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  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  

  by Mark Twain

  ISBN 0486417808 (0-486-41780-8)
  Softcover, Dover Pubns

  
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  "You don't know about me, without you've read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, but that ain't no matter. The book was made by Mr Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly. There was things he stretched, but mainly he told the truth." What began life as a sequel to Tom Sawyer quickly became one of the most important of all American novels. Although Mark Twain's story of a young hobo and an escaped slave who set off to find freedom on the Mississippi is often exuberant and gently nostalgic, it never loses its satiric edge as it examines the South in the throes of slavery. The world's greatest works of literature are now available in these beautiful keepsake volumes. Bound in real cloth, and featuring gilt edges and ribbon markers, these beautifully produced books are a wonderful way to build a handsome library of classic literature. These are the essential novels that belong in every home. They'll transport readers to imaginary worlds and provide excitement, entertainment, and enlightenment for years to come. All of these novels feature attractive illustrations and have an unequalled period feel that will grace the library, the bedside table or bureau. [via]

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  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0520228383 (0-520-22838-3)
    Softcover, Univ of California Pr
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0486443221 (0-486-44322-1)
    Hardcover, Dover Pubns
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0520228065 (0-520-22806-5)
    Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0520237714 (0-520-23771-4)
    Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0520055209 (0-520-05520-9)
    Softcover, Univ of California Pr
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0521485630 (0-521-48563-0)
    Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0517081288 (0-517-08128-8)
    Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0517385864 (0-517-38586-4)
    Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0520053370 (0-520-05337-0)
    Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0520059654 (0-520-05965-4)
    Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0486417808 (0-486-41780-8)
    Softcover, Dover Pubns
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  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  

  by Barry Moser, Mark Twain

  ISBN 0520053389 (0-520-05338-9)
  Hardcover, Univ of California Pr

  
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  A seminal work of American Literature that still commands deep praise and still elicits controversy, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is essential to the understanding of the American soul. The recent discovery of the first half of Twain's manuscript, long thought lost, made front-page news. And this unprecedented edition, which contains for the first time omitted episodes and other variations present in the first half of the handwritten manuscript, as well as facsimile reproductions of thirty manuscript pages, is indispensable to a full understanding of the novel. The changes, deletions, and additions made in the first half of the manuscript indicate that Mark Twain frequently checked his impulse to write an even darker, more confrontational book than the one he finally published. [via]

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  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  

  by Outlet Book Company Staff, Random House Value Publishing Staff

  ISBN 0517415100 (0-517-41510-0)
  Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing

  
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  The Annotated Huckleberry Finn
  

  by Mark Twain

  ISBN 0517530317 (0-517-53031-7)
  Hardcover, Random House Value Pub

  
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  A seminal work of American Literature that still commands deep praise and still elicits controversy, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is essential to the understanding of the American soul. The recent discovery of the first half of Twain's manuscript, long thought lost, made front-page news. And this unprecedented edition, which contains for the first time omitted episodes and other variations present in the first half of the handwritten manuscript, as well as facsimile reproductions of thirty manuscript pages, is indispensable to a full understanding of the novel. The changes, deletions, and additions made in the first half of the manuscript indicate that Mark Twain frequently checked his impulse to write an even darker, more confrontational book than the one he finally published. [via]

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  Antonin Artaud: Selected Writings
  

  by Susan Sontag, Antonin Artaud

  ISBN 0520064437 (0-520-06443-7)
  Softcover, Univ of California Pr

  
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  A revolutionary figure in the literary avant-garde of his time, Antonin Artaud (1896-1948) is now seen to be central to the development of post-modernism. His writings comprise verse, prose poems, film scenarios, a historical novel, plays, essays on film, theater, art, and literature, and many letters. Susan Sontag's selection conveys the genius of this singular writer.

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  Apologia Pro Vita Sua
  

  by John Henry Newman

  ISBN 0486442136 (0-486-44213-6)
  Softcover, Dover Pubns

  
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  Architecture, Anyone? Cautionary Tales of the Building Art
  

  by Ada Louise Huxtable

  ISBN 0520061950 (0-520-06195-0)
  Softcover, Univ of California Pr

  
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  Asimov on Numbers
  

  by Outlet Book Company Staff, Random House Value Publishing Staff

  ISBN 0517371456 (0-517-37145-6)
  Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing

  
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  Beyond the Brillo Box: The Visual Arts in Post-Historical Perspective
  

  by Arthur C. Danto

  ISBN 0520216741 (0-520-21674-1)
  Softcover, Univ of California Pr

  
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  The Book of Memory: A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture
  

  by Mary J. Carruthers

  ISBN 0521429730 (0-521-42973-0)
  Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr

  
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  The Book of Memory is a magisterial and beautifully illustrated account of the workings and function of memory in medieval society. Memory was the psychological faculty valued above all others in the period stretching from late antiquity through the Renaissance. The prominence given to memory has profound implications for the contemporary understanding of all creative activity, and the social role of literature and art. Drawing on a range of fascinating examples from Dante, Chaucer, and Aquinas to the symbolism of illuminated manuscripts, this unusually wide-ranging book offers new insights into the medieval world. [via]

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  The Cambridge Chaucer Companion
  

  by Piero Boitani

  ISBN 0521316898 (0-521-31689-8)
  Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr

  
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  The Cambridge Chaucer Companion contains a series of essays by internationally known Chaucer experts, designed to provide a challenging introduction to the poet. The collection is divided between pieces which concentrate squarely on one or more of Chaucer's major poems, identifying themes, styles, moods and tones, and pieces of wider scope which give more general information about Chaucer's literary sources and historical background, or study his experiments with style and structure over a range of poems, or set his works in the context of medieval genres and literary traditions. While introducing a work or works to the reader, these essays also adopt fresh and rigorous lines of critical enquiry which will encourage him or her to develop and place his or her own interpretations. Taken as a whole, the collection establishes a context for Chaucer, discusses the significance of his position within it, and applies to his poetry detailed and frequently innovative analysis. These three functions combine to provide what should become a standard work of reference for students as well as readers who already have some familiarity with Chaucer but wish to achieve a greater understanding of this major English poet and his oeuvre. [via]

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  The Cambridge Companion to Dante
  

  by Rachel Jacoff

  ISBN 0521427428 (0-521-42742-8)
  Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr

  
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  This book provides an introduction to Dante that is at once accessible and challenging. Fifteen specially-commissioned essays by distinguished scholars provide background information and up-to-date critical perspectives on Dante's life and work, focusing on areas of central importance. Three essays introduce the three canticles of the Divine Comedy, and others explore the literary, intellectual and historical background to Dante's writings, his other works and his reception in the commentary tradition and in literature in English. The book also includes a chronological table and suggestions for further reading. [via]

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  The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen
  

  by Edward Copeland, Juliet McMaster

  ISBN 0521495172 (0-521-49517-2)
  Hardcover, Cambridge University Press

  
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  Leading scholars present a comprehensive and up-to-date guide to Jane Austen's works in the contexts of her contemporary world, and of present-day critical discourse. Besides discussions of Austen's novels and letters, there are essays on religion, politics, class consciousness, publishing practices, domestic economy, style in the novels and the significance of her juvenile works. A chronology provides biographical information, and assessments of the history of Austen criticism highlight the most interesting recent studies in a vast field of critical diversity. [via]

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  The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen
  

  by Juliet McMaster, Edward Copeland

  ISBN 0521498678 (0-521-49867-8)
  Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr

  
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  The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson
  

  by Greg Clingham

  ISBN 0521556252 (0-521-55625-2)
  Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr

  
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  The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction
  

  by Edward James, Farah Mendlesohn

  ISBN 0521016576 (0-521-01657-6)
  Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr

  
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  The Craft of Thought: Meditation, Rhetoric, and the Making of Images, 400-1200
  

  by Mary Carruthers

  ISBN 0521582326 (0-521-58232-6)
  Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr

  
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  A companion to Mary Carruthers' earlier study of memory in medieval culture, The Book of Memory, this book, The Craft of Thought, examines medieval monastic meditation as a discipline for making thoughts, and discusses its influence on literature, art, and architecture, deriving examples from a variety of late antique and medieval sources, with excursions into modern architectural memorials. The study emphasizes meditation as an act of literary composition or invention, the techniques of which notably involved both words and making mental "pictures" for thinking and composing. [via]

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  The Creative Process: Reflections on the Invention of Art
  

  by Brewster Ghiselin

  ISBN 0520054539 (0-520-05453-9)
  Softcover, Univ of California Pr

  
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  Culture and Anarchy and Other Writings
  

  by Matthew Arnold, Stefan Collini

  ISBN 052137796X (0-521-37796-X)
  Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr

  
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  Matthew Arnold's Culture and Anarchy (1869), is one of the most celebrated works of social criticism ever written. It has become a reference point for all subsequent discussion of the relations between politics and culture. This edition establishes the authoritative text of this much-revised work, and places it alongside Arnold's three most important essays on political subjects. The introduction sets these works in the context of nineteenth-century intellectual and political history. This edition also contains a chronology of Arnold's life, a bibliographical guide and full notes on the names and historical events mentioned in the texts. [via]

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  Dave Barry's Guide to Life
  

  by Dave Barry, Jerry O'Brien

  ISBN 0517064863 (0-517-06486-3)
  Hardcover, Random House Value Pub

  
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  Dave Barry has been called "the funniest man in America" by the New York Times Book Review. This "Guide to life" originally published in four books, contains a very funny, yet wise, set of instructions for living. Topics such as "How to find and marry the perfect lifemate", followed by "How to divorce this person", are some of the humour articles Barry delights us with. [via]

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  Dave Barry's Guide to Life : Guide to Marriage and/or Sex, Babies and Other Hazards of Sex, Claw Your Way to the Top, Stay Fit and Healthy until You're Dead
  

  by Dave Barry

  ISBN 0517203553 (0-517-20355-3)
  Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing

  
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  Very funny book on marriage, sex, healthy and success. 0001 [via]

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  Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
  

  by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  ISBN 0486434141 (0-486-43414-1)
  Softcover, Dover Pubns

  
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  A strikingly original inquiry into politics and human nature, the Discourse presents a theoretical view of people in a pre-social condition and the ensuing effects of civilization. The author develops a theory of evolution that prefigures Darwinism and encompasses aspects of ethics, sociology, and epistemology. One of the most influential works of the Enlightenment.

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  Emperor of the Earth
  

  by Czeslaw Milosz

  ISBN 0520045033 (0-520-04503-3)
  Softcover, Univ of California Pr on Demand

  
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  Emperor of the Earth: Modes of Eccentric Vision
  

  by Czesaw Miosz

  ISBN 0520033027 (0-520-03302-7)
  Hardcover, Univ of California Pr

  
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  The Gay Science
  

  by Friedrich Nietzsche, Common, Thomas (RTL)

  ISBN 0486452468 (0-486-45246-8)
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  "God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.." This is the book in which Nietzsche put forth his boldest declaration. It is also his most personal, featuring some of the author's most important discussions of art, morality, knowledge, and, ultimately, truth.
  

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  Giordano Bruno Cause, Principle and Unity: Essays on Magic
  

  by Giordano Bruno, Richard J. Blackwell, Robert De Lucca

  ISBN 052159359X (0-521-59359-X)
  Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr

  
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  Giordano Bruno's notorious public death in 1600, at the hands of the Inquisition in Rome, marked the transition from Renaissance philosophy to the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century. This volume presents new translations of Cause, Principle and Unity, in which he challenges Aristotelian accounts of causality and spells out the implications of Copernicanism for a new theory of an infinite universe, as well as two essays on magic, in which he interprets earlier theories about magical events in the light of the unusual powers of natural phenomena. [via]

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  Giordano Bruno: Cause, Principle and Unity : And Essays on Magic
  

  by Richard J. Blackwell, Robert de Lucca, Alfonso Ingegno

  ISBN 0521596580 (0-521-59658-0)
  Softcover, Cambridge University Press

  
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  The Heart of Darkness
  

  by Joseph Conrad

  ISBN 0486419347 (0-486-41934-7)
  Softcover, Dover Pubns

  
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  A dark allegorical masterpiece based on the author's own traumatic experiences in the Belgian Congo, recounts the voyage of Marlow up the Congo River in search of the mysterious Mr. Kurtz  a white trader whose domination of the local natives had transformed him into a depraved and abominable tyrant. Large print format.
  

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  Huckleberry Finn / Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  

  by Mark Twain, Robert Blaisdell, John Green

  ISBN 0486403491 (0-486-40349-1)
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  A seminal work of American Literature that still commands deep praise and still elicits controversy, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is essential to the understanding of the American soul. The recent discovery of the first half of Twain's manuscript, long thought lost, made front-page news. And this unprecedented edition, which contains for the first time omitted episodes and other variations present in the first half of the handwritten manuscript, as well as facsimile reproductions of thirty manuscript pages, is indispensable to a full understanding of the novel. The changes, deletions, and additions made in the first half of the manuscript indicate that Mark Twain frequently checked his impulse to write an even darker, more confrontational book than the one he finally published. [via]

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  The Interpretation of Dreams
  

  by Sigmund Freud, A.A. Brill

  ISBN 0486453197 (0-486-45319-7)
  Softcover, Dover Pubns

  
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  Whether we love or hate Sigmund Freud, we all have to admit that he revolutionized the way we think about ourselves. Much of this revolution can be traced to The Interpretation of Dreams, the turn-of-the-century tour de force that outlined his theory of unconscious forces in the context of dream analysis. Introducing the id, the superego, and their problem child, the ego, Freud advanced scientific understanding of the mind immeasurably by exposing motivations normally invisible to our consciousness. While there's no question that his own biases and neuroses influenced his observations, the details are less important than the paradigm shift as a whole. After Freud, our interior lives became richer and vastly more mysterious.

  These mysteries clearly bothered him--he went to great (often absurd) lengths to explain dream imagery in terms of childhood sexual trauma, a component of his theory jettisoned mid-century, though now popular among recovered-memory therapists. His dispassionate analyses of his own dreams are excellent studies for cognitive scientists wishing to learn how to sacrifice their vanities for the cause of learning. Freud said of the work contained in The Interpretation of Dreams, "Insight such as this falls to one's lot but once in a lifetime." One would have to feel quite fortunate to shake the world even once. --Rob Lightner [via]

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  The Joy of Reading: Charles Van Doren's 210 Favorite Books, Plays, Poems, Essays, Etc., What's in Them, Why Read Them
  

  by Charles Van Doren

  ISBN 0517555808 (0-517-55580-8)
  Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group

  
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  Land of Little Rain
  

  by Mary Hunter Austin

  ISBN 0486290379 (0-486-29037-9)
  Softcover, Dover Pubns

  
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  Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic
  

  by Henri Bergson, Fred Rothwell, Cloudesley Brereton

  ISBN 0486443809 (0-486-44380-9)
  Softcover, Dover Pubns

  
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  Clem Kadiddlehopper wore a funny hat. Even animals other than humans seem to laugh, because they, too, possess emotions. And sometimes, when you're by yourself, you just start giggling for no reason. But that's not funny. As Henri Bergson, proto-existentialist French philosopher and author of Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic, would say, you can stop laughing now. We must rethink what tickles us. For Bergson, laughter is a purely intellectual response that serves the social purpose of assuaging discomfort over the unaccustomed and unexpected. We chuckle at Lucy attempting to wrap the bonbons speeding by on a candy-factory conveyor belt because she's stuck in one place, performing the same task over and over, and failing; we hope that in similar situations we could be more flexible. Bergson recaps: "Rigidity is the comic, and laughter is its corrective."

  Bergson's thinking typifies a peculiarly Gallic tendency to rationalize the apparently ephemeral and subjective (in this case, humor), discussing it in exquisitely rarefied language in order to assert that which defies common sense (a funny hat is not funny, laughter expresses no emotion, no one laughs alone) but partakes nonetheless of a logical inevitability. Laughter, first published in 1911, clearly draws upon the early years of European modernism, yet also prefigures the movement in some ways. In recognizing the comic as it embodies itself in a "rigid," absentminded person, locked into repetitious, socially awkward behavior, Bergson--even as he looks backward, primarily to Molière--seems to be spawning the sophisticated visual and physical comedy of Chaplin, Keaton, and Lloyd; the transformation of Léger's figures into anthropoid machines; and Nijinsky's starring role in Stravinsky's satirical clockwork ballet Pétrouchka.

  This little book resurrects a British translation that has long been out of print. While Laughter won't quite explain why the French love Jerry Lewis, or keep you in stitches, it's a bracing read that will make you think twice about laughing the next time someone stumbles into a lamppost. --Robert Burns Neveldine [via]

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  Lavender Culture
  

  by Karla Jay, Allen Young

  ISBN 0515044628 (0-515-04462-8)
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  The Life of the Bee
  

  by Maurice Maeterlinck, Edwin Way Teale, Alfred Sutro

  ISBN 0486451437 (0-486-45143-7)
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  The Madonna of the Future: Essays in a Pluralistic Art World
  

  by Arthur C. Danto

  ISBN 0520230027 (0-520-23002-7)
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  The Madonna of the Future finds Danto at the point where all the vectors of the art world intersect: those of traditional painting, Pop art, mixed media, and installation art; those of art and philosophy; those of the specialist who brings theory to bear on the work and the viewer who appreciates it primarily visually.

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  Man's Place in Nature
  

  by Thomas H Huxley

  ISBN 0486432734 (0-486-43273-4)
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  Darwin said it first, but Huxley said it best. Known as "Darwin's bulldog" for his tenacious and successful defense of evolution by natural selection, biologist T.H. Huxley wrote Man's Place in Nature to bolster his case with hard facts. This new edition, edited and introduced by eminent paleontologist and evolutionary theorist Stephen Jay Gould, reminds the readers of the power of good writing to influence opinion. Huxley's style is charmingly persuasive, even when he's describing the intimate details of the lemur's skull. The illustrations range from crude to beautifully detailed and generally take a back seat to the prose. Those involved in debates with creationists--150 years after Darwin--will be discouraged to learn that Huxley faced many of the same arguments in his day. Still, armed with Man's Place in Nature, another generation can fight and win. --Rob Lightner [via]

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  The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
  

  by Franz Kafka, Stanley Appelbaum, Franz Kafta

  ISBN 0486290301 (0-486-29030-1)
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  Superb collection by modern master explores the complexity, anxiety, and futility of modern life. Excellent new English translations of the title story - considered by many critics Kafka's most perfect work - plus "The Judgment," "In the Penal Colony," "A Country Doctor" and "A Report to an Academy." A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative. [via]

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  Movies As Politics
  

  by Jonathan Rosenbaum

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  News from Nowhere
  

  by William Morris

  ISBN 0486434273 (0-486-43427-3)
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  One of the most literary utopian novels, News from Nowhere chronicles the impressions of a 19th-century visitor to the 22nd century, who finds England transformed into a socialist paradise. Morris' idyllic society echoes themes from the writings of Ruskin and Marx but forms a distinctive expression of the author's own egalitarian views.

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  Nietzsche: The Gay Science
  

  by Bernard Williams, Adrian Del Caro, Josefine Nauckhoff

  ISBN 0521636450 (0-521-63645-0)
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  Nietzsche wrote The Gay Science, which he later described as "perhaps my most personal book", when he was at the height of his intellectual powers, and the reader will find it an extensive and sophisticated treatment of the philosophical themes and views most central to Nietzsche's own thought and most influential on later thinkers. This volume presents the work in a new translation by Josefine Nauckhoff, with an introduction by Bernard Williams that elucidates the work's main themes and discusses their continuing importance. [via]

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  Now, Where Were We?
  

  by Roy Blount

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  Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth
  

  by Richard Rorty

  ISBN 0521353696 (0-521-35369-6)
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  Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth Vol. 1 : Philosophical Papers
  

  by Richard McKay Rorty

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  On the Aesthetic Education of Man
  

  by Friedrich Schiller, Reginald Snell

  ISBN 0486437396 (0-486-43739-6)
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  A classic of 18th-century thought, Schiller's treatise on the role of art in society ranks among German philosophy's most profound works. An important contribution to the history of ideas, it employs a political analysis of contemporary society - and of the French Revolution, in particular - to define the relationship between beauty and art. [via]

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  On the Nature of Things
  

  by Lucretius, William Ellery Leonard

  ISBN 048643446X (0-486-43446-X)
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  The Roman philosopher's didactic poem in 6 parts, De Rerum Natura

   On the Nature of Things  theorizes that natural causes are the forces behind earthly phenomena and dismisses divine intervention. Derived from the philosophical materialism of the Greeks, Lucretius' work remains the primary source for contemporary knowledge of Epicurean thought.

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  Paradigms Lost: Essays on Literacy and Its Decline
  

  by John Simon

  ISBN 0517540347 (0-517-54034-7)
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  Paradigms Lost: Reflections On Literacy And Its Decline, by Simon, John [via]

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  The Path to Rome
  

  by Hilaire Belloc

  ISBN 048644001X (0-486-44001-X)
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  The Personality of the Cat
  

  by Brandt Aymar

  ISBN 0517000164 (0-517-00016-4)
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  Everything there is to know about your cat! Some are neurotic, some are psychotic, some are passive-agressive.... some sleep all day... discover the cat personality! [via]

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  Philosophical Letters: Letters Concerning the English Nation
  

  by Ernest Dilworth, Voltaire

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  The Portable Mark Twain
  

  by Mark Twain, Bernard Augustine De Voto

  ISBN 0517478560 (0-517-47856-0)
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  Reflections on the Revolution in France
  

  by Edmund Burke

  ISBN 0486445070 (0-486-44507-0)
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  Published in 1790, two years before the start of the Terror, this work offered a remarkably prescient view of the chaos that lay ahead. A classic of political science and a cornerstone of modern conservative thought, it articulates a defense of property, religion, and traditional values that resonates with modern readers.

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  Rise of the Novel
  

  by I. Watt

  ISBN 0520013182 (0-520-01318-2)
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  The Rise of the Novel is Ian Watt's classic description of the interworkings of social conditions, changing attitudes, and literary practices during the period when the novel emerged as the dominant literary form of the individualist era.
  In a new foreword, W. B. Carnochan accounts for the increasing interest in the English novel, including the contributions that Ian Watt's study made to literary studies: his introduction of sociology and philosophy to traditional criticism.

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  The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding
  

  by Ian Watt

  ISBN 0520230698 (0-520-23069-8)
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  The Rise of the Novel is Ian Watt's classic description of the interworkings of social conditions, changing attitudes, and literary practices during the period when the novel emerged as the dominant literary form of the individualist era.
  In a new foreword, W. B. Carnochan accounts for the increasing interest in the English novel, including the contributions that Ian Watt's study made to literary studies: his introduction of sociology and philosophy to traditional criticism.

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  The Rustle of Language
  

  by Richard Howard, Roland Barthes

  ISBN 0520066294 (0-520-06629-4)
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  The Second Treatise of Government and a Letter Concerning Toleration
  

  by John Locke

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  The first of these two highly influential documents refutes the concept of monarchy's divine right. The second argues for a broad acceptance of alternative religious convictions. The basis of social and political philosophy for generations, these books laid the foundation of the modern democratic state in England and abroad.

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  Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Biography of California Artist Robert Irwin
  

  by Lawrence Weschler

  ISBN 0520045955 (0-520-04595-5)
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  Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin
  

  by Lawrence Weschler

  ISBN 0520049209 (0-520-04920-9)
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  Seeing Voices: A Journey into the World of the Deaf
  

  by Oliver W. Sacks

  ISBN 0520060830 (0-520-06083-0)
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  Show and Tell: New Yorker Profiles
  

  by John Lahr

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  The Split and the Structure: Twenty-Eight Essays
  

  by Rudolf Arnheim

  ISBN 0520204786 (0-520-20478-6)
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  Rudolf Arnheim's great forte is his ability to illuminate the perceptual processes that go into the making and reception of artworks--painting, sculpture, architecture, and film. Over the years, his pioneering mode of "reading" art from a unique scientific/philosophic perspective has garnered him an established and devoted audience. That audience will take pleasure in Arnheim's most recent collection of essays, one that covers a range of topics and includes titles such as "Outer Space and Inner Space," "What Is an Aesthetic Fact?," "As I Saw Children's Art," "Two Ways of Being Human," "Consciousness--an Island of Images," and "From Chaos to Wholeness."
  The notion of structure is Arnheim's guide in these explorations. Most of the essays examine the nature of structure affirmatively: how it comes about, its incentives and objectives, its celebration of perfection. He is interested in how artists grope for structure to shape powerful, enlightening images, and how a scientist's search for truth is a search for structure.
  Writing with enviable clarity, even when deploying complex arguments, Arnheim makes it easy and exciting to follow him as he thinks. America is not abundantly supplied with "public intellectuals" such as Rudolf Arnheim--to have his writings with us is cause for celebration.
  "The word 'structure' appears for good reason in the title of this collection. . . . Structure seems to be needed as an arbiter wherever this civilization of ours is split by selfish interests and fighting for either/or decisions. The essays want to speak with the voice of reason, because they want to show how the parts require the whole."

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  The State of the Language
  

  by Christopher B. Ricks, Leonard Micaels, Leonard Michaels

  ISBN 0520037634 (0-520-03763-4)
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  Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature
  

  by C. S. Lewis, Walter Hooper

  ISBN 0521645840 (0-521-64584-0)
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  The Tempest
  

  by William Shakespeare

  ISBN 048640658X (0-486-40658-X)
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  One of Shakespeare's most famous but also enigmatic plays, for many years the story of Prospero's exile from his native Milan, and life with his daughter Miranda on an unnamed island in the Mediterranean, was seen as an autobiographical dramatisation of Shakespeare's departure from the London stage. The Epilogue, spoken by Prospero, claims that "now my charms are all o'erthrown", appeared to reflect Shakespeare's own renunciation of his magical dramatic powers as he retired to Stratford. But The Tempest is far more than this, as recent commentators have pointed out. The dramatic action observes the classical unities of time, place and action, as Prospero uses his "rough magic" to lure his wicked usurping brother, Antonio, and King Alonso of Naples to his island retreat to torment them before engineering his return to Milan.

  However, the play is full of extraordinary anomalies and fantastic interludes, including Gonzalo's fantasy of a utopian commonwealth, Prospero's magical servant Ariel, and the "poisonous slave" Caliban. The creation of Caliban has particularly fascinated critics, who have noticed in his creation a colonial dimension to the play. In this respect Caliban can be seen as an American Indian or African slave, who articulates a particularly powerful strain of anti-colonial sentiment, telling Prospero that "this island's mine, by Sycorax my mother,/ Which thou tak'st from me". This has led to an intense reassessment of the play from a post-colonial perspective, as critics and historians have debated the extent to which the play endorses or criticises early English colonial expansion. --Jerry Brotton [via]

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  Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists' Writings
  

  by Peter Selz, Kristine Stiles

  ISBN 0520202538 (0-520-20253-8)
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  Ambitious and interdisciplinary, this long-awaited collaboration is a landmark presentation of the writings of contemporary artists. These influential essays, interviews, and critical and theoretical comments provide bold and fertile insights into the construction of visual knowledge. Featuring a wide range of leading and emerging artists since 1945, the collection--while comprehensive and authoritative--offers the reader some eclectic surprises as well.
  Included here are texts that have become pivotal documents in contemporary art, along with writings that cover unfamiliar ground. Some are newly translated, others have never before been published. Together they address visual literacy, cultural studies, and the theoretical debates regarding modernism and postmodernism. The full panoply of visual media is represented, from painting and sculpture to environments, installations, performance, conceptual art, video, photography, and virtual reality. Thematic concerns range from figuration and process to popular culture, art and technology, and politics and the media. Contemporary issues of gender, race, class, and sexuality are also addressed.
  Kristine Stiles's general introduction is a succinct overview of artists' theories in the evolution of contemporary discourse around art. Introductions to each chapter provide synopses of the cultural contexts in which the texts originated and brief biographies of individual artists. The text is augmented by outstanding photographs, many of artists in their studios, and vivid, contemporary art images.
  Reflecting the editors' shared belief that artists' own theories provide unparalleled access to visual knowledge, this book, like its distinguished predecessors, Hershel Chipp's Theories of Modern Art (with Peter Selz and Joshua Taylor) and Joshua Taylor's Nineteenth-Century Theories of Art, will be an invaluable resource for anyone interested in contemporary art.
  "In New York in 1915 I bought at a hardware store a snow shovel on which I wrote 'in advance of the broken arm.' It was around that time that the word 'readymade' came to mind to designate this form of manifestation."--Marcel Duchamp (1961)
  "Women have always collected things and saved and recycled them because leftovers yielded nourishment in new forms. The decorative functional objects women made often spoke in a secret language, bore a covert imagery. When we read these images in needlework, in paintings, in quilts, rugs and scrapbooks, we sometimes find a cry for help, sometimes an allusion to a secret political alignment, sometimes a moving symbol about the relationships between men and women."--Miriam Schapiro and Melissa Meyer (1978)
  "I want to create a fusion of art and life, Asia and America, Duchampiana modernism and Levi-Straussian savagism, cool form and hot video, dealing with all of those complex problems, spanning the tribal memory of the Nomadic Asians who crossed over the Bering Strait over 10,000 years ago."--Shigeko Kubota (1976)
  "Black for me is a lot more peaceful and gentle than white. White marble may be very beautiful, but you can't read anything on it. I wanted something that would be soft on the eyes, and turn into a mirror if you polished it. The point is to see yourself reflected in the names. Also the mirror image doubles and triples the space."--Maya Lin (1983)
  "Artists often depend on the manipulation of symbols to present ideas and associations not always apparent in such symbols. If all such ideas and associations were evident there would be little need for artists to give expression to them. In short, there would be no need to make art."--Andres Serrano (1989)

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  To the Rescue of Art: Twenty Six Essays
  

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  A Tramp Abroad
  

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  The Two Cultures
  

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  "I am neither a theologian, nor a scholar learned in the history of religions, nor an anthropologist. Psychology is the only branch of learning in which I am particularly versed. To the psychologist the religious propensities of man must be at least as interesting as any other of the facts pertaining to his mental constitution. It would seem, therefore, as a psychologist, the natural thing for me would be to invite you to a descriptive survey of those religious propensities."

  When William James went to the University of Edinburgh in 1901 to deliver a series of lectures on "natural religion," he defined religion as "the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual men in their solitude, so far as they apprehend themselves to stand in relation to whatever they may consider the divine." Considering religion, then, not as it is defined by--or takes place in--the churches, but as it is felt in everyday life, he undertook a project that, upon completion, stands not only as one of the most important texts on psychology ever written, not only as a vitally serious contemplation of spirituality, but for many critics one of the best works of nonfiction written in the 20th century. Reading The Varieties of Religious Experience, it is easy to see why. Applying his analytic clarity to religious accounts from a variety of sources, James elaborates a pluralistic framework in which "the divine can mean no single quality, it must mean a group of qualities, by being champions of which in alternation, different men may all find worthy missions." It's an intellectual call for serious religious tolerance--indeed, respect--the vitality of which has not diminished through the subsequent decades. [via]

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  "The most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed." - Ralph Waldo Emerson. Inspired by transcendentalism, Whitman's immortal collection includes some of the greatest poems of modern times, including his masterpiece "Song of Myself." Shattering standard conventions of symbolism and allegory, it stands as an unabashed celebration of body and nature. [via]

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  We Irish: Essays in Irish Literature and Society
  

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  This remarkably perceptive analysis of social and moral issues by the noted British novelist and critic is as relevant today as it was in the author's era. Chesterton's style is light and humorous  but also deadly serious and philosophical  as he provides witty commentary on feminism, education, family, and other timeless topics.
  

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  The Wild Girls Club: Tales from below the Belt
  

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