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ISBN: 0451520858

ListPrice: $3.95

Summary: This collection of stories and tales are drawn from the years 1883-1898 and offers the reader a good sampling of Chekhov's prose style, as well as his insight into the nineteenth century Russian character. The characters that occupy places in these stories represent every segment of Russian society: from land owner to peasant, from the scholar to the merchant, from the honest to the perfidious. Chekhov was a doctor by education and training, and this scientific background allowed him to approach his subjects with an objective detachment with little inclination to make his characters "grow." Therefore, Chekhov portrays his characters as they actually were, and never makes a moral judgement as to any weaknesses that might be uncovered. Chekhov wrote hundreds of these stories and tales in addition to his work as a dramatist, and this element of detachment runs through both genres. If, however, the author assumes a detachment from his characters, he never loses hope for a better day when poverty and ignorance will be eliminated. This theme is also repeated in his dramatic works.The translation by Ann Dunnigan is a good one and enables the non-Russian reader to fully enjoy Chekhov's simple but beautiful style.

ISBN: 0596005768

ListPrice: $34.95

Dimensions: 0.75 by 7 by 9 in.

Summary: Provides information and examples on using CSS to format Web pages, covering such topics as Web typography, links, navigation, page layouts, and Web site design.

ISBN: 1882383540

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ISBN: 0878935800

ListPrice: $64.95

Edition: 3rd, 02

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ISBN: 0596004613

ListPrice: $24.95

Edition: 1st, 01

Dimensions: 0.50 by 5.75 by 8.75 in.

Summary: Provides advice and tools to help Linux system administrators solve problems, offering hacks devoted to concerns such as improving efficiency, tracking revisions to system files, and tracking system performance.

ISBN: 039432109X

ListPrice: $35.37

Dimensions: 25 cm

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ISBN: 0553562614

ListPrice: $6.99

Edition: reissue

Dimensions: 1.25 by 4.50 by 7.25 in.

Summary: From the opening line of his breakthrough cyberpunk novel Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson plunges the reader into a not-too-distant future. It is a world where the Mafia controls pizza delivery, the United States exists as a patchwork of corporate-franchise city-states, and the Internet--incarnate as the Metaverse--looks something like last year's hype would lead you to believe it should. Enter Hiro Protagonist--hacker, samurai swordsman, and pizza-delivery driver. When his best friend fries his brain on a new designer drug called Snow Crash and his beautiful, brainy ex-girlfriend asks for his help, what's a guy with a name like that to do? He rushes to the rescue. A breakneck-paced 21st-century novel, Snow Crash interweaves everything from Sumerian myth to visions of a postmodern civilization on the brink of collapse. Faster than the speed of television and a whole lot more fun, Snow Crash is the portrayal of a future that is bizarre enough to be plausible.

ISBN: 0679722424

ListPrice: $14.00

Edition: reissue, 01, 03

Dimensions: 0.75 by 5.25 by 8 in.

Summary: A Japanese lawyer on pilgrimage to Bangkok and India in the early 1940's meets a beautiful young Thai princess and degenerates from spiritual seeker to sexual voyeur

ISBN: 1931009074

ListPrice: $24.95

Edition: 1st ed.

Dimensions: 22 cm

Summary: Like many people, I was skeptical about this book. How could I truly learn to swim better from reading a book. But after reading this and practising the techniques I am a believer. I am a triathlete, albeit a 50 year old slow triathlete. But I began as a swimmer, so I am very comfortable there. I am not fast, but love the water. But this book has made me a better swimmer. It's in the economy of stroke. This book will teach you a way of swimming that's more like yoga or TM than those swimmers you see flailing their arms and being out of breath. This won't happen overnight, but as the author says, if you practise at this long enough you will get better.

ISBN: 0060935456

ListPrice: $13.00

Edition: 1st Perennial Classics ed.

Dimensions: 21 cm

Summary: "There isn't any danger here, at this moment. But it's coming-its coming. Oh, Hazel, look. The field! It's covered in blood." Fiver has predicted the downfall of his warren and Fiver and Hazel are trying to convince the Chief Rabbit to abandon the warren but he will not listen. So it is up to Hazel to pull together a band of rabbits from his warren that believe in Fiver's prophecy and will leave the warren, brave the dangers of the unknown, and reestablish themselves where they are no longer in danger. Is it possible for 11 rabbits to survive? Hazel is an outskirter in the rabbit warren of the Threarah or chief rabbit. Hazel is picked on and ridiculed because if his brother Fiver. Fiver is a seer, or one that can tell the future so when he predicts the destruction of the warren many outskirters that know him believe it. Both of them wish to leave the warren because of the way they are treated by the Owsla or band of young strong rabbits that steal food from the weak. Watership Down is an exciting read, full of surprises, twists, turns, and terror. It is one of the best animal books ever written and may have, I believe, inspired some animal novelists like Brian Jacques to start their writing career. Alex Hutter is the writer of Rabbits 'r' Us and is currently working on project P.T.R.O.N.A, Protect the Rabbits of North America.

ISBN: 0307345971

ListPrice: $13.95

Summary: The authors of what is now casually referred to as "that nipple book" are back, with more answers to questions "you'd only ask a doctor after your third whiskey sour." Smart, funny, and informative, "Why Do Men Fall Asleep After Sex" offers answers to questions you may be too embarrassed to ask, like "Does peeing in the shower cure athlete's foot?" and "Can you breastfeed with fake boobs?" We had the opportunity to ask authors Mark Leyner and Billy Goldberg a few questions of our own--read their responses below.

10 Second Interview: A Few Words With Mark Leyner and Billy Goldberg

Q: Your first book "Why Do Men Have Nipples"" was a runaway bestseller. Was there one question that got the ball rolling for that book? What was it?
Goldberg: I collected questions for several years and the idea for the book was slowly percolating. I would have to say that "Why Does My Pee Smell When I Eat Asparagus?" was the question that really got things rolling with respect to finding the voice of the book. We have been accused of including too much potty talk and this one kind of broke the seal on that.
Leyner: The first question for me that got the ball rolling was posed by Dr. Billy Goldberg. It was: "Will you collaborate on this book with me?" Goldberg's a wonderful friend, the coolest doctor in New York City, a fantastically interesting figurative painter, and a pretty formidable tequila drinker. And I figured: what could be more fun than working with this guy and finally finding a way to parlay my perverse interest in medical and biological arcana into something people could really enjoy? It's like Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp forming a band!

Q: Do people recognize you two on the street now? What is the strangest question/comment you have received from fans?
Goldberg: Mark has been recognized several times on the streets of Hoboken, but the best I have gotten was one of the security guards at the hospital saying, "Hey Doc, I saw you on TV." That, and the nurse's aides calling me Dr. Nipples.
Leyner: I went down to the lobby of a hotel recently because I'd eaten and drunk my mini-bar out of M&Ms and beer, and I needed MORE. The woman at the front desk said to me, "Hey! You're one of those Nipple Guys!!" My sky-rocketing Q-Score earned me a buttload of free Heinekin and Peanut M&Ms. Strangest questions... hmmmmm....either "What was it like being on Montel with mutant dogs and a psychic?" or "Do you two guys do medical experiments on each other?"

Q: How do you determine what questions to put in your books? Are there any questions or topics that you think are off limits?
Goldberg and Leyner: We put questions in that intrigue us, of course. And we especially love questions that make people giggle and cringe at the same time. Nothing is "off limits"... that's the sine qua non of the our whole enterprise. It's our ethos--there's NOTHING too embarrassing to ask.

10 Second Preview: An Excerpt

OBLIGATORY PRELUDE TO THE FOREWORD TO THE PROLOGUE TO THE PREFACE OF THE INTRODUCTION
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DOES ANYONE READ THIS CRAP?

Okay, so here we go again. . . .

It feels a bit different this time. When we were writing "Why Do Men Have Nipples?", we had no idea that anyone (other than our editor, wives, moms, and dads) would read the book. Shows what we know.
Our little nipples book has sold more than a million copies internationally and spent twenty-five weeks (and counting) on the "New York Times" bestseller list. You have no idea how much we have loved this ride and how much we adore babbling on TV and drive-time radio, and especially in the makeup rooms where we shamelessly flirted with a succession of fantastic makeup artists at all the major networks. (By the way, Mark prefers the spray-on nozzle method, which he likens to being simonized in a car wash.)
But a funny thing happened along the way. We quickly became aware of the fact that we'd barely scratched the surface. As we talked to people who'd enjoyed our first book, we began accumulating hundreds of new questions—some funny, down-to-earth, exotic, some embarrassing, some perplexing, but always thought-provoking enough that we knew we'd have to include them in a brand-new volume.
We realized the gravity of the somber task ahead of us. We felt deputized. We knew we were now bound by honor and a fiduciary duty to you, our readers, to deliver unbiased, unadulterated, thoroughly researched, and unimpeachably factual answers to your questions. Humbled, but galvanized and inspired by the immense challenge that lay before us, we hunkered down in a windowless, antiseptic research cocoon, and made a solemn pledge to produce a new volume that would surpass the original and blaze new trails in the democratization of medical knowledge.
Oh please . . . SEQUEL!!!!!!! Here it is . . . "Why Do Men Fall Asleep After Sex?"