philosophical works published, and it became highly influential on later moral philosophy because of Hume’s theory of free will as being determined by an individual’s own motivation.

HarperTorch brings great works of non-fiction and the dramatic arts to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperTorch collection to build your digital library.]]> 519 David Hume 1443438553 Liz 0 to-read 0.0 1739 A Treatise on Human Nature
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]]> <![CDATA[Riddles of Identity in Modern Times (A History of Private Life, #5)]]> 276216
--Reviewed by T. J. Knight in Choice, 29 (April 1992), p. 1282.]]> 640 Philippe Ariès 0674400046 Liz 0 to-read, european-history 3.95 1985 Riddles of Identity in Modern Times (A History of Private Life, #5)
author: Philippe Ariès
name: Liz
average rating: 3.95
book published: 1985
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]]> <![CDATA[Revelations of the Medieval World (A History of Private Life, #2)]]> 276217 688 Philippe Ariès 0674400011 Liz 5 european-history, half-read 4.01 1985 Revelations of the Medieval World (A History of Private Life, #2)
author: Philippe Ariès
name: Liz
average rating: 4.01
book published: 1985
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Lancelot: The Knight of the Cart (Chretien de Troyes Romances S)]]> 129898 254 Chrétien de Troyes 0300071213 Liz 0 to-read, poetry 3.65 1176 Lancelot: The Knight of the Cart (Chretien de Troyes Romances S)
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]]> <![CDATA[Leaves of Grass and Selected Prose]]> 6594651 0 Walt Whitman 0394309405 Liz 0 to-read, poetry 4.27 Leaves of Grass and Selected Prose
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]]> <![CDATA[The Other World: The Societies and Governments of the Moon]]> 10879435
The history of the novel itself is tragic. It was already being talked about five years before Cyrano’s death in 1655. In Cyrano’s last days he was cared for by a long-time friend, Henry Le Bret. Though a friend, Le Bret was also a pious curate, and he could not bring himself to publish L’Autre Monde as Cyrano had written it. Instead, Le Bret expurgated everything he found politically and philosophically incorrect � what we would find most interesting � and retitled the novel as a “comic story.� L’Autre Monde is the title Cyrano preferred. Fortunately, two original manuscripts survived: a German translation of the one in Munich was published in Dresden in 1910; a French edition of the Paris manuscript followed in 1921. Sadly, Cyrano’s sequel, Les États et empires du soleil, did not survive intact.

As a libertin (free-thinker), Cyrano was among the first and foremost of the 17th-century modernes: a vocal partisan of intellectual freedom at a time when all but the boldest found it safer to use many words to say little, and an exponent of progress in a conservative age.

He takes on almost everything: the church, pedants, law, the army, family life, sexuality and Aristotelian philosophers. His ideas place his novel in the genre of utopias and dystopias along with Rabelais� abbey of Thélème in Gargantua, Montaigne’s essay “On Cannibals,� Sir Thomas Moore’s Utopia, and many others. The novel can be read in many different ways, but Cyrano’s inventions and imaginary travels alone qualify the story as an early classic of science fiction.

Cyrano was to have many philosophical friends in the century to come. Among the most illustrious: Fontenelle (Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds), Montesquieu (Persian Letters), Voltaire (Candide, “Micromégas�), Diderot (Encyclopedia), not to mention Swift and his Gulliver’s Travels.

Misfortune denied Cyrano to his later contemporaries and successors. At least today he shows us that the current of liberal thought that stretches from the Renaissance through the Enlightenment was very much alive even in the age of Louis XIV’s absolute monarchy.]]> Cyrano de Bergerac Liz 0 4.00 1657 The Other World: The Societies and Governments of the Moon
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]]> Cat's Cradle 8699986 306 Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Liz 0 post-apocalyptic, to-read 4.17 1963 Cat's Cradle
author: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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average rating: 4.17
book published: 1963
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]]> Incandescence 2425528 The long-awaited new novel from Greg Egan! Hugo Award-winning author Egan returns to the field with Incandescence, a new novel of hard SF.

The Amalgam spans nearly the entire galaxy, and is composed of innumerable beings from a wild variety of races, some human or near it, some entirely other. The one place that they cannot go is the bulge, the bright, hot center of the galaxy. There dwell the Aloof, who for millions of years have deflected any and all attempts to communicate with or visit them. So when Rakesh is offered an opportunity to travel within their sphere, in search of a lost race, he cannot turn it down.

Roi is a member of that lost race, which is not only lost to the Amalgam, but lost to itself. In their world, there is but toil, and history and science are luxuries that they can ill afford.

Rakesh's journey will take him across millennia and light years. Roi's will take her across vistas of learning and discovery just as vast.]]> 300 Greg Egan 0575081627 Liz 0 science-fiction 3.68 2008 Incandescence
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name: Liz
average rating: 3.68
book published: 2008
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]]> Refactoring UI 43190966 252 Adam Wathan Liz 0 to-read 4.66 Refactoring UI
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]]> Waldo and Magic, Inc 121586
But Waldo had little reason to want to help the rest of humanity � until he learned that the solution to their problems also held the key to his own...

Magic, Inc.
Under the guise of an agency for magicians, Magic, Inc. was systematically squeezing out the small independent magicians. Then one businessman stood firm. With the help of an Oxford-educated African shaman and a little old lady adept at black magic, he went straight to the demons of Hell to resolve the problem � once and for all!]]> 304 Robert A. Heinlein 0450397300 Liz 0 3.88 1940 Waldo and Magic, Inc
author: Robert A. Heinlein
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average rating: 3.88
book published: 1940
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]]> <![CDATA[A Medicine for Melancholy and Other Stories]]> 91885 1 � In a Season of Calm Weather � (1957) � short story by Ray Bradbury
7 � A Medicine for Melancholy � (1959) � short story by Ray Bradbury
16 � The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit � non-genre � (1958) � short story by Ray Bradbury
39 � Fever Dream � (1948) � short story by Ray Bradbury
46 � The Marriage Mender � (1954) � short story by Ray Bradbury
51 � The Town Where No One Got Off � (1958) � short story by Ray Bradbury
59 � A Scent of Sarsaparilla � (1953) � short story by Ray Bradbury
66 � The Headpiece � (1958) � short story by Ray Bradbury
74 � The First Night of Lent � [The Irish Stories] � (1956) � short story by Ray Bradbury
81 � The Time of Going Away � (1956) � short story by Ray Bradbury
88 � All Summer in a Day � (1954) � short story by Ray Bradbury
94 � The Gift � (1952) � short story by Ray Bradbury
97 � The Great Collision of Monday Last � [The Irish Stories] � (1958) � short story by Ray Bradbury
104 � The Little Mice � (1955) � short story by Ray Bradbury
109 � The Shore Line at Sunset � (1959) � short story by Ray Bradbury (variant of The Shoreline at Sunset)
118 � The Day It Rained Forever � (1957) � short story by Ray Bradbury
129 � Chrysalis � (1946) � short story by Ray Bradbury
150 � Pillar of Fire � (1948) � novelette by Ray Bradbury
188 � Zero Hour � (1947) � short story by Ray Bradbury
198 � The Man � (1949) � short story by Ray Bradbury
210 � Time in Thy Flight � (1953) � short story by Ray Bradbury
215 � The Pedestrian � (1951) � short story by Ray Bradbury
220 � Hail and Farewell � (1953) � short story by Ray Bradbury
228 � Invisible Boy � (1945) � short story by Ray Bradbury
237 � Come Into My Cellar � (1962) � short story by Ray Bradbury (variant of Boys! Raise Giant Mushrooms in Your Cellar!)
254 � The Million-Year Picnic � [The Martian Chronicles] � (1946) � short story by Ray Bradbury (variant of The Million Year Picnic)
264 � The Screaming Woman � [Green Town] � (1951) � short story by Ray Bradbury
278 � The Smile � (1952) � short story by Ray Bradbury
284 � Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed � (1949) � short story by Ray Bradbury
299 � The Trolley � [Dandelion Wine] � (1955) � short story by Ray Bradbury
303 � Icarus Montgolfier Wright � (1956) � short story by Ray Bradbury]]> 307 Ray Bradbury Liz 0 4.16 1998 A Medicine for Melancholy and Other Stories
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average rating: 4.16
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]]> Eclipse Two 20939865
Contents
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom � (2008) � by David Moles
Elevator � (2008) � by Nancy Kress
Ex Cathedra � (2008) � by Tony Daniel
Exhalation � (2008) � by Ted Chiang
Fury � (2008) � by Alastair Reynolds
Invisible Empire of Ascending Light � (2008) � by Ken Scholes
Michael Laurits Is: DROWNING � (2008) � by Paul Cornell
Night of the Firstlings � (2008) � by Margo Lanagan
Skin Deep � (2008) � by Richard Parks
The Hero � [Virga] � (2008) � by Karl Schroeder
The Illustrated Biography of Lord Grimm � (2008) � by Daryl Gregory
The Rabbi's Hobby � (2008) � by Peter S. Beagle
The Seventh Expression of the Robot General � (2008) � by Jeffrey Ford
Truth Window: A Tale of the Bedlam Rose � (Wormwood / Nobodoi) � (2008) � by Terry Dowling
Turing's Apples � (2008) � by Stephen Baxter]]> 305 Jonathan Strahan Liz 0 to-read, short-stories 4.22 2008 Eclipse Two
author: Jonathan Strahan
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average rating: 4.22
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]]> Chomsky On Anarchism 12618
Not, that is, until Chomsky on Anarchism, a groundbreaking new book that shows a different side of this best-selling author: the anarchist principles that have guided him since he was a teenager. This collection of Chomsky’s essays and inter-views includes numerous pieces that have never been published before, as well as rare material that first saw the light of day in hard-to-find pamphlets and anarchist periodicals. Taken together, they paint a fresh picture of Chomsky, showing his lifelong involvement with the anarchist community, his constant commitment to nonhierarchical models of political organization and his hopes for a future world without rulers.

For anyone who’s been touched by Chomsky’s trenchant analysis of our current situation, as well as anyone looking for an intelligent and coherent discussion of anarchism itself, look no further than Chomsky on Anarchism.

Noam Chomsky is one of the world’s leading intellectuals, the father of modern linguistics, an outspoken media and foreign policy critic and tireless activist. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts.]]> 241 Noam Chomsky 1904859208 Liz 0 to-read, political-science 3.93 2005 Chomsky On Anarchism
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average rating: 3.93
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]]> <![CDATA[The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time, #1)]]> 228665
Moiraine Damodred arrives in Emond’s Field on a quest to find the one prophesized to stand against The Dark One, a malicious entity sowing the seeds of chaos and destruction. When a vicious band of half-men, half beasts invade the village seeking their master’s enemy, Moiraine persuades Rand al’Thor and his friends to leave their home and enter a larger unimaginable world filled with dangers waiting in the shadows and in the light.]]> 800 Robert Jordan 0812511816 Liz 0 to-read, fantasy 4.19 1990 The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time, #1)
author: Robert Jordan
name: Liz
average rating: 4.19
book published: 1990
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]]> <![CDATA[Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)]]> 112537 243 Arthur C. Clarke 1857231589 Liz 0 to-read, science-fiction 4.12 1973 Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
author: Arthur C. Clarke
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average rating: 4.12
book published: 1973
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]]> <![CDATA[Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia]]> 97401
A People's Tragedy, wrote Eric Hobsbawm, did "more to help us understand the Russian Revolution than any other book I know." Now, in Natasha's Dance, internationally renowned historian Orlando Figes does the same for Russian culture, summoning the myriad elements that formed a nation and held it together.

Beginning in the eighteenth century with the building of St. Petersburg-a "window on the West"-and culminating with the challenges posed to Russian identity by the Soviet regime, Figes examines how writers, artists, and musicians grappled with the idea of Russia itself-its character, spiritual essence, and destiny. He skillfully interweaves the great works-by Dostoevsky, Stravinsky, and Chagall-with folk embroidery, peasant songs, religious icons, and all the customs of daily life, from food and drink to bathing habits to beliefs about the spirit world. Figes's characters range high and low: the revered Tolstoy, who left his deathbed to search for the Kingdom of God, as well as the serf girl Praskovya, who became Russian opera's first superstar and shocked society by becoming her owner's wife.

Like the European-schooled countess Natasha performing an impromptu folk dance in Tolstoy's War and Peace, the spirit of "Russianness" is revealed by Figes as rich and uplifting, complex and contradictory-a powerful force that unified a vast country and proved more lasting than any Russian ruler or state.]]> 729 Orlando Figes 0312421958 Liz 0 to-read, eastern-euro-history 4.23 2002 Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia
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]]> <![CDATA[Life in a Medieval City (Medieval Life)]]> 100352 Life in a Medieval City evokes every aspect of city life in the Middle Ages by depicting in detail what it was like to live in a prosperous city of Northwest Europe in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The time is A.D. 1250 and the city is Troyes, capital of the county of Champagne and site of two of the cycle Champagne Fairs—the “Hot Fair� in August and the “Cold Fair� in December. European civilization has emerged from the Dark Ages and is in the midst of a commercial revolution. Merchants and money men from all over Europe gather at Troyes to buy, sell, borrow, and lend, creating a bustling market center typical of the feudal era. As the Gieses take us through the day-to-day life of burghers, we learn the customs and habits of lords and serfs, how financial transactions were conducted, how medieval cities were governed, and what life was really like for a wide range of people.

For serious students of the medieval era and anyone wishing to learn more about this fascinating period, Life in a Medieval City remains a timeless work of popular medieval scholarship.]]> 274 Frances Gies 0060908807 Liz 0 to-read, european-history 3.83 1969 Life in a Medieval City (Medieval Life)
author: Frances Gies
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average rating: 3.83
book published: 1969
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]]> Terry Jones' Medieval Lives 20645 224 Terry Jones 0563522755 Liz 0 to-read, european-history 4.01 2004 Terry Jones' Medieval Lives
author: Terry Jones
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average rating: 4.01
book published: 2004
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]]> <![CDATA[Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350]]> 171369
Janet Abu-Lughod's solution to this problem, in this highly influential work, is that Before European Hegemony, a predominantly insular, agrarian world was dominated by groups of mercantile city-states that traded with one another on equal terms across a series of interlocking areas of influence. In this reading of history, China and Japan, the kingdoms of India, Muslim caliphates, the Byzantine Empire and European maritime republics alike enjoyed no absolute dominance over their neighbours and commercial partners - and the egalitarian international trading network that they built endured until European advances in weaponry and ship types introduced radical instability to the system.

Abu-Lughod's portrait of a more balanced world is a masterpiece of synthesis driven by one highly creative idea: her world system of interlocking spheres of influence quite literally connected masses of evidence together in new ways. A triumph of fine critical thinking.]]> 464 Janet L. Abu-Lughod 0195067746 Liz 0 4.05 1989 Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350
author: Janet L. Abu-Lughod
name: Liz
average rating: 4.05
book published: 1989
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]]> <![CDATA[The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century]]> 6555228
In this compelling volume, Medieval history expert Mortimer (The Fears of Henry IV) transports readers to jolly, squalid old England for a thorough survey of everyday 14th century life. Going beyond the "nasty, brutish and short" of it, Mortimer's immersive visitor's-guide approach to popular history gives readers a seamless sense of being there. The population is young-"Half of the population is aged twenty-one or less"-but incredibly diverse. The idea that social classes were distinct and few-fighters, prayers, and farmers-gets exploded in Mortimer's examination society and the Medieval character, including everything from humor and juggling to mariners to doctors. Mortimer even argues, convincingly, over relative standards of hygiene ("to regard a medieval kitchen as 'dirty' because it has not been wiped down with modern detergent is to apply our own standards inappropriately"). He also looks at the role of period's four greatest writers of the time , and reveals the horrors of contemporary medicine (with terrifying descriptions of the plague) and law (the outskirts of every town were decorated with the hanged corpses of minor criminals). Mortimer's toungue-in-cheek vistor's guide is an impressive accomplishment, turning 600 years of history transparent to give 21st century audiences a clear view on Medieval life.]]> 342 Ian Mortimer 1439112894 Liz 0 to-read, european-history 4.06 2008 The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
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average rating: 4.06
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]]> <![CDATA[Medieval World, The: An Illustrated Atlas]]> 7453659 384 National Geographic Society 1426205333 Liz 0 to-read, european-history 3.94 2009 Medieval World, The: An Illustrated Atlas
author: National Geographic Society
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average rating: 3.94
book published: 2009
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]]> The Decameron 51799
Translated with an Introduction and Notes by G. H. McWilliam]]> 909 Giovanni Boccaccio 0140449302 Liz 0 to-read, european-history 3.89 1349 The Decameron
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book published: 1349
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]]> <![CDATA[The Civilization of the Middle Ages]]> 321173 624 Norman F. Cantor 0060925531 Liz 0 to-read, european-history 3.95 1963 The Civilization of the Middle Ages
author: Norman F. Cantor
name: Liz
average rating: 3.95
book published: 1963
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]]> <![CDATA[Standards of Living in the Later Middle Ages: Social Change in England, c.1200-1520]]> 2649972 337 Christopher Dyer 0521272157 Liz 0 to-read, european-history 4.06 1989 Standards of Living in the Later Middle Ages: Social Change in England, c.1200-1520
author: Christopher Dyer
name: Liz
average rating: 4.06
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]]> The Making of the Middle Ages 271114 290 Richard William Southern 0300002300 Liz 0 to-read, european-history 4.02 1953 The Making of the Middle Ages
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]]> Mohammed and Charlemagne 334214 Departing from the standard view that Germanic invasions obliterated the Roman Empire, Pirenne advances the radical new thesis that "the cause of the break with the tradition of antiquity was the rapid and unexpected advance of Islam," and event of historical proportions that prevented the western Mediterranean from being what it had always been: a thoroughfare of commerce and thought. It became instead what Pirenne refers to as "a Musulman lake," thereby causing "the axis of life [to shift] northwards from the Mediterranean" for the first time in history.
Brilliant and controversial, this volume garnered these words of praise from the critics: "It is a dull reader indeed who does not recognize the light of genius in the pages of this book, without doubt a landmark in contemporary historiography." � G. C. Boyce, Annals of the American Academy . "� Pirenne's crowning triumph. The fire of his genius, the boldness of his mind, his profound learning and vivid pen make this volume pleasant reading." � Commonweal . "� an important, seminal book, worthy to close one of the most distinguished careers in European scholarship." � Saturday Review of Literature .
Pirenne's masterly study is essential reading for history students, medievalists, and general readers with an interest in the decline of the Roman Empire and the beginnings of the Middle Ages.]]> 304 Henri Pirenne 0486420116 Liz 0 to-read, european-history 3.99 1937 Mohammed and Charlemagne
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]]> <![CDATA[A History of Business in Medieval Europe, 1200�1550 (Cambridge Medieval Textbooks)]]> 497899 288 Edwin S. Hunt 0521499232 Liz 0 to-read, european-history 3.89 1999 A History of Business in Medieval Europe, 1200–1550 (Cambridge Medieval Textbooks)
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]]> <![CDATA[Origins of the European Economy: Communications and Commerce AD 300 - 900]]> 1968032 1130 Michael McCormick 0521661021 Liz 0 to-read, european-history 4.60 2002 Origins of the European Economy: Communications and Commerce AD 300 - 900
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]]> <![CDATA[The Birth of Europe (Making of Europe)]]> 343938 304 Jacques Le Goff 1405156821 Liz 0 european-history, to-read 3.92 2003 The Birth of Europe (Making of Europe)
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]]> The Medieval Imagination 343924
"Le Goff is one of the most distinguished of the French medieval historians of his generation . . . he has exercised immense influence."—Maurice Keen, New York Review of Books

"The whole book turns on a fascinating blend of the brutally materialistic and the generously imaginative."—Tom Shippey, London Review of Books

"The richness, imaginativeness and sheer learning of Le Goff's work . . . demand to be experienced."—M. T. Clanchy, Times Literary Supplement]]> 293 Jacques Le Goff 0226470857 Liz 0 to-read, european-history 4.14 1985 The Medieval Imagination
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]]> <![CDATA[Must We Divide History Into Periods?]]> 26178442
Jacques Le Goff pleads for a strikingly different view. In this, his last book, he argues persuasively that many of the innovations we associate with the Renaissance have medieval roots, and that many of the most deplorable aspects of medieval society continued to flourish during the Renaissance. We should instead view Western civilization as undergoing several "renaissances" following the fall of Rome, over the course of a long Middle Ages that lasted until the mid-eighteenth century.
While it is indeed necessary to divide history into periods, Le Goff maintains, the meaningful continuities of human development only become clear when historians adopt a long perspective. Genuine revolutions—the shifts that signal the end of one period and the beginning of the next—are much rarer than we think.]]> 184 Jacques Le Goff 0231173008 Liz 0 to-read, european-history 3.99 2014 Must We Divide History Into Periods?
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]]> <![CDATA[Medieval Civilization 400-1500]]> 343921
Part two, Medieval Civilization, is analytical, concerned with the origins of early medieval ideas of culture and religion, the constraints of time and space in a pre-industrial world and the reconstruction of the lives and sensibilities of the people during this long period. Medieval Civilization combines the narrative and descriptive power characteristic of Anglo-Saxon scholarship with the sensitivity and insight of the French historical tradition.]]> 448 Jacques Le Goff 0631175660 Liz 0 to-read, european-history 4.14 1964 Medieval Civilization 400-1500
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]]> Piers Plowman 429679 672 William Langland 0393975592 Liz 0 to-read, european-history 3.43 1360 Piers Plowman
author: William Langland
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]]> <![CDATA[The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature]]> 80005 231 C.S. Lewis 0521477352 Liz 0 to-read, european-history 4.26 1964 The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature
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]]> <![CDATA[The King's Two Bodies: A Study in Mediaeval Political Theology]]> 356630 The King's Two Bodies, Kantorowicz traces the historical problem posed by the "King's two bodies"--the body politic and the body natural--back to the Middle Ages and demonstrates, by placing the concept in its proper setting of medieval thought and political theory, how the early-modern Western monarchies gradually began to develop a "political theology.?

The king's natural body has physical attributes, suffers, and dies, naturally, as do all humans; but the king's other body, the spiritual body, transcends the earthly and serves as a symbol of his office as majesty with the divine right to rule. The notion of the two bodies allowed for the continuity of monarchy even when the monarch died, as summed up in the formulation "The king is dead. Long live the king."

Bringing together liturgical works, images, and polemical material, The King's Two Bodies explores the long Christian past behind this "political theology." It provides a subtle history of how commonwealths developed symbolic means for establishing their sovereignty and, with such means, began to establish early forms of the nation-state.

Kantorowicz fled Nazi Germany in 1938, after refusing to sign a Nazi loyalty oath, and settled in the United States. While teaching at the University of California, Berkeley, he once again refused to sign an oath of allegiance, this one designed to identify Communist Party sympathizers. He was dismissed as a result of the controversy and moved to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, where he remained for the rest of his life, and where he wrote The King's Two Bodies.]]> 616 Ernst H. Kantorowicz 0691017042 Liz 0 to-read, european-history 4.30 1957 The King's Two Bodies: A Study in Mediaeval Political Theology
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]]> <![CDATA[The Evolution of Useful Things: How Everyday Artifacts-From Forks and Pins to Paper Clips and Zippers-Came to be as They are]]> 61190
   In this delightful book Henry, Petroski takes a microscopic look at artifacts that most of us count on but rarely contemplate, including such icons of the everyday as pins, Post-its, and fast-food "clamshell" containers.  At the same time, he offers a convincing new theory of technological innovation as a response to the perceived failures of existing products—suggesting that irritation, and not necessity, is the mother of invention.]]> 288 Henry Petroski 0679740392 Liz 0 to-read, general-history 3.53 1994 The Evolution of Useful Things: How Everyday Artifacts-From Forks and Pins to Paper Clips and Zippers-Came to be as They are
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]]> <![CDATA[Courtly Culture: Literature and Society in the High Middle Ages]]> 1256367
"Monumental, exhaustive, definitive. These are the qualifiers that come to mind as one peruses the medieval scholar Bumke's astonishing and encyclopedic accomplishment. . . ."--R. J. Cormier, Choice

"This book merits attention well beyond medieval German literary and historical circles. . . . Bumke is intent on demolishing the myth that the idealized patterns of behavior in courtly literature are an accurate reflection of the reality of aristocratic life."--William Henry Jackson, Speculum]]> 770 Joachim Bumke 1585670510 Liz 0 to-read, european-history 4.24 1986 Courtly Culture: Literature and Society in the High Middle Ages
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]]> Feudal Society, Volume 1 402971 287 Marc Bloch 0226059782 Liz 0 to-read, european-history 4.12 1964 Feudal Society, Volume 1
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]]> <![CDATA[From the Fires of Revolution to the Great War (A History of Private Life, #4)]]> 276215
Guided by six eminent historians, we move from the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century, which conceived of man as a noble creature of reason, into nineteenth-century Romanticism with its affirmation of distinctively individual creatures in all their mystery and impulsiveness, exalting intuition as a mode of knowledge. More and more, men and women wanted to sleep alone, to be left alone to read and write, to dress as they pleased, to eat or drink anything they liked, to consort with and love whomever they fancied. Growing democracies advanced those wishes to the status of rights, expanding markets stimulated them, and migration encouraged them. That new frontier, the city, simultaneously weakened family and community constraints, spurred personal ambitions, and attenuated traditional beliefs.

The authors dramatize the nineteenth century’s organized effort to stabilize the boundary between public and private by mooring it to the family, with the father as sovereign. Such chapters as “The Sweet Delights of Home,� “The Family Triumphant,� and “Private Spaces� describe the new domestic ideal of the private dwelling as a refuge from perils and temptations in the public arena, the father as benevolent despot, the wife as contented practitioner of domestic arts, the children as small versions of adults, equipping themselves to follow in their parents� righteous footsteps. Particularly in England, the middle class was central to the formation of this homely standard, which spread to the working classes through evangelical preaching, utilitarian writings, and economic changes and improvements that resulted in a separation of home and workplace. At the same time, the gentry was transforming castles into country houses, knights into foxhunters, and landowners into gentleman farmers. The domesticating process also expressed itself in hygienic practices (soap, waterclosets, bathtubs), fashions in clothing, and vogues in sports, courtship, and lovemaking.

From the time of the French Revolution, when private or special interests were looked upon as shadowy influences likely to foster conspiracy and treason, through the rapid transformations of the nineteenth century, the authors reveal the more radical forms of modernity that arrived with the twentieth century, with its explosions of trade and technology. Besides the external development of goods and conveniences, the expanses of the psyche were also being reorganized, bringing a new openness about sexuality liberated from procreation and marriage. Feminism, a relatively sporadic movement in the nineteenth century, became a more persistent force, while young people and the avant-garde continued to break the rules and push for change as an end in itself. As always, law lagged behind in practice, more and more people rebelled against communal and family discipline. The declaration of war in 1917 put a hold on some of the flowering of individuality, but the unstoppable trend toward personality nurtured by private life was only temporarily curbed.]]> 744 Philippe Ariès 0674400038 Liz 0 to-read, european-history 4.07 1987 From the Fires of Revolution to the Great War (A History of Private Life, #4)
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]]> <![CDATA[Passions of the Renaissance (A History of Private Life, #3)]]> 276213 645 Philippe Ariès 067440002X Liz 0 to-read, european-history 4.01 1986 Passions of the Renaissance (A History of Private Life, #3)
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]]> <![CDATA[A History of Private Life: From Pagan Rome to Byzantium]]> 276214
The emergence of Christianity in the West and the triumph of Christian morality with its emphasis on abstinence, celibacy, and austerity is startlingly contrasted with the profane and undisciplined private life of the Byzantine Empire. Using illuminating motifs, the authors weave a rich, colorful fabric ornamented with the results of new research and the broad interpretations that only masters of the subject can provide.]]> 670 Philippe Ariès 0674399749 Liz 0 to-read, european-history 4.01 1985 A History of Private Life: From Pagan Rome to Byzantium
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]]> <![CDATA[Montaillou: Cathars and Catholics in a French Village 1294-1324]]> 1507061 379 Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie 0859674037 Liz 0 to-read, european-history 4.06 1975 Montaillou: Cathars and Catholics in a French Village 1294-1324
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]]> <![CDATA[The Commercial Revolution of the Middle Ages, 950-1350]]> 166255 196 Robert Sabatino Lopez 0521290465 Liz 0 to-read, european-history 3.73 1971 The Commercial Revolution of the Middle Ages, 950-1350
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]]> A Little Book of Coincidence 1738208 64 John Martineau 1904263054 Liz 0 to-read, science 4.02 2000 A Little Book of Coincidence
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]]> <![CDATA[An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations]]> 20654333 641 Adam Smith Liz 0 economics, to-read 4.06 1776 An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
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]]> <![CDATA[American Gods (American Gods, #1)]]> 4407
Together they embark on a profoundly strange journey across the heart of the USA, whilst all around them a storm of preternatural and epic proportions threatens to break.

Scary, gripping and deeply unsettling, American Gods takes a long, hard look into the soul of America. You'll be surprised by what - and who - it finds there...

This is the author's preferred text, never before published in the UK, and is about 12,000 words longer than the previous UK edition.

]]> 635 Neil Gaiman Liz 0 contemporary-fiction, to-read 4.10 2001 American Gods (American Gods, #1)
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]]> The Art of War 18071525 120 Sun Tzu Liz 0 to-read 4.07 -400 The Art of War
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]]> <![CDATA[The Birthday of the World and Other Stories]]> 8358718 The Birthday of the World, this gifted artist returns to these worlds in eight brilliant short works, including a never-before-published novella, each of which probes the essence of humanity.

Here are stories that explore complex social interactions and troublesome issues of gender and sex; that define and defy notions of personal relationships and of society itself; that examine loyalty, survival, and introversion; that bring to light the vicissitudes of slavery and the meaning of transformation, religion, and history.

The first six tales in this spectacular volume are set in the author's signature world of the Ekumen, "my pseudo-coherent universe with holes in the elbows," as Le Guin describes it -- a world made familiar in her award-winning novel The Left Hand of Darkness. The seventh, title story was hailed by Publishers Weekly as "remarkable . . . a standout." The final offering in the collection, Paradises Lost, is a mesmerizing novella of space exploration and the pursuit of happiness.

In her foreword, Ursula K. Le Guin writes, "to create difference-to establish strangeness-then to let the fiery arc of human emotion leap and close the gap: this acrobatics of the imagination fascinates and satisfies me as no other." In The Birthday of the World, this gifted literary acrobat exhibits a dazzling array of skills that will fascinate and satisfy us all.]]> 384 Ursula K. Le Guin Liz 0 to-read 4.40 2002 The Birthday of the World and Other Stories
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]]> <![CDATA[The Adult Learner: The Definitive Classic In Adult Education And Human Resource Development]]> 33907
Keeping to the practical format of the last edition, this book is divided into three parts. The first part contains the classic chapters that describe the roots and principles of andragogy, including a new chapter, which presents Knowles' program planning model. The second part focuses on the advancements in adult learning with each chapter fully revised updated, incorporating a major expansion of Androgogy in Practice. The last part of the book will contain an updated selection of topical readings that advance the theory and will include the HRD style inventory developed by Dr. Knowles.

This new edition is essential reading for adult learning practitioners and students and HRD professionals. It provides a theoretical framework for understanding the adult learning issues both in the teaching and workplace environments.

* Definitive classic, 5th edition sold over 20,000 copies.
* Essential reading for a wide audience of practitioners and students in the field of adult learning and human resource development.
* Incorporates Knowles'classic theories on adult learning alongside the latest advances in the field.]]> 378 Malcolm Shepherd Knowles 0750678372 Liz 0 to-read 3.86 2012 The Adult Learner: The Definitive Classic In Adult Education And Human Resource Development
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]]> <![CDATA[The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia]]> 168702 922 Richard Overy 0393327973 Liz 0 to-read 4.21 2004 The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia
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]]> <![CDATA[The Wicked + The Divine Vol. 1]]> 21500588 They are loved. They are hated. They are brilliant.
Within two years, they’re dead.]]> 144 Kieron Gillen Liz 0 to-read, graphic-novels 4.00 2014 The Wicked + The Divine Vol. 1
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name: Liz
average rating: 4.00
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]]> The Alien Condition 2940362 206 Stephen Goldin Liz 0 to-read, short-stories 4.06 1973 The Alien Condition
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]]> Saga #1 18867493 66 Brian K. Vaughan 1106927028 Liz 0 to-read, graphic-novels 4.20 2012 Saga #1
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book published: 2012
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]]> <![CDATA[Body Decoration: A World Survey of Body Art]]> 666804 256 Karl Gröning 0865659974 Liz 0 anthropology, to-read 4.57 1998 Body Decoration: A World Survey of Body Art
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name: Liz
average rating: 4.57
book published: 1998
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]]> Gravity’s Rainbow 415 776 Thomas Pynchon 0143039946 Liz 0 to-read 4.01 1973 Gravity’s Rainbow
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book published: 1973
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]]> <![CDATA[The Traitor Baru Cormorant (The Masquerade, #1)]]> 23444482
The Empire of Masks is coming, armed with coin and ink, doctrine and compass, soap and lies. They'll conquer Baru’s island, rewrite her culture, criminalize her customs, and dispose of one of her fathers. But Baru is patient. She'll swallow her hate, prove her talent, and join the Masquerade. She will learn the secrets of empire. She’ll be exactly what they need. And she'll claw her way high enough up the rungs of power to set her people free.

In a final test of her loyalty, the Masquerade will send Baru to bring order to distant Aurdwynn, a snakepit of rebels, informants, and seditious dukes. Aurdwynn kills everyone who tries to rule it. To survive, Baru will need to untangle this land’s intricate web of treachery - and conceal her attraction to the dangerously fascinating Duchess Tain Hu.

But Baru is a savant in games of power, as ruthless in her tactics as she is fixated on her goals. In the calculus of her schemes, all ledgers must be balanced, and the price of liberation paid in full.

]]> 399 Seth Dickinson 0765380722 Liz 0 to-read, fantasy 4.04 2015 The Traitor Baru Cormorant (The Masquerade, #1)
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average rating: 4.04
book published: 2015
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]]> <![CDATA[The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)]]> 21611 278 Joe Haldeman Liz 5 science-fiction ]]> 4.14 1974 The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)
author: Joe Haldeman
name: Liz
average rating: 4.14
book published: 1974
rating: 5
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This book is amazing, and the scope of its setting is mind-bending in the best way. It's warfare in space, but with imaginative future technology, threads of both dystopian and utopian civilizations, and a little dose of 20th/21st century social issues. Overall, this is science fiction at its best, and it's a very enjoyable read.

]]> <![CDATA[Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)]]> 9969571 Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here

IN THE YEAR 2044, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he's jacked into the virtual utopia known as the OASIS. Wade's devoted his life to studying the puzzles hidden within this world's digital confines, puzzles that are based on their creator's obsession with the pop culture of decades past and that promise massive power and fortune to whoever can unlock them.

But when Wade stumbles upon the first clue, he finds himself beset by players willing to kill to take this ultimate prize. The race is on, and if Wade's going to survive, he'll have to win—and confront the real world he's always been so desperate to escape.]]> 480 Ernest Cline 030788743X Liz 4 cyberpunk, audiobooks 4.21 2011 Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
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name: Liz
average rating: 4.21
book published: 2011
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (Illustrated)]]> 27860660 284 John Maynard Keynes Liz 0 to-read, economics 4.10 1935 The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (Illustrated)
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]]> <![CDATA[The No-Nonsense Guide to International Development (No-Nonsense Guides)]]> 2763180 144 Maggie Black 1904456634 Liz 0 to-read, economics 3.58 2002 The No-Nonsense Guide to International Development (No-Nonsense Guides)
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name: Liz
average rating: 3.58
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]]> The Federalist Papers 11016556

Hailed by Thomas Jefferson as “the best commentary on the principles of government which was ever written", The Federalist Papers is a collection of eighty-five essays published by Founding Fathers Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay from 1787 to 1788, as a means to persuade the public to ratify the Constitution of the United States.


With nearly two-thirds of the essays written by Hamilton, this enduring classic is perfect for modern audiences passionate about his work or seeking a deeper understanding of one of the most important documents in US history.

]]> 564 Alexander Hamilton Liz 0 to-read, political-science 4.40 1788 The Federalist Papers
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]]> <![CDATA[The Philip K. Dick Megapack: 15 Classic Science Fiction Stories]]> 18894789 EXHIBIT PIECE
BEYOND LIES THE WUB
THE DEFENDERS
THE CRYSTAL CRYPT
BEYOND THE DOOR
SECOND VARIETY
THE EYES HAVE IT
THE GUN
THE VARIABLE MAN
TONY AND THE BEETLES
THE HANGING STRANGER
THE SKULL
PIPER IN THE WOODS
MR. SPACESHIP
STRANGE EDEN
And don't forget to search this ebook store for "Wildside Megapack" (or just Megapack if Wildside Megapack doesn't work) to see all the entries in the Megapack series -- including volumes of science fiction, fantasy, horror, mystery, westerns, and much, much more!]]> 365 Philip K. Dick 143444676X Liz 0 to-read, science-fiction 4.12 2013 The Philip K. Dick Megapack: 15 Classic Science Fiction Stories
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]]> Common Sense 27445250 Pennsylvania Magazine. On January 10, 1776, he published his pamphlet Common Sense, a persuasive argument for the colonies' political and economic separation from Britain.

Common Sense cites the evils of monarchy, accuses the British government of inflicting economic and social injustices upon the colonies, and points to the absurdity of an island attempting to rule a continent. Credited by George Washington as having changed the minds of many of his countrymen, the document sold over 500,000 copies within a few months.

Today, Common Sense remains a landmark document in the struggle for freedom, distinguished not only by Paine's ideas but also by its clear and passionate presentation. Designed to ignite public opinion against autocratic rule, the pamphlet offered a careful balance between imagination and judgment, and appropriate language and expression to fit the subject. It immediately found a receptive audience, heartened Washington's despondent army, and foreshadowed much of the phrasing and substance of the Declaration of Independence.]]> 61 Thomas Paine Liz 0 to-read, political-science 4.27 1776 Common Sense
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]]> <![CDATA[The Economic Consequences of the Peace]]> 6375670 136 John Maynard Keynes Liz 0 to-read, economics 3.94 1919 The Economic Consequences of the Peace
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name: Liz
average rating: 3.94
book published: 1919
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]]> <![CDATA[The Theory of Social Revolutions]]> 8543337 103 Brooks Adams Liz 0 to-read, political-science 3.64 2015 The Theory of Social Revolutions
author: Brooks Adams
name: Liz
average rating: 3.64
book published: 2015
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]]> The Jungle 17306020
Long acclaimed around the world, Upton Sinclair's 1906 muckraking novel The Jungle remains a powerful book even today. Not many works of literature can boast that their publication brought about actual social and labor change, but that's just what The Jungle did, as it led to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906. In today's society, where labor and safety of the food we eat remain key concerns for all, Sinclair's shocking story still resonates. Bringing new life and energy to this classic work, adapter and illustrator Kristina Gehrmann takes Sinclair's prose and transforms it through pen and ink, allowing the reader to discover (or rediscover) this book and see it from a whole new perspective.]]> 414 Upton Sinclair Liz 0 to-read, classic-fiction 4.00 1906 The Jungle
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average rating: 4.00
book published: 1906
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]]> <![CDATA[World Politics: Interests, Interactions, Institutions (Second Edition)]]> 15927631 648 Jeffry A. Frieden 0393912388 Liz 5 3.85 2009 World Politics: Interests, Interactions, Institutions (Second Edition)
author: Jeffry A. Frieden
name: Liz
average rating: 3.85
book published: 2009
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Latin America's Political Economy of the Possible: Beyond Good Revolutionaries And Free Marketeers]]> 763048 250 Javier Santiso 0262195429 Liz 0 to-read, economics 2.82 2006 Latin America's Political Economy of the Possible: Beyond Good Revolutionaries And Free Marketeers
author: Javier Santiso
name: Liz
average rating: 2.82
book published: 2006
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]]> Economic Development 25044848 863 E. Wayne Nafziger 1139339052 Liz 0 to-read, economics 0.0 2005 Economic Development
author: E. Wayne Nafziger
name: Liz
average rating: 0.0
book published: 2005
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]]> <![CDATA[Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered]]> 30643887 ]]> 211 Ernst F. Schumacher Liz 0 to-read, economics 4.10 1973 Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered
author: Ernst F. Schumacher
name: Liz
average rating: 4.10
book published: 1973
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Peacekeeping Economy: Using Economic Relationships to Build a More Peaceful, Prosperous, and Secure World]]> 12536504 432 Lloyd J. Dumas 0300166346 Liz 0 to-read, economics 4.78 2011 The Peacekeeping Economy: Using Economic Relationships to Build a More Peaceful, Prosperous, and Secure World
author: Lloyd J. Dumas
name: Liz
average rating: 4.78
book published: 2011
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]]> <![CDATA[On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation]]> 18919705 David Ricardo was one of the most influential economists, best known for his theory of competitive advantage. On The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation is considered a classical work in economics. Heraklion Press has included a linked table of contents.

]]> 180 David Ricardo Liz 0 to-read, economics 4.12 1817 On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation
author: David Ricardo
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average rating: 4.12
book published: 1817
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]]> Das Kapital 19032010 769 Karl Marx Liz 0 to-read, economics, german 3.80 1867 Das Kapital
author: Karl Marx
name: Liz
average rating: 3.80
book published: 1867
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]]> <![CDATA[Wizards: Magical Tales From the Masters of Modern Fantasy]]> 126437
Throughout the ages, the wizard has claimed a spot in human culture-from the shadowy spiritual leaders of early man to precocious characters in blockbuster films. Gone are the cartoon images of wizened gray-haired men in pointy caps creating magic with a wave of their wands. Today's wizards are more subtle in their powers, more discerning in their ways, and-in the hands of modern fantasists-more likely than ever to capture readers' imaginations.

In Neil Gaiman's "The Witch's Headstone," a piece taken from his much-anticipated novel in progress, an eight-year-old boy learns the power of kindness from a long-dead sorceress. Only one woman possesses two kinds of magic-enough to unite two kingdoms-in Garth Nix's "Holly and Iron." Patricia A. McKillip's "Naming Day" gives a sorcery student a lesson in breaking the rules. And a famished dove spins a tale worthy of a meal, but perhaps not the truth, in "A Fowl Tale" by Eoin Colfer.]]> 400 Jack Dann 0425215180 Liz 5 fantasy, half-read 3.73 2007 Wizards: Magical Tales From the Masters of Modern Fantasy
author: Jack Dann
name: Liz
average rating: 3.73
book published: 2007
rating: 5
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]]> Life in a Medieval Castle 218073
For medieval buffs and anyone who wants to learn more about this fascinating era, Life in a Medieval Castle is as timely today as when it was first published.]]> 272 Joseph Gies 006090674X Liz 5 half-read, european-history 3.83 1974 Life in a Medieval Castle
author: Joseph Gies
name: Liz
average rating: 3.83
book published: 1974
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Multinational Firms in the World Economy]]> 2625832

This book brings clarity to the debate. With the contribution of other leading experts, Giorgio Barba Navaretti and Anthony Venables assess the determinants of multinationals' actions, investigating why their activity has expanded so rapidly, and why some countries have seen more such activity than others. They analyze their effects on countries that are recipients of inward investments, and on those countries that see multinational firms moving jobs abroad. The arguments are made using modern advances in economic analysis, a case study, and by drawing on the extensive empirical literature that assesses the determinants and consequences of activity by multinationals. The treatment is rigorous, yet accessible to all readers with a background in economics, whether students or professionals. Drawing out policy implications, the authors conclude that multinational enterprises are generally a force for the promotion of prosperity in the world economy.]]> 352 Giorgio Barba Navaretti 0691128030 Liz 0 to-read, economics 3.86 2004 Multinational Firms in the World Economy
author: Giorgio Barba Navaretti
name: Liz
average rating: 3.86
book published: 2004
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000]]> 840043 THE WIDELY ACCLAIMED BESTSELLER THAT BOLDLY AND LUCIDLY PUTS OUR CURRENT ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL DILEMMAS INTO THE PERSPECTIVE OF WORLD HISTORY.

"A work of almost Toynbeean sweep... When a scholar as careful and learned as Mr. Kennedy is prompted by contemporary issues to reexamine the great processes of the past, the result can only be an enhancement of our historical understanding.... When the study is written as simply and attractively as this work is, its publication may have a great and beneficient impact. It is to be hoped that Mr. Kennedy's will have one, at a potentially decisive moment in America's history."
Michael Howard, The New York Times Book Review

"Important, learned, and lucid... Paul Kennedy's great achievement is that he makes us see our current international problems against a background of empires that have gone under because they were unaible to sustain the material cost of greatness; and he does so in a universal historical perspective of which Ranke would surely have approved."
James Joll, The New York Review of Books

"His strategic-economic approach provides him with the context for a shapely narrative....Professor Kennedy not only exploits his framework eloquently, he also makes use of it to dig deeper and explore the historical contexts in which some 'power centers' prospered....But the most commanding purpose of his project...is the lesson he draws from 15 centuries of statecraft to apply to the present scene....[The book's] final section is for everyone concerned with the contemporary political scene."
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times

"Kennedy gives epic meaning to the nation's relative economic and industrial decline."
Newsweek ]]> 677 Paul Kennedy 0679720197 Liz 0 to-read, world-history 4.13 1987 The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000
author: Paul Kennedy
name: Liz
average rating: 4.13
book published: 1987
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]]> <![CDATA[The English Nobility in the Late Middle Ages]]> 5185739 222 Christopher Given-Wilson Liz 0 to-read, european-history 4.11 1987 The English Nobility in the Late Middle Ages
author: Christopher Given-Wilson
name: Liz
average rating: 4.11
book published: 1987
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]]> <![CDATA[Archaeology: A Brief Introduction]]> 177260 380 Brian M. Fagan 0131928112 Liz 0 archaeology, to-read 3.76 1978 Archaeology: A Brief Introduction
author: Brian M. Fagan
name: Liz
average rating: 3.76
book published: 1978
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Cro-Magnon: How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans]]> 6753172 What do we know about this remarkable takeover? Who were the first modern Europeans and what were they like? How did they manage to thrive in such an extreme environment? And what legacy did they leave behind them after the cold millennia? The age of the Cro-Magnons lasted some 30,000 years?longer than all of recorded history. Cro-Magnon is the story of a little known, yet seminal, chapter of human experience.]]> 320 Brian M. Fagan 159691582X Liz 0 world-history, to-read 3.66 2010 Cro-Magnon: How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans
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average rating: 3.66
book published: 2010
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]]> <![CDATA[The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850]]> 53913 The Little Ice Age tells the story of the turbulent, unpredictable, and often very cold years of modern European history, how this altered climate affected historical events, and what it means for today's global warming. Building on research that has only recently confirmed that the world endured a 500year cold snap, renowned archaeologist Brian Fagan shows how the increasing cold influenced familiar events from Norse exploration to the settlement of North America to the Industrial Revolution. This is a fascinating book for anyone interested in history, climate, and how they interact.]]> 272 Brian M. Fagan 0465022723 Liz 0 world-history, to-read 3.84 2000 The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850
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]]> <![CDATA[1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed]]> 18730589 From acclaimed archaeologist and bestselling author Eric Cline, a breathtaking account of how the collapse of an ancient civilized world ushered in the first Dark Ages.

In 1177 B.C., marauding groups known only as the Sea Peoples invaded Egypt. The pharaoh's army and navy defeated them, but the victory so weakened Egypt that it soon slid into decline, as did most of the surrounding civilizations. Eric Cline tells the gripping story of how the end was brought about by multiple interconnected failures, ranging from invasion and revolt to earthquakes, drought, famine, and the cutting of international trade routes. Bringing to life a vibrant multicultural world, he draws a sweeping panorama of the empires of the age and shows that it may have been their very interdependence that hastened their dramatic collapse. Now revised and updated, 1177 B.C. sheds light on the complex ties that gave rise to, and eventually destroyed, the flourishing civilizations of the Late Bronze Age—and set the stage for the emergence of classical Greece and, ultimately, our world today.]]> 264 Eric H. Cline 0691140898 Liz 0 to-read, world-history 3.66 2014 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed
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average rating: 3.66
book published: 2014
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]]> <![CDATA[Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power]]> 177766
Looking beyond popular explanations such as geography or superior technology, Hanson argues that it is in fact Western culture and values–the tradition of dissent, the value placed on inventiveness and adaptation, the concept of citizenship–which have consistently produced superior arms and soldiers. Offering riveting battle narratives and a balanced perspective that avoids simple triumphalism, Carnage and Culture demonstrates how armies cannot be separated from the cultures that produce them and explains why an army produced by a free culture will always have the advantage.]]> 526 Victor Davis Hanson 0385720386 Liz 0 to-read, world-history 4.04 2001 Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power
author: Victor Davis Hanson
name: Liz
average rating: 4.04
book published: 2001
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]]> Songs of Distant Earth 117842
Mesmerized by the beauty of Thalassa and overwhelmed by its vast resources, the colonists lived an idyllic existence, unaware of the monumental evolutionary event slowly taking place beneath their seas...

Then the Magellan arrived in orbit carrying one million refugees from the last, mad days on Earth. And suddenly uncertainty and change had come to the placid paradise that was Thalassa.]]> 256 Arthur C. Clarke 0007115865 Liz 0 3.92 1986 Songs of Distant Earth
author: Arthur C. Clarke
name: Liz
average rating: 3.92
book published: 1986
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]]> <![CDATA[The Teotihuacan Trinity: The Sociopolitical Structure of an Ancient Mesoamerican City (William and Bettye Nowlin Series)]]> 2223733 230 Annabeth Headrick 0292716656 Liz 0 to-read, world-history 4.12 2007 The Teotihuacan Trinity: The Sociopolitical Structure of an Ancient Mesoamerican City (William and Bettye Nowlin Series)
author: Annabeth Headrick
name: Liz
average rating: 4.12
book published: 2007
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Historical Information Science: An Emerging Unidiscipline]]> 3904666 Book by McCrank, Lawrence J. 1500 Lawrence J. McCrank 1573870714 Liz 0 0.0 2002 Historical Information Science: An Emerging Unidiscipline
author: Lawrence J. McCrank
name: Liz
average rating: 0.0
book published: 2002
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]]> <![CDATA[Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind]]> 23692271 512 Yuval Noah Harari Liz 0 to-read, anthropology 4.34 2011 Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
author: Yuval Noah Harari
name: Liz
average rating: 4.34
book published: 2011
rating: 0
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]]> Nations and Nationalism 348980 170 Ernest Gellner 0801492637 Liz 0 3.85 1983 Nations and Nationalism
author: Ernest Gellner
name: Liz
average rating: 3.85
book published: 1983
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]]> <![CDATA[Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software]]> 2296 Being Digital and The Tipping Point, Steven Johnson, acclaimed as a "cultural critic with a poet's heart" (The Village Voice), takes readers on an eye-opening journey through emergence theory and its applications. Explaining why the whole is sometimes smarter than the sum of its parts, Johnson presents surprising examples of feedback, self-organization, and adaptive learning. How does a lively neighborhood evolve out of a disconnected group of shopkeepers, bartenders, and real estate developers? How does a media event take on a life of its own? How will new software programs create an intelligent World Wide Web?

In the coming years, the power of self-organization -- coupled with the connective technology of the Internet -- will usher in a revolution every bit as significant as the introduction of electricity. Provocative and engaging, Emergence puts you on the front lines of this exciting upheaval in science and thought.

]]> 288 Steven Johnson 0684868768 Liz 0 3.95 2001 Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software
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name: Liz
average rating: 3.95
book published: 2001
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]]> Being and Time 92307 589 Martin Heidegger 0060638508 Liz 0 to-read, philosophy 4.04 1927 Being and Time
author: Martin Heidegger
name: Liz
average rating: 4.04
book published: 1927
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Understanding the Political World: A Comparative Introduction to Political Science [with MySearchLab]]]> 12643721 0 James N. Danziger 0205700446 Liz 0 to-read, political-science 0.0 1991 Understanding the Political World: A Comparative Introduction to Political Science [with MySearchLab]
author: James N. Danziger
name: Liz
average rating: 0.0
book published: 1991
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]]> The Left Hand of Darkness 18423 The Left Hand of Darkness tells the story of a lone human emissary to Winter, an alien world whose inhabitants spend most of their time without a gender. His goal is to facilitate Winter's inclusion in a growing intergalactic civilization. But to do so he must bridge the gulf between his own views and those of the completely dissimilar culture that he encounters.

Embracing the aspects of psychology, society, and human emotion on an alien world, The Left Hand of Darkness stands as a landmark achievement in the annals of intellectual science fiction.]]> 304 Ursula K. Le Guin Liz 2 science-fiction, half-read 4.11 1969 The Left Hand of Darkness
author: Ursula K. Le Guin
name: Liz
average rating: 4.11
book published: 1969
rating: 2
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date added: 2016/03/26
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]]> <![CDATA[Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)]]> 77566 500 Dan Simmons 0553283685 Liz 0 4.26 1989 Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
author: Dan Simmons
name: Liz
average rating: 4.26
book published: 1989
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Reframing the Social: Emergentist Systemism and Social Theory]]> 13036753 256 Poe Yu-ze Wan 1409411524 Liz 0 to-read, sociology 4.20 2011 Reframing the Social: Emergentist Systemism and Social Theory
author: Poe Yu-ze Wan
name: Liz
average rating: 4.20
book published: 2011
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