Unabridged: Classics, Adventure, Suspense
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| ROGER ANGELL | THE SUMMER GAME -
These writings, which first appeared inThe NEW YORKER , encompass ten years of the most profound change in the history of the pastime. Roger Angell has watched and recorded most of the great and small events of our turbulent diamond age: the rise of California baseball; expansion, and the comical and agonizing sufferings of the early Mets; the fall of the Yankee empire; the repeated triumphs of the Dodgers and Cardinals and Orioles; the sudden astonishment of the championship Mets.
Here is baseball in many forms-in bars, in books, in the bleachers and the pressbox; baseball in French (in Montreal) and baseball indoors (in the Astrodome); gentle, back-country baseball in the spring in Florida, and thoughtful baseball in the mind in winter. Listeners will quickly learn why Roger Angell has been labeled: "The most astute and graceful chronicler the sport has known," by theWashington POST ; "A genius at writing well," by THE NEW YORK TIMES ; and "The best baseball writer of our time," by the CHICAGO SUNDAY | Y
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| ARISTOTLE | ETHICS -
In writing Ethics, Aristotle set out to discover the good life for mankind: the life of happiness. What he deduces is that happiness derives from the activity of the soul in accordance with virtue. Virtue is manifest in the deliberate choice of actions as part of a well-planned life, a life whose plan takes a middle course btween excess and deficiency. This is the renowned Golden Mean doctrine .. courage, for example, is the mean between cowardice and rashness. The supreme happiness, according to Aristotle, is to be found only in philosophical meditation; but this is only possible for the few, and a secondary kind of happiness is available in a virtuous life of political activity and public magnificence. | Y
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| ARISTOTLE | RHETORIC, POETICS and LOGIC
Aristotle's influence upon modern culture has become more and more important in recent years. His contribution to the sum of wisdom dominates all our philosophy and even provides direction for much of our science. And all effective debaters, whether they know it or not, employ Aristotle's three basic principles of effective argument that form the spine of Rhetoric: (1) "ethos," the impact of the speaker's character upon the audience; (2) "pathos," the arousing of the emotions; and (3) "logos," the advancement of pertinent arguments.
In Poetics, Aristotle observes several aspects of epic poetry, lyric poetry, and comedy, and he draws a dramatic distinction between poetry and history. He maintains that poetry has greater philosophical value because it deals with universals, while history states particular facts.
Aristotle's body of work that has come to be identified as Logic includes: (1) classification into 10 categories; (2) proposition; (3) syllogism; and (4) inductive and deductive reasoning.
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| LUIGI BARZINI | THE ITALIANS -
Luigi Barzini explores his country with all its paradoxes, privacies, and delights intact. "I have more or less followed the technique of the honest portrait painter, who must put on canvas those traits which make the sitter the person he is, and not another. The sitter happens to be my country, and I have felt at times like the man who does that most exacting of things, the Portrait of the Artist's Mother." An Italian deeply immersed in politics, a deputy, a distinguished journalist and a cosmopolitan, perceptive man, Barzini has written this book in English. It may well become the standard work on the Italians, for travelers and enthusiasts and students.
Barzini touches on nearly every aspect of Italian life. He studies the Italians' habits, vices, virtues, hopes, failures, and achievements, past, present, and future. He sets out to answer highly complex questions, such as: why is the Italian Communist party the biggest in Europe, despite the country's economic revival and its deep Catholicism? Are Italians really immoral? What is the true state of the Mafia in Sicily? What was Mussolini really like? | Y
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| ALAN BLOOM | THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND -
This is one of the great and vitally important books of our time. Allan Bloom, a professor of social thought at the University of Chicago, argues that the social and political crisis of twentieth century America is really an intellectual crisis. From the universities' lack of purpose to their students' lack of learning, from the jargon of liberation to the supplanting of reason by "creativity," Bloom shows how American democracy has unwittingly played host to vulgarized Continental ideas of nihilism and despair, of relativism disguised as tolerance. Bloom demonstrates that the collective mind of the American university is closed to the principles of the Western tradition, and that it is especially closed to the spiritual heritage of the West, which gave rise to the university in the first place. "With clarity, gravity, and grace, Bloom makes a convincing case for the proposition that reading old books about the permanent questions could help to reestablish reason and restore the soul." -Mary Ann Glendon, Harvard University | Y
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| HAROLD BLOOM | THE WESTERN CANON -
Harold Bloom explores our Western literary tradition by concentrating on the works of twenty-six authors central to the Canon. He argues against ideology in literary criticism; he laments the loss of intellectual and aesthetic standards; he deplores multiculturalism, Marxism, feminism, neoconservatism, Afrocentrism, and the New historicism.
Insisting instead upon "the autonomy of the aesthetic," Bloom places Shakespeare at the center of the Western Canon. Shakespeare has become the touchstone for all writers who come before and after him, whether playwrights, poets, or storytellers. In the creation of character, Bloom maintains, Shakespeare has no true precursor and has left no one after him untouched. Milton, Samuel Johnson, Goethe, Ibsen, Joyce, and Beckett were all indebted to him; Tolstoy and Freud rebelled against him; and while Dante, wordsworth, Austen, Dickens, Whitman, Dickinson, Proust, and the modern Hispanic and portuguese writers Borges, Neruda, and Pessoa are exquisite examples of how canonical writing is born of an originality fused with tradition.
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| PETER COLLIER / DAVID HOROWITZ | DESTRUCTIVE GENERATION -
"The most powerful anti-communist polemic since Whittaker Chambers' Witness" is how George Gilder has described this powerful reprehension of a generation gone awry. Peter Collier and David Horowitz are former editors of Ramparts, the flagship magazine of the New Left in the 1960's, who have had some moving "second thoughts" about all that occurred during this disruptive decade. Included are discussions of the Weather Underground, the impact of one feminist-lesbian lawayer named Fay Stender, life in Berkeley and the formidable strategy of the radical political machine along with snapshots showing the involvement of several notables including Huey Newton, George Jackson, Bernadine Dohrn, Tom Hayden, Jane Fonda and several others. | Y
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| NICHOLAS EVANS | THE SMOKE JUMPER -
New York born and bred, Julia Bishop has no warning that spending the summer counseling troubled teens in Montana will change her life forever. Happily in love with smoke jumper and musician Ed Tully, she looks forward to spending the summer weekends with him in Missoula and is stunned and disturbed by the instant connection she feels to his best friend, Connor Ford. Connor, a Montana rancher and smoke jumper, loves fighting fires almost as much as he loves photography, and before the summer is barely started, he loves Julia Bishop just as deeply. The bond between the three is strong but the work of a smoke jumper is fraught with danger and the trio soon face death by fire. Survival changes their lives forever and places them on paths that divide Julia, Ed, and Connor just as surely as their individual journeys bind them irrevocably together. The Smoke Jumper is a tale of loyalty and guilt, honor and selfless love, and the human cost of choices made. | Y
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| OLIVIA GOLDSMITH | BAD BOY -
Best friends Tracie and Jon meet for coffee each Sunday night to discuss their forlorn love lives. Tracie loves classic bad boys who seem to be too good to be true (and usually are). Jon foolishly falls for girls who never like him in that way...until he convinces Tracie to teach him some tricks of the trade. Reluctant at first -- after all, Jon is so good he dutifully celebrated Mother's Day with his mother and his first, second and third stepmothers -- Tracie eventually accepts the challenge and throws herself into the "lessons," cutting corners at her job and ignoring her bad boy du jour, Phil.
After a much needed wardrobe makeover, lessons on the meaning of unavailability, menu etiquette and finally learning to make women smolder, the new "Jonny" becomes a far too successful heartbreaker. And Tracie discovers she just might be head over heels in love with him. But there are more than a few loose ends ...
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| JOHN GRISHAM | A PAINTED HOUSE -
It's harvest time at the Chandler family farm in Arkansas, and there are two groups of workers on hand to help pick the burgeoning cotton crop. There are the Spruills, a large family from the Ozark mountains; and there is also a group of migrant workers from Mexico. When beautiful young Tally Spruill becomes romantically involved with Cowboy, a dashing Mexican, tensions begin to build. The flames are fanned by Hank Spruill, an adolescent boy who is perfectly capable of beating a man to death with his bare hands. The story is told from the point of view of 7-year-old Luke Chandler, and is based on Grisham's own recollections of his boyhood. More than just the story of mounting tension between the Spruills and the Mexican migrants, it is also a meditation on childhood in a bygone rural America. | Y
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| ELIZABETH PETERS | THE CAMELOT CAPER -
Jessica Tregarth goes to England to visit her grandfather; an invitation that surprises and pleases her. The only link she has with her dead father's family is an antique ring he brought with him to America. This will be a chance to learn more about who she is; it will be fun.
She's barely off the boat before the chase begins and Jess finds herself playing a deadly game of cat-and-mouse through Cornwall, helped by David Randall, the ingenious author of a series of paperback gothic novels. But even Randall's cleverness may not be enough-the couple doesn't know what the pursuers want... and it is not the obvious. | Y
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| ELIZABETH PETERS | NAKED ONCE MORE -
She may be a best-selling author, but ex-librarian Jacqueline Kirby's views on the publishing biz aren't fit to print. In fact, she's thinking of trading celebrity for serenity and a house far away from fiendish editors and demented fans. Then her agent whispers the only words that could ever maker her stay: NAKED IN THE ICE.
Seven years ago, this blockbuster skyrocketed Kathleen Darcy to instant fame. Now the author's heirs are looking for a writer to pen the sequel. It's an opportunity no novelist in her right mind would pass up, and there's no doubting Jacqueline's sanity... until she starts digging through the missing woman's papers-and her past. Until she gets mixed up with Kathleen's enigmatic lover. Until a series of nasty accidents convince her much too late that someone wants to bring Jacqueline's story-and her life-to a premature | Y
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| ELIZABETH PETERS | NIGHT TRAIN TO MEMPHIS -
An assistant curator of Munich's National Museum, Vicky Bliss is no expert on egypt, but she does have a Ph.D. in solving crimes. So when an intelligence agency offers her a luxury Nile cruise if she'll help solve a murder and stop a heist of Egyptian antiquities, all 5'11" of her takes the plunge. Vicky suspects the authorities really want her to lead them to her missing lover, the art thief and master of disguises she knows only as "Sir John Smythe." And right in the shadow of the Sphinx she spots him... with his new flame. Vicky is so furious at this romantic stab-in-the-back, not to mention the sudden arrival of her meddling boss, Herr Dr. Schmidt, that she may overlook a danger as old as the pharaohs and as unchanging... a criminal who hides behind a mask of charm while moving in for the kill.
"Combining mystery, love affairs, and Egyptian history." -Dallas Morning News
"Night Train to Memphis is raucous fun, with just enough chills. Peters has written her own off-the-wall take on Agatha Christie's Death on the Nile-but it's Christie on amphetamines, with a bourbon chaser!" -Santa Barbara News-Press
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| ELIZABETH PETERS | THE MURDERS OF RICHARD III -
When attractive American Jacqueline Kirby is invited to an English country mansion for a weekend costume affair, she expects only one mystery. Since the hosts and guests are all fanatic devotees of King Richard III, they hope to clear his name of the 500-year-old accusation that he killed the little princes in the Tower of London.
Jacqueline is amused at the group's eccentricities until history begins to repeat itself. A dangerous practical joker recreates famous fifteenth-century murder methods-beheading, poisoning, smothering, and even drowning in a butt of malmsey. As the jokes become more and more macabre, one at last proves fatal.
Jacqueline puts all her observations together for a dazzling solution that will surprise even the most attentive listener. | Y
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| STEVEN SAYLOR | ROMAN BLOOD -
In Rome, 80 B.C., on a warm spring morning, Gordianus the Finder receives a summons to the house of a then-unknown young advocate and orator, Cicero. Ambitious and brilliant, the twenty-six-year-old Cicero is about to argue his first important case. his client is a wealthy farmer, one Sextus Roscius of the town of Ameria, who stands accused of the most unforgivable act in Ancient Rome: the murder of his father.
Hired by Cicero to investigate the charges, Gordianus sets out to discover the truth in a case-and a society-rife with deceit, betrayal, and conspiracy. As he draws nearer to the truth, the conspiracy looms ever larger until Gordianus begins to perceive the hand of the dictator Sulla himself. Playing for stakes much higher than he bargained for, Gordianus finds that not only is he himself endangered, but so are all those around him as well.
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| E.M. THORTON | THE FREUDIAN FALLACY -
This book makes the claims that Freud's central postulate, the unconscious mind, does not exist; that his theories were based on pathological phenomena; and that Freud himself, when formulating these theroies, was under the influence of a highly toxic drug, fully substantiating these bold claims with the use of case histories, current medical knowledge and letters written by Freud to Wilhelm Fliess, his closest friend during the period of time when he was formulating the ideas that are the basis of psychoanalysis. Gleaned from this correspondence is evidence of the influence of cocaine upon Freud's personality and theories.
Through the examination of the cases upon which Freud based his work, we see that his fundamental assumptions were grounded in fallacies. For example, favorable results achieved in the treatment of hysterics through hypnosis (based on the work of Charcot, the French neurologist) are invalidated by the author's proof that these patients were actually suffering from temporal lobe epilepsy. | Y
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