The Humanoid Touch
by Jack Williamson
ISBN-13: 9780553249675
ISBN: 0553249673
Copyright © 1980
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"Decades before the current headlines about automation, computers and robots, Jack Williamson was examining the relationship between humankind and machines in his stories of the humanoids. Now, in The Humanoid Touch, the Grand Master of Science Fiction carries that saga to its final irresistible step. This is science fiction at its best: thoughtful, thought provoking, and thoroughly engrossing." --Ben Bova
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Science Fiction
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Greener Than You Think
by Ward Moore
ISBN: 0559107919
ISBN-13: 9780559107917
Copyright © 1947
Greener Than You Think
1975 Cover
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"Ward Moore's classic novel "Greener Than You Think" posits a world with Bermuda grass running out of control -- choking out every other plant and destroying the food supply of animals and humanity alike."
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Fiction
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A Confederate General
from Big Sur, Dreaming of
Babylon, & the Hawkline Monster
by Richard Brautigan
ISBN: 0395547032
ISBN-13: 9780395547038
Copyright © 1991
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"Richard Brautigan's comic genius and countercultural vision of American life made him a literary idol of the 1960s and early 1970s. He wrote ten novels, nine volumes of poetry, and a collection of short stories entitled REVENGE OF THE LAWN. His books became required reading for the beat generation, and TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA sold more than two million copies throughout the world. Brautigan committed suicide in 1984 at the age of fourty-nine."
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Terrorism
Espionage
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Triple Cross:
How bin Laden's Master Spy
Penetrated the CIA, the Green
Berets, and the FBI
by Peter Lance
ISBN: 0061189413
ISBN-13: 9780061189418
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" 'This is the most dangerous man I have ever met. We cannot let this man out on the street.'
—Assistant U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, 1997
In the years leading to the 9/11 attacks, no single agent of al Qaeda was more successful in compromising the U.S. intelligence community than Ali Mohamed. A former Egyptian army captain, Mohamed succeeded in infiltrating the CIA in Europe, the Green Berets at Fort Bragg, and the FBI in California—even as he helped to orchestrate the al Qaeda campaign of terror that culminated in 9/11. As investigative reporter Peter Lance demonstrates in this gripping narrative..."
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History
Sociology - General
Business Ethics
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The Salaried Masses
by Siegfried Kracauer,
Quintin Hoare (Translator)
ISBN: 1859841872
ISBN-13: 9781859841877
Copyright © 1930
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A fascinating study of Germany society on the eve of Nazism. First published in 1930, Siegfried Kracauer's work was greeted with great acclaim and soon attained the status of a classic. The object of his inquiry was the new class of salaried employees who populated the cities of Weimar Germany.
Spiritually homeless, divorced from all custom and tradition, these white-collar workers sought refuge in entertainment -- or the "distraction of industries," as Kracauer put it -- but, only three years later, were to flee into the arms of Adolf Hitler. Eschewing the instruments of traditional sociological scholarship, but without collapsing into mere journalistic reportage, Kracauer explores the contradictions of this caste.
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Almanac
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The Twentieth Century:
An Almanac
by Robert H. Ferrell (Editor),
John S. Bowman (Editor)
ISBN: 0345317084
ISBN-13: 9780345317087
Copyright © 1984
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From Mr. Wonderful:
This book order has an interesting history. I ordered the tome through Barnes & Noble's 'used copy' service and it arrived promptly from one of my favorite used book dealers, Sea Shell Books out of Clearwater Florida.
The only problem was, I ordered The Twentieth Century by Albert Robida, who in the 1880s (that would be the "19th Century" for you government-school-educated kids) wrote a science fiction book about the 20th Century.
Further checking with Sea Shell Books revealed that Barnes & Noble had assigned the Albert Robida authored book, The Twentieth Century, the same ISBN as The Twentieth Century: An Almanac.
This is what happens when you have a non-bibliophile working with books, when you have someone who doesn't get an almost turgid delight viewing the first twenty minutes of The Ninth Gate and someone whose spirit doesn't soar the instant he steps into a building with the aromas of paper, ink, and glued bindings swirling through the air.
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History
American (First)
Civil War
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April 1865
The Month that Saved America
by Jay Winik
ISBN: 0641979371
ISBN-13: 9780641979378
Copyright © 2001
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"It was a month that could have unraveled the nation. Instead, it saved it. In April 1865, Jay Winik masterfully breathes new life into the end of a war and the events we only thought we knew. This gripping, panoramic narrative takes readers on a breathless ride through these tumultuous 30 days, showing that the nation's future rested on a few crucial decisions and twists of fate. Here is Richmond's dramatic fall, Lee's harrowing retreat, and the intense debate in Confederate circles over unleashing guerrilla warfare. Here, too, is the rebel surrender at Appomattox, Lincoln's assassination five days later, and the ensuing fears of chaos and a coup, the shaky transfer of presidential power, and, finally, the start of national reconciliation.
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Fiction
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The Broom of the System
by David Foster Wallace
(B:1962 - D:2008)
ISBN: 0142002429
ISBN-13: 9780142002421
Copyright © 1987
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"Published when Wallace was just twenty-four years old, The Broom of the System stunned critics and marked the emergence of an extraordinary new talent. At the center of this outlandishly funny, fiercely intelligent novel is the bewitching heroine, Lenore Stonecipher Beadsman. The year is 1990 and the place is a slightly altered Cleveland, Ohio. Lenore's great-grandmother has disappeared with twenty-five other inmates of the Shaker Heights Nursing Home. Her beau, and boss, Rick Vigorous, is insanely jealous, and her cockatiel, Vlad the Impaler, has suddenly started spouting a mixture of..."
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Science Fiction
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House of Suns
by Alastair Reynolds
ISBN: 0441017177
ISBN-13: 9780441017171
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"Reynolds (The Prefect) returns to the universe of his 2005 novella "Thousandth Night" in this sprawling novel of intergalactic intrigue. It is 6.4 million years in the future and humanity has spread throughout the Milky Way. Some cultures have established transient empires across space; others, the Lines, have used relativistic travel to colonize deep time. Clone-siblings Campion and Purslane are delayed on their way to a Gentian Line reunion, a coincidence that saves them from a massacre..."
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Reference
Aircraft
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Jane's Aircraft Recognition Guide
by Michael J. Gething,
Gunter Endres
ISBN: 0061346195
ISBN-13: 9780061346194
Copyright © September 2007
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"The essential guide to the world's aircraft Over 500 color photographs Civilian and military aircraft Technical data Recognition silhouettes Aircraft markings identification..."
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Science Fiction
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Eternity Artifact
by L. E. Modesitt, Jr.
ISBN: 0765353458
ISBN-13: 9780765353450
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"Five thousand years in the future, humankind has spread across the galaxy and more than a dozen different planetary and system governments exist in an uneasy truce. Human beings have found no signs of other life anywhere approaching human intelligence. Until scientists discover a sunless planet they name Danann.
Moving at unnaturally high speed, Danann travels the void just beyond the edge of the galaxy. Its continents and oceans have been sculpted and shaped and there is but a single, almost perfectly-preserved megaplex upon the surface--with tens of thousands of near-identical metallic-silver-blue towers set along curved canals. Yet, Danann has been abandoned for so long that even the atmosphere has frozen solid"
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World War II
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The Brenner Assignment:
The Untold Story of the Most Daring
Spy Mission of World War II
by Patrick K. O'Donnell
ISBN: 030681577X
ISBN-13: 9780306815775
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"An impossible mission--Behind enemy lines--The never-before-told true story of a small team of American saboteurs with orders to sever the Third Reich’s main supply artery—the Brenner Pass.
Like a scene from Where Eagles Dare, a small team of American special operatives parachutes into Italy under the noses of thousands of German troops. Their orders: link up with local partisans in the mountains and sabotage the well-guarded Brenner Pass, the crucial route through the Alps for the Nazi war machine. Without the supplies that travel this route, the German war effort in Italy will grind to a halt."
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The Prefect
by Alastair Reynolds
ISBN: 0441015913
ISBN-13: 9780441015917
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"Tom Dreyfus is a Prefect, a law enforcement officer. His current case: investigating a murderous attack against one of the Glitter Band habitats that leaves nine hundred people dead. But then he uncovers an even greater threat—a covert plot by an enigmatic entity seeking nothing less than total control of the Glitter Band."
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Biography
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Boggs:
A Comedy of Values
by Lawrence Weschler
ISBN: 0226893952
ISBN-13: 9780226893952
Copyright © 1999
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"In this highly entertaining book, Lawrence Weschler chronicles the antics of J. S. G. Boggs, an artist whose consuming passion is money, or perhaps more precisely, value. Boggs draws money-paper notes in standard currencies from all over the world-and tries to spend his drawings. It is a practice that regularly lands him in trouble with treasury police around the globe and provokes fundamental questions regarding the value of art and the value of money."
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Death's Head
by David Gunn
ISBN: 0345503767
ISBN-13: 9780345503763
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"At the top of the galactic pecking order is the United Free, a civilization of awe-inspiring technological prowess so far in advance of other space-faring powers as to seem untouchable gods. Most of the known universe has fallen under their inscrutable sway. The rest is squabbled over by two empires: one ruled with an iron fist by OctoV, a tyrant who appears to his followers as..."
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The Digital Plague
by Jeff Somers
ISBN: 0316022101
ISBN-13: 9780316022101
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"Avery Cates is a very rich man. He's probably the richest criminal in New York City. But right now, Avery Cates is pissed. Because everyone around him has just started to die - in a particularly gruesome way. With every moment bringing the human race closer to extinction, Cates finds himself in the role of both executioner and savior of the entire world."
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Science Fiction
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The Unincorporated Man
by Dani Kollin, Eytan Kollin
ISBN: 0765318997
ISBN-13: 9780765318992
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" 'The incredible has happened. A billionaire businessman from our time, frozen in secret in the early twenty-first century, is discovered in the far future and resurrected, given health and a vigorous younger body. He awakens into a civilization in which every individual is formed into a legal corporation at birth and spends many years trying to attain control over their own life by getting a majority of his or her own shares. Life extension has made life very long indeed.' Justin Cord is the only unincorporated man in the world, a true stranger in this strange land."
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