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Price: $25.00
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Sale: $24.00
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Manufacturer: Scribner
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Harold Bloom
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Publisher: Scribner
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Dewey Decimal Number: 028.9
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Publication Date: 2000-06
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Reading Level: 432
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Description: Harold Bloom's urgency in How to Read and Why may have much to do with his age. He brackets his combative, inspiring manual with the news that he is nearing 70 and hasn't time for the mediocre. (One doubts that he ever did.) Nor will he countenance such fashionable notions as the death of the author or abide "the vagaries of our current counter-Puritanism" let alone "ideological cheerleading." Successively exploring the short story, poetry, the novel, and drama, Bloom illuminates both the how and why of his title and points us in all the right directions: toward the Romantics because they "startle us out of our sleep-of-death into a more capacious sense of life"; toward Austen, James, Proust; toward Thomas Mann, Toni Morrison, and Cormac McCarthy; toward Cervantes and Shakespeare (but of course!), Ibsen and Oscar Wilde. How should we read? Slowly, with love, openness, and with our inner ear cocked. Then we should reread, reread, reread, and do so aloud as often as possible. "As a boy of eight," he tells us, "I would walk about chanting Housman's and William Blake's lyrics to myself, and I still do, less frequently yet with undiminished fervor." And why should we engage in this apparently solitary activity? To increase our wit and imagination, our sense of intimacy--in short, our entire consciousness--and also to heal our pain. "Until you become yourself," Bloom avers, "what benefit can you be to others." So much for reading as an escape from the self! Still, many of this volume's pleasures may indeed be selfish. The author is at his best when he is thinking aloud and anew, and his material offers him--and therefore us--endless opportunities for discovery. Bloom cherishes poetry because it is "a prophetic mode" and fiction for its wisdom. Intriguingly, he fears more for the fate of the latter: "Novels require more readers than poems do, a statement so odd that it puzzles me, even as I agree with it." We must, he adjures, crusade against its possible extinction and read novels "in the coming years of the third millennium, as they were read in the eighteenth and nineteenth century: for aesthetic pleasure and for spiritual insight." Bloom is never heavy, since his vision quest contains a healthy love of irony--Jedediah Purdy, take note: "Strip irony away from reading, and it loses at once all discipline and all surprise." And this supreme critic makes us want to equal his reading prowess because he writes as well as he reads; his epigrams are equal to his opinions. He is also a master allusionist and quoter. His section on Hedda Gabler is preceded by three extraordinary statements, two from Ibsen, who insists, "There must be a troll in what I write." Who would not want to proceed? Of course, Bloom can also accomplish his goal by sheer obstinacy. As far as he is concerned, Don Quixote may have been the first novel but it remains to this day the best one. Is he perhaps tweaking us into reading this gigantic masterwork by such bald overstatement? Bloom knows full well that a prophet should stop at nothing to get his belief and love across, and throughout How to Read and Why he is as unstinting as the visionary company he adores. --Kerry Fried
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Price: $9.98
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Sale: $2.43
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Manufacturer: Federal Street Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: Federal Street Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 423.1
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Publication Date: 2004-06-16
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Reading Level: 400
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Reading Level: Young Adult
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Description: Webster's New Explorer Dictionary of Synonyms & Antonyms is a unique resource for those looking to expand their vocabulary and improve their communication skills. Many words have meanings shared by a group of synonyms, yet they are not always interchangeable. This user-friendly dictionary defines and compares like words, and shows the correct use of each synonym in a phrase or sentence. Having the ability to identify the best word to express your thoughts adds spark and clarity to your writing and speaking.
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Manufacturer: Quinten Publishing
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Cody L. Jones
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Publisher: Quinten Publishing
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Dewey Decimal Number: 223.706
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Publication Date: 1999-05
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Reading Level: 566
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Description: Proverbs is the only book in the Bible devoted exclusively to the art of success. By citing both negative and positive rules of life, Proverbs clarifies wise and foolish choices in a host of situations. The central spiritual principle that will transform your life is the law of love. "Pleasant words are like a honeycomb,
sweetness to the soul and health to the body."
-Proverbs 16.24
"Better is a dinner of vegetables where love is
than a fatted ox and hatred with it."
-Proverbs 15.17
The Complete Guide to the Book of Proverbs is the first Bible commentary in 2700 years to solve the ancient mysteries of the identities of Lady Wisdom, Solomon's secret ghost writer, the seven pillars of wisdom, the woman of noble character, Agur, Lemuel, and Lemuel's mother.
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Price: $99.95
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Sale: $151.05
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Manufacturer: Industrial Press, Inc.
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Franklin Jones::Henry Ryffel::Erik Oberg::Christopher McCauley::Ricardo Heald
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Publisher: Industrial Press, Inc.
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Edition: 26
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Dewey Decimal Number: 620
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Publication Date: 2000-04-15
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Reading Level: 2640
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Description: While virtually every section has been carefully reviewed and updated to one degree or another, the following are the most notable improvements: - Nearly 100 pages longer overall than prior editions.
- An expanded table of contents and index to make finding information easier and faster.
- Expanded coverage of speeds and feeds, including new material on grinding.
- A new and innovative presentation on the econometrics of machining and grinding which is designed to help lower unit manufacturing costs and/or maximize production output in the most cost-effective way.
- An expanded mathematics section, including new coverage of coordinate systems and interpolations.
Aside from changes in content (and there are many others too numerous to list), the Handbook's editors have paid close attention to enhancing the clarity of the presentation through improved page layout and graphics.
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Price: $29.95
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Sale: $19.77
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Manufacturer: Thorndike Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Elizabeth Drake
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Publisher: Thorndike Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 613
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Publication Date: 2008-01-22
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Reading Level: 487
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Description: You are in a hurry to get to the doctor s office. The doctor too, is pressed for time; the waiting room is full and time is of the essence. Under the pressure, you forget to ask the questions or seek further advice that you have been meaning to ask. 50 plus one Questions to Ask Your Doctor is a simple, clear, practical and up-to-date; take it to the doctor s office with you as a reminder of what you need to discuss.
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Price: $31.99
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Sale: $31.99
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Manufacturer: Ulverscroft Large Print
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: Ulverscroft Large Print
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Edition: 6
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Publication Date: 1987-01
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Reading Level: 674
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Price: $28.95
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Sale: $85.26
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Manufacturer: Thorndike Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Julia Alvarez::Rolando Costa Picazo
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Publisher: Thorndike Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
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Publication Date: 2002-11
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Reading Level: 603
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Description: On a deserted mountain road in the Dominican Republic in 1960, three young women from a pious Catholic family were assassinated after visiting their husbands who had been jailed as suspected rebel leaders. The Mirabal sisters, thus martyred, became mythical figures in their country, where they are known as Las Mariposas (the butterflies). Three decades later, Julia Alvarez, daughter of the Dominican Republic and author of the acclaimed How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, brings the Mirabal sisters back to life in this extraordinary novel. Each of the sisters speaks in her own voice, beginning as young girls in the 1940s, their stories vary from hair ribbons to gun-running to prison torture. Their story is framed by their surviving sister who tells her own tale of suffering and dedication to the memory of Las Mariposas. This inspired portrait of four women is a haunting statement about the human cost of political oppression, and is destined to take its place alongside Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude and Allende's The House of the Spirits as one of the great 20th-century Latin American novels.
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Oxford
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 423
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Publication Date: 2000-04
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Reading Level: 249
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Reading Level: Young Adult
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Description: This dictionary is printed on special cream paper with an enlarged typeface, to help with reading. DT Contains the full text of The Oxford Junior Dictionary DT 6,000 headword entries DT An introduction on how to use the dictionary DT No abbreviations DT Example phrases and sentences to show words in context
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Price: $29.95
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Sale: $31.23
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Manufacturer: Peak Performance Publishing (NE)
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Stephen J. Brennan::Bill Donaldson
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Publisher: Peak Performance Publishing (NE)
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Dewey Decimal Number: 790
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Publication Date: 2001-11
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Reading Level: 285
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Price: $16.95
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Sale: $38.80
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Manufacturer: Random House Large Print
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Colin L. Powell::Joseph Persico
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Publisher: Random House Large Print
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Dewey Decimal Number: 355.0092
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Publication Date: 2003-05-14
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Reading Level: 992
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Description: General Powell may have undertaken this book as a form of paid political test marketing, but it turns out to be a success of an altogether different kind. We don't learn from this book if Powell is presidential material, but his recounting of the various steps of his career give us an unrivaled view of the ins and outs of military bureaucracy and shows how the modern American military, with its consistent emphasis on can-do attitudes and actual results, is a much more congenial place for realizing one's talents than our still-alarmingly pigeonholing general society.
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