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Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology

by Neil Postman

Published: 1993-03-31

Paperback: 240 pages

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In this witty, often terrifying work of cultural criticism, the author of Amusing Ourselves to Death chronicles our transformation into a Technopoly: a society that no longer merely uses technology as a support system but instead is shaped by it--with radical consequences for the meanings of politics,...

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Ted Kennedy: The Dream That Never Died

by Edward Klein

Published: 2010-08-17

Paperback: 272 pages

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In the most inspiring speech of his career, Ted Kennedy once vowed: "For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."Unlike his martyred brothers, John and Robert, whose lives were cut off before the...

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The Teeth of the Tiger

by Tom Clancy

Published: 2003

Hardcover: 431 pages

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In the Brave New World of terrorism--where anybody with a spare AK-47, a knowledge of kitchen chemistry, or simply the will to die can become a player--the old rules no longer apply. Established with the knowledge of President John Patrick Ryan, "the Campus" is always on the lookout for promising...

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Teewinot: Climbing and Contemplating the Teton Range

by Jack Turner

Published: 2001-11-10

Paperback: 272 pages

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This is a book about a mountain range, its climbs, its weather, and the glory of the wild. It is also about a small group of climbers, nomads, who inhabit the Teton Range each summer, who know it as intimately as it will ever be known. Teewenot is a remarkable account of what it is like to live and work...

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Telegraph Avenue

by Michael Chabon

Published: 2012-09-11

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As the summer of 2004 draws to a close, Archy Stallings and Nat Jaffe are still hanging in there?longtime friends, bandmates, and co-regents of Brokeland Records, a kingdom of used vinyl located in the borderlands of Berkeley and Oakland. Their wives, Gwen Shanks and Aviva Roth-Jaffe, are...

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Telegraph Avenue: A Novel

by Michael Chabon

Published: 2012-09-11

Hardcover: 480 pages

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“An immensely gifted writer and magical prose stylist.”—Michiko Kakutani, New York Times New York Times bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael Chabon has transported readers to wonderful places: to New York City during the Golden Age of comic books (The Amazing Adventur...

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Telegraph Days: A Novel

by Larry McMurtry

Published: 2007-04-24

Mass Market Paperback: 416 pages

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I've come to think that in times of crisis human beings don't have it in them to be rational. The Yazee gang was riding down upon us, six abreast. We all ran outside and confirmed that fact. The sensible thing would have been to run and hide -- but did we? Not at all.The narrator of Larry ...

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The Telephone Gambit: Chasing Alexander Graham Bell's Secret

by Seth Shulman

Published: 2008-01-07

Hardcover: 256 pages

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A gripping intrigue at the heart of one of the world's most important inventions.While researching Alexander Graham Bell at MIT's Dibner Institute, Seth Shulman scrutinized Bell's journals and within them he found the smoking gun, a hint of deeply buried historical intrigue. Delving furthe...

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Telex From Cuba - on Playaway

by Rachel Kushner

Published: 2009

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Playaway is the easiest way to listen to a book on the go. An all-in-one format, the player and content are combined in one 2 ounce unit and it comes with everything you need to start listening immediately. No separate player needed, no CDs, no downloads ... just press play! "Rachel Kushne...

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Telex from Cuba: A Novel

by Rachel Kushner

Published: 2009-06-02

Paperback: 336 pages

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Finalist for the National Book Award for FictionThe debut novel by New York Times bestselling author Rachel Kushner, called “shimmering” (The New Yorker), “multilayered and absorbing” (The New York Times Book Review), and “gorgeously written” (Kirkus Reviews).Young Everly Lede...