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Admiral De Grasse and American Independenceby Charles A. LewisISBN 0405130422 (0-405-13042-2)
Hardcover, Ayer Co Pub
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The Adventures of Tintinby HergeISBN 041660580X (0-416-60580-X)
Hardcover, French & European Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Tintin'Book summary:The Adventures of Tintin (Les Aventures de Tintin) is a series of comic strips created by Belgian artist Herge the pen name of Georges Remi (1907 1983). The series first appeared in French in Le Petit Vingtieme, a children's supplement to the Belgian newspaper Le Vingtieme Siecle on 10 January 1929. Set in a painstakingly researched world closely mirroring our own, Herge's Tintin series continues to be a favorite of readers and critics alike 80 years later.
The hero of the series is Tintin, a young Belgian reporter. He is aided in his adventures from the beginning by his faithful fox terrier dog Snowy (Milou in French). Later, popular additions to the cast included the brash, cynical and grumpy Captain Haddock, the bright but hearing-impaired Professor Calculus (Professeur Tournesol) and other colorful supporting characters such as the incompetent detectives Thomson and Thompson (Dupond et Dupont). Herge himself features in several of the comics as a background character; as do his assistants in some instances.
The success of the series saw the serialized strips collected into a series of albums (24 in all), spun into a successful magazine and adapted for film and theatre. The series is one of the most popular European comics of the 20th century, with translations published in over 50 languages and more than 200 million copies of the books sold to date.
The comic strip series has long been admired for its clean, expressive drawings in Herge's signature ligne claire style. Engaging, well-researched plots straddle a variety of genres: swashbuckling adventures with elements of fantasy, mysteries, political thrillers, and science fiction. The stories within the Tintin series always feature slapstick humor, accompanied in later albums by sophisticated satire, and political and cultural commentary. [via]More editions of The Adventures of Tintin:
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Anais Nin: A Biographyby Deirdre BairISBN 0399139885 (0-399-13988-5)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Archaeology of Knowledgeby Michel FoucaultISBN 0415287537 (0-415-28753-7)
Softcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Archaeology of Knowledge'Book summary:In France, a country that awards its intellectuals the status other countries give their rock stars, Michel Foucault was part of a glittering generation of thinkers, one which also included Sartre, de Beauvoir and Deleuze. One of the great intellectual heroes of the twentieth century, Foucault was a man whose passion and reason were at the service of nearly every progressive cause of his time. From law and order, to mental health, to power and knowledge, he spearheaded public awareness of the dynamics that hold us all in thrall to a few powerful ideologies and interests. Arguably his finest work, Archaeology of Knowledge is a challenging but fantastically rewarding introduction to his ideas. [via]
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Around the World with 80 Wordsby Charles BerlitzISBN 0399134441 (0-399-13444-1)
Hardcover, Putnam
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Around the World With 80 Words: The 80 Key Words You Need to Communicate in 25 Languages.by Charles BerlitzISBN 0399517545 (0-399-51754-5)
Softcover, Perigee
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Bazin at Work: Major Essays & Reviews from the Forties and Fiftiesby Andre Bazin, Bert CardulloISBN 0415900182 (0-415-90018-2)
Softcover, Routledge
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The Bourne Identityby Robert LudlumISBN 0399900705 (0-399-90070-5)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bourne Identity'Book summary:The Bourne Identity, Robert Ludlum, Marek Publishers, 6th printing, 1980, ISBN # 0-399-90070-5, 523 pages. Description: Book; Black cloth with gold lettering to spine only, author's initials blind embossed on front board. Dust jacket; Green-to-blue gradated color with seashell and spike design to front panel, author's photo on back panel, DJ is price clipped, dated 8003. Condition: Book; Good reading copy. Tight and unmarked but considerable wear to gold lettering, all edges rubbed, some minor stains to both boards. Previous owner's name neatly inked to ffep. Dust jacket; Good. Bright but with some chips and small tears to top edge, lower edge of spine stained on the inside, leading edge of front panel has what looks like white paint smudges. Now protected in Brodart [via]
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Brecht Collected Plays: Life of Galileo Part 1by Bertolt BrechtISBN 0413390608 (0-413-39060-8)
Hardcover, Greenwood Pub Group
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Charles Baudelaire: Complete Poemsby Charles Baudelaire, Walter MartinISBN 0415940923 (0-415-94092-3)
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A Christmas Carolby Charles Dickens, Joe StatonISBN 0425123340 (0-425-12334-0)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Colloquial Frenchby R. HumphreysISBN 0415039452 (0-415-03945-2)
Softcover, Routledge
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Colloquial French 2: The Next Step in Language Learningby Elspeth BroadyISBN 0415266475 (0-415-26647-5)
Softcover, Routledge
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Colloquial French: A Complete Language Courseby Alan MoysISBN 0415120896 (0-415-12089-6)
Softcover, Routledge
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Colonialism And Neocolonialismby Jean Paul Sartre, Steve Brewer, Azzedine Haddour, Terry McWilliamsISBN 0415191467 (0-415-19146-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Colonialism and Neocolonialism'Book summary:Colonialism and Neo-Colonialism is a classic critique of France's policies in Algeria in the 1950s and 1960s and inspired much subsequent writing on colonialism, post-colonialism, politics, and literature. It includes Sartre's celebrated preface to Fanon's classic Wretched of the Earth. Colonialism and Neo-Colonialism had a profound impact on French intellectual life, inspiring many other influential French thinkers and critics of colonialism such as Jean-Francois Lyotard, Frantz Fanon, Pierre Bourdieu and Jacques Derrida. [via]
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Companion to Literary Myths, Heroes and Archetypesby Pierre Brunel, Trista Selous, Wendy Allatson, Judith HaywardISBN 0415133637 (0-415-13363-7)
Softcover, Routledge
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Comparative Constructions in Spanish and French Syntaxby Susan PriceISBN 0415010241 (0-415-01024-1)
Hardcover, Routledge
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The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales: Illustrations by Joseph Scharlby Joseph CampbellISBN 0415104416 (0-415-10441-6)
Softcover, Routledge
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Curtainby Agatha ChristieISBN 0399140166 (0-399-14016-6)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus: Introduction to Schizoanalysisby Felix Guattari, Gilles Deleuze, Eugene W. HollandISBN 0415113199 (0-415-11319-9)
Softcover, Routledge
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Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus: Introduction to Schizoanalysisby Gilles Deleuze, Eugene W. HollandISBN 0415113180 (0-415-11318-0)
Hardcover, Routledge
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He lucidly presents the theoretical concerns behind Anti-Oedipus and explores with clarity the diverse influences of Marx, Freud, Nietzsche and Kant on the development of Deleuze & Guattari's thinking. He also examines the wider implications of their work in revitalizing Marxism, environmentalism, feminism and cultural studies.
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Descartes: The Project Of Pure Enquiryby Bernard WilliamsISBN 041535627X (0-415-35627-X)
Softcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Descartes: The Project Of Pure Enquiry'Book summary:Descartes has often been called the 'father of modern philosophy'.His attempts to find foundations for knowledge, and to reconcile the existence of the soul with the emerging science of his time, are among the most influential and widely studied in the history of philosophy.
This is a classic and challenging introduction to Descartes by one of the most distinguished modern philosophers. Bernard Williams not only analyzes Descartes' project of founding knowledge on certainty, but uncovers the philosophical motives for his search. With acute insight, he demonstrates how Descartes' Meditations are not merely a description but the very enactment of philosophical thought and discovery. Williams covers all of the key areas of Descartes' thought, including God, the will, the possibility of knowledge, and the mind and its place in nature. He also makes profound contributions to the theory of knowledge, metaphysics and philosophy generally. This is essential reading for any student of philosophy.
This reissue includes a new foreword by John Cottingham.
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Domus Anguli Puensisby Alan Alexander MilneISBN 0416194907 (0-416-19490-7)
Softcover, Routledge
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Feudal Society: Social Classes and Political Organisationby Marc BlochISBN 0415039185 (0-415-03918-5)
Softcover, Routledge
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Feudal Society: The Growth and Ties of Dependenceby Marc BlochISBN 0415039169 (0-415-03916-9)
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The Fifth French Republic: Presidents, Politics and Personalitiesby Philip ThodyISBN 0415187540 (0-415-18754-0)
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France Before the Revolutionby J.H. ShennanISBN 0415119456 (0-415-11945-6)
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French Food: On the Table, on the Page, and in French Cultureby Allen S. Weiss, Lawrence R. SchehrISBN 0415936284 (0-415-93628-4)
Softcover, Routledge
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The French Language Today: A Linguistic Introductionby Adrian Battye, Marie-Anne Hintze, Paul RowlettISBN 0415198380 (0-415-19838-0)
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French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie De Franceby Eugene Mason, Marie De France, MarieISBN 040414571X (0-404-14571-X)
Hardcover, Ams Pr Inc
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A General Theor of Magicby Marcel Mauss, Robert Brain, David Francis PocockISBN 0415255503 (0-415-25550-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A General Theor of Magic'Book summary:First written by Marcel Mauss and Henri Humbert in 1902, A General Theory of Magic gained a wide new readership when republished by Mauss in 1950. As a study of magic in 'primitive' societies and its survival today in our thoughts and social actions, it represents what Claude Lévi-Strauss called, in an introduction to that edition, the astonishing modernity of the mind of one of the century's greatest thinkers. The book offers a fascinating snapshot of magic throughout various cultures as well as deep sociological and religious insights still very much relevant today. At a period when art, magic and science appear to be crossing paths once again, A General Theory of Magic presents itself as a classic for our times. [via]
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The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societiesby Marcel MaussISBN 0415267498 (0-415-26749-8)
Softcover, Taylor and Francis
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Glory and Terror: Seven Deaths Under the French Revolutionby Antoine De BaecqueISBN 0415926173 (0-415-92617-3)
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Glory and Terror: Seven Deaths Under the French Revolutionby Charlotte Mandell, Antoine De BaecqueISBN 0415926165 (0-415-92616-5)
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Godel's Proofby Ernest Nagel, NewmanISBN 0415355281 (0-415-35528-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Godel's Proof'Book summary:'Nagel and Newman accomplish the wondrous task of clarifying the argumentative outline of Kurt Godel's celebrated logic bomb.' The Guardian
In 1931 the mathematical logician Kurt Godel published a revolutionary paper that challenged certain basic assumptions underpinning mathematics and logic. A colleague of physicist Albert Einstein, his theorem proved that mathematics was partly based on propositions not provable within the mathematical system. The importance of Godel's Proof rests upon its radical implications and has echoed throughout many fields, from maths to science to philosophy, computer design, artificial intelligence, even religion and psychology. While others such as Douglas Hofstadter and Roger Penrose have published bestsellers based on Godels theorem, this is the first book to present a readable explanation to both scholars and non-specialists alike. A gripping combination of science and accessibility, Godels Proof by Nagel and Newman is for both mathematicians and the idly curious, offering those with a taste for logic and philosophy the chance to satisfy their intellectual curiosity.
Kurt Godel (1906 1978) Born in Brunn, he was a colleague of physicist Albert Einstein and professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J.
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The Helene Cixous Readerby Susan SellersISBN 041504930X (0-415-04930-X)
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His Last Bowby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0425104915 (0-425-10491-5)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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The House at Pooh Corner: Library Editionby A. A. MilneISBN 0416789005 (0-416-78900-5)
Hardcover, Methuen Children
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The House at Pooh Corner: Library Edition'Book summary:"The House at Pooh Corner" is the second of only two storybooks written by A.A. Milne about Winnie-the-Pooh, the most famous bear in the world. In its pages, the reader is reunited with Pooh, Christopher Robin and all the familiar characters from "Hundred Acre Wood". Join the friends as they build a house for Eeyore, invent the noble game of Poohsticks and investigate the knotty question of what Tiggers like to eat. Delicate colourings of E. H. Shepard's beloved illustrations are complemented by an exquisite jacket design, making this prestige edition a must-have for Pooh collectors and all lovers of beautiful books. [via]
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I Am a Catby Natsume Soseki, Soseki NatsumeISBN 0399506098 (0-399-50609-8)
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The Invisible Manby H. G. WellsISBN 042510043X (0-425-10043-X)
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It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Lifeby Lance Armstrong, Sally JenkinsISBN 0399146113 (0-399-14611-3)
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Jacques Lacan: A Feminist Introductionby Elizabeth GroszISBN 041501400X (0-415-01400-X)
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The Joy Luck Clubby Amy TanISBN 0399134204 (0-399-13420-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Joy Luck Club'Book summary:Four mothers, four daughters, four families whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's "saying" the stories. In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk. United in shared unspeakable loss and hope, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Rather than sink into tragedy, they choose to gather to raise their spirits and money. "To despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable." Forty years later the stories and history continue.
With wit and sensitivity, Amy Tan examines the sometimes painful, often tender, and always deep connection between mothers and daughters. As each woman reveals her secrets, trying to unravel the truth about her life, the strings become more tangled, more entwined. Mothers boast or despair over daughters, and daughters roll their eyes even as they feel the inextricable tightening of their matriarchal ties. Tan is an astute storyteller, enticing readers to immerse themselves into these lives of complexity and mystery. [via]
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The Keyby Jun Ichiro TanizakiISBN 0399505229 (0-399-50522-9)
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King Learby William ShakespeareISBN 0415081254 (0-415-08125-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'King Lear'Book summary:King Lear stands alongside Hamlet as one of the most profound expressions of tragic drama in literature. Written between 1604 and 1605, it represents Shakespeare at the height of his dramatic power. Drawing on ancient British history, Shakespeare constructs a plot that reads like a fable in its clear-sighted but terrifying simplicity. The ageing King Lear calls his daughters, Goneril, Regan and Cordelia to witness that he wishes "to shake all cares and business from our age" and divide his kingdom between his three children. When Cordelia refuses to flatter her father with sycophantic words of love, her banishment leads to chaos and civil war as Lear's disastrous "division of the kingdom" gives free reign to the greed and ambition of his two remaining daughters.
As Lear sinks into rage and madness he is deserted by everyone except his "bitter" Fool, the loyal Kent and the exiled Cordelia. The play descends into a nighmarish theatre of cruelty and absurdity as Lear realises he has "ta'en / Too little care" of the poverty and corruption of his kingdom, and his loyal but foolish friend Gloucester has his eyes gouged out. Metaphors of monstrosity and perversions of nature structure the dramatic action, and the play's ending remains one of the most harrowing in all of Shakespeare. Many see a profound despair and nihilism in King Lear, and would agree with Kent's conclusion that "All's cheerless, dark and deadly". Other writers have identified a radical but pessimistic critique of contemporary conceptions of kingship and absolutist authority, yet it remains a remarkable tragedy of public misjudgement and intensely private grief and anguish. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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King Learby ArdenISBN 041502692X (0-415-02692-X)
Softcover, Van Nostrand Reinhold
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King Richard IIIby William ShakespeareISBN 0415026946 (0-415-02694-6)
Softcover, Thomson Learning
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The Last Action Heroby Robert TineISBN 0425140377 (0-425-14037-7)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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The Life of Galileoby Bertolt BrechtISBN 0413390705 (0-413-39070-5)
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Macbethby William ShakespeareISBN 0415026962 (0-415-02696-2)
Softcover, Van Nostrand Reinhold
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Macbeth'Book summary:One of Shakespeare's greatest, but also bloodiest tragedies, was written around 1605 to 1606. Many have seen the story of Macbeth's murder and usurpation of the legitimate Scottish King Duncan as having obvious connection to contemporary issues regarding King James I (James VI of Scotland), and the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. King James was particularly fascinated with witchcraft, so the appearance of the witches chanting "Fair is foul, and foul is fair" at the opening of the play seemed particularly topical, as was Macbeth's betrayal of Banquo, from whom James claimed direct descent.
However, the play is clearly far more than a piece of royal entertainment. It is also a fast-moving and dramatically satisfying piece of theatre. Macbeth's existential struggle between loyalty to his King and his "Vaulting ambition" is fascinating to watch, as his is struggle with Lady Macbeth, and her own terrifying refusal of her maternal role. The play shows an intensification of Shakespeare's interest in mothers and their effect upon ruling masculinity, and also contains some of the most memorable speeches in the entire canon, including Macbeth's reflections that ultimately life "is a tale/Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,/Signifying nothing". --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Michel Foucaultby Sara MillsISBN 0415245699 (0-415-24569-9)
Softcover, Routledge
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Mirette on the High Wireby Emily Arnold McCullyISBN 0399221301 (0-399-22130-1)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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The Mirror of Art, Critical Studiesby Charles BaudelaireISBN 0404163033 (0-404-16303-3)
Hardcover, Ams Pr Inc
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Moby Dickby Herman Melville, Bill SienkiewiczISBN 0425120236 (0-425-12023-6)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moby Dick'Book summary:Ishmael, a sailor, recounts the ill-fated voyage of a whaling ship led by the fanatical Captain Ahab in search of the white whale that had crippled him. Presented in comic book format. [via]
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The Mysterious Mr. Quinby Agatha ChristieISBN 0425103536 (0-425-10353-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Naomiby Jun Ichiro TanizakiISBN 0399512861 (0-399-51286-1)
Softcover, Perigee
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The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Toward Mankindby Simone Weil, Arthur WillsISBN 0415271029 (0-415-27102-9)
Softcover, Routledge
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New Art: Some Recent New Zealand Sculpture A Past Object of Artby Jim Allen, Wystan CurnowISBN 0424000938 (0-424-00093-8)
Hardcover, Intl Specialized Book Service Inc
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Othelloby William ShakespeareISBN 0415027012 (0-415-02701-2)
Softcover, Van Nostrand Reinhold
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Othello'Book summary:This edition of "Othello" aims to shed light on the text of the play as we have come to know it, and on our knowledge of its early history. The professional malpractices of the publisher of the Quarto, as described in documents in the Public Record Office, and the professional zeal of the Folio scribe, who wished to tidy and correct Shakespeare's manuscript, introduced many plausible but post-Shakespearean readings into the text, which call into question a number of our assumptions about the play. As well as investigating the implications of these findings about the early texts, the editor offers a wider background to the play, discussing major critical issues, the play in performance and the relationship between reading and seeing it, and topics such as its date, sources, the famous conundrum of "double time", and its "greatness" compared with "Hamlet" and "King Lear". Commentary notes assist the reader's understanding of the text in detail; many are concerned with the contemporary resonsanaces of its language. [via]
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Pascalby Ben RogersISBN 0415923980 (0-415-92398-0)
Softcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pascal'Book summary:Philosophy is one of the most intimidating and difficult of disciplines, as any of its students can attest. This book is an important entry in a distinctive new series from Routledge: "The Great Philosophers." Breaking down obstacles to understanding the ideas of history's greatest thinkers, these brief, accessible, and affordable volumes offer essential introductions to the great philosophers of the Western tradition from Plato to Wittgenstein.
In just 64 pages, each author, a specialist on his subject, places the philosopher and his ideas into historical perspective. Each volume explains, in simple terms, the basic concepts, enriching the narrative through the effective use of biographical detail. And instead of attempting to explain the philosopher's entire intellectual history, which can be daunting, this series takes one central theme in each philosopher's work, using it to unfold the philosopher's thoughts. [via]More editions of Pascal:
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Purity of Bloodby Arturo Perez-Reverte, Margaret Sayers PedenISBN 0399153209 (0-399-15320-9)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Purity of Blood'Book summary:Arturo Perez-Reverte is one of the most beloved writers in the world. His bestselling novels, including The Club Dumas and The Queen of the South, have been published in fifty countries and translated into twenty-eight languages. Now, with The Adventures of Captain Alatriste, he delivers a magnificent series, already a million-copy bestseller in Spain, that chronicles the heroic adventures of a seventeenth-century swordsman.
In Purity of Blood, the second novel in the series, the courageous Alatriste is considering rejoining his old regiment to fight in Breda-but his blade leads him to another adventure. A desperate father hires him to rescue his daughter from a convent where a powerful priest is said to be using the girl as his personal concubine. The father has been prevented from legal recourse because the priest has threatened to reveal that the man's family is "not of pure blood"-is, in fact, of Jewish descent -which will all but destroy the family name. Alatriste agrees to help, and several nights later, under the cloak of darkness, a rescue attempt is made.
But soon Alatriste discovers that he has become part of a religious and political conspiracy that leads all the way to the highest levels of the Inquisition. When a date is set to burn the man's daughter at the stake, Captain Alatriste springs into action -sword first-setting off a series of twists and turns that will keep readers riveted to the page.
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The Resistible Rise of Arturo Uiby Bertolt BrechtISBN 0413478106 (0-413-47810-6)
Softcover, Greenwood Pub Group
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The Romance Languagesby Martin Harris, Nigel VincentISBN 0415164176 (0-415-16417-6)
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Servant of Two Mastersby L. Hall, Carlo GoldoniISBN 0413748502 (0-413-74850-2)
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Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theoryby Toril MoiISBN 0415280125 (0-415-28012-5)
Softcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory'Book summary:What are the political implications of a feminist critical practice? How do the problems of the literary text relate to the priorities and perspectives of feminist politics as a whole?
Sexual/Textual Politics addresses these fundamental questions and examines the strengths and limitations of the two main strands in feminist criticism, the Anglo-American and the French, paying particular attention to the works of Cixous, Irigaray and Kristeva. In the years since publication this book has rightly attained the status of a classic. Written for readers with little knowledge of the subject, Sexual/Textual Politics nevertheless makes its own intervention into key debates, arguing provocatively for a commitedly political and theoretical criticism as against merely textual or apolitical approaches.
With a new afterword in this edition, Sexual/Textual Politics is a must-read for all those interested in feminist literary theory. [via]More editions of Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory:
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The Sun over Bredaby Arturo Perez-riverteISBN 0399153837 (0-399-15383-7)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sun over Breda'Book summary:Arturo Pérez-Reverte has enthralled readers and critics around the globe with his Captain Alatriste series. Having sold four and a half million copies to date in the Spanish-speaking world, the series has made Pérez-Reverte a literary superstar and his fictional seventeenth-century mercenary a national icon. And the appeal of Pérez-Reverte's adventurer and his exploits continues to grow, as evidenced by the extraordinary reception for the first two translated volumes in the series-Captain Alatriste and Purity of Blood.
And now, in The Sun over Breda, Pérez-Reverte continues his thrilling chronicle of the swordsman-for-hire, as Captain Alatriste takes up his blade and rejoins his elite Cartagena regiment as they take part in the battles and siege of Breda. Fifteen-year-old Íñigo Balboa enlists to serve as his master's aide, and narrates their further adventures of swordplay and skirmishes, of mutiny and wartime honor. And, back in Spain, Alatriste's nemesis Luis de Alquézar grows more powerful, as Íñigo's mysterious friend Angélica hints at some plans upon his return [via]More editions of The Sun over Breda:
The Taming of the Shrewby William Shakespeare, Brian MorrisISBN 0416475809 (0-416-47580-9)
Hardcover, Chapman & Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Taming of the Shrew'Book summary:From the Royal Shakespeare Company -- a fresh new edition of Shakespeare's controversial comedy of the war between the sexes THIS EDITION INCLUDES: * An illuminating introduction to The Taming of the Shrew by award-winning scholar Jonathan Bate * The play - with clear and authoritative explanatory notes on each page * A helpful scene-by-scene analysis and key facts about the play * An introduction to Shakespeare's career and the Elizabethan theatre * A rich exploration of approaches to staging the play featuring photographs of key productions The most enjoyable way to understand a Shakespeare play is to see it or participate in it. This unique edition presents a historical overview of The Taming of the Shrew in performance, recommends film versions, takes a detailed look at specific productions and includes interviews with two leading directors and an actress - Gregory Doran, Phyllida Lloyd and Michelle Gomez -- so that we may get a sense of the extraordinary variety of interpretations that are possible, a variety that gives Shakespeare his unique capacity to be reinvented and made 'our contemporary' four centuries after his death. Ideal for students, theatre-goers, actors and general readers, the RSC Shakespeare plays offer an accessible and contemporary approach to reading and rediscovering Shakespeare's works for the twenty-first century. [via]
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The Taming of the Shrewby MorrisISBN 0415027039 (0-415-02703-9)
Softcover, Van Nostrand Reinhold
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Taming of the Shrew'Book summary:One of the most controversial and problematic of all of Shakespeare's plays, The Taming of the Shrew is a typical Elizabethan domestic comedy written around 1592. Petruchio, a gentleman of Verona, arrives in Padua and announces to his friends that "I come to wive it wealthily in Padua; / If wealthily, then happily in Padua". He soon finds that a group of men keen to marry Bianca, the younger daughter of rich old Baptista, are frustrated by her elder, "shrewish" sister, Katherine. There is much subsequent hilarity as Bianca's suitors make a bet with Petruchio that he cannot "tame" and marry Katherine. Despite Katherine's protestations, Petruchio goes ahead with the match, using deliberately unorthodox behaviour to confuse Katherine (including a scene where he starves her), claiming that "this is the way to kill a wife with kindness". The play culminates with a scene of Katherine's apparently spontaneous subjection to her husband's will, where she places her hand beneath her husband's foot, and tells the other wives present that "thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper". The play's gratuitous scenes of women being abused and vilified in the name of "comedy" has made many directors and critics very uncomfortable with the play, and many feminist critics have condemned contemporary productions of the play as reproducing certain 16th-century stereotypes concerning women who speak out against male authority. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Thinking French Translation: A Course in Translation Method French to Englishby Sandor Hervey, Ian HigginsISBN 0415255228 (0-415-25522-8)
Softcover, Routledge
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The Thirteen Problemsby Agatha ChristieISBN 0425089037 (0-425-08903-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Time and Free Will : An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousnessby Henri BergsonISBN 0415295890 (0-415-29589-0)
Hardcover, Routledge
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To the Lighthouseby Virginia Woolf, Sandra KempISBN 0415016630 (0-415-01663-0)
Softcover, Routledge
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Tragedy of Macbethby William Shakespeare, A. P. RiemerISBN 0424000814 (0-424-00081-4)
Softcover, Intl Specialized Book Service Inc
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The Unteleported Manby Philip DickISBN 042506252X (0-425-06252-X)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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The Way of Life According to Laotzu: An American Versionby Witter BynnerISBN 0399512985 (0-399-51298-5)
Softcover, Perigee
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La Dentelliereby Pascal LaineISBN 0415040019 (0-415-04001-9)
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Les Mains Sale, Jean Paul Sartreby Walter D. Redfe, W. D. RedfernISBN 0415039355 (0-415-03935-5)
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