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Published by Brand: Arcade Publishing, 1994
ISBN 10: 155970246XISBN 13: 9781559702461
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Reprint. A man who rowed eight thousand miles across the Pacific describes his harrowing journey, battling currents that moved him backward, cyclones with one hundred mph winds, and waves that capsized his boat.
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Published by Brand: Arcade Publishing, 2003
ISBN 10: 1559706481ISBN 13: 9781559706483
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Softcover. Condition: Good. By focusing on the "document" in history, the author explores what this simple concept reveals about the people who use it every day, tracing its evolution from the handwritten correspondance of the nineteenth century to the digital documentation of the modern era. Reprint.
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Published by Brand: Arcade Publishing, 2000
ISBN 10: 1559705485ISBN 13: 9781559705486
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Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. A revealing portrait of acclaimed journalist Alistair Cooke offers a behind-the-scenes look at the man best known in the United States as the host of PBS's Masterpiece Theatre and discusses his role as one of the foremost commenators on American life and politics. 25,000 first printing.
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Published by Brand: Arcade Publishing, 1998
ISBN 10: 1559704276ISBN 13: 9781559704274
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Praised for his grasp of literary English, one of Africa's most distinguished novelists illuminates the culture and ideology of his native country through a novel set against the background of Somalia's civil war.
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Published by Brand: Arcade Publishing, 2000
ISBN 10: 155970537XISBN 13: 9781559705370
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. A lively history of the world's most prestigious award traces the history of the Nobel Prize, explaining how it originated, how it works, and how it is influenced by outside pressures and discussing the six fields in which it is awarded--literature, physics, chemistry, medicine, peace, and economics--and its laureates. 15,000 first printing.
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Published by Brand: Arcade Publishing, 1999
ISBN 10: 1559704853ISBN 13: 9781559704854
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First in the author's Blood in the Sun trilogy, the thematic novel tackles the problem of violence and civil war in East Africa.
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Published by Brand: Arcade Publishing, 2004
ISBN 10: 1559707194ISBN 13: 9781559707190
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Softcover. Condition: Good. The author of The Queen & Di presents a dual portrait of the young princes of England, describing their special challenges of growing up in the spotlight, dealing with their parents' breakup and mother's tragic death, their relationships with the royal family and each other, and their own personalities. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
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Published by Brand: Arcade Publishing, 1996
ISBN 10: 1559703377ISBN 13: 9781559703376
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Upon reading the latest universally acclaimed novel by the flamboyant French novelist Nicolas Fabry, Sir Edward Destry is shocked to discover that it is, in fact, the story of his own lover, who committed suicide under mysterious circumstances.
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Published by Brand: Arcade Pub, 1990
ISBN 10: 1559700793ISBN 13: 9781559700795
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Offers advice on curtains, lighting, upholstery, painting, stencilling, and collectables, and tells how to draw inspiration for decorating one's home from the seasons.
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Published by Brand: Arcade Publishing, 2003
ISBN 10: 1559706848ISBN 13: 9781559706841
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1. A provocative examination of the 1633 trial of Galileo by the Inquisition contends that the Galileo incited the opinions of his prosecutors by arguing against spirituality and that the disagreement was more about the nature of truth than about religious differences. 15,000 first printing.
Published by Brand: Arcade Publishing, 1993
ISBN 10: 1559702133ISBN 13: 9781559702133
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Softcover. Condition: Good. A collection of short stories by a world-renowned naturalist and author of My Family and Other Animals introduces an eccentric cast of characters including a prize-truffling pig in France and an aging Memphis belle.
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Published by Brand: Arcade Publishing, 2000
ISBN 10: 1559705132ISBN 13: 9781559705134
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Product Description Reluctant sleuth and adviser to the minister for Water Supply and the Arts, Murray Whelan becomes caught up in the madness involving the selection of a site for the next Summer Olympics, after a young athlete turns up dead, a crime that leads to a dramatic confrontation with an aborigine activist, a psychopath, a beautiful aerobics instructor, and Dr. Phillipa Verstak. From Publishers Weekly In the third book (after Stiff) of this wry Australian mystery series, sardonic and diffident detective Murray Whelan gets recruited to help the government win its bid to host the Summer Olympics. As a senior adviser to the minister for the department of water supply and the arts, Whelan would rather spend his time pedaling away his midlife paunch and ennui on an exercise bicycle while watching young women prance around in their seamless Lycra bodysuits than get entangled in politicking. But when Steve Radeski, a thick-necked weightlifter loaded up on ram steroids, rages through the streets of Melbourne and a promising young black triathlete turns up dead, Whelan knows he has no choice but to lace up his gumshoes. While the plot here tends to be rather formulaic, readers will be drawn to the lively cast of hilarious personalities, including a fat and dour minister of sport; a sexy, whip-smart physician battling her nicotine addiction; a vapid aerobics instructor; and a sly Aboriginal activist. Far and away the most fully realized character in this whimsical novel is Whelan himself, who makes for an irresistible narrator. Maloney renders a vulnerable and very human portrait of this unlikely hero as he struggles to quit smoking, lose weight, rejuvenate his waning sex life and reconnect with his young son, all the while trying to stop a psychopath dead in his tracks. In so doing, the author adds a fresh and immensely appealing dimension to the genre. (Mar.)Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library Journal Murray Whelan, an Australian arts ministry adviser, tries to support government efforts to impress the Olympics site selection committee but winds up investigating the murder of a young athlete. Another welcome, witty, off-the-wall, and devil-may-care adventure for Murray (Stiff).Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Kirkus Reviews Labor Party electorate officer Murray Whelan thinks he's got it made in the Australian shade. Lent by his boss, Honorable Member for the Melbourne Upper Angelo Agnelli, to the Melbourne Olympic Bid for the express purpose of keeping Koori activist Ambrose Buchanan cooperative during the International Olympic Committee's upcoming visit, he strikes what seems to be the deal of a lifetime: If the government agrees to fund an Aboriginal Institute of Sport, Ambrose will keep the ``blackfellers'' in line. Sports Minister Douglas Woeful McKenzie is ecstatic, seeing a p.r. coup within his grasp and knowing that if Melbourne wins its bid to host the 1990 Summer Games, the Institute will be almost wholly underwritten by advertising revenues. But win- win quickly turns into dead-dead. First, Darcy Anderson, rising triathlete and Ambrose's protg, is found beaten to death in Fitzroy, touching off a racially-tinged demonstration. Worse, while helping Holly Deloite, his aerobics instructor, get back her belongings, Murray finds Denis Dogherty, Woeful's aide and brother-in-law, with his head bashed in in the bedroom of Holly's steroid-enhanced ex-boyfriend. Once again, Murray (Stiff, 1999, etc.) tracks a killer to protect those he cares aboutas well as those he merely works for. Tight pace, believable dialogue, terrific puzzle: Melbourne may have missed the Olympics, but they have a first-rate amateur sleuth. --Copyright 2000, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. About the Author " Shane Maloney is the author of Stiff and The Brush-Off, the previous novels in the Murray Whelan mystery series. Before he became Austr.
Published by Brand: Arcade Publishing, 1994
ISBN 10: 1559701684ISBN 13: 9781559701686
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. One of America's greatest legal scholars reveals the historical, social, and even personal underpinnings of the Supreme Court's landmark decisions and educates readers on the way it works. 15,000 first printing.
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Published by Brand: Arcade Publishing, 1998
ISBN 10: 1559704152ISBN 13: 9781559704151
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Softcover. Condition: Good. 1st Arcade Ppbk Ed: 1998/1st Printing. A group of Albanian friends are torn apart by the political turmoil of the mid 1970s, as the nation's diplomatic ties with China begin to unravel, and their personal entanglements follow suit in the face of government insecurity.
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Published by Brand: Arcade Publishing, 2002
ISBN 10: 1559706430ISBN 13: 9781559706438
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1. The author confirms the existence of the unconscious mind and traces its importance, using hypnosis, psychoanalysis, subliminal manipulation, dreams, and hard science to trace the existence of this "hidden mind" within each individual. 15,000 first printing.
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Published by Brand: Arcade Publishing, 2001
ISBN 10: 1559705884ISBN 13: 9781559705882
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1. Two children grow up alone with their authoritarian father on an isolated estate, speaking a language and inhabiting a surreal universe of their own creation that has been shaped by their reading of tales of chivalry and philosophy, until the death of their father brings them into contact with the outside world and reveals the dark truth of their existence. 15,000 first printing.
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Published by Brand: Arcade Publishing, 1993
ISBN 10: 1559702222ISBN 13: 9781559702225
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. A biography of the inventor of dynamite and the founder of the Nobel Prize uses Nobel's unpublished letters to offer a compelling account of this introverted, sickly, moody, yet ultimately humane man.
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Published by Brand: Arcade Publishing, 1996
ISBN 10: 155970361XISBN 13: 9781559703611
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Softcover. Condition: Good. 1st Arcade pbk. ed. Widely considered one of the great dramatic creations of the modern stage, "Mother Courage and Her Children" is Bertolt Brecht's most passionate and profound statement against war. Set in the seventeenth century, the play follows Anna Fierling -- "Mother Courage" -- an itinerant trader, as she pulls her wagon of wares and her children through the blood and carnage of Europe's religious wars. Battered by hardships, brutality, and the degradation and death of her children, she ultimately finds herself alone with the one thing in which she truly believes -- her ramshackle wagon with its tattered flag and freight of boots and brandy. Fitting herself in its harness, the old woman manages, with the last of her strength, to drag it onward to the next battle. In the enduring figure of Mother Courage, Bertolt Brecht has created one of the most extraordinary characters in the literature of drama.
Published by Brand: Arcade Publishing, 1997
ISBN 10: 1559703911ISBN 13: 9781559703918
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. The touching story of an unusual friendship between a Jordanian king and a Jewish carpenter hired to do work on the palace is set against the backdrop of a time and place where peace between Arab and Jew seemed impossible.
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Published by Brand: Arcade Publishing, 1998
ISBN 10: 1559704446ISBN 13: 9781559704441
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st ptg. A savagely funny portrait of Jerry Marlow, a middle-aged Brit teaching at an Italian university, caught at the crossroads of his life, recounts his fantasies and memories with his current quest for cultural unity and true love. 10,000 first printing.
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Published by Brand: Arcade Pub, 1991
ISBN 10: 1559701161ISBN 13: 9781559701167
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Ved Vyas, India's oldest surviving politician from the days of Raj, reveals behind-the-scenes atrocities in India's struggle for independence.
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Published by Brand: Arcade Publishing, 1996
ISBN 10: 1559703474ISBN 13: 9781559703475
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Softcover. Condition: Good. The world-famous photographer and close friend of Henry Miller offers a memoir of the man he knew and the Paris they shared, reflecting on Miller's personality, art, and relationships, and featuring sixteen of Brassai's photographs. Reissue.
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Published by Brand: Arcade Publishing, 2008
ISBN 10: 155970893XISBN 13: 9781559708937
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Andrei, a 1960s Soviet schoolboy, recalls his summer visits with his grandmother, Charlotte, in a remote Siberian village, her magical tales of another time and world, and his difficulty reconciling the two contradictory and incompatible worlds that Charlotte's life has spanned.
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Published by Brand: Arcade Publishing, 2006
ISBN 10: 1559708255ISBN 13: 9781559708258
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. A profile of Hubert Wilkins chronicles the seminal contributions of the accomplished journalist, pilot, war hero, scientist, spy, and adventurer, especially in terms of his achievements in the field of polar exploration, the use of new technologies--including the submarine and airplane--and the role of the poles in changes in global weather and climate.
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Published by Brand: Arcade Publishing, 1995
ISBN 10: 1559703202ISBN 13: 9781559703208
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Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. The best way to hear the story of Raoul Wallenberg is through his own words. Put together from three different collections, Letters and Dispatches is the most thorough book of Wallenbergs writings and letters. With his disappearance behind the Iron Curtain in January of 1945, he became tragically mysterious. While the story of Wallenberg has been told many times over, the best way we can possibly understand and relate to him is through his written word, which Letters and Dispatches has in full.
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Published by Brand: Arcade Publishing, 1995
ISBN 10: 1559703172ISBN 13: 9781559703178
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Arcade edition. During his broadcasting career Alistair Cooke met and knew some of the twentieth century's most fascinating and legendary figures, in journalism, politics, public life, sport and film. This is his highly personal and revealing account of six remarkable men who crossed Cooke's path during his lifetime and who, each in their own way, made a lasting impression on him.Here are candid portraits of the lovable yet unreliable Charlie Chaplin, who, when asked to be Cooke's best man, mysteriously vanished on the day; the complex and private man behind Humphrey Bogart's tough guy image; and the charming yet childlike 'golden boy' Edward VIII. Cooke also recalls his friend and mentor, the flawed contrarian and satirist H.L. Mencken, the larger-than-life liberal politician Adlai Stevenson and the heroic social reformer Bertrand Russell. Each superbly realized portrait gives us an insight into a golden age of 'great men', and is a masterpiece of observation, warmth and humour.
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Published by Brand: Arcade Publishing, 1998
ISBN 10: 1559704160ISBN 13: 9781559704168
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Softcover. Condition: Good. A sinister totalitarian ministry called the Palace of Dreams recruits Mark-Alem to sort, classify, and interpret the dreams of the people in the empire, seeking the "master-dreams" that give clues to the empire's destiny.
Published by Brand: Arcade Pub, 1990
ISBN 10: 1559700688ISBN 13: 9781559700689
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition, Drawings and Notations. Book by Hague, Michael.
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Published by Brand: Arcade Publishing, 2002
ISBN 10: 1559706104ISBN 13: 9781559706100
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. From Publishers Weekly British novelist and essayist Tim Parks (Destiny, Adultery and Other Diversions) meditates on literature, art, and translation in Hell and Back: Reflections of Writers and Writing from Dante to Rushdie. The book includes close readings of contemporary writers like Ian Buruma and the late W.G. Sebald, as well as high modernists like Joyce and Borges, and Henry Green. Parks is also a translator of Italian, and there are a number of sketches of Italian writers (Italo Svevo, Eugenio Montale) and a piece on fascist painter Mario Sironi Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc. Product Description Filled with humor and insight, a vast array of thought-provoking reflections on literature and the art of writing discusses literary masterpieces from such authors as Samuel Beckett, Jorge Luis Borges, Henry Green, Christina Stead, and Giovanni Verga. From Library Journal Published previously in England, this title collects 19 essays by novelist Parks (Tongues of Flame), many of which first appeared in the New York Review of Books. In intelligent and readable discourses, Parks writes on such authors as Dante, Jorge Luis Borges, Giacomo Leopardi, W.G. Sebald, and Salman Rushdie. Fairly academic in approach, the essays aim at understanding the author in question though not at popularizing the works. In one essay, Parks discusses how he was prompted to discuss translation when one of his students failed to recognize the Italian version of a novel she had read in English translation. In another, he asks whether creative writing doesn't by nature involve "rancour" with other writers, a sort of occupational hazard. This title is of interest primarily to academic libraries with strong literature collections. Nancy P. Shires, East Carolina Univ., Greenville, NC Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc. About the Author Tim Parks is the author of ten novels and three works of nonfiction: Italian Neighbors, An Italian Education, and Adultery and OtherDiversions, which was published by Arcade. He has been awarded the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award, and the Betty Trask Award. His novel Europa was shortlisted for the 1997 Booker Prize. He lives in Verona, Italy.
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Published by Brand: Arcade Publishing, 1995
ISBN 10: 1559702702ISBN 13: 9781559702706
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Soraya M.s husband, Ghorban-Ali, couldnt afford to marry another woman. Rather than returning Sorayas dowry, as custom required before taking a second wife, he plotted with four friends and a counterfeit mullah to dispose of her. Together, they accused Soraya of adultery. Her only crime was cooking for a friends widowed husband. Exhausted by a lifetime of abuse and hardship, Soraya said nothing, and the makeshift tribunal took her silence as a confession of guilt. They sentenced her to death by stoning: a punishment prohibited by Islam but widely practiced.Day by day?sometimes minute by minute?Sahebjam deftly recounts these horrendous events, tracing Sorayas life with searing immediacy, from her arranged marriage and the births of her children to her husbands increasing cruelty and her horrifying execution, where, by tradition, her father, husband, and sons hurled the first stones. A stark look at the intersection between culture and justice, this is one womans story, but it stands for the stories of thousands of women who suffered?and continue to suffer?the same fate. It is a story that must be told.
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