- Engels, Friedrich. The Condition of the Working Class in
England. Translated by Florence Wischnewetzky; edited with
a foreword by Victor Kiernan. London: Penguin Books, [1845, 1886,
1892] 1987. ISBN 0-14-044486-6.
- A Web edition of this title is available online.
- How, Edith A. People of Africa. London:
Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1921.
- This book was found in a Cairo bookbinder's shop; I know
of no source for printed copies, but an electronic edition is now
available
online at this site.
- Kelly, Thomas J. Moon Lander. Washington:
Smithsonian Institution Press, 2001. ISBN 1-56098-998-X.
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- Leeson, Nick with Edward Whitley. Rogue Trader. London: Warner
Books, 1996. ISBN 0-7515-1708-9.
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- Crichton, Michael. Prey. New York: HarperCollins,
2002. ISBN 0-06-621412-2.
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- Erasmus, Desiderius. The Praise of Folly. Translated,
with an introduction and commentary by Clarence H. Miller. New Haven,
CT: Yale University Press, [1511, 1532] 1979. ISBN 0-300-02373-1.
- This edition translates the Moriae Encomium
into very colloquial American English. The effect is doubtless
comparable to the original Latin on a contemporary reader (one,
that is, who grasped the thousands of classical and scriptural
allusions in the text, all nicely annotated here), but still it's
somewhat jarring to hear Erasmus spout phrases such as “fit as
a fiddle”, “bull [in] a chinashop”, and “x-ray vision”. If you
prefer a little more gravitas in your Erasmus, check out
the 1688 English translation and the original Latin text available
online at the Erasmus Text Project. After
the first unauthorised edition was published in 1511, Erasmus revised
the text for each of seven editions published between 1512 and 1532;
the bulk of the changes were in the 1514 and 1516 editions. This
translation is based on the 1532 edition published at Basel, and
identifies the changes since 1511, giving the date of each.
- Magueijo, Joćo. Faster Than the Speed
of Light. Cambridge, MA: Perseus Books,
2003. ISBN 0-7382-0525-7.
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- Gordon, Deborah M. Ants at Work. New York: The
Free Press, 1999. ISBN 0-684-85733-2.
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- Liddy, G. Gordon. When I Was a Kid, This Was a
Free Country. Washington: Regnery Publishing,
2002. ISBN 0-89526-175-8.
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- Orwell, George. Homage to Catalonia. San Diego:
Harcourt Brace, [1938, 1952] 1987. ISBN 0-15-642117-8.
- The orwell.ru
site makes available electronic
editions of this work in both English and Русский
which you can read online or download to read at your leisure.
All of Orwell's works are in the public domain under Russia's 50 year
copyright law.
- Christensen, Mark. Build the Perfect Beast. New
York: St. Martin's Press, 2001. ISBN 0-312-26873-4.
- Here's the concept: a bunch of Southern California morons
set out to reinvent the automobile in the 1990's. This would be
far more amusing were it not written by one of them, who
remains, after all the misadventures recounted in the text, fully
as clueless as at the get-go, and enormously less irritating had his
editor at St. Martin's Press—a usually respectable house—construed
their mandate to extend beyond running the manuscript through
a spelling checker. Three and four letter words are misspelled;
technical terms are rendered phonetically (“Nacca-duct”, p. 314;
“tinsel strength”, p. 369), factual howlers of all kinds litter
the pages, and even the spelling of principal characters varies from
page to page—on page 6 one person's name is spelled two different
ways within five lines. This may be the only book ever
issued by a major publisher which manages to misspell “Popsicle” in
two entirely different ways (pp. 234, 350). When you fork out
US$26.95 for a book, you deserve something better than a first draft
manuscript between hard covers. I've fact-checked many a manuscript
with fewer errors than this book.