Review The No Logo of its age . Strangely enthralling, an epiphany for those of us who have forgotten how to look...
(06/02/08) Review The No Logo of its age . Strangely enthralling, an epiphany for those of us who have forgotten how to look forward to things or enjoy the moment when it arrives. The Herald (UK) Honoré is particularly good at detailing the addictive properties and vagaries of speed, and its ill effects on individuals and society, including himself. The Globe and Mail Its about time someone took issue with the underlying mentality that sets our daily metronome.... Those who savour this hopeful book one chapter at a time will be the biggest winners. Its seductively crafted in this way ... measuring out its subversive but ultimately healing message. Edmonton Journal Honoré offers compelling evidence that suggests controlling your own tempo of life is not only a healthier and happier alternative, but leads to a more rewarding and productive lifestyle. Toronto Star "Life is getting faster, no doubt about it. We rush everything: we eat fast food, have quickie sex, drive like maniacs, and...See less
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Amazon.com: How To Be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul: Adrian Shaughnessy, Stefan Sagmeister: Books
(01/13/09) Amazon.com: How To Be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul: Adrian Shaughnessy, Stefan Sagmeister: BooksSee less
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Amazon.com In his debut novel, The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini accomplishes what very few contemporary novelists are...
(01/13/09) Amazon.com In his debut novel, The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini accomplishes what very few contemporary novelists are able to do. He manages to provide an educational and eye-opening account of a country's political turmoil--in this case, Afghanistan--while also developing characters whose heartbreaking struggles and emotional triumphs resonate with readers long after the last page has been turned over. And he does this on his first try. The Kite Runner follows the story of Amir, the privileged son of a wealthy businessman in Kabul, and Hassan, the son of Amir's father's servant. As children in the relatively stable Afghanistan of the early 1970s, the boys are inseparable. They spend idyllic days running kites and telling stories of mystical places and powerful warriors until an unspeakable event changes the nature of their relationship forever, and eventually cements their bond in ways neither boy could have ever predicted. Even after Amir and his father flee to America, Amir remains...See less
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Amazon.com Review Verticality, architectural and social, is the lofty idea at the heart of Colson Whitehead's odd, sly,...
(09/07/09) Amazon.com Review Verticality, architectural and social, is the lofty idea at the heart of Colson Whitehead's odd, sly, and ultimately irresistible first novel. The setting is an unnamed though obviously New Yorkish high-rise city, the time less convincingly future than deliciously other, as it combines 21st-century engineering feats with 19th-century pork-barrel politics and smoky working-class pubs. Elevators are the technological expression of the vertical idea, and Lila Mae Watson, the city's first black female elevator inspector, is its embattled token of upward mobility. Lila Mae's good ol' boy colleagues in the Department of Elevator Inspectors are understandably jealous of the flawless record that her natural intelligence and diligence have earned, and understandably delighted when Number Eleven in the newly completed Fanny Briggs Memorial Building goes into deadly free fall just hours after Lila Mae has signed off on it, using the controversial "Intuitionist" method of...See less
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Too many books on frugal living focus on the negative, throwing around words such as “sacrifice” and “responsibility”...
(05/20/09) Too many books on frugal living focus on the negative, throwing around words such as “sacrifice” and “responsibility” like there was a fire sale at the Boring Store. WiseBread.com and this book offer much more—useful information in a folksy and relatable format based on the candid, hilarious, and sometimes painful personal experiences of the writers. The writers at Wise Bread believe the key to financial wellness isn’t a ramen-eating, vacation-skipping, fun-depriving life. Far from it. The best way to ensure that readers will stick to a budget, especially in tough economic times, is to help them create a lifestyle that is as much fun as it is practical. What kind of tips can you expect from this money-saving book? How about… * 15 Ways to Make Your Clothes Last Longer * 7 Beauty Secrets that Cost Almost Nothing * How to Sound More Confident in One Simple Step * 20 Tips for Getting Your Security Deposit Back * How to Get Rid of Your Junk * 4 Tips for Cutting Out Cable TV Without Missing...See less
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In her first novel, award-winning Indian screenwriter Arundhati Roy conjures a whoosh of wordplay that rises from the...
(06/02/08) In her first novel, award-winning Indian screenwriter Arundhati Roy conjures a whoosh of wordplay that rises from the pages like a brilliant jazz improvisation. The God of Small Things is nominally the story of young twins Rahel and Estha and the rest of their family, but the book feels like a million stories spinning out indefinitely; it is the product of a genius child-mind that takes everything in and transforms it in an alchemy of poetry. The God of Small Things is at once exotic and familiar to the Western reader, written in an English that's completely new and invigorated by the Asian Indian influences of culture and language.See less
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Julia Child singlehandedly created a new approach to American cuisine with her cookbook Mastering the Art of French...
(06/02/08) Julia Child singlehandedly created a new approach to American cuisine with her cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking and her television show The French Chef, but as she reveals in this bestselling memoir, she was not always a master chef. Indeed, when she first arrived in France in 1948 with her husband, Paul, who was to work for the USIS, she spoke no French and knew nothing about the country itself. But as she dove into French culture, buying food at local markets and taking classes at the Cordon Bleu, her life changed forever with her newfound passion for cooking and teaching. Julia’s unforgettable story – struggles with the head of the Cordon Bleu, rejections from publishers to whom she sent her now-famous cookbook, a wonderful, nearly fifty-year long marriage that took them across the globe – unfolds with the spirit so key to her success as a chef and a writer, brilliantly capturing one of the most endearing American personalities of the last fifty years.See less
Amazon.com: Outliers: The Story of Success: Malcolm Gladwell: Books
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Amazon.com: Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant: Jenni Ferrari-Adler: Books
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* Paperback: 224 pages * Publisher: MTV (February 1, 1999) * Language: English * ISBN-10: 0671027344 * ISBN-13:...
(06/24/08) * Paperback: 224 pages * Publisher: MTV (February 1, 1999) * Language: English * ISBN-10: 0671027344 * ISBN-13: 978-0671027346 * Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 5 x 0.5 inches * Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies) * Average Customer Review: based on 1227 reviews. (Write a review.) * Amazon.com Sales Rank: $&1,137 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books) Popular in these categories: (What's this?)See less
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Take a peek inside the heads of some of the world’s greatest living graphic designers. How do they think, how do they...
(06/02/08) Take a peek inside the heads of some of the world’s greatest living graphic designers. How do they think, how do they connect to others, what special skills do they have? In honest and revealing interviews, nineteen designers, including Stefan Sagmeister, Michael Beirut, David Carson, and Milton Glaser, share their approaches, processes, opinions, and thoughts about their work with noted brand designer Debbie Millman. The internet radio talk host of Design Matters, Millman persuades the greatest graphic designers of our time to speak frankly and openly about their work. How to Think Like a Great Graphic Designers offers a rare opportunity to observe and understand the giants of the industry. Designers interviewed include:Milton GlaserStefan SagmeisterDavid CarsonPaula ScherAbbott MilerLucille TenazasPaul SahreEmily Oberman and Bonnie SieglerChip KiddJames VictoreCarin GoldbergMichael BierutSeymour ChwastJessica Helfand and William DrenttelSteff GeissbuhlerJohn MaedaSee less
This is a deep, magical, densely captivating book about space, our homes, how we live in them, and how dwellings and...
(06/02/08) This is a deep, magical, densely captivating book about space, our homes, how we live in them, and how dwellings and space affect us; it is as much a book of philosophy as a work of serious literature. It requires careful, preferably leisurely reading, with the possibility of moments to pause and digest and re-read the words. It will change the way you look at your home and your life, providing a deeper, more insightful relationship with the spaces you occupy.See less
Amazon.com: Julie and Julia : 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen: Julie Powell: Books
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Whether she is contemplating the history of walking as a cultural and political experience over the past two hundred...
(06/02/08) Whether she is contemplating the history of walking as a cultural and political experience over the past two hundred years (Wanderlust), or using the life of photographer Eadweard Muybridge as a lens to discuss the transformations of space and time in late nineteenth-century America (River of Shadows), Rebecca Solnit has emerged as an inventive and original writer whose mind is daring in the connections it makes. A Field Guide to Getting Lost draws on emblematic moments and relationships in Solnits own life to explore the issues of wandering, being lost, and the uses of the unknown. The result is a distinctive, stimulating, and poignant voyage of discovery. BACKCOVER: A meditation on the pleasures and terrors of getting lost The New Yorker This indispensable California writers most personal book yet. San Francisco Chronicle An intriguing amalgam of personal memoir, philosophical speculation, natural lore, cultural history, and art criticism . . . a book to set you wandering...See less
"All over England people were waking up, queasy and despondent." Few writers have walked the line between farce and...
(06/02/08) "All over England people were waking up, queasy and despondent." Few writers have walked the line between farce and tragedy as nimbly as Evelyn Waugh, who employed the conventions of the comic novel to chip away at the already crumbling English class system. His 1934 novel, A Handful of Dust, is a sublime example of his bleak satirical style: a mordantly funny exposé of aristocratic decadence and ennui in England between the wars. Tony Last is an aristocrat whose attachment to an ideal feudal past is so profound that he is blind to his wife Brenda's boredom with the stately rhythms of country life. While he earnestly plays the lord of the manor in his ghastly Victorian Gothic pile, she sets herself up in a London flat and pursues an affair with the social-climbing idler John Beaver. In the first half of the novel Waugh fearlessly anatomizes the lifestyles of the rich and shameless. Everyone moves through an endless cycle of parties and country-house weekends, being scrupulously...See less
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Waiting for Godot has become one of the most frequently discussed and influential plays in the history of the theater....
(06/02/08) Waiting for Godot has become one of the most frequently discussed and influential plays in the history of the theater. This volume presents a comprehensive critical study of Samuel Beckett's first and most renowned dramatic work. Lawrence Graver discusses the play's background and provides a detailed analysis of its originality and distinction as a landmark of modern theatrical art. He also reviews some of the differences between Beckett's original French version and his English translation.See less
Because Chekhov’s plays convey the universally recognizable, sometimes comic, sometimes dramatic, frustrations of decent...
(06/02/08) Because Chekhov’s plays convey the universally recognizable, sometimes comic, sometimes dramatic, frustrations of decent people trying to make sense of their lives, they remain as fresh and vigorous as when they were written a century ago. Gathered here in superb new renderings by one of the most highly regarded translators of our time—versions that have been staged throughout the United States, Canada, and Great Britain—are Chekhov’s four essential masterpieces for the theater.See less
Born in 1935, Allen Stewart Konigsberg (better known as Woody Allen) is today one of the most influential figures in...
(06/02/08) Born in 1935, Allen Stewart Konigsberg (better known as Woody Allen) is today one of the most influential figures in cinema. He has written and directed such memorable films as Annie Hall and Manhattan, and has acted in over 40 films. He is also the author of three books--Getting Even (1971), Without Feathers (1975), and Side Effects (1980). The Complete Prose of Woody Allen brings these memorable titles together for one bumper collection--a must-have for Allen addicts. Getting Even is a collection of 17 of Allen's magazine pieces from the late 1960s discussing such bizarre topics as the invention of the sandwich, laundry lists, death, obesity, and, of course, rabbis. Without Feathers delivers more of Allen's New Yorker-style humor. Worthy stand-outs include "If the Impressionists Had Been Dentists," a genius piece that puts oral surgery in a whole new, much more exciting, light. Finally, Side Effects compiles Allen's best New Yorker essays from the late 1970s. Although not as...See less
"Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities visited on his...
(06/02/08) "Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities visited on his expeditions, but the emperor of the Tartars does continue listening to the young Venetian with greater attention and curiosity than he shows any other messenger or explorer of his." So begins Italo Calvino's compilation of fragmentary urban images. As Marco tells the khan about Armilla, which "has nothing that makes it seem a city, except the water pipes that rise vertically where the houses should be and spread out horizontally where the floors should be," the spider-web city of Octavia, and other marvelous burgs, it may be that he is creating them all out of his imagination, or perhaps he is recreating details of his native Venice over and over again, or perhaps he is simply recounting some of the myriad possible forms a city might take. See less
* This item is eligible for our 4-for-3 promotion. Eligible products include select Books, Single Copy Magazines, and...
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In these edgy, elegant poems, Éireann Lorsung seeks balance in her world between the need for permanence and the heady...
(06/02/08) In these edgy, elegant poems, Éireann Lorsung seeks balance in her world between the need for permanence and the heady seductiveness of the moment. Her intuitive knowledge of poetic form (line breaks, enjambment, repetition, punctuation) and her strong poetic voice channel some of the genre’s greats while remaining distinctive. From the prayer-like musicality of “All Through the Night,” to the visually dynamic “Oceanside,” to the theatrical “Bird Woman, Duck Hunting,” these poems exhibit a visceral creativity that establishes the author as a major new voice in the field.See less
Book Description "When it comes to love, there are a million theories to explain it. But when it comes to love...
(06/02/08) Book Description "When it comes to love, there are a million theories to explain it. But when it comes to love stories, things are simpler. A love story can never be about full possession. Love stories depend on disappointment, on unequal births and feuding families, on matrimonial boredom and at least one cold heart. Love stories, nearly without exception, give love a bad name . . . . It is perhaps only in reading a love story (or in writing one) that we can simultaneously partake of the ecstasy and agony of being in love without paying a crippling emotional price. I offer this book, then, as a cure for lovesickness and an antidote to adultery. Read these love stories in the safety of your single bed. Let everybody else suffer."—Jeffrey Eugenides, from the introduction to My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead All proceeds from My Mistress's Sparrow is Dead will go directly to fund the free youth writing programs offered by 826 Chicago. 826 Chicago is part of the network of seven...See less
Book contains these nine stories: "A Perfect Day for Bananafish", Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut", "Just Before the War...
(06/02/08) Book contains these nine stories: "A Perfect Day for Bananafish", Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut", "Just Before the War With the Eskimos", "The Laughing Man", "Down at the Dinghy", "For Esme...With Love and Squalor", "Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes", "De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period" and "Teddy"See less
A stellar host of writers explore the cornerstone of fiction writing: character The Book of Other People is about...
(06/02/08) A stellar host of writers explore the cornerstone of fiction writing: character The Book of Other People is about character. Twenty-five or so outstanding writers have been asked by Zadie Smith to make up a fictional character. By any measure, creating character is at the heart of the fictional enterprise, and this book concentrates on writers who share a talent for making something recognizably human out of words (and, in the case of the graphic novelists, pictures). But the purpose of the book is variety: straight realismif such a thing existsis not the point. There are as many ways to create character as there are writers, and this anthology features a rich assortment of exceptional examples. The writers featured in The Book of Other People include: Aleksandar Hemon Nick Hornby Hari Kunzru Toby Litt David Mitchell George Saunders Colm Tóibín Chris Ware, and moreSee less
This collection of Neruda's most essential poems will prove indispensable. Selected by a team of poets and prominent...
(06/02/08) This collection of Neruda's most essential poems will prove indispensable. Selected by a team of poets and prominent Neruda scholars in both Chile and the U.S., this is a definitive selection that draws from the entire breadth and width of Neruda's various styles and themes. An impressive group of translators that includes Alistair Reid, Stephen Mitchell, Robert Hass, Stephen Kessler and Jack Hirschman, have come together to revisit or completely retranslate the poems; and a handful of previously untranslated works are included as well. This selection sets the standard for a general, high--quality introduction to Neruda's complete oeuvre. Pablo Neruda was born in Chile in 1904. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971.See less
In his most extraordinary book, "one of the great clinical writers of the 20th century" (The New York Times) recounts...
(06/02/08) In his most extraordinary book, "one of the great clinical writers of the 20th century" (The New York Times) recounts the case histories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders. Oliver Sacks's The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat tells the stories of individuals afflicted with fantastic perceptual and intellectual aberrations: patients who have lost their memories and with them the greater part of their pasts; who are no longer able to recognize people and common objects; who are stricken with violent tics and grimaces or who shout involuntary obscenities; whose limbs have become alien; who have been dismissed as retarded yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical talents.If inconceivably strange, these brilliant tales remain, in Dr. Sacks's splendid and sympathetic telling, deeply human. They are studies of life struggling against incredible adversity, and they enable us to enter the world of the neurologically impaired, to...See less
The second revision in sixty years, this sublime collection ranges over the verse, stories, essays, and journalism of...
(06/02/08) The second revision in sixty years, this sublime collection ranges over the verse, stories, essays, and journalism of one of the twentieth centurys most quotable authors.See less
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