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Ecoop'89: Proceedings of the European Conference on

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Cook, Stephen, PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, The proceedings of the European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming are presented in this volume, comprised of twenty-one refereed and two invited papers. Each of the papers presents original work describing research in many aspects of object-oriented programming languages, systems and applications. Topics covered include reusability, inheritance, operating systems, concurrency, persistence, design, metalevel programming, applications and experience, semantics and user interface. The main purpose of the conference and of the proceedings is to present a selection of the latest research in the object-oriented paradigm, and to provide a focus for the further development of that research. This book will be useful for academic and industrial researchers in the whole field of computer science.

Vendo libri di vario genere a 6 euro

Vendo causa inutilizzo i seguenti titoli, tutti a 6€ l'uno. Sconti con più libri acquistati. Spese di spedizione 2€. Consegno a mano (quindi senza spese spedizione) in zona Trento. - Trilogia di "Dulac" (il segreto del calice, la spada degli elfi,lo scudo delle rune) - La leggenda di Earthsea - Saga di Hyperversum (libro 1-2-3) - Saga di Christophe Paolini (Eragon, Eldest) - Libro decimo della Ruota del Tempo,Crocevia del crepuscolo - Primo volume della Ruota del Tempo, L'occhio del mondo - Walk this way, autobiography of Aerosmith - I talismani di Shannara - Gli eredi di Shannara - Il druido di Shannara - La regina degli Elfi di Shannara - La caduta dei giganti

Storybook Dad

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Fajardo, Elizabeth Ester, PUBLISHER: Lights Camera Action Ink, Storybook Dad pays homage to Jacinto Alfonso Fajardo--a beloved tahter, grandfather and husband. Through the recollections of his eldest daughter, Elizabeth, the reader becomes part of the family as she retraces the roots of her Salvadoran ancestry within the backdrop of their new home, the city of San Francisco. The work chronicles a young girl's growing pains, from early childhood escapades, to key moments in a developing woman's life. Ever constant throughout this adventure--a father's eternal devotion. She embraces his two favored indulgences: San Francisco Giants baseball and the movies. As in the pages of a storybook, Dad's love remains the basis for a "happily ever after."

The Debated Mind: Evolutionary Psychology Versus Ethnography

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Whitehouse, Harvey, PUBLISHER: Berg Publishers, In a further development of the nature-nurture debate, this collection of articles questions how the human mind influences the content and organization of culture. In the study of mental activity, can the effects of evolution and history be teased apart? Evolutionary psychologists argue that cultural transmission is constrained by our genetic inheritance. Few social and cultural anthropologists have found this argument to be relevant to their work and many would doubt its validity. This book uniquely pitches the arguments for innatism against ethnographic perspectives that call into question the theoretical foundations of orthodox evolutionary biology and cognitive science. Ultimately the aim of the debate is to create an original set of mutually compatible theories that will open up new areas for interdisciplinary research.

The Demon King and I

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Havens, Candace, PUBLISHER: Berkley Publishing Group, First in a terrific new series featuring wealthy paranormal party girlsafrom the author of the "Charmed" books. The Caruthers sisters are heiresses with privilege, wealth, beauty, and brains. But these party girls have something extra. As the Guardian Keys, possessors of an ancient family secret, they hold the fate of the world in their hands. Gillian, the eldest, is a sensation in the art worlda "this" world, that is. In her other world sheas the Assassin, a knockout who snuffs out dimension-jumpers who foul up her personal space. She never expected to join forces with one. But when a plague of murderous demons plunges the earth in darkness, she has no choice but to get a little help from a being who knows his stuff.

Across the Universe

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Revis, Beth, PUBLISHER: Razorbill, Amy is a cryogenically frozen passenger aboard the vast spaceship "Godspeed." She expects to awaken on a new planet, 300 years in the future. But fifty years before "Godspeed"'s scheduled landing, Amy's cryo chamber is unplugged, and she is nearly killed. Now, Amy is caught inside an enclosed world where nothing makes sense. "Godspeed"'s passengers have forfeited all control to Eldest, a tyrannical and frightening leader, and Elder, his rebellious and brilliant teenage heir. Amy desperately wants to trust Elder. But should she? All she knows is that she must race to unlock "Godspeed"'s hidden secrets before whoever woke her tries to kill again. "An unforgettable opening scene." - "Kirkus Reviews," starred review "Gripping first novel." - "Publishers Weekly" "A compulsively readable crowd-pleaser." - "Booklist"

Sinful Inheritance

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Mitchell-Williams, Candis, PUBLISHER: PublishAmerica, The opening moments of this page turner will quickly draw you into the life of a beautiful young woman, her parents, the man in her life, and a deranged killer a a killer with a mysterious connection to the tortured young woman and her family. As Jennifer struggles to hold on to her sanity and face her motheras alcoholism and impending death, her fatheras depression, and a failing family business as best she can, her worst nightmares come to life as secrets and lies threaten to tear her away from the man that she loves and place her, and all those close to her, directly into the path of a cold-blooded killer. Who is the mysteriously evil aSin Killera and what is his connection to Jennifer and her family? Will Jennifer and Nathanas love survive or will dangerous secrets from a distant past drive them apart forever?

Libri per ragazzi (singoli o lotto)

Vendo lotto 16 libri per ragazzi a 40 euro (leggermente trattabili) Vendo anche singolarmente: 2 euro: Marta Dell'angelo - c'è da perderci la testa (scienza ed arte) David Almond - Skelling Pinin Carpi - Il paese dei maghi Stephen Donaldson - La conquista dello scettro High school musical - Storie da east High Isabella Fedrigotti - Gli altri ed io Bruno Togliolini - Salto nell'ultramondo Carmine Tedeschi - Palla al centro 3 euro: Daniela Lenzi - Medioevo andata e ritorno Isabelle Allende - La città delle bestie Frances Burnett - Il giardino segreto 5 euro: Christopher Paolini - Eldest Timothèe De Fombelle - Tobia Ulysses Moore i guardiani di pietra Ulysses Moore La prima chiave C.S. Lewis - Narnia, il principe Caspian Per qualsiasi informazione o richiesta non esitare a contattare! Disponibili anche altri libri di tutti i generi.

Barefoot Season

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Mallery, Susan, PUBLISHER: Mira Books, Michelle Sanderson may appear to be a strong, independent woman, but on the inside, she's still the wounded girl who fled home years ago. A young army vet, Michelle returns to the quaint Blackberry Island Inn to claim her inheritance and recover from the perils of war. Instead, she finds the owner's suite occupied by the last person she wants to see. Carly Williams and Michelle were once inseparable, until a shocking betrayal destroyed their friendship. And now Carly is implicated in the financial disaster lurking behind the inn's cheerful veneer. Single mother Carly has weathered rumors, lies and secrets for a lifetime, and is finally starting to move forward with love and life. But if the Blackberry Island Inn goes under, Carly and her daughter will go with it. To save their livelihoods, Carly and Michelle will undertake a turbulent truce. It'll take more than a successful season to move beyond their devastating past, but with a little luc

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Ottime Condizioni. Vendibili anche singolarmente TURTLEDOVE: - Nell'Oscurità 8,00 - Scende l'Oscurità 9,00 - Il Libro dei Poteri (rovinato) 4,00. LAWHEAD: Cofanetto Pendragon - I Signori della Guerra di Nin 4,50 - Il Ritorno del Re Drago 4,00. AUTORI VARI: Dragonlance, Cofanetto Gli Eroi (il cofanetto è rovinato, i libri in perfette condizioni) - Tutti i colori dell'Acciaio 7,50 - Il Potere del Fuoco 4,50 - La Magia di Wenshar 3,50. AUTORI VARI 2: - I Cavalieri della Morte (Abnett) 7,00 - La Guerra degli Dei (Anderson) 6,00 - La Saga dei Fex: Il Sacrificio (Rusch) 3,50 - La Città di Tantras 2,00 - Il Potere dei Druidi (Llywelyn) 7,50. Paolini & J.Whyte: - Eragon 3,00 - Eldest 6,00 - Il Forte sul Fiume 6,00 - Il Segno di Excalibur 5,00 - Il Destino di Camelot 7,00 - Il Marchio di Merlino 7,00. PER SPEDIZIONI SINGOLE, SU RICHIESTA, SPEDISCO TRAMITE PIEGO LIBRI, COSTO 4,00 EURO INVECE DI 10.

Her Fearful Symmetry

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Niffenegger, Audrey, PUBLISHER: Scribner Book Company, Julia and Valentina Poole are twenty-year-old sisters with an intense attachment to each other. One morning the mailman delivers a thick envelope to their house in the suburbs of Chicago. Their English aunt Elspeth Noblin has died of cancer and left them her London apartment. There are two conditions for this inheritance: that they live in the flat for a year before they sell it and that their parents not enter it. Julia and Valentina are twins. So were the girls' aunt Elspeth and their mother, Edie. The girls move to Elspeth's flat, which borders the vast Highgate Cemetery, where Christina Rossetti, George Eliot, Stella Gibbons, and other luminaries are buried. Julia and Valentina become involved with their living neighbors: Martin, a composer of crossword puzzles who suffers from crippling OCD, and Robert, Elspeth's elusive lover, a scholar of the cemetery. They also discover that much is still alive in Highgate, including--perhaps--their aunt.

Eldest di Christopher Paolini, Fabbri Editori

Libro nuovo. Anno , pagine 803, rilegato. Fabbri Editori Eragon e il suo drago Saphira hanno appena salvato la città dei ribelli dall'assalto dello sterminato esercito di Re Galbatorix, il crudele reggente dell'Impero. Ora Eragon deve mettersi in viaggio per raggiungere Ellesmera, la terra degli elfi, dove proseguirà il suo apprendistato nell'arte della magia e della spada, abilità vitali per un Cavaliere dei Draghi. E' un viaggio incredibile, ricco di nuove avventure, costellato da incontri con personaggi che incutono rispetto e visite a palazzi solenni. Tranelli e tradimenti lo attendono a ogni angolo: capire di chi fidarsi sarà per Eragon la prova più difficile. Nel frattempo, suo cugino Roran, tornato a Carvahall, dovrà combattere una nuova battaglia, gettando Eragon in un pericolo persino maggiore. E, infine, le forze oscure del re riusciranno a stritolare la resistenza dei Varden? Non si può sfuggire al proprio destino ancora meno se si è un Cavaliere dei Draghi.

Acts of Naming: The Family Plot in Fiction

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Ragussis, Michael, PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, Michael Ragussis re-reads the novelistic tradition by arguing the acts of naming--bestowing, revealing, or earning a name; taking away, hiding, or prohibiting a name; slandering, or protecting and serving it--lie at the center of fictional plots from the 18th century to the present. Against the background of philosophic approaches to naming, Acts of Naming reveals the ways in which systems of naming are used to appropriate characters in novels as diverse as Clarissa, Fanny Hill, Oliver Twist, Pierre, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Remembrance of Things Past, and Lolita, and identifies unnaming and renaming as the locus of power in the family's plot to control the child, and more particularly, to rape the daughter. His analysis also treats additional works by Cooper, Bronte, Hawthorne, Eliot, Twain, Conrad, and Faulkner, extending the concept of the naming plot to reimagine the traditions of the novel, comparing American and British plots, female and male plots, inheritance and seduction plots, and so on. Acts of Naming ends with a theoretical exploration of the "magical" power of naming in different eras and in different, even competing, forms of discourse.

Pride and Prejudice

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Austen, Jane, PUBLISHER: Indoeuropeanpublishing.com, Pride and Prejudice is a novel by Jane Austen. It was begun in , her second novel, but her first serious attempt at publication. She finished the original manuscript by in Steventon, Hampshire, where she lived with her parents and siblings in the town rectory. Austen originally called the story First Impressions, but it was never published under that title; instead, she made extensive revisions to the manuscript, then retitled and eventually published it as Pride and Prejudice. In renaming the novel, Austen may have had in mind the final chapter of Fanny Burney's Cecilia, itself called "Pride and Prejudice," where the phrase appears three times in block capitals. The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education and marriage in the landed gentry society of early 19th century England. Elizabeth is the second eldest of five daughters of a country gentleman landed in the fictional town of Meryton in Hertfordshire, not far from London.

The Family Corleone

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Falco, Edward, PUBLISHER: Random House, New York, . The city and the nation are in the depths of the Great Depression. The crime families of New York have prospered in this time, but with the coming end of Prohibition, a battle is looming that will determine which organizations will rise and which will face a violent end. For Vito Corleone, nothing is more important that his family's future. While his youngest children, Michael, Fredo, and Connie, are in school, unaware of their father's true occupation, and his adopted son Tom Hagen is a college student, he worries most about Sonny, his eldest child. Vito pushes Sonny to be a businessman, but Sonny-17 years-old, impatient and reckless-wants something else: To follow in his father's footsteps and become a part of the real family business. An exhilarating and profound novel of tradition and violence, of loyalty and betrayal, The Family Corleone will appeal to the legions of fans who can never get enough of The Godfather, as well as introduce it to a whole new generation.

Libri fantasy a partire da 2 €

Spese di spedizione escluse Sconti per acquisti multipli Kelley Armstrong - Bitten - Fazi editore - 5 € Claudia Gray - Evernight - Mondolibri - 5 € Claudia Gray - Stargazer - Mondolibri - 5 € Terry Goodkind - La spada della verità - Volume I - Fanucci - 7 € Josephine Angelini - Dreamless - Giunti - 7 € Marion Zimmer Bradley - Il giglio dorato - Longanesi - 7 € David Eddings - L'epopea dei Mallorean - La maga di Darshiva - Euroclub - 7 € David Eddings - L'epopea dei Mallorean - Il signore dei demoni - Euroclub - 7 € David Eddings - L'epopea dei Mallorean - Il re dei Murgos - Euroclub - 7 € Terry Brooks - La spada di Shannara - Best Sellers Mondadori - 3 € Marion Zimmer Bradley - Il sapiente di Darkover - Tea - 2 € Maggie Stiefvater - Shiver - 5 € (venduto) Lauren Kate - Torment - 3 € (venduto) Lauren Kate - Torment - cartonato - 7 € Lauren Kate - Passion - 9 € Veronica Roth - Divergent (sigillato) - 5 € (venduto) Michael Ende - La storia infinita - 5 € (venduto) Christopher Paolini - Eldest - 5 € Marcus Heitz - Le cinque stirpi - 5 € Garcia-Stohl - Beautiful Creatures - La sedicesima luna - 12 € (venduto) Mark Lawrence - Il principe dei fulmini - 7 € Terry Brooks - Il volo degli angeli - cartonato - 7 € Terry Brooks - La sfida di Landover - 3 €

Educational Research Undone

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Stronach, Ian / Stronach, Aan / Maclure, Margaret, PUBLISHER: Open University Press, "This is a provocative, important book. It moves the discourses of postmodernism and deconstructionism to new levels of insight and analysis. Authors Stronach and MacLure perform a major service to the field, showing how these complex discourses can be fitted to the concrete practices of educational research and pedagogy. In so doing they set new goals and priorities for the next generation of educational research and theory" - Norman K Denzin, College of Communications Scholar, Distinguished Professor of Communication, Research Professor of Sociology, Criticism and Interpretive Theory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. "As intelligent a hearing as postmodernism is likely to receive." - Professor Ernie House, School of Education, University of Colorado at Boulder. This book is the first educational research text in the UK to come to terms with postmodernism and deconstruction, connecting these emerging problematics of 'representation' to issues in philosophy, research methodology, and policy critique, and both providing and criticising its own examples. The authors draw on literary theory, anthropology, and sociology in order to construct alternative ways of reading and writing educational research, claiming that it is with a 'reformed inheritance' that such research can best address the condition of postmodernity as well as the positive and negative aspects of postmodernism. The book will appeal to educational and social researchers, as well as to research students.

Y: A Novel

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Celona, Marjorie, PUBLISHER: Free Press, For fans of "White Oleander "and "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao," an exquisitely rendered debut about a wise-beyond-her-years foster child searching for a home, entwined with the heartbreaking story of the mother who abandoned her. "Y. The wishbone, fork in the road, empty wine glass. The question we ask over and over. Why?""My life begins at the Y..." so opens the story of Shannon, a newborn left at the doors of the local YMCA. Bounced between foster homes, Shannon endures neglect and abuse before she finally finds stability with Miranda, a single mother with a daughter of her own. But as Shannon grows, so do her questions. Who is her true family? Why would her parents abandon Shannon on the day she was born? The answers lie in the heartrending tale of her mother, a headstrong young woman with a flawed and desperate fate, trapped in a tragic series of events that will destroy her family and test the limits of her compassion and sacrifice. Sparkling with wit and surprisingly tender insights, Marjorie Celona's extraordinary novel offers a deeply affecting look at the choices we make and what it means to be a family. As the story builds, present and past converge to shape a unique and lasting story of identity and inheritance. "Y "marks the debut of an astonishing new talent.

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The Little Shadows

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Endicott, Marina, PUBLISHER: Doubleday Canada, Here is the eagerly anticipated new novel from a brilliant writer whose last book, Good to a Fault, was shortlisted for the prestigious Giller Prize and won the Commonwealth Prize for Canada and the Caribbean. The Little Shadows revolves around three sisters in the world of vaudeville before and during the First World War. We follow the lives of all three in turn: Aurora, the eldest and most beautiful, who is sixteen when the book opens; thoughtful Clover, a year younger; and the youngest sister, joyous headstrong sprite Bella, who is thirteen. The girls, overseen by their fond but barely coping Mama, are forced to make their living as a singing act after the untimely death of their father. They begin with little besides youth and hope, but Marina Endicott's genius is to show how the three girls slowly and steadily evolve into true artists even as they navigate their way to adulthood among a cast of extraordinary characters - some of them charming charlatans, some of them unpredictable eccentrics, and some of them just ordinary-seeming humans with magical gifts. Using her gorgeous prose and extraordinary insight, Endicott lures us onto the brightly lit stage and then into the little shadows that lurk behind the curtain, and reveals how the art of vaudeville -- in all its variety, madness, melodrama, hilarity and sorrow -- echoes the art of life itself.

Libri di narrativa 1/2

Vendo i seguenti 27 libri di narrativa, elencati per titolo, autore e prezzo. Li vendo in blocco a 100 euro. In alternativa, li vendo anche non in blocco, ma minimo 4 alla volta. La maggioranza è in condizioni ottime, mentre i più vecchi sono in condizioni discrete-buone. Blocco 1/2: A testa in giù, Enrico Tirotto, 9 € Alyson e il mangiatore di anime, Cinzia Melis, 6 € Asimov story, Isaac Asimov, 4 € Avanti nel tempo, Robert J Sawyer, 3 € Avventura in fondo al cosmo, Paul Preuss, 3 € Blart (eng), Dominic Barker, 6 € City, Alessandro Baricco, 4 € Crossfire - L'ultimo pianeta, Nancy Kress, 3 € Dopo il lungo silenzio, Sheri S. Tepper, 4 € Duemila anni fa, F.C. Xavier, 9 € Eldest, Christopher Paolini, 10 € Fratelli mostri, Lester Del Rey, 3 € Geshwa Olers e il viaggio nel masso verde, Fabrizio Valenza, 10 € Gli esiliati di Capella, Edgard Armond, 6 € Guerra al grande nulla, James Blish, 3 € I figli di Medusa, Theodore Sturgeon, 3 € Il figlio del sole, Philip. Farmer, 4 € Il lupo della palude, R.L. Stine, 4 € Il mago, Ursula Le Guin, 4 € Il mago di Ark, Jonathan Wylie, 4 € Il mio nome è legione, Roger Zelazny, 3 € Il nuovo re, Herbie Brennan, 7 € Il segreto dell'alchimista, Antonia Rogmagnoli, 14 € Il sogno di Poldo, Matteo Pugliares, 6 € Il vagabondo del re, Tom de Haven, 6 € La casa tra i mondi, Marion Zimmer Bradley, 4 € La civiltà del vento, J.G. Ballard, 3 €

Goldberg Variations

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Isaacs, Susan, PUBLISHER: Scribner Book Company, The ultimate novel of family dysfunction from "New York Times" bestselling author Susan Isaacs, combining her trademark sass and wit, her distinctive characters, with reflections on faith, family, and inheritance that both entertain and enlighten. Gloria Garrison nee Goldberg isn't getting any younger. At seventy-nine, it's time for her to plan for the future of Glory, Inc., the Santa Fe-based beauty makeover business that Gloria has grown from zilch into an eleven-million-a-year bonanza. But now Gloria has alienated her former business partner and chosen successor. Who will take over Glory? Gloria's never been big on family and wrote them all out of her will, but suddenly she must contemplate her three grandkids as possible candidates. There's twenty-nine-year-old Daisy, a New York story editor for a movie studio. Her brother, twenty-seven-year-old Matt, does sports PR. He can charm his way around ball players, the press, and a flurry of women. And there's gutsy Raquel, who at age twenty-five is laboring away as a Legal Aid lawyer. She's Catholic and a Goldberg and proud of it. When Gloria sends business-class tickets to tempt the three grandkids for a visit, they couldn't be more surprised. Stranger still is the revelation that one of them and only one, may be offered the chance to inherit Glory. Always sassy, smart, and wickedly witty, Susan Isaacs is at her formidable best in a novel that is both hilariously funny and a deeply moving tale of family, faith, and reconciliation.

Sons and Other Flammable Objects

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Khakpour, Porochista, PUBLISHER: Grove Press, With rolling storytelling cadences and wry wit that recall Zadie Smith's White Teeth and Jessica Hagedorn's Dogeaters, Porochista Khakpour, a young writer who emigrated to California from Tehran at age three, has delivered an extraordinary debut that marks her as a major and outrageously gifted new voice. Sons and Other Flammable Objects is a unique and powerful first novel, at once a comedy and a tragedy, a family history and a modern coming-of-age story with a distinctly timeless resonance. Growing up, Xerxes Adam is painfully aware that he is different--with an understanding of his Iranian heritage that vacillates from typical teenage embarrassment to something so tragic it can barely be spoken. His father, Darius, dwells obsessively on his sense of exile, and fantasizes about a nonexistent daughter he can relate to better than his living son; Xerxes's mother changes her name and tries to make friends; but neither of them offers their son anything he can actually use to make sense of the terrifying, violent last moments in a homeland he barely remembers. As he grows into manhood and moves to New York, his major goal in life is to completely separate from his parents, but when he meets a beautiful half-Iranian girl on the roof of his building after New York's own terrifying and violent catastrophe strikes, it seems Iran will not let Xerxes go. A wry and haunting first novel from a fresh Iranian-American writer, Sons and Other Flammable Objects is a sweeping, lyrical tale of suffering, redemption, and the role of memory and inheritance making peace with our worlds.

Liberalism's Crooked Circle: Letters to Adam Michnik

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Katznelson, Ira, PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press, This book is a profoundly moving and analytically incisive attempt to shift the terms of discussion in American politics. It speaks to the intellectual and political weaknesses within the liberal tradition that have put the United States at the mercy of libertarian, authoritarian populist, nakedly racist, and traditionalist elitist versions of the right-wing; and it seeks to identify resources that can move the left away from the stunned intellectual incoherence with which it has met the death of Bolshevism. In Ira Katznelson's view, Americans are squandering a tremendous ethical and political opportunity to redefine and reorient the liberal tradition. In an opening essay and two remarkable letters addressed to Adam Michnik, who is arguably East Europe's emblematic democratic intellectual, Katznelson seeks to recover this possibility. By examining issues that once occupied Michnik's fellow dissidents in the Warsaw group known as the Crooked Circle, Katznelson brings a fresh realism to old ideals and posits a liberalism that "stares hard" at cruelty, suffering, coercion, and tyrannical abuses of state power. Like the members of Michnik's club, he recognizes that the circumference of liberalism's circle never runs smooth and that tolerance requires extremely difficult judgments. Katznelson's first letter explores how the virtues of socialism, including its moral stand on social justice, can be related to liberalism while overcoming debilitating aspects of the socialist inheritance. The second asks whether liberalism can recognize, appreciate, and manage human difference. Situated in the lineage of efforts by Richard Hofstadter, C. Wright Mills, and Lionel Trilling to "thicken"liberalism, these letters also draw on personal experience in the radical politics of the s and in the dissident culture of East and Central Europe in the years immediately preceding communism's demise. "Liberalism's Crooked Circle could help foster a substantive debate in the American elections of and determine the contents of that desperately needed discussion.

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