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Babel Towerby A. S. ByattISBN 0679736808 (0-679-73680-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Babel Tower'Book summary:Babel Tower follows The Virgin in the Garden and Still Life in tracing Frederica Potter, a lover of books who reflects the author's life and times. It centers around two lawsuits: in one, Frederica -- a young intellectual who has married outside her social set -- is challenging her wealthy and violent husband for custody of their child; in the other, an unkempt but charismatic rebel is charged with having written an obscene book, a novel-within-a-novel about a small band of revolutionaries who attempt to set up an ideal community. And in the background, rebellion gains a major toehold in the London of the Sixties, and society will never be the same. [via]
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Beowulf and Other Old English Poemsby Constance R. HieattISBN 0553213474 (0-553-21347-4)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beowulf and Other Old English Poems'Book summary:Unique and beautiful, Beowulf brings to life a society of violence and honor, fierce warriors and bloody battles, deadly monsters and famous swords. Written by an unknown poet in about the eighth century, this masterpiece of Anglo-Saxton literature transforms legends, myth, history, and ancient songs into the richly colored tale of the hero Beowulf, the loathsome man-eater Grendel, his vengeful water-hag mother, and a treasure-hoarding dragon. The earliest surviving epic poem in any modern European language. Beowulf is a stirring portrait of a heroic worldsomber, vast, and magnificent. [via]
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The Cambridge Encyclopediaby David CrystalISBN 0521790999 (0-521-79099-9)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cambridge Encyclopedia'Book summary:Remarkably, the fourth edition of The Cambridge Encyclopedia manages to improve on its impressive predecessors. This is no small feat when you take a look at some of the reviews previous editions have garnered: The Daily Telegraph declared that "the essential facts are instantly available ... better written, more concise and intelligent"; the Independent on Sunday felt that it is "as comprehensive as a single-volume encyclopedia can hope to be"; Time Magazine wrote of "Thousands of enlightenments"; and the Mail on Sunday purred about "a superbly organised reference book."
The editorial content is clear and wastes no words. It manages to be accessible without over-simplifying, to a remarkable degree. Take the entry on Aesop as an example. After a pronunciation guide, we read:
"(?6th-c BC) Legendary Greek fabulist. He is supposed to have been a native of Phrygia and a slave who, after being set free, travelled to Greece. The fables attributed to him are anecdotes which use animals to make a moral point and are, in all probability, a compilation of tales from many sources. The stories were popularised by the Roman poet Phaedrus in the 1st-c AD, and rewritten in sophisticated verse by La Fontaine in 1668." There are cross-references to "fable; Greek Literature; La Fontaine; Phaedrus."
The same clarity and economy are maintained consistently throughout the whole vast tome. And it is massive: there are about 40,000 "separately identified people, places and topics" with thousands of those useful cross-references to link entries together, a 24-page colour atlas section, and 800 black and white illustrations to back up the text. The book really does succeed in its aim of being a standard reference for "home, school, library or office," useful for both adults and teenage students. --David Pickering [via]More editions of The Cambridge Encyclopedia:
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The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Languageby David CrystalISBN 0521559677 (0-521-55967-7)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language'Book summary:This Second Edition of The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language presents a mass of new information and introduces the subject of language to a fresh generation of students and general readers. Probably the most successful general study of language ever published, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language covers all the major themes of language study, including popular ideas about language, language and identity, the structure of language, speaking and listening, writing, reading, and signing, language acquisition, the neurological basis of language, and languages of the world. Exposing this work to a new generation of readers, the Second Edition extends the range of coverage to include advances in areas such as machine translation, speech interaction with machines, and language teaching. There is new material on acoustics, physiological concepts of language, and World English, and a complete update of the language distribution maps, language-speaking statistics, table of the world's languages, and further reading. All geopolitical material has been revised to take account of boundary changes. The book has been redesigned and is presented for the first time in full color, with new pictures and maps added. [via]
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The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Languageby David CrystalISBN 052182348X (0-521-82348-X)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language'Book summary:English is arguably the nearest thing we have to a world language, and yet it is a language with a wealth of varieties, dialects, and traditions, all developing in different ways and at different speeds. This book is a superbly written and illustrated exploration of the history, structure, and use of English throughout the world. World-renowned linguist and author, David Crystal, explores the many facets and varieties of the English language, bringing life to this large and complex subject. He begins with the origins of English in Anglo-Saxon times and follows the growth of the language to the present. Every major English-speaking country is included, and the book abounds with insights into how English evolved and how it works. The author pays particular attention to the use of language in literature and how it permeates humor. He allows language to "speak for itself" by using quotations, photographs, newspaper clippings, poems, advertisements, cartoons, and many other types of illustrative material that vividly complement his narrative. Author Crystal systematically covers the structural features of English, and includes a complete description of grammar, a summary of pronunciation and writing systems, and a thorough treatment of the size and complexity of vocabulary. He explains technical aspects in simple and accessible terms and includes a glossary to assist the reader with unclear language terminology. Highly visual with striking color illustrations, panels and boxed features throughout, this book is fascinating reading for the widest possible audience. David Crystal is the author of The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language (CUP, 1987) and the editor of The Cambridge Encyclopedia (CUP, 1990, 1994). [via]
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- The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language: ISBN 0521596556 (0-521-59655-6)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language: Canadian Edition: ISBN 0521559855 (0-521-55985-5)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language: ISBN 052182348X (0-521-82348-X)
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- The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language: ISBN 0521596556 (0-521-59655-6)
Charles Dickens' a Tale of Two Citiesby Charles DickensISBN 0671006118 (0-671-00611-8)
Softcover, Monarch Notes
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City of Godby Augustine, Thomas Merton, Marcus DodsISBN 0679783199 (0-679-78319-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'City of God'Book summary:Augustine's City of God, a monumental work of religious lore, philosophy, and history, was written as a kind of literary tombstone for Roman culture. After the sack of Rome, Augustine wrote this book to anatomize the corruption of Romans' pursuit of earthly pleasures: "grasping for praise, open-handed with their money; honest in the pursuit of wealth, they wanted to hoard glory." Augustine contrasts his condemnation of Rome with an exaltation of Christian culture. The glory that Rome failed to attain will only be realized by citizens of the City of God, the Heavenly Jerusalem foreseen in Revelation. Because City of God was written for men of classical learning--custodians of the culture Augustine sought to condemn--it is thick with Ciceronian circumlocutions, and makes many stark contrasts between "Your Virgil" and "Our Scriptures." Even if Augustine's prose strikes modern ears as a bit bombastic, and if his polarized Christian/pagan world is more binary than the one we live in today, his arguments against utopianism and his defense of the richness of Christian culture remain useful and strong. City of God is, as its final words proclaim itself to be, "a giant of a book." --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
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Culture and Imperialismby Edward W. SaidISBN 0679750541 (0-679-75054-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Culture and Imperialism'Book summary:Edward Said makes one of the strongest cases ever for the aphorism, "the pen is mightier than the sword." This is a brilliant work of literary criticism that essentially becomes political science. Culture and Imperialism demonstrates that Western imperialism's most effective tools for dominating other cultures have been literary in nature as much as political and economic. He traces the themes of 19th- and 20th-century Western fiction and contemporary mass media as weapons of conquest and also brilliantly analyzes the rise of oppositional indigenous voices in the literatures of the "colonies." Said would argue that it's no mere coincidence that it was a Victorian Englishman, Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton, who coined the phrase "the pen is mightier . . ." Very highly recommended for anyone who wants to understand how cultures are dominated by words, as well as how cultures can be liberated by resuscitating old voices or creating new voices for new times. [via]
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Death in a Tenured Positionby Amanda CrossISBN 0525089357 (0-525-08935-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Death of a Salesmanby Arthur MillerISBN 0670261548 (0-670-26154-8)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Tasteby Pierre Bourdieu, Richard NiceISBN 0674212770 (0-674-21277-0)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste'Book summary:No judgement of taste is innocent. In a word, we are all snobs. Pierre Bourdieu brilliantly illuminates this situation of the middle class in the modern world. France's leading sociologist focusses here on the French bourgeoisie, its tastes and preferences. Distinction is at once a vast ethnography of contemporary France and a dissection of the bourgeois mind.
In the course of everyday life people constantly choose between what they find aesthetically pleasing and what they consider tacky, merely trendy, or ugly. Bourdieu bases his study on surveys that took into account the multitude of social factors that play a part in a Frenchperson's choice of clothing, furniture, leisure activities, dinner menus for guests, and many other matters of taste. What emerges from his analysis is that social snobbery is everywhere in the bourgeois world. The different aesthetic choices people make are all distinctions-that is, choices made in opposition to those made by other classes. Taste is not pure. Bourdieu finds a world of social meaning in the decision to order bouillabaisse, in our contemporary cult of thinness, in the "California sports" such as jogging and cross-country skiing. The social world, he argues, functions simultaneously as a system of power relations and as a symbolic system in which minute distinctions of taste become the basis for social judgement.
The topic of Bourdieu's book is a fascinating one: the strategies of social pretension are always curiously engaging. But the book is more than fascinating. It is a major contribution to current debates on the theory of culture and a challenge to the major theoretical schools in contemporary sociology.
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The Divine Comedyby Dante AlighieriISBN 0691018952 (0-691-01895-2)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Divine Comedy'Book summary:This splendid verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum provides an entirely fresh experience of Dante's great poem of penance and hope. As Dante ascends the Mount of Purgatory toward the Earthly Paradise and his beloved Beatrice, through "that second kingdom in which the human soul is cleansed of sin, " all the passion and suffering, poetry and philosophy are rendered with the immediacy of a poet of our own age. With extensive notes and commentary prepared especially for this edition.
"The English Dante of choice."--Hugh Kenner.
"Exactly what we have waited for these years, a Dante with clarity, eloquence, terror, and profoundly moving depths."--Robert Fagles, Princeton University.
"Tough and supple, tender and violent . . . vigorous, vernacular . . . Mandelbaum's Dante will stand high among modern translations."-- "The Christian Science Monitor" [via]
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Dublinersby James JoyceISBN 0553213806 (0-553-21380-6)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dubliners'Book summary:"Don't you think there is a certain resemblance between the mystery of the Mass and what I am trying to do?...To give people some kind of intellectual pleasure or spiritual enjoyment by converting the bread of everyday life into something that has a permanent artistic life of its own."
-- James Joyce, in a letter to his brother
With these fifteen stories James Joyce reinvented the art of fiction, using a scrupulous, deadpan realism to convey truths that were at once blasphemous and sacramental. Whether writing about the death of a fallen priest ("The Sisters"), the petty sexual and fiscal machinations of "Two Gallants," or of the Christmas party at which an uprooted intellectual discovers just how little he really knows about his wife ("The Dead"), Joyce takes narrative places it had never been before.
The text of this edition has been newly edited by Hans Walter Gabler and Walter Hettche and is followed by a new afterword, chronology, and bibliography by John S. Kelly. Also included in a special appendix are the original versions of three stories as well as Joyce's long-suppressed Preface to Dubliners. [via]More editions of Dubliners:
- Dubliners: ISBN 0679739904 (0-679-73990-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc - Dubliners: ISBN 0679405747 (0-679-40574-7)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - Dubliners: ISBN 0679600493 (0-679-60049-3)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - Dubliners: ISBN 0671015370 (0-671-01537-0)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster - Dubliners: ISBN 0670018058 (0-670-01805-8)
Hardcover, Viking Press - Dubliners: ISBN 0670285846 (0-670-28584-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA - Dubliners: ISBN 0553213806 (0-553-21380-6)
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- Dubliners: ISBN 0679739904 (0-679-73990-4)
Edmund Spenser's the Faerie Queene and Other Worksby William GraceISBN 067100512X (0-671-00512-X)
Softcover, Monarch Notes
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The Faerie Queeneby A. C. Hamilton, Edmund Spenser, Hiroshi Yamashita, Toshiyuki SuzukiISBN 058209951X (0-582-09951-X)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Faerie Queene'Book summary:Provides full annotation of the text, detailed guidance to critical comment past and present, and a wealth of introductory material setting the poem in its full historical and literary context. [via]
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The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United Statesby John Fay, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison, Robert SciglianoISBN 0679603255 (0-679-60325-5)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States'Book summary:The series of essays that comprise The Federalist constitutes one of the key texts of the American Revolution and the democratic system created in the wake of independence. Written in 1787 and 1788 by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay to promote the ratification of the proposed Constitution, these papers stand as perhaps the most eloquent testimonial to democracy that exists. They describe the ideas behind the American system of government: the separation of powers; the organization of Congress; the respective positions of the executive, legislative, and judiciary; and much more. The Federalist remains essential reading for anyone interested in politics and government, and indeed for anyone seeking a foundational statement about democracy and America.
This new edition of The Federalist is edited by Robert Scigliano, a professor in the political science department at Boston College. His substantive Introduction sheds clarifying new light on the historical context and meaning of The Federalist. Scigliano also provides a fresh and definitive analysis of the disputed authorship of several sections of this crucial work. [via]More editions of The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States:
Federalist Papersby James MadisonISBN 0553212222 (0-553-21222-2)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The Federalist Papersby John Jay, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, Garry WillsISBN 0553213407 (0-553-21340-7)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Federalist Papers'Book summary:"This country and this people seem to have been made for each other, and it appears as if it was the design of Providence, that an inheritance so proper and convenient for a band of brethren ... should never be split into a number of unsocial, jealous, and alien sovereignties." So wrote John Jay, one of the revolutionary authors of The Federalist Papers, arguing that if the United States was truly to be a single nation, its leaders would have to agree on universally binding rules of governance--in short, a constitution. In a brilliant set of essays, Jay and his colleagues Alexander Hamilton and James Madison explored in minute detail the implications of establishing a kind of rule that would engage as many citizens as possible and that would include a system of checks and balances. Their arguments proved successful in the end, and The Federalist Papers stand as key documents in the founding of the United States. [via]
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The Federalist: With Letters of Brutusby Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison, Terence BallISBN 052180650X (0-521-80650-X)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Federalist: With Letters of Brutus'Book summary:The Federalist represents one side of one of the most momentous political debates ever conducted: whether to ratify, or to reject, the newly drafted American constitution. This authoritative new edition presents complete texts for all of the eighty-five Federalist papers, along with the sixteen letters of "Brutus", the unknown New York Antifederalist. Each paper is systematically cross-referenced to the other, and both to the appended Articles of Confederation and U.S. Constitution. Terence Ball's editing skills enhance the accessibility of a classic of political thought in action. [via]
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Foolscapby Michael Malone, Jane RosenmanISBN 0671788574 (0-671-78857-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Gaudy Nightby Dorothy Leigh SayersISBN 0575014091 (0-575-01409-1)
Hardcover, Gollancz
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Hellby Steve Ellis, Alighieri DanteISBN 0701161272 (0-7011-6127-2)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
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Hero With A Thousand Facesby Joseph CampbellISBN 0691017840 (0-691-01784-0)
Softcover, Princeton University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hero with a Thousand Faces'Book summary:Originally written by Campbell in the '40s-- in his pre-Bill Moyers days -- and famous as George Lucas' inspiration for "Star Wars," this book will likewise inspire any writer or reader in its well considered assertion that while all stories have already been told, this is *not* a bad thing, since the *retelling* is still necessary. And while our own life's journey must always be ended alone, the travel is undertaken in the company not only of immediate loved ones and primal passion, but of the heroes and heroines -- and myth-cycles -- that have preceded us. [via]
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The History of Sexuality: An Introductionby Michel FoucaultISBN 0679724699 (0-679-72469-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The History of Sexuality: An Introduction'Book summary:The author turns his attention to sex and the reasons why we are driven constantly to analyze and discuss it. An iconoclastic explanation of modern sexual history. [via]
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Infernoby Dante AlighieriISBN 0553213393 (0-553-21339-3)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Inferno'Book summary:"As poetry, Mr. Zappulla's English Dante is successful--. The power of Dante's descriptive poetry should be apparent, and that is perhaps the highest compliment one can pay a translator."--Washington Times
In this new rendition of a timeless classic, Italian scholar Elio Zappulla captures the majesty and enduring power of the Inferno, the first of the three canticles of Dante's The Divine Comedy, unarguably one of the masterpieces of world literature. Rendering Dante's terza rima into lyrical blank verse, Zappulla's translation makes accessible to the modern reader the journey of the famed Florentine poet Dante through the nine circles of hell. With Virgil at his side, the great poet descends through horrific landscapes of the damned--dark forests, boiling muck, and burning plains filled with unspeakable punishment, lamentation, and terror--depicted with gruesome detail unmatched in all literature. Richly annotated, this translation takes even the first-time reader on a truth-seeking journey whose imaginative and psychological discoveries make clear why this work persists at the heart of Western culture.
"If Dante's Inferno is a cautionary tale of the history of human depravity, it is also an amazingly complex narrative, treating timeless ethical themes, medieval philosophy and religion, tendentious political issues and deeply personal events."--San Diego Union-Tribune [via]More editions of Inferno:
- Inferno: ISBN 0679757082 (0-679-75708-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc - The Inferno: ISBN 0679642617 (0-679-64261-7)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - The Inferno: ISBN 0691018324 (0-691-01832-4)
Softcover, Princeton University Press - Inferno : A New Verse Translation: ISBN 0679442804 (0-679-44280-4)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group - Inferno: ISBN 0679602097 (0-679-60209-7)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group - Inferno: ISBN 0553213393 (0-553-21339-3)
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- Inferno: ISBN 0679757082 (0-679-75708-2)
An Introduction to Sociolinguisticsby Janet HolmesISBN 0582328616 (0-582-32861-6)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Introduction to Sociolinguistics'Book summary:This introductory book considers the question "What is sociolinguistics?", and explains sociolinguistic concepts through a wide range of examples. It draws from both 'classic' approaches to the subject as well as from more recent research, introducing terms like 'code-switching' and 'social dialect'. It is conveniently divided into three sections. In the first, Janet Holmes shows how language is used in multilingual speech communities and explains how and why languages change within society and highlights the factors that lead to the displacement of one language by another, and sometimes the death of a language. The central section gives a comprehensive and well-illustrated exploration of social reasons for language change, exploring language change in monolingual communities and the features of a variety of dialects. The author shows how and why differing racial and social groups develop and maintain speech variations. In the final section, Janet Holmes assesses how attitudes to language affect speech and shows that linguistic responses depend upon a variety of contextual factors - for example, the status of the person being addressed and our reasons for speaking. Our attitudes to language have strong implications for our community. An Introduction to Sociolinguistics describes how language usage reflects the values of society, how society's view of women is reflected in language and how women are linguistically more polite than men. [via]
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The James Joyce Murderby Amanda CrossISBN 0525241019 (0-525-24101-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The James Joyce Murder'Book summary:"If by some cruel oversight you haven't discovered Amanda Cross, you have an uncommon pleasure in store for you."
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Kate Fansler is vacationing in the sweet and harmless Berkshires, sorting through the letters of Henry James. But when her next-door neighbor is murdered, and all her houseguests are prime suspects, her idyll turns prosaic, indeed.... [via]More editions of The James Joyce Murder:
Lais of Marie De France.by Robert W. Hanning, Joan M. Ferrante, MarieISBN 0525143408 (0-525-14340-8)
Hardcover, Dutton
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Magic in the Middle Agesby Richard KieckheferISBN 0521785766 (0-521-78576-6)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Making Meaning: Inference and Rhetoric in the Interpretation of Cinemaby David BordwellISBN 067454336X (0-674-54336-X)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Matar UN Ruisenor/to Kill a Mockingbirdby Harper LeeISBN 0613054490 (0-613-05449-0)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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Media and Cultural Studies: Keyworksby Douglas Kellner, Meenakshi Gigi DurhamISBN 0631220968 (0-631-22096-8)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Media and Cultural Studies: Keyworks'Book summary:Media and Cultural Studies: KeyWorks is a comprehensive anthology of the most significant and frequently cited theoretical readings pertaining to critical approaches to media culture and communications.
Spanning the gamut from the writings of Antonio Gramsci and the Frankfurt School to recent essays on identity, race, gender, and the postmodern turn, this book offers a range of core texts that have never before been collected into a single volume. The burgeoning popularity of media and cultural studies in a variety of academic disciplines makes this book an indispensable scholarly and pedagogical tool, particularly because of the in-depth analytical overview of critical media studies provided in the editors' introduction, as well as the annotations for each section of the book. The scope and depth of the volume fill a longstanding gap in the literature in this area; the book will find a permanent place on the bookshelves of scholars in this field, as well as being required reading for students in cultural studies, media studies, sociology, and related disciplines.
- Includes an analytical overview that provides a scholarly orientation to the theoretical developments charted in this book.
- Compiles a comprehensive set of core texts, many of which are out of print or difficult to access.
- Tracks historic phases in theory, including postmodernism and new media and represents classic Western texts from the likes of Gramsci and Barthes as well as non-Western texts from scholars such as Garcia-Canclini and Mohanty.
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The Merchant of Veniceby William Shakespeare, Robert Smith, Jonathan MorrisISBN 0521618754 (0-521-61875-4)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Merchant of Venice'Book summary:The Merchant of Venice has had a rich and varied stage history. It has aroused controversy for over four hundred years. The introduction to this edition challenges many of the preconceptions associated with the play, showing how historical events and cultural attitudes have influenced actors' interpretations and audience responses. The commentary describes how actors, directors and designers have approached the play from the first performances in the 1590s to the present. [via]
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- The Merchant of Venice: ISBN 0521774292 (0-521-77429-2)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - The Merchant of Venice: ISBN 0553212990 (0-553-21299-0)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept - Merchant of Venice: ISBN 058252721X (0-582-52721-X)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd - The Merchant of Venice: ISBN 0671722778 (0-671-72277-8)
Softcover, Pocket Books - The Merchant of Venice: ISBN 0521618754 (0-521-61875-4)
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- The Merchant of Venice: ISBN 0521774292 (0-521-77429-2)
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Merchant of Veniceby Laura LippmanISBN 0671006371 (0-671-00637-1)
Hardcover, Pearson Education, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Merchant of Venice'Book summary:This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. This text refers to the Bibliobazaar edition. [via]
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Mooby Jane SmileyISBN 0679420231 (0-679-42023-1)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moo'Book summary:"DELECTABLY ENTERTAINING. . . . An uproariously funny and at the same time hauntingly melancholy portrait of a college community in the Midwest."
--The New York Times
Nestled in the heart of the Midwest, amid cow pastures and waving fields of grain, lies Moo University, a distinguished institution devoted to the art and science of agriculture. Here, among an atmosphere rife with devious plots, mischievous intrigue, lusty liaisons, and academic one-upmanship, Chairman X of the Horticulture Department harbors a secret fantasy to kill the dean; Mrs. Walker, the provost's right hand and campus information queen, knows where all the bodies are buried; Timothy Nonahan, associate professor of English, advocates eavesdropping for his creative writing assignments; and Bob Carlson, a sophomore, feeds and maintains his only friend: a hog named Earl Butz. In this wonderfully written and masterfully plotted novel, Jane Smiley, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres, offers us a wickedly funny comedy that is also a darkly poignant slice of life.
"FAST, HILARIOUS, AND HEARTBREAKING . . . Not for a minute does Moo lose its perfect satiric pitch or its pacing. . . . Don't skip a page, don't skip a paragraph. It's going to be on the final."
--People
"SMART, IRREVERENT, AND WICKEDLY TENDER . . . Moo suggests a mix of Tom Wolfe's wit and John Updike's satiny reach . . . Engaging."
--The Boston Globe
"ENTERTAINING . . . Displays a wicked wit and an unerring eye for American foibles . . . Stuffed with memorable characters, sparkling with deliciously acid humor, Moo is a rare bird in today's literary menagerie: a great read that also makes you think."
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Nice Workby David LodgeISBN 0670828068 (0-670-82806-8)
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The Origin of Satanby Elaine PagelsISBN 0679731180 (0-679-73118-0)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Origin of Satan'Book summary:. . . ground-breaking . . . Many times in the course of reading her explications I found myself saying, "Of course, why hasn't someone said this before?" By showing how the sectarian demonization of the "intimate enemies"--Jews and heretics--shaped early Christianity, the book helps us to understand the power of irrational forces that still need to be confronted in contemporary society. -- S. David Sperling, professor of Bible, Hebrew Union College [via]
The Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles: Their Nature and Legacyby Ronald HuttonISBN 0631189467 (0-631-18946-7)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles: Their Nature and Legacy'Book summary:This is a survey of religious beliefs in the British Isles from the Old Stone Age to the comming of Christianity, one of the least familiar but most extensive periods in Britain's history. Ronald Hutton draws upon new data, much of it archaeological, that has transformed interpretation over the past decade. Giving more or less equal weight to all periods, from the Neolithic to the Middle Ages, he considers a range of evidence for Celtic and Romano-British paganism: from burial sites, cairns, megaliths and causeways, to carvings, figurines, jewellery, weapons, votive objects, literary texts and folklore. The author reveals the important rethinking that has taken place over Christianization and the decline of paganism, and reviews the progress that has been made in tracing the survival of pre-Christian beliefs and imagery into the Middle Ages. Dr Hutton shows how a host of received ideas have been demolished, and how the pagans of ancient Britain were far more creative, complex, engmatic and dynamic than has previously been supposed. [via]
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Persuasions of the Witch's Craft: Ritual Magic in Contemporary Englandby T.M. LuhrmannISBN 0674663241 (0-674-66324-1)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Pninby Vladimir NabokovISBN 0679723412 (0-679-72341-2)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Manby James JoyceISBN 0553214047 (0-553-21404-7)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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The compelling, semiautobiographical story of an artist and his relationship to his culture, his family, and his inner self.
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Joyce)by James Joyce, Christopher HansonISBN 0631978100 (0-631-97810-0)
Hardcover, Blackwell
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Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man Text and Criticismby James JoyceISBN 0670566489 (0-670-56648-9)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man Text and Criticism'Book summary:Autobiographical novel by James Joyce, published serially in The Egoist in 1914-15 and in book form in 1916; considered by many the greatest bildungsroman in the English language. The novel portrays the early years of Stephen Dedalus, who later reappeared as one of the main characters in Joyce's Ulysses (1922). Each of the novel's five sections is written in a third-person voice that reflects the age and emotional state of its protagonist, from the first childhood memories written in simple, childlike language to Stephen's final decision to leave Dublin for Paris to devote his life to art, written in abstruse, Latin-sprinkled, stream-of-consciousness prose. The novel's rich, symbolic language and brilliant use of stream-of-consciousness foreshadowed Joyce's later work. The work is a drastic revision of an earlier version entitled Stephen Hero and is the second part of Joyce's cycle of works chronicling the spiritual history of humans from Adam's Fall through the Redemption. The cycle began with the short-story collection Dubliners (1914) and continued with Ulysses and Finnegans Wake (1939). [via]
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A Short Guide To Writing About Artby Sylvan BarnetISBN 0673522938 (0-673-52293-8)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Short Guide To Writing About Art'Book summary:Key Benefit: A Short Guide to Writing About Art, Eighth Edition, the best-selling book of its kind, equips students to analyze pictures (drawings, paintings, photographs), sculptures and architecture, and prepares them with the tools they need to present their ideas in effective writing. Key Topics:This concise yet thorough guide to "seeing and saying" addresses a wealth of fundamental matters, such as distinguishing between description and analysis, writing a comparison, using peer review, documenting sources, and editing the final essay. Market: This book is a perfect complement to any art course where writing is involved [via]
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Sophocles: Antigone, the Women of Trachis, Philoctetes Oedipus at Colonusby Sophocles, Hugh Lloyd-JonesISBN 0674995589 (0-674-99558-9)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sophocles: Antigone, the Women of Trachis, Philoctetes Oedipus at Colonus'Book summary:Sophocles (497/6406 BCE), with Aeschylus and Euripides, was one of the three great tragic poets of Athens, and is considered one of the world's greatest poets. The subjects of his plays were drawn from mythology and legend. Each play contains at least one heroic figure, a character whose strength, courage, or intelligence exceeds the human normbut who also has more than ordinary pride and self-assurance. These qualities combine to lead to a tragic end.
Hugh Lloyd-Jones gives us, in two volumes, a new translation of the seven surviving plays. Volume I contains Oedipus Tyrannus (which tells the famous Oedipus story), Ajax (a heroic tragedy of wounded self-esteem), and Electra (the story of siblings who seek revenge on their mother and her lover for killing their father). Volume II contains Oedipus at Colonus (the climax of the fallen hero's life), Antigone (a conflict between public authority and an individual woman's conscience), The Women of Trachis (a fatal attempt by Heracles' wife to regain her husband's love), and Philoctetes (Odysseus's intrigue to bring an unwilling hero to the Trojan War).
Of his other plays, only fragments remain; but from these much can be learned about Sophocles' language and dramatic art. The major fragmentsranging in length from two lines to a very substantial portion of the satyr play The Searchersare collected in Volume III of this edition. In prefatory notes Lloyd-Jones provides frameworks for the fragments of known plays.
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Sophocles: Fragmentsby Sophocles, Hugh Lloyd-JonesISBN 0674995325 (0-674-99532-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sophocles: Fragments'Book summary:Sophocles (497/6406 BCE), the second of the three great tragedians of Athens and by common consent one of the world's greatest poets, wrote more than 120 plays. Only seven of these survive complete, but we have a wealth of fragments, from which much can be learned about Sophocles' language and dramatic art. This volume presents a collection of all the major fragments, ranging in length from two lines to a very substantial portion of the satyr play The Searchers. Prefatory notes provide frameworks for the fragments of known plays.
Many of the Sophoclean fragments were preserved by quotation in other authors; others, some of considerable size, are known to us from papyri discovered during the past century. Among the lost plays of which we have large fragments, The Searchers shows the god Hermes, soon after his birth, playing an amusing trick on his brother Apollo; Inachus portrays Zeus coming to Argos to seduce Io, the daughter of its king; and Niobe tells how Apollo and his sister Artemis punish Niobe for a slight upon their mother by killing her twelve children. Throughout the volume, as in the extant plays, we see Sophocles drawing his subjects from heroic legend.
This is the final volume of Lloyd-Jones's new Loeb Classical Library edition of Sophocles. In volumes I and II he gives a faithful and very skilful translation of the seven surviving plays. Volume I contains Oedipus Tyrannus, Ajax, and Electra. Volume II contains Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone, The Women of Trachis, and Philoctetes. [via]More editions of Sophocles: Fragments:
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Straight Manby Richard RussoISBN 0679432469 (0-679-43246-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Straight Man'Book summary:First Jane Smiley came out of the comedy closet with Moo, a campus satire par excellence, and now Richard Russo has gotten in on the groves-of-academe game. Straight Man is hilarious sport, with a serious side. William Henry Devereaux Jr., is almost 50 and stuck forever as chair of English at West Central Pennsylvania University. It is April and fear of layoffs--even among the tenured--has reached mock-epic proportions; Hank has yet to receive his department budget and finds himself increasingly offering comments such as "Always understate necrophilia" to his writing students. Then there are his possible prostate problems and the prospect of his father's arrival. Devereaux Sr., "then and now, an academic opportunist," has always been a high-profile professor and a low-profile parent.
Though Hank tries to apply William of Occam's rational approach (choose simplicity) to each increasingly absurd situation, and even has a dog named after the philosopher, he does seem to cause most of his own enormous difficulties. Not least when he grabs a goose and threatens to off a duck (sic) a day until he gets his budget. The fact that he is also wearing a fake nose and glasses and doing so in front of a TV camera complicates matters even further. Hank tries to explain to one class that comedy and tragedy don't go together, but finds the argument "runs contrary to their experience. Indeed it may run contrary to my own." It runs decidedly against Richard Russo's approach in Straight Man, and the result is a hilarious and touching novel. [via]
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Sweet Death, Kind Deathby Amanda CrossISBN 0525242414 (0-525-24241-4)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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When Clare College's resident eccentric Patrice Umphelby is found drowned in the campus lake, it's called a suicide. But the college president grows suspicious and calls in noted professor/detective Kate Fansler to research the matter. Ingratiating herself with her academic colleagues to learn more about Patrice's life, Kate digs up the evidence she needs to understand her death.... [via]More editions of Sweet Death, Kind Death:
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A Tale of Two Citiesby Charles DickensISBN 0553211765 (0-553-21176-5)
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It begins on a muddy English road in an atmosphere charged with mystery and it ends in the Paris of the Revolution with one of the most famous acts of self-sacrifice in literature. In between lies one of Dickenss most exciting booksa historical novel that, generation after generation, has given readers access to the profound human dramas that lie behind cataclysmic social and political events. Famous for its vivid characters, including the courageous French nobleman Charles Darnay, the vengeful revolutionary Madame Defarge, and cynical Englishman Sydney Carton, who redeems his ill-spent life in a climactic moment at the guillotine ( It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done ), the novel is also a powerful study of crowd psychology and the dark emotions aroused by the Revolution, illuminated by Dickenss lively comedy.
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The Theban Plays: Oedipus the King/Oedipus at Colonus/Antigoneby Sophocles, David GreneISBN 0679431322 (0-679-43132-2)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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The legends surrounding Oedipus of Thebes and his ill-fated offspring provide the subject matter for Sophocles three greatest plays, which together represent Greek drama at the pinnacle of its achievement.
Oedipus the King, the most famous of the three, has been characterized by critics from Aristotle to Coleridge as the perfect exemplar of the art of tragedy, in its unforgettable portrayal of a mans failed attempt to escape his fate. In Oedipus at Colonus, the blind king finds his final release from the sufferings the gods have brought upon him, and Antigone completes the downfall of the House of Cadmus through the actions of Oedipuss magnificent and uncompromising daughter defending her ideals to the death. All three of The Theban Plays, while separate, self-contained dramas, draw from the same rich well of myth and showcase Sophocles enduring power.
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The Three Theban Playsby Robert Fagles, SophoclesISBN 0670698059 (0-670-69805-9)
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To Kill a Mockingbirdby Harper LeeISBN 0606297758 (0-606-29775-8)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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A Trap for Foolsby Amanda CrossISBN 0525247548 (0-525-24754-8)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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