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Super-State: The New Europe and its Challenge to America

Stephen Haseler

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Even before Donald Rumsfeld's infamous "Old Europe" gibe, Europe's divergence from America on issues like war with Iraq and trade competition has become increasingly ill-tempered. With the Euro successfully launched and a European army a real prospect, Europe is now a recognizable political entity on the world scene. A population of over 300 millio...more

Popular Tags: international relations, political science

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Charles Bukowski

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One of Charles Bukowski's best, this beer-soaked, deliciously degenerate novel follows the wanderings of aspiring writer Henry Chinaski across World War II-era America. Deferred from military service, Chinaski travels from city to city, moving listlessly from one odd job to another, always needing money but never badly enough to keep a job. His day...more

Popular Tags: 20th century, fiction, USA

20th century , fiction , USA

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post office: A Novel

Charles Bukowski

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"It began as a mistake." By middle age, Henry Chinaski has lost more than twelve years of his life to the U.S. Postal Service. In a world where his three true, bitter pleasures are women, booze, and racetrack betting, he somehow drags his hangover out of bed every dawn to lug waterlogged mailbags up mud-soaked mountains, outsmart vicious guard dogs...more

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humor , beat generation , fiction , life story , mailmen, beat, humor

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On the Road: The Original Scroll (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Jack Kerouac

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The legendary 1951 scroll draft of On the Road, published as Kerouac originally composed itIN THREE WEEKS in April of 1951, Jack Kerouac wrote his first full draft of On the Road—typed as a single-spaced paragraph on eight long sheets of tracing paper, which he later taped together to form a 120-foot scroll. A major literary event when it was pub...more

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Liberal Democracy and Political Science (The Johns Hopkins Series in Constitutional Thought)

James W. Ceaser

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Do political scientists in a liberal democracy bear a special responsibility that goes beyond their academic pursuits? Ceaser, a scholar of American political parties, argues that they do, and he challenges colleagues and students to reexamine what they do as political scientists. He observes that liberal democracy is a compound of two elements not...more

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The Catcher in the Rye

J.D. Salinger

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Ever since it was first published in 1951, this novel has been the coming-of-age story against which all others are judged. Read and cherished by generations, the story of Holden Caulfield is truly one of America's literary treasures.

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All Editions	Slaughterhouse 5 Kurt Vonnegut (1369 reviews ) Popular Tags: fiction, kurt vonnegut fiction , kurt vonnegut
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The Old Man and the Sea

Ernest Hemingway

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Here, for a change, is a fish tale that actually does honour to the author. In fact The Old Man and the Sea revived Ernest Hemingway's career, which was foundering under the weight of such post-war stinkers as Across the River and into the Trees. It also led directly to his receipt of the Nobel Prize in 1954 (an award Hemingway gladly accepted,...more

Popular Tags: classic, may 2009, school

classic , may 2009 , school