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Adventure, Mystery, and Romanceby John G. CaweltiISBN 0226098672 (0-226-09867-2)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Agamemnon, Prometheus Bound, Oedipus the King, Antigoneby Richmond Lattimore, David GreneISBN 0226307743 (0-226-30774-3)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Ambiguities of Domination: Politics, Rhetoric, and Symbols in Contemporary Syriaby Lisa WedeenISBN 0226877884 (0-226-87788-4)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Anecdotes of Destinyby Isak DinesenISBN 0226152952 (0-226-15295-2)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anecdotes of Destiny'Book summary:As a young woman early in this century, Karen Blixen -- whom we know as Isak Dinesen -- managed a 6,000-acre hill farm in Kenya where she was doctor, judge and friend to native Kikuyu and Masai who lived on her land.
In middle age, back in her native Denmark, Blixen turned to weaving what may be described as adventures of the mind. [via]
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Angel Pavementby J. B. PriestleyISBN 0226682102 (0-226-68210-2)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Bhagavad-Gitaby Barbara S. MillerISBN 0231064683 (0-231-06468-3)
Hardcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bhagavad-Gita'Book summary:"The Bhagavad-Gita" has been an essential text of Hindu culture in India since the time of its composition in the first century A.D. One of the great classics of world literature, it has inspired such diverse thinkers as Henry David Thoreau, Mahatma Gandhi, and T.S. Eliot; most recently, it formed the core of Peter Brook's celebrated production of the "Mahabharata." [via]
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Bhagavadgita in the Mahabharata: A Bilingual Editionby J.A. Van BuitenenISBN 0226846628 (0-226-84662-8)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Bhagavadgita ("Song of the Lord") tells of the young and virtuous Prince Arjuna who is driven to lead his forces into battle against an opposing army composed of close relatives and others whom he loves. The Lord Krsna, appearing in the poem as Arjuna's friend and charioteer, persuades him that he must do battle, and we see Arjuna changing from revulsion at the thought of killing members of his family to resignation and awareness of duty, to manly acceptance of his role as warrior and defender of his kingdom.
The Bhagavadgita is a self-contained episode in the Mahabharata, a vast collection of epics, legends, romances, theology, and metaphysical doctrine that reflects the history and culture of the whole of Hindu civilization. The present edition forms a part of J. A. B. van Buitenen's widely acclaimed translation of this great work. Here English and Sanskrit are printed on facing pages, enabling those with some knowledge of Sanskrit to appreciate van Buitenen's accurate rendering of the intimate, familial tone and directness of the original poem.More editions of Bhagavadgita in the Mahabharata: A Bilingual Edition:
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Bomber; Events Relating to the Last Flight of an R.A.F. [bomber] over Germany on the Night of June 31st, 1943by Len DeightonISBN 0224619101 (0-224-61910-1)
Hardcover, Cape
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Bright Dayby J. B. PriestleyISBN 0226682110 (0-226-68211-0)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Bullet Parkby John CheeverISBN 0224617184 (0-224-61718-4)
Hardcover, Cape
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The Byzantinesby Guglielmo Cavallo, Charles Lambert, Thomas Dunlap, Teresa Lavender FaganISBN 0226097919 (0-226-09791-9)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Cannonball Simpby John BurninghamISBN 0224611232 (0-224-61123-2)
Hardcover, Random House of Canada Ltd
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Cezanne: A Study of His Developmentby Roger Eliot FryISBN 0226266451 (0-226-26645-1)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary and Cultural Criticismby Joseph Childers, Gary HentziISBN 0231072422 (0-231-07242-2)
Hardcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latinby Carl D. BuckISBN 0226079317 (0-226-07931-7)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Concept of the Politicalby Leo Strauss, Carl Schmitt, Tracy B. Strong, George Schwab, Harvey J. LomaxISBN 0226738868 (0-226-73886-8)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Concise Columbia Encyclopediaby Judith LeveyISBN 0231060262 (0-231-06026-2)
Hardcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Concludingby Henry Green, Eudora WeltyISBN 0226306119 (0-226-30611-9)
Softcover, Harcourt Education
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Confessions of Nat Turnerby William StyronISBN 0224613154 (0-224-61315-4)
Hardcover, Cape
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Cosmopolis: The Hidden Agenda of Modernityby Stephen ToulminISBN 0226808386 (0-226-80838-6)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cosmopolis: The Hidden Agenda of Modernity'Book summary:In the seventeenth century, a vision arose which was to captivate the Western imagination for the next three hundred years: the vision of Cosmopolis, a society as rationally ordered as the Newtonian view of nature. While fueling extraordinary advances in all fields of human endeavor, this vision perpetuated a hidden yet persistent agenda: the delusion that human nature and society could be fitted into precise and manageable rational categories. Stephen Toulmin confronts that agendaits illusions and its consequences for our present and future world.[via]
"By showing how different the last three centuries would have been if Montaigne, rather than Descartes, had been taken as a starting point, Toulmin helps destroy the illusion that the Cartesian quest for certainty is intrinsic to the nature of science or philosophy."Richard M. Rorty, University of Virginia
"[Toulmin] has now tackled perhaps his most ambitious theme of all. . . . His aim is nothing less than to lay before us an account of both the origins and the prospects of our distinctively modern world. By charting the evolution of modernity, he hopes to show us what intellectual posture we ought to adopt as we confront the coming millennium."Quentin Skinner, New York Review of BooksMore editions of Cosmopolis: The Hidden Agenda of Modernity:
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The Craft of Researchby Joseph M. Williams, Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. ColombISBN 0226065677 (0-226-06567-7)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Craft of Research'Book summary:Skillfully done, research can be the solid cornerstone of your term paper (or dissertation, essay, or article); inadequately executed, it can cause your whole project to crumble and fall. Yet essential as research is to the ultimate success of your work, performing it is not an innate talent. The precepts, steps, and skills of solid research are readily acquired if you spend some time with The Craft of Research before you start on your outlines and thesis statements. Written by three distinguished professors in 1995, published by the University of Chicago, and winner of the 1995-96 Critics' Choice Award, The Craft of Research teaches how to plan, carry out, and report on research for any field and at any level. Aimed at assisting student researchers, from raw beginners to accomplished graduate and professional students, the book shows how to choose a topic, plan and organize research, and how to draft and revise a report of findings such that a convincing solution is offered to a significant problem.
The Craft of Research is more than just another instruction manual getting you from topic to outline to notes to report. Recognizing that good research is rarely a simple, sequential procedure, but is instead a complex and intricate process, it discusses the subtle ways in which asking questions about your topic can influence how you draft your report, how a quality introduction can send you back to the library, and how the process of drafting can highlight flaws in your argument that need to be addressed. Clear and explicit, sophisticated and practical, The Craft of Research encourages high standards of scholarly achievement, and spells out the steps by which to get there. --Stephanie Gold [via]
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The Craft of Researchby Wayne Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, Joseph M. WilliamsISBN 0226065685 (0-226-06568-5)
Softcover, University of Chicago Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Craft of Research'Book summary:Skillfully done, research can be the solid cornerstone of your term paper (or dissertation, essay, or article); inadequately executed, it can cause your whole project to crumble and fall. Yet essential as research is to the ultimate success of your work, performing it is not an innate talent. The precepts, steps, and skills of solid research are readily acquired if you spend some time with The Craft of Research before you start on your outlines and thesis statements. Written by three distinguished professors in 1995, published by the University of Chicago, and winner of the 1995-96 Critics' Choice Award, The Craft of Research teaches how to plan, carry out, and report on research for any field and at any level. Aimed at assisting student researchers, from raw beginners to accomplished graduate and professional students, the book shows how to choose a topic, plan and organize research, and how to draft and revise a report of findings such that a convincing solution is offered to a significant problem.
The Craft of Research is more than just another instruction manual getting you from topic to outline to notes to report. Recognizing that good research is rarely a simple, sequential procedure, but is instead a complex and intricate process, it discusses the subtle ways in which asking questions about your topic can influence how you draft your report, how a quality introduction can send you back to the library, and how the process of drafting can highlight flaws in your argument that need to be addressed. Clear and explicit, sophisticated and practical, The Craft of Research encourages high standards of scholarly achievement, and spells out the steps by which to get there. --Stephanie Gold [via]
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The Craft of Research: From Planning to Reportingby Joseph M. Williams, Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. ColombISBN 0226065839 (0-226-06583-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Craft of Research: From Planning to Reporting'Book summary:Skillfully done, research can be the solid cornerstone of your term paper (or dissertation, essay, or article); inadequately executed, it can cause your whole project to crumble and fall. Yet essential as research is to the ultimate success of your work, performing it is not an innate talent. The precepts, steps, and skills of solid research are readily acquired if you spend some time with The Craft of Research before you start on your outlines and thesis statements. Written by three distinguished professors in 1995, published by the University of Chicago, and winner of the 1995-96 Critics' Choice Award, The Craft of Research teaches how to plan, carry out, and report on research for any field and at any level. Aimed at assisting student researchers, from raw beginners to accomplished graduate and professional students, the book shows how to choose a topic, plan and organize research, and how to draft and revise a report of findings such that a convincing solution is offered to a significant problem.
The Craft of Research is more than just another instruction manual getting you from topic to outline to notes to report. Recognizing that good research is rarely a simple, sequential procedure, but is instead a complex and intricate process, it discusses the subtle ways in which asking questions about your topic can influence how you draft your report, how a quality introduction can send you back to the library, and how the process of drafting can highlight flaws in your argument that need to be addressed. Clear and explicit, sophisticated and practical, The Craft of Research encourages high standards of scholarly achievement, and spells out the steps by which to get there. --Stephanie Gold [via]
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The Day of the Scorpion: A Novelby Paul ScottISBN 0226743411 (0-226-74341-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Day of the Scorpion: A Novel'Book summary:In The Day of the Scorpion, Scott draws us deeper in to his epic of India at the close of World War II. With force and subtlety, he recreates both private ambition and perversity, and the politics of an entire subcontinent at a turning point in history.[via]
As the scorpian, encircled by a ring of fire, will sting itself to death, so does the British raj hasten its own destruction when threatened by the flames of Indian independence. Brutal repression and imprisonment of India's leaders cannot still the cry for home rule. And in the midst of chaos, the English Laytons withdraw from a world they no longer know to seek solace in denial, drink, and madness.More editions of The Day of the Scorpion: A Novel:
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A Division of the Spoils: A Novelby Paul ScottISBN 0226743446 (0-226-74344-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Division of the Spoils: A Novel'Book summary:After exploiting India's divisions for years, the British depart in such haste that no one is prepared for the Hindu-Muslim riots of 1947. The twilight of the raj turns bloody. Against the backdrop of the violent partition of India and Pakistan, A Division of the Spoils illuminates one last bittersweet romance, revealing the divided loyalties of the British as they flee, retreat from, or cling to India.[via]More editions of A Division of the Spoils: A Novel:
Doing Honest Work In College: How To Prepare Citations, Avoid Plagiarism, And Achieve Real Academic Successby Charles LipsonISBN 0226484734 (0-226-48473-4)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Electronic Word: Democracy, Technology, and the Artsby Richard A. LanhamISBN 0226468852 (0-226-46885-2)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Electronic Word: Democracy, Technology, and the Arts'Book summary:The personal computer has revolutionized communication, and digitized text has introduced a radically new medium of expression. Interactive, volatile, mixing word and image, the electronic word challenges our assumptions about the shape of culture itself.[via]
This highly acclaimed collection of Richard Lanham's witty, provocative, and engaging essays surveys the effects of electronic text on the arts and letters. Lanham explores how electronic text fulfills the expressive agenda of twentieth-century visual art and music, revolutionizes the curriculum, democratizes the instruments of art, and poses anew the cultural accountability of humanism itself.
Persuading us with uncommon grace and power that the move from book to screen gives cause for optimism, not despair, Lanham proclaims that "electronic expression has come not to destroy the Western arts but to fulfill them."
The Electronic Word is also available as a Chicago Expanded Book for your Macintosh®. This hypertext edition allows readers to move freely through the text, marking "pages," annotating passages, searching words and phrases, and immediately accessing annotations, which have been enhanced for this edition. In a special prefatory essay, Lanham introduces the features of this electronic edition and gives a vividly applied critique of this dynamic new edition.More editions of The Electronic Word: Democracy, Technology, and the Arts:
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English Verb Classes and Alternations: A Preliminary Investigationby Beth LevinISBN 0226475336 (0-226-47533-6)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'English Verb Classes and Alternations: A Preliminary Investigation'Book summary:In this rich reference work, Beth Levin classifies over 3,000 English verbs according to shared meaning and behavior. Levin starts with the hypothesis that a verb's meaning influences its syntactic behavior and develops it into a powerful tool for studying the English verb lexicon. She shows how identifying verbs with similar syntactic behavior provides an effective means of distinguishing semantically coherent verb classes, and isolates these classes by examining verb behavior with respect to a wide range of syntactic alternations that reflect verb meaning.[via]
The first part of the book sets out alternate ways in which verbs can express their arguments. The second presents classes of verbs that share a kernel of meaning and explores in detail the behavior of each class, drawing on the alternations in the first part. Levin's discussion of each class and alternation includes lists of relevant verbs, illustrative examples, comments on noteworthy properties, and bibliographic references. The result is an original, systematic picture of the organization of the verb inventory.
Easy to use, English Verb Classes and Alternations sets the stage for further explorations of the interface between lexical semantics and syntax. It will prove indispensable for theoretical and computational linguists, psycholinguists, cognitive scientists, lexicographers, and teachers of English as a second language.More editions of English Verb Classes and Alternations: A Preliminary Investigation:
The Gazer's Spirit: Poems Speaking to Silent Works of Artby John HollanderISBN 0226349497 (0-226-34949-7)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Ghost Writerby John HarwoodISBN 0224071130 (0-224-07113-0)
Hardcover, Jonathan Cape
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Grass on the Waysideby Soseki NatsumeISBN 0226768325 (0-226-76832-5)
Hardcover, University of Chicago Press
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Great Northernby Arthur RansomeISBN 0224606425 (0-224-60642-5)
Hardcover, Random House of Canada Ltd
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Greek Tragediesby David Grene, Richmond LattimoreISBN 0226307905 (0-226-30790-5)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Greek Tragedies'Book summary:In three paperback volumes, the Grene and Lattimore editions offer a selection of the most important and characteristic plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides from the nine-volume anthology of The Complete Greek Tragedies. Over the years these authoritative, critically acclaimed editions have been the preferred choice of more than three million readers for personal libraries and individual study as well as for classroom use.[via]More editions of Greek Tragedies:
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A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literatur Andrewsby Albert B. Elsasser, Walterand BauerISBN 0226039323 (0-226-03932-3)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literatur Andrews'Book summary:A digest of the basic lexical information on New Testament words contained in Bauer/Arndt/Gingrich/Danker, "A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, " Dankers revision of the acclaimed "Shorter Lexicon" draws on insights from his years of interpretation and teaching. This revision shows his concern with the needs of beginning students as well as those of ministers and scholars, and it incorporates new research, new information, and analyses, rendering translations into contemporary English. [via]
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A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literatureby Walter Bauer, Frederick W. Danker, William ArndtISBN 0226039331 (0-226-03933-1)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature'Book summary:Described as an "invaluable reference work" (Classical Philology) and "a tool indispensable for the study of early Christian literature" (Religious Studies Review) in its previous edition, this new updated American edition of Walter Bauer's Wörterbuch zu den Schriften des Neuen Testaments builds on its predecessor's staggering deposit of extraordinary erudition relating to Greek literature from all periods. Including entries for many more words, the new edition also lists more than 25,000 additional references to classical, intertestamental, Early Christian, and modern literature.[via]
In this edition, Frederick W. Danker's broad knowledge of Greco-Roman literature, as well as papyri and epigraphs, provides a more panoramic view of the world of Jesus and the New Testament. Danker has also introduced a more consistent mode of reference citation, and has provided a composite list of abbreviations to facilitate easy access to this wealth of information.
Perhaps the single most important lexical innovation of Danker's edition is its inclusion of extended definitions for Greek terms. For instance, a key meaning of "episkopos" was defined in the second American edition as overseer; Danker defines it as "one who has the responsibility of safeguarding or seeing to it that something is done in the correct way, guardian." Such extended definitions give a fuller sense of the word in question, which will help avoid both anachronisms and confusion among users of the lexicon who may not be native speakers of English.
Danker's edition of Bauer's Wörterbuch will be an indispensable guide for Biblical and classical scholars, ministers, seminarians, and translators.More editions of A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature:
Holistic Darwinism: Synergy, Cybernetics, And the Bioeconomics of Evolutionby Peter A. CorningISBN 0226116166 (0-226-11616-6)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Horace Odes and Epodesby HoraceISBN 0226106780 (0-226-10678-0)
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The House of Intellectby Jacques BarzunISBN 0226038556 (0-226-03855-6)
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The Jewel in the Crownby Paul ScottISBN 0226743403 (0-226-74340-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Jewel in the Crown'Book summary:"Ah no, waste no pity on young Kumar. Whatever he got while in the hands of the police he deserved. And waste no pity on her either. She also got what she deserved."
August 1942. World War II is reaching its apex, with the conflict consuming almost all of Asia and Europe. In Southeast Asia, the Japanese have driven the British army out of Burma and are threatening India, where Britain's beleaguered forces find themselves facing an increasingly hostile Indian populace tired of decades of unfulfilled promises of freedom. On a dark monsoonal night in the town of Mayapore, amid an outbreak of anti-British rioting, a gang of Indian men rape a young British woman. Through this rape, we are introduced to a cast of characters engulfed and subsequently carried away by the storm of events. Paul Scott's The Jewel in the Crown is part historical novel, part mystery, part love story, part allegory. But to reduce it to any of these elements is to miss its irony, poignancy, and beauty. Full of complex characters and rich in atmosphere and symbolism, this is a novel that works on many different levels.
The events unfold through the eyes of a varied cast of characters--both British and Indian--united by their inability to escape the straightjacket of race and social roles, no matter their class, education, or political views. This is particularly excruciating for the rape victim and the young Indian man accused of the crime. These two are drawn to each other by their alienation from the roles they are expected to play. Englishwoman Daphne Manners finds herself increasingly estranged from her countrymen, while Hari Kumar, an Indian who has lived in Britain for all but two years of his life and is so anglicized that he doesn't even speak Hindi, can't abide his native land. Their struggle with the identities and constraints that society imposes on them and the manifestations of their conflict form the core of the novel, providing the timelessness and richness that make it one of the great novels of the 20th century.
The Jewel in the Crown, originally published in 1966, is the first of the Raj Quartet, the sweeping epic that looks at the collapse in the 1940s of British rule in India. It was followed by The Day of the Scorpion, The Towers of Silence, and A Division of Spoils. --Jonathan King [via]
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Joseph Banks: A Lifeby Patrick O'BrianISBN 0226616282 (0-226-61628-2)
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Language Playby David CrystalISBN 0226122050 (0-226-12205-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Language Play'Book summary:Language play takes different forms for different people. Some people groove on crossword puzzles; others gravitate toward Scrabble. Still others like to rap, tell jokes, speak in puns, or recite Monty Python skits verbatim. What they all have in common--what we all have in common, says linguist David Crystal--is a love of language play. "The phenomenon of language play," he writes, "seems to cut across regional, social and professional background, age, sex, ethnicity, personality, intelligence and culture." As it turns out, little research has been done on the subject. Language exists, it is usually thought, to communicate ideas. Crystal argues that "it is difficult to see how ping-pong punning can possibly fit in with [this] view."
In Language Play, Crystal explores the various ways in which people play with language. He outlines the professions--including advertising, headline writing, and comedy--that rely on language play. He talks about the importance of play in language development, even for the infants. And he argues that the printed matter used in schools (he lives in the U.K., by the way) sorely needs updating to reflect children's interest in rhyme, nonsense, pattern, new words, and the like. Examples new and old (from the 1800s) demonstrate the ways in which language can entertain. But language play is more than just entertaining, the author says; "it brings people into rapport with each other." In fact, he says, "disaffection with someone's language play is ... a sign that a relationship is on the way to breaking down." Think about it: "When you get annoyed by someone's silly voices, find their mock regional accents extremely irritating, or their favourite word game pointless and boring, then all is definitely not well." --Jane Steinberg [via]
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Learning to Look: A Handbook for the Visual Artsby Joshua Charles TaylorISBN 0226791548 (0-226-79154-8)
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The Lemon Table: Storiesby Julian BarnesISBN 022407198X (0-224-07198-X)
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Linguistic Changeby Edgar SturtevantISBN 0226779157 (0-226-77915-7)
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Man's Unconquerable Mindby Gilbert HighetISBN 0231020163 (0-231-02016-3)
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Martin Heideggerby George SteinerISBN 0226772322 (0-226-77232-2)
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Maurice, Or, The Fisher's Cotby Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Claire TomalinISBN 0226752283 (0-226-75228-3)
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Metaphors We Live byby George Lakoff, Mark JohnsonISBN 0226468011 (0-226-46801-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Metaphors We Live by'Book summary:The now-classic Metaphors We Live By changed our understanding of metaphor and its role in language and the mind. Metaphor, the authors explain, is a fundamental mechanism of mind, one that allows us to use what we know about our physical and social experience to provide understanding of countless other subjects. Because such metaphors structure our most basic understandings of our experience, they are "metaphors we live by"metaphors that can shape our perceptions and actions without our ever noticing them.[via]
In this updated edition of Lakoff and Johnson's influential book, the authors supply an afterword surveying how their theory of metaphor has developed within the cognitive sciences to become central to the contemporary understanding of how we think and how we express our thoughts in language. 
The Modern Jewish Canon: A Journey Through Language and Cultureby Ruth R. WisseISBN 0226903184 (0-226-90318-4)
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Mr. Gumpy's Outingby John BurninghamISBN 0224619098 (0-224-61909-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mr. Gumpy's Outing'Book summary:One fine morning Mr. Gumpy decides it's a perfect day for an outing in his little boat. Apparently, plenty of others think so, too. First some children ask to join him, then a rabbit, a cat, a dog, a pig, a sheep... Soon, Mr. Gumpy's boat is precariously full, and there's nowhere for anyone else to go--but overboard! This mild mariner takes everything in stride, though, and his guests are soon bellying up to a nice tea.
John Burningham earned the Kate Greenaway Medal, an ALA Notable Children's Book award, and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Mr. Gumpy's Outing, and it's no wonder. This gifted and highly original author-illustrator creates a vision of glorious summer with deeply textured, sometimes only suggested, drawings. His tentatively questioning animals are ready to step right out of the pages and quietly join the delighted reader. And the simple, repetitive dialogue will lull the listener as long as it takes the characters to reach the boat's maximum capacity. Even then, there's no big splash--just an understated, Burningham-esque "and into the water they fell." Young readers will never tire of this gentle, comforting storybook. (Ages 2 to 6) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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The Mystery of the Bayeux Tapestryby David BernsteinISBN 0226044009 (0-226-04400-9)
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Necklace of Raindropsby Joan AikenISBN 0224614622 (0-224-61462-2)
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Not by Genes Alone : How Culture Transformed Human Evolutionby Peter J. Richerson, Robert BoydISBN 0226712842 (0-226-71284-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Not by Genes Alone : How Culture Transformed Human Evolution'Book summary:Humans are a striking anomaly in the natural world. While we are similar to other mammals in many ways, our behavior sets us apart. Our unparalleled ability to adapt has allowed us to occupy virtually every habitat on earth using an incredible variety of tools and subsistence techniques. Our societies are larger, more complex, and more cooperative than any other mammal's. In this stunning exploration of human adaptation, Peter J. Richerson and Robert Boyd argue that only a Darwinian theory of cultural evolution can explain these unique characteristics.[via]
Not by Genes Alone offers a radical interpretation of human evolution, arguing that our ecological dominance and our singular social systems stem from a psychology uniquely adapted to create complex culture. Richerson and Boyd illustrate here that culture is neither superorganic nor the handmaiden of the genes. Rather, it is essential to human adaptation, as much a part of human biology as bipedal locomotion. Drawing on work in the fields of anthropology, political science, sociology, and economicsand building their case with such fascinating examples as kayaks, corporations, clever knots, and yams that require twelve men to carry themRicherson and Boyd convincingly demonstrate that culture and biology are inextricably linked, and they show us how to think about their interaction in a way that yields a richer understanding of human nature.
In abandoning the nature-versus-nurture debate as fundamentally misconceived, Not by Genes Alone is a truly original and groundbreaking theory of the role of culture in evolution and a book to be reckoned with for generations to come.
I continue to be surprised by the number of educated people (many of them biologists) who think that offering explanations for human behavior in terms of culture somehow disproves the suggestion that human behavior can be explained in Darwinian evolutionary terms. Fortunately, we now have a book to which they may be directed for enlightenment . . . . It is a book full of good sense and the kinds of intellectual rigor and clarity of writing that we have come to expect from the Boyd/Richerson stable. Robin Dunbar, Nature
Not by Genes Alone is a valuable and very readable synthesis of a still embryonic but very important subject straddling the sciences and humanities. E. O. Wilson, Harvard UniversityMore editions of Not by Genes Alone : How Culture Transformed Human Evolution:
Not by Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolutionby Robert Boyd, Peter J. RichersonISBN 0226712125 (0-226-71212-5)
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Odes and Epopes of Horaceby HoraceISBN 0226106799 (0-226-10679-9)
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Peter Duckby Arthur RansomeISBN 0224606336 (0-224-60633-6)
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Philosophical Greek: An Introductionby Francis H FobesISBN 0226256200 (0-226-25620-0)
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The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Centuryby John BrewerISBN 0226074196 (0-226-07419-6)
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The Pooh Perplex: A Freshman Casebookby Frederick C. CrewsISBN 0226120589 (0-226-12058-9)
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The Portage to San Cristobal of A.H.by George SteinerISBN 0226772357 (0-226-77235-7)
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Portrait of a Marriageby Nigel Nicolson, V. Sackville-WestISBN 0226583570 (0-226-58357-0)
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Presumptionby Julia BarrettISBN 0226038130 (0-226-03813-0)
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The Princeby Niccolo MachiavelliISBN 0226500446 (0-226-50044-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Prince'Book summary:The most famous book on politics ever written, The Prince remains as lively and shocking today as when it was written almost five hundred years ago. Initially denounced as a collection of sinister maxims and a recommendation of tyranny, it has more recently been defended as the first scientific treatment of politics as it is practiced rather than as it ought to be practiced. Harvey C. Mansfield's brilliant translation of this classic work, along with the new materials added for this edition, make it the definitive version of The Prince, indispensable to scholars, students, and those interested in the dark art of politics.[via]
This revised edition of Mansfield's acclaimed translation features an updated bibliography, a substantial glossary, an analytic introduction, a chronology of Machiavelli's life, and a map of Italy in Machiavelli's time.
"Of the other available [translations], that of Harvey C. Mansfield makes the necessary compromises between exactness and readability, as well as providing an excellent introduction and notes."Clifford Orwin, The Wall Street Journal
"Mansfield's work . . . is worth acquiring as the best combination of accuracy and readability."Choice
"There is good reason to assert that Machiavelli has met his match in Mansfield. . . . [He] is ready to read Machiavelli as he demands to be readplainly and boldly, but also cautiously."John Gueguen, The Sixteenth Century JournalMore editions of The Prince:
The Pursuit of Power: Technology, Armed Force and Society Since A.D. 1000by William H. McNeillISBN 0226561585 (0-226-56158-5)
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Rimbaudby Arthur Rimbaud, Wallace Fowlie, Seth Adam WhiddenISBN 0226719774 (0-226-71977-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rimbaud'Book summary:The enfant terrible of French letters, Jean-Nicholas-Arthur Rimbaud (1854-91) was a defiant and precocious youth who wrote some of the most remarkable prose and poetry of the nineteenth century, all before leaving the world of verse by the age of twenty-one. More than a century after his death, the young rebel-poet continues to appeal to modern readers as much for his turbulent life as for his poetry; his stormy affair with fellow poet Paul Verlaine and his nomadic adventures in eastern Africa are as iconic as his hallucinatory poems and symbolist prose.[via]
The first translation of the poet's complete works when it was published in 1966, Rimbaud: Complete Works, Selected Letters introduced a new generation of Americans to the alienated geniusamong them the Doors's lead singer Jim Morrison, who wrote to translator Wallace Fowlie to thank him for rendering the poems accessible to those who "don't read French that easily." Forty years later, the book remains the only side-by-side bilingual edition of Rimbaud's complete poetic works.
Thoroughly revising Fowlie's edition, Seth Whidden has made changes on virtually every page, correcting errors, reordering poems, adding previously omitted versions of poems and some letters, and updating the text to reflect current scholarship; left in place are Fowlie's literal and respectful translations of Rimbaud's complex and nontraditional verse. Whidden also provides a foreword that considers the heritage of Fowlie's edition and adds a bibliography that acknowledges relevant books that have appeared since the original publication. On its fortieth anniversary, Rimbaud remains the most authoritativeand now, completely up-to-dateedition of the young master's entire poetic ouvre.More editions of Rimbaud:
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Rimbaud Complete Works: Selected Lettersby Wallace FowlieISBN 0226719731 (0-226-71973-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rimbaud Complete Works: Selected Letters'Book summary:Wallace Fowlie's prose translations accompany the original French texts in this, the first complete bilingual edition of Rimbaud's work in prose and poetry.[via]
"This handsome edition, which makes France's most remarkable poet readily available in the U.S., may well be a literary landmark comparable to Baudelaire's introduction of Edgar Allan Poe in France a century earlier."--Anna Balakian, New York Times Book ReviewMore editions of Rimbaud Complete Works: Selected Letters:
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Selected Poems, 1956-1968by Leonard CohenISBN 0224615416 (0-224-61541-6)
Hardcover, Cape
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Sounds of English and Germanby W.G. MoultonISBN 0226543099 (0-226-54309-9)
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Staying Onby Paul ScottISBN 0226743497 (0-226-74349-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Staying On'Book summary:In this sequel to The Raj Quartet, Colonel Tusker and Lucy Smalley stay on in the hills of Pankot after Indian independence deprives them of their colonial status. Finally fed up with accommodating her husband, Lucy claims a degree of independence herself. Eloquent and hilarious, she and Tusker act out class tensions among the British of the Raj and give voice to the loneliness, rage, and stubborn affection in their marriage. Staying On won the Booker Prize in 1977 and was made into a motion picture starring Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson in 1979.[via]
"Staying On far transcends the events of its central action. . . . [The work] should help win for Scott . . . the reputation he deservesas one of the best novelists to emerge from Britain's silver age."Robert Towers, Newsweek
"Scott's vision is both precise and painterly. Like an engraver cross-hatching in the illusion of fullness, he selects nuances that will make his characters take on depth and poignancy."Jean G. Zorn, New York Times Book Review
"A graceful comic coda to the earlier song of India. . . . No one writing knows or can evoke an Anglo-Indian setting better than Scott."Paul Gray, Time
"Staying On provides a sort of postscript to [Scott's] deservedly acclaimed The Raj Quartet. . . . He has, as it were, summoned up the Raj's ghost in Staying On. . . . It is the story of the living death, in retirement, and the final end of a walk-on character from the quartet. . . . Scott has completed the task of covering in the form of a fictional narrative the events leading up to India's partition and the achievement of independence in 1947. It is, on any showing, a creditable achievement."Malcolm Muggeridge, New York Times Book ReviewMore editions of Staying On:
Stephen Hero:Part of the First Draft of 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man'by James JoyceISBN 0224603604 (0-224-60360-4)
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutionsby Thomas S. KuhnISBN 0226458083 (0-226-45808-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Structure of Scientific Revolutions'Book summary:There's a "Frank & Ernest" comic strip showing a chick breaking out of its shell, looking around, and saying, "Oh, wow! Paradigm shift!" Blame the late Thomas Kuhn. Few indeed are the philosophers or historians influential enough to make it into the funny papers, but Kuhn is one.
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is indeed a paradigmatic work in the history of science. Kuhn's use of terms such as "paradigm shift" and "normal science," his ideas of how scientists move from disdain through doubt to acceptance of a new theory, his stress on social and psychological factors in science--all have had profound effects on historians, scientists, philosophers, critics, writers, business gurus, and even the cartoonist in the street.
Some scientists (such as Steven Weinberg and Ernst Mayr) are profoundly irritated by Kuhn, especially by the doubts he casts--or the way his work has been used to cast doubt--on the idea of scientific progress. Yet it has been said that the acceptance of plate tectonics in the 1960s, for instance, was sped by geologists' reluctance to be on the downside of a paradigm shift. Even Weinberg has said that "Structure has had a wider influence than any other book on the history of science." As one of Kuhn's obituaries noted, "We all live in a post-Kuhnian age." --Mary Ellen Curtin [via]
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Student's Guide for Writing College Papersby Kate L. TurabianISBN 0226816230 (0-226-81623-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Student's Guide for Writing College Papers'Book summary:This third edition of Kate L. Turabian's Student's Guide for Writing College Papers is designed for high school, junior college, or college students faced with writing their first long, documented paper. Besides the book's step-by-step directions for all aspects of paper writing, the sixth chapter, "Some Matters of Style," has been extensively revised, and the List of Reference Works useful to students has been recompiled and greatly expanded by Donald F. Bond, a specialist in bibliography. Students and teachers will appreciate a new system of numbering each paragraph which facilitates locating any desired item through the Index or cross-references in the text. [via]
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The Syntactic Phenomena of Englishby James D. McCawleyISBN 0226556247 (0-226-55624-7)
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Theories of Translation: An Anthology of Essays from Dryden to Derridaby Rainer Schulte, John BiguenetISBN 0226048713 (0-226-04871-3)
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Thomas Kuhn: A Philosophical History for Our Timesby Steve FullerISBN 0226268969 (0-226-26896-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Thomas Kuhn: A Philosophical History for Our Times'Book summary:Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is one of the best known and most influential books of the twentieth century. Whether they adore or revile him, critics and fans alike have tended to agree on one thing: Kuhn's ideas were revolutionary. But were they?[via]
Steve Fuller argues that Kuhn actually held a profoundly conservative view of science and how one ought to study its history. Early on, Kuhn came under the influence of Harvard President James Bryant Conant (to whom Structure is dedicated), who had developed an educational program intended to help deflect Cold War unease over science's uncertain future by focusing on its illustrious past. Fuller argues that this rhetoric made its way into Structure, which Fuller sees as preserving and reinforcing the old view that science really is just a steady accumulation of truths about the world (once "paradigm shifts" are resolved).
Fuller suggests that Kuhn, deliberately or not, shared the tendency in Western culture to conceal possible negative effects of new knowledge from the general public. Because it insists on a difference between a history of science for scientists and one suited to historians, Fuller charges that Structure created the awkward divide that has led directly to the "Science Wars" and has stifled much innovative research. In conclusion, Fuller offers a way forward that rejects Kuhn's fixation on paradigms in favor of a conception of science as a social movement designed to empower society's traditionally disenfranchised elements.
Certain to be controversial, Thomas Kuhn must be read by anyone who has adopted, challenged, or otherwise engaged with The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
"Structure will never look quite the same again after Fuller. In that sense, he has achieved one of the main aims of his ambitious and impressively executed project."Jon Turney, Times Higher Education Supplement
"Philosophies like Kuhn's narrow the possible futures of inquiry by politically methodizing and taming them. More republican philosophies will leave the future open. Mr. Fuller has amply succeeded in his program of distinguishing the one from the other."William R. Everdell, Washington TimesMore editions of Thomas Kuhn: A Philosophical History for Our Times:
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The Towers of Silence: A Novelby Paul ScottISBN 0226743438 (0-226-74343-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Towers of Silence: A Novel'Book summary:India, 1943: In a regimental hill station, the ladies of Pankot struggle to preserve the genteel façade of British society amid the debris of a vanishing empire and World War II. A retired missionary, Barbara Batchelor, bears witness to the connections between many human dramas; the love between Daphne Manner and Hari Kumar; the desperate grief an old teacher feels for an India she cannot rescue; and the cruelty of Captain Ronald Merrick, Susan Layton's future husband.[via]More editions of The Towers of Silence: A Novel:
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Victorian People: A Reassessment of Persons and Themes, 1851-67by Asa BriggsISBN 0226074889 (0-226-07488-9)
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"For expounding this theme, this interaction of event and personality, Mr. Briggs is abundantly and happily endowed. He is always readable, often amusing, never facetious. He is widely read and widely interested. He has a sound historic judgment, and an unfailing sense for what is significant in the historic sequence and what is merely topical. . . . Above all, he is in sympathy with the age of which he is writing."Times Literary SupplementMore editions of Victorian People: A Reassessment of Persons and Themes, 1851-67:
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White Bloodby James FlemingISBN 0224077996 (0-224-07799-6)
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Writing for Social Scientists: How to Start and Finish Your Thesis, Book, or Articleby Howard Saul BeckerISBN 0226041085 (0-226-04108-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Writing for Social Scientists: How to Start and Finish Your Thesis, Book, or Article'Book summary:Social scientists, whether earnest graduate students or tenured faculty members, clearly know the rules that govern good writing. But for some reason they choose to ignore those guidelines and churn out turgid, pompous, and obscure prose. Distinguished sociologist Howard S. Becker, true to his calling, looks for an explanation for this bizarre behavior not in the psyches of his colleagues but in the structure of his profession. In this highly personal and inspirational volume he considers academic writing as a social activity.[via]
Both the means and the reasons for writing a thesis or article or book are socially structured by the organization of graduate study, the requirements for publication, and the conditions for promotion, and the pressures arising from these situations create the writing style so often lampooned and lamented. Drawing on his thirty-five years' experience as a researcher, writer, and teacher, Becker exposes the foibles of the academic profession to the light of sociological analysis and gentle humor. He also offers eminently useful suggestions for ways to make social scientists better and more productive writers. Among the topics discussed are how to overcome the paralyzing fears of chaos and ridicule that lead to writer's block; how to rewrite and revise, again and again; how to adopt a persona compatible with lucid prose; how to deal with that academic bugaboo, "the literature." There is also a chapter by Pamela Richards on the personal and professional risks involved in scholarly writing.
In recounting his own trials and errors Becker offers his readers not a model to be slavishly imitated but an example to inspire. Throughout, his focus is on the elusive work habits that contribute to good writing, not the more easily learned rules of grammar and punctuation. Although his examples are drawn from sociological literature, his conclusions apply to all fields of social science, and indeed to all areas of scholarly endeavor. The message is clear: you don't have to write like a social scientist to be one.More editions of Writing for Social Scientists: How to Start and Finish Your Thesis, Book, or Article:
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