Animal Liberation

The Book That Started A Revolution
Since its original publication in 1975, this groundbreaking work has awakened millions of concerned men and women to the shocking abuse of animals everywhere -- inspiring a worldwide movement to eliminate much of the cruel and unnecessary laboratory animal experimentation of years past. 
In this newly revised and expanded edition, author Peter Singer exposes the chilling realities of today's "factory forms" and product-testing procedures -- offering sound, humane solutions to what has become a profound environmental and social as well as moral issue. An important and persuasive appeal to conscience, fairness, decency and justice, Animal Liberation is essential reading for the supporter and the skeptic alike.

Science & Math

Singer, Peter

Biological Sciences

Ecco Press

Charlie Puckman, Jr., Lorraine Nadia, andFrederick Keane came of age in the late 1960s.Like that era, their lives were mysterious,idealistic, passionate, and romantic, even -- butultimately confused and, often, ineffectual. Morethan thirty years later, their youthful adventurescontinue to have ramifications: Charlie facesprosecution after an industrial accident at hisfamily business, Lorraine's daughter is searchingfor the father she never knew, and Frederickhas gone underground after his radical life hasspiraled out of control.
Epic in scope and touching on such provocativeissues as Patty Hearst and the SLA, crimeand the possibility of redemption, and the searchfor self and life’s meaning, Backward-FacingMan is a novel about choices and their lastingeffects on people's lives, their families,and American society.

Backward-Facing Man

Literature & Fiction

Silver, Don

United States

The Three Button Trick And Other Stories

Nicola Barker weaves humor and tragedy through this fresh and original collection, as her characters struggle to find love, independence, and fulfillment in this new addition to the Ecco Art of the Story series
Nicola Barker's collection of her nineteen most brilliant stories exemplifies her ability to create daring, witty, and dynamic characters, all their idiosyncracies intact. Barker's stories often use wordplay and humor to stretch the boundaries of metaphor and reality as the outrageously original plots unfold. Through her confident and clever style, these short stories sling Barker to the forefront of fiction writing, as she is reminiscent of Martin Amis, Julian Barnes, and Margaret Atwood.
The collection begins with a smart tale of a teenage girl whose obsession with the size of her nose dangerously compromises her relationships with her friends and her family. "Inside Information" is a pun of a title, describing how the protagonist's unborn fetus is the only one able to reform his mother's compulsive shoplifting by pulling the ultimate prank. "G-String" and "Symbiosis: Class Cestoda" detail women who gain self-esteem, albeit through quirky methods, despite the cowardly men who try to suppress them. The title story, "Three Button Trick," is about a man who deliberately buttons his duffel coat incorrectly to attract sympathetic females. Carrie falls for this trick, and it takes twenty-one years, a curious friend, and an eighty-three-year-old widower for her to realize her mistake. Wesley is the protagonist of a three-part collection, "Blisters," "Braces," and "Mr. Lippy" who, traumatized by two unfortunate incidents as a young boy, is an eccentric obsessed with freedom and the sea.
Barker skillfully intertwines humor with despair to stimulate any reader's interest; she taps into the psyches of her characters to create an authentic, original, and highly enjoyable read. The Three Button Trick and Other Stories is a resonant, audacious volume from a writer of immense talent and originality.

The Three Button Trick and Other Stories

Barker, Nicola

My Sister, My Love

OATES,JOYCE CAROL

Women's Fiction

A like-new hardcover book with dust jacket.

Run With The Hunted: A Charles Bukowski Reader

BUKOWSKI, CHARLES

Martin, John, Ed.

Poetry

Book of Longing

Léonard Cohen

Medium Raw

Biographies & Memoirs

Bourdain, Anthony

Professionals & Academics

Sheltering Sky

Unknown, Author

The Whale

Philip Hoare

Since We Fell.

DENNIS

Lehane

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