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Product Description: The Good Life is an engaging, reasoned look at American values: how the angry political right hijacks and corrupts ideas about morality, how the fringe political left abandons the moral outlook, and how antimoralism from many sources results in cruelty, harsh law, dangerous irrationality, corrupt religion, greed, and gross inequality, and undermines American democracy...read more

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9781608198313 | Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, June 5, 2012, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: The Good Life is an engaging, reasoned look at American values: how the angry political right hijacks and corrupts ideas about morality, how the fringe political left abandons the moral outlook, and how antimoralism from many sources results in cruelty, harsh law, dangerous irrationality, corrupt religion, greed, and gross inequality, and undermines American democracy.

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Explains how to care for a wide range of items from bedding and hand-washables to baby clothes and vintage linens, sharing advice on such topics as removing stains, ironing, and storing.

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9780743271455 | Scribner, October 18, 2005, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Explains how to care for a wide range of items from bedding and hand-washables to baby clothes and vintage linens, sharing advice on such topics as removing stains, ironing, and storing.

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9780743271462 | Reprint edition (Scribner, October 1, 2010), cover price $24.99

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Product Description: This provocative, funny, perceptive novel tells the story of the trials of over-conscientious parenthood, as the devoted Braithwaites watch their bright, gifted eighteen-year-old take her disturbing initial steps toward independence, integrity–and failure...read more

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9780375760709 | Reprint edition (Random House Inc, June 10, 2008), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: This provocative, funny, perceptive novel tells the story of the trials of over-conscientious parenthood, as the devoted Braithwaites watch their bright, gifted eighteen-year-old take her disturbing initial steps toward independence, integrity–and failure.

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Preparing for their gifted, self-involved, eldest child Jane's senior year of high school, the well-meaning Braithwaite family is shaken when she threatens to throw her promising future away to help their housekeeper's needy family, including her teenage nephew. By the author of Morningside Heights. 15,000 first printing.

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9780375508387 | Random House Inc, July 31, 2007, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Preparing for their gifted, self-involved, eldest child Jane's senior year of high school, the well-meaning Braithwaite family is shaken when she threatens to throw her promising future away to help their housekeeper's needy family, including her teenagenephew.

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Regretting his early marriage to a narrow-minded woman, successful lawyer Peter Frankel nevertheless avoids divorce as an easy escape from the mistakes of his youth, but his ambivalence over his marriage and his dismay over his grown children's attitudes toward marital bliss are turned upside down when his wife is seriously hurt in a car accident. Reader's Guide included. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

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9780375508370 | Random House Inc, August 2, 2005, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: When his wife is seriously hurt in a car accident, Peter Frankl reassesses his ambivalence over his marriage and his dismay over his grown children's attitudes toward marital bliss.

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9780375760693 | Reprint edition (Random House Inc, July 11, 2006), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Regretting his early marriage to a narrow-minded woman, successful lawyer Peter Frankel nevertheless avoids divorce as an easy escape from the mistakes of his youth, but his ambivalence over his marriage and his dismay over his grown children's attitudes toward marital bliss are turned upside down when his wife is seriously hurt in a car accident.

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Long-time residents of Morningside Heights, a once marginal neighborhood attracting the attention of Wall Street types in search of a good investment and more space, are faced with dramatic changes to their community as increasing prices and a rising cost of living begin to force this group of artists, musicians, and intellectuals out of the area. A first novel. Reader's Guide included. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

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9780375760686 | Reprint edition (Random House Inc, July 12, 2005), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Long-time residents of Morningside Heights, a once marginal neighborhood attracting the attention of Wall Street types in search of a good investment and more space, are faced with dramatic changes to their community as increasing prices and a rising cost of living begin to force this group of artists, musicians, and intellectuals out of the area.

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Long-time residents of Morningside Heights, a once marginal neighborhood attracting the attention of Wall Street types in search of a good investment and more space, are faced with dramatic changes to their community as increasing prices and a rising cost of living begin to force this group of artists, musicians, and intellectuals out of the area. A first novel. 40,000 first printing.

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9780375508363 | 1 edition (Random House Inc, June 1, 2003), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Long-time residents of Morningside Heights are faced with dramatic changes to their community as increasing prices and a rising cost of living begin to force this group of artists, musicians, and intellectuals out of the area.

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A comprehensive housekeeping reference covers everything from cleaners and laundry to cooking and furniture repair, in an illustrated edition complemented by seasonal tips, philosophical essays about the value of domestic arts, and anecdotal writings about the author's experiences as a lawyer and a dedicated housekeeper. Reprint. 75,000 first printing.

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9780743246040 | Scribner, October 1, 2002, cover price $35.00
9780684814650 | Scribner, November 4, 1999, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Ranging from suggestions for the care of musical instruments to maintaining home safety, a celebration of and guide to the finer points of home-keeping offers a contemporary, creative, and positive take on a traditional subject

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9780743272865 | Reprint edition (Scribner, April 5, 2005), cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Ranging from suggestions for the care of musical instruments to maintaining home safety, a celebration of and guide to the finer points of home-keeping offers a contemporary, creative, and positive take on a traditional subject

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