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Ancient Civilizationsby Nigel Chamberlain, Christopher Fagg, Frances M. ClaphamISBN 0531090914 (0-531-09091-4)
Hardcover, Warwick Press
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Ancient Egyptby Thames and HudsonISBN 0500060134 (0-500-06013-4)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Ancient Rome: A Military And Political Historyby Christopher MackayISBN 0521809185 (0-521-80918-5)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The Birth of Tragedyby Friedrich NietzscheISBN 0486285154 (0-486-28515-4)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Birth of Tragedy'Book summary:[via]Philosopher's classic study declares that Greek tragedy achieved greatness through a fusion of elements of Apollonian restraint and control with Dionysian components of passion and the irrational. "A work of profound imaginative insight, which left the scholarship of a generation toiling in the rear." British classicist F. M. Cornford.More editions of The Birth of Tragedy:
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The Book of Teaby K. OkakuraISBN 0486200701 (0-486-20070-1)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of Tea'Book summary:That a nation should construct one of its most resonant national ceremonies round a cup of tea will surely strike a chord of sympathy with at least some readers of this review. To many foreigners, nothing is so quintessentially Japanese as the tea ceremony--more properly, "the way of tea"--with its austerity, its extravagantly minimalist stylization, and its concentration of extreme subtleties of meaning into the simplest of actions. The Book of Tea is something of a curiosity: written in English by a Japanese scholar (and issued here in bilingual form), it was first published in 1906, in the wake of the naval victory over Russia with which Japan asserted its rapidly acquired status as a world-class military power. It was a peak moment of Westernization within Japan. Clearly, behind the publication was an agenda, or at least a mission to explain. Around its account of the ceremony, The Book of Tea folds an explication of the philosophy, first Taoist, later Zen Buddhist, that informs its oblique celebration of simplicity and directness--what Okakura calls, in a telling phrase, "moral geometry." And the ceremony itself? Its greatest practitioners have always been philosophers, but also artists, connoisseurs, collectors, gardeners, calligraphers, gourmets, flower arrangers. The greatest of them, Sen Rikyu, left a teasingly, maddeningly simple set of rules:
Make a delicious bowl of tea; lay the charcoal so that it heats the water; arrange the flowers as they are in the field; in summer suggest coolness; in winter, warmth; do everything ahead of time; prepare for rain; and give those with whom you find yourself every consideration.
A disciple remarked that this seemed elementary. Rikyu replied, "Then if you can host a tea gathering without deviating from any of the rules I have just stated, I will become your disciple." A Zen reply. Fascinating. --Robin Davidson, Amazon.co.uk [via]More editions of The Book of Tea:
A Brief History of the Western World With Infotracby Thomas H. Greer, Gavin LewisISBN 0534167497 (0-534-16749-7)
Softcover, Thomson Learning
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Britain and Ireland, 900-1300: Insular Responses to Medieval European Changeby Brendan SmithISBN 052157319X (0-521-57319-X)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The Bull of Minos: The Discoveries of Schliemann and Evansby Leonard CottrellISBN 0517633086 (0-517-63308-6)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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The Cambridge Companion To Ancient Greek Lawby Michael Gagarin, David CohenISBN 0521521599 (0-521-52159-9)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Republicby Harriet I. FlowerISBN 0521003903 (0-521-00390-3)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The Cambridge Illustrated History of Ancient Greeceby Paul CartledgeISBN 0521521009 (0-521-52100-9)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cambridge Illustrated History of Ancient Greece'Book summary:Sumptuously illustrated in color and packed with information, The Cambridge Illustrated History of Ancient Greece is now available for the first time in paperback. Offering fresh interpretations of classical Greek culture, the book devotes as much attention to social, economic and intellectual aspects as to politics and war. Paul Cartledge and his team of contributors ask what it was like for an ordinary person to partake in "the glory that was Greece." They examine the influences of the environment and economy; the experience of workers, soldiers, slaves, peasants and women; and the roles of myth and religion, art and culture, and science and education. This is a cultural history from the bottom up, which lays bare the far-reaching linguistic, literary, artistic and political legacy of ancient Greece, and seeks justification for Shelley's claim that "we are all Greeks." Paul Cartledge is Professor in Greek History in the Faculty of Classics at the University of Cambridge and is Fellow and Director of Studies in Classics at Clare College, Cambridge. He is the author of several books about ancient Greece, including Spartan Reflections (California, 2001), Hellenistic and Roman Sparta (Routledge, 2001) and Sparta and Lakonia (Routledge, 2002).
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The Cambridge Illustrated History of Roman Art: Romulus to Constantineby Nancy H. Ramage, Andrew RamageISBN 0521402972 (0-521-40297-2)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Celtic Heritage: Ancient Tradition in Ireland and Walesby Alwyn Rees, Brinley ReesISBN 0500270392 (0-500-27039-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Churchill's History of the English-Speaking Peoplesby Winston Churchill, Henry Steele CommagerISBN 0517422832 (0-517-42283-2)
Hardcover, Greenwich House
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The City of God Against the Pagansby R.W. Dyson, AugustineISBN 0521468434 (0-521-46843-4)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The City of God Against the Pagans'Book summary:This is the first new rendition for a generation of The City of God, the first major intellectual achievement of Latin Christianity and one of the classic texts of Western civilization. Robert Dyson has produced a complete, accurate, authoritative and fluent translation of De Civitate Dei, edited together with full biographical notes, a concise introduction, bibliography and chronology of Augustine's life. The result is an important contribution of interest to students of theology, philosophy, ecclesiastical history, the history of political thought and late antiquity. [via]
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The Communist Manifestoby Friedrich Engels, K. Marx, Vladimir PoznerISBN 0553214063 (0-553-21406-3)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Communist Manifesto'Book summary:"A spectre is haunting Europe," Karl Marx and Frederic Engels wrote in 1848, "the spectre of Communism." This new edition of The Communist Manifesto, commemorating the 150th anniversary of its publication, includes an introduction by renowned historian Eric Hobsbawm which reminds us of the document's continued relevance. Marx and Engels's critique of capitalism and its deleterious effect on all aspects of life, from the increasing rift between the classes to the destruction of the nuclear family, has proven remarkably prescient. Their spectre, manifested in the Manifesto's vivid prose, continues to haunt the capitalist world, lingering as a ghostly apparition even after the collapse of those governments which claimed to be enacting its principles. [via]
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empireby Edward Gibbon, D. M. LowISBN 0517467887 (0-517-46788-7)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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Democracy in Americaby Henry Reeve, Alexis De TocquevilleISBN 0553214640 (0-553-21464-0)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Democracy in America'Book summary:From America's call for a free press to its embrace of the capitalist system, Democracy in America--first published in 1835--enlightens, entertains, and endures as a brilliant study of our national government and character. Philosopher John Stuart Mill called it "among the most remarkable productions of our time." Woodrow Wilson wrote that de Tocqueville's ability to illuminate the actual workings of American democracy was "possibly without rival."
For today's readers, de Tocqueville's concern about the effect of majority rule on the rights of individuals remains deeply meaningful. His shrewd observations about the "almost royal prerogatives" of the president and the need for virtue in elected officials are particularly prophetic. His profound insights into the great rewards and responsibilities of democratic government are words every American needs to read, contemplate, and remember.
From America's call for a free press to its embrace of the capitalist system Democracy in America enlightens, entertains, and endures as a brilliant study of our national government and character. De Toqueville's concern about the effect of majority rule on the rights of individuals remains deeply meaningful. His insights into the great rewards and responsibilities of democratic government are words every American needs to read, contemplate, and remember. [via]More editions of Democracy in America:
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Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900v1900by Alfred W. CrosbyISBN 0521546184 (0-521-54618-4)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900v1900'Book summary:People of European descent form the bulk of the population in most of the temperate zones of the world--North America, Australia and New Zealand. The military successes of European imperialism are easy to explain because in many cases they were achieved by using firearms against spears. Alfred Crosby, however, explains that the Europeans' displacement and replacement of the native peoples in the temperate zones was more a matter of biology than of military conquest. Now in a new edition with a new preface, Crosby revisits his classic work and again evaluates the ecological reasons for European expansion. Alfred W. Crosby is the author of the widely popular and ground-breaking books,The Measure of Reality (Cambridge, 1996), and America's Forgotten Pandemic (Cambridge, 1990). His books have received the Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize, the Medical Writers Association Prize and been named by the Los Angeles Times as among the best books of the year. He taught at the University of Texas, Austin for over 20 years. First Edition Hb (1986): 0-521-32009-7 First Edition Pb (1987): 0-521-33613-9 [via]
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Entropy: A New World Viewby Jeremy RifkinISBN 0553262998 (0-553-26299-8)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The Face of the Ancient Orient: Near Eastern Civilization in Pre-Classical Timesby Sabatino MoscatiISBN 0486419525 (0-486-41952-5)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Facundo: Civilization and Barbarismby Domingof Sarmiento, Kathleen Ross, Roberto Gonzalez EchevarriaISBN 0520239806 (0-520-23980-6)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Facundo: Civilization and Barbarism'Book summary:A classic work of Latin American literature, Domingo Sarmiento's Facundo has become an integral part of the history, politics, and culture of Latin America since its first publication in 1845. Partially translated into English when it was first published, this foundational text appears here for the first time in its entirety.[via]
An educator and writer, Sarmiento was President of Argentina from 1868 to 1874. His Facundo is a study of the Argentine character, a prescription for the modernization of Latin America, and a protest against the tyranny of the government of Juan Manuel de Rosas (1835-1852). The book brings nineteenth-century Latin American history to life even as it raises questions still being debated today--questions regarding the "civilized" city versus the "barbaric" countryside, the treatment of indigenous and African populations, and the classically liberal plan of modernization. Facundo's celebrated and frequently anthologized portraits of the caudillo Juan Facundo Quiroga and other colorful characters give readers an exhilarating sense of Argentine culture in the making.
Kathleen Ross's translation renders Sarmiento's passionate prose into English with all its richness intact, allowing the English-language reader the full experience of Facundo's intensity and historical reach.More editions of Facundo: Civilization and Barbarism:
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Fin-de-Siecle Vienna: Politics and Cultureby Carl E. SchorskeISBN 052128516X (0-521-28516-X)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fin-de-Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture'Book summary:Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture (Paperback) by Carl E. Schorske. Vintage Books edition, January 1981. PAPERBACK 377 pages. [via]
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Food in Historyby Reay TannahillISBN 0517884046 (0-517-88404-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Food in History'Book summary:Spanning over half a million years, this describes the world history of food and the way in which food has influenced the whole course of human development. [via]
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Foundation's Edgeby Isaac AsimovISBN 0553293389 (0-553-29338-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Foundation's Edge'Book summary:Foundation's Edge (Foundation Novels) (Paperback) by Isaac Asimov (Author) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [via]
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Future Shockby Alvin TofflerISBN 0553144316 (0-553-14431-6)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empireby Edward Gibbon, Rosemary WilliamsISBN 0528810146 (0-528-81014-6)
Hardcover, Rand McNally
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The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religionby James George FrazerISBN 0486424928 (0-486-42492-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion'Book summary:An expert in myth and religion, the author spent over a quarter-century assembling this study of the cults, rites, and myths of antiquity. Frazer's definitions of "magic," "religion," and "science" were useful to his successors in social anthropology, and his explications of ancient legends influenced generations of writers and poets.[via]More editions of The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion:
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The Golden Bough : The Roots of Religion and Folkloreby James George FrazerISBN 0517336332 (0-517-33633-2)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Golden Bough : The Roots of Religion and Folklore'Book summary:The only unabridged, illustrated edition of the classic exploration of the world of myth, folklore, and primitive customs is an inspiration to poets, students, and readers in general. [via]
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The Heart of Darknessby Joseph ConradISBN 0486264645 (0-486-26464-5)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Heart of Darkness'Book summary:A dark allegorical masterpiece based on the author's own traumatic experiences in the Belgian Congo, recounts the voyage of Marlow up the Congo River in search of the mysterious Mr. Kurtz a white trader whose domination of the local natives had transformed him into a depraved and abominable tyrant. Large print format.[via]More editions of The Heart of Darkness:
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Heart of Darkness and the Secret Sharerby Joseph ConradISBN 0553212141 (0-553-21214-1)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heart of Darkness and the Secret Sharer'Book summary:Heart Of Darkness. The story of the civilized, enlightened Mr. Kurtz who embarks on a harrowing "night journey" into the savage heart of Africa, only to find his dark and evil soul. The Secret Sharer. The saga of a young, inexperienced skipper forced to decide the fate of a fugitive sailor who killed a man in self-defense. As he faces his first moral test the skipper discovers a terrifying truth -- and comes face to face with the secret itself. Heart Of Darkness and The Secret Sharer draw on actual events and people that Conrad met or heard about during his many far-flung travels. In portraying men whose incredible journeys on land and at sea are also symbolic voyages into their own mysterious depths, these two masterful works give credence to Conrad's acclaim as a major psychological writer. [via]
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Heaven's Mirror: Quest for the Lost Civilizationby Graham Hancock, Santha FaiiaISBN 0517708116 (0-517-70811-6)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Heritage of Irelandby Charles MurphyISBN 051706586X (0-517-06586-X)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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A History of Medieval Europe: From Constantine to Saint Louisby R.H.C. DavisISBN 0582014042 (0-582-01404-2)
Hardcover, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd
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History's Timeline: A 40,000-Year Chronology of World Civilizationby Theodore Rowland-Entwistle, Ann Kramer, Jean Isobel Esther CookeISBN 0517340003 (0-517-34000-3)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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Jump the Sharkby Jon HeinISBN 0525946764 (0-525-94676-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Law, Sexuality, and Society: The Enforcement of Morals in Classical Athensby David CohenISBN 0521466423 (0-521-46642-3)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press
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Life Along the Silk Roadby Susan WhitfieldISBN 0520232143 (0-520-23214-3)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Life Along the Silk Road'Book summary:In the first 1,000 years after Christ, merchants, missionaries, monks, mendicants, and military men traveled on the vast network of Central Asian tracks that became known as the Silk Road. Linking Europe, India, and the Far East, the route passed through many countries and many settlements, from the splendid city of Samarkand to tiny desert hamlets. Susan Whitfield creates a rich and varied portrait of life along the greatest trade route in history in a vivid, lively, and learned account that spans the eighth through the tenth centuries. Recounting the lives of ten individuals who lived at different times during this period, Whitfield draws on contemporary sources and uses firsthand accounts whenever possible to reconstruct the history of the route through the personal experiences of these characters.[via]
Life along the Silk Road brings alive the now ruined and sand-covered desert towns and their inhabitants. Readers encounter an Ulghur nomad from the Gobi Desert accompanying a herd of steppe ponies for sale to the Chinese state; Ah-long, widow of a prosperous merchant, now reduced to poverty and forced to resort to law and charity to survive; and the Chinese princess sent as part of a diplomatic deal to marry a Turkish kaghan. In the process we learn about women's lives, modes of communication, weapons, types of cosmetics, methods of treating altitude sickness in the Tibetan army, and ways that merchants cheated their customers. Throughout the narrative, Whitfield conveys a strong sense of what life was like for ordinary men and women on the Silk Road--everyone from itinerant Buddhist monks, to Zoroastrians and Nestorian Christians seeking converts among the desert settlers, to storytellers, musicians, courtesans, diviners, peddlers, and miracle-workers who offered their wares in the marketplaces and at temple fairs. A work of great scholarship, Life along the Silk Road is at the same time extremely accessible and entertaining. -
Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoeby Daniel DefoeISBN 0517626322 (0-517-62632-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe'Book summary:Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe (1719) tells of a man's shipwreck on a deserted island and his subsequent adventures. The author based part of his narrative on the story of the Scottish castaway Alexander Selkirk, who spent four years stranded on the island of Juan Fernandez. He may have also been inspired by the Latin or English translation of a book by the Andalusian-Arab Muslim polymath Ibn Tufail, who was known as "Abubacer" in Europe. The Latin edition of the book was entitled Philosophus Autodidacts and it was an earlier novel that is also set on a deserted island. The extent and particulars of Defoe's writing in the period from the Tory fall in 1714 to the publication of Robinson Crusoe in 1719 is widely contested. Defoe comments on the tendency to attribute tracts of uncertain authorship to him in his apologia Appeal to Honor and Justice (1715), a defense of his part in Harley's Tory ministry (1710-14). Other works that are thought to anticipate his novelist career include: The Family Instructor (1715), an immensely successful conduct manual on religious duty; Minutes of the Negotiations of Monsr. Mesnager (1717), in which he impersonates Nicolas Mesnager, the French plenipotentiary who negotiated the Treaty of Utrecht (1713) and A Continuation of the Letters Writ by a Turkish Spy (1718), a satire on European politics and religion, professedly written by a Muslim in Paris. "One day, about noon, going towards my boat, I was exceedingly surprised with the print of a man's naked foot on the shore, which was very plain to be seen on the sand." - Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, 1719 Daniel Defoe died on 24 April 1731, probably while in hiding from his creditors. He was interred in Bunhill Fields, London, where his grave can still be visited. Defoe is known to have used at least 198 pen names. 300 yrs old The language is beautiful. I loved reading a version where God has not been edited out. I read this at the same time as my 9 year old grandson. We both loved it. [via]
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Literature and Religion at Rome: Cultures, Contexts, and Beliefsby Denis FeeneyISBN 0521559219 (0-521-55921-9)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Look What Came from Indiaby Miles HarveyISBN 0531159655 (0-531-15965-5)
Softcover, Scholastic Library Pub
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Magic Pragueby Michael Henry Heim, Angelo Maria Ripellino, David Newton MarinelliISBN 0520073525 (0-520-07352-5)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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Medieval Europe: A Short Historyby C. Warren HollisterISBN 0471406988 (0-471-40698-8)
Softcover, Wiley
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Medieval Number Symbolism: Its Sources, Meaning, and Influence on Thought and Expressionby Vincent Foster HopperISBN 0486414302 (0-486-41430-2)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Medieval Popular Culture: Problems of Belief and Perceptionby Aron GurevichISBN 0521386586 (0-521-38658-6)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip IIby Fernand Braudel, Sian ReynoldsISBN 0520203089 (0-520-20308-9)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Mosquito CoastISBN 0582418143 (0-582-41814-3)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
Find This BookBook summary:Allie Fox hates America and everything about the 20th century, so he decides to take his wife and two sons to live a better and simpler life in the Honduran jungle. However, when he starts to go mad, life for his family becomes much more frightening than ever before. "Penguin Readers" is a series of simplified novels, film novelizations and original titles that introduce students at all levels to the pleasures of reading in English. Originally designed for teaching English as a foreign language, the series' combination of high interest level and low reading age makes it suitable for both English-speaking teenagers with limited reading skills and students of English as a second language. Many titles in the series also provide access to the pre-20th century literature strands of the National Curriculum English Orders. "Penguin Readers" are graded at seven levels of difficulty, from "Easystarts" with a 200-word vocabulary, to Level 6 (Advanced) with a 3000-word vocabulary. In addition, titles fall into one of three sub-categories: "Contemporary", "Classics" or "Originals". At the end of each book there is a section of enjoyable exercises focusing on vocabulary building, comprehension, discussion and writing. Some titles in the series are available with an accompanying audio cassette, or in a book and cassette pack. Additionally, selected titles have free accompanying "Penguin Readers Factsheets" which provide stimulating exercise material for students, as well as suggestions for teachers on how to exploit the Readers in class. [via]
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The Old World And the New, 1492-1650: Wiles Lecturesby J.H. ElliottISBN 0521427096 (0-521-42709-6)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Old World And the New, 1492-1650: Wiles Lectures'Book summary:The impact of Europe on a newly-discovered world of America has long been a subject of historical fascination. Yet the impact of that discovery and conquest for the European conquering powers has traditionally received less attention. In this pioneering book J. H. Elliott set out to show how traditional European assumptions about geography, theology, history and the nature of man were challenged by the encounter with new lands and people; trading relationships around the world were affected by an influx of gold and silver imports from America; while politically, the sources of power were no longer confined to European territory. The 500th anniversary of Columbus's discovery has prompted renewed enquiry into the relationship of the Old World and the New; John Elliott's fascinating and now classic account is here reissued with a new foreword addressing the significance of the book's insights for a new generation of readers. [via]
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Pagan Celtic Ireland: The Enigma of the Irish Iron Ageby Barry RafteryISBN 0500279837 (0-500-27983-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poorby Paul FarmerISBN 0520235509 (0-520-23550-9)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalismby Talcott Parsons, Max WeberISBN 048642703X (0-486-42703-X)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Reading Greek Tragedyby Simon GoldhillISBN 0521315794 (0-521-31579-4)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Restless Dead: Encounters Between the Living and the Dead in Ancient Greeceby Sarah Iles JohnstonISBN 0520217071 (0-520-21707-1)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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Rise of the Celtsby Henri Hubert, M. R. DobieISBN 0486422658 (0-486-42265-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Robin Hoodby D.K. SwanISBN 0582421195 (0-582-42119-5)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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Robinson Crusoeby Daniel DefoeISBN 0486404277 (0-486-40427-7)
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Robinson Crusoeby Robert Blaisdell, John GreenISBN 0486288161 (0-486-28816-1)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Roman Britainby Catherine Johns, T.W. PotterISBN 0520081684 (0-520-08168-4)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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Science and Civilisation in China Vol. 1 : Introductory Orientationsby Joseph Needham, C. CullenISBN 052105799X (0-521-05799-X)
Hardcover, Cambridge University Press
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Sexual Ambivalence: Androgyny and Hermaphroditism in Graeco-Roman Antiquityby Luc BrissonISBN 0520223918 (0-520-22391-8)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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The Stand: The Complete & Uncut Editionby Stephen KingISBN 0517219018 (0-517-21901-8)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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The Stand is like that. You either love it or hate it, but you can't ignore it. Stephen King's most popular book, according to polls of his fans, is an end-of-the-world scenario: a rapidly mutating flu virus is accidentally released from a U.S. military facility and wipes out 99 and 44/100 percent of the world's population, thus setting the stage for an apocalyptic confrontation between Good and Evil.
"I love to burn things up," King says. "It's the werewolf in me, I guess.... The Stand was particularly fulfilling, because there I got a chance to scrub the whole human race, and man, it was fun! ... Much of the compulsive, driven feeling I had while I worked on The Stand came from the vicarious thrill of imagining an entire entrenched social order destroyed in one stroke."
There is much to admire in The Stand: the vivid thumbnail sketches with which King populates a whole landscape with dozens of believable characters; the deep sense of nostalgia for things left behind; the way it subverts our sense of reality by showing us a world we find familiar, then flipping it over to reveal the darkness underneath. Anyone who wants to know, or claims to know, the heart of the American experience needs to read this book. --Fiona Webster [via]
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Sticks and Stones: A Study of American Architecture and Civilizationby Lewis MumfordISBN 048620202X (0-486-20202-X)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Study of Historyby Jane Caplan, Arnold Joseph ToynbeeISBN 0517179415 (0-517-17941-5)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Study of History'Book summary:Arnold Toynbee's A Study of History has been acknowledged as one of the greatest achievements of modern scholarship. A ten-volume analysis of the rise and fall of human civilizations, it is a work of breath-taking breadth and vision. D.C. Somervell's abridgement, in two volumes, of this magnificent enterprise, preserves the method, atmosphere, texture, and, in many instances, the very words of the original. Originally published in 1947 and 1957, these two volumes are themselves a great historical achievement.
Volume 1, which abridges the first six volumes of Toynbee's study, includes the Introduction, The Geneses of Civilizations, and The Disintegrations of Civilizations. Volume 2, an abridgement of Volumes VII-X, includes sections on Universal States, Universal churches, Heroic Ages, Contacts Between Civilizations in Space, Contacts Between Civilizations in Time, Law and Freedom in History, The Prospects of the Western Civilization, and the Conclusion.
Of Somervell's work, Toynbee wrote, "The reader now has at his command a uniform abridgement of the whole book, made by a clear mind that has not only mastered the contents but has entered into the writer's outlook and purpose." [via]More editions of Study of History:
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Tarzanby Edgar Rice Burroughs, Robert Blaisdell, John GreenISBN 0486295303 (0-486-29530-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tarzan'Book summary:Imaginative and exciting tale recounts the remarkable exploits of young Lord Greystoke, who is raised by a family of apes in the African jungle and becomes the worthy opponent of the jungle's most feared predators. Large, easy-to-read type, accompanied by 18 striking illustrations. Abridged.[via]More editions of Tarzan:
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Tarzan of the Apesby Edgar Rice BurroughsISBN 0486295702 (0-486-29570-2)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tarzan of the Apes'Book summary:First published in 1914, Edgar Rice Burroughs's romance has lost little of its force over the years--as film revivals and TV series well attest. Tarzan of the Apes is very much a product of its age: replete with bloodthirsty natives and a bulky, swooning American Negress, and haunted by what zoo specialists now call charismatic megafauna (great beasts snarling, roaring, and stalking, most of whom would be out of place in a real African jungle). Burroughs countervails such incorrectness, however, with some rather unattractive representations of white civilization--mutinous, murderous sailors, effete aristos, self-involved academics, and hard-hearted cowards. At Tarzan's heart rightly lies the resourceful and hunky title character, a man increasingly torn between the civil and the savage, for whom cutlery will never be less than a nightmare.
The passages in which the nut-brown boy teaches himself to read and write are masterly and among the book's improbable, imaginative best. How tempting it is to adopt the ten-year-old's term for letters--"little bugs"! And the older Tarzan's realization that civilized "men were indeed more foolish and more cruel than the beasts of the jungle," while not exactly a new notion, is nonetheless potent. The first in Burroughs's serial is most enjoyable in its resounding oddities of word and thought, including the unforgettable "When Tarzan killed he more often smiled than scowled; and smiles are the foundation of beauty." [via]
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Third Waveby Alvin TofflerISBN 0553246984 (0-553-24698-4)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Watership Downby Richard AdamsISBN 0517198126 (0-517-19812-6)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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The Wheels of Commerceby Fernand BraudelISBN 0520081153 (0-520-08115-3)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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William Golding's Lord of the Fliesby William Golding, Nigel WilliamsISBN 0571160565 (0-571-16056-5)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The World of Rome: An Introduction to Roman Cultureby P. V. Jones, Keith SidwellISBN 0521386004 (0-521-38600-4)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The World of the Druidsby Miranda J. GreenISBN 0500285713 (0-500-28571-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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