Saturday, June 1, 2002

Rebel Stand (Enemy Lines, #2) (Star Wars: The New Jedi Order, #12)

Rebel Stand (Enemy Lines, #2) (Star Wars: The New Jedi Order, #12)

Rebel Stand (Enemy Lines, #2) (Star Wars: The New Jedi Order, #12)


Not since Emperor Palpatine have the Jedi battled such monstrous evil. Unless they succeed against staggering odds, the galaxy is doomed.


Luke Skywalker’s daring mission to halt the Yuuzhan Vong’s nefarious plot to overthrow the New Republic is struggling on all fronts. And time is slipping away for Han and Leia Organa Solo, trapped on a small planet whose rulers are about to yield to Yuuzhan Vong pressure to give up the Jedi rebels.

On Coruscant, Luke and Mara Jade Skywalker have made a shocking discovery that is preventing the Yuuzhan Vong from exerting complete control. But when the enemy tracks them down, Luke and Mara are thrust into a fierce battle for their lives. Suddenly, the chances of escaping appear nearly impossible. And in space, another battle rages, one that holds ominous consequences for the New Republic—and for the Jedi themselves. . . .

Features a bonus section following the novel that includes a primer on the Star Wars expanded universe, and over half a dozen excerpts from some of the most popular Star Wars books of the last thirty years!

ISBN: 0345428684
Author: Aaron Allston
Publisher: LucasBooks
Rating: 3.76

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Friday, March 22, 2002

Orientalism

Orientalism

Orientalism

OrientalismAt a crucial moment in the history of relations of East and West, Orient and Occident, Christianity and Islam, Orientalism provides a timely account of the subject and the debate. In the 1960s and 1970s a powerful assault was launched on orientalism - the study of the Arab world. At the centre of this attack was Edward Said, whose devastating critique accused Western orientalists of creating stereotypical images of the Orient, thereby facilitating imperialism and colonialism and inciting chauvinism and racism.The debate ranged for beyond the traditional limits of dry and dust' orientalism. As current as ever, it involves questions concerning the nature of identity, the nature of imperialism, Islamophobia, myth, Arabism, racialism, intercultural relations and feminism.Charting the history of the debate about the nature of orientalism, this stimulating account revisits the arguments and surveys the associated case studies.Alexander Lyon Macfie has written widely on the modern history of the Near and Middle East. His books include The Eastern Question' (1996) and The End of the Ottoman Empire' (1998) and Orientalism: A Reader' (2000)..

ISBN: 0582423864
Author: Alexander Lyon Macfie
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
Rating: 3.50

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Tuesday, March 12, 2002

Little Dorrit

Little Dorrit

Little Dorrit

Upon its publication in 1857, Little Dorrit immediately outsold any of Dickens’s previous books. The story of William Dorrit, imprisoned for debt in Marshalsea Prison, and his daughter and helpmate, Amy, or Little Dorrit, the novel charts the progress of the Dorrit family from poverty to riches. In his Introduction, David Gates argues that “intensity of imagination is the gift from which Dickens’s other great attributes derive: his eye and ear, his near-universal empathy, his ability to entertain both a sense of the ridiculous and a sense of ultimate significance.”

This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the text of the 1857 edition.

ISBN: 037575914X
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Modern Library
Rating: 3.95

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Tuesday, January 1, 2002

The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, #3)

The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, #3)

The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, #3)

Lyra and Will, the two ordinary children whose extraordinary adventures began in The Golden Compass and continued in The Subtle Knife, are in unspeakable danger. With help from the armored bear Iorek Byrnison and two tiny Gallivespian spies, they must journey to a gray-lit world where no living soul has ever gone. All the while, Dr. Mary Malone builds a maagnificent amber spyglass. An assassin hunts her down. And Lord Asriel, with troops of shining angels, fights his mighty rebellion, a battle of strange allies—and shocking sacrifices.

As war rages and Dust drains from the sky, the fate of the living—and the dead—finally comes to depend on two children and the simple truth of one simple story.

ISBN: 0965096734
Author: Philip Pullman
Publisher: Knopf
Rating: 4.04

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Saturday, September 1, 2001

Comic Insights: The Art of Stand Up Comedy

Comic Insights: The Art of Stand Up Comedy

Comic Insights: The Art of Stand Up Comedy

Designed for anyone who wants to build a stand-up comedy career, this book includes advice and information on all aspects of stand-up and also features a large section of interviews with a number of top comedians, including: Louie Anderson, Roseanne, George Wallace and Paul Reiser.

ISBN: 1879505541
Author: Franklyn Ajaye
Publisher: Silman-James Press
Rating: 3.92

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A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Carol

Cruel miser Ebeneezer Scrooge has never met a shilling he doesn't like...and hardly a man he does. And he hates Christmas most of all. When Scrooge is visited by his old partner, Jacob Marley, and the ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas Present, and Christmas Yet to Come, he learns eternal lessons of charity, kindness, and goodwill. Experience a true Victorian Christmas!

ISBN: 0142300551
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Puffin
Rating: 3.99

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Tuesday, August 7, 2001

Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander, #2)

Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander, #2)

Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander, #2)

 
With her now-classic novel Outlander, Diana Gabaldon introduced two unforgettable characters—Claire Randall and Jamie Fraser—delighting readers with a story of adventure and love that spanned two centuries. Now Gabaldon returns to that extraordinary time and place in this vivid, powerful follow-up to Outlander.
 
DRAGONFLY IN AMBER
 
For nearly twenty years Claire Randall has kept her secrets. But now she is returning with her grown daughter to Scotland’s majestic mist-shrouded hills. Here Claire plans to reveal a truth as stunning as the events that gave it birth: about the mystery of an ancient circle of standing stones... about a love that transcends the boundaries of time... and about Jamie Fraser, a Scottish warrior whose gallantry once drew a young Claire from the security of her century to the dangers of his.
 
Now a legacy of blood and desire will test her beautiful copper-haired daughter, Brianna, as Claire’s spellbinding journey of self-discovery continues in the intrigue-ridden Paris court of Charles Stuart... in a race to thwart a doomed Highlands uprising... and in a desperate fight to save both the child and the man she loves.

ISBN: 0385335970
Author: Diana Gabaldon
Publisher: Delta
Rating: 4.30

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