Gary
The Boxer Rebellion and the Great Game in China
$20.00
ISBN: 9780809030750
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Published: Hill and Wang - April 9th, 2013
Culminating in 1900, the technologically superior European powers (and Japan) essentially helped themselves to rotting Qing Dynasty China, so arrogantly that a groundswell peasant army (surreptitiously supported by the Empress) finally attacked their crypto-colonizers, resulting in several battles, sieges and international diplomatic shenanigans. A great narrative of a major puzzle piece of the Great Game of empire and hegemony.
Gary
The Cineaste
$26.95
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ISBN: 9780393239157
Published: W. W. Norton & Company - April 1st, 2013
Jordan's book lives in that ephemeral residual dreaminess left over from a just-seen movie, with unlikely mind-scenes, extrapolation and fantasy inspired by specific films and, in a wondrous central section, a poetic exploration of pioneer filmmaker Oscar Micheaux. Movies and poetics: a perfect symmetry.
Gary
The Iliad
$17.00
ISBN: 9780140445923
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Published: Penguin Classics - July 1st, 1991
The Odyssey is full of tales and adventures; the Iliad is one vast combat narrative centering on the psychopathic super-warrior Achilles and warfare jacked up by direct intervention of the gods. Fagles' translation vividly captures the gore, insanity and stark beauty of that most intense of human experiences. 2700 years old and still one of the greats.
Gary
The Fall of the House of Dixie
Tremor of Forgery
$16.00
ISBN: 9780802145642
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Published: Grove Press - November 8th, 2011
Highsmith goes deepest into her trademark amorality (the Tom Ripley books) and enters Graham Greene territory:exotic plot and locale and unusual moral questions. She also manages to catch that strange North African torpor familiar to readers of Paul Bowles' The Sheltering Sky. Like a weird fever dream.
Gary
An Army of Phantoms
$22.99
ISBN: 9781595588333
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Published: New Press - September 4th, 2012
A delicious sociopolitical examination/rumination of the Cold War US via popular culture. Though primarily a film critic, Hoberman has always put his reviews (even back when he was the Village Voice film critic) in a larger cultural context. It lives up to the cover art!
Gary
The Second World War
War on the Waters
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ISBN: 9780807835883
Availability: Out of Print
Published: University of North Carolina Press - September 17th, 2012
Huzzah! A new book by the Pulitzer-winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom, my choice for the go-to one-volume history of the Civil War. Here he treats the naval aspect of the conflict with the same compelling narrative style as Battle Cry, including blockade runners, extraordinary battles for dominance of the crucial Mississippi River and the total game-changing introduction of ironclads.
Gary
The Hollow Man
$15.99
ISBN: 9780062136718
Availability: On Order at the Wholesaler
Published: Harper Paperbacks - October 23rd, 2012
A straight-out-of-the-gate crime masterpiece by first-time author Harris. Something about the UK produces knockout first novels by crime writers - The Ghosts of Belfast; The Guards. This is another one.
Gary
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