Paula Fredriksen

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Washington

The Origins of the New Testament Images of Jesus

Carefully examining the New Testament texts, the author provides new insights into such issues as the social and religious problems facing the various early Christian communities, the content of Jesus' ministry and the circumstances of his crucifixion, and the reasons why Jews of the Diaspora - Paul, initially, among them-- rejected Jesus' apostles.

From Jesus to Christ

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Michael S. Durham

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Apparitions, Legends, and Miraculous Works of the Blessed Virgin Mary

A variety of images and stories about Mary, grouped thematically with carefully documented sources for the illustrations.

Miracles of Mary

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Allan Bloom

How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students

The Closing of the American Mind, a publishing phenomenon in hardcover, is now a paperback literary event. In this acclaimed number one national best-seller, one of our country's most distinguished political philosophers argues that the social/political crisis of 20th-century America is really an intellectual crisis. Allan Bloom's sweeping analysis is essential to understanding America today. It has fired the imagination of a public ripe for change.

Closing of the American Mind

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Joe Klein

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

A Life

A biography of the influential American folk singer, Woody Guthrie, who lived a life on the edge of tragedy but inspired a generation of songwriters, including Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan. 
 
Few artists have captured the American experience of their time as wholly as folk legend Woody Guthrie. Singer, songwriter, and political activist, Guthrie drew a lifetime of inspiration from his roots on the Oklahoma frontier in the years before the Great Depression. His music--scathingly funny songs and poignant folk ballads--made heard the unsung life of field hands, migrant workers, and union organizers, and showed it worthy of tribute. Though his career was tragically cut short by the onset of a degenerative disease that ravaged his mind and body, the legacy of his life and music had already made him an American cultural icon, and has resounded with every generation of musician and music lover since.
 
In this definitive biography, Joe Klein, nationally renowned journalist and author of the bestselling novel Primary Colors, creates an unforgettable portrait of a man as gifted, restless, and complicated as the American landscape he came from.
 
Praise for Woody Guthrie: A Life
 
"One of the finest treatments of an American 20th-century performer ever written . . . Not merely a biography . . . it is a social history . . . written knowledgeably, in a brilliant style."--San Francisco Examiner
 
"A really great book."--Bruce Springsteen

Woody Guthrie

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Bernie Sanders

John Nichols

The political autobiography of the insurgent presidential candidate Bernie Sanders’s campaign for the presidency of the United States has galvanized people all over the country, putting economic, racial, and social justice into the spotlight, and raising hopes that Americans can take their country back from the billionaires and change the course of history. In this book, Sanders tells the story of a passionate and principled political life. He describes how, after cutting his teeth in the Civil Rights movement, he helped build a grassroots political movement in Vermont, making it possible for him to become the first independent elected to the US House of Representatives in forty years. The story continues into the US Senate and through the dramatic launch of his presidential campaign.

Outsider in the White House

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Jane Roberts

A Seth Book

In this perennial bestseller, Seth challenges our assumptions about the nature of reality. He explains how the conscious mind directs unconscious activity and has at its command all the powers of the inner self. Included are excellent exercises for applying these theories to any life situation. -- From product description.

The Nature of Personal Reality

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Critical examination of Communism from  leading Oxford specialist on Soviet affairs.

Fifty Years of Communism

Ayn Rand

Nathaniel Branden

Alan Greenspan

Robert Hessen

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

The Unknown Ideal (50th Anniversary Edition)

In this series of essays, Ayn Rand presents her stand on the persecution of big business, the causes of war, the default of conservatism, and the evils of altruism.

The foundations of capitalism are being battered by a flood of altruism, which is the cause of the modern world's collapse. This is the view of Ayn Rand, a view so radically opposed to prevailing attitudes that it constitutes a major philosophic revolution. Here is a challenging new look at modern society by one of the most provocative intellectuals on the American scene.

This edition includes two articles by Ayn Rand that did not appear in the hardcover edition- "The Wreckage of the Consensus," which presents the Objectivists' views on Vietnam and the draft; and "Requiem for Man," an answer to the Papal encyclical Progresso Populorum.

Capitalism

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Adocumentary of Revolution in a Chinese village.

Fanshen

The lide story of a holy man of the Ogala Sioux

Black Elk Speaks

Joan McDonald Brearley

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

All about Himalayan Cats

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James Herriot

Between these covers, teller and tales finally meet in a warm and joyful new collection that will bring delight to the hearts of readers the world over:James Herriot's Cat Stories. Here are Buster, the kitten who arrived on Christmas; Alfred, the cat at the sweet shop; little Emily, who lived with the gentleman tramp; and Olly and Ginny, the kittens who charmed readers when they first appeared at the Herriots' house in the worldwide bestsellerEvery Living Thing. And along with these come others, each story as memorable and heartwarming as the last, each told with that magical blend of gentle wit and human compassion that marks every word from James Herriot's pen.

Cat Stories

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Antoine de Baecque

Seven Deaths under the French Revolution

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Glory and Terror

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Richard Erdoes

Alfonso Ortiz

Combines a bounty of unpublished tales related to the authors by living storytellers with the best of folklore sources to provide 160 myths and legends of more than 80 tribal groups across the continent

American Indian Myths and Legends

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Bill Ayers

A Memoir

Bill Ayers was born into privilege and is today a highly respected educator and community activist. For ten years, he lived on the run as a fugitive, stealing explosives, planting bombs, hiding from the law, and practicing "tradecraft" out of a John Le Carre novel. This portrait of a young pacifist who became a founder of one of the most militant political organizations in U.S. history is drawn with amazing candor and immediacy. Ayers begins with his education as a rebel, his increasing sense of horror at the American involvement in Viet Nam, and his growing love for his comrade Diana Oughton. He takes us to the streets of Detroit, Cleveland, and Chicago, inside the Days of Rage, SDS, the Black Panthers, and deep into the Weather Underground. At the center of the book is a terrible explosion-an apparent accident-in which Diana and two other comrades are killed. The organization is fragmented, and Ayers is shattered. Slowly he begins to rebuild his life, as a fugitive, with the help of Bernardine Dohrn, whose likeness hangs in every post office in America on the Ten Most Wanted list. Bill and Bernardine become Joe and Rose, working to disarm splinter groups, helping break Timothy Leary out of jail, creating elaborate false identities, and carrying out strategic, bloodless bombings, including one actually inside the Pentagon. Ayers and his comrades become America's other Viet Nam vets.This is the story of one boy's journey into life-his complicated love for his parents and the society that raised him, his coming of age into a world in flames, falling deeper and deeper into a single-minded way of thinking and the loss that all that represented. Ayers writes openly about his regrets, and what he continues to believe was right. Fugitive Days is about a young dreamer, troubled by what he saw, struggling to find a way to make the world a better place, and now grappling with his own story, crafting narrative from memory's elusiveness.

Fugitive Days

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How to avoid dangerous everyday  products and buy or make safe ones.

A guide for consumers

Nontoxic & Natural

Jane Kirkpatrick

Chronicles the harrowing journey of eleven women across the American west and their efforts to settle in California.

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