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Adam, Eve, and the Serpentby Elaine PagelsISBN 0679722327 (0-679-72232-7)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Adam, Eve, and the Serpent'Book summary:Deepens and refreshes our view of early Christianity while casting a disturbing light on the evolution of the attitudes passed down to us. [via]
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The Aeneidby VirgilISBN 1853262633 (1-85326-263-3)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Aeneid'Book summary:Arma virumque cano: "I sing of warfare and a man at war." Long the bane of second-year Latin students thrust into a rhetoric of sweeping, seemingly endless sentences full of difficult verb forms and obscure words, Virgil's Aeneid finds a helpful translator in Robert Fitzgerald, who turns the lines into beautiful, accessible American English. Full of betrayal, heartache, seduction, elation, and violence, the Aeneid is the great founding epic of the Roman empire. Its pages sing of the Roman vision of self, the Roman ideal of what it meant to be a citizen of the world's greatest power. The epic's force carries across the centuries, and remains essential reading. [via]
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- The Aeneid: ISBN 0679729526 (0-679-72952-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc - The Aeneid: ISBN 0872207315 (0-87220-731-5)
Softcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc - The Aeneid: ISBN 0872207323 (0-87220-732-3)
Hardcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc - The Aeneid: ISBN 0804469520 (0-8044-6952-0)
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The Aeneidby John Dryden, VirgilISBN 1853267775 (1-85326-777-5)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Aeneid'Book summary:'Something greater than the Iliad is being brought to birth', wrote Virgil's contemporary Propertius, in Western literature's most famous flourish of advance publicity. The Aeneid was published after Virgil's death, and at once established itself as Rome's national poem. The hero Aeneas flees from the sack of Troy, and after much suffering carves out a foothold for the future Romans in Italy. While defining and celebrating what it means to be Roman, the Aeneid confronts, with a bleak pathos, the tragedy involved in Rome's destiny. [via]
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The Aeneid of Virgilby Edward McCrorieISBN 0937986712 (0-937986-71-2)
Hardcover, Donald m Grant Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Aeneid of Virgil'Book summary:Called "the best poem by the best poet," Virgil's Aeneid is perhaps the most famous work in Latin literature. It tells the story of Rome's founding by the Trojan prince Aeneas after many years of travel, and it contains many of the most famous stories about the Trojan War. It also reveals much of what the Romans felt and believed about themselves- the sensitive reader will see that these same values and issues often trouble us today.In this new translation Edward McCrorie has performed the difficult task of rendering Virgil's compact, dense Latin into fine, readable, modern English verse. The sometimes complex text is made clear and comprehensible even for first-time readers, and a glossary of names helps identify characters and place-names in the poem. The translation is well suited for students at all levels, and readers already familiar with Virgil will find many fresh images and ideas."A brilliant effort."--Robert Bly"I admire the ambition of the project, and the generosity of many of the lines."--Robert FaglesEdward McCrorie is Professor of English, Providence College. His poetry and translations of Latin verse have been widely published.[via]More editions of The Aeneid of Virgil:
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Aeneid of Virgilby R. HumphriesISBN 0684718162 (0-684-71816-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aeneid of Virgil'Book summary:Aenied of Virgil [Paperback] [via]
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The Aeneid of Virgilby VirgilISBN 0881030694 (0-88103-069-4)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Aeneid of Virgil'Book summary:Aeneas flees the ashes of Troy to found the city of Rome and change forever the course of the Western world--as literature as well. Virgil's Aeneid is as eternal as Rome itself, a sweeping epic of arms and heroism--the searching portrait of a man caught between love and duty, human feeling and the force of fate--that has influenced writers for over 2,000 years. Filled with drama, passion, and the universal pathos that only a masterpiece can express. The Aeneid is a book for all the time and all people. [via]
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The Age of Alexander: Nine Greek Livesby Plutarchus, Ian Scott-KilvertISBN 0140442863 (0-14-044286-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Age of Alexander: Nine Greek Lives'Book summary:This title includes textual and historical notes that supplement a segment of Plutarch's "Lives" which covers the rise of Macedonia. [via]
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The Age of Arthur: A History of the British Isles from 350 to 650by John MorrisISBN 1842124773 (1-84212-477-3)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Age of Arthur: A History of the British Isles from 350 to 650'Book summary:A lifetime's scholarship enabled John Morris to recreate a past hitherto hidden in myth and mystery. He describes the Arthurian Age as 'the starting point of future British history', for it saw the transition from Roman Britain to Great Britain, the establishment of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales from the collapse of the Pax Romana. In exploring political, social, economic, religious and cultural history from the fourth to the seventh century, his theme is one of continuity. That continuity is embodied in Arthur himself: 'in name he was the last Roman Emperor, but he ruled as the first medieval king.' [via]
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The Age of Napoleonby J. Christopher HeroldISBN 0828104913 (0-8281-0491-3)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Age of Napoleon'Book summary:Called an "outstanding work of popular history" by The New York Times, this book is the biography of an enigmatic and legendary personality, as well as the portrait of an entire age. The author explores relevant political, cultural, military, commercial, and social history. [via]
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The Alexiadby Anna Comnena, E. R. A. SewterISBN 0140449582 (0-14-044958-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Alexiad'Book summary:Anna Comnena (1083-1153) wrote "The Alexiad" as an account of the reign of her father, the Byzantine Emperor Alexius I. It is also an important source of information on the Byzantine war with the Normans, and on the First Crusade in which Alexius participated. While the Byzantines were allied to the Crusaders, they were nonetheless critical of their behaviour and Anna's book offers a startlingly different perspective to that of Western historians. Her character sketches are shrewd and forthright - from the Norman invader Robert Guiscard ('nourished by manifold evil') and his son Bohemond ('like a streaking thunderbolt') to Pope Gregory VII ('unworthy of a high priest'). "The Alexiad" is a vivid and dramatic narrative, which reveals as much about the character of its intelligent and dynamic author as it does about the fascinating period through which she lived. [via]
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The Alexiad of Anna Comnenaby Anna Comnena, Edgar Robert Ashton SewterISBN 0140442154 (0-14-044215-4)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Ancient Egypt: An Illustrated Reference to the Myths, Religions, Pyramids and Temples of the Land of the Pharaohsby Lorna OakesISBN 0760749434 (0-7607-4943-4)
Softcover, Barnes & Noble
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Anglo-Saxon Englandby F. M. StentonISBN 0192801392 (0-19-280139-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anglo-Saxon England'Book summary:Discussing the development of English society, from the growth of royal power to the establishment of feudalism after the Norman Conquest, this book focuses on the emergence of the earliest English kingdoms and the Anglo-Norman monarchy in 1087. It also describes the chief phases in the history of the Anglo-Saxon church, drawing on many diverse examples; the result is a fascinating insight into this period of English history. [via]
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The Barbarian Conversion : From Paganism to Christianityby Richard FletcherISBN 0805027637 (0-8050-2763-7)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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Barcelonaby Robert HughesISBN 1860466346 (1-86046-634-6)
Softcover, Harvill Pr
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Barcelona: The Great Enchantressby Robert HughesISBN 079226794X (0-7922-6794-X)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Body Projectby Joan Jacobs BrumbergISBN 0679735291 (0-679-73529-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Body Project'Book summary:Adolescent girls today face the issues girls have always faced: "Who am I?" and "Who do I want to be?" Unfortunately their answers, now more than ever before, revolve around the body rather than the mind, heart, or soul. "The body is at the heart of the crisis that [Carol] Gilligan, [Mary] Pipher, and others describe.... The fact that American girls now make the body their central project is not an accident or a curiosity," writes Brumberg, "it is a symptom of historical changes that are only now beginning to be understood." The historical photos, thorough research, and political even-handedness make this a book of worth and sincerity. The Body Project is also comforting for women, adolescents, parents, lesbians, and male lovers of women--helping us sort out the roots of female insecurities, obsessions, and angst. [via]
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The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicusby Owen GingerichISBN 0143034766 (0-14-303476-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus'Book summary:Part biography of a book, part scientific exploration, part bibliographic detective story, The Book Nobody Read recolors the history of cosmology and offers a new appreciation of the enduring power of an extraordinary book and its ideas. Prodded by Arthur Koestlers claim that when it was first published nobody read Copernicuss De revolutionibusin which Copernicus first suggested that the sun, not the earth, was the center of the universerenowned astro-historian Owen Gingerich embarked on a three-decade-long quest to see in person all 600 extant copies of the first and second editions of De revolutionibus, including those owned and annotated by Galileo and Kepler. Tracing the ownership of individual copies through the hands of saints, heretics, scalawags, and bibliomaniacs, Gingerich proves conclusivelyfour and a half centuries after its publicationthat De revolutionibus was as inspirational as it was revolutionary. [via]
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The Brethren: Inside The Supreme Courtby Bob Woodward, Scott ArmstrongISBN 0743274024 (0-7432-7402-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Brethren: Inside The Supreme Court'Book summary:The Brethren is the first detailed behind-the-scenes account of the Supreme Court in action. Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong have pierced its secrecy to give us an unprecedented view of the Chief and Associate Justices -- maneuvering, arguing, politicking, compromising and making decisions that affect every major area of American life. [via]
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Catherine the Greatby Henri TroyatISBN 0856280836 (0-85628-083-6)
Hardcover, A. Ellis
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Complete Works of Tacitusby Cornelius TacitusISBN 0075536390 (0-07-553639-0)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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Crusade in Europeby Dwight D. EisenhowerISBN 080185668X (0-8018-5668-X)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crusade in Europe'Book summary:Five-star General Dwight D. Eisenhower was arguably the single most important military figure of World War II. For many historians, his memoirs of this eventful period of U.S. history have become the single most important record of the war. Crusade in Europe tells the complete story of the war as Eisenhower planned and lived it. Through his eyes, the enormous scope and drama of the warstrategy, battles, moments of fateful decisionbecome fully illuminated in all their fateful glory.
Yet this is also a warm and richly human account. Ike recalls the long months of waiting, planning, and working toward victory in Europe. His personal record of the tense first hours after he had issued the order to attackand there was no turning backleaves no doubt of Eisenhower's travail and reveals this great man in ways that no biographer has ever surpassed.
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empireby Edward Gibbon, Gian Battista PiranesiISBN 0679601503 (0-679-60150-3)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'Book summary:"I set out upon Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire [and] was immediately dominated by both the story and the style," recalled Winston Churchill. "I devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all....I was not even estranged by his naughty footnotes." In the two centuries since its completion, Gibbon's magnum opus--which encompasses some thirteen hundred years as it swings across Europe, North Africa, and Asia--has refused to go the way of many "classics" and grow musty on the shelves. "Gibbon is a landmark and a signpost--a landmark of human achievement: and a signpost because the social convulsions of the Roman Empire as described by him sometimes prefigure and indicate convulsions which shake the whole world today," wrote E.M. Forster. Never far below the surface of the magnificent narrative lies the author's wit and sweeping irony, exemplified by Gibbon's famous definition of history as "little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind."
The third volume contains chapters forty-nine through seventy-one of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. [via]More editions of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire:
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. 2 : The History of the Empire from A.D. 395 to 1185by Edward Gibbon, J. B. Bury, Gian Battista PiranesiISBN 067960149X (0-679-60149-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. 2 : The History of the Empire from A.D. 395 to 1185'Book summary:"Gibbon is a kind of bridge that connects the ancient with the modern ages," noted Thomas Carlyle. "And how gorgeously does it swing across the gloomy and tumultuous chasm of these barbarous centuries." Indeed, Gibbon, the supreme historian of the Enlightenment--the illustrious scholar who envisioned history as a branch of literature--seemed almost predestined to write his monumental account of the Roman Empire's terrible self-destruction. "I have described the triumph of barbarism and religion," wrote the author in the famous epigram that summed up his towering achievement in The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
"Gibbon is not merely a master of the pageant and the story; he is also the critic and the historian of the mind," said Virginia Woolf. "Without his satire, his irreverence, his mixture of sedateness and slyness, of majesty and mobility, and above all that belief in reason which pervades the whole book and gives it unity, an implicit if unspoken message, the Decline and Fall would be the work of another man....We seem as we read him raised above the tumult and the chaos into a clear and rational air."
The second volume contains chapters twenty-seven through forty-eight of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. [via]More editions of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. 2 : The History of the Empire from A.D. 395 to 1185:
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Democracy in Americaby Daniel J. Boorstin, Phillips Bradley, Henry Reeve, Francis Bowen, Alexis De TocquevilleISBN 0679728260 (0-679-72826-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Democracy in America'Book summary:Democracy in America is the classic analysis of America's unique political character, quoted heavily by politicians and perennially popping up on history professors' reading lists. The book's enduring appeal lies in the eloquent, prophetic voice of Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859), a French aristocrat who visited the United States in 1831. A thoughtful young man in a still-young country, he succeeded in penning this penetrating study of America's people, culture, history, geography, politics, legal system, and economy. Tocqueville asserts, "I confess that in America I saw more than America; I sought the image of democracy itself, with its inclinations, its character, its prejudices, and its passions, in order to learn what we have to fear or hope from its progress."
In addition to a brilliant, perceptive outline of "the philosophical method of the Americans," Volume II of Democracy in America includes the oddly modern-sounding "Why the Americans Are So Restless in the Midst of Their Prosperity," the surprising and provocative "How Americans Understand the Equality of the Sexes," and the more archaic "The Study of Greek and Latin is Peculiarly Useful in Democratic Communities." This edition--which many consider the best--contains the Henry Reeve text, revised by Francis Bowen, and further edited with introduction, editorial notes, and bibliographies by Phillips Bradley. [via]
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Eminent Victoriansby Lytton StracheyISBN 1555843530 (1-55584-353-0)
Hardcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eminent Victorians: The Illustrated Edition'Book summary:The four biographical essays that make up Eminent Victorians created something of a stir when they were first published in the spring of 1918, bringing their author instant fame. In his flamboyant collection, Lytton Strachey chose to stray far from the traditional mode of biography: "Those two fat volumes, with which it is our custom to commemorate the dead--who does not know them, with their ill-digested masses of material, their slipshod style, their tone of tedious panegyric, their lamentable lack of selection, of detachment, of design?" Instead he provided impressionistic but acute (and, some said, skewed) portraits. Rarely does Strachey explore the details of a subject's daily or family life unless they point directly to an issue of character. In short, he pioneered a deeply sardonic and often scathingly funny biographical style.
None of Strachey's Victorians emerge unscathed. In his hands, Florence Nightingale is not a gentle archangel descended from heaven to minister sweetly to wounded soldiers, but rather an exacting, dictatorial, and judgmental crusader. Her "pen, in the virulence of its volubility, would rush ... to the denunciation of an incompetent surgeon or the ridicule of a self-sufficient nurse. Her sarcasm searched the ranks of the officials with the deadly and unsparing precision of a machine-gun. Her nicknames were terrible. She respected no one." Dr. Thomas Arnold, the man appointed to revamp the very private British public school system, fares little better: in Strachey's acid ink, he became "the founder of the worship of athletics and the worship of good form." In this same vain, military hero General Gordon is portrayed as a temperamental, irascible hermit, occasionally drunk and often found in the company of young boys--a man who tended to forget and forgo the tenets found in the Bible he kept with him always. And the powerful and popular Cardinal Manning, who came within a hair's breadth of succeeding Pope Pius IX, belonged, Strachey writes, "to that class of eminent ecclesiastics ... who have been distinguished less for saintliness and learning than for practical ability."
As he offered up indelible sketches of his less-than-fab four, Strachey was intent on critiquing established mores. This effortlessly superior wit knew full well that deep convictions and good deeds often go hand in hand with hypocrisy, arrogance, and egomania. His task was to pique those who pretended they did not. --Jordana Moskowitz [via]
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Eminent Victorians: The Definitive Edition Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr Arnold, General Gordonby Lytton Strachey, Paul LevyISBN 0826464971 (0-8264-6497-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eminent Victorians: The Definitive Edition Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr Arnold, General Gordon'Book summary:Lytton Strachey's classic work "Eminent Victorians" was an assault on the Victorian age and its values. In choosing four key figures, Cardinal Manning, Dr Arnold of Rugby, Florence Nightingale and General Gordon, Strachey conducted a masterly hatchet job on four key representatives of their age. His book was an instant bestseller and has been in print ever since. But now the mood has changed. Victorian studies are booming. Scholars are looking again at the Victorian age and are reassessing some of its more notable figures. The text of "Eminent Victorians" is printed here in its integrity with new critical afterwords by scholars, demonstrating how lopsided was Strachey's judgement and representing his subjects in fresh light. [via]
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Eneidaby Not AvailableISBN 8420619515 (84-206-1951-5)
Hardcover, Alianza Editorial Sa
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eneida'Book summary:Poema al que Virgilio (70-19 a.C.) dedico los diez ultimos anos de su vida e inscrito, siquiera en su origen, en la empresa de reconstruccion nacional acometida por Augusto tras su triunfo sobre Antonio, la Eneida es una recreacion literaria de la poesia epica que arranca de Homero. En ella se superponen con maestria diferentes planos, como el relato de las aventuras de Eneas, el heroe troyano que sobrevivio a la caida de Troya -con episodios tan inmortales como el de sus amores con Dido, reina de Cartago-, la identificacion con el arquetipo de Augusto y, ante todo, la profundizacion en los problemas fundamentales de la vida y la muerte, resultando en conjunto una de las obras fundamentales de la cultura occidental. [via]
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Eneida/ The Aeneidby VirgilioISBN 8437608988 (84-376-0898-8)
Softcover, Catedra Ediciones
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The Enemy at the Gatesby William CraigISBN 0142000000 (0-14-200000-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Find Out About Mesopotamia: What Life Was Like in Ancient Sumer, Babylon and Assyriaby Lorna Oakes, John HaywoodISBN 1842159178 (1-84215-917-8)
Softcover, Southwater Pub
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Gods and Generalsby Jeff ShaaraISBN 0679758852 (0-679-75885-2)
Softcover, Random House Large Print
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gods and Generals'Book summary:In a prequel of sorts to his father Michael Shaara's 1974 epic novel The Killer Angels, Jeff Shaara explores the lives of Generals Lee, Hancock, Jackson and Chamberlain as the pivotal Battle of Gettysburg approaches. Shaara captures the disillusionment of both Lee and Hancock early in their careers, Lee's conflict with loyalty, Jackson's overwhelming Christian ethic and Chamberlain's total lack of experience, while illustrating how each compensated for shortcomings and failures when put to the test. The perspectives of the four men, particularly concerning the battles at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, make vivid the realities of war. [via]
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The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religionby James George FrazerISBN 1853263109 (1-85326-310-9)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion'Book summary:The notion of a man-god, or of a human being endowed with divine or supernatural powers, belongs essentially to that earlier period of religious history in which gods and men are still viewed as beings of much the same order, and before they are divided by the impassable gulf which, to later thought, opens out between them. Strange, therefore, as may seem to us the idea of a god incarnate in human form, it has nothing very startling for early man, who sees in a man-god or a god-man only a higher degree of the same supernatural powers which he arrogates in perfect good faith to himself. -from "Chapter VII: Incarnate Human Gods" In 1890, James George Frazer began publishing The Golden Bough, his monumental study of myth, ritual, and religion, which would, by 1936, run to 13 volumes and establish him as a pioneer in the study of religion as an aspect of culture. This abridged edition, assembled in 1922, condenses this fundamental work to one readable volume that is still a source for modern anthropology, thanks to its expansive discussions ancient cultish practices and their connections to the rites of modern Christianity. In eloquent prose, Frazer discusses legends of the woods, sympathetic magic, magicians as kings, the worship of trees, the concept of the sacred marriage, the links between priestly and royal power, ritual royal sacrifices, the concept of "eating the god," the myths of Osiris, Adonis, Isis, and other ancient deities, and much more. Lovers of mythology will be enraptured by this book, which draws all of human belief under one unifying umbrella, celebrating myth and ritual as part of the basis of all human culture. Scottish anthropologist SIR JAMES GEORGE FRAZER (1854-1941) also wrote Man, God, and Immortality (1927) and Creation and Evolution in Primitive Cosmogonies (1935). [via]
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Golden Bough a Study in Magic and Religion 1927by James George FrazerISBN 0766158128 (0-7661-5812-8)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Golden Bough a Study in Magic and Religion 1927'Book summary:The primary aim of this book is to explain the remarkable rule which regulated the succession to the priesthood of Diana at Aricia. With the instances of customs illustrated in this volume, it is no longer possible to regard the rule of succession to the priesthood of Diana at Aricia as exceptional; it clearly exemplifies a widespread institution, of which the most numerous and the most similar cases have thus far been found in Africa. [via]
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The Golden Bough : The Collected Works of J. G. Frazerby J. G. FrazerISBN 0700714480 (0-7007-1448-0)
Hardcover, Taylor & Francis Group
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Great Books of the Western Worldby Encyclopdia Britannica, inc., Robert Maynard HutchinsISBN 0852291639 (0-85229-163-9)
Hardcover, Encyclopdia Britannica
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Great Books of the Western World'Book summary:The Iliad (Ancient Greek ?????, Ilias) is, together with the Odyssey, one of two ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer, a supposedly blind Ionian poet. The epics are considered by most modern scholars to be the oldest literature in the Greek language. The Iliad concerns events during the tenth and final year in the siege of the city of Ilion, or Troy, by the Greeks. The Odyssey (Greek: ????????, Odusseia)is commonly dated circa 800 to 600 BC. The poem is, in part, a sequel to Homer's Iliad and mainly concerns the events that befall the Greek hero Odysseus (or Ulysses) in his long journeys after the fall of Troy and when he at last returns to his native land of Ithaca. [via]
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A History of [pi] (Pi)by Petr BeckmannISBN 0880294183 (0-88029-418-3)
Hardcover, Marboro Books
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empireby Edward GibbonISBN 1404306986 (1-4043-0698-6)
Hardcover, IndyPublish.com
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Hitler: A Study in Tyrannyby Alan BullockISBN 0831757094 (0-8317-5709-4)
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The Icon and the Axe: An Interpretive History of Russian Cultureby James H. BillingtonISBN 0844667544 (0-8446-6754-4)
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The Illustrated Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religionby James George Frazer, Robert K.G. TempleISBN 0684818507 (0-684-81850-7)
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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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La Eneida / Aeneidby VirgilISBN 8471664186 (84-7166-418-6)
Softcover, Edaf Antillas
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Lives of the Later Caesars: The First Part of the Augustan History With Newly Compiled Lives of Nerva and Trajan. Tr and Introd by Anthony Birley. 3by Scriptores Historiae Augustae, Anthony Richard BirleyISBN 0140443088 (0-14-044308-8)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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Magnificent Centuryby Thomas B. CostainISBN 1568493711 (1-56849-371-1)
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During his lifetime Henry was frequently unpopular, unreliable and inconsistent. Yet his reign saw spectacular advancement in the arts, sciences and theology, as well as in government. Despite all, it was truly a magnificent century.
"Combines a love of the subject with factual history. . .a great story." (San Francisco Chronicle)
A History of the Plantagenets includes THE CONQUERING FAMILY, THE MAGNIFICENT CENTURY, THE THREE EDWARDS and THE LAST PLANTAGENETS. [via]
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Marriage and the Family in the Middle Agesby Frances & Joseph GiesISBN 0060157917 (0-06-015791-7)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Marriage and the Family in the Middle Agesby Joseph Gies, Frances & Joseph GiesISBN 0060914688 (0-06-091468-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Marriage and the Family in the Middle Ages'Book summary:A compelling, lucid, and highly readable chronicle of medieval life written by the authors of the bestselling Life in a Medieval Castle and Life in a Medieval City Historians have only recently awakened to the importance of the family, the basic social unit throughout human history. This book traces the development of marriage and the family from the Middle Ages to the early modern era. It describes how the Roman and barbarian cultural streams merged under the influence of the Christian church to forge new concepts, customs, laws, and practices. Century by century it follows the development -- sometimes gradual, at other times revolutionary -- of significant elements in the history of the family:
- The basic functions of the family as production unit, as well as its religious, social, judicial, and educational roles.
- The shift of marriage from private arrangement between families to public ceremony between individuals, and the adjustments in dowry, bride-price, and counter-dowry.
- The development of consanguinity rules and incest taboos in church law and lay custom.
- The peasant family in its varying condition of being free or unfree, poor, middling, or rich.
- The aristocratic estate, the problem of the younger son, and the disinheritance of daughters.
- The Black Death and its long-term effects on the family.
- Sex attitudes and customs: the effects of variations in age of men and women at marriage.
- The changing physical environment of noble, peasant, and urban families.
- Arrangements by families for old age and retirement.
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Mysteries Of Ancient Egyptby Lorna Oakes, Lucia GahlinISBN 0754811875 (0-7548-1187-5)
Softcover, Lorenz Books
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The Nation Comes of Age: A People's History of the Ante-Bellum Yearsby Page SmithISBN 0140122605 (0-14-012260-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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A New Age Now Beginsby Page SmithISBN 0140122532 (0-14-012253-2)
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Penguin Atlas of Ancient Historyby Colin McEvedyISBN 0140511512 (0-14-051151-2)
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Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grantby James M. McPherson, Ulysses S. GrantISBN 0140437010 (0-14-043701-0)
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The Plantagenet Chroniclesby Elizabeth HallamISBN 1555840183 (1-55584-018-3)
Hardcover, Grove Pr
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The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Agesby Norman CohnISBN 0851175007 (0-85117-500-7)
Hardcover, Maurice Temple Smith Ltd
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Sacred Sites of Ancient Egypt: An Illustrated Guide to the Temples and Tombs of the Pharoahsby Lorna OakesISBN 0754806715 (0-7548-0671-5)
Hardcover, Lorenz Books
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Sarum: Curriculum Unitby Edward RutherfurdISBN 0804102988 (0-8041-0298-8)
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Shadow of the Winter Palaceby Edward CrankshawISBN 0140046224 (0-14-004622-4)
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Shake Hands With The Devil: The Failure Of Humanity In Rwandaby Romeo Dallaire, Brent BeardsleyISBN 0786715103 (0-7867-1510-3)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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Temples and Sacred Centres of Ancient Egyptby Lorna OakesISBN 1842157574 (1-84215-757-4)
Softcover, Southwater Pub
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Terrible Swift Swordby Bruce CattonISBN 1842122932 (1-84212-293-2)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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Trial by Fire: A People's History of the Civil War and Reconstructionby Page SmithISBN 0140122613 (0-14-012261-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Twelve Bar Bluesby Patrick NeateISBN 0802140564 (0-8021-4056-4)
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Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA 1981-1987by Bob WoodwardISBN 0743274032 (0-7432-7403-2)
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Vergil's Aeneidby Clyde PharrISBN 0865164339 (0-86516-433-9)
Hardcover, Bolchazy Carducci Pub
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Poet & Artist: Imaging the Aeneid - ISBN 0865165858For over 30 years Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers has produced the highest quality Latin and ancient Greek books. From Dr. Seuss books in Latin to Plato's Apology, Bolchazy-Carducci's titles help readers learn about ancient Rome and Greece; the Latin and ancient Greek languages are alive and well with titles like Cicero's De Amicitia and Kaegi's Greek Grammar. We also feature a line of contemporary eastern European and WWII books.
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Vergil's Aeneid: Hero War Humanityby Publio Maron Virgilio, G. B. CobboldISBN 0865165963 (0-86516-596-3)
Softcover, Bolchazy Carducci Pub
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Here the excitement, adventure, romance and glory of Vergil's classic emerge from a vigorous style and evocative prose.Book Description
One of the pillars of Western literary tradition, Vergil s Aeneid is also a terrific read: the story of a man whose city is destroyed in war, and of his journey to find his place in destiny. This epic has it all: adventures on the high seas, passion, battles, monsters, magic, meddling gods, and struggles that test the moral fiber of both men and women. The Aeneid has been deemed one of the most influential poems in world literature. And yet, a translation with wide appeal has been lacking until now. G. B. Cobbold joined with Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers to produce an Aeneid that gives the epic its due as the rousing and moving story that it is, while remaining true to the spirit of the Latin original. This an Aeneid like no other: a fresh, page-turning rendition that reads like a novel, but has the vividness of poetic language, with attractive and accessible reader aids. Sure to become a prized standard!Also available:
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Parsed Vergil: Completely Scanned-Parsed Vergil's Aeneid Book I - ISBN 0865166307For over 30 years Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers has produced the highest quality Latin and ancient Greek books. From Dr. Seuss books in Latin to Plato's Apology, Bolchazy-Carducci's titles help readers learn about ancient Rome and Greece; the Latin and ancient Greek languages are alive and well with titles like Cicero's De Amicitia and Kaegi's Greek Grammar. We also feature a line of contemporary eastern European and WWII books.
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Virgil's Aeneidby Virgil, Kathleen O'NeillISBN 0812034007 (0-8120-3400-7)
Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc
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Voices of a People's History of the United Statesby Howard Zinn, Anthony ArnoveISBN 1583226281 (1-58322-628-1)
Softcover, Seven Stories Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Voices of a People's History of the United States'Book summary:Howard Zinn is famous primarily for A People's History of the United States, the book in which he presented alternative versions of American milestones, including Columbus's "discovery" of the New World. Voices of a People's History of the United States is the follow-up to that original landmark work, but where People's History contained Zinn's interpretations of events, Voices turns the platform over to others, in a collection of first-hand accounts, journal entries, speeches, personal letters, and published opinion pieces from the nation's history.
The purpose of Zinn's work, Voices included, is to engage in an act of political dissidence and activism. "What is common to all of these voices," Zinn and co-editor Anthony Arnove write in the book's introduction, "is that they have mostly been shut out of the orthodox histories, the major media, the standard textbooks, the controlled culture ... to create a passive citizenry." With Voices, Zinn and Arnove seek to address that malaise, showing that the impossible--slaves rising up against their slave masters, for example--is not only possible, but has occurred repeatedly throughout the country's history. "Whenever injustices have been remedied, wars halted, women and blacks and Native Americans given their due," they write, "it has been because 'unimportant' people spoke up, organized, protested, and brought democracy alive." The common thread throughout Voices is this mandate, and each selection is preceded by a brief introduction by the authors, written from a far-left perspective. (As an example, one section is titled "The Carter-Reagan-Bush Consensus.")
Voices often works better as a reference book than a sit-down-to-read title. Its early chapters--on Columbus, slavery, the War of Independence, and the early women's movement--tend to be more engaging than later excerpts, largely because a contrary point of view to mainstream mythology has been so rarely heard. The modern sections have a haphazard, "greatest hits of the left" feeling, as the book jumps from an Abbie Hoffman speech to the lyrics of Public Enemy's "Fight the Power." The problem may be inherent in the format of the book. Everything is treated equally, and a speech by Danny Glover is given as much weight as an excerpt from W.E.B. DuBois's The Souls of Black Folk. For context and background, it's best to stick with the original People's History, but to hear the words right from the speakers' mouths, there's no better resource than Voices. --Jennifer Buckendorff [via]
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Where Wizards Stay Up Lateby Katie Hafner, Matthew LyonISBN 0684832674 (0-684-83267-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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At last, Hafner and Lyon have written a well-researched story of the origins of the Internet substantiated by extensive interviews with its creators who delve into many interesting details such as the controversy surrounding the adoption of our now beloved "@" sign as the separator of usernames and machine addresses. Essential reading for anyone interested in the past -- and the future -- of the Net specifically, and telecommunications generally. [via]
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Where Wizards Stay up Late : The Story Behind the Creation of the Internetby Katie Hafner, Matthew LyonISBN 0684812010 (0-684-81201-0)
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At last, Hafner and Lyon have written a well-researched story of the origins of the Internet substantiated by extensive interviews with its creators who delve into many interesting details such as the controversy surrounding the adoption of our now beloved "@" sign as the separator of usernames and machine addresses. Essential reading for anyone interested in the past -- and the future -- of the Net specifically, and telecommunications generally. [via]
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Women's Diaries of the Westward Journeyby Lillian Schlissel, Mary Clearman BlewISBN 0805211764 (0-8052-1176-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Wretched of the Earthby Frantz FanonISBN 0802150837 (0-8021-5083-7)
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Although socialism has seemingly collapsed in the years since Fanon's work was first published, there is much in his look into the political, racial, and social psyche of the ever-emerging Third World that still rings true at the cusp of a new century. --Eugene Holley, Jr. [via]
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The Wretched of the Earthby Richard Philcox, Frantz FanonISBN 0802141323 (0-8021-4132-3)
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Although socialism has seemingly collapsed in the years since Fanon's work was first published, there is much in his look into the political, racial, and social psyche of the ever-emerging Third World that still rings true at the cusp of a new century. --Eugene Holley, Jr. [via]
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Les Damnes De La Terreby Frantz FanonISBN 2707115142 (2-7071-1514-2)
Hardcover, Editions La Decouverte
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Eneida/ The Aeneidby VirgilioISBN 8420636436 (84-206-3643-6)
Softcover, Grupo Anaya Comercial
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eneida/ The Aeneid'Book summary:Poema al que Virgilio (70-19 a.C.) dedico los diez ultimos anos de su vida e inscrito, siquiera en su origen, en la empresa de reconstruccion nacional acometida por Augusto tras su triunfo sobre Antonio, la Eneida es una recreacion literaria de la poesia epica que arranca de Homero. En ella se superponen con maestria diferentes planos, como el relato de las aventuras de Eneas, el heroe troyano que sobrevivio a la caida de Troya -con episodios tan inmortales como el de sus amores con Dido, reina de Cartago-, la identificacion con el arquetipo de Augusto y, ante todo, la profundizacion en los problemas fundamentales de la vida y la muerte, resultando en conjunto una de las obras fundamentales de la cultura occidental. [via]
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