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Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideasby Isaiah Berlin, Henry Hardy, Roger HausheerISBN 0691090262 (0-691-09026-2)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The Age of Empire 1875-1914by Eric HobsbawmISBN 0679721754 (0-679-72175-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991by Eric HobsbawmISBN 0679730052 (0-679-73005-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century, 1914-1991by E. J. HobsbawmISBN 0718133072 (0-7181-3307-2)
Hardcover, Michael Joseph
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Alexander the Greatby Robin Lane FoxISBN 071390500X (0-7139-0500-X)
Hardcover, Allen Lane
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alexander the Great'Book summary:Robin Lane Fox's accessible and erudite life of Alexander the Great searches through the mass of conflicting evidence and legend to focus on the living actuality of the man and his experience--'It is tempting', he concludes, 'to see in Alexander the romantic's complex nature for the first time in Greek history.' Beautifully written perceptive and fluent, it is a superb example of historical scholarship and psychological insight. [via]
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Ancient CivilizationsISBN 0717294714 (0-7172-9471-4)
Hardcover, Grolier Academic Reference
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Ancient Egyptby George HartISBN 067980742X (0-679-80742-X)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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The Art of the Impossible : Politics As Morality in Practiceby Václav Havel, Paul WilsonISBN 0679451064 (0-679-45106-4)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Before Sexuality: The Construction of Erotic Experience in the Ancient Greek Worldby David M. Halperin, John J. Winkler, Froma I. ZeitlinISBN 0691002215 (0-691-00221-5)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Byzantium: The Empire of New Romeby Cyril A. MangoISBN 0684167689 (0-684-16768-9)
Hardcover, Macmillan Pub Co
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Celtic PrayersISBN 0687078474 (0-687-07847-4)
Hardcover, Abingdon Pr
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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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Civilization of Europe in the Renaissanceby John HaleISBN 0684803526 (0-684-80352-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Civilization of the Renaissance in Italyby Jacob Burckhardt, Ludwig Goldscheider, S.G.C. MiddlemoreISBN 0714833630 (0-7148-3363-0)
Softcover, Phaidon Inc Ltd
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Continuum Conceptby LiedloffISBN 0715609068 (0-7156-0906-8)
Hardcover, Duckworth
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The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terrorby Bernard LewisISBN 0679642811 (0-679-64281-1)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror'Book summary:After the terrorist attacks of September 11, many Americans yearned to understand why Muslim extremists felt such passionate animosity toward the Western world, particularly the United States. Since that historic attack there have been many books and discussions about this very question, but few of them offer such a readable and relevant response as this excellent offering by renowned historian Bernard Lewis (What Went Wrong?). For modern Westerners, Islam is an especially foreign religion and culture to understand. For instance, Westerners typically dismiss things as unimportant when using the expression "thats history." But for those raised in Muslim households, historyeven ancient historyis just as important (if not more important) as the present. And to better understand the hostilities rooted in this historyone could start with recognizing the long-standing resentment the Islamic community harbors from having its homelands torn apart and re-packaged into random political states by occupying Europeans (Westerners). Or stretch back in time to the brutality of the Crusades. Or go straight to the U.S. political meddling in the region throughout the latter 20th century.
This is not a pity fest for Muslims. Lewis even-handedly explores the sources of Islamic antagonism toward the West while also explaining how a supposedly peace-worshipping religion could be so distorted by violent extremism. He notes that the American way of lifeespecially that of fulfillment through material gain and sexual freedomis a direct threat to Islamic values (which is why night clubsplaces where men and women publicly touch one anotherare targets of bombings). But it is basic Western democracy that especially threatens Islamic extremists, notes Lewis, because within its own community more and more Muslims are coming to value the freedom that political democracy allows. For anyone wanting an intelligent and accessible primer on the Islamic-Western conflict, this is an excellent place to begin. Gail Hudson [via]More editions of The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror:
Crowell's Handbook of Classical Literatureby Lillian FederISBN 0690225377 (0-690-22537-7)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empireby Edward GibbonISBN 067943593X (0-679-43593-X)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'Book summary:"It was Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amid the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind," recorded Edward Gibbon with characteristic exactitude. Over a period of some twenty years, the luminous eighteenth-century historian--a precise, dapper, idiosyncratic little gentleman famous for rapping his snuff-box--devoted his considerable genius to writing an epic chronicle of the entire Roman Empire's decline. His single flash of inspiration produced what is arguably the greatest historical work in any language--and surely the most magnificent narrative history ever written in English. "Gibbon is one of those few who hold as high a place in the history of literature as in the roll of great historians," noted Professor J.B. Bury, his most celebrated editor.
This three-volume Modern Library edition of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire--with Gibbon's notes--is edited with a general introduction and index by Bury, along with an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Daniel J. Boorstin. The volumes are illustrated with reproductions of etchings by Gian Battista Piranesi.
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Democracy in Americaby Daniel J. Boorstin, Phillips Bradley, Henry Reeve, Francis Bowen, Alexis De TocquevilleISBN 0679728252 (0-679-72825-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Democracy in America'Book summary:Democracy in America is the classic analysis of America's unique political character, quoted heavily by politicians and perennially popping up on history professors' reading lists. The book's enduring appeal lies in the eloquent, prophetic voice of Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859), a French aristocrat who visited the United States in 1831. A thoughtful young man in a still-young country, he succeeded in penning this penetrating study of America's people, culture, history, geography, politics, legal system, and economy. Tocqueville asserts, "I confess that in America I saw more than America; I sought the image of democracy itself, with its inclinations, its character, its prejudices, and its passions, in order to learn what we have to fear or hope from its progress."
In addition to a brilliant, perceptive outline of "the philosophical method of the Americans," Volume II of Democracy in America includes the oddly modern-sounding "Why the Americans Are So Restless in the Midst of Their Prosperity," the surprising and provocative "How Americans Understand the Equality of the Sexes," and the more archaic "The Study of Greek and Latin is Peculiarly Useful in Democratic Communities." This edition--which many consider the best--contains the Henry Reeve text, revised by Francis Bowen, and further edited with introduction, editorial notes, and bibliographies by Phillips Bradley. [via]
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Democracy in Americaby Alexis De TocquevilleISBN 0679431349 (0-679-43134-9)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Democracy in America has had the singular honor of being even to this day the work that polit?ical commentators of every stripe refer to when they seek to draw large conclusions about the soci?ety of the United States. Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat, came to the young nation to investigate the functioning of American democracy and the social, political, and economic life of its citizens, publishing his observations in 1835 and 1840. Brilliantly written and vividly illustrated with vignettes and portraits, Democracy in America is far more than a trenchant analysis of one soci?ety at a particular point in time. What will most intrigue modern readers is how many of Tocquevilles observations still hold true: on the mixed advantages of a free press, the strained relations among the races, and the threats posed to democracies by consumerism and corruption.
So uncanny is Tocquevilles insight and so accurate are his predictions, that it seems as though he were not merely describing the American identity but actually helping to create it. [via]More editions of Democracy in America:
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The Dictionary of Global Cultureby Henry Louis Gates, Anthony Appiah, Michael Colin VazquezISBN 0679729852 (0-679-72985-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dictionary of Global Culture'Book summary:This work, edited by two of America's most accessible public intellectuals, from Harvard University's Afro-American studies department, is a scholarly yet easy-to-read reference that serves as a cultural-literacy primer for the third millennium. Multicultural in scope, it contains concise and timely essays on everything from the Islamic origins of algebra to Chinua Achebe, the Dalai Lama, John Coltrane, Frida Kahlo, and Fannie Lou Hamer. Gates and Appiah also include figures of popular culture such as Amy Tan and J.R.R. Tolkien. What makes the work most impressive is the editors' search for "an understanding of other cultures that enriches without displacing" the achievements of Western civilization, showing how African, Afro-American, Hispanic, Asian, and European writers, politicians, and artists have all contributed. --Eugene Holley Jr. [via]
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Dictionary of the History of Ideasby Philip P. WienerISBN 0684164183 (0-684-16418-3)
Softcover, Macmillan Pub Co
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Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideasby Philip P. WienerISBN 0684132931 (0-684-13293-1)
Hardcover, Macmillan Pub Co
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The End of the Bronze Age: Changes in Warfare and the Catastrophe Ca. 1200 B.C.by Robert DrewsISBN 0691025916 (0-691-02591-6)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The Essays of Michel De Montaigneby Michel De Montaigne, M. A. ScreechISBN 0713990724 (0-7139-9072-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Fathers and Sons in Athens: Ideology and Society in the Era of the Peloponnesian Warby Barry S. StraussISBN 0691015910 (0-691-01591-0)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Fire and Civilizationby Johan GoudsblomISBN 0713990775 (0-7139-9077-5)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religionby James George FrazerISBN 0684826305 (0-684-82630-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion'Book summary:Before Joseph Campbell became the world's most famous practitioner of comparative mythology, there was Sir James George Frazer. The Golden Bough was originally published in two volumes in 1890, but Frazer became so enamored of his topic that over the next few decades he expanded the work sixfold, then in 1922 cut it all down to a single thick edition suitable for mass distribution. The thesis on the origins of magic and religion that it elaborates "will be long and laborious," Frazer warns readers, "but may possess something of the charm of a voyage of discovery, in which we shall visit many strange lands, with strange foreign peoples, and still stranger customs." Chief among those customs--at least as the book is remembered in the popular imagination--is the sacrificial killing of god-kings to ensure bountiful harvests, which Frazer traces through several cultures, including in his elaborations the myths of Adonis, Osiris, and Balder.
While highly influential in its day, The Golden Bough has come under harsh critical scrutiny in subsequent decades, with many of its descriptions of regional folklore and legends deemed less than reliable. Furthermore, much of its tone is rooted in a philosophy of social Darwinism--sheer cultural imperialism, really--that finds its most explicit form in Frazer's rhetorical question: "If in the most backward state of human society now known to us we find magic thus conspicuously present and religion conspicuously absent, may we not reasonably conjecture that the civilised races of the world have also at some period of their history passed through a similar intellectual phase?" (The truly civilized races, he goes on to say later, though not particularly loudly, are the ones whose minds evolve beyond religious belief to embrace the rational structures of scientific thought.) Frazer was much too genteel to state plainly that "primitive" races believe in magic because they are too stupid and backwards to know any better; instead he remarks that "a savage hardly conceives the distinction commonly drawn by more advanced peoples between the natural and the supernatural." And he certainly was not about to make explicit the logical extension of his theories--"that Christian legend, dogma, and ritual" (to quote Robert Graves's summation of Frazer in The White Goddess) "are the refinement of a great body of primitive and barbarous beliefs." Whatever modern readers have come to think of the book, however, its historical significance and the eloquence with which Frazer attempts to develop what one might call a unifying theory of anthropology cannot be denied. --Ron Hogan [via]
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The Golden Bough : The Collected Works of J. G. Frazerby J. G. FrazerISBN 0700714480 (0-7007-1448-0)
Hardcover, Taylor & Francis Group
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Great Books: My Adventures With Homer, Rousseau, Woolf, and Other Indestructible Writers of the Western Worldby David DenbyISBN 0684835339 (0-684-83533-9)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Great Books: My Adventures With Homer, Rousseau, Woolf, and Other Indestructible Writers of the Western World'Book summary:At the age of forty-eight, film critic David Denby, dissatisfied with his life within the media bubble, went back to Columbia University and took again the two famous courses in Western classics Literature Humanities and Contemporary Civilization required of all students--courses he first took in 1961. In recent years, collections of literary and philosophical masterpieces such as those taught in these courses have been reviled by the left as oppressive and exclusionary and adored by the right as bulwarks of patriotism. Denby, the film critic for "New York magazine, wanted to dispel these cliches and to confront the books in their naked power; he wanted to find the self he had lost in a daze of media images. In "Great Books, Denby lives the common adult fantasy of returning to school with some worldly knowledge and experience of life. A gifted storyteller, he leads us on a glorious tour--by turns eloquent, witty, and moving--through the works themselves and through his experiences as a middle-aged man among freshmen. He recounts his failures and triumphs as a reader and student taking an exam led to a hilarious near-breakdown . He celebrates his rediscovery or new appreciation of such authors as Homer, Plato, the biblical writers, Augustine, Boccaccio, Hegel, Austen, Marx, Nietzsche, and Virginia Woolf. He re-creates the atmosphere of the classroom--the strategies used by a remarkable group of teachers and the strengths and weaknesses of media-age students as they grapple with these difficult, sometimes frightening works. And all year long he watches the students grow and his own life and memories break out of hiding. The result is an extraordinarily engaging blend ofcriticism, reporting, autobiography, and cultural commentary, a book about self-discovery. Denby offers a nonprofessor's look at life on campus; he addresses the vexing questions of political correctness and relativism, and he suggests that a larger crisis surrounds the teaching of the humanities. [via]
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A Handbook of Roman Art: A Survey of the Visual Arts of the Roman Worldby Martin HenigISBN 0714823015 (0-7148-2301-5)
Softcover, Phaidon Inc Ltd
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Historic Scotland: 5000 Years of Scotland's Heritageby David J. BreezeISBN 0713483946 (0-7134-8394-6)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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A History of Medieval Islamby J. J. SaundersISBN 0710000502 (0-7100-0050-2)
Softcover, Routledge
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empireby Edward Gibbon, David WomersleyISBN 0713991240 (0-7139-9124-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Illustrated Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religionby James George Frazer, Robert K.G. TempleISBN 0684818507 (0-684-81850-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Illustrated Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion'Book summary:Before Joseph Campbell became the world's most famous practitioner of comparative mythology, there was Sir James George Frazer. The Golden Bough was originally published in two volumes in 1890, but Frazer became so enamored of his topic that over the next few decades he expanded the work sixfold, then in 1922 cut it all down to a single thick edition suitable for mass distribution. The thesis on the origins of magic and religion that it elaborates "will be long and laborious," Frazer warns readers, "but may possess something of the charm of a voyage of discovery, in which we shall visit many strange lands, with strange foreign peoples, and still stranger customs." Chief among those customs--at least as the book is remembered in the popular imagination--is the sacrificial killing of god-kings to ensure bountiful harvests, which Frazer traces through several cultures, including in his elaborations the myths of Adonis, Osiris, and Balder.
While highly influential in its day, The Golden Bough has come under harsh critical scrutiny in subsequent decades, with many of its descriptions of regional folklore and legends deemed less than reliable. Furthermore, much of its tone is rooted in a philosophy of social Darwinism--sheer cultural imperialism, really--that finds its most explicit form in Frazer's rhetorical question: "If in the most backward state of human society now known to us we find magic thus conspicuously present and religion conspicuously absent, may we not reasonably conjecture that the civilised races of the world have also at some period of their history passed through a similar intellectual phase?" (The truly civilized races, he goes on to say later, though not particularly loudly, are the ones whose minds evolve beyond religious belief to embrace the rational structures of scientific thought.) Frazer was much too genteel to state plainly that "primitive" races believe in magic because they are too stupid and backwards to know any better; instead he remarks that "a savage hardly conceives the distinction commonly drawn by more advanced peoples between the natural and the supernatural." And he certainly was not about to make explicit the logical extension of his theories--"that Christian legend, dogma, and ritual" (to quote Robert Graves's summation of Frazer in The White Goddess) "are the refinement of a great body of primitive and barbarous beliefs." Whatever modern readers have come to think of the book, however, its historical significance and the eloquence with which Frazer attempts to develop what one might call a unifying theory of anthropology cannot be denied. --Ron Hogan [via]
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In Ruinsby Christopher WoodwardISBN 070116896X (0-7011-6896-X)
Hardcover, Chatto & Windus
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Karl Marx's Theory of History: A Defenceby G. A. CohenISBN 0691070687 (0-691-07068-7)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Karl Marx's Theory of History: A Defense'Book summary:First published in 1978, this book rapidly established itself as a classic of modern Marxism. Cohen's masterful application of advanced philosophical techniques in an uncompromising defense of historical materialism commanded widespread admiration. In the ensuing twenty years, the book has served as a flagship of a powerful intellectual movement--analytical Marxism. In this expanded edition, Cohen offers his own account of the history, and the further promise, of analytical Marxism. He also expresses reservations about traditional historical materialism, in the light of which he reconstructs the theory, and he studies the implications for historical materialism of the demise of the Soviet Union.
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Landscape and Memoryby Simon SchamaISBN 0679735127 (0-679-73512-7)
Softcover, Random House, Incorporated
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In Landscape and Memory Schama ranges over continents and centuries to reveal the psychic claims that human beings have made on nature. He tells of the Nazi cult of the primeval German forest; the play of Christian and pagan myth in Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers; and the duel between a monumental sculptor and a feminist gadfly on the slopes of Mount Rushmore. The result is a triumphant work of history, naturalism, mythology, and art.
"A work of great ambition and enormous intellectual scope...consistently provocative and revealing."--New York Times
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Larry Conick's the Cartoon History of the Universe, Book 1by Larry GonickISBN 0688010113 (0-688-01011-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Lord of the Fliesby William G. GoldingISBN 0698102193 (0-698-10219-3)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lord of the Flies'Book summary:Lord of the Flies , William Golding's classic tale about a group of English schoolboys who are plane-wrecked on a deserted island, is just as chilling and relevant today as when it was first published in 1954. At first, the stranded boys cooperate, attempting to gather food, make shelters, and maintain signal fires. Overseeing their efforts are Ralph, "the boy with fair hair," and Piggy, Ralph's chubby, wisdom-dispensing sidekick whose thick spectacles come in handy for lighting fires. Although Ralph tries to impose order and delegate responsibility, there are many in their number who would rather swim, play, or hunt the island's wild pig population. Soon Ralph's rules are being ignored or challenged outright. His fiercest antagonist is Jack, the redheaded leader of the pig hunters, who manages to lure away many of the boys to join his band of painted savages. The situation deteriorates as the trappings of civilization continue to fall away, until Ralph discovers that instead of being hunters, he and Piggy have become the hunted: "He forgot his words, his hunger and thirst, and became fear; hopeless fear on flying feet." Golding's gripping novel explores the boundary between human reason and animal instinct, all on the brutal playing field of adolescent competition. --Jennifer Hubert [via]
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Manifesto of the Communist Partyby Karl Marx, Friedrich EngelsISBN 0717802418 (0-7178-0241-8)
Softcover, Intl Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Manifesto of the Communist Party'Book summary:Check out ngims Publishing's other illustrated literary classics. The vast majority of our books have original illustrations, free audiobook download link at the end of the book, navigable Table of Contents, and are fully formatted. Browse our library collection by typing in ngims or ngims plus the title you're looking for, e.g. ngims Gulliver's Travels. Free ebooks on the web are not organized for easy reading, littered with text errors and often have missing contents. You will not find another beautifully formatted classic literature ebook that is well-designed with amazing artworks and illustrations and a link to download free audiobook for a very low price like this one. The nominal price of this ebook covers the time and effort in formatting the materials and putting everything together in one place for your convenience. As a reader, you would want everything readily available at your fingertips because you many not have the time, interest or know where to look for your favorite book. The Communist Manifesto, originally titled Manifesto of the Communist Party (German: Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei) is a short 1848 book written by the German Marxist political theorists Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. It has since been recognized as one of the world's most influential political manuscripts. Commissioned by the Communist League, it laid out the League's purposes and program. It presents an analytical approach to the class struggle (historical and present) and the problems of capitalism, rather than a prediction of communism's potential future forms. The book contains Marx and Engels' Marxist theories about the nature of society and politics, that in their own words, "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles." It also briefly features their ideas for how the capitalist society of the time would eventually be replaced by socialism, and then eventually communism. FEATURES ? Includes beautiful artworks and illustrations [via]
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Maya, the Riddle and Rediscovery of a Lost Civilizationby Charles GallenkampISBN 0679504699 (0-679-50469-9)
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The Mediterranean in the Ancient Worldby Fernand Braudel, Jean Guilaine, Roselyne De Ayala, Paule BraudelISBN 0713993316 (0-7139-9331-6)
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Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behaviorby Judith MartinISBN 0689112475 (0-689-11247-5)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to Historyby Bruce B. Lawrence, N. J. Dawood, Franz Rosenthal, Ibn KhaldunISBN 0691120544 (0-691-12054-4)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History'Book summary:The Muqaddimah, often translated as "Introduction" or "Prolegomenon," is the most important Islamic history of the premodern world. Written by the great fourteenth-century Arab scholar Ibn Khaldûn (d. 1406), this monumental work laid down the foundations of several fields of knowledge, including philosophy of history, sociology, ethnography, and economics. The first complete English translation, by the eminent Islamicist and interpreter of Arabic literature Franz Rosenthal, was published in three volumes in 1958 as part of the Bollingen Series and received immediate acclaim in America and abroad. A one-volume abridged version of Rosenthal's masterful translation was first published in 1969.
This new edition of the abridged version, with the addition of a key section of Rosenthal's own introduction to the three-volume edition, and with a new introduction by Bruce B. Lawrence, will reintroduce this seminal work to twenty-first-century students and scholars of Islam and of medieval and ancient history.
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Muqaddimahby Ibn Khaldun, N. J. Dowood, Franz Rosenthal KhaldunISBN 0691017549 (0-691-01754-9)
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Notes from a Small Islandby Bill BrysonISBN 0688147259 (0-688-14725-9)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciencesby Michel FoucaultISBN 0679753354 (0-679-75335-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Pale Blue Dot : A Vision of the Human Future in Spaceby Carl SaganISBN 0679764860 (0-679-76486-0)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Philosophy and the Mirror of Natureby Richard RortyISBN 0691020167 (0-691-02016-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature'Book summary:Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature hit the philosophical world like a bombshell. Richard Rorty, a Princeton professor who had contributed to the analytic tradition in philosophy, was now attempting to shrug off all the central problems with which it had long been preoccupied. After publication, the Press was barely able to keep up with demand, and the book has since gone on to become one of its all-time best-sellers in philosophy.
Rorty argued that, beginning in the seventeenth century, philosophers developed an unhealthy obsession with the notion of representation. They compared the mind to a mirror that reflects reality. In their view, knowledge is concerned with the accuracy of these reflections, and the strategy employed to obtain this knowledge--that of inspecting, repairing, and polishing the mirror--belongs to philosophy. Rorty's book was a powerful critique of this imagery and the tradition of thought that it spawned. He argued that the questions about truth posed by Descartes, Kant, Hegel, and modern epistemologists and philosophers of language simply couldn't be answered and were, in any case, irrelevant to serious social and cultural inquiry. This stance provoked a barrage of criticism, but whatever the strengths of Rorty's specific claims, the book had a therapeutic effect on philosophy. It reenergized pragmatism as an intellectual force, steered philosophy back to its roots in the humanities, and helped to make alternatives to analytic philosophy a serious choice for young graduate students. Twenty-five years later, the book remains a must-read for anyone seriously concerned about the nature of philosophical inquiry and what philosophers can and cannot do to help us understand and improve the world.
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Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalismby Max WeberISBN 0684164892 (0-684-16489-2)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Psyche, Culture, and the New Science: The Role of PNby E.W.F. TomlinISBN 0710201990 (0-7102-0199-0)
Softcover, Routledge & Kegan Paul
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The Renaissance: A Short Historyby Paul JohnsonISBN 067964086X (0-679-64086-X)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Renaissance: A Short History'Book summary:The Renaissance holds an undying place in the human imagination, and its great heroes remain our own, from Michelangelo and Leonardo to Dante and Montaigne. This period of profound evolution in European thought is credited with transforming the West from medieval to modern; reviving the city as the center of human activity and the acme of civilization; and, of course, producing the most astonishing outpouring of artistic creation the world has ever known. Perhaps no era in history was more revolutionary, and none has been more romanticized. What was it? In The Renaissance, the great historian Paul Johnson tackles that question with the towering erudition and imaginative fire that are his trademarks.
Johnson begins by painting the economic, technological, and social developments that give the period its background. But, as Johnson explains, "The Renaissance was primarily a human event, propelled forward by a number of individuals of outstanding talent, in some cases amounting to genius." It is the human foreground that absorbs most of the book's attention. "We can give all kinds of satisfying explanations of why and when the Renaissance occurred and how it transmitted itself," Johnson writes. "But there is no explaining Dante, no explaining Chaucer. Genius suddenly comes to life, and speaks out of a vacuum. Then it is silent, equally mysteriously. The trends continue and intensify, but genius is lacking." In the four parts that make up the heart of the book--"The Renaissance in Literature and Scholarship," "The Anatomy of Renaissance Sculpture," "The Buildings of the Renaissance," and "The Apostolic Successions of Renaissance Painting"--Johnson chronicles the lives and works of the age's animating spirits. Finally, he examines the spread and decline of the Renaissance, and its abiding legacy. A book of dazzling riches, The Renaissance is a compact masterpiece of the historian's art. [via]More editions of The Renaissance: A Short History:
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The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000by Paul M. KennedyISBN 0679720197 (0-679-72019-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Robinson Crusoeby Daniel DefoeISBN 0689844085 (0-689-84408-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Roman Britainby Catherine Johns, T.W. PotterISBN 0714127744 (0-7141-2774-4)
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Roman Sexualitiesby Marilyn B. Skinner, Judith P. HallettISBN 0691011788 (0-691-01178-8)
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Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europeby John BoswellISBN 0679751645 (0-679-75164-5)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Science and Societyby Hilary Rose, Steven P. R. RoseISBN 0713901241 (0-7139-0124-1)
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Shogunby James ClavellISBN 0689105657 (0-689-10565-7)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Sorrows of the Ancient Romans: The Gladiator and the Monsterby Carlin A. BartonISBN 0691010919 (0-691-01091-9)
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The Sovereign Individual: How to Survive and Thrive During the Collapse of the Welfare Stateby William Rees-Mogg, James Dale DavidsonISBN 0684810077 (0-684-81007-7)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sovereign Individual: How to Survive and Thrive During the Collapse of the Welfare State'Book summary:Two renowned investment advisors and authors of the bestseller The Great Reckoning bring to light both currents of disaster and the potential for prosperity and renewal in the face of radical changes in human history as we move into the next century. The Sovereign Individual details strategies necessary for adapting financially to the next phase of Western civilization.
Few observers of the late twentieth century have their fingers so presciently on the pulse of the global political and economic realignment ushering in the new millennium as do James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg. Their bold prediction of disaster on Wall Street in Blood in the Streets was borne out by Black Tuesday. In their ensuing bestsellar, The Great Reckoning, published just weeks before the coup attempt against Gorbachev, they analyzed the pending collapse of the Soviet Union and foretold the civil war in Yugoslavia and other events that have proved to be among the most searing developments of the past few years.
In The Sovereign Individual, Davidson and Rees-Mogg explore the greatest economic and political transition in centuries -- the shift from an industrial to an information-based society. This transition, which they have termed "the fourth stage of human society," will liberate individuals as never before, irrevocably altering the power of government. This outstanding book will replace false hopes and fictions with new understanding and clarified values. [via]
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The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Ageby James Dale Davidson, William Rees-MoggISBN 0684832720 (0-684-83272-0)
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The Spanish Temperby V. S. PritchettISBN 0701219041 (0-7012-1904-1)
Softcover, Hogarth Press
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Tales from Watership Downby Richard Adams, Susan RalstonISBN 0679451250 (0-679-45125-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tales from Watership Down'Book summary:Watership Down was one of this century's best-loved works of imaginative literature. Now Richard Adams returns, to tell us what happened to the rabbits after their defeat of General Woundwort. Tales From Watership Down begins with some of the great folk stories well known to all rabbits. Then we listen in as Dandelion, the rabbits' master storyteller, relates the thrilling adventures experienced by Al-ahrairah, the mythical rabbit hero, and his stalwart, Rabscuttle, during the long journey home after their terrible encounter with the Black Rabbit of Inlé (as narrated in Watership Down ). Finally, in the principal part of the book, we are told eight enchanting stories about the rabbits of the Down-- Hazel, Fiver, Bigwig, and their companions--including the impact on the warren of the obsessive doe Flyairth, and the appointment of Hyzenthlay as a female Chief Rabbit and partner to Hazel. All readers-- the millions who remember Watership Down with the deepest affection, and also those for whom this volume will be their first encounter with the rabbits-- will find these nineteen tales utterly compelling, the fruit of Richard Adam's spellbinding narrative power and ability to conjure up a world that is at the same time both real and unreal. [via]
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Thinking With History: Explorations in the Passage to Modernismby Carl SchorskeISBN 0691029466 (0-691-02946-6)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Third Waveby Alvin TofflerISBN 0688035973 (0-688-03597-3)
Hardcover, Morrow
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Watership Downby Richard George AdamsISBN 068483605X (0-684-83605-X)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Watership Down'Book summary:Watership Down has been a staple of high-school English classes for years. Despite the fact that it's often a hard sell at first (what teenager wouldn't cringe at the thought of 400-plus pages of talking rabbits?), Richard Adams's bunny-centric epic rarely fails to win the love and respect of anyone who reads it, regardless of age. Like most great novels, Watership Down is a rich story that can be read (and reread) on many different levels. The book is often praised as an allegory, with its analogs between human and rabbit culture (a fact sometimes used to goad skeptical teens, who resent the challenge that they won't "get" it, into reading it), but it's equally praiseworthy as just a corking good adventure.
The story follows a warren of Berkshire rabbits fleeing the destruction of their home by a land developer. As they search for a safe haven, skirting danger at every turn, we become acquainted with the band and its compelling culture and mythos. Adams has crafted a touching, involving world in the dirt and scrub of the English countryside, complete with its own folk history and language (the book comes with a "lapine" glossary, a guide to rabbitese). As much about freedom, ethics, and human nature as it is about a bunch of bunnies looking for a warm hidey-hole and some mates, Watership Down will continue to make the transition from classroom desk to bedside table for many generations to come. --Paul Hughes [via]
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The World's Great ClassicsISBN 0717200019 (0-7172-0001-9)
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