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Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Yearsby Carl SandburgISBN 0151007780 (0-15-100778-0)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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The Age of Reform, 1815-1870by E.L. WoodwardISBN 0198217110 (0-19-821711-0)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Anglo-Saxon World: An Anthologyby Kevin Crossley-HollandISBN 0192835475 (0-19-283547-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Aristotelis Politicaby AristotleISBN 0198145152 (0-19-814515-2)
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Atlas of Russian Historyby Martin GilbertISBN 0195210611 (0-19-521061-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Boswell's Presumptous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr. Johnsonby Adam SismanISBN 0142001759 (0-14-200175-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Brighter Than a Thousand Sunsby Robert JungkISBN 0156141507 (0-15-614150-7)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brighter Than a Thousand Suns'Book summary:An account of the remarkable scientists who discovered that nuclear fission was possible and then became concerned about its implications. Index. Translated by James Cleugh.[via]More editions of Brighter Than a Thousand Suns:
Chronicle of the Abbey of Bury st Edmundsby De Brakelond JocelinISBN 0192818104 (0-19-281810-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Chronicle of the Abbey of Bury st Edmundsby Diana Greenway, Jane E. Sayers, De Brakelond Jocelin, JocelinISBN 0192838954 (0-19-283895-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Cult of the Saintsby Peter BrownISBN 0226076229 (0-226-07622-9)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Cult of the Saints: Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianityby Peter Robert Lamont BrownISBN 0226076210 (0-226-07621-0)
Hardcover, University of Chicago Press
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Decameronby Giovanni Boccaccio, G.H. McWilliamISBN 0140449302 (0-14-044930-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Decameron'Book summary:The Decameron (c.1351) is an entertaining series of one hundred stories written in the wake of the Black Death. The stories are told in a country villa outside the city of Florence by ten young noble men and women who are seeking to escape the ravages of the plague. Boccaccio's skill as a dramatist is masterfully displayed in these vivid portraits of people from all stations in life, with plots that revel in a bewildering variety of human reactions. [via]
Disorderly Conduct: Visions of Gender in Victorian Americaby Carroll Smith-RosenbergISBN 0195040392 (0-19-504039-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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Don Quixoteby Miguel De Cervantes SaavedraISBN 0142437239 (0-14-243723-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Don Quixote'Book summary:He lived in a small village in a dusty corner of Spain, a bony man of about fifty. He had little to do, and so he read. The flickering candle flame filled the corners of his room with ghostly shadows of giants and of dragons--for the only books he read were about the knights of old who roamed the countryside seeking adventures. The horizon stretched out an invitation. He knew that he too must be a knight, and travel on a quest for adventures. So he found a suit of rusty armor, made himself a visor of cardboard and tin, and he called himself Don Quixote de la Mancha.
In this spirited, lively retelling of the famous Cervantes classic, Michael Harrison's clear and lively style is beautifully complemented by Victor Ambrus's evocative paintings of the landscape of sixteenth-century Spain. [via] -
Don Quixote De LA Manchaby E.C. Riley, Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra, Charles Jarvis, JarvisISBN 019282726X (0-19-282726-X)
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Don Quixote De LA Manchaby Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra, E.C. Riley, Charles JarvisISBN 0192834835 (0-19-283483-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Don Quixote De LA Mancha'Book summary:Don Quixote, originally published in two parts in 1605 and 1615, stands as Cervantes' belated but colossal literary success. A work which has achieved mythic status, it is considered to have pioneered the modern novel. Don Quixote, a poor gentleman from La Mancha, Spain, entranced by the code of chivalry, seeks romantic honor through absurd and fantastic adventures. His fevered imagination turns everyday objects into heroic opponents and stepping stones to greater glory; each exploit serves as a comic, yet disturbing commentary on the psychological struggle between reality and illusion, fact and fiction. This celebrated translation by Charles Jarvis offers a new introduction and notes which provide essential background information. [via]
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Eastern Approaches: Essays on Asian Art and Archaeologyby T. S. MaxwellISBN 0195629256 (0-19-562925-6)
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Eastern Asia and Classical Greece: The Illustrated History of the Worldby J. M. RobertsISBN 0195215206 (0-19-521520-6)
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The Encyclopedia of Chicagoby James R. Grossman, Newberry Library, Chicago Historical Society, Janice L. Reiff, Ann Durkin KeatingISBN 0226310159 (0-226-31015-9)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Encyclopedia of Chicago'Book summary:One of the great American metropolises, Chicago rises out of the prairie in the heart of the country, buffeted by winds coming off the plains and cooled by the waters of the inland sea of Lake Michigan. Chicago is a city of size and mass, the cradle of modern architecture, the freight hub of the nation, a city built on slaughterhouses and cacophonous financial trading tempered by some of the finest cultural institutions in the world. While many histories have been written of the city, none can claim the scope and breadth of the long-awaited Encyclopedia of Chicago.[via]
Developed by the Newberry Library with the cooperation of the Chicago Historical Society, The Encyclopedia of Chicago is the definitive historical reference on metropolitan Chicago. More than a decade in the making, the Encyclopedia brings together hundreds of historians, journalists, and experts on everything from airlines to Zoroastrians to explore all aspects of the rich world of Chicagoland, from its geological prehistory to the present.
The main alphabetical section of the Encyclopedia, comprising more than 1,400 entries, covers the full range of Chicago's neighborhoods, suburbs, and ethnic groups, as well as the city's cultural institutions, technology and science, architecture, religions, immigration, transportation, business history, labor, music, health and medicine, and hundreds of other topics. The Encyclopedia has the widest geographical reach of any city encyclopedia of its kind, encompassing eight of the region's counties, including suburbs. Nearly 400 thumbnail maps pinpoint Chicago neighborhoods and suburban municipalities; these maps are complemented by hundreds of black-and-white and color photographs and thematic maps that bring the history of metropolitan Chicago to life. Additionally, contributors have provided lengthy interpretive essayswoven into the alphabetical section but set off graphicallythat take a long view of such topics as the built environment, literary images of Chicago, and the city's often legendary and passionate sports culture.
The Encyclopedia also offers a comprehensive biographical dictionary of more than 2,000 individuals important to Chicago history and a detailed listing of approximately 250 of the city's historically significant business enterprises. A color insert features a timeline of Chicago history and photo essays exploring nine pivotal years in this history.
The Encyclopedia of Chicago is one of the most significant historical projects undertaken in the last twenty years, and it has everything in it to engage the most curious historian as well as settle the most boisterous barroom dispute. If you think you know how Chicago got its name, if you have always wondered how the Chicago Fire actually started and how it spread, if you have ever marveled at the Sears Tower or the reversal of the Chicago Riverif you have affection, admiration, and appreciation for this City of the Big Shoulders, this Wild Onion, this Urbs in Horto, then The Encyclopedia of Chicago is for you.More editions of The Encyclopedia of Chicago:
The English Settlementsby J.N.L. MyresISBN 0192822357 (0-19-282235-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Europe in the Middle Agesby Robert Stuart HoytISBN 0155247123 (0-15-524712-3)
Hardcover, Harcourt College Pub
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Freedom: A History of Usby Joy HakimISBN 0195175018 (0-19-517501-8)
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Fundamentalism and American Cultureby George M. MarsdenISBN 0195300475 (0-19-530047-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fundamentalism And American Culture'Book summary:Many American's today are taking note of the surprisingly strong political force that is the religious right. Controversial decisions by the government are met with hundreds of lobbyists, millions of dollars of advertising spending, and a powerful grassroots response. How has the fundamentalist movement managed to resist the pressures of the scientific community and the draw of modern popular culture to hold on to their ultra-conservative Christian views? Understanding the movement's history is key to answering this question. Fundamentalism and American Culture has long been considered a classic in religious history, and to this day remains unsurpassed. Now available in a new edition, this highly regarded analysis takes us through the full history of the origin and direction of one of America's most influential religious movements.
For Marsden, fundamentalists are not just religious conservatives; they are conservatives who are willing to take a stand and to fight. In Marsden's words (borrowed by Jerry Falwell), "a fundamentalist is an evangelical who is angry about something." In the late nineteenth century American Protestantism was gradually dividing between liberals who were accepting new scientific and higher critical views that contradicted the Bible and defenders of the more traditional evangelicalism. By the 1920s a full-fledged "fundamentalist" movement had developed in protest against theological changes in the churches and changing mores in the culture. Building on networks of evangelists, Bible conferences, Bible institutes, and missions agencies, fundamentalists coalesced into a major protest movement that proved to have remarkable staying power.
For this new edition, a major new chapter compares fundamentalism since the 1970s to the fundamentalism of the 1920s, looking particularly at the extraordinary growth in political emphasis and power of the more recent movement. Never has it been more important to understand the history of fundamentalism in our rapidly polarizing nation. Marsen's carefully researched and engrossing work remains the best way to do just that. [via]More editions of Fundamentalism and American Culture:
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Fundamentalism and American Culture: The Shaping of Twentieth-Century Evangelicalism, 1870-1925by George M. MarsdenISBN 0195300513 (0-19-530051-3)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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For Marsden, fundamentalists are not just religious conservatives; they are conservatives who are willing to take a stand and to fight. In Marsden's words (borrowed by Jerry Falwell), "a fundamentalist is an evangelical who is angry about something." In the late nineteenth century American Protestantism was gradually dividing between liberals who were accepting new scientific and higher critical views that contradicted the Bible and defenders of the more traditional evangelicalism. By the 1920s a full-fledged "fundamentalist" movement had developed in protest against theological changes in the churches and changing mores in the culture. Building on networks of evangelists, Bible conferences, Bible institutes, and missions agencies, fundamentalists coalesced into a major protest movement that proved to have remarkable staying power.
For this new edition, a major new chapter compares fundamentalism since the 1970s to the fundamentalism of the 1920s, looking particularly at the extraordinary growth in political emphasis and power of the more recent movement. Never has it been more important to understand the history of fundamentalism in our rapidly polarizing nation. Marsen's carefully researched and engrossing work remains the best way to do just that. [via]More editions of Fundamentalism and American Culture: The Shaping of Twentieth-Century Evangelicalism, 1870-1925:
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History of the French Revolutionby J. MicheletISBN 0226523330 (0-226-52333-0)
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History of Western Civilization: A Handbookby William Hardy McNeillISBN 0226561607 (0-226-56160-7)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Hollow Crown: A History Of Britain In The Late Middle Agesby Miri RubinISBN 0143035754 (0-14-303575-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote De LA Manchaby Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra, John RutherfordISBN 0140448047 (0-14-044804-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote De LA Mancha'Book summary:Don Quixote has become so entranced reading tales of chivalry that he decides to turn knight errant himself. In the company of his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, these exploits blossom in all sorts of wonderful ways. While Quixote's fancy often leads him astray- he tilts at windmills, imagining them to be giants- Sancho acquires cunning and a certain sagacity. Sane madman and wise fool, they roam the world together-and together they have haunted readers' imaginations for nearly four hundred years.
With its experimental form and literary playfulness, Don Quixote has been generally recognized as the first modern novel. This Penguin Classics edition includes John Rutherford's masterly new translation, which does full justice to the energy and wit of Cervantes's prose, as well as a brilliant new critical introduction by Roberto Gonzalez Echevarriá. [via]More editions of The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote De LA Mancha:
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Inhuman Bondage: The Rise And Fall of Slavery in the New Worldby David Brion DavisISBN 0195140737 (0-19-514073-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Inhuman Bondage: The Rise And Fall of Slavery in the New World'Book summary:David Brion Davis has long been recognized as the leading authority on slavery in the Western World. His books have won every major history award--including the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award--and he has been universally praised for his prodigious research, his brilliant analytical skill, and his rich and powerful prose. Now, in Inhuman Bondage, Davis sums up a lifetime of insight in what Stanley L. Engerman calls "a monumental and magisterial book, the essential work on New World slavery for several decades to come."
Davis begins with the dramatic Amistad case, which vividly highlights the international character of the Atlantic slave trade and the roles of the American judiciary, the presidency, the media, and of both black and white abolitionists. The heart of the book looks at slavery in the American South, describing black slaveholding planters, the rise of the Cotton Kingdom, the daily life of ordinary slaves, the highly destructive internal, long-distance slave trade, the sexual exploitation of slaves, the emergence of an African-American culture, and much more. But though centered on the United States, the book offers a global perspective spanning four continents. It is the only study of American slavery that reaches back to ancient foundations (discussing the classical and biblical justifications for chattel bondage) and also traces the long evolution of anti-black racism (as in the writings of David Hume and Immanuel Kant, among many others). Equally important, it combines the subjects of slavery and abolitionism as very few books do, and it illuminates the meaning of nineteenth-century slave conspiracies and revolts, with a detailed comparison with 3 major revolts in the British Caribbean. It connects the actual life of slaves with the crucial place of slavery in American politics and stresses that slavery was integral to America's success as a nation--not a marginal enterprise.
A definitive history by a writer deeply immersed in the subject, Inhuman Bondage offers a compelling narrative that links together the profits of slavery, the pain of the enslaved, and the legacy of racism. It is the ultimate portrait of the dark side of the American dream. Yet it offers an inspiring example as well--the story of how abolitionists, barely a fringe group in the 1770s, successfully fought, in the space of a hundred years, to defeat one of human history's greatest evils. [via]More editions of Inhuman Bondage: The Rise And Fall of Slavery in the New World:
Leonardo Da Vinci: Flights of the Mindby Charles NichollISBN 0143036122 (0-14-303612-2)
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Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progressby Joel MokyrISBN 0195074777 (0-19-507477-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Life and Death of Adolph Hitlerby Robert PayneISBN 0224009273 (0-224-00927-3)
Hardcover, Cape
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The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America 1815-1846by Charles Grier SellersISBN 0195089200 (0-19-508920-0)
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The Market Revolution : Jacksonian America, 1815-1846by Charles C. SellersISBN 0195038894 (0-19-503889-4)
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Modern Architecture: A Critical Historyby Kenneth FramptonISBN 0195201795 (0-19-520179-5)
Softcover, Oxford University Press
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Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Managementby Nicola Humble, BeetonISBN 0192833456 (0-19-283345-6)
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On Historyby Fernand BraudelISBN 0226071510 (0-226-07151-0)
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On Liberty and Other Essaysby John Gray, John Stuart MillISBN 0192833847 (0-19-283384-7)
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On Liberty and Other Essaysby John Stuart Mill, John GrayISBN 019282208X (0-19-282208-X)
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The Oxford Classical Dictionaryby Simon Hornblower, Antony SpawforthISBN 0198606419 (0-19-860641-9)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oxford Classical Dictionary'Book summary:For almost half a century, the Oxford Classical Dictionary has been the unrivaled one-volume reference work on the Greco-Roman world. Whether one is interested in literature or art, philosophy or law, mythology or science, intimate details of daily life or broad cultural and historical trends, the OCD is the first place to turn for clear, authoritative information on all aspects of ancient culture. Now comes the Third Edition of this redoubtable resource, 20 per cent larger than the previous edition, with virtually every entry rewritten to bring it up to date with current scholarship, and with over 800 new entries that reflect the greatly expanded scope of classical studies.
Here, in over six thousand entries ranging from long articles to brief identifications, readers can find information on virtually any topic of interest--athletics, bee-keeping, botany, magic, Roman law, religious rites, postal service, slavery, navigation, and the reckoning of time. The Dictionary profiles every major figure of Greece and Rome, from Homer and Virgil, to Plato and Aristotle, to Tacitus and Thucydides, to Julius Caesar and Alexander the Great. (The OCD also covers many important but lesser known figures who will not be found in other reference works.) Readers will find entries on mythological and legendary figures, on major cities, famous buildings, and important geographical landmarks, and on legal, rhetorical, literary, and political terms and concepts. Equally important, the OCD features extensive thematic articles that offer superb coverage of topics of interest to both scholars and general readers, exploring everything from medicine and mathematics to music, law, and marriage.
In addition, there are over 800 completely new entries in the Third Edition, additions that reflect the insights and interests of a new generation of classical scholars. Readers will now find substantial coverage of women in the ancient world (with entries on abortion, breast-feeding, childbirth, housework, midwives, menopause, and motherhood, among many others), sexuality (homosexuality, love and friendship, contraception, pornography), the Far East (with entries ranging from Gandhara to the Persian Gulf), Jews (Dead Sea Scrolls, Pharisees, rabbis, Talmud), and early Christians (churches, pilgrimages, St. Paul). In addition, there are many more thematic articles than in previous editions, some of which reflect the new emphasis on multidisciplinary approaches to classical studies (such as Anthropology and the Classics, Marxism and Classical Antiquity, and Literary Theory and Classical Studies), while others examine issues of general interest to modern readers (race, class struggle, ecology, ethnicity, alcoholism, incest, suicide, pollution, propaganda, literacy, and much more).
Finally, the OCD boasts contributions and guidance from some of the finest classical scholars in the world. In addition to the superb efforts of general editors Hornblower and Spawforth, there were fifteen Area Advisors, including such respected figures as Martha Nussbaum (philosophy), Tony Honore (Roman law), Patricia Easterling (Greek literature), John Matthews (late antiquity), Geoffrey Lloyd (maths and sciences), Helen King (women's studies), Ernst Badian (Roman Republican prosopography), and Emily Kearns (Greek myth and religion). And among the many eminent authorities who have offered contributions are Albert Henrichs, Fritz Graf, Gian Biagio Conte, Oswyn Murray, Elaine Fantham, Julia Annas, J.J. Pollitt, Michael Jameson, and over three hundred others--a truly international team. Indeed, the aim throughout has been to secure the best experts on the topics covered, wherever in the world they happen to be. Thus, in the area of Greek religion, for instance, contributions have come from Canada, France, Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands, Great Britain, and the United States.
As an authoritative one-volume guide to all aspects of the ancient world--political, economic, philosophical, religious, artistic, and social--the Oxford Classical Dictionary has no equal in any language. It is the definitive summation of classical scholarship as it stands today. [via]More editions of The Oxford Classical Dictionary:
The Oxford Classical Dictionaryby Nicholas Geoffrey Lempriere HammondISBN 0198691173 (0-19-869117-3)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Oxford Companion to Irish Historyby S. J. ConnollyISBN 0198662408 (0-19-866240-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oxford Companion to Irish History'Book summary:The Oxford Companion to Irish History offers a radically new and eminently readable introduction to all aspects of the history of this fascinating and complex land. Written by a team of 87 specialists, its 1,800 entries explore Irish history from earliest times to the recent past. Key figures and events are re-evaluated in the light of recent research, while emerging areas of scholarship, such as women's history and public health, are discussed in depth. Many entries focus on enduring themes of Irish history, including nationalism, unionism, and Catholicism, breaking away from a purely chronological approach to examine the contexts and traditions that underpin Irish identity.
In a field bedeviled by controversy, The Oxford Companion to Irish History offers a reference that is both authoritative and innovative. [via]More editions of The Oxford Companion to Irish History:
The Oxford Illustrated History of Tudor & Stuart Britainby J. S. MorrillISBN 0192893270 (0-19-289327-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oxford Illustrated History of Tudor & Stuart Britain'Book summary:Britain under the reign of the Tudors and Stuarts was a country marked by extraordinary and dramatic change. These are the centuries of the Reformation, civil wars, and two revolutions; a time of upheaval that saw two monarchs, two wives of a king, and two Archbishops of Canterbury tried and executed; and a time of religious controversy that resulted in the torture or burning of hundreds of ordinary people. But this was also the time that marked the emergence of Britain as the most liberal and mature of European states, a politically significant era where monarchs based in southeast England imperfectly sought to extend their authority over the whole of the British archipelago. In this exciting and richly illustrated new work, eighteen leading scholars explore the political, social, religious, and cultural history of this tumultouous time.
The Oxford Illustrated History of Tudor and Stuart Britain chronicles the explosion of literacy and the printed word, transformations in landscapes and townscapes, new forms of wealth, new structures of power, and new forms of political participation that freed minds and broadened horizons in the generations from 1485 to 1689. We see the consolidation of England under the reign of the Tudors, with particular contributions in setting the pattern of local government from Henry VIII's two great ministers, Thomas Wolsey and Thomas Cromwell. And we witness the rise of litigation and the creation of the aristocracy alongside the inexorable increase in prominence of the English parliament, and, of course, the creation of the Church of England and the firestorm that the Reformation wrought. Here are the marital difficulties of Henry VIII, the events which brought Charles I to the scaffold, and the circumstances that drove James II to ignominious flight, as well as keen insights into the culture and society of average people and members of the royal courts.
From the maneuverings of rulers and powerbrokers, both religious and secular, to the profound social and cultural changes that affected the lives of ordinary men and women throughout Britain--indeed, throughout the world--The Oxford Illustrated History of Tudor and Stuart Britain offers the most authoritative history of this great age ever published for the general reader. For every student, scholar, and anglophile who ever wondered what it would be like to visit the royal court, this will be an indispensable volume. [via]More editions of The Oxford Illustrated History of Tudor & Stuart Britain:
Paris After the Liberation, 1944-1949by Antony Beevor, Artemis CooperISBN 0142437921 (0-14-243792-1)
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The Penguin Atlas of North American History/to 1870by Colin McEvedyISBN 0140511288 (0-14-051128-8)
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The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Egyptby Bill ManleyISBN 0140513310 (0-14-051331-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Egypt'Book summary:From its humble origins as a cluster of rival chiefdoms along the banks of the Nile, ancient Egypt rose to become one of the most advanced civilizations of its time. This atlas traces its turbulent history and remarkable cultural development, from the founding of Memphis around 5000 BC, through the territorial expansion and flourishing trade of the "age of empire," to Greek domination and ultimate collapse. Political rivalries are charted through the successive dynasties, from the strife of the intermediate periods to the golden ages of prosperity and artistic glory under Akhenaten, Tutankhamun and Ramesses II. The latest archaeological evidence is used to cast new light on the vast architectural legacy of the world's first great nation state.[via]- Over 60 full color maps
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Politicsby Aristotle, Ernest Barker, R. F. StalleyISBN 0192833936 (0-19-283393-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Politics'Book summary:[via]This new translation of one of the fundamental texts of Western political thought combines strict fidelity to Aristotle's Greek with a contemporary English prose style. Lord's intention throughout is to retain Aristotle's distinctive style.
The accompanying notes provide literary and historical references, call attention to textual problems, and supply other essential information and interpretation. A glossary supplies working definitions of key terms in Aristotle's philosophical-political vocabulary as well as a guide to linguistic relationships that are not always reflected in equivalent English terms. Lord's extensive Introduction presents a detailed account of Aristotle's life in relation to the political situation and events of his time and then discusses the problematic character and history of Aristotle's writings in general and of the Politics in particular. Lord also outlines Aristotle's conception of political science, tracing its relation to theoretical science on the one hand and to ethics on the other. In conclusion, he briefly traces the subsequent history and influence of the Politics up to modern times.
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Politics: Books VII and VIIIby Aristotle, Richard KrautISBN 0198751141 (0-19-875114-1)
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Politics of Aristotleby Aristotle, Carnes LordISBN 0195003063 (0-19-500306-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Politics of Aristotle'Book summary:Aristotle's Politics is a key document in Western political thought. In these first two books Aristotle shows his complete mastery of political theory and practice, and raises many crucial issues still with us today. In Book I he argues vigorously for a political theory based on 'nature'. By nature, man is a 'political animal', one naturally fitted for life in a polis or state. Some people, however, are natural slaves; and women are by nature subordinate to men. Acquisition and exchange are natural, but not trading for profit. In Book II he launches a sharp attack on Plato's two 'utopias', the Republic and the Laws, and also criticizes three historical states reputed to be well governed: Sparta, Crete, and Carthage. This volume contains a close translation of these two books, together with a philosophical commentary. It is well suited to the requirements of readers who do not know Greek. [via]
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Presidential Anecdotesby Paul F. BollerISBN 0195097319 (0-19-509731-9)
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Puritanism and Revolutionby C. HillISBN 0140552022 (0-14-055202-2)
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The Riddle of the Compass: The Invention That Changed the Worldby Amir D. AczelISBN 0156007533 (0-15-600753-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Riddle of the Compass: The Invention That Changed the World'Book summary:Sometimes it pays to be in the right place at the right time. Certainly the mariners in Amalfi in the twelfth century were. Here the compass was first invented and used in navigation, eventually helping to make Italians the world's greatest sailors.[via]
But the story of the compass is shrouded in mystery and myth. It begins in ancient China around the birth of Christ. A mysterious lodestone whose powers affected metal was known to the Emperor. This piece of metal suspended in water always pointed north and was put to excellent use in feng shui, the Chinese art of finding the right location. However, it was the Italians who unleashed the compass's formidable powers on ships at sea.
Throughout the ancient world, sailors navigated by wind, and stars, and the routes of migrating birds, but bad weather and winter storms impeded their travels. When the compass migrated to Italy, the modern world began: Venice, trade with the East, the Age of Discovery. The compass made it all possible, and this is its fascinating story.More editions of The Riddle of the Compass: The Invention That Changed the World:
The Right Nation: Conservative Power in Americaby Adrian Wooldridge, John MicklethwaitISBN 0143035398 (0-14-303539-8)
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The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party: Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of the Civil Warby Michael F. HoltISBN 0195161041 (0-19-516104-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party : Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of the Civil War'Book summary:Most Americans remember the Whigs as morally uptight New Englanders who provided us with some of our more mediocre presidents. In his exhaustively researched book The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party, Michael F. Holt partially rehabilitates the reputation of this once-thriving political party. Founded in 1833, following Andrew Jackson's decimation of the Second Bank of the United States, the Whigs were united in the belief that the federal government was obligated to sponsor the nation's internal development and to promote manufacturing and large-scale agricultural endeavors. In Holt's account, however, proponents of Whiggery were divided on numerous other issues.
The nature of these disagreements amongst party leaders (most notably Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and future presidents such as John Tyler, Zachary Taylor, and Millard Fillmore) take up the majority of space in Holt's 1,200-page account. Instead of relating how general sentiment on major issues (such as territorial expansion and the Compromise of 1850) determined the Whigs' fate, Holt shows how local and statewide political caucuses, party "kingmakers," federal patronage, and special interests created competing factions within the party even before sectionalism fractured cooperation between Northern and Southern wings in 1854. Amidst the diffused levels of power that defined the Federalism of the post-Jacksonian era, Holt concludes that the more popular leaders (such as Taylor and Fillmore) tried to balance competition amongst party factions instead of imposing an ideological "hard line" on sectional issues, a move that alienated many of the party's key ideological supporters. Written in an engaging narrative style with a minimal engagement of abstract theory, The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party meticulously reconstructs the byzantine world of 19th-century American politics. --John M. Anderson [via]
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River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild Westby Rebecca SolnitISBN 0142004103 (0-14-200410-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West'Book summary:[via]The world as we know it today began in California in the late 1800s, and Eadweard Muybridge had a lot to do with it. This striking assertion is at the heart of Rebecca Solnits new book, which weaves together biography, history, and fascinating insights into art and technology to create a boldly original portrait of America on the threshold of modernity. The story of Muybridgewho in 1872 succeeded in capturing high-speed motion photographicallybecomes a lens for a larger story about the acceleration and industrialization of everyday life. Solnit shows how the peculiar freedoms and opportunities of postCivil War California led directly to the two industriesHollywood and Silicon Valleythat have most powerfully defined contemporary society.
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The Scottish Nation: 1700-2000by T. M. DevineISBN 0141002344 (0-14-100234-4)
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Serendipities: Language & Lunacyby Umberto EcoISBN 0156007517 (0-15-600751-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Serendipities: Language & Lunacy'Book summary:The multitalented Umberto Eco--novelist, critic, and literary theorist--turns his attention to the history of linguistics. In linguistics, as in the other sciences, Eco explains, there are serendipities: "Even the most lunatic experiments can produce strange side effects, stimulating research that proves perhaps less amusing but scientifically more serious." In his earlier book The Search for the Perfect Language, for example, he discussed the project of discovering the language spoken before the collapse of the Tower of Babel. Although misconceived, the project by chance led to advances in mathematical logic, artificial intelligence, and even world peace--the goal of artificial languages like Esperanto and the unfortunately named Volapük. In the five essays in Serendipities, Eco explores some related serendipitous episodes in the history of linguistics; as always, his characteristic blend of playfulness and erudition is bound to be irresistible to any lover of language.
The first essay, "The Force of Falsity," discusses false documents with momentous repercussions, such as the letter of Prester John, which encouraged European explorers and conquerors to seek its supposed author, the Christian ruler of a distant and fantastically wealthy land. In the second essay, Eco considers Dante's relation to the idea of the perfect language. The third essay discusses early misinterpretations of Egyptian, Chinese, and Mexican ideograms. The Jesuit savant Athanasius Kircher, for example, devoted page upon page to mystical interpretations of a hieroglyph that later turned out to represent nothing more profound than the Greek letter lambda. The remaining two essays are devoted to single authors: "The Language of the Austral Land" concerns Gabriel de Foigny's instructive parody of contemporary attempts to devise the perfect language, while "The Linguistics of Joseph de Maistre" endeavors, with indifferent success, to make sense of the counterrevolutionary Savoyard's musings on the nature of language. --Glenn Branch [via]
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Sex, Time, and Power: HOw Women's Sexuality Shaped Human Evolutionby Leonard ShlainISBN 0142004677 (0-14-200467-7)
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Something from the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s Americaby Laura ShapiroISBN 014303491X (0-14-303491-X)
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Songlinesby ChatinISBN 0224024523 (0-224-02452-3)
Hardcover, Random House of Canada Ltd
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The Songlines/in Patagoniaby Bruce ChatwinISBN 014095130X (0-14-095130-X)
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The Stones of Veniceby John RuskinISBN 0141390654 (0-14-139065-4)
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Three Essays on Liberty: Representative Government the Subjection of Womenby John Stuart Mill, Jack StillingerISBN 0192830139 (0-19-283013-9)
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What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industryby John MarkoffISBN 0143036769 (0-14-303676-9)
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When Jesus Became God: The Epic Fight over Christ's Divinity in the Last Days of Romeby Richard E. RubensteinISBN 0151003688 (0-15-100368-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'When Jesus Became God: The Epic Fight over Christ's Divinity in the Last Days of Rome'Book summary:The Gospel narratives may suggest that Jesus was divine, but they do not insist upon it. Hundreds of years after Jesus' death, the Church councils made Jesus' divinity a central tenet of belief among many of his followers. When Jesus Became God: The Epic Fight over Christ's Divinity in the Last Days of Rome by Richard Rubenstein is a narrative history of Christians' early efforts to define Christianity by convening councils and writing creeds. Rubenstein is most interested in the battle between Arius, Presbyter of Alexandria, and Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria. Arius said that Christ did not share God's nature but was the first creature God created. Athanasius said that Christ was fully God. At the Council of Nicea in 325, the Church Fathers came down on Athanasius's side and made Arius's belief a heresy.
Rubenstein's brisk, incisive prose brings the councils' 4th-century Roman setting fully alive, with riots, civil strife, and spectacular public debates. Rubenstein is also personally invested in the meaning of these councils for religious life today: he wrote this book, in part, because he grew up in a mixed Jewish Catholic neighborhood and was bewildered by animosity between the religious groups on his block. Digging back in history, Rubenstein learns that before the Arian controversy, "Jews and Christians could talk to each other and argue among themselves about crucial issues like the divinity of Jesus.... They disagreed strongly about many things, but there was still a closeness between them." But when the controversy was settled, Rubenstein notes, "that closeness faded. To Christians, God became a Trinity and heresy became a crime. Judaism became a form of infidelity. And Jews living in Christian countries learned not to think very much about Jesus and his message." --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
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When Jesus Became God: The Struggle to Define Christianity During the Last Days of Romeby Richard E. RubensteinISBN 0156013150 (0-15-601315-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'When Jesus Became God: The Struggle to Define Christianity During the Last Days of Rome'Book summary:The Gospel narratives may suggest that Jesus was divine, but they do not insist upon it. Hundreds of years after Jesus' death, the Church councils made Jesus' divinity a central tenet of belief among many of his followers. When Jesus Became God: The Epic Fight over Christ's Divinity in the Last Days of Rome by Richard Rubenstein is a narrative history of Christians' early efforts to define Christianity by convening councils and writing creeds. Rubenstein is most interested in the battle between Arius, Presbyter of Alexandria, and Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria. Arius said that Christ did not share God's nature but was the first creature God created. Athanasius said that Christ was fully God. At the Council of Nicea in 325, the Church Fathers came down on Athanasius's side and made Arius's belief a heresy.
Rubenstein's brisk, incisive prose brings the councils' 4th-century Roman setting fully alive, with riots, civil strife, and spectacular public debates. Rubenstein is also personally invested in the meaning of these councils for religious life today: he wrote this book, in part, because he grew up in a mixed Jewish Catholic neighborhood and was bewildered by animosity between the religious groups on his block. Digging back in history, Rubenstein learns that before the Arian controversy, "Jews and Christians could talk to each other and argue among themselves about crucial issues like the divinity of Jesus.... They disagreed strongly about many things, but there was still a closeness between them." But when the controversy was settled, Rubenstein notes, "that closeness faded. To Christians, God became a Trinity and heresy became a crime. Judaism became a form of infidelity. And Jews living in Christian countries learned not to think very much about Jesus and his message." --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
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Women's America: Refocusing the Pastby Jane Sherron De Hart, Linda K. KerberISBN 0195029836 (0-19-502983-6)
Softcover, Oxford University Press
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Women's America: Refocusing the Pastby Linda K. Kerber, Jane Sherron De HartISBN 0195159829 (0-19-515982-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Women's America: Refocusing the Past'Book summary:Featuring a mix of primary source documents, articles, and illustrations, Women's America: Refocusing the Past has long been an invaluable resource. Now in its sixth edition, the book has been extensively revised and updated to cover recent events in American women's history. It provides many new selections from leading theorists and historians and restores several readings that were cut from the fifth edition. Successfully classroom-tested, these new essays offer more material on the impact of ethnicity in American culture, the roles that women have played in the creation of male-dominated structures, and the international dimensions of women's lives. The book covers such diverse groups as Christian Indian women in colonial America, African-American women in post-Civil War Atlanta, young Jewish labor organizers in turn-of-the-century New York, new arrivals to San Francisco's Chinatown, Japanese-American women during World War II, and Chicana feminists. The introductory essay has been revised and the bibliography has been updated to take into account the growing body of contemporary literature in the field. Women's America is an essential text for courses in women's history and an ideal supplement for more general survey courses on American history. [via]
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The Worst Journey in the Worldby Apsley Cherry-Garrard, Caroline AlexanderISBN 0143039385 (0-14-303938-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Worst Journey in the World'Book summary:[via]The Worst Journey in the World recounts Robert Falcon Scotts ill-fated expedition to the South Pole. Apsley Cherry-Garrardthe youngest member of Scotts team and one of three men to make and survive the notorious Winter Journeydraws on his firsthand experiences as well as the diaries of his compatriots to create a stirring and detailed account of Scotts legendary expedition. Cherry himself would be among the search party that discovered the corpses of Scott and his men, who had long since perished from starvation and brutal cold. It is through Cherrys insightful narrative and keen descriptions that Scott and the other members of the expedition are fully memorialized.
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