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1848: The Revolutionary Tide in Europeby Peter N. StearnsISBN 0393093115 (0-393-09311-5)
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Armies of the Raj: From the Mutiny to Independence, 1858-1947by Byron FarwellISBN 0393308022 (0-393-30802-2)
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At Day's Close: Night in Times Pastby A. Roger EkirchISBN 0393329011 (0-393-32901-1)
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Auschwitz: 1270 To the Presentby Deborah Dwork, Robert Jan Van PeltISBN 0393039331 (0-393-03933-1)
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The Battle for the Falklandsby Max Hastings, Simon JenkinsISBN 0393301982 (0-393-30198-2)
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Beowulfby E. Talbot DonaldsonISBN 0393096874 (0-393-09687-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beowulf'Book summary:The text of this edition of Beowulf is based on the highly regarded Donaldson prose translation of the Anglo-Saxon epic poem.
Accurate and literally faithful, the Donaldson translation conveys the full meaning and spirit of the original.
"Backgrounds and Contexts" provides readers with the historical, linguistic, and literary settings of Beowulf, including Robert C. Hughes on the origins of the Old English language, E. Talbot Donaldsons presentation of the major features of Old English poetry, new material on Beowulfs tribes and genealogies, three maps, and a facsimile illustration of the manuscript.
"Criticism" collects seven new and wide-ranging interpretations of Beowulf by Fred C. Robinson, Roberta Frank, John D. Niles, Michael Lapidge, Joyce Hill, Helen Bennett, and Nicholas Howe.
A Glossary of Proper Names and a Selected Bibliography are included. Maps and illustrations [via] -
Beowulf: An Illustrated Editionby Seamus HeaneyISBN 0393320979 (0-393-32097-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beowulf: An Illustrated Edition'Book summary:In Beowulf warriors must back up their mead-hall boasts with instant action, monsters abound, and fights are always to the death. The Anglo-Saxon epic, composed between the 7th and 10th centuries, has long been accorded its place in literature, though its hold on our imagination has been less secure. In the introduction to his translation, Seamus Heaney argues that Beowulf's role as a required text for many English students obscured its mysteries and "mythic potency." Now, thanks to the Irish poet's marvelous recreation (in both senses of the word) under Alfred David's watch, this dark, doom-ridden work gets its day in the sun.
There are endless pleasures in Heaney's analysis, but readers should head straight for the poem and then to the prose. (Some will also take advantage of the dual-language edition and do some linguistic teasing out of their own.) The epic's outlines seem simple, depicting Beowulf's three key battles with the scaliest brutes in all of art: Grendel, Grendel's mother (who's in a suitably monstrous snit after her son's dismemberment and death), and then, 50 years later, a gold-hoarding dragon "threatening the night sky / with streamers of fire." Along the way, however, we are treated to flashes back and forward and to a world view in which a thane's allegiance to his lord and to God is absolute. In the first fight, the man from Geatland must travel to Denmark to take on the "shadow-stalker" terrorizing Heorot Hall. Here Beowulf and company set sail:
Men climbed eagerly up the gangplank,
After a fearsome night victory over march-haunting and heath-marauding Grendel, our high-born hero is suitably strewn with gold and praise, the queen declaring: "Your sway is wide as the wind's home, / as the sea around cliffs." Few will disagree. And remember, Beowulf has two more trials to undergo.
sand churned in the surf, warriors loaded
a cargo of weapons, shining war-gear
in the vessel's hold, then heaved out,
away with a will in their wood-wreathed ship.
Over the waves, with the wind behind her
and foam at her neck, she flew like a bird...Heaney claims that when he began his translation it all too often seemed "like trying to bring down a megalith with a toy hammer." The poem's challenges are many: its strong four-stress line, heavy alliteration, and profusion of kennings could have been daunting. (The sea is, among other things, "the whale-road," the sun is "the world's candle," and Beowulf's third opponent is a "vile sky-winger." When it came to over-the-top compound phrases, the temptations must have been endless, but for the most part, Heaney smiles, he "called a sword a sword.") Yet there are few signs of effort in the poet's Englishing. Heaney varies his lines with ease, offering up stirring dialogue, action, and description while not stinting on the epic's mix of fate and fear. After Grendel's misbegotten mother comes to call, the king's evocation of her haunted home may strike dread into the hearts of men and beasts, but it's a gift to the reader:
A few miles from here
In Heaney's hands, the poem's apparent archaisms and Anglo-Saxon attitudes--its formality, blood-feuds, and insane courage--turn the art of an ancient island nation into world literature. --Kerry Fried [via]
a frost-stiffened wood waits and keeps watch
above a mere; the overhanging bank
is a maze of tree-roots mirrored in its surface.
At night there, something uncanny happens:
the water burns. And the mere bottom
has never been sounded by the sons of men.
On its bank, the heather-stepper halts:
the hart in flight from pursuing hounds
will turn to face them with firm-set horns
and die in the wood rather than dive
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Beowulf: A Verse Translationby Daniel Donoghue, Seamus HeaneyISBN 0393975800 (0-393-97580-0)
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The translation that "rides boldly through the reefs of scholarship" (The Observer) is combined with first-rate annotation. No reading knowledge of Old English is assumed. Heaneys clear and insightful introduction to Beowulf provides students with an understanding of both the poems history in the canon and Heaneys own translation process. [via]More editions of Beowulf: A Verse Translation:
The Bloodless Revolution: A Cultural History of Vegetarianism from 1600 to Modern Timesby Tristram StuartISBN 0393052206 (0-393-05220-6)
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The Bolsheviks Come To Power: The Revolution Of 1917 In Petrogradby Alexander RabinowitchISBN 0393055868 (0-393-05586-8)
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The Book of the Courtierby Daniel Javitch, Castiglione, Baldassare, ConteISBN 0393976068 (0-393-97606-8)
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The Butcher's Tale: Murder and Anti-Semitism in a German Townby Helmut Walser SmithISBN 0393325059 (0-393-32505-9)
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In 1900, in a small Prussian town, a young boy was found murdered, his body dismembered, the blood drained from his limbs. The Christians of the town quickly rose up in violent riots to accuse the Jews of ritual murderthe infamous blood-libel charge that has haunted Jews for centuries. In an absorbing narrative, Helmut Walser Smith reconstructs the murder and the ensuing storm of anti-Semitism that engulfed this otherwise peaceful town. Offering an instructive examination of hatred, bigotry, and mass hysteria, The Butcher's Tale is a modern parable that will be a classic for years to come. Winner of the Fraenkel Award. A Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2002. 4 pages of illustrations [via]More editions of The Butcher's Tale: Murder and Anti-Semitism in a German Town:
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Canterbury Talesby Geoffrey Chaucer, V.A. Kolve, Glending OlsonISBN 0393925870 (0-393-92587-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Canterbury Tales'Book summary:For this new critical edition of "The Canterbury Tales", the editors have selected the most popular and admired of Chaucer's tales, together with the complete General Prologue. Each tale is presented in Chaucer's original verse but with modern spelling and substantial glossing. As with all Norton Critical Editions, "The Canterbury Tales" also includes sections on sources and backgrounds, and criticism. The Tales included are as follows: "The Knight's Tale", "The Miller's Prologue and Tale", "The Reeve's Prologue and Tale", "The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale", "The Clerk's Prologue and Tale", "The Franklin's Prologue and Tale", "The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale", "The Prioress's Prologue and Tale" and "The Nun's Priest's Prologue and Tale". [via]
The Century of Revolution 1603-1714by Christopher HillISBN 0393300161 (0-393-30016-1)
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Civilization and Its Discontentsby Sigmund Freud, James StracheyISBN 0393301583 (0-393-30158-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Civilization and Its Discontents'Book summary:For the 75th anniversary, a new edition of the seminal work with an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Louis Menand.
Civilization and Its Discontents may be Sigmund Freud's best-known work. Originally published in 1930, it seeks to answer ultimate questions: What influences led to the creation of civilization? How did it come to be? What determines its course? In this seminal volume of twentieth-century thought, Freud elucidates the contest between aggression, indeed the death drive, and its adversary eros. He speaks to issues of human creativity and fulfillment, the place of beauty in culture, and the effects of repression.
Louis Menand, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Metaphysical Club, contributor to The New Yorker, and professor of English at Harvard University, reflects on the importance of this work in intellectual thought and why it has become such a landmark book for the history of ideas.
Not available in hardcover for decades, this beautifully rendered anniversary edition will be a welcome addition to readers' shelves. [via]More editions of Civilization and Its Discontents:
Counter-Reformationby A.G. DickensISBN 0393950867 (0-393-95086-7)
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The Courtier And the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza, and the Fate of God in the Modern Worldby Matthew StewartISBN 0393329178 (0-393-32917-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Courtier And the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza, and the Fate of God in the Modern World'Book summary:A colorful reinterpretation. . . . Stewarts wit and profluent prose make this book a fascinating read. Publishers Weekly, starred review
Philosophy in the late seventeenth century was a dangerous business. No careerist could afford to know the reclusive, controversial philosopher Baruch de Spinoza. Yet the wildly ambitious genius Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, who denounced Spinoza in public, became privately obsessed with Spinoza's ideas, wrote him clandestine letters, and ultimately met him in secret.
"In refreshingly lucid terms" (Booklist) Matthew Stewart "rescues both men from a dusty academic shelf, bringing them to life as enlightened humans" (Library Journal) central to the religious, political, and personal battles that gave birth to the modern age. Both men put their faith in the guidance of reason, but one spent his life defending a God he may not have believed in, while the other believed in a God who did not need his defense. Ultimately, the two thinkers represent radically different approaches to the challenges of the modern era. They stand for a choice that we all must make. [via]More editions of The Courtier And the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza, and the Fate of God in the Modern World:
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The Creation of the Modern World: The Untold Story of the British Enlightenmentby Roy PorterISBN 0393322688 (0-393-32268-8)
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The Death of Hitler: The Full Story With New Evidence from Secret Russian Archivesby Ada PetrovaISBN 0393039145 (0-393-03914-5)
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It is one of the most enduring mysteries of the twentieth century: how, exactly, Adolf Hitler died and what happened to his remains. With access to the Russians' Hitler Archive, this book reveals not only what happened after the Russians captured Hitler's bunker but also why the Soviets felt the details of his death had to be suppressed. 52 photographs [via]More editions of The Death of Hitler: The Full Story With New Evidence from Secret Russian Archives:
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Education of the Senses: The Bourgeois Experience Victoria to Freudby Peter GayISBN 0393319040 (0-393-31904-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Education of the Senses: The Bourgeois Experience Victoria to Freud'Book summary:In this work, Peter Gay draws on an array of primary sources to re-examine 19th-century sexual behaviour, overturning a number of stereotypes, especially about women and sexuality. [via]
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The Enlightenment: An Interpretation The Science of Freedomby Peter GayISBN 0393313662 (0-393-31366-2)
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The Science of Freedom completes Peter Gay's brilliant reinterpretation begun in The Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Paganism. In the present book, he describes the philosophes' program and their views of society. His masterful appraisal opens a new range of insights into the Enlightenment's critical method and its humane and libertarian vision. [via]More editions of The Enlightenment: An Interpretation The Science of Freedom:
The Fall of Berlinby David Fisher, Anthony ReadISBN 0393034720 (0-393-03472-0)
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The First Day on the Somme 1 July 1916by Martin MiddlebrookISBN 039305442X (0-393-05442-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The First Day on the Somme 1 July 1916'Book summary:Martin Middlebrook's "The First Day on the Somme" is a compelling and intensely moving account of the blackest day in the history of the British army. On 1 July, 1916, a continuous line of British soldiers climbed out from the trenches of the Somme into No Man's Land and began to walk slowly towards dug-in German troops armed with machine-guns and defended by thick barbed wire. By the end of that day, as old tactics were met by the reality of modern warfare, there had been more than 60,000 British casualties - a third of them fatalities. As well as drawing on official sources, local newspapers, autobiographies, novels and poems from the time, most importantly "The First Day on the Somme" also takes in the accounts of hundreds of survivors: normal men, many of them volunteers, who found themselves thrown into a scene of unparalleled tragedy and horror. "The First Day on the Somme" describes the true events behind one of the largest battles of the First World War, and the sacrifice of a generation of young men - killed as much by the folly of their commanders as by the bullets of their enemies. "The soldiers receive the best service a historian can provide: their story is told in their own words". ("Guardian"). "A particularly vivid and personal narrative". ("The Times Literary Supplement"). Martin Middlebrook is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the author of many important books on military history including "The Kaiser's Battle - March 1918", "The Falklands War - 1982". [via]
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Flesh In The Age Of Reasonby Roy PorterISBN 0393326969 (0-393-32696-9)
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Flesh in the Age of Reason: The Modern Foundations of Body and Soulby Roy Porter, Simon SchamaISBN 0393050750 (0-393-05075-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Flesh in the Age of Reason: The Modern Foundations of Body and Soul'Book summary:How did we come to a modern understanding of our bodies and souls? What were the breakthroughs that allowed human beings to see themselves in a new light? Starting with the revolutionary ideas of the Renaissance that challenged the sense of the body as a corrupt vessel for the soul, Roy Porter goes on to chart how - through figures as diverse as Locke, Swift, Johnson and Gibbon - ideas about medicine, politics and religion fundamentally changed notions of self. He shows how the body moved centre stage in the 18th century, writing on the ways in which men and women flaunted, decorated, tanned and dieted themselves: activities that we find familiar but that a Puritan divine would have considered Satanic. Porter also explores how, at the end of the century, the human soul took on a new significance in the works of Godwin, Blane and Byron. [via]
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Florence: The Biography of a Cityby Christopher HibbertISBN 0393035638 (0-393-03563-8)
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Germany's Aims in the First World War.by Fritz FischerISBN 0393097986 (0-393-09798-6)
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Giants, Monsters, and Dragonsby Carol RoseISBN 0393322114 (0-393-32211-4)
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God's Funeralby A. N. WilsonISBN 0393047458 (0-393-04745-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'God's Funeral'Book summary:God's Funeral is A.N. Wilson's account of the decline of orthodox Christianity in Victorian Britain. The most popular explanation for this widely-recognized phenomenon is the acceptance by intellectuals of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. To disprove the notion that Darwin singlehandedly committed deicide, Wilson describes a host of secularizing predecessors and accomplices such as Hume, Gibbon, John Stuart Mill, Hegel, Marx, and Carlyle. All play major roles in Wilson's brilliantly staged reconstruction of the so-called death of God. God's Funeral also takes account of the pain and confusion these intellectuals brought upon themselves when their great achievements helped erode the social and intellectual foundations of their lives. Furthermore, Wilson shows how their crises of faith relate to our own. Like our Victorian forebears, contemporary readers still must ask, "Is our personal religion that which links us to the ultimate reality, or is it the final human fantasy...?" and, "Is there a world of value outside ourselves, or do we, collectively and individually, invent what we call The Good?" God's Funeral helps readers learn to ask these questions in smarter and sharper ways by giving them a clearer sense of how Western society reached its current state of confusion. [via]
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Great Contemporariesby Winston Leonard Spencer ChurchillISBN 0393029417 (0-393-02941-7)
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Great Escapeby Paul BrickhillISBN 0393325792 (0-393-32579-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Great Escape'Book summary:"A tense, thrilling, fabulous tale."Philadelphia Inquirer
They were American and British air force officers in a German prison camp. With only their bare hands and the crudest of homemade tools, they sank shafts, forged passports, faked weapons, and tailored German uniforms and civilian clothes. They developed a fantastic security system to protect themselves from German surveillance. It was a split-second operation as delicate and as deadly as a time bomb. It demanded the concentrated devotion and vigilance of more than six hundred menevery one of them, every minute, every hour, every day and night for more than a year. Made into the classic movie starring Steve McQueen. 16 pages of photographs [via]More editions of Great Escape:
The Greek Stones Speak: The Story of Archaeology in Greek Landsby Paul Lachlan MacKendrickISBN 0393301117 (0-393-30111-7)
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The Heart of Darknessby Joseph Conrad, Paul B. ArmstrongISBN 0393926362 (0-393-92636-2)
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Herodotus: The Histories New Translation, Selections, Backgrounds, Commentariesby Herodotus, Walter Blanco, Jennifer Tolbert RobertsISBN 0393959465 (0-393-95946-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Herodotus: The Histories New Translation, Selections, Backgrounds, Commentaries'Book summary:This Norton Critical Edition offers an introduction to Herodotus for students approaching the history of Western Civilization or classical Greece for the first time. It features a new translation and selection of Herodotuss The Histories by Walter Blanco, supplemented by critical works chosen by Jennifer Roberts.
Walter Blanco's translation manages both to remain true to the spirit and letter of the original Greek and to be readily understandable to American students.
The selections from The Histories show Herodotus as ethnographer and as narrative historian, including his rich descriptions of Egyptian civilization and its contributions to Greek culture and his dramatic account of the Persian wars
"Backgrounds and Commentaries" provide students with a context for understanding Herodotuss place at the genesis of the historical narrative tradition. Great classical accounts by Aeschylus, Thucydides, Aristotle, and Plutarch serve as comparative pieces in early historical narrative while critical commentaries by modern scholarsincluding Hume, Mill, Macaulay, Collingwood, Momigliano, Ferrill, and othersengage students in the debate over Herodotuss historical authority.
A master Map, Chronology of Events, Glossary of names, places, and terms, and explanatory footnotes facilitate the students understanding of this work. A Bibliography directs readers to resources for further study. [via]More editions of Herodotus: The Histories New Translation, Selections, Backgrounds, Commentaries:
A History of Modern Europe: From the French Revolution to the Presentby John MerrimanISBN 0393924955 (0-393-92495-5)
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Hitler: 1889-1936 Hubrisby Ian KershawISBN 0393046710 (0-393-04671-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hitler: 1889-1936 Hubris'Book summary:Hailed as the most compelling biography of the German dictator yet written, Ian Kershaw's Hitler brings us closer than ever before to the heart of its subject's immense darkness.From his illegitimate birth in a small Austrian village to his fiery death in a bunker under the Reich chancellery in Berlin, Adolf Hitler left a murky trail, strewn with contradictory tales and overgrown with self-created myths. One truth prevails: the sheer scale of the evils that he unleashed on the world has made him a demonic figure without equal in this century. Ian Kershaw's Hitler brings us closer than ever before to the character of the bizarre misfit in his thirty-year ascent from a Viennese shelter for the indigent to uncontested rule over the German nation that had tried and rejected democracy in the crippling aftermath of World War I. With extraordinary vividness, Kershaw recreates the settings that made Hitler's rise possible: the virulent anti-Semitism of prewar Vienna, the crucible of a war with immense casualties, the toxic nationalism that gripped Bavaria in the 1920s, the undermining of the Weimar Republic by extremists of the Right and the Left, the hysteria that accompanied Hitler's seizure of power in 1933 and then mounted in brutal attacks by his storm troopers on Jews and others condemned as enemies of the Aryan race. In an account drawing on many previously untapped sources, Hitler metamorphoses from an obscure fantasist, a "drummer" sounding an insistent beat of hatred in Munich beer halls, to the instigator of an infamous failed putsch and, ultimately, to the leadership of a ragtag alliance of right-wing parties fused into a movement that enthralled the German people.This volume, the first of two, ends with the promulgation of the infamous Nuremberg laws that pushed German Jews to the outer fringes of society, and with the march of the German army into the Rhineland, Hitler's initial move toward the abyss of war. Black-and-white photos throughout [via]
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Hitler's Social Revolution: Class and Status in Nazi Germany, 1933-1939by David SchoenbaumISBN 0393315541 (0-393-31554-1)
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In fact, the gap between the ideology of the Reich and its actual character was enormous. But under the spell of the mirage, the will to resist was undermined by an accelerating process of social disintegration. [via]More editions of Hitler's Social Revolution: Class and Status in Nazi Germany, 1933-1939:
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A Journal of the Plague Yearby Paula R. BackscheiderISBN 0393961885 (0-393-96188-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Journal of the Plague Year'Book summary:This Norton Critical Edition of one of Defoes most important works reprints the 1722 text, the only edition published in Defoes lifetime.
The authoritative text has been fully annotated and makes available a perennially popular novel, one that has often been mistaken for an actual eyewitness account of the last great plague in England.
"Backgrounds" encourages comparison of 1665 documents with those of the early 1720s, when England feared a new outbreak of the plague.
Included are official government orders and newspaper accounts as well as writings by Defoe, John Graunt, the College of Physicians, and others.
"Contexts" includes eight comparative pieces united by the theme of a community in crisis.
From Thucydides to Boccaccio to modern accounts by Albert Camus, Michel Foucault, and Susan Sontag, this collection represents some of the most celebrated observers and critics in western civilization who have seen what plagues reveal about human nature.
"Criticism" reprints seven of the best essays on the novel, including interpretations by Sir Walter Scott, Maximillian E. Novak, John J. Richetti, and John Bender, among others.
A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included. [via]More editions of A Journal of the Plague Year:
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Khrushchev: The Man and His Eraby William TaubmanISBN 0393324842 (0-393-32484-2)
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The definitive biography of the mercurial Soviet leader who succeeded and denounced Stalin. Nikita Khrushchev was one of the most complex and important political figures of the twentieth century. Ruler of the Soviet Union during the first decade after Stalin's death, Khrushchev left a contradictory stamp on his country and on the world. His life and career mirror the Soviet experience: revolution, civil war, famine, collectivization, industrialization, terror, world war, cold war, Stalinism, post-Stalinism. Complicit in terrible Stalinist crimes, Khrushchev nevertheless retained his humanity: his daring attempt to reform communism prepared the ground for its eventual collapse; and his awkward efforts to ease the cold war triggered its most dangerous crises.
This is the first comprehensive biography of Khrushchev and the first of any Soviet leader to reflect the full range of sources that have become available since the USSR collapsed. Combining a page-turning historical narrative with penetrating political and psychological analysis, this book brims with the life and excitement of a man whose story personified his era.
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Kings and Philosophers: 1689-1789by Leonard KriegerISBN 0393099059 (0-393-09905-9)
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Library: An Unquiet Historyby Matthew BattlesISBN 0393325644 (0-393-32564-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Library: An Unquiet History'Book summary:On the survival and destruction of knowledge, from Alexandria to the Internet.
Through the ages, libraries have not only accumulated and preserved but also shaped, inspired, and obliterated knowledge. Matthew Battles, a rare books librarian and a gifted narrator, takes us on a spirited foray from Boston to Baghdad, from classical scriptoria to medieval monasteries, from the Vatican to the British Library, from socialist reading rooms and rural home libraries to the Information Age.
He explores how libraries are built and how they are destroyed, from the decay of the great Alexandrian library to scroll burnings in ancient China to the destruction of Aztec books by the Spanishand in our own time, the burning of libraries in Europe and Bosnia. Encyclopedic in its breadth and novelistic in its telling, this volume will occupy a treasured place on the bookshelf next to Baker's Double Fold, Basbanes's A Gentle Madness, Manguel's A History of Reading, and Winchester's The Professor and the Madman. 11 b/w illustrations. [via]
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The Long Weekend: A Social History of Great Britain 1918-1939by Robert Graves, Alan HodgeISBN 0393311368 (0-393-31136-8)
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The Marx-Engels Readerby Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx, Robert C. TuckerISBN 0393099652 (0-393-09965-2)
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The Communist Manifesto (Marx and Engels) Translated by Samuel Moore
Das Kapital (Marx) Translated by Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling
Critique of the Gotha Programme (Marx)
Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (Marx) Translated by Emil F. Teichert
The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 (Engels) Translated by Florence Kelley Wischnewetzky
Speech at the Grave of Karl Marx (Engels)Essays (Marx) Translated by H. J. Stenning:
A Criticism of The Hegelian Philosophy of Right
On The Jewish Question
On The King of Prussia And Social Reform
Moralizing Criticism And Critical Morality: A Polemic Against Karl
Proudhon
French Materialism
The English RevolutionAppendix:
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The Marx-Engels Readerby Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Robert C. TuckerISBN 039309040X (0-393-09040-X)
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Men-Of-War: Life in Nelson's Navyby Patrick O'BrianISBN 0393038580 (0-393-03858-0)
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Mr. Kipling's Armyby Byron FarwellISBN 0393304442 (0-393-30444-2)
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This is an upstairs-downstairs view of the Victorian-Edwardian army, one of the world's most peculiar fighting forces. The battles it fought are household words, but the idiosyncracies and eccentricities of its soldiers and the often appalling conditions under which they lived have gone largely unrecorded. Byron Farwell explores here the lives of officers and men, their foibles, gallantry, and diversions, their discipline and their rewards. [via]More editions of Mr. Kipling's Army:
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The Odysseyby Homer, Albert Spaulding CookISBN 0393964051 (0-393-96405-1)
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On Libertyby John Stuart MillISBN 0393092526 (0-393-09252-6)
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The Other Victorians: A Study of Sexuality and Pornography in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Englandby Steven MarcusISBN 0393302369 (0-393-30236-9)
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Pleasure Warsby Peter GayISBN 0393318273 (0-393-31827-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pleasure Wars'Book summary:The concluding volume in Peter Gay's magisterial study of the European and American middle classes from the 1820s to the outbreak of World War I. [via]
Queen Victoria's Little Warsby Byron FarwellISBN 0393302350 (0-393-30235-0)
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Report from a Parisian Paradise: Essays from France, 1925-1939by Michael Hofmann, Joseph Roth, Katharina OchseISBN 0393051455 (0-393-05145-5)
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Report From A Parisian Paradise: Essays From France, 1925v1939by Joseph Roth, Michael HofmannISBN 0393327167 (0-393-32716-7)
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The Republicby Plato, Richard W. Sterling, William C. ScottISBN 0393314677 (0-393-31467-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Republic'Book summary:Authoritative and idiomatic, this translation has already established an impressive foothold in the college market.
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The Revolt of the Massesby Josey Ortega Y GassetISBN 0393310957 (0-393-31095-7)
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Romanticism and Revoltby J. R. TalmonISBN 0393950816 (0-393-95081-6)
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Schnitzler's Century: The Making of Middle-Class Culture 1815-1914by Peter GayISBN 0393323633 (0-393-32363-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Schnitzler's Century: The Making of Middle-Class Culture 1815-1914'Book summary:Prolific author Peter Gay describes the rise of the middle class in the 19th century through an unexpected lens: the life of Viennese playwright Arthur Schnitzler. Yet Gay's themes are much larger than the somewhat obscure Schnitzler: "If we may call [my book] a biography at all, it is one of a class," he writes. Schnitzler's Century necessarily focuses on the Victorians--a term often applied only to the British, but here extended to all of Europe and the United States--and Gay seeks to portray them in their complexity and diversity. "There are many people who think they have grasped the Victorian mentality when they have smiled at gushy keepsakes, maudlin poems, shy euphemisms, silences about matters that matter," he writes. In fact, "they lived with their eyes open." Gay has written a history of habits, with close attention paid to sexual ones. It is the sort of provocative book that the stereotypical Victorian would want to see removed from the storefront window--but also would want to peek at when nobody else was looking. --John Miller [via]
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Selected Political Writingsby Rosa LuxemburgISBN 039417867X (0-394-17867-X)
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The Story of Britain: From the Romans to the Present A Narrative Historyby Rebecca FraserISBN 039332902X (0-393-32902-X)
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Strange Defeat: A Statement of Evidence Written in 1940by Marc BlochISBN 0393319113 (0-393-31911-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Strange Defeat: A Statement of Evidence Written in 1940'Book summary:A renowned historian and Resistance fighter later executed by the Nazis analyzes at first hand why France fell in 1940.
Marc Bloch wrote Strange Defeat during the three months following the fall of France, after he returned home from military service. In the midst of his anguish, he nevertheless "brought to his study of the crisis all the critical faculty and all the penetrating analysis of a first-rate historian" (Christian Science Monitor). Bloch takes a close look at the military failures he witnessed, examining why France was unable to respond to attack quickly and effectively. He gives a personal account of the battle of France, followed by a biting analysis of the generation between the wars. His harsh conclusion is that the immediate cause of the disaster was the utter incompetence of the High Command, but his analysis ranges broadly, appraising all the factors, social as well as military, which since 1870 had undermined French national solidarity. "Much has been, and will be, written in explanation of the defeat of France in 1940, but it seems unlikely that the truth of the matter will ever be more accurately and more vividly presented than in this statement of evidence." P. J. Philip, New York Times Book Review "The most wisdom-packed commentary on the problem set [before] all intelligent and patriotic Frenchmen by the events of 1940." D. W. Brogan, Spectator [via]More editions of Strange Defeat: A Statement of Evidence Written in 1940:
Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirtiesby Noel Riley FitchISBN 0393302318 (0-393-30231-8)
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Too Serious a Business: European Armed Forces and the Approach to the Second World Warby Donald WattISBN 0393308154 (0-393-30815-4)
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Victorian People and Ideas: A Companion for the Modern Reader of Victorian Literatureby Richard Daniel AltickISBN 039309376X (0-393-09376-X)
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The reputation of the Victorian age in England has undergone many vicissitudes, but it is now higher than ever. In this important study, Richard D. Altick moves us toward an understanding of the social, intellectual, and theological crises that Carlyle and Dickens, Tennyson and Arnold were daily struggling to solve. And the issues were many: the revolution in class structure and class attitudes; the rise of utilitarianism and the evangelical spirit; the crisis in religion, including the Oxford movement and Darwinism; the democratization of culture; the place of art and the artist in an industrial, bourgeois society; the effects of industrialism, especially on the way people live. Altick brings to the discussion of these complicated questions the lively and sensitive intelligence that his many readers have come to expect. He includes contemporary illustrations and a full reference index. [via]More editions of Victorian People and Ideas: A Companion for the Modern Reader of Victorian Literature:
Warwick the Kingmakerby Paul Murray KendallISBN 0393303802 (0-393-30380-2)
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Weimar Culture: The Outsider As Insiderby Peter GayISBN 0393322394 (0-393-32239-4)
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What I Saw: Reports from Berlin, 1920-1933by Joseph Roth, Michael J. HoffmannISBN 0393325822 (0-393-32582-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'What I Saw: Reports from Berlin, 1920-1933'Book summary:"[Joseph Roth] is now recognized as one of the twentieth century's great writers." Anthony Heilbut, Los Angeles Times Book Review
The Joseph Roth revival has finally gone mainstream with the thunderous reception for What I Saw, a book that has become a classic with five hardcover printings. Glowingly reviewed, What I Saw introduces a new generation to the genius of this tortured author with its "nonstop brilliance, irresistible charm and continuing relevance" (Jeffrey Eugenides, The New York Times Book Review). As if anticipating Christopher Isherwood, the book re-creates the tragicomic world of 1920s Berlin as seen by its greatest journalistic eyewitness. In 1920, Joseph Roth, the most renowned German correspondent of his age, arrived in Berlin, the capital of the Weimar Republic. He produced a series of impressionistic and political essays that influenced an entire generation of writers, including Thomas Mann and the young Christopher Isherwood. Translated and collected here for the first time, these pieces record the violent social and political paroxysms that constantly threatened to undo the fragile democracy that was the Weimar Republic. Roth, like no other German writer of his time, ventured beyond Berlin's official veneer to the heart of the city, chronicling the lives of its forgotten inhabitants: the war cripples, the Jewish immigrants from the Pale, the criminals, the bathhouse denizens, and the nameless dead who filled the morgues. Warning early on of the dangers posed by the Nazis, Roth evoked a landscape of moral bankruptcy and debauched beauty; a memorable portrait of a city and a time of commingled hope and chaos. What I Saw, like no other existing work, records the violent social and political paroxysms that compromised and ultimately destroyed the precarious democracy that was the Weimar Republic. [via]More editions of What I Saw: Reports from Berlin, 1920-1933:
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Why Moths Hate Thomas Edison: And Other Urgent Inquiries into the Odd Nature of Natureby Hampton Sides, Jason SchneiderISBN 0393321509 (0-393-32150-9)
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Do beavers ever get squashed by the trees they're gnawing down? Why are there so many worms writhing on the sidewalk after a storm? What good are goosebumps? Why do llamas spit? What is the oldest living creature on earth? Focusing on natural history and outdoor lore, this collection ranges from the gothic to the comic to the cosmic. It includes the sorts of questions that most of us stopped asking (at least out loud) when we were eight years old. "The Wild File" is what question-and-answer columns should be but seldom are: an often surprising, sometimes zany, always insightful and informative back-and-forth between a devoted readership and its publication. The result is an enchanting and enriching collection of answers that open windows to more questions.
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Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeareby Stephen GreenblattISBN 039332737X (0-393-32737-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare'Book summary:There's no shortage of good Shakespearean biographies. But Stephen Greenblatt, brilliant scholar and author of Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare, reminds us that the "surviving traces" are "abundant but thin" as to known facts. He acknowledges the paradox of the many biographies spun out of conjecture but then produces a book so persuasive and breathtakingly enjoyable that one wonders what he could have done if the usual stuff of biographical inquiry--memoirs, interviews, manuscripts, and drafts--had been at his disposal. Greenblatt uses the "verbal traces" in Shakespeare's work to take us "back into the life he lived and into the world to which he was so open." Whenever possible, he also ushers us from the extraordinary life into the luminous work. The result is a marvelous blend of scholarship, insight, observation, and, yes, conjecture--but conjecture always based on the most convincing and inspired reasoning and evidence. Particularly compelling are Greenblatt's discussions of the playwright's relationship with the university wit Robert Greene (discussed as a chief source for the character of Falstaff) and of Hamlet in relation to the death of Shakespeare's son Hamnet, his aging father, and the "world of damaged rituals" that England's Catholics were forced to endure.
Will in the World is not just the life story of the world's most revered writer. It is the story, too, of 16th- and 17th-century England writ large, the story of religious upheaval and political intrigue, of country festivals and brutal public executions, of the court and the theater, of Stratford and London, of martyrdom and recusancy, of witchcraft and magic, of love and death: in short, of the private but engaged William Shakespeare in his remarkable world. Throughout the book, Greenblatt's style is breezy and familiar. He often refers to the poet simply as Will. Yet for all his alacrity of style and the book's accessibility, Will in the World is profoundly erudite, an enormous contribution to the world of Shakespearean letters. --Silvana TropeaInterview with Stephen Greenblatt
Stephen Greenblatt shares his thoughts about what make Shakespeare Shakespeare and why the Bard continues to fascinate us endlessly.More editions of Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare:
The World of Late Antiquity Ad 150-750: Ad 150-750by Peter Robert Lamont BrownISBN 0393958035 (0-393-95803-5)
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Young Man Luther: A Study in Psychoanalysis and Historyby Erik H. EriksonISBN 0393310361 (0-393-31036-1)
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