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An African in Greenlandby Tete-Michel Kpomassie, James KirkupISBN 0940322889 (0-940322-88-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Anatomy of Melancholyby Holbrook Jackson, Robert Burton, William H. GassISBN 0940322668 (0-940322-66-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Anatomy of Melancholy'Book summary:One of the major documents of modern European civilization, Robert Burton's astounding compendium, a survey of melancholy in all its myriad forms, has invited nothing but superlatives since its publication in the seventeenth century. Lewellyn Powys called it "the greatest work of prose of the greatest period of English prose-writing," while the celebrated surgeon William Osler declared it the greatest of medical treatises. And Dr. Johnson, Boswell reports, said it was the only book that he rose early in the morning to read with pleasure. In this surprisingly compact and elegant new edition, Burton's spectacular verbal labyrinth is sure to delight, instruct, and divert today's readers as much as it has those of the past four centuries. [via]
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Aristophanes' Lysistrata: Translated With Introduction and Notesby AristophanesISBN 0941051021 (0-941051-02-1)
Softcover, Focus Pub R Pullins & Co
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As a Man Grows Olderby Italo Svevo, Beryl De ZoeteISBN 0940322846 (0-940322-84-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'As a Man Grows Older'Book summary:Not so long ago Emilio Brentani was a promising young author. Now he is an insurance agent on the fast track to forty. He gains a new lease on life, though, when he falls for the young and gorgeous Angiolina-except that his angel just happens to be an unapologetic cheat. But what begins as a comedy of infatuated misunderstanding ends in tragedy, as Emilio's jealous persistence in his folly-against his friends' and devoted sister's advice, and even his own best knowledge-leads to the loss of the one person who, too late, he realizes he truly loves. Marked by deep humanity and earthy humor, by psychological insight and an elegant simplicity of style, As a Man Grows Older (Senilità, in Italian; the English title was the suggestion of Svevo's great friend and admirer, James Joyce) is a brilliant study of hopeless love and hapless indecision. It is a masterwork of Italian literature, here beautifully rendered into English in Beryl de Zoete's classic translation. [via]
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The Autobiography of an Unknown Indianby Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Ian JackISBN 094032282X (0-940322-82-X)
Softcover, New York Review of Books
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An Autumn Storyby Joachim Neugroschel, Tommaso LandolfiISBN 0941419266 (0-941419-26-6)
Softcover, Marsilio Pub
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An Autumn Storyby Tommaso LandolfiISBN 0941419274 (0-941419-27-4)
Hardcover, Eridanos Press
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The Baphometby Pierre KlossowskiISBN 0941419177 (0-941419-17-7)
Softcover, Eridanos Press
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The Baphometby Stephen Sartarelli, Pierre Klossowski, Sophie HawkesISBN 0941419738 (0-941419-73-8)
Softcover, Marsilio Pub
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Barcelona and Modernityby Not AvailableISBN 0940717883 (0-940717-88-3)
Softcover, Cleveland Museum of Art
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Baron Bagge Count Lunaby Alexander Lernet-HoleniaISBN 0941419215 (0-941419-21-5)
Softcover, Marsilio Pub
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Bergsonismby Gilles Deleuze, Hugh Tomlinson, Barbara HabberjamISBN 0942299078 (0-942299-07-8)
Softcover, Zone Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bergsonism'Book summary:What is needed for something new to appear? According to Gilles Deleuze, one of the most brilliant contemporary philosophers, this question of "novelty" is the major problem posed by Bergson's work. In this companion book to Bergson's Matter and Memory, Deleuze demonstrates both the development and the range of three fundamental Bergsonian concepts: duration, memory, and the élan vital. Bergsonism is also important to an understanding of Deleuze's own work, influenced as it is by Bergson.
Gilles Deleuze is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII, Vincennes/Saint Denis. Among his most recent books in translation are Nietzsche and Philosophy, Cinema: Image Movement and, with Felix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus, Kafka, and One Thousand Plateaus.
Hugh Tomlinson is the translator of Deleuze's Nietzsche and Philosophy and Kant's Critical Philosophy. Barbara Habberjam is a translator living in England. [via]
Boredomby Angus Davidson, Alberto MoraviaISBN 0940322285 (0-940322-28-5)
Softcover, Pub Group West
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Broken Aprilby Ismail KadareISBN 0941533573 (0-941533-57-3)
Hardcover, New Amsterdam Books
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Carmina Gadelica: Hymns and Incantationsby Alexander CarmichaelISBN 0940262509 (0-940262-50-9)
Softcover, Rudolph Steiner Pr
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The Childhood of Nivasio Dolcemareby Alberto SavinioISBN 0941419053 (0-941419-05-3)
Softcover, Marsilio Pub
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Chronicle of the Guayaki Indiansby Pierre Clastres, Paul AusterISBN 0942299787 (0-942299-78-7)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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Collected Travel Writingsby Henry James, Richard HowardISBN 0940450771 (0-940450-77-1)
Hardcover, Library of America
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Collected Travel Writings: Great Britain and Americaby Henry James, Richard HowardISBN 0940450763 (0-940450-76-3)
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Contemptby Alberto Moravia, Angus Davidson, Tim ParksISBN 0940322277 (0-940322-27-7)
Softcover, Pub Group West
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Count D'orgel's Ballby Raymond Radiguet, Annapaola CancogniISBN 0941419304 (0-941419-30-4)
Softcover, Marsilio Pub
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The Crisis of Western Philosophy: (Against the Positivists)by Vladimir SolovyovISBN 0940262738 (0-940262-73-8)
Softcover, Rudolf Steiner Pr
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Draculaby Steven P. JonesISBN 0944735479 (0-944735-47-9)
Softcover, Heroes World
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The Fierce and Beautiful Worldby Andrei Platonov, Tatyana Tolstaya, Joseph BarnesISBN 0940322331 (0-940322-33-1)
Softcover, New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
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The Flameby Susan Bassnett, Gabriele D'AnnunzioISBN 0941419894 (0-941419-89-4)
Hardcover, Marsilio Pub
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Fragmentation and Redemption: Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Religionby Caroline Walker BynumISBN 0942299620 (0-942299-62-0)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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From Moscow to Berlin: Marshall Zhukov's Greatest Battlesby Georgi K. ZhukovISBN 0939482347 (0-939482-34-7)
Hardcover, Noontide Pr
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The Go-Betweenby L. P. Hartley, Colm ToibinISBN 0940322994 (0-940322-99-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Go-Between'Book summary:"The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there."
Summering with a fellow schoolboy on a great English estate, Leo, the hero of L. P. Hartley's finest novel, encounters a world of unimagined luxury. But when his friend's beautiful older sister enlists him as the unwitting messenger in her illicit love affair, the aftershocks will be felt for years. The inspiration for the brilliant Joseph Losey/Harold Pinter film starring Julie Christie and Alan Bates, The Go-Between is a masterpiecea richly layered, spellbinding story about past and present, naiveté and knowledge, and the mysteries of the human heart. This volume includes, for the first time ever in North America, Hartley's own introduction to the novel. [via]More editions of The Go-Between:
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The Golovyav Familyby Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltykov, Natalie Duddington, James WoodISBN 0940322579 (0-940322-57-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Golovyav Family'Book summary:The Golovlyov Family (New York Review Books Classics) [Paperback] by Shchedrin [via]
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Herself Surprisedby Joyce CaryISBN 094032217X (0-940322-17-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Hindoo Holiday: An Indian Journalby Ackerley, Eliot WeinbergerISBN 0940322250 (0-940322-25-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Horse's Mouthby Joyce Cary, Brad LeithauserISBN 0940322196 (0-940322-19-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Horse's Mouth'Book summary:The Horse's Mouth, the third and most celebrated volume of Joyce Cary's First Trilogy, is perhaps the finest novel ever written about an artist. Its painter hero, the charming and larcenous Gulley Jimson, has an insatiable genius for creation and a no less remarkable appetite for destruction. Is he a great artist? a has-been? or an exhausted, drunken ne'er-do-well? He is without doubt a visionary, and as he criss-crosses London in search of money and inspiration the world as seen though his eyes appears with a newly outrageous and terrible beauty. [via]
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The Innocents Abroad/Roughing Itby Mark Twain, Guy CardwellISBN 0940450259 (0-940450-25-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Innocents Abroad/Roughing It'Book summary:Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1906. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXXII. WE were at sea now, for a very long voyage -- we were to pass through the entire length of the Levant; through the entire length of the Mediterranean proper, also, and then cross the full width of the Atlantic -- a voyage of several weeks. We naturally settled down into a very slow, stay-at-home manner of life, and resolved to be quiet, exemplary people, and roam no more for twenty or thirty days. No more, at least, than from stem to stern of the ship. It was a very comfortable prospect, though, for we were tired and needed a long rest. We were all lazy and satisfied, now, as the meager entries in my note-book (that sure index, to me, of my condition) prove. What a stupid thing a notebook gets to be at sea, any way. Please observe the style: '" Sunday--Services, as usual, at four bells. Services at night, also. No cards. "Monday--Beautiful day, but rained hard. The cattle purchased at Alexandria for beef ought to be shingled. Or else fattened. The water stands in deep puddles in the depressions forward of their after shoulders. Also here and there all over their backs. It is well they are not cows-- it would soak in and ruin the milk. The poor devil eagle* from Syria * Afterwards presented to the Central Park. looks miserable and droopy in the rain perched on the forward capstan. He appears to have his own opinion of a sea voyage, and if it were put into language and the language solidified, it would probably essentially dam the widest river in the world. "Tuesday--Somewhere in the neighborhood of the island of Malta. Can not stop there. Cholera. Weather very stormy. Many passengers seasick and invisible. "Wednesday--Weather still very savage. Storm blew two land birds to sea, and they came on board. A hawk was blown off, also. He circled round and round the shi... [via]
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The Invisible Playerby Guiseppe PontiggiaISBN 0941419150 (0-941419-15-0)
Softcover, Marsilio Pub
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Killing the Second Dogby Marek HlaskoISBN 0943433045 (0-943433-04-5)
Softcover, Cane Hill Pr
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Lais of Marie De France.by Robert W. Hanning, Joan M. Ferrante, De France Marie, MarieISBN 0939464020 (0-939464-02-0)
Softcover, Baker Pub Group
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The Late Mattia Pascalby Luigi Pirandello, William WeaverISBN 0941419444 (0-941419-44-4)
Softcover, Marsilio Pub
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Letters from Russiaby Anka Muhlstein, Astolphe Custine, Astolphe De CustineISBN 0940322811 (0-940322-81-1)
Softcover, New York Review of Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Letters from Russia'Book summary:The Marquis de Custine's record of his trip to Russia in 1839 is a brilliantly perceptive, even prophetic, account of one of the world's most fascinating and troubled countries. It is also a wonderful piece of travel writing. Custine, who met with people in all walks of life, including the Czar himself, offers vivid descriptions of St. Petersburg and Moscow, of life at court and on the street, and of the impoverished Russian countryside. But together with a wealth of sharply delineated incident and detail, Custine's great work also presents an indelible picture--roundly denounced by both Czarist and Communist regimes--of a country crushed by despotism and "intoxicated with slavery."
Letters from Russia, here published in a new edition prepared by Anka Muhlstein, the author of the Goncourt Prize-winning biography of Custine, stands with Tocqueville's Democracy in America as a profound and passionate encounter with historical forces that are still very much at work in the world today. [via]More editions of Letters from Russia:
The Life of Forms in Artby Henri FocillonISBN 0942299574 (0-942299-57-4)
Softcover, Zone Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Life of Forms in Art'Book summary:In this beautiful meditation on the history of art and the problem of style, Henri Focillon (1881-1943) describes how art forms change over time. Although he argues that the development of art is reducible to external political, social, or economic determinants, one of his great achievements was to lodge a concept of autonomous and organic artistic creation within the shifting domain of materials and techniques. Focillon emphasizes the universal presence of contradictory tendencies that give all styles manifold, stratified character.
The Life of Forms remains one of the most brilliant and important applications of biological metaphors to the study of art. It has been superbly translated by Yale art historian George Kubler, whose book The Shape of Time was strongly influenced by Focillon. [via]More editions of The Life of Forms in Art:
The Life of Henry Brulardby Stendhal, John SturrockISBN 0940322897 (0-940322-89-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Living Thoughts of Kierkegaardby Soren Kierkegaard, W. H. AudenISBN 0940322137 (0-940322-13-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Madame De Pompadourby Nancy Mitford, Amanda ForemanISBN 094032265X (0-940322-65-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Masochism: Coldness and Crueltyby Gilles DeleuzeISBN 0942299558 (0-942299-55-8)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Masochism: Coldness and Cruelty'Book summary:In his stunning essay, Coldness and Cruelty, Gilles Deleuze provides a rigorous and informed philosophical examination of the work of the late 19th-century German novelist Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. Deleuze's essay, certainly the most profound study yet produced on the relations between sadism and masochism, seeks to develop and explain Masoch's "peculiar way of 'desexualizing' love while at the same time sexualizing the entire history of humanity." He shows that masochism is something far more subtle and complex than the enjoyment of pain, that masochism has nothing to do with sadism; their worlds do not communicate, just as the genius of those who created themMasoch and Sadelie stylistically, philosophically, and politically poles a part.
Venus in Furs, the most famous of all of Masoch's novels, was written in 1870 and belongs to an unfinished cycle of works that Masoch entitled The Heritage of Cain. The cycle was to treat a series of themes including love, war, and death. The present work is about love. Although the entire constellation of symbols that has come to characterize the masochistic syndrome can be found herefetishes, whips, disguises, fur-clad women, contracts, humiliations, punishment, and always the volatile presence of a terrible coldnessthese do not eclipse the singular power of Masoch's eroticism. [via]More editions of Masochism: Coldness and Cruelty:
Matter and Memoryby Henri Bergson, Nancy Margaret Paul, W. Scott PalmerISBN 0942299051 (0-942299-05-1)
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Mein Kampfby Adolf HitlerISBN 0944379052 (0-944379-05-2)
Hardcover, C P A Book Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mein Kampf'Book summary:The angry ranting of an obscure, small-party politician, the first volume of Mein Kampf was virtually ignored when it was originally published in 1925. Likewise the second volume, which appeared in 1926. The book details Hitler's childhood, the "betrayal" of Germany in World War I, the desire for revenge against France, the need for lebensraum for the German people, and the means by which the National Socialist party can gain power. It also includes Hitler's racist agenda and his glorification of the "Aryan" race. The few outside the Nazi party who read it dismissed it as nonsense, not believing that anyone could--or would--carry out its radical, terrorist programs. As Hitler and the Nazis gained power, first party members and then the general public were pressured to buy the book. By the time Hitler became chancellor of the Third Reich in 1933, the book stood atop the German bestseller lists. Had the book been taken seriously when it was first published, perhaps the 20th century would have been very different.
Beyond the anger, hatred, bigotry, and self-aggrandizing, Mein Kampf is saddled with tortured prose, meandering narrative, and tangled metaphors (one person was described as "a thorn in the eyes of venal officials"). That said, it is an incredibly important book. It is foolish to think that the Holocaust could not happen again, especially if World War II and its horrors are forgotten. As an Amazon.com reader has pointed out, "If you want to learn about why the Holocaust happened, you can't avoid reading the words of the man who was most responsible for it happening." Mein Kampf, therefore, must be read as a reminder that evil can all too easily grow. --Sunny Delaney [via]
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Memoirs of Lorenzo Da Ponteby Lorenzo Da Ponte, Elisabeth Abbott, Charles RosenISBN 0940322358 (0-940322-35-8)
Softcover, New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
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My Futurist Yearsby Roman Jakobson, B. JangfeldtISBN 0941419819 (0-941419-81-9)
Hardcover, Marsilio Pub
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Niels Lyhneby Jens Pater Jacobsen, Tiina NunnallyISBN 0940242656 (0-940242-65-6)
Softcover, Fjord Pr
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Niels Lyhneby Tiina Nunnally, Jens Pater JacobsenISBN 094024229X (0-940242-29-X)
Softcover, Fjord Press
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Nights As Day, Days As Nightby Michael Leiris, Roger Shattuck, Maurice Blanchot, Richard SieburthISBN 094141907X (0-941419-07-X)
Softcover, Marsilio Pub
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Novels 1871-1880by Henry James, William T. StaffordISBN 0940450135 (0-940450-13-5)
Hardcover, Library of America
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Origins, of Terrorism: Psychologies, Ideologies, Theologies, States of Mindby Walter ReichISBN 0943875897 (0-943875-89-7)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Panzer Leaderby Heinz GuderianISBN 0939482061 (0-939482-06-1)
Hardcover, Noontide Pr
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Paris and the Ile De Franceby Klaus BussmanISBN 0941434397 (0-941434-39-7)
Softcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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Peasants and Other Storiesby Edmund Wilson, Anton Pavlovich ChekhovISBN 0940322145 (0-940322-14-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Pilgrim Hawkby Glenway Wescott, Michael CunninghamISBN 0940322560 (0-940322-56-0)
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The Plague Sowerby Gesualdo BufalinoISBN 0941419134 (0-941419-13-4)
Softcover, Marsilio Pub
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Plato's Phaedrus: A Translation With Notes, Glossary, Appendices, Interpretive Essay and Introductionby Plato, Stephen Scully, Albert Keith WhitakerISBN 0941051544 (0-941051-54-4)
Softcover, Focus Pub R Pullins & Co
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Pocketful of Dreamsby Mary A VanderweeleISBN 0943273005 (0-943273-00-5)
Softcover, Bolton Press
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Posthumous Papers of a Living Authorby Robert Musil, Peter WortsmanISBN 0941419010 (0-941419-01-0)
Softcover, Marsilio Pub
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Queen Victoria's Descendantby Marlene A. EilersISBN 0938311042 (0-938311-04-2)
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The Quest for Corvo: An Experiment in Biographyby A. J. A. Symons, A. S. ByattISBN 0940322617 (0-940322-61-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Readers Digest Best Loved Books for Young Readersby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0945260237 (0-945260-23-7)
Hardcover, Choice Pub
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Renoir, My Fatherby Jean Renoir, Robert L. Herbert, Randolph Weaver, Dorothy WeaverISBN 0940322773 (0-940322-77-3)
Softcover, New York Review of Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Renoir, My Father'Book summary:In this delightful memoir, Jean Renoir, the director of such masterpieces of the cinema as Grand Illusion and The Rules of the Game, tells the life story of his father, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, the great Impressionist painter. Recounting Pierre-Auguste's extraordinary career, beginning as a painter of fans and porcelain, recording the rules of thumb by which he worked, and capturing his unpretentious and wonderfully engaging talk and personality, Jean Renoir's book is both a wonderful double portrait of father and son and, in the words of the distinguished art historian John Golding, it "remains the best account of Renoir, and, furthermore, among the most beautiful and moving biographies we have."
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The Resurrection of Maltraversby Alexander Lernet-HoleniaISBN 0941419231 (0-941419-23-1)
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Situationist International Anthologyby Ken KnabbISBN 0939682044 (0-939682-04-4)
Softcover, Bureau of Public Secrets
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Society Against the State: Essays in Political Anthropologyby Pierre ClastresISBN 0942299019 (0-942299-01-9)
Softcover, Zone Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Society Against the State: Essays in Political Anthropology'Book summary:"The thesis is radical," writes Marshall Sahlins of this landmark text in anthropology and political science. "We conventionally define the state as the regulation of violence; it may be the origin of it. Clastres's thesis is that economic expropriation and political coercion are inconsistent with the character of tribal society - which is to say, with the greater part of human history."Can there be a society that is not divided into oppressors and oppressed, or that refuses coercive state apparatuses? In this beautifully written book, Pierre Clastres offers examples of South American Indian groups that, although without hierarchical leadership, were both affluent and complex. In so doing he refutes the usual negative definition of tribal society and poses its order as a radical critique of our own Western state of power.Born in 1934, Pierre Clastres was educated at the Sorbonne; throughout the 1960s he lived with Indian groups in Paraguay and Venezuela. From 1971 until his death in 1979 he was Director of Studies at the fifth section of the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris and held the Chair of Religion and Societies of the South American Indians there.Robert Hurley is the translator of the History of Sexuality by Michel Foucault and cotranslator of Anti-Oedipus by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari.
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Story of a Soulby St. Therese of LisieuxISBN 0940147114 (0-940147-11-4)
Softcover, Source Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Story of a Soul'Book summary:The Story of a Soul, better known to the English public as The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux, was first published in 1899. Today it ranks amongst the greatest Christian spiritual classics and it has been translated into practically every well-known language. Almost every pope since its publication has proposed St. Therese teaching to the faithful for their imitation Pius XI declared her the greatest saint of our age and John Paul II made her a Doctor of the Church. The Story of a Soul possesses in some degree a characteristic common both to the Gospels and The Imitation of Christ. Men and women open the book, often quite casually, and are caught by the vivid clarity or simple profundity of some sentence in such a way that their lives are completely changed. The style of St. Therese is extremely simple and spontaneous, having a charm that is hard to describe, especially when she rises to poetic heights. The final chapter, written for her eldest sister Marie, is simply a childlike outpouring of her heart to Jesus Himself. This spiritual classic will speak gently to your heart. [via]
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Stuka Pilotby Hans-Ulrich RudelISBN 0939482045 (0-939482-04-5)
Hardcover, Bloomfield Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stuka Pilot'Book summary:Hans Ulrich Rudel was a Stuka dive-bomber pilot during World War 2. The most highly decorated German serviceman of the war, Rudel was one of only 27 military men to be awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds.
Rudel flew 2,530 combat missions claiming a total of 2,000 targets destroyed, including 800 vehicles, 519 tanks, 150 artillery pieces, a destroyer, two cruisers, one battleship, 70 landing craft, 4 armored trains, several bridges and nine aircraft which he shot down. [via]
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Theory of Religionby Georges BatailleISBN 0942299094 (0-942299-09-4)
Softcover, Zone Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Theory of Religion'Book summary:Theory of Religion brings to philosophy what Bataille's earlier book, The Accursed Share, brought to anthropology and history; namely, an analysis based on notions of excess and expenditure. Bataille brilliantly defines religion as so many different attempts to respond to the universe's relentless generosity. Framed within his original theory of generalized economics and based on his masterly reading of archaic religious activity, Theory of Religion constitutes, along with The Accursed Share, the most important articulation of Bataille's work.
Georges Bataille (1897-1962), founder of the French review Critique, wrote fiction and essays on a wide range of topics. His books in English translation include Story of the Eye, Blue of Noon, Literature and Evil, Manet and Erotism.
Robert Hurley is the translator of The History of Sexuality by Michel Foucault and cotranslator of Anti Oedipus by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. Distributed for Zone Books. [via]More editions of Theory of Religion:
To Be a Pilgrimby Joyce Cary, Brad LeithauserISBN 0940322188 (0-940322-18-8)
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Torture in the Eightiesby Amnesty International ReportISBN 0939994062 (0-939994-06-2)
Softcover, Amnesty Intl USA
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A Traveller's History of Franceby Robert ColeISBN 0940793474 (0-940793-47-4)
Hardcover, Interlink
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A Traveller's History of Greeceby Timothy BoatswaunISBN 0940793490 (0-940793-49-0)
Softcover, Interlink Pub Group Inc
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A Traveller's History of Spainby Juan LalagunaISBN 0940793504 (0-940793-50-4)
Hardcover, Interlink Books
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War With the Newtsby Karel CapekISBN 0945774109 (0-945774-10-9)
Softcover, Catbird Pr
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The Waste Booksby R. J. Hollingdale, Georg LichtenbergISBN 0940322501 (0-940322-50-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Waste Books'Book summary:German scientist and man of letters Georg Christoph Lichtenberg was an 18th-century polymath: an experimental physicist, an astronomer, a mathematician, a practicing critic both of art and literature. He is most celebrated, however, for the casual notes and aphorisms that he collected in what he called his Waste Books. With unflagging intelligence and encyclopedic curiosity, Lichtenberg wittily deflates the pretensions of learning and society, examines a range of philosophical questions, and tracks his own thoughts down hidden pathways to disconcerting and sometimes hilarious conclusions.
Lichtenberg's Waste Books have been greatly admired by writers as very different as Tolstoy, Einstein, and Andre Breton, while Nietzsche and Wittgenstein acknowledged them as a significant inspiration for their own radical work in philosophy. The record of a brilliant and subtle mind in action, The Waste Books are above all a powerful testament to the necessity, and pleasure, of unfettered thought. [via]More editions of The Waste Books:
Weeping Violins: The Gypsy Tragedy in Europeby Betty Alt, Silvia FoltsISBN 0943549396 (0-943549-39-6)
Softcover, Univ Pr of Amer
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Wonders and the Order of Nature 1150-1750by Lorraine Daston, Katharine ParkISBN 0942299914 (0-942299-91-4)
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