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500 Nations: An Illustrated History of North American Indiansby Alvin M. JosephyISBN 0679429301 (0-679-42930-1)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: '500 Nations: An Illustrated History of North American Indians'Book summary:The companion volume to the 1995 popular PBS series of the same name, 500 Nations is a richly illustrated, absorbingly written history of North America's indigenous peoples. Drawing on creation stories, oral history, archaeological evidence, federal documents, and hundreds of published sources, Josephy takes us on an encyclopedic journey through Native America's past and present. Few scholars have Josephy's command of his broad and complex subject, and fewer still write as dexterously. The result: the best one-volume, general-interest study of Native American history now available. [via]
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The American Revolutionby Edward CountrymanISBN 0809025620 (0-8090-2562-0)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The American Revolution'Book summary:Written by the distinguished scholar and author of Americans, this pathbreaking study describes the process by which American society was changed in the tumultuous years between 1760 and 1790, and how the Revolution set the United States on the path toward its dynamic development in the nineteenth century. Bibliography, index. [via]
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The American Revolution: A Historyby Gordon S. WoodISBN 0812970411 (0-8129-7041-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The American Revolution: A History'Book summary:"An elegant synthesis done by the leading scholar in the field, which nicely integrates the work on the American Revolution over the last three decades but never loses contact with the older, classic questions that we have been arguing about for over two hundred years." -Joseph J. Ellis, author of Founding Brothers A magnificent account of the revolution in arms and consciousness that gave birth to the American republic. When Abraham Lincoln sought to define the significance of the United States, he naturally looked back to the American Revolution. He knew that the Revolution not only had legally created the United States, but also had produced all of the great hopes and values of the American people. Our noblest ideals and aspirations-our commitments to freedom, constitutionalism, the well-being of ordinary people, and equality-came out of the Revolutionary era. Lincoln saw as well that the Revolution had convinced Americans that they were a special people with a special destiny to lead the world toward liberty. The Revolution, in short, gave birth to whatever sense of nationhood and national purpose Americans have had. No doubt the story is a dramatic one: Thirteen insignificant colonies three thousand miles from the centers of Western civilization fought off British rule to become, in fewer than three decades, a huge, sprawling, rambunctious republic of nearly four million citizens. But the history of the American Revolution, like the history of the nation as a whole, ought not to be viewed simply as a story of right and wrong from which moral lessons are to be drawn. It is a complicated and at times ironic story that needs to be explained and understood, not blindly celebrated or condemned. How did this great revolution come about? What was its character? What were its consequences? These are the questions this short history seeks to answer. That it succeeds in such a profound and enthralling way is a tribute to Gordon Wood's mastery of his subject, and of [via]
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The American Revolutionby Eric Foner, Edward CountrymanISBN 0809025639 (0-8090-2563-9)
Hardcover, Hill and Wang
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Americans: A Collision of Historiesby Edward CountrymanISBN 0809015986 (0-8090-1598-6)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Americans: A Collision of Histories'Book summary:Whether America is a "melting pot" of hybrid breeds dissolved into a composite people or a "tossed salad" of distinct groups roughly mixed is a debate that has grown considerably in recent years. Edward Countryman, a Southern Methodist University professor and author of several history books, weighs in with a sweeping examination of America's early years. Or specifically, he provides a look at the histories of the ethnic groups that make up the country. His conclusions are not simple generalizations, but rather a story laid bare of cultures clashing and the confused result. [via]
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Bad Popesby E. R. ChamberlinISBN 0750933372 (0-7509-3337-2)
Softcover, Sutton Publishing, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bad Popes'Book summary:Hardcover with dust jacket. Seven pre-Reformation popes who misused their office. [via]
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Benjamin Franklinby Edmund S. MorganISBN 078625145X (0-7862-5145-X)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Benjamin Franklin'Book summary:Benjamin Franklin is perhaps the most remarkable figure in American history: the greatest statesman of his age, he played a pivotal role in the formation of the American republic. He was also a pioneering scientist, a best-selling author, the country's first postmaster general, a printer, a bon vivant, a diplomat, a ladies' man, and a moralist - and the most prominent celebrity of the 18th century. Franklin was, however, a man of vast contradictions, as Edmund Morgan demonstrates in this biography. A reluctant revolutionary, Franklin had desperately wished to preserve the British Empire, and he mourned the break even as he led the fight for American independence. Despite his passion for science, Franklin viewed his groundbreaking experiments as secondary to his civic duties. And although he helped to draft both the Declaration of Independence and the American Constitution, he had personally hoped that the new American government would take a different shape. Seeking to unravel the enigma of Franklin's character, Morgan shows that he was the rare individual who consistently placed the public interest before his own desires. [via]
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Born for Liberty: A History of Women in Americaby Sara M. EvansISBN 0684834987 (0-684-83498-7)
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City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angelesby Mike DavisISBN 0679738061 (0-679-73806-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles'Book summary:Mike Davis peers into a looking glass to divine the future of Los Angeles, and what he sees is not encouraging: a city--or better, a concatenation of competing city states--torn by racial enmity, economic disparity, and social anomie. Looking backward, Davis suggests that Los Angeles has always been contested ground. In the 1840s, he writes, a combination of drought and industrial stock raising led to the destruction of small-scale Spanish farming in the region. In the 1910s, Los Angeles was the scene of a bitter conflict between management and industrial workers, so bitter that the publisher of the Los Angeles Times retreated to a heavily fortified home he called "The Bivouac." And in 1992, much of the city fell before flames and riot in a scenario Davis describes as thus: "Gangs are multiplying at a terrifying rate, cops are becoming more arrogant and trigger-happy, and a whole generation is being shunted toward some impossible Armageddon." Davis's voice-in-a-whirlwind approach to the past, present, and future of Los Angeles is alarming and arresting, and his book is essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary affairs. --Gregory MacNamee [via]
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Disease & Historyby Frederick Fox CartwrightISBN 069024116X (0-690-24116-X)
Hardcover, Devin-Adair Pub
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Disease and HistoryISBN 0880296909 (0-88029-690-9)
Hardcover, Marboro Books
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Disease and Historyby Frederick F. CartwrightISBN 075093526X (0-7509-3526-X)
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Domesday: A Search for the Roots of Englandby Michael WoodISBN 0816018324 (0-8160-1832-4)
Hardcover, Facts on File
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The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of the Meditationsby Marcus Aurelius, David V. Hicks, C. Scot HicksISBN 0743233832 (0-7432-3383-2)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of the Meditations'Book summary:BEAR IN MIND THAT THE
MEASURE OF A MAN IS THE WORTH OF THE THINGS HE CARES ABOUT.
IF IT IS GOOD TO SAY OR DO
SOMETHING, THEN IT IS
EVEN BETTER TO BE CRITICIZED FOR
HAVING SAID OR DONE IT.
ARE MY GUIDING PRINCIPLES
HEALTHY AND ROBUST? ON THIS HANGS EVERYTHING.
Essayist Matthew Arnold described the man who wrote these words as "the most beautiful figure in history." Possibly so, but he was certainly more than that. Marcus Aurelius ruled the Roman Empire at its height, yet he remained untainted by the incalculable wealth and absolute power that had corrupted many of his predecessors. Marcus knew the secret of how to live the good life amid trying and often catastrophic circumstances, of how to find happiness and peace when surrounded by misery and turmoil, and of how to choose the harder right over the easier wrong without apparent regard for self-interest.
The historian Michael Grant praises Marcus's book as "the best ever written by a major ruler," and Josiah Bunting, superintendent of the Virginia Military Institute, calls it "the essential book on character, leadership, duty." Never intended for publication, the Meditations contains the practical and inspiring wisdom by which this remarkable emperor lived the life not of a saintly recluse, but of a general, administrator, legislator, spouse, parent, and judge besieged on all sides.
The Emperor's Handbook offers a vivid and fresh translation of this important piece of ancient literature. It brings Marcus's words to life and shows his wisdom to be as relevant today as it was in the second century. This book belongs on the desk and in the briefcase of every business executive, political leader, and military officer. It speaks to the soul of anyone who has ever exercised authority or faced adversity or believed in a better day. [via]
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Fifteen Decisive Battles of the Western World: From Marathon to Waterlooby Edward Shepherd CreasyISBN 0760754950 (0-7607-5495-0)
Hardcover, Barnes & Noble Books
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Fifteen Decisive Battles of the Worldby Edward S. CreasyISBN 0880291486 (0-88029-148-6)
Hardcover, Hippocrene Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World'Book summary:Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Marathon paid religious rites to them ; and orators solemnly invoked them in their most impassioned adjurations before the assembled men of Athens. " Nothing was omitted that could keep alive the remembrance of a deed which had first taught the Athenian people to know its own strength, by measuring it with the power which had subdued the greater part of the known world. The consciousness thus awakened fixed its character, its station, and its destiny; it was the spring of its later great actions and ambitious enterprises." It was not indeed by one defeat, however signal, that the pride af Persia could be broken, and her dreams of universal empire dispelled. Ten years afterward she renewed her attempts upon Europe on a grander scale of enterprise, and was repulsed by Greece with greater and reiterated loss. Larger forces and heavier slaughter than had been seen at Marathon signalized the conflicts of Greeks and Persians at Artemisium, Salamis, Platsea, and the Eurymedon. But, mighty and momentous as these battles were, they rank not with Marathon in importance. They originated no new impulse. They turned back no current of fate. They were merely confirmatory of the already existing bias which Marathon had created. The day of Marathon is the critical epoch in the history of the two nations. It broke forever the spell of Persian invincibility, which had previously paralyzed men's minds. It generated among the Greeks the spirit which beat back Xerxes, and afterward led on Xenophon, Agesilaus, and Alexander, in terrible retaliation through their Asiatic campaigns. It secured for mankind the intellectual treasures of Athens, the growth of free institutions, the liberal enlightenment of the Western world, and the gradual ascendency for many ages of the great principles of European civ... [via]
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The Fifteen Decisive Battles Of The World From Marathon To Waterlooby Edward CreasyISBN 1419162152 (1-4191-6215-2)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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From Sea to Shining Seaby Peter Marshall, David ManuelISBN 0800753089 (0-8007-5308-9)
Softcover, Baker Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'From Sea to Shining Sea'Book summary:In From Sea to Shining Sea history buffs are transported back to the post-revolutionary era to discover how God intervened on behalf of a struggling nation. This fast-paced, absorbing narrative and sequel to the bestselling The Light and the Glory covers that fragile time in America's history from 1787 to 1837 when a newborn nation faced challenges and overcame her growing pains by clinging to her Christian heritage. [via]
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From Sea to Shining Sea for Childrenby Peter Marshall, David Manuel, Anna Wilson FishelISBN 0800754840 (0-8007-5484-0)
Softcover, Fleming H Revell Co
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Glory Roadby Bruce CattonISBN 0844667900 (0-8446-6790-0)
Hardcover, Peter Smith Pub Inc
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Hero With A Thousand Facesby Joseph CampbellISBN 0691017840 (0-691-01784-0)
Softcover, Princeton University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hero with a Thousand Faces'Book summary:Originally written by Campbell in the '40s-- in his pre-Bill Moyers days -- and famous as George Lucas' inspiration for "Star Wars," this book will likewise inspire any writer or reader in its well considered assertion that while all stories have already been told, this is *not* a bad thing, since the *retelling* is still necessary. And while our own life's journey must always be ended alone, the travel is undertaken in the company not only of immediate loved ones and primal passion, but of the heroes and heroines -- and myth-cycles -- that have preceded us. [via]
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History of the Byzantine Stateby Georgije OstrogorskiISBN 0813511984 (0-8135-1198-4)
Softcover, Rutgers Univ Pr
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In Search of Lost Timeby Marcel ProustISBN 0679600280 (0-679-60028-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In Search of Lost Time'Book summary:The Guermantes Way, in this the third volume of In Search of Lost Time, refers to the path that leads to the Duc and Duchess de Guermantess château near Combray. It also represents the narrators passage into the rarefied social kaleidoscope of the Guermantess Paris salon, an important intellectual playground for Parisian society, where he becomes a party to the wit and manners of the Guermantess drawing room. Here he encounters nobles, officers, socialites, and assorted consorts, including Robert de Saint Loup and his prostitute mistress Rachel, the Baron de Charlus, and the Prince de Borodino.
For this authoritative English-language edition, D. J. Enright has revised the late Terence Kilmartins acclaimed reworking of C. K. Scott Moncrieffs translation to take into account the new definitive French editions of Á la recherché du temps perdu (the final volume of these new editions was published by the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade in 1989). [via]More editions of In Search of Lost Time:
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Knights Templarby Stephen HowarthISBN 0689111851 (0-689-11185-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Knights Templar'Book summary:Here is a complete account of one of the strangest phenomena of Medieval history: The Poor Fellow Soldiers of Christ, the Knights of The Temple of Solomon- more popularly known as The Knights Templar. In their brotherhood, the Knights united two conflicting medieval ideals, for they were both monks and warriors, committed to God and commited to war. Charting the rise and fall of The Order, tracing the lives and deaths of its members, examining the motives of its supporters and opponents, Stephen Howarth cuts through the myths and legends and sets out the true historical facts. >[via] -
Knights Templar: The Essential Historyby Stephen HowarthISBN 0826480349 (0-8264-8034-9)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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Kosovo: A Short Historyby Noel MalcolmISBN 0814755984 (0-8147-5598-4)
Hardcover, New York Univ Pr
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Marcus Aureliusby C.R. HainesISBN 0674990641 (0-674-99064-1)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Marcus Aurelius'Book summary:Marcus Aurelius (121180 CE), Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher, born at Rome, received training under his guardian and uncle emperor Antoninus Pius (reigned 138161), who adopted him. He was converted to Stoicism and henceforward studied and practised philosophy and law. A gentle man, he lived in agreement and collaboration with Antoninus Pius. He married Pius's daughter and succeeded him as emperor in March 161, sharing some of the burdens with Lucius Verus.
Marcus's reign soon saw fearful national disasters from flood, earthquakes, epidemics, threatened revolt (in Britain), a Parthian war, and pressure of barbarians north of the Alps. From 169 onwards he had to struggle hard against the German Quadi, Marcomani, Vandals, and others until success came in 174. In 175 (when Faustina died) he pacified affairs in Asia after a revolt by Avidius. War with Germans was renewed during which he caught some disease and died by the Danube in March 180.
The famous Meditations of Marcus Aurelius (not his title; he simply calls them 'The matters addressed to himself') represents reflections written in periods of solitude during the emperor's military campaigns. Originally intended for his private guidance and self-admonition, the Meditations has endured as a potent expression of Stoic belief. It is a central text for students of Stoicism as well as a unique personal guide to the moral life.
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Meditationsby Marcus Aurelius, Gregory HaysISBN 0812968255 (0-8129-6825-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Meditations'Book summary:This reflective and solitary work was written by one of the best of the "good" Roman emperors, Marcus Aurelius (A.D. 121-180), during the course of his military campaigns against barbarian hordes who were threatening the borders of his empire. His Meditations are among the noblest expressions of the principles of Stoic philosophy, which stressed the virtues of reason, thoughtful deliberation, and moderation as guides to right conduct in an uncertain world. [via]
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The Meditations of Marcus Aureliusby Marcus AureliusISBN 1406793671 (1-4067-9367-1)
Softcover, Pierides Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius'Book summary:Marcus Annius Verus was born in Rome, A. D. 121, and assumed the name of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, by which he is known to history, on his adoption by the Emperor T. Aurelius Antoninus. M. Aurelius was educated by the orator Fronto, but turned aside from rhetoric to the study of the Stoic philosophy, of which he was the last distinguished representative. The "Meditations," which he wrote in Greek, are among the most noteworthy expressions of this system, and exhibit it favorably on its practical side. The "Meditations" picture with faithfulness the mind and character of this noblest of the Emperors. Simple in style and sincere in tone, they record for all time the height reached by pagan aspiration in its effort to solve the problem of conduct; and the essential agreement of his practice with his teaching proved that "Even in a palace life may be led well." [via]
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Near a Thousand Tables: A History of Foodby Felipe Fernandez-ArmestoISBN 0743227409 (0-7432-2740-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Out of the Flames : The Remarkable Story of a Fearless Scholar, a Fatal Heresy, and One of the Rarest Books in the Worldby Lawrence Goldstone, Nancy Bazelon GoldstoneISBN 0767908368 (0-7679-0836-8)
Hardcover, Broadway Books
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Out of the Flames: The Remarkable Story of a Fearless Scholar, a Fatal Heresy, and One of the Rarest Books in the Worldby Nancy Goldstone, Lawrence GoldstoneISBN 0767908376 (0-7679-0837-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Out of the Flames: The Remarkable Story of a Fearless Scholar, a Fatal Heresy, and One of the Rarest Books in the World'Book summary:Michael Servetus is one of those hidden figureheads of history who is remembered not for his name, but for the revolutionary deeds that stand in his place. Both a scientist and a freethinking theologian, Servetus is credited with the discovery of pulmonary circulation in the human body as well as the authorship of a polemical masterpiece that cost him his life. The Chrisitianismi Restituto, a heretical work of biblical scholarship, written in 1553, aimed to refute the orthodox Christianity that Servetus' old colleague, John Calvin, supported. After the book spread through the ranks of Protestant hierarchy, Servetus was tried and agonizingly burned at the stake, the last known copy of the Restitutio chained to his leg.
Servetus's execution is significant because it marked a turning point in the quest for freedom of expression, due largely to the development of the printing press and the proliferation of books in Renaissance Europe. Three copies of the Restitutio managed to survive the burning, despite every effort on the part of his enemies to destroy them. As a result, the book became almost a surrogate for its author, going into hiding and relying on covert distribution until it could be read freely, centuries later. Out of the Flames tracks the history of this special work, examining Servetus's life and times and the politics of the first information during the sixteenth century. Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone follow the clandestine journey of the three copies through the subsequent centuries and explore its author's legacy and influence over the thinkers that shared his spirit and genius, such as Leibniz, Voltaire, Rousseau, Jefferson, Clarence Dorrow, and William Osler.
Out of the Flames is an extraordinary story providing testament to the power of ideas, the enduring legacy of books, and the triumph of individual courage.
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Past Imperfect: History According to the Moviesby Mark C. Carnes, David Rubel, Ted Mico, John Miller-MonzonISBN 0805037608 (0-8050-3760-8)
Softcover, Owlet
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The People's Chronology: A Year-By-Year Record of Human Events from Prehistory to the Presentby James TragerISBN 0805031340 (0-8050-3134-0)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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The Prospect Before Herby Olwen HuftonISBN 0679768181 (0-679-76818-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Prospect Before Her: A History of Women in Western Europe'Book summary:The great insight of social history is that the record of the lives of Great Men offers a skewed vision of human experience. Similarly women's history seeks to address the unbalanced written record of humanity. Olwen Hufton, the author of several previous studies concerned with women and the history of ideas, has crafted a descriptive history of the lives of a wide variety of women over the 300-year period from 1500 to 1800. Her work is neither an act of prescription nor a narrative written as a means to empowerment. Rather, the details testify to the inequality of women's lives. Hufton seeks no single representative woman whose story conveys the experience of women writ large, but instead offers appropriately complicated interpretations of the diverse women she discusses. [via]
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The Red Badge of Courageby Stephen Crane, Cynthia Brantley Johnson, Alyssa HaradISBN 1416500251 (1-4165-0025-1)
Softcover, Pocket Classics
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The Red Badge of Courageby Oliver Ho, Jamel AkibISBN 1402726635 (1-4027-2663-5)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Red Badge of Courage'Book summary:[via]A searing tale of fear and courage, set during the Civil War, but more powerful today than ever. A young man enlists in the Union Army, but nervously wonders how he will react to the blood, violence, and death of a real battle. When that terrible day arrives, he flees the fighting in terror. But his cowardly behavior gnaws at his conscience, and he searches for redemption for what he has done.
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Red Star over Chinaby Edgar SnowISBN 0802150934 (0-8021-5093-4)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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The Renaissance: A Short Historyby Paul JohnsonISBN 0812966198 (0-8129-6619-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Renaissance: A Short History'Book summary:The Renaissance holds an undying place in the human imagination, and its great heroes remain our own, from Michelangelo and Leonardo to Dante and Montaigne. This period of profound evolution in European thought is credited with transforming the West from medieval to modern; reviving the city as the center of human activity and the acme of civilization; and, of course, producing the most astonishing outpouring of artistic creation the world has ever known. Perhaps no era in history was more revolutionary, and none has been more romanticized. What was it? In The Renaissance, the great historian Paul Johnson tackles that question with the towering erudition and imaginative fire that are his trademarks.
Johnson begins by painting the economic, technological, and social developments that give the period its background. But, as Johnson explains, "The Renaissance was primarily a human event, propelled forward by a number of individuals of outstanding talent, in some cases amounting to genius." It is the human foreground that absorbs most of the book's attention. "We can give all kinds of satisfying explanations of why and when the Renaissance occurred and how it transmitted itself," Johnson writes. "But there is no explaining Dante, no explaining Chaucer. Genius suddenly comes to life, and speaks out of a vacuum. Then it is silent, equally mysteriously. The trends continue and intensify, but genius is lacking." In the four parts that make up the heart of the book--"The Renaissance in Literature and Scholarship," "The Anatomy of Renaissance Sculpture," "The Buildings of the Renaissance," and "The Apostolic Successions of Renaissance Painting"--Johnson chronicles the lives and works of the age's animating spirits. Finally, he examines the spread and decline of the Renaissance, and its abiding legacy. A book of dazzling riches, The Renaissance is a compact masterpiece of the historian's art. [via]More editions of The Renaissance: A Short History:
Stephen Cranes the Red Badge of Courageby Stephen CraneISBN 0671006606 (0-671-00660-6)
Softcover, Monarch Notes
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Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friednship and Love Between Women from the Renaissanceby L. FadermanISBN 0704339773 (0-7043-3977-3)
Softcover, Womens Pr Ltd
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Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Presentby Lillian FadermanISBN 0688133304 (0-688-13330-4)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Surpassing the Love of Men : Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present'Book summary:First published in 1981, this feminist classic began modestly as an academic essay on Emily Dickinson's love poems and letters to her future sister-in-law, Sue Gilbert. In her original introduction, Faderman recalled her surprise at finding these records of an erotic attachment between women that showed no evidence of guilt, anxiety, or the need for secrecy. Yet 60 or 70 years after they were written, the original letters had been bowdlerized by a niece of Dickinson's, who clearly found them too shocking for publication. Why, Faderman wondered, was passionate love between women, once almost universally applauded in the Western world, now almost universally condemned? She learned that the love between Dickinson and Gilbert had many precedents, and that it was only in the late 19th century that medical literature and antifeminism combined to rank women who loved women "somewhere," as she puts it bluntly, "between necrophiliacs and those who had sex with chickens." For this new edition, Faderman explains that she has resisted the urge to update her text, hoping that her exploration of romantic friendship, from French libertine literature through the dawn of feminism through the lesbian panic of the 1920s will still serve as "solace and ammunition" for those hoping to find "a usable past." --Regina Marler [via]
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The Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninusby Aurelius Marcus, George LongISBN 1410206920 (1-4102-0692-0)
Softcover, Univ Pr of the Pacific
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Thoughts of the Emperor Marcus Aureliusby Marcus AntoninusISBN 1421953919 (1-4219-5391-9)
Hardcover, IndyPublish.com
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The Thoughts Of The Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninusby Marcus AureliusISBN 1419185152 (1-4191-8515-2)
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To America: Personal Reflections of an Historianby Stephen AmbroseISBN 0743252128 (0-7432-5212-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'To America: Personal Reflections of an Historian'Book summary:"I am a storyteller by training and inclination," writes the late Stephen Ambrose in To America, his final book. And what a storyteller. One of the most respected and popular historians of his era, Ambrose had a passion for making the events of the past both relevant and entertaining. In these pages, he touches on many of the subjects that he devoted his career to, including presidents Eisenhower and Nixon, the journey of Lewis and Clark, the building of the transcontinental railroad, and the citizen soldiers of World War II. He also writes about his own personal story and his role as a historian. In detailing a family camping trip to Wounded Knee (an outing which directly led to his dual biography of Crazy Horse and George Armstrong Custer) or offering tips on vivid historical writing (keep your narration in chronological order; keep the reader guessing; and never use the passive voice), he shares what it is like to reflect upon the triumphs and mistakes of the past and why it is so important to pass those stories on to the next generation.
In this brief yet satisfying book, Ambrose moves seamlessly from one topic to the next with contagious enthusiasm and unapologetic optimism. Along the way he points out the inherent absurdity of political correctness, and even takes himself to task for past biases and for sometimes failing to consider his subjects within the context of their own times and not his own. He does not shy away from writing about America's sins, both past and present, but Ambrose's undying faith in his country and his fellow citizens is inspiring. --Shawn Carkonen [via]
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Triumph : The Power and the Glory of the Catholic Church, a 2,000-Year Historyby Crocker, H. W., IIIISBN 0761529241 (0-7615-2924-1)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Triumph: The Power and the Glory of the Catholic Church, a 2,000-Year Historyby H. W. CrockerISBN 0761516042 (0-7615-1604-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Wisconsin Death Tripby Charles Van Schaick, Michael LesyISBN 0826321933 (0-8263-2193-3)
Softcover, Univ of New Mexico Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wisconsin Death Trip'Book summary:The last decade of the 19th century was, for some Americans, a time when great fortunes were to be made. For many others, however, the period was a time of economic dislocation, when the gap between city and countryside, rich and poor, grew ever wider. As the Indian Wars ended and the Gilded Age extended into America's first Imperial Age, social critics such as Mark Twain and William Dean Howells began to examine the dark side of the American dream: violence, poverty, degenerate behavior, suicide, and insanity.
In the late 1960s, another desperate time, historian Michael Lesy took a long look at fin-de-siècle America. Examining a collection of several thousand glass plate negatives and historical documents from Jackson County, Wisconsin, he concocted a sprawling treatise on a past that had been willfully forgotten, a brooding rejoinder to Edgar Lee Masters's Spoon River Anthology. First published in 1973, Lesy's Wisconsin Death Trip, now reissued in a handsome paperbound edition, became a key text of the counterculture, a book to shelve alongside Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee and Custer Died for Your Sins--and it sometimes reads like a hip product of its time. Lesy documents the unsettling record of one small corner of rural America, turning up accounts of barn burnings, attacks by gangs of armed tramps, threatening and obscene letters, death by diphtheria and smallpox (the Wisconsin townsfolk had, some years, to attend several funerals a week), alcoholism, madness, business and bank failures, and even a case or two of witchcraft.
After reading Lesy's texts and viewing the sometimes unsettling images he's turned up, you would be forgiven for thinking that no one in small-town Wisconsin in our great-great-grandparents' time was well-adjusted--which is, of course, not the case. Hyperbole notwithstanding, this is a remarkable study, one that Lesy himself rightly calls an experiment in both history and alchemy. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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The World's Great ClassicsISBN 0717200019 (0-7172-0001-9)
Hardcover, Xs Books
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