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1984by George OrwellISBN 8495994070 (84-95994-07-0)
Softcover, Jorge a Mestas Ediciones
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› Find signed collectible books: '1984'Book summary:En esta novela encontramos al lider unico cuya presencia es ante todo una abstraccion, la negacion del individuo, la sustraccion de la informacion: el Gran Hermano. Es, al mismo tiempo, una advertencia y un deseo. El autor ha construido una metafora del imaginario social del siglo XX, al describir un pais carcelario, vigilado por un lugar desde donde se ve a el y a todos. [via]
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Apocalipsisby Stephen KingISBN 8497599411 (84-9759-941-1)
Softcover, Debolsillo
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As the Romans Did: A Sourcebook in Roman Social Historyby Jo-Ann SheltonISBN 019508974X (0-19-508974-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'As the Romans Did: A Sourcebook in Roman Social History'Book summary:Revised to include new selections and updated bibliographical material, the second edition of this popular sourcebook offers a rich, revealing look at everyday Roman life. The selections, all in fresh English translations prepared by the author, are drawn from a wide array of documents - letters, manuals, recipes, graffiti, and inscriptions, as well as literary sources. Each selection is thematically arranged to develop a detailed picture of life in all strata of society and a survey of the full range of social activity - from the enactment of imperialist policies to the specifics of daily life for the average Roman. Readers are introduced to Roman family life, housing, entertainment, medicine, education, religion, and other important topics. Extensive annotations, abundant bibliographical notes, maps, appendices, and textual cross-references provide the historical and cultural background necessary for readers to easily understand the selections. Lively and readable, the second edition of As the Romans Did provides the most lucid account available of Roman life in all its diversity. [via]
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- As the Romans Did: A Sourcebook in Roman Social History: ISBN 0195041771 (0-19-504177-1)
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Hardcover, Oxford University Press - As the Romans Did : A Sourcebook in Roman Social History: ISBN 0195089731 (0-19-508973-1)
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The Autumn of the Middle Agesby Johan Huizinga, Rodney J. Payton, Ulrich MammitzschISBN 0226359948 (0-226-35994-8)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Autumn of the Middle Ages'Book summary:In 1919, Johan Huizinga revealed in the original version of this book that the ideals, aspirations, and behaviors of humanity in history were dramatically different from those in present day. In Herfsttjj der Middeleeuwen, he recalled the waning years of the Middle Ages--the low countries in northern Europe in the 14th and 15th centuries--and argued against those who claimed that human belief systems remain the same even if contexts change. His account rested not on historical fact, but on the emotions and ambitions of the people as expressed through the art and literature of their culture. Many people treated the book as groundbreaking work, and it was translated into English in 1924. This new translation is a complete, more direct version of the original and allows modern readers a full appreciation of life in an era rarely revisited. [via]
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Barcelonaby Robert HughesISBN 0394580273 (0-394-58027-3)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Barcelona'Book summary:This is history on the grandest scale, allowing us to see the Catalans and their queen city through a rotation of 360 degrees, in the round, and across an enormous span of time. [via]
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Brave New Worldby Aldous HuxleyISBN 0060850523 (0-06-085052-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brave New World'Book summary:When the novel "Brave New World first appeared in 1932, its shocking analysis of a scientific dictatorship seemed a projection into the remote future.
Here, in one of the most important and fascinating books of his career, Aldous Huxley uses his tremendous knowledge of human relations to compare the modern-day world with his prophetic fantasy. He scrutinizes threats to humanity, such as overpopulation, propaganda, and chemical persuasion, and explains why we have found it virtually impossible to avoid them. "Brave New World Revisited" is a trenchant plea that humankind should educate itself for freedom before it is too late. [via]
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Celtic Realmsby Myles Dillon, Nora Kershaw ChadwickISBN 0297995804 (0-297-99580-4)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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The Celtsby Gerhard HermISBN 0312313438 (0-312-31343-8)
Softcover, Strategic Planning Management
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The Celts: The People Who Came Out of the Darknessby Gerhard HermISBN 0297771655 (0-297-77165-5)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld and Nicolson
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Celts: The People Who Came Out of the Darkness'Book summary:Description: 312 p. , [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm. Translation of Die Kelten. Includes index. Bibliography: p. [297]-298. Subjects: Celts [via]
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The Chrysanthemum and the Swordby Ruth BenedictISBN 0452009162 (0-452-00916-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Cultureby Ruth Benedict, Ezra F. VogelISBN 0395500753 (0-395-50075-3)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin Company
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture'Book summary:A recognized classic of cultural anthropology, this book explores the political, religious, and economic life of Japan from the seventh century through the mid-twentieth, as well as personal family life.[via]More editions of The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture:
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Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Centuryby Fernand BraudelISBN 0060148454 (0-06-014845-4)
Hardcover, Harper & Row
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The Civilization of the Middle Ages: A Completely Revised and Expanded Edition of Medieval History, the Life and Death of a Civilizationby Norman F. CantorISBN 0060925531 (0-06-092553-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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In 1963 Norman F. Cantor published his breakthrough narrative history of the Middle Ages. Here is a significant revision, update, and expansion of that work.
The Civilization of the Middle Ages incorporates newer research and novel perspectives, especially on the foundations of the Middle Ages and the late Middle Ages of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. A sharper focus on social history, Jewish history, women's roles in society, and popular religion and heresy distinguish the book. While the first and last sections of the book are almost entirely new and many additions have been incorporated in the intervening sections, Cantor has retained the powerful narrative flow that made earlier editions so accessible. [via]More editions of The Civilization of the Middle Ages: A Completely Revised and Expanded Edition of Medieval History, the Life and Death of a Civilization:
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Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empireby Morris BermanISBN 0393329771 (0-393-32977-1)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire'Book summary:"Provocative...stimulating and insightful."Publishers Weekly
In Dark Ages America, the pundit Morris Berman argues that the nation has entered a dangerous phase in its historical development from which there is no return. As the corporate-consumerist juggernaut that now defines the nation rolls on, the very factors that once propelled America to greatnessextreme individualism, territorial and economic expansion, and the pursuit of material wealthare, paradoxically, the nails in our collective coffin. Within a few decades, Berman argues, the United States will be marginalized on the world stage, its hegemony replaced by China or the European Union. With the United States just one terrorist attack away from a police state, Berman's book is a controversial and illuminating look at our current society and its ills. [via]More editions of Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire:
A Day in Pompeii: Daily Life, Culture and Societyby Eva Cantarella, Luciana JacobelliISBN 8851001170 (88-510-0117-0)
Hardcover, Electa Napoli
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The Decline of the Westby Oswald SpenglerISBN 0195066340 (0-19-506634-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Decline of the West'Book summary:Since its first publication in two volumes between 1918-1923, The Decline of the West has ranked as one of the most widely read and most talked about books of our time. In all its various editions, it has sold nearly 100,000 copies. A twentieth-century Cassandra, Oswald Spengler thoroughly probed the origin and "fate" of our civilization, and the result can be (and has been) read as a prophesy of the Nazi regime. His challenging views have led to harsh criticism over the years, but the knowledge and eloquence that went into his sweeping study of Western culture have kept The Decline of the West alive. As the face of Germany and Europe as a whole continues to change each day, The Decline of the West cannot be ignored.
The abridgment, prepared by the German scholar Helmut Werner, with the blessing of the Spengler estate, consists of selections from the original (translated into English by Charles Francis Atkinson) linked by explanatory passages which have been put into English by Arthur Helps. H. Stuart Hughes has written a new introduction for this edition.
In this engrossing and highly controversial philosophy of history, Spengler describes how we have entered into a centuries-long "world-historical" phase comparable to late antiquity. Guided by the philosophies of Goethe and Nietzsche, he rejects linear progression, and instead presents a world view based on the cyclical rise and decline of civilizations. He argues that a culture blossoms from the soil of a definable landscape and dies when it has exhausted all of its possibilities.
Despite Spengler's reputation today as an extreme pessimist, The Decline of the West remains essential reading for anyone interested in the history of civilization. [via]More editions of The Decline of the West:
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The Demon-Haunted World: Science As a Candle in the Darkby Carl SaganISBN 0345409469 (0-345-40946-9)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Demon-Haunted World: Science As a Candle in the Dark'Book summary:Carl Sagan muses on the current state of scientific thought, which offers him marvelous opportunities to entertain us with his own childhood experiences, the newspaper morgues, UFO stories, and the assorted flotsam and jetsam of pseudoscience. Along the way he debunks alien abduction, faith-healing, and channeling; refutes the arguments that science destroys spirituality, and provides a "baloney detection kit" for thinking through political, social, religious, and other issues. [via]
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Facundoby SarmientoISBN 843760933X (84-376-0933-X)
Softcover, Catedra Ediciones
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Fingerprints of the Godsby Graham HancockISBN 038525475X (0-385-25475-X)
Hardcover, Bantam Books of Canada Ltd
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A First Dictionary of Cultural Literacyby Hirsch, E. D., Jr.ISBN 0395823528 (0-395-82352-8)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin Company
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A First Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Our Children Need to Know'Book summary:This revised edition of A First Dictionary of Cultural Literacy offers the common core of knowledge children should have by the end of grade school. E. D. Hirsch, author of the best-selling Cultural Literacy and co-author of The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, has updated his popular children's version for a generation that needs not only a solid grounding in the arts and sciences but a clear understanding of the world around them - from world geography to the World Wide Web. Inviting and informative, the book is organized by subject, including mythology, history, religion and philosophy, music, art, geography, medicine, technology, and many more. No other book gives children so much of the world, from ancient history to current technology, in one engaging volume.[via]
A First Dictionary of Cultural Literacyby Michael Stanford, William G. Rowland, E.D. HirschISBN 0395510406 (0-395-51040-6)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Foundationby Isaac AsimovISBN 0345336275 (0-345-33627-5)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Foundation'Book summary:Foundation marks the first of a series of tales set so far in the future that Earth is all but forgotten by humans who live throughout the galaxy. Yet all is not well with the Galactic Empire. Its vast size is crippling to it. In particular, the administrative planet, honeycombed and tunneled with offices and staff, is vulnerable to attack or breakdown. The only person willing to confront this imminent catastrophe is Hari Seldon, a psychohistorian and mathematician. Seldon can scientifically predict the future, and it doesn't look pretty: a new Dark Age is scheduled to send humanity into barbarism in 500 years. He concocts a scheme to save the knowledge of the race in an Encyclopedia Galactica. But this project will take generations to complete, and who will take up the torch after him? The first Foundation trilogy (Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation) won a Hugo Award in 1965 for "Best All-Time Series." It's science fiction on the grand scale; one of the classics of the field. --Brooks Peck [via]
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The Foundation Trilogyby Isaac AsimovISBN 0385188307 (0-385-18830-7)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Foundation Trilogy'Book summary:The Foundation Series is a science fiction series by Isaac Asimov. The series is best known for the Foundation Trilogy, which comprises the books Foundation, Foundation and Empire and Second Foundation. In 1965, the Foundation Trilogy beat several other science fiction and fantasy series (including The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien) to receive a special Hugo Award for "Best All-Time Series." It is still the only series so honored. Asimov himself wrote that he assumed the one-time award had been created to honor The Lord of the Rings, and he was amazed when his work won.
A saga of enormous scope and boundless imagination, Isaac Asimov's Hugo-winning Foundation Trilogy is one of the great masterworks of science fiction. Set 50,000 years in the future, it tells of the decline and fall of the Galactic Empire and the history of a universal ruling organization created to reduce the duration of the coming Dark Age.
Foundation introduces mathematician Hari Seldon, whose science of psychohistory can predict the future on a colossal scale. But what Hari foresees is an empire's collapse and an age of barbarism lasting 30,000 years. Gathering the finest minds in the galaxy, he devises a Plan to preserve the collective knowledge of the human race...only to find that the Foundation itself is under seige.
In Foundation and Empire, the Foundation has attained power, but can it prevail against an ambitious young general determined to restore the Empire to its former glory, or a mutant intelligence whose mysterious power to bend minds to his will not even Hari Seldon could have predicted?In Second Foundation, the mutant sets out to find the last threat to his power: a secretly evolved Second Foundation, whose colony of telepaths the First Foundation also wants destroyed. [via]More editions of The Foundation Trilogy:
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The Greek Achievement: The Foundation of the Western Worldby Charles FreemanISBN 014029323X (0-14-029323-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Greek Achievement: The Foundation of the Western World'Book summary:The idea of an entity called Greece is a modern one, which a Thracian of Homer's time or an Athenian of the age of Pericles would not have recognized. Ancient Greek politics was organized along the lines first of family, then of clan, then of neighborhood, and then finally of town or city; the concept of nationhood, the existence of a nation called Greece, scarcely entered the discussion.
But if there was no Greece in ancient times, there is more than one ancient Greece. One, writes the noted classical historian Charles Freeman, can be found symbolized in the Parthenon of Athens, its graceful architecture and statuary bespeaking ideals of freedom, citizenship, truth. But another, Freeman continues, can be found early in the pages of Thucydides, who writes of, among other atrocities, the Athenians' slaughtering the citizens of Melos upon their surrender after a long siege. "Whatever the achievements of the Greeks might have been," he writes, "they developed against the backdrop of a real world, one in which human beings were degraded by disease and where brutality was an everyday part of life."
Freeman traces both the real and the ideal Greek world in this comprehensive survey of ancient history, which opens with an up-to-date assessment of the Greek peninsula's Bronze Age cultures and closes with a view of the survival of classical customs and ways of thought in the Western tradition. Gracefully written, Freeman's fine history will find a welcome place on classicists' bookshelves. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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The Greek Wayby Edith HamiltonISBN 0393310779 (0-393-31077-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Greek Way'Book summary:The aim of this work is not a history of events but an account of the achievement and spirit of Greece.
"Five hundred years before Christ in a little town on the far western border of the settled and civilizaed world, a strange new power was at work. . . . Athens had entered upon her brief and magnificent flowering of genius which so molded the world of mind and of spirit that our mind and spirit today are different. . . . What was then produced of art and of thought has never been surpasses and very rarely equalled, and the stamp of it is upon all the art and all the thought of the Western world."
A perennial favorite in many different editions, Edith Hamilton's best-selling The Greek Way captures the spirit and achievements of Greece in the fifth century B.C. A retired headmistress when she began her writing career in the 1930s, Hamilton immediately demonstrated a remarkable ability to bring the world of ancient Greece to life, introducing that world to the twentieth century. The New York Times called The Greek Way a "book of both cultural and critical importance."
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A History of Civilizationby Crane Brinton, John B. Christopher, Robert Lee WolffISBN 0133890074 (0-13-389007-4)
Hardcover, Prentice-Hall
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History of Civilization Pre-History to 1300by C. BrintonISBN 0133897915 (0-13-389791-5)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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History of Civilization: Prehistory to the Presentby Robin W. Winks, Crane Brinton, John B. Christopher, Robert Lee WolffISBN 0132283395 (0-13-228339-5)
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The Identity of Manby Jacob BronowskiISBN 0385001711 (0-385-00171-1)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Identity of Man'Book summary:Science has called into question many traditional assumptions about human nature. In the age of the human genome project, this truism is even more obvious than it was in 1965, when scientist and historian of ideas Jacob Bronowski first delivered the lectures upon which this book is based. Has science revealed that we are essentially just complex machines? Or is human identity more than the sum of its parts?
With his gift for conveying the excitement of ideas, Bronowski discusses the impact of science on our sense of self and the need to re-evaluate ethics in light of the scientific perspective. As both a practicing scientist and an author of books on poetry, he makes interesting connections between the uses of the imagination in science and in literature. Whereas science creates experiments to test hypotheses about the outside world, literature provides "experiments" in poetry and prose, allowing readers to experience what it means to be fully human and relating the individualÆs inner life to that of every human being. In the quest for understanding, science discovers the facts about reality while art depicts the truth of human experience. Bronowski argues that a true humanistic philosophy must give equal place to the inner, subjective vision of the arts and the outer, objective perspective of science since they are both products of one self-conscious creative imagination. In the final analysis, he emphasizes that these perspectives converge in revealing a more enlightened, universal ethics, one that fosters tolerance, mutual understanding, an appreciation of differences, and a sense that we all share a common destiny as human participants in natureÆs cosmic drama. [via]More editions of The Identity of Man:
La Rebelion De Las Masas / The Revolt of the Massesby Jose Ortega Y GassetISBN 8430939695 (84-309-3969-5)
Softcover, Grupo Anaya Comercial
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Los Limites De La Fundacionby Isaac AsimovISBN 8497594347 (84-9759-434-7)
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Man's Rise to Civilization: The Cultural Ascent of the Indians of North Americaby Peter FarbISBN 0140153233 (0-14-015323-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Man's Rise to Civilization, As Shown by the Indians of North America from Primeval Times to the Coming of the Industrial Stateby Peter FarbISBN 0380014092 (0-380-01409-2)
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Manifiesto Del Partido Comunistaby Carlos Marx, Marx EngelsISBN 9875503843 (987-550-384-3)
Softcover, Longseller S.A.
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Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of its Enemiesby Ian Buruma, Avishai MargalitISBN 0143034871 (0-14-303487-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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One-Dimentional Man; Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Societyby H. MARCUSEISBN 0415289777 (0-415-28977-7)
Softcover, Taylor and Francis
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The Perspective of the World: Civilization and Capitalism 15Th-18th Centuryby Fernand BraudelISBN 0060912960 (0-06-091296-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Readings in World Civilizationsby Kevin ReillyISBN 0312003064 (0-312-00306-4)
Softcover, St. Martin's Press
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Readings in World Civilizations: The Great Traditionsby Kevin ReillyISBN 031209647X (0-312-09647-X)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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The Roman Wayby Edith HamiltonISBN 0393310787 (0-393-31078-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Among these literary guides are Cicero, who left an incomparable collection of letters; Catullus, the quintessential poet of love; Horace, the chronicler of a cruel and materialistic Rome; and the Romantics Virgil, Livy, and Seneca. The story concludes with the stark contrast between high-minded Stoicism and the collapse of values witnessed by Tacitus and Juvenal.
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Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matterby Thomas CahillISBN 0385495544 (0-385-49554-4)
Softcover, Anchor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter'Book summary:In the fourth volume of the acclaimed Hinges of History series, Thomas Cahill brings his characteristic wit and style to a fascinating tour of ancient Greece.
The Greeks invented everything from Western warfare to mystical prayer, from logic to statecraft. Many of their achievements, particularly in art and philosophy, are widely celebrated; other important innovations and accomplishments, however, are unknown or underappreciated. In Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea, Thomas Cahill explores the legacy, good and bad, of the ancient Greeks. From the origins of Greek culture in the migrations of armed Indo-European tribes into Attica and the Peloponnesian peninsula, to the formation of the city-states, to the birth of Western literature, poetry, drama, philosophy, art, and architecture, Cahill makes the distant past relevant to the present.
Greek society is one of the two primeval influences on the Western world: While Jews gave us our value system, the Greeks set the foundation and framework for our intellectual lives. They are responsible for our vocabulary, our logic, and our entire system of categorization. They provided the intellectual tools we bring to bear on problems in philosophy, mathematics, medicine, physics, and the other sciences. Their modes of thinking, considered in classical times to be the pinnacle of human achievement, are largely responsible for the shape that the Christian religion took.
But, as Cahill points out, the Greeks left a less appealing bequest as well. They created Western militarism and, in making the warrior the ultimate ideal, perpetrated the assumption that only males could be entrusted with the duties of citizenship. The consequences of their exclusion of women from the political sphere and the social segregation of the sexes continue to reverberate today.
Full of surprising, often controversial, insights, Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea is a remarkable intellectual adventureconducted by the most companionable guide imaginable. Cahills knowledge of his sources is so intimate that he has made his own fresh translations of the Greek lyric poets for this volume. [via]More editions of Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter:
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Salt: A World Historyby Mark KurlanskyISBN 0142001619 (0-14-200161-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Seekers: The Story of Man's Continuing Quest to Understand His Worldby Daniel J. BoorstinISBN 0375704752 (0-375-70475-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Seekers: The Story of Man's Continuing Quest to Understand His World'Book summary:Renowned historian Daniel J. Boorstin completes the trilogy he began with The Discoverers and The Creators. The first volume covered explorers, scientists, and historians in their quest for raw knowledge, while the second book describes writers, painters, and composers in their pursuit of inspiring art; The Seekers describes people searching for an understanding of human existence--"Man is the asking animal," notes Boorstin. It's a big, bold theme, and although The Seekers is the shortest work in the trilogy, it's still vintage Boorstin: incredibly learned, richly anecdotal, and casually profound. It begins with the prophets of the Holy Land and the philosophers of ancient Greece, continues through the Renaissance, and concludes with the modern era of the social sciences. "In this long quest [for understanding], Western culture has turned from seeking the end or purpose to seeking causes--from the Why to the How," writes Boorstin. That's a neat summary of Western intellectual development over several thousand years. What other author could put it so succinctly? Boorstin is generally stronger with material that is more recent and more secular, but this is an accomplished book and a worthy capstone to an outstanding three-volume effort. --John J. Miller [via]
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Steppenwolfby Hermann Hesse, Joseph MileckISBN 0030121353 (0-03-012135-3)
Softcover, Harcourt Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Steppenwolf'Book summary:With its blend of Eastern mysticism and Western culture, Hesses best-known and most autobiographical work is one of literatures most poetic evocations of the souls journey to liberation[via]
Harry Haller is a sad and lonely figure, a reclusive intellectual for whom life holds no joy. He struggles to reconcile the wild primeval wolf and the rational man within himself without surrendering to the bourgeois values he despises. His life changes dramatically when he meets a woman who is his opposite, the carefree and elusive Hermine. The tale of the Steppenwolf culminates in the surreal Magic TheaterFor Madmen Only!
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The Story of Saltby Mark Kurlansky, S.D. SchindlerISBN 0399239987 (0-399-23998-7)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Strategies of Sanity and Survival: Religious Responses to Natural Disasters in the Middle Agesby Jussi HanskaISBN 951746357X (951-746-357-X)
Softcover, Finnish Literature Society
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The Waning of the Middle Agesby Johan HuizingaISBN 0486404439 (0-486-40443-9)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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The Waning of the Middle Ages: A Study of the Forms of Life, Thought, and Art in France and the Netherlands in the Xivth and Xvth Centuriesby Johan HuizingaISBN 0385092881 (0-385-09288-1)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Western Intellectual Tradition, from Leonardo to Hegelby Jacob BronowskiISBN 0061330019 (0-06-133001-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The World of Late Antiquity: Ad 150-750by Peter Robert Lamont BrownISBN 0155976338 (0-15-597633-8)
Softcover, Harcourt College Pub
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These centuries, as the author demonstrates, were the era in which the most deeply rooted of ancient institutions disappeared for all time. By 476 the Russian empire had vanished from western Europe; by 655 the Persian empire had vanished from the Near East. Mr. Brown, Professor of History at Princeton University, examines these changes and men's reactions to them, but his account shows that the period was also one of outstanding new beginnings and defines the far-reaching impact both of Christianity on Europe and of Islam on the Near East. The result is a lucid answer to a crucial question in world history; how the exceptionally homogeneous Mediterranean world of c. 200 A.D. became divided into the three mutually estranged societies of the Middle Ages: Catholic Western Europe, Byzantium, and Islam. We still live with the results of these contrasts. [via]More editions of The World of Late Antiquity: Ad 150-750:
The World of Late Antiquity Ad 150-750: Ad 150-750by Peter Robert Lamont BrownISBN 0393958035 (0-393-95803-5)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The World of Late Antiquity: From Marcus Aurelius to Muhammadby Peter Robert Lamont BrownISBN 0500320225 (0-500-32022-5)
Hardcover, Thames and Hudson
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1984by GEORGE ORWELISBN 9685270880 (968-5270-88-0)
Softcover, Ld Books Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: '1984'Book summary:En esta novela encontramos al lider unico cuya presencia es ante todo una abstraccion, la negacion del individuo, la sustraccion de la informacion: el Gran Hermano. Es, al mismo tiempo, una advertencia y un deseo. El autor ha construido una metafora del imaginario social del siglo XX, al describir un pais carcelario, vigilado por un lugar desde donde se ve a el y a todos. [via]
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El Alma De Mexicoby Carlos FuentesISBN 9706515526 (970-651-552-6)
Hardcover, Oceano De Mexico
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La Costa de los Mosquitosby Paul TherouxISBN 8483105381 (84-8310-538-1)
Hardcover, Tusquets Editores
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Ensayos Completos/ Complete Essaysby Michel De MontaigneISBN 843762035X (84-376-2035-X)
Hardcover, Catedra Ediciones
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La Era Del Imperio, 1875-1914by Eric J. HobsbawmISBN 8484326616 (84-8432-661-6)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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Esperando a Los Barbaros / Waiting for the Barbariansby John Maxwell CoetzeeISBN 8497593359 (84-9759-335-9)
Softcover, Debolsillo
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Facundo: Civilizacion y Barbarie en Las Pampas Argentinasby Domingof Sarmiento, Juan Carlos CasasISBN 9871136005 (987-1136-00-5)
Softcover, Stockcero Inc
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Historia De La Decadencia Y Ruina Del Imperio Romanoby Edward Gibbon, Jose Mor de FuentesISBN 8475060935 (84-7506-093-5)
Hardcover, Ediciones Turner
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Leer 'Lolita' En Teheran / Reading Lolita In Teheranby Azar NafisiISBN 8476696310 (84-7669-631-0)
Softcover, Oceano De Mexico
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Leer Lolita En Teheranby Azar NafisiISBN 8496333159 (84-96333-15-9)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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El Nacimiento De La Tragedia / the Birth of the Tragetyby Friedrich NietzscheISBN 8441402914 (84-414-0291-4)
Softcover, Edaf Antillas
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Contamos con mas volúmenes en español que cualquier otra editorial para el kindle y continuamos creciendo.
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El Orden Politico En Las Sociedades En Cambioby S. P. HuntingtonISBN 8449302285 (84-493-0228-5)
Softcover, Oniro
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Orden Politico En Las Sociedades En Cambio'Book summary:El autor de este libro, uno de los más perspicaces analistas políticos de la actualidad, considera que las causas de la violencia e inestabilidad en los países en vías de desarrollo de Asia, África y América Latina radican en el retraso del surgimiento de las instituciones políticas apropiadas para permitir el cambio social y económico. El autor realiza un cuidadoso estudio de las causas de los movimientos revolucionarios, la intervención de los militares en la política, las circunstancias que convierten a la reforma en un estímulo de la revolución, el papel de la corrupción, el dilema entre reforma y libertad en las sociedades tradicionales, la función de los partidos políticos y de la actividad política democrática y competitiva en la estabilidad política democrática y competitiva en la estabilidad política, y presenta, finalmente, su propia teoría de la modernización política, que se ha constituido en uno de los análisis políticos comparativos más importantes de los últimos años. De este modo, la lectura del presente libro acaba proporcionando una lúcida descripción de las condiciones que prepararon el terreno para las transformaciones del mundo actual, suministrando algunas claves esenciales para comprender las "leyes del movimiento" de los procesos políticos subyacentes. [via]
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Pegate Un Tiro Para Sobrevivirby Chuck Klosterman, Random House MondadoriISBN 8439720033 (84-397-2003-3)
Softcover, Grijalbo Mondadori
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La Posibilidad De Una Isla/the Possibility of an Islandby Michel HouellebecqISBN 970770392X (970-770-392-X)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'La Posibilidad De Una Isla/the Possibility of an Island'Book summary:Upended by a midlife crisis, Daniel enters a cult that aims to secure eternal happiness through cloning. Through biting monologues, he recounts the last years of his life -his encounters with Isabelle and Esther, and his connection to a cult whose members maintain that humanity is capable of reaching immorality. Houellebecq is back! He touches on philosophical, social and political topics, cloning and sex, youth and old age, violence and desire. It is impossible to leave this novel with an indifferent feeling. Description in Spanish: Abandona cualquier posibilidad de salir indiferente de la lectura de esta novela. Michel Houellebecq ha vuelto. La posibilidad de una isla es la historia de Daniel, famoso por sus monólogos cáusticos en los que mezcla la provocación con una visión fría y cruel de la existencia. El protagonista narra los últimos años de su vida, sus relaciones sexuales y amorosas con Isabelle y con Esther, y su contacto con una secta cuyos miembros aseguran que el ser humano alcanzará la inmortalidad. [via]
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Robinson Crusoeby Daniel Defoe, PezISBN 9871129505 (987-1129-50-5)
Hardcover, Visor E A S A
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Slapstick, Eller, Aldrig Mera Ensamby Kurt VonnegutISBN 9117810213 (91-1-781021-3)
Softcover, PAN/Norstedts
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A Corrida Para O Seculo XXI: No Loop Da Montanha-Russaby Lilia Moritz Schwarcz, Laura de Mello e. Souza, Nicolau SevcenkoISBN 8535900926 (85-359-0092-6)
Hardcover, Companhia das Letras
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De Omweg Naar Santiagoby Cees NooteboomISBN 9025400434 (90-254-0043-4)
Hardcover, Atlas
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