The legendary 1951 scroll draft of "On the Road," published asKerouac originally composed it IN THREE WEEKS in April of 1951,Jack Kerouac wrote his first full draft of "On the Road"atyped as asingle-spaced paragraph on eight long sheets of tracing paper,which he later taped together to form a 120-foot scroll. A majorliterary event when it was published in Viking hardcover in 2007,this is the uncut version of an American classicarougher, wilder,and more provocative than the official work that appeared, heavilyedited, in 1957. This version, capturing a moment in creativehistory, represents the first full expression of Kerouacasrevolutionary aesthetic.

First published in 1967, Writing and Difference, a collection of Jacques Derrida's essays written between 1959 and 1966, has become a landmark of contemporary French thought. In it we find Derrida at work on his systematic deconstruction of Western metaphysics. The book's first half, which includes the celebrated essay on Descartes and Foucault, shows the development of Derrida's method of deconstruction. In these essays, Derrida demonstrates the traditional nature of some purportedly nontraditional currents of modern thought—one of his main targets being the way in which "structuralism" unwittingly repeats metaphysical concepts in its use of linguistic models. The second half of the book contains some of Derrida's most compelling analyses of why and how metaphysical thinking must exclude writing from its conception of language, finally showing metaphysics to be constituted by this exclusion. These essays on Artaud, Freud, Bataille, Hegel, and Lévi-Strauss have served as introductions to Derrida's no

An investigative journalist explores our world on the brink ofrunning out of usable water. Less than .0008 percent of the total water on Earth is fit forhuman consumption, but global consumption of fresh water isdoubling every twenty years. Water has become perhaps our mostprecious commodity-a life-sustaining but increasingly rare andprivatized resource. A dramatic gap exists between those who haveadequate water for survival and those who don't, and tensions overwater in some areas of the world hover just below open war. From Europe to Asia to Africa to America, Jeffrey Rothfeder hasvisited the world's hot spots, those with the least amount ofwater, as well as places where there is so much of it that plansare in the works to sell the excess to the highest bidder. In thiscompelling narrative account of our world in turmoil over water,Rothfeder describes the issues and struggles of the people on allsides of the water crisis: from the scarred survivors of bizarrewater-management practices, to

A century after the most famous shipwreck in history, The RoughGuide to the Titanic tells the full compelling story of thesupposedly unsinkable liner. A comprehensive history, it coversevery moment of the journery and the Titanic's final hours, fromstriking the iceberg to disappearing beneath the freezing Atlanticwaters. Discover the epic human drama at the heart of the tragedy,with a rich cast of characters including the heroes, villains andvictims aboard the Titanic, and the adventurers who re-discoveredit in 1985. Plus, there are maps, diagrams and images to illustratethe disaster at every turn. The focus also stretches from thepeople who built the Titanic - with their faith in progress andtechnology - to the controversies and conspiracy theories that haveraged ever since its sinking. The Rough Guide to the Titanic alsolooks at the fascination that surrounds the Titanic, including thebooks, music and movies that have kept its memory alive - from thestiff upper lips of 1958's A Night To Remember to the tea

Published to rave reviews in 1993, Noah's Garden shows us howour landscape style of neat yards and gardens has devastatedsuburban ecology, wiping out entire communities of plants andanimals by stripping bare their habitats and destroying their foodsupplies. When Stein realized what her intensive efforts at makinga traditional garden had done, she set out to "ungarden." Her bookinterweaves an account of her efforts with an explanation of theecology of gardens. Noah's Garden has become the bible of the newenvironmental gardening movement, and the author is one of its mostpopular spokespersons.

Adopting a broad historical perspective, the author analyzesthe intricacies of the German identity. He encapsulates both thesituation today and its roots in the past. A new afterword bringsthis edition up-to-date. --This text refers to an out of print orunavailable edition of this title.