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Fiction
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All New People
Anne Lamott
ISBN: 1582430543
ISBN-13: 9781582430546
Copyright © 1989
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April 2007
barnesandnoble.com
73,609
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Library Journal:
"In this child's-eye view of the fear and pain of growing up, Lamott shows in vivid word pictures that the child is parent of the adult. Nan Goodman, hurting after a failed marriage and her father's death, goes back to the town of her childhood. As skinny little Nanny, aged five to 12, she either adored or was ashamed of her leftist parents, her writer father who never made enough money for comfort and her devoutly Christian mother who was his inspiration. Wrenching memories of family disasters, and especially the cruel snubs and abject solitude of childhood, are dissipated by love and laughter, and the adult Nan makes peace with her past ... "
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French
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The Arrogance of
the French:
Why They Can't Stand Us--
& Why the Feeling is Mutual
Richard Z. Chesnoff
ISBN: 159523022X
ISBN-13: 9781595230225
Copyright © 2005
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April 2007
BORDERS®
143,206
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From the Publisher:
"Arrogance, snootiness, back-stabbing, and disdain. To paraphrase DeGaulle, what else would you expect from a country with 246 varieties of cheese? The French have given Americans a harder time on the international stage than anyone else. Driven by their own self-importance, and their frustration at no longer being a superpower, the French talk down to us with galling self-righteousness. They hate our movies, our tourists, our food, and especially our politicians. But as Richard Chesnoff points out, the love/hate relationship between France and America didn't start with the election of George W.Bush, or even Ronald Reagan."
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Religious Biography
Christianity
Literary Criticism
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Abraham
The First
Historical Biography
David Rosenberg
ISBN: 0465070949
ISBN-13: 9780465070947
Copyright © 2006
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April 2007
HamiltonBook.com
407,097
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From the Publisher:
"The world's three largest faiths all find a common root in one man: Abraham. Breaking new ground, David Rosenberg portrays Abraham as a man whose whole life, and therefore his legacy, is informed by the Sumerian culture that produced him. Abraham is a brilliant literary excavation of the ancient cultures from which our modern world has grown."
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Brain
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Soul Made Flesh
The Discovery of the Brain
and How It Changed the World
Carl Zimmer
ISBN: 0743272056
ISBN-13: 9780743272056
Copyright © 2004
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April 2007
scientificamerican
bookclub
163,365
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From the Publisher:
"In this unprecedented history of a scientific revolution, award-winning author and journalist Carl Zimmer tells the definitive story of the dawn of the age of the brain and modern consciousness. Told here for the first time, the dramatic tale of how the secrets of the brain were discovered in seventeenth-century England unfolds against a turbulent backdrop of civil war, the Great Fire of London, and plague. At the beginning of that chaotic century, no one knew how the brain worked or even what it looked like intact. But by the century's close, even the most common conceptions and dominant philosophies had been completely overturned, supplanted by a radical new vision of man, God, and the universe."
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Brain:
Physiology
Consciousness:
Physiological aspects
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Wider than the Sky
the Phenomenal Gift
of Consciousness
Dr. Gerald M. Edelman
(winner: Nobel Prize)
ISBN: 0300107617
ISBN-13: 9780300107616
Copyright © 2004
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April 2007
scientificamerican
bookclub
46,742
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From the Publisher:
"In this fascinating book, a Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist offers an up-to-date account of the workings of the brain and the connections between mind and body. Dr. Gerald Edelman explores the relation of consciousness to causation, evolution, the development of the self, and the origins of feelings, learning, and memory, basing his discussion on recent advances in science and medicine.
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