Masterwork Studies Series - Charlotte's Web (cloth)
 I liked it better than the child I was reading it to.: The child that I read it to was only 3 years old, and of corse this was after he had watched a verion of it on video cassette. As I read it, he wanted to see pictures of charlotte, Templeton, and [... more]
$32.00
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Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents
Amazon.com Review: If there is such a thing as a typical computer programmer, Ellen Ullman is not it. She's female, a former communist, bisexual, old enough to be a twentysomething's mom, and not a nerd. She runs her own computer-consulting business in [... more]
$12.95
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I Don't Know How She Does It: The Life of Kate Reddy, ...
Amazon.com Review: Allison Pearson's debut novel, I Don't Know How She Does It, is a rare and beautiful hybrid: a devastatingly funny novel that's also a compelling fictional world. You want to climb inside this book and inhabit it. However, you might [... more]
$23.00
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A Fine Balance (Oprah's Book Club)
Emotionally draining.: This book actually beat out The Jungle by Upton Sinclair as the most depressing book I've ever read. Although both stories contain equal amounts of death, disfigurements and hopelessness, this one does a better job of painting the [... more]
$15.95
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The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (Theory ...
Post-Nuclear Philosophical Fallout: If, as William Barrett once remarked, existentialism is "philosophy for the atomic age," then the atomic age's look into the future - by way of Jean-Francois Lyotard's The Postmodern Condition - is nothing [... more]
$17.50
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The Wall Jumper: A Berlin Story (Phoenix Fiction Series)
An engaging novel of Berlin before the fall of the Wall.: This completely frank, thought-provoking, and often wryly humorous account of life in Berlin before the fall of the Wall will go straight to your heart with its fascinating stories and tales from [... more]
$16.00
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The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of ...
Amazon.com Review: A sentimental favorite, The Cuckoo's Egg seems to have inspired a whole category of books exploring the quest to capture computer criminals. Still, even several years after its initial publication and after much imitation, the book [... more]
$26.95
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Changing Role of Information Warfare: The Changing Role ...
Amazon.com Review: The ancient Chinese philosopher Sun Tzu once wrote about the "acme of skill" allowing generals to win wars without fighting. Perhaps he was referring to the 21st century: technological advances have made recent conflicts in [... more]
$65.00
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At the Bottom of the River
Love, sadness, and growing up in the Caribbean: Jamaica Kincaid's AT THE BOTTOM OF THE RIVER is a study of voice and language that first brought the author recognition beyond the pages of literary journals. These ten stories, all but the last extremely [... more]
$12.00
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Authors and Owners: The Invention of Copyright
Copyright is recent: In current high technology, there has arisen the open source movement. One of its motivating chants is that "information wants to be free". But what about copyright, not just of source code, but of writings in general? The [... more]
$18.95
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The Electronic Word: Democracy, Technology, and the Arts
thoughtful and elegant: He describes the transformation of idea and language in the electronic age with grace and wit and joy. For everyone of us who has greeted the information age with something less than wholehearted enthusiasm, I recommend Lanham's [... more]
$25.00
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Embers
Amazon.com Review: In Sándor Márai's Embers, two old men, once the best of friends, meet after a 41-year break in their relationship. They dine together, taking the same places at the table that they had assumed on the last meal they shared, [... more]
$22.00
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