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America in 1857 : A Nation on the Brinkby Kenneth M. StamppISBN 0195039025 (0-19-503902-5)
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America in 1857: A Nation on the Brinkby Kenneth Milton StamppISBN 0195074815 (0-19-507481-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'America in 1857: A Nation on the Brink'Book summary:It was a year packed with unsettling events. The Panic of 1857 closed every bank in New York City, ruined thousands of businesses, and caused widespread unemployment among industrial workers. The Mormons in Utah Territory threatened rebellion when federal troops approached with a non-Mormon governor to replace Brigham Young. The Supreme Court outraged northern Republicans and abolitionists with the Dred Scott decision ("a breathtaking example of judicial activism"). And when a proslavery minority in Kansas Territory tried to foist a proslavery constitution on a large antislavery majority, President Buchanan reneged on a crucial commitment and supported the minority, a disastrous miscalculation which ultimately split the Democratic party in two.
In America in 1857, eminent American historian Kenneth Stampp offers a sweeping narrative of this eventful year, covering all the major crises while providing readers with a vivid portrait of America at mid-century. Stampp gives us a fascinating account of the attempt by William Walker and his band of filibusters to conquer Nicaragua and make it a slave state, of crime and corruption, and of street riots by urban gangs such as New York's Dead Rabbits and Bowery Boys and Baltimore's Plug Uglies and Blood Tubs. But the focus continually returns to Kansas. He examines the outrageous political frauds perpetrated by proslavery Kansans, Buchanan's calamitous response and Stephen Douglas's break with the President (a rare event in American politics, a major party leader repudiating the president he helped elect), and the whirl of congressional votes and dramatic debates that led to a settlement humiliating to Buchanan--and devastating to the Democrats.
1857 marked a turning point, at which sectional conflict spun out of control and the country moved rapidly toward the final violent resolution in the Civil War. Stampp's intensely focused look at this pivotal year illuminates the forces at work and the mood of the nation as it plummeted toward disaster. [via]More editions of America in 1857: A Nation on the Brink:
American Legal History: Cases and Materialsby Paul Finkelman, Kermit L. Hall, William M. WiecekISBN 0195059085 (0-19-505908-5)
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The Anglo-Saxon Age: A Very Short Introductionby John BlairISBN 0192854038 (0-19-285403-8)
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Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age, 1798-1939by Albert Habib HouraniISBN 0192850393 (0-19-285039-3)
Hardcover, Issued under the auspices of the Royal Institute of International Affairs [by] Oxford U.P.
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Baseball: The Golden Ageby Harold SeymourISBN 0195059131 (0-19-505913-1)
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Baseball: The People's Gameby Harold SeymourISBN 0195069072 (0-19-506907-2)
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Baseball's Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacyby Jules TygielISBN 0195078268 (0-19-507826-8)
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Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christby David Mayer, Lew WallaceISBN 0192831992 (0-19-283199-2)
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Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedomby Lawrence W. LevineISBN 0195023749 (0-19-502374-9)
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Christianity and Classical Culture: A Study of Thought and Action from Augustus to Augustineby Charles Norris CochraneISBN 0195002075 (0-19-500207-5)
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Christianity in the West, 1400-1700by John BossyISBN 0192891626 (0-19-289162-6)
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The Colonial Heritage of Latin America: Essays on Economic Dependence in Perspectiveby Stanley J. SteinISBN 0195012925 (0-19-501292-5)
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Cosmos Crumbling: American Reform and the Religious Imaginationby Robert H. AbzugISBN 0195045688 (0-19-504568-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cosmos Crumbling: American Reform and the Religious Imagination'Book summary:In the forty years before the Civil War, America was awash in political and social reform movements. Abolitionists stormed against the cruelties of slavery. Temperance zealots hounded producers and consumers of strong drink. Sabbatarians fought to make Sunday an officially recognized sacred day. Woman's rights activists proclaimed the case for sexual equality. Others offered programs of physiological and spiritual self-reform: phrenology, vegetarianism, the water-cure, spiritualism, and miscellaneous others. "Even the insect world was to be defended," Emerson mused, "and a society for the protection of ground-worms, slugs, and mosquitoes was to be incorporated without delay."
Cosmos Crumbling brilliantly reassesses the religious roots of these antebellum reform movements through a series of penetrating profiles of key men and women who sought to remake their worlds in sacred terms. Filled with vivid anecdotes and penetrating analysis, the book presents a genealogy of reform cosmology that begins with the American Revolution and ends with "the woman question," the issue that drove a wedge between traditional evangelical reformers and the more radical reformers who questioned the very foundations of the conventional Christian cosmos. Here is the story of Declaration of Independence signer Benjamin Rush, and his lifelong odyssey to bring together his unorthodox Christian ideals and his revolutionary republicanism. Other portraits highlight the guiding role of religion in the careers of the tireless abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, the evangelical minister Lyman Beecher, his daughter, influential educational reformer Catharine Beecher, and of Angelina and Sarah Grimké, and Lydia Maria Child, fearless women who made enormous strides in reimagining the spiritual and moral power of women and their place in society. There is also an intriguing chapter on leaders of the body reforms, including phrenologist Orson Squire Fowler, who began his career reading the heads of his fellow students at Amherst College for small change, and William Andrus Alcott, who advocated a bland vegetarian diet, cold water bathing, and a profusion of daily rituals to guide his followers through their every waking moment.
Arguing that we cannot understand American reform movements unless we understand the sacred significance reformers bestowed on the worldly arenas of politics, society, and the economy, Abzug presents these men and women in their own words, placing their cherished ideals and their often heated squabbles within the context of their millennial and sometimes apocalyptic sense of America's role in the cosmic drama. Tracing the lasting impact of what began as a peculiarly Protestant, largely New England, style of social action on the uniquely American traditions of activism that flourish today, Cosmos Crumbling is a signal contribution to our understanding of the myriad ways in which the quest for enlightenment and salvation continues to shape American politics.
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Crisis of the Aristocracy, 1558-1641by Lawrence StoneISBN 0195002741 (0-19-500274-1)
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Dead Sea Scrolls: 1947-1969by Edmund WilsonISBN 0195006658 (0-19-500665-8)
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Egypt After the Pharaohs: 332 Bc-Ad 642 from Alexander to the Arab Conquestby Alan K. BowmanISBN 0192821040 (0-19-282104-0)
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The English Languageby Robert W. BurchfieldISBN 0192891618 (0-19-289161-8)
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The Fall of France: The Nazi Invasion of 1940by Julian JacksonISBN 0192805509 (0-19-280550-9)
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From Emperor to Citizen: The Autobiography of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yiby W.J.F. Jenner, Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi, PuyiISBN 0192820990 (0-19-282099-0)
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The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religionby James George Frazer, Robert FraserISBN 0192835416 (0-19-283541-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion'Book summary:Before Joseph Campbell became the world's most famous practitioner of comparative mythology, there was Sir James George Frazer. The Golden Bough was originally published in two volumes in 1890, but Frazer became so enamored of his topic that over the next few decades he expanded the work sixfold, then in 1922 cut it all down to a single thick edition suitable for mass distribution. The thesis on the origins of magic and religion that it elaborates "will be long and laborious," Frazer warns readers, "but may possess something of the charm of a voyage of discovery, in which we shall visit many strange lands, with strange foreign peoples, and still stranger customs." Chief among those customs--at least as the book is remembered in the popular imagination--is the sacrificial killing of god-kings to ensure bountiful harvests, which Frazer traces through several cultures, including in his elaborations the myths of Adonis, Osiris, and Balder.
While highly influential in its day, The Golden Bough has come under harsh critical scrutiny in subsequent decades, with many of its descriptions of regional folklore and legends deemed less than reliable. Furthermore, much of its tone is rooted in a philosophy of social Darwinism--sheer cultural imperialism, really--that finds its most explicit form in Frazer's rhetorical question: "If in the most backward state of human society now known to us we find magic thus conspicuously present and religion conspicuously absent, may we not reasonably conjecture that the civilised races of the world have also at some period of their history passed through a similar intellectual phase?" (The truly civilized races, he goes on to say later, though not particularly loudly, are the ones whose minds evolve beyond religious belief to embrace the rational structures of scientific thought.) Frazer was much too genteel to state plainly that "primitive" races believe in magic because they are too stupid and backwards to know any better; instead he remarks that "a savage hardly conceives the distinction commonly drawn by more advanced peoples between the natural and the supernatural." And he certainly was not about to make explicit the logical extension of his theories--"that Christian legend, dogma, and ritual" (to quote Robert Graves's summation of Frazer in The White Goddess) "are the refinement of a great body of primitive and barbarous beliefs." Whatever modern readers have come to think of the book, however, its historical significance and the eloquence with which Frazer attempts to develop what one might call a unifying theory of anthropology cannot be denied. --Ron Hogan [via]
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The Great Triumvirate: Webster, Clay, and Calhounby Merrill D. PetersonISBN 0195056868 (0-19-505686-8)
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Greek Lives: A Selection of Nine Greek Livesby Plutarch, Robin Waterfield, Philip A. StadterISBN 0192825011 (0-19-282501-1)
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Hamletby William Shakespeare, G. R. HibbardISBN 0192834169 (0-19-283416-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hamlet'Book summary:This edition of Hamlet represents a radically new text of the best known and most widely discussed of all Shakespearean tragedies. Arguing that the text currently accepted is not, in fact, the most authoritative version of the play, this new edition turns to the First Folio of 1623--Shakespeare's "fair copy"--that has been preserved for us in the Second Quarto. Introducing fresh theatrical momentum, this revision provides, as Shakespeare intended, a better, more practical acting script. [via]
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Heart of Darkness and Other Talesby Joseph Conrad, Cedric WattsISBN 0192801724 (0-19-280172-4)
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Henry VIby William Shakespeare, Michael TaylorISBN 0192804715 (0-19-280471-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Henry VI'Book summary:Henry VI: Part One is a dramatic tale of the lives of soldiers, diplomats, kings, and insurrectionists. It depicts the fractious instability of the court and nobility of fifteenth-century England, and their squabbles with their French counterparts.
Despite its debut performance in 1592, however, Henry VI: Part One does not appear in printed form until some thirty years later, in the 1623 folio. There are many questions, therefore, surrounding exactly how many people wrote the play, when they did so, how it was performed, who played what part, and the nature of the manuscript behind the first performance. In his wide-ranging introduction, Michael Taylor offers answers to these questions, and discusses other key issues such as language, structure, performance history, and the role of women in the play. Taylor edits the play for students, scholars, and theater-goers with an informative commentary on all aspects of the language, action, characters, and staging. [via]More editions of Henry VI:
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Hitler's Army: Soldiers, Nazis, and War in the Third Reichby Omer BartovISBN 0195079035 (0-19-507903-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hitler's Army: Soldiers, Nazis, and War in the Third Reich'Book summary:As the Cold War followed on the heels of the Second World War, as the Nuremburg Trials faded in the shadow of the Iron Curtain, both the Germans and the West were quick to accept the idea that Hitler's army had been no SS, no Gestapo, that it was a professional force little touched by Nazi politics. But in this compelling account Omer Bartov reveals a very different history, as he probes the experience of the average soldier to show just how thoroughly Nazi ideology permeated the army.
In Hitler's Army, Bartov focuses on the titanic struggle between Germany and the Soviet Union--where the vast majority of German troops fought--to show how the savagery of war reshaped the army in Hitler's image. Both brutalized and brutalizing, these soldiers needed to see their bitter sacrifices as noble patriotism and to justify their own atrocities by seeing their victims as subhuman. In the unprecedented ferocity and catastrophic losses of the Eastrn front, he writes, soldiers embraced the idea that the war was a defense of civilization against Jewish/Bolshevik barbarism, a war of racial survival to be waged at all costs. Bartov describes the incredible scale and destruction of the invasion of Russia in horrific detail. Even in the first months--often depicted as a time of easy victories--undermanned and ill-equipped German units were stretched to the breaking point by vast distances and bitter Soviet resistance. Facing scarce supplies and enormous casualties, the average soldier sank to ta a primitive level of existence, re-experiencing the trench warfare of World War I under the most extreme weather conditions imaginable; the fighting itself was savage, and massacres of prisoners were common. Troops looted food and supplies from civilians with wild abandon; they mercilessly wiped out villages suspected of aiding partisans. Incredible losses led to recruits being thrown together in units that once had been filled with men from the same communities, making Nazi ideology even more important as a binding force. And they were further brutalized by a military justice system that executed almost 15,000 German soldiers during the war. Bartov goes on to explore letters, diaries, military reports, and other sources, showing how widespread Hitler's views became among common fighting men--men who grew up, he reminds us, under the Nazi regime. In the end, they truly became Hitler's army.
In six years of warfare, the vast majority of German men passed through the Wehrmacht and almost every family had a relative who fought in the East. Bartov's powerful new account of how deeply Nazi ideology penetrated the army sheds new light on how deeply it penetrated the nation. Hitler's Army makes an important correction not merely to the historical record but to how we see the world today. [via]More editions of Hitler's Army: Soldiers, Nazis, and War in the Third Reich:
The Invasion Within: The Contest of Cultures in Colonial North Americaby James AxtellISBN 0195041542 (0-19-504154-2)
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John Calvin: A Sixteenth-Century Portraitby William James BouwsmaISBN 0195059514 (0-19-505951-4)
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Life in the Third Reichby Richard BesselISBN 0192802100 (0-19-280210-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Life in the 3rd Reich'Book summary:Few historical subjects are so emotion-laden as the Third Reich, and few have generated such general interest. The extermination of the Jews has, understandably, commanded considerable attention from historians and the general public, but this preoccupation with Nazi anti-Semitism has led people to overlook other aspects of life under the Third Reich.
This collection presents a broad view of life in Nazi Germany, describing the ways ordinary Germans perceived the policies and actions of the Third Reich, as well as how they lived their daily lives. Articles by noted historians provide fascinating insights into the character of the German people, describing such phenomena as the satisfaction German nationalists took in the orderliness of Hitler's takeover; the contradictory reactions of Germany's young people to the Nazi state; the powerful popular image of Hitler, created by the then new techniques of propaganda; and the way Germans today regard their experiences under Hitler. The articles presented here offer new perspectives on some of the most challenging questions of our time, and enrich our understanding of an awful chapter of German history. [via] 
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858by Abraham Lincoln, JohannsenISBN 0195009215 (0-19-500921-5)
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The Linguistics Warsby Randy Allen HarrisISBN 0195072561 (0-19-507256-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Linguistics Wars'Book summary:When it was first published in 1957, Noam Chomsky's Syntactic Structure seemed to be just a logical expansion of the reigning approach to linguistics. Soon, however, there was talk from Chomsky and his associates about plumbing mental structure; then there was a new phonology; and then there was a new set of goals for the field, cutting it off completely from its anthropological roots and hitching it to a new brand of psychology. Rapidly, all of Chomsky's ideas swept the field. While the entrenched linguists were not looking for a messiah, apparently many of their students were. There was a revolution, which colored the field of linguistics for the following decades.
Chomsky's assault on Bloomfieldianism (also known as American Structuralism) and his development of Transformational-Generative Grammar was promptly endorsed by new linguistic recruits swelling the discipline in the sixties. Everyone was talking of a scientific revolution in linguistics, and major breakthroughs seemed imminent, but something unexpected happened--Chomsky and his followers had a vehement and public falling out.
In The Linguistic Wars, Randy Allen Harris tells how Chomsky began reevaluating the field and rejecting the extensions his students and erstwhile followers were making. Those he rejected (the Generative Semanticists) reacted bitterly, while new students began to pursue Chomsky's updated vision of language. The result was several years of infighting against the backdrop of the notoriously prickly sixties.
The outcome of the dispute, Harris shows, was not simply a matter of a good theory beating out a bad one. The debates followed the usual trajectory of most large-scale clashes, scientific or otherwise. Both positions changed dramatically in the course of the dispute--the triumphant Chomskyan position was very different from the initial one; the defeated generative semantics position was even more transformed. Interestingly, important features of generative semantics have since made their way into other linguistic approaches and continue to influence linguistics to this very day. And fairly high up on the list of borrowers is Noam Chomsky himself.
The repercussions of the Linguistics Wars are still with us, not only in the bruised feelings and late-night war stories of the combatants, and in the contentious mood in many quarters, but in the way linguists currently look at language and the mind. Full of anecdotes and colorful portraits of key personalities, The Linguistics Wars is a riveting narrative of the course of an important intellectual controversy, and a revealing look into how scientists and scholars contend for theoretical glory. [via]More editions of The Linguistics Wars:
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Lone Star Rising : Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1908-1960by Robert DallekISBN 0195054350 (0-19-505435-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lone Star Rising : Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1908-1960'Book summary:Like other great figures of 20th-century American politics, Lyndon Johnson defies easy understanding. An unrivaled master of vote swapping, back room deals, and election-day skulduggery, he was nevertheless an outspoken New Dealer with a genuine commitment to the poor and the underprivileged. With aides and colleagues he could be overbearing, crude, and vindictive, but at other times shy, sophisticated, and magnanimous. Perhaps columnist Russell Baker said it best: Johnson "was a character out of a Russian novel...a storm of warring human instincts: sinner and saint, buffoon and statesman, cynic and sentimentalist."
But Johnson was also a representative figure. His career speaks volumes about American politics, foreign policy, and business in the forty years after 1930. As Charles de Gaulle said when he came to JFK's funeral: Kennedy was America's mask, but this man Johnson is the country's real face.
In Lone Star Rising, Robert Dallek, winner of the prestigious Bancroft Prize for his study of Franklin D. Roosevelt, now turns to this fascinating "sinner and saint" to offer a brilliant, definitive portrait of a great American politician. Based on seven years of research in over 450 manuscript collections and oral histories, as well as numerous personal interviews, this first book in a two-volume biography follows Johnson's life from his childhood on the banks of the Pedernales to his election as vice-president under Kennedy. We see Johnson, the twenty-three-year-old aide to a pampered millionaire Representative, become a de facto Congressman, and at age twenty-eight the country's best state director of the National Youth Administration. We see Johnson, the "human dynamo," first in the House and then in the Senate, whirl his way through sixteen- and eighteen-hour days, talking, urging, demanding, reaching for influence and power, in an uncommonly successful congressional career.
Dallek pays full due to Johnson's failings--his obsession with being top dog, his willingness to cut corners, and worse, to get there-- but he also illuminates Johnson's sheer brilliance as a politician, the high regard in which key members of the New Deal, including FDR, held him, and his genuine concern for minorities and the downtrodden.
No president in American history is currently less admired than Lyndon Johnson. Bitter memories of Vietnam have sent Johnson's reputation into free fall, and recent biographies have painted him as a scoundrel who did more harm than good. Lone Star Rising attempts to strike a balance. It does not neglect the tawdry side of Johnson's political career, including much that is revealed for the first time. But it also reminds us that Lyndon Johnson was a man of exceptional vision, who from early in his career worked to bring the South into the mainstream of American economic and political life, to give the disadvantaged a decent chance, and to end racial segregation for the well-being of the nation. [via]More editions of Lone Star Rising : Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1908-1960:
The Long Peace: Inquiries into the History of the Cold Warby John Lewis GaddisISBN 0195043359 (0-19-504335-9)
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The Marketplace Of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independenceby T. H. BreenISBN 0195063953 (0-19-506395-3)
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Masters of Small Worlds: Yeoman Households, Gender Relations, and the Political Culture of the Antebellum South Carolina Low Countryby Stephanie McCurryISBN 0195072367 (0-19-507236-7)
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Medieval Britain: A Very Short Introductionby John Gillingham, Ralph Alan GriffithsISBN 019285402X (0-19-285402-X)
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The Medieval World View: An Introductionby William CookISBN 0195030907 (0-19-503090-7)
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Mission to Tashkentby F. M. Bailey, Peter HopkirkISBN 0192803875 (0-19-280387-5)
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Moby Dickby Herman Melville, Tony TannerISBN 0192833855 (0-19-283385-5)
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In vivid and compelling language, the award-winning author Geraldine McCaughrean retells Herman Melville's classic story of the obsessed Captain Ahab and his relentless hunt for the great white whale, Moby Dick. Together with Starbuck, the mate; Queequeg, the harpoonist; the sinister crewman Fedallah; and the innocent narrator, Ishmael, Ahab travels the oceans of the world in pursuit of the elusive monster, braving waves like strips of volcanoes and lightning like the visitation of angels.
McCaughrean's text is beautifully complemented by Victor Ambrus's evocative pictures of ships and the sea and of the white monster, Moby Dick, a creature as vast and dangerous as the sea itself. Children and young adults will be thrilled and captivated by this wonderful adventure tale. [via]More editions of Moby Dick:
Of Arms and Men: A History of War, Weapons, and Aggressionby Robert L. O'ConnellISBN 0195053605 (0-19-505360-5)
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The Oxford Dictionary of Classical Myth and Religionby Simon Price, Emily KearnsISBN 0192802895 (0-19-280289-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oxford Dictionary of Classical Myth and Religion'Book summary:Drawn from the acclaimed Oxford Classical Dictionary, The Oxford Dictionary of Classical Myth and Religion offers a fully rounded guide to all aspects of religious life and thought in ancient Greece and Rome. Highly authoritative, this new book covers not only Greek mythologies and Roman festivals, but also devotes attention to topics such as Greek and Roman religious places, monuments, authors and texts, religious organization, imagery, divination, astrology, and magic. Unlike many other references on ancient Greece and Rome, the Dictionary also includes many entries on Judaism and Christianity in the classical world.
The editors, area advisors for the third edition of the Oxford Classical Dictionary, have selected, revised, edited, and in some instances completely recast a large number of entries from the OCD to create this handy and accessible reference. The main text is supplemented by an important introductory essay providing overviews of mythology, religious pluralism in the ancient world, and the reception of myths from antiquity to the present. In addition to a helpful thematic index and extensive cross-references, the text is further supported by three maps and six genealogies.
Backed by the authority and scholarly rigor of the renowned Oxford Classical Dictionary, The Oxford Dictionary of Classical Myth and Religion is a valuable A-Z reference and is as ideal a tool for students and teachers of ancient history as it is for all classics lovers.
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The Oxford Guide to Heraldry: Urbanization in the Third Worldby Thomas Woodcock, John Martin RobinsonISBN 0192802267 (0-19-280226-7)
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Patriotic Goreby Edmund WilsonISBN 0195007301 (0-19-500730-1)
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Patterns in Prehistory: Humankind's First Three Million Yearsby Robert J. WenkeISBN 0195034422 (0-19-503442-2)
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The Politics of Individualism: Parties and the American Character in the Jacksonian Eraby Lawrence Frederick KohlISBN 0195067819 (0-19-506781-9)
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The Problem of Slavery in Western Cultureby David Brion DavisISBN 0195056396 (0-19-505639-6)
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The Qur'anby M. A. Abdel HaleemISBN 0192831933 (0-19-283193-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Qur'an'Book summary:One of the most influential books in the history of literature, recognized as the greatest literary masterpiece in Arabic, the Qur'an is the supreme authority and living source of all Islamic teaching, the sacred text that sets out the creed, rituals, ethics, and laws of Islam. Yet despite the growing interest in Islamic teachings and culture, there has never been a truly satisfactory English translation of the Qur'an, until now.
This superb new translation of the Qur'an is written in contemporary language that remains faithful to the meaning and spirit of the original, making the text crystal clear while retaining all of this great work's eloquence. The translation is accurate and completely free from the archaisms, incoherence, and alien structures that mar existing translations. Thus, for the first time, English-speaking readers will have a text of the Qur'an which is easy to use and comprehensible. Furthermore, Haleem includes notes that explain geographical, historical, and personal allusions as well as an index in which Qur'anic material is arranged into topics for easy reference. His introduction traces the history of the Qur'an, examines its structure and stylistic features, and considers issues related to militancy, intolerance, and the subjection of women.
Clearly written and filled with helpful information and guidance, this brilliant translation of the Qur'an is the best available introduction to the faith of Moslems around the world. [via] 
The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangeloby Jerry BrottonISBN 0192802658 (0-19-280265-8)
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Return to Diversity: A Political History of East Central Europe Since World War IIby Joseph RothschildISBN 0195073827 (0-19-507382-7)
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The Roman Empire, 27 Bc-Ad 476: A Study in Survivalby Chester StarrISBN 019503130X (0-19-503130-X)
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Roman Lives: A Selection of Eight Livesby Plutarch, Robin Waterfield, Philip A. StadterISBN 019282502X (0-19-282502-X)
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In the eight lives of this collection Plutarch introduces the reader to the major figures and periods of classical Rome. He portrays virtues to be emulated and vices to be avoided, but his purpose is also implicitly to educate and warn those in his own day who wielded power. In prose that is rich, elegant and sprinkled with learned references, he explores with an extraordinary degree of insight the interplay of character and political action. While drawing chiefly on historical sources, he brings to biography a natural story-teller's ear for a good anecdote. Throughout the ages Plutarch's Lives have been valued for their historical value and their charm. This new translation will introduce new generations to his urbane erudition. The most comprehensive selection available, it is accompanied by a lucid introduction, explanatory notes, bibliographies, maps and indexes. [via]More editions of Roman Lives: A Selection of Eight Lives:
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The Satyriconby Petronius, P.G. WalshISBN 0192839527 (0-19-283952-7)
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Screening Out the Past: The Birth of Mass Culture and the Motion Picture Industryby Lary MayISBN 0195027620 (0-19-502762-0)
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The Second World War: A Short Historyby Robert Alexander Clarke ParkerISBN 0192802070 (0-19-280207-0)
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Spain: A Historyby Raymond CarrISBN 0192802364 (0-19-280236-4)
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Stalin's Peasants: Collectiveness and Popular Resistance in Russiaby Sheila FitzpatrickISBN 019506982X (0-19-506982-X)
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The Struggle for Stability in Early Modern Europeby Theodore K. RabbISBN 0195019563 (0-19-501956-3)
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Symposiumby Plato, Robin WaterfieldISBN 0192834274 (0-19-283427-4)
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Theogony and Works and Daysby HesiodISBN 0192817884 (0-19-281788-4)
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The Walls Came Tumbling Down: The Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europeby Gale StokesISBN 0195066456 (0-19-506645-6)
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When Ladies Go A-Thieving: Middle-Class Shoplifters in the Victorian Department Storeby Elaine S. AbelsonISBN 0195071425 (0-19-507142-5)
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