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Title
Purchase Date
Bookseller
B&N Net Rank
The Book
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Economics & Politics
Economics
Christianity
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The Protestant Ethic
& the Spirit of Capitalism
Max Weber
Translated by
Talcott Parsons
ISBN: 048642703X
ISBN-13: 9780486427034
(Translation)
Copyright © 2003
(Book)
Copyright © 1958
(written 1904,05)
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August 2007
barnesandnoble.com
USED FROM OUR AUTHORIZED SELLERS
34,287
Trade: 292pp
Cover: $9.95
Used: $5.50
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From the Publisher:
"This brilliant study--the author's best-known and most controversial work--opposes the Marxist concept of dialectical materialism and its view that change takes place through the conflict of opposites. Instead, Weber relates the rise of a capitalist economy to the Puritan determination to work out anxiety over salvation or damnation by performing good deeds--an effort that ultimately discouraged belief in predestination and encouraged capitalism. Weber's classic has long been required reading in college and advanced high school social studies classrooms."
Begun: 12/11/2008
Finished: 12/20/2008
(page 42: Gave up. Early 20th
Century German translated into
English resulted in unbearable
reading.)
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Science
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Hiding in
the Mirror
Lawrence M. Krauss
ISBN: 0143038028
ISBN-13: 9780143038023
Copyright © 2005
Hiding in
the Mirror
(2005 Cover)
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December 2007
Half-Price Books
100,936
Hardcover: 276pp
Cover: $24.95
New: $7.98
Font: Baskerville
Helvetica Neue
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From the Publisher:
"Lawrence Krauss -an international leader in physics and cosmology-examines our long and ardent romance with parallel universes, veiled dimensions, and regions of being that may extend tantalizingly beyond the limits of our perception. Krauss examines popular culture's current embrace (and frequent misunderstanding) of such topics as black holes, life in other dimensions, strings, and some of the more extraordinary new theories that propose the existence of vast extra dimensions alongside our own."
Begun: 08/17/2008
Finished: 8/27/2008
(page 178: Gave up. Too intricate
for the non-physicist)
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Science Fiction
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The Book of Dave
Will Self
ISBN: 1596913843
ISBN-13: 9781596913844
Copyright © 2007
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July 2008
barnesandnoble.com
USED FROM OUR AUTHORIZED SELLERS
189,740
Trade: 496pp
Cover: $15.95
(G.B.)Cover: £12.99
New: $4.94
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From the Publisher:
"When East End cabdriver Dave Rudman's wife takes from him his only son, Dave pens a gripping text—a compilation about everything from the environment, Arabs, and American tourists to sex, Prozac, and cabby lore—that captures all of his frustrations and anxieties about his contemporary world. Dave buries the book in his ex-wife's Hampstead backyard, intending it for his son, Carl, when he comes of age.
Five hundred years later, Dave's book is found by the inhabitants of Ham . . ."
Begun: 08/18/2008
Declared Unreadable
August 21st, 2008
& Given Away
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Fiction
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Atlantis
David Gibbins
ISBN: 0553587927
ISBN-13: 9780553587920
Copyright © 2005
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January 2008
Half-Price Books
11,241
Paperback: 465pp
Cover: $6.99
New: $3.48
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From the Publisher:
"With a crack team of scientific experts and ex–Special Forces commandos, he is heading for what he believes could be the greatest archaeological find of all time—the site of fabled Atlantis—while a ruthless adversary watches his every move and prepares to strike.
But neither of them could have imagined what awaits them in the murky depths. Not only a shocking truth about a lost world, but an explosive secret that could have devastating consequences today. Jack is determined to stop the legacy of Atlantis from falling into the wrong hands, whatever the cost. But first he must do battle to prevent a global catastrophe."
(On Shelf)
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Literature
History &
Criticism
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Umberto Eco
On Literature
(Sulla Letteratura)
Umberto Eco
Translation by:
Martin McLaughlin
ISBN: 0151008124
ISBN-13: 9780151008124
Copyright © 2002
(Translation:
Copyright © 2005)
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December 2007
Half-Price Books
533,520
Hardcover: 334pp
Cover: $26.00
Halfprice: GIFT
Font: AGaramond
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From the Publisher:
"In this collection of essays and addresses delivered over the course of his illustrious career, Umberto Eco seeks "to understand the chemistry of [his] passion" for the word. From musings on Ptolemy and "the force of the false" to reflections on the experimental writing of Borges and Joyce, Eco's luminous intelligence and encyclopedic knowledge are on dazzling display throughout. And when he reveals his own ambitions and superstitions, his authorial an xieties and fears, one feels like a secret sharer in the garden of literature to which he so often alludes ... "
(On Shelf)
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Conspiracy Theories
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Conspiracy Encyclopedia
ISBN: 074327136X
ISBN-13: 9780743271363
Copyright © 2005
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December 2007
Half-Price Books
(amazon.com)
92,585
Trade: 320pp
Cover: Ł14.99
Halfprice: GIFT
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From the Publisher:
"Secret societies, assassination plots, cover-ups, and covert actions - these are the theories and shadows that influence politics, business, and even our daily lives. The truth is always out there, but what truth you believe depends on what you already know. Categorized into specific areas of interest, Conspiracy Encyclopedia is an essential guide to the many and varied theories that question the status quo and redefine the official version or events past ... "
Reference
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Religion
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The Visual Culture
of American Religions
edited by:
David Morgan &
Sally M. Promey
ISBN: 0520225228
ISBN-13: 9780520225220
Copyright © 2001
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December 2007
Half-Price Books
(amazon.com)
59,891
Trade: 427pp
Cover: $32.95
Halfprice: GIFT
Typeface: Scala
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From the Publisher:
"Contemporary artists have often clashed with conservative American evangelicals in recent years, giving the impression that art and religion are fundamentally at odds. Yet historically, artistic images have played a profound role in American religious life. This superb collection of essays, with its unique assembly of images, challenges the apparent tension between religion and the arts by illustrating and investigating their long-standing and intriguing relationship from the early nineteenth century to the present day ... "
Reference
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Computer Industry
Quantum Theory
Quantum computers
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A Shortcut
Through Time:
The Path to the
Quantum Computer
George Johnson
ISBN: 0375726187
ISBN-13: 9780375726187
Copyright © 2003
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December 2007
Daedalus Books
183,502
Hardcover: 204pp
Cover: $24.00
New: $6.98
Typeface: Minion
Robert Slimback
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From the Publisher:
"The first book to prepare us for the next big—perhaps the biggest—breakthrough in the short history of the cyberworld: the development of the quantum computer.
The newest Pentium chip driving personal computers packs 40 million electronic switches onto a piece of silicon the size of a thumbnail. It is dramatically smaller and more powerful than anything that has come before it. If this incredible shrinking act continues, the logical culmination is a computer in which each switch is composed of a single atom. And at that point the miraculous—the actualization of quantum mechanics—becomes real ... "
(On Shelf)
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Social Status
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Status Anxiety
Alain de Botton
ISBN: 0375725350
ISBN-13: 9780375725357
Copyright © 2004
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December 2007
Daedalus Books
81,839
Hardcover: 306pp
Cover: $24.00
New: $5.98
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From the Publisher:
"Anyone who’s ever lost sleep over an unreturned phone call or the neighbor’s Lexus had better read Alain de Botton’s irresistibly clear-headed new book, immediately. For in its pages, a master explicator of our civilization and its discontents turns his attention to the insatiable quest for status, a quest that has less to do with material comfort than with love. To demonstrate his thesis, de Botton ranges through Western history and thought from St. Augustine to Andrew Carnegie and Machiavelli to Anthony Robbins ... "
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