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9780547808970 | Mariner Books, October 2, 2012, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Professional adventurer and National Book Award winner William Vollmann delivers an eclectic batch of the year’s most exhilarating travel writing that will inspire the armchair traveler’s wanderlust.
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9788483068540 | Debate Editorial, November 1, 2011, cover price $33.95
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9780870707919 | Museum of Modern Art, December 15, 2010, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: For over four decades, from his landmark Titicut Follies (1967) to his recent La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet (2009) and forthcoming Boxing Gym (2010), Frederick Wiseman (born 1930) has used a lightweight 16mm camera and portable sound equipment to study human behavior in all its unpredictable manifestations, particularly as it responds to institutional or regimented settings or to democracy at work.
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Examines and analyzes the diversity of poverty, using a series of interviews with impoverished people from around the world, who draw on their belief systems to account for their financial disadvantages.
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9780060878825 | Ecco Pr, March 1, 2007, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Examines and analyzes the diversity of poverty, using a series of interviews with impoverished people from around the world, who draw on their belief systems to account for their financial disadvantages.
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9780060878849 | Reprint edition (Perennial, February 1, 2008), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: The award-winning author of Europe Central and Rising Up and Rising Down meditates on the diversity of poverty in a series of vignettes through which he shares interviews with impoverished people from around the world who draw on a range of belief systems to account for their financial disadvantages.
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9780062043795 | Harpercollins, November 16, 2010, cover price $10.99
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9780061985331 | Harpercollins, May 4, 2010, cover price $14.99
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9780061228483, titled "Kissing the Mask: Beauty, Understatement and Femininity in Japanese Noh Theater, with some thoughts on Muses (especially Helga Testorf), Transgender Women, Kabuki Godde" | Ecco Pr, April 6, 2010, cover price $29.99 | About this edition: From the National Book Award-winning author of Europe Central comes a charming, evocative and piercing examination of an ancient Japanese tradition and the keys it holds to our modern understanding of beauty.
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9780061228490, titled "Kissing the Mask: Beauty, Understatement and Femininity in Japanese Noh Theater" | Reprint edition (Ecco Pr, March 15, 2011), cover price $17.99 | About this edition: From the National Book Award-winning author of Europe Central, a charming, evocative and piercing examination of an ancient Japanese tradition and the keys it holds to our modern understanding of beauty What is a woman?
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The author recounts his train-hopping adventures at the side of fellow accomplice Steve and other underground stowaways, journeys during which he observed the wild scenery of the American West from a grainer platform.
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9780061256752 | Ecco Pr, January 1, 2008, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: The author recounts his train-hopping adventures at the side of fellow accomplice Steve and other underground stowaways, journeys during which he observed the wild scenery of the American West from a grainer platform.
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9780061256769 | Reprint edition (Perennial, January 1, 2009), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Arelentlessly curious, endlessly sensitive, and unequivocally adventurous examiner of human existence, William T.
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9780061847042 | Harpercollins, October 13, 2009, cover price $10.99
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9780670020614 | Viking Pr, July 30, 2009, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: An epic study of an emblematic American region by one of our most celebrated writersIt sprawls across a stinking artificial sea, across the deserts, date groves, and labor camps of southeastern California, right across the Mexican border.
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9780143118404 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, October 26, 2010), cover price $35.00 | About this edition: From the author of Europe Central, a journalistic tour de force along the Mexican-American border.
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9781433213205 | Blackstone Audio Inc, January 1, 2008, cover price $160.00 | About this edition: A young German joins the SS to expose its crimes, two generals collaborate with the enemy for different reasons, and Soviet composer Shostakovich labors under Stalinist oppression in this daring novel of human actions in wartime.
9781433213212 | Mp3 edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, January 1, 2008), cover price $44.95 | About this edition: A young German joins the SS to expose its crimes, two generals collaborate with the enemy for different reasons, and Soviet composer Shostakovich labors under Stalinist oppression in this daring novel of human actions in wartime.
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9781433213199 | Blackstone Audio Inc, January 1, 2008, cover price $89.95 | About this edition: A young German joins the SS to expose its crimes, two generals collaborate with the enemy for different reasons, and Soviet composer Shostakovich labors under Stalinist oppression in this daring novel of human actions in wartime.
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9781433213618 | Blackstone Audio Inc, January 1, 2008, cover price $85.95 | About this edition: A young German joins the SS to expose its crimes, two generals collaborate with the enemy for different reasons, and Soviet composer Shostakovich labors under Stalinist oppression in this daring novel of human actions in wartime.
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9788439701668 | Italian edition edition (Random House Mondadori, September 30, 2007), cover price $41.95
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9780393059694 | W W Norton & Co Inc, February 1, 2006, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: An analysis of the astronomer's pivotal sixteenth-century work traces how his challenge to beliefs about an Earth-centric solar system had a profound influence on the ways in which humanity understands itself and the universe.
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9780393329186 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, February 1, 2007), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: An analysis of the scientific and social impact of the Polish astronomer's pivotal sixteenth-century work traces how his challenge to beliefs about an earth-centric solar system had a profound influence on the ways in which humanity understands itself and the universe.
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9780670033928 | Viking Pr, March 24, 2005, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: A series of interconnected stories seeks to contrast the moral decisions made by famous and everyday individuals with regard to the warring authoritarian cultures of Germany and the USSR in the twentieth century.
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9780143036593 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, November 14, 2005), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: A series of interconnected stories seeks to contrast the moral decisions made by famous and everyday individuals with regard to the warring authoritarian cultures of Germany and the USSR in the twentieth century.
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9780060548186 | Ecco Pr, November 1, 2004, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: An abridged edition of the author's seven-volume work on the possible justification of violence is based on his war-zone observations and draws on the theories of philosophers, theologians, military strategists, and other thinkers.
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9780060548193 | Reprint edition (Perennial, October 1, 2005), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Chapters arranged in 2 parts.
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9781560254416 | Thunder''s Mouth Pr, December 20, 2004, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: No stranger to living and writing on the edge, the author shares the fruits of his productive career as 'the most prodigiously talented and historically important novelist under 35,' including autobiographical writing, interviews, critical essays, correspondence, and poems.
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9781932416022 | McSweeneys Books, November 1, 2003, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: A labor of seventeen years, Vollmann's first book of nonfiction since 1992's An Afghanistan Picture Show is a gravely urgent invitation to look back at the world's long, bloody path and find some threads of meaning, wisdom, and guidance to plot a moral course.
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Product Description: Explores the variety of mouths found in the animal kingdom, including the puffin's bill, howler monkey's mouth, and butterfly's tube, and describes how they are used.
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9781404807990 | Picture Window Books, June 30, 2003, cover price $23.93 | About this edition: Explores the variety of mouths found in the animal kingdom, including the puffin's bill, howler monkey's mouth, and butterfly's tube, and describes how they are used.
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9780142001509 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, December 1, 2002), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: The third volume of the author's epic saga of North America peeks behind the myth of Pocahontas and John Smith to recreate the story of the founding of the Jamestown colony in Virginia with gritty realism.
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9780670910304 | Viking Pr, October 1, 2001, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Peeks behind the myth of Pocahontas to look at the story of the colonization of Virginia, the relationships between the Natives and the English, the start of the tobacco industry, and the introduction of slavery.
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9780670891672 | Viking Pr, August 1, 2000, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Failing San Francisco private detective, Henry Tyler journeys through the dark underbelly of the city as he searches for the legendary Queen of the Prostitutes, all the while grieving over the suicide of the women he loves.
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9780141002002 | Reissue edition (Penguin USA, August 1, 2001), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Failing San Francisco private detective, Henry Tyler journeys through the dark underbelly of the city as he searches for the legendary Queen of the Prostitutes, all the while grieving over the suicide of the woman he loves.
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9781888899023 | Lodima Pr, November 1, 2000, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Deep Springs College is the most unusual college in America.
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9780670865789 | Viking Pr, April 1, 1996, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: An unconventional work offers fifty-three interconnected tales, fables, and portraits, ranging from the journalistic to the surreal, that bring to life a wide and strange array of characters in diverse settings, from Sarajevo to Jerusalem to New York
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9780140254495 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, June 1, 1997), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Hailed by Newsday as "the most unconventional--and possibly the most exciting and imaginative--novelist at work today," William T.
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9781885490070 | Distributed Art Pub Inc, March 1, 1996, cover price $12.95
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9780879515713 | Overlook Pr, October 1, 1995, cover price $45.00
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