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Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations: New Interdisciplinary Essaysby Adam Smith, Stephen Copley, Kathryn SutherlandISBN 0719039436 (0-7190-3943-6)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations: New Interdisciplinary Essays'Book summary:First published in 1776, Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations is much more than just a handbook on the principles of free-market economics; it is a founding text for the organisation of Western society in its broadest sense. In order to understand the impact of Smith's text across the academic disciplines, this volume brings together leading scholars from fields of economics, politics, history, sociology and literature. Each essay offers a different reading of Wealth of Nations and its legacy. Contributors consider the historical context in which Wealth of Nations was written, its reception and its profound impact on contemporary concepts of market liberalism, on education, on gender relations and on environmental debates. The volume also offers deconstructive analyses of the text and a feminist critique of Smith's construction of the economy. This volume will be the ideal companion to Smith's work for all students of literature, politics and economic history. [via]
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The Alchemistby Ben Jonson, Elizabeth CookISBN 0713671041 (0-7136-7104-1)
Softcover, Methuen Drama
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Apparitions in Late Medieval and Renaissance Spainby William A. ChristianISBN 0691008264 (0-691-00826-4)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The Betrothedby Alessandro ManzoniISBN 0850670160 (0-85067-016-0)
Hardcover, Folio Society
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The Century of Revolution 1603-1714by Christopher HillISBN 0722145551 (0-7221-4555-1)
Hardcover, Sphere Books
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Civilization of Europe in the Renaissanceby John HaleISBN 0684803526 (0-684-80352-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance'Book summary:In his new book, renowned historian John Hale paints, on a grand canvas, what he calls an "investigative impression" of Europe during the period from 1450 to 1620--the era we have come to call the Renaissance. 200 illustrations. [via]
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Cliffscomplete Shakespeare's the Taming of the Shrewby Diana SweeneyISBN 0764587293 (0-7645-8729-3)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cliffscomplete Shakespeare's the Taming of the Shrew'Book summary:In the CliffsComplete guides, the play's complete text and a glossary appear side-by-side with coordinating numbered lines to help you understand unusual words and phrasing. You'll also find all the commentary and resources of a standard CliffsNotes for Literature.[via]CliffsComplete The Taming of the Shrew is one of Shakespeare's most beloved, and imitated, works. In this play within a play, Petruchio, the man from Verona, marries Kate (the shrew of the story), so that Kate's younger sister Bianca may be allowed to take on several suitors and choose one to marry.
Discover what happens to Petruchio and Kate and save valuable studying time all at once. Enhance your reading of The Taming of the Shrew with these additional features:
- A summary and insightful commentary for each act
- Bibliography and historical background on the author, William Shakespeare
- A look at the historical context and structure of the play
- Discussions on the plays symbols and themes
- A character map that graphically illustrates the relationships among the characters
- Review questions, a quiz, discussion topics (essay questions), activity ideas
- A Resource Center full of books, articles, films, and Internet sites
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Complete English Poemsby John Donne, A.J. SmithISBN 0713905719 (0-7139-0571-9)
Hardcover, Allen Lane
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Complete Essays of Montaigneby Michel E. De MontaigneISBN 0804704864 (0-8047-0486-4)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Essays of Montaigne'Book summary:A faithful translation is rare; a translation which preserves intact the original text is very rare; a perfect translation of Montaigne appears impossible. Yet Donald Frame has realized this feat. One does not seem to be reading a translation, so smooth and easy is the style; at each moment, one seems to be listening to Montaigne himselfthe freshness of his ideas, the unexpected choice of words. Frame has kept everything. Andre Maurois, The New York Times Book Review [via]
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The Diary of Samuel Pepys: A New and Complete Transcriptionby Samuel Pepys, Robert Latham, William MatthewsISBN 0713515511 (0-7135-1551-1)
Hardcover, Bell
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Discourse on Metaphysics and Other Essaysby Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr VonISBN 0872201325 (0-87220-132-5)
Softcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc
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Discourse on the Method and Meditations on First Philosophyby Rene Descartes, Donald A. CressISBN 0872204200 (0-87220-420-0)
Softcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc
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Discourse on the Origin of Inequalityby Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Donald A. CressISBN 0872201503 (0-87220-150-3)
Softcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Discourse on the Origin of Inequality'Book summary:Donald Cress's highly regarded translation, based on the critical Pleiade edition of 1964, is here issued with a lively introduction by James Miller, who brings into sharp focus the cultural and intellectual milieu in which Rousseau operated. This new edition includes a select bibliography, a note on the text, a translator's note, and Rousseau's own Notes on the Discourse. [via]
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Don Quixote of the Mancha: Harvard Classics 1909by Miguel De Cervantes, Thomas SheltonISBN 0766181804 (0-7661-8180-4)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Don Quixote of the Mancha: Harvard Classics 1909'Book summary:Edited by Charles W. Eliot. Contents: The First Part of the Delightful History of the Most Ingenious Knight. The present volume contains the whole of the first part of the novel, which is complete in itself. The second part, issued in 1615, the year before his death, is of a nature of a sequel, and is generally regarded as inferior. In writing his great novel, Cervantes set out to parody the romances of chivalry. With reference to the fiction of the Middle Ages, it is a triumphant satire; with reference to modern novels, it is the first and the most widely enjoyed. [via]
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English Society, 1580-1680by Keith WrightsonISBN 0813510821 (0-8135-1082-1)
Softcover, Rutgers Univ Pr
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An Enquiry Concerning Human Understandingby David Hume, Eric SteinbergISBN 0872202291 (0-87220-229-1)
Softcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding'Book summary:A landmark of Enlightenment thought, Hume's An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is accompanied here by two shorter works that shed light on it: A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh, Hume's response to those accusing him of atheism, of advocating extreme skepticism, and of undermining the foundations of morality; and his Abstract of A Treatise of Human Nature, which anticipates discussions developed in the Enquiry. [via]
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- An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: ISBN 0872202305 (0-87220-230-5)
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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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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Essays of Michel De Montaigne'Book summary:Catalog of a private collection of mostly post-archaic Chinese jade carvings, including many very fine animals and human figures. [via]
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Faustby Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Barker FairleyISBN 0802016685 (0-8020-1668-5)
Hardcover, University of Toronto Press
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Faust I & IIby Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Stuart AtkinsISBN 069103656X (0-691-03656-X)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Faust I & II'Book summary:Green Spain, as Northern Spain is often known, offers the visitor a great variety of landscapes: lush forests, deep-green valleys, soaring high mountain scenery, and exquisite beaches. For those looking for more than sun and sand, cultural highlights such as Santiago de Compostela, and the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao are contrasted with the wonderful national parks that can be found in the Central and Eastern Pyrenees. But the best beaches and most charming villages are not neglected. Everything is depicted in the glorious visual style for which Eyewitness Travel Guides are known. [via]
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Faust:Parts 1 & 2by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Bayard TaylorISBN 0722179049 (0-7221-7904-9)
Hardcover, Sphere
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Goethe's Faust: Part 1 A New American Versionby C. F. MacIntyreISBN 0811200566 (0-8112-0056-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Goethe's Faust: Part 1 A New American Version'Book summary:Goethe said that all his works were "one long confession," and certainly into Faust, this greatest masterwork of German literature, on which he worked sixty years, he welded his own search for meaning of existence and of the soul.
From the wager between God and Mephistopheles and the pact Faust makes with the latterthat this genial, urbane devil could have his soul if ever Faust became satisfied with any experience or knowledge Mephistopheles could show himthe drama unfolds in scenes that are human and compelling, that hold the reader by their despair and ecstasy, their tender love, passionate desire and wisdom, but also by their gaiety, humor, and irony. As Faust proceeds with his devilish guide, it is his striving for understanding that becomes important, not the attainment, and in fact this is what saves him in the end.
Part I of Faust, which Goethe published twenty-four years before its sequel, deals with Faust's journey through the everyday world and his love for Gretchen. It is made especially memorable in this translation, which Victor Lange, Chairman of the Department of German at Princeton, has called "certainly the most usable and most appealing Faust translation in English. It is modern without losing the dignity of the original and is perhaps the only translation that conveys something of the freshness and poetic vitality of Goethe's own speech." [via]More editions of Goethe's Faust: Part 1 A New American Version:
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Great Books of the Western Worldby Encyclopdia Britannica, inc., Robert Maynard HutchinsISBN 0852291639 (0-85229-163-9)
Hardcover, Encyclopdia Britannica
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Great Books of the Western World'Book summary:The Iliad (Ancient Greek ?????, Ilias) is, together with the Odyssey, one of two ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer, a supposedly blind Ionian poet. The epics are considered by most modern scholars to be the oldest literature in the Greek language. The Iliad concerns events during the tenth and final year in the siege of the city of Ilion, or Troy, by the Greeks. The Odyssey (Greek: ????????, Odusseia)is commonly dated circa 800 to 600 BC. The poem is, in part, a sequel to Homer's Iliad and mainly concerns the events that befall the Greek hero Odysseus (or Ulysses) in his long journeys after the fall of Troy and when he at last returns to his native land of Ithaca. [via]
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Henry Vby William ShakespeareISBN 0743484878 (0-7434-8487-8)
Softcover, Pocket Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Henry V'Book summary:Each edition includes:
" Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play
" Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play
" Scene-by-scene plot summaries
" A key to famous lines and phrases
" An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language
" An essay by an outstanding scholar providing a modern perspective on the play
" Illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare Library's vast holdings of rare books
Essay by Michael Neill
The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., is home to the world's largest collection of Shakespeare's printed works, and a magnet for Shakespeare scholars from around the globe. In addition to exhibitions open to the public throughout the year, the Folger offers a full calendar of performances and programs. For more information, visit www.folger.edu. [via]
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I Promessi Sposi, the Betrothed: Harvard Classics 1909by Alessandro Manzoni, Charles W. EliotISBN 0766182223 (0-7661-8222-3)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I Promessi Sposi, the Betrothed: Harvard Classics 1909'Book summary:This is in form an historical novel. It is rather psychological and sentimental. The scene is laid in Lombardy between 1628-1631, and the plot deals with the thwarting of the love of two peasants by a local tyrant. The manners of the time are presented with great vividness and picturesqueness. The novel has taken a place as the most distinguished novel of modern Italy. [via]
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The Illustrated Pilgrim's Progressby John Bunyan, Jean Watson, Vic MitchellISBN 0842316051 (0-8423-1605-1)
Hardcover, Tyndale House Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Illustrated Pilgrim's Progress'Book summary:A simplified version of John Bunyan's religious allegory about the journey of Christian toward "the heavenly city." [via]
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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nationsby Adam SmithISBN 0865970084 (0-86597-008-4)
Softcover, Liberty Fund
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations'Book summary:No book has done more to instruct, enlighten, and inform conservatives about economics than Adam Smith's undisputed classic. [via]
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- An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: ISBN 0872202046 (0-87220-204-6)
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe: Faust, Parts 1 and 2by Victor LangeISBN 0826407250 (0-8264-0725-0)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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Love's Labor's Lostby William Shakespeare, Paul WerstineISBN 0743484924 (0-7434-8492-4)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr
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Measure for Measureby William ShakespeareISBN 0743484908 (0-7434-8490-8)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Measure for Measure'Book summary:A dark and difficult play, Measure for Measure has been a popular play since the latter half of the 20th century for its prescient dramatisation of the issues of sexual and political hypocrisy, and the ways in which the state interferes in the private lives of its citizens. Set in Duke Vincentio's Vienna, where poverty, disease and prostitution are rife, Claudio and his fiancée Juliet are arrested for having sex before marriage, and Claudio is sentenced to death. Angelo, the Duke's deputy, who stands in for the Duke whilst he ostensibly goes off on a pilgrimage, enthusiastically endorses the sentence. In fact the Duke remains behind the scenes, watching Angelo as he falls for Claudio's sister Isabella, who comes to beg for her brother's life. Angelo is a wonderful creation, loathsome yet fascinating as he struggles with the double standards of his enforcement of draconian laws whilst lusting after the sister of the man he is prepared to execute, debating "The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?".
No one is spared Shakespeare's withering look at the mores of early 17th-century life, not even the pimps and madams who try to get by in the midst of the Duke's bizarre and coercive disguises and performances. The deeply ambiguous ending of Measure for Measure confirms it as one of Shakespeare's most ambivalent and arguably despairing plays. --Jerry Brotton [via]
Measure for Measureby Kate ChedgzoyISBN 0746308493 (0-7463-0849-3)
Hardcover, Northcote House Publishers, Limited
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The Mediterranean in the Ancient Worldby Fernand Braudel, Jean Guilaine, Roselyne De Ayala, Paule BraudelISBN 0713993316 (0-7139-9331-6)
Hardcover, Allen Lane
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The New Amplified Pilgrim's Progress: From This World to That Which Is to Comeby John BunyanISBN 0768420512 (0-7684-2051-2)
Hardcover, Destiny Image Pubs
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The New Amplified Pilgrim's Progress: From This World to That Which Is to Come'Book summary:John Bunyan's amazing Pilgrim's Progress is well into its fourth century of unparalleled popularity as the world's best-selling non-Biblical book in all history. Now in modern English comes The New Amplified Pilgrim's Progress. All of the age-old spiritual treasures that have made John Bunyan's original the world's best selling non-Biblical masterpiece in all of history are now carried to new heights of power and clarity in this new enhanced version. While this is perhaps the most adventure-filled and user-friendly adaptation ever penned, yet it is totally unabridged and, excepting certain amplified scenes, remains strictly faithful to Bunyan's original storyline.
Exciting new levels of love and joy, hope and humor are skillfully woven by master storyteller Jim Pappas, into this enchanting retelling of John Bunyan's immortal classic! Designed to return this spellbinding masterpiece of angels and giants, castles and dragon, to the fireside of the everyday reader. [via]
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The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuriesby Carlo Ginzburg, Anne TedeschiISBN 0801843863 (0-8018-4386-3)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries'Book summary:Based on research in the Inquisitorial archives, the book recounts the story of a peasant fertility cult centred on the benandanti. These men and women regarded themselves as professional anti-witches, who (in dream-like states) apparently fought ritual battles against witches and wizards, to protect their villages and harvests. If they won, the harvest would be good, if they lost, there would be famine. The inquisitors tried to fit them into their pre-existing images of the witches sabbat. The result of this cultural clash which lasted over a century, was the slow metamorphosis of the benandanti into their enemies the witches. Carlo Ginzburg shows clearly how this transformation of the popular notion of witchcraft was manipulated by the Inquisitors, and disseminated all over Europe and even to the New World. The peasants fragmented and confused testimony reaches us with great immediacy, enabling us to identify a level of popular belief which constitutes a valuable witness for the reconstruction of the peasant way of thinking of this age.
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Old Regime and the French Revolutionby Alexis De TocquevilleISBN 0844619736 (0-8446-1973-6)
Hardcover, Peter Smith Pub Inc
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On The Social Contractby Jean-Jacques RousseauISBN 087220068X (0-87220-068-X)
Softcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On The Social Contract'Book summary:"Man was born free, but everywhere he is in chains." Thus begins Rousseau's influential 1762 work, in which he argues that all government is fundamentally flawed and that modern society is based on a system of inequality. The philosopher posits that a good government can justify its need for individual compromises and that promoting social settings in which people transcend their immediate appetites and desires leads to the development of self-governing, self-disciplined beings. A milestone of political science, these essays are essential reading for students of history, philosophy, and other social sciences. G. D. H. Cole translation. [via]
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Pictorial Pilgrims Progressby John BunyanISBN 0802400191 (0-8024-0019-1)
Softcover, Moody Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pictorial Pilgrims Progress'Book summary:Christian experiences are detailed for beginners with corresponding sketches on each page.[via]More editions of Pictorial Pilgrims Progress:
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The Pilgrim's Progressby John BunyanISBN 0800786092 (0-8007-8609-2)
Softcover, Baker Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Pilgrim's Progress'Book summary:Join Christian and his companions on their journey to the Celestial City, as they pass through many experiences common to us all, in Bunyan's timeless allegory of the Christian's walk with God.[via]More editions of The Pilgrim's Progress:
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Hardcover, STL - The Pilgrim's Progress: ISBN 0800780329 (0-8007-8032-9)
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Softcover, Baker Pub Group - The Pilgrim's Progress: ISBN 0708980724 (0-7089-8072-4)
Hardcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books - The Pilgrim's Progress: ISBN 0802449646 (0-8024-4964-6)
Hardcover, Moody Pub - The Pilgrim's Progress: ISBN 0851512593 (0-85151-259-3)
Hardcover, Banner of Truth - The Pilgrim's Progress: ISBN 0859990427 (0-85999-042-7)
Hardcover, Paradine - The Pilgrim's Progress: ISBN 0800786092 (0-8007-8609-2)
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The Pilgrim's Progressby Cheryl FordISBN 0842351450 (0-8423-5145-0)
Softcover, Tyndale House Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Pilgrim's Progress'Book summary:1992 Gold Medallion Award winner! For over 300 years Christians have found life within the pages of The Pilgrim's Progress. This edition by Cheryl Ford provides a fresh, modern rendering as biblical truths are weaved into a simple yet profound story that reveals the treacheries of the human heart and the power of conquering faith. Many modern translations of this Christian classic leave out significant parts or add passages not included in John Bunyan's original. But this translation is different. First, in contemporary English it faithfully presents the complete text (including the pilgrimages of Christian and Christiana). Second, more than 150 one-color calligraphy pieces by Timothy R. Botts enhance this beloved story. Additional features include comprehensive Scripture cross-references and an index to all the people, places, and spiritual symbols. Questions for group discussion and personal application strengthen the impact of this timeless story of Christian life. [via]
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The Pilgrim's Progress in the Allegory of a Dreamby John Bunyan, Cheryl V. FordISBN 0842347879 (0-8423-4787-9)
Hardcover, Tyndale House Pub
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Popular Culture in Early Modern Europeby Peter BurkeISBN 0704505967 (0-7045-0596-7)
Softcover, Wildwood House
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Religion and the Decline of Magicby Keith ThomasISBN 0684145421 (0-684-14542-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Religion and the Decline of Magic'Book summary:Astrology, witchcraft, magical healing, divination, ancient prophecies, ghosts, and fairies were taken very seriously by people at all social and economic levels in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. Helplessness in the face of disease and human disaster helped to perpetuate this belief in magic and the supernatural. As Keith Thomas shows, England during these years resembled in many ways today's "underdeveloped areas." The English population was exceedingly liable to pain, sickness, and premature death; many were illiterate; epidemics such as the bubonic plague plowed through English towns, at times cutting the number of London's inhabitants by a sixth; fire was a constant threat; the food supply was precarious; and for most diseases there was no effective medical remedy.
In this fascinating and detailed book, Keith Thomas shows how magic, like the medieval Church, offered an explanation for misfortune and a means of redress in times of adversity. The supernatural thus had its own practical utility in daily life. Some forms of magic were challenged by the Protestant Reformation, but only with the increased search for scientific explanation of the universe did the English people begin to abandon their recourse to the supernatural.
Science and technology have made us less vulnerable to some of the hazards which confronted the people of the past. Yet Religion and the Decline of Magic concludes that "if magic is defined as the employment of ineffective techniques to allay anxiety when effective ones are not available, then we must recognize that no society will ever be free from it." [via]More editions of Religion and the Decline of Magic:
The Reveries of a Solitary Walkerby Jean J. RousseauISBN 0714539414 (0-7145-3941-4)
Softcover, Riverrun Pr
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The Reveries of a Solitary Walkerby Charles E. Butterworth, Jean J. RousseauISBN 0872201627 (0-87220-162-7)
Softcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc
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Science and the Secrets of Nature: Books of Secrets in Medieval and Early Modern Cultureby William EamonISBN 0691026025 (0-691-02602-5)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Six Wives of Henry the VIIIby Antonia FraserISBN 074517700X (0-7451-7700-X)
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The Social Contractby Jean-Jacques Rousseau, J. H. Brumfitt, John C. Hall, G.D.H. ColeISBN 0760770212 (0-7607-7021-2)
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Sodometries: Renaissance Texts, Modern Sexualitiesby Jonathan GoldbergISBN 0804720509 (0-8047-2050-9)
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Tamburlaineby Christopher Marlowe, John D. JumpISBN 0803252714 (0-8032-5271-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tamburlaine'Book summary:"Arguably the single-most important play of the Elizabethan era, Tamburlaine did more than any other to transform an insignificant form of public entertainment, barely distinguishable from the juggling, fencing, and animal-baiting with which it shared its performance space, into an art of national importance. . . . Tamburlaine cranks the excitements of language and spectacle to an unprecedented pitch, not simply to indulge the fantasies of the audience but as an exemplary demonstration of poetry's dangerous potency."-The New York Review of Books. Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) has been called the founder of English drama and the perfecter of dramatic blank verse. He is known as a poet and translator of Lucan and Ovid, and as a guide and leader for Shakespeare and the other Elizabethan poets and dramatists. Tamburlaine the Great was his most ambitious work and the first play written in English blank verse. John Davies Jump was professor of English at the University of Manchester. [via]
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Tamburlaine the Greatby Christopher Marlowe, J. S. Cunningham, Eithne HensonISBN 0719054362 (0-7190-5436-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tamburlaine the Great'Book summary:Tamburlaine the Great achieved, and sustained, great success on the Elizabethan stage. And it speaks provocatively to our own time, when it has been the subject of numerous major productions. Timur Khan--to give Tamburlaine his original name--was long perceived in the West as a ruthless conqueror, whose career was marked by vindictive massacres, the sacking of enemy cities and the assertion of egotistic will. In this light, his career connects with twentieth-century experience of genocide, ideological justifications of brutality and conflicts of rival religions faiths. It is significant that the 1990s--four centuries on from Marlowes play--have seen the development in Uzbekistan, of a vindication of Timur, perceived as a heroic and admirable figure in this state newly "liberated" from the Soviet hegemony.[via]More editions of Tamburlaine the Great:
Tamburlaine the Great: Christopher Marloweby J.S. CunninghamISBN 071903096X (0-7190-3096-X)
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The Taming of the Shrewby William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine, Barbara A. MowatISBN 074347757X (0-7434-7757-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Taming of the Shrew'Book summary:Renowned as Shakespeare's most boisterous comedy, The Taming of the Shrew is the tale of two young men -- the hopeful Lucentio and the worldly Petruchio -- and the two sisters they meet in Padua. Lucentio falls in love with Bianca, the apparently ideal younger daughter of the wealthy Baptista Minola. But before they can marry, Bianca's formidable elder sister, Katherine, must be wed. Petruchio, interested only in the huge dowry, arranges to marry Katherine -- against her will -- and enters into a battle of the sexes that has endured as one of Shakespeare's most enjoyable works. [via]
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The Taming of the Shrewby Cliff's Notes EditorsISBN 0822000814 (0-8220-0081-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Taming of the Shrew'Book summary:One of the most controversial and problematic of all of Shakespeare's plays, The Taming of the Shrew is a typical Elizabethan domestic comedy written around 1592. Petruchio, a gentleman of Verona, arrives in Padua and announces to his friends that "I come to wive it wealthily in Padua; / If wealthily, then happily in Padua". He soon finds that a group of men keen to marry Bianca, the younger daughter of rich old Baptista, are frustrated by her elder, "shrewish" sister, Katherine. There is much subsequent hilarity as Bianca's suitors make a bet with Petruchio that he cannot "tame" and marry Katherine. Despite Katherine's protestations, Petruchio goes ahead with the match, using deliberately unorthodox behaviour to confuse Katherine (including a scene where he starves her), claiming that "this is the way to kill a wife with kindness". The play culminates with a scene of Katherine's apparently spontaneous subjection to her husband's will, where she places her hand beneath her husband's foot, and tells the other wives present that "thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper". The play's gratuitous scenes of women being abused and vilified in the name of "comedy" has made many directors and critics very uncomfortable with the play, and many feminist critics have condemned contemporary productions of the play as reproducing certain 16th-century stereotypes concerning women who speak out against male authority. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Under the Black Flag: The Romance And the Reality of Life Among the Piratesby David CordinglyISBN 081297722X (0-8129-7722-X)
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The Wealth of Nations: Adam Smith ; Introduction by Alan B. Krueger ; Edited, With Notes and Marginal Summary, by Edwin Cannanby Adam Smith, Edwin CannanISBN 0679783369 (0-679-78336-9)
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Criticizing mercantilists who sought to use the state to increase their nations' supply of precious metals, Smith points out that a nation's welath should be measured by the well-being of its people. Prosperity in turn requires voluntary exchange of goods in a peaceful, well-ordered market. How to establish and maintain such markets? For Smith the answer lay in man's social instincts, which government may encourage by upholding social standards of decency, honesty, and virtue, but which government undermines when it unduly interferes with the intrinsically private functions of production and exchange.More editions of The Wealth of Nations: Adam Smith ; Introduction by Alan B. Krueger ; Edited, With Notes and Marginal Summary, by Edwin Cannan:
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The Winter's Taleby William ShakespeareISBN 0743484894 (0-7434-8489-4)
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The Wives of Henry VIIIby Antonia FraserISBN 067973001X (0-679-73001-X)
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The Works of Edmund Spenser: The Faerie Queenby Edmund Spenser, Edwin Greenlaw, Charles Grosvenor OsgoodISBN 0801869846 (0-8018-6984-6)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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The World's Great ClassicsISBN 0717200019 (0-7172-0001-9)
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Find This BookBook summary:Odyssey, The: The World's Great Classics, by Homer; tr. by S.H. Butcher and Andrew Lang [via]
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