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Ab to Zoggby Eve MerriamISBN 0689305915 (0-689-30591-5)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Gary Paulsen, Mark TwainISBN 0689831390 (0-689-83139-0)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'Book summary:A seminal work of American Literature that still commands deep praise and still elicits controversy, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is essential to the understanding of the American soul. The recent discovery of the first half of Twain's manuscript, long thought lost, made front-page news. And this unprecedented edition, which contains for the first time omitted episodes and other variations present in the first half of the handwritten manuscript, as well as facsimile reproductions of thirty manuscript pages, is indispensable to a full understanding of the novel. The changes, deletions, and additions made in the first half of the manuscript indicate that Mark Twain frequently checked his impulse to write an even darker, more confrontational book than the one he finally published. [via]
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Mark Twain, Steven KelloggISBN 0688106560 (0-688-10656-0)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'Book summary:Originally intended as a sequel to his immensely popular Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn stands on its own as one of America's most important and beloved literary classics.
For generations, young and old alike have delighted in the unforgettable adventures of runaways Huck Finn and Jim, a slave. In vivid, often gripping prose, Twain brings to fife both the beauty and the folly of preCivil War life along the Mississippifrom the radiant dawn on the river to Huck's terrifying encounters with his father, as well as the outrageous antics of the King and the Duke and Tom Sawyer's outlandish plans to free Jim. Told from Huck's point of view, Huckleberry Finn is also the powerful story of a boy's journey toward adulthood.
In the finest work of his distinguished career, Steven Kellogg has created eighteen stunning pictures that capture Twain's timeless blend of humor and suspense. This is truly an edition that readers of all ages will want to return to again and again.
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Ahab's Wife Or, the Star-Gazerby Sena Jeter NaslundISBN 0688171877 (0-688-17187-7)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ahab's Wife : Or, the Star-Gazer: A Novel'Book summary:It has been said that one can see further only by standing on the shoulders of giants. Ahab's Wife, Sena Naslund's epic work of historical fiction, honours that aphorism, using Herman Melville's Moby-Dick as looking glass into early 19th-century America. Through the eye of an outsider, a woman, she suggests that New England life was broader and richer than Melville's manly world of men, ships and whales. This ambitious novel pays tribute to Melville, creating heroines from his lesser characters, and to America's literary heritage in general. Una, named for the heroine of Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene, flees to the New England coast from Kentucky to escape her puritanical father and to pursue a more exalted life. She gets whaling out of her system early: going to sea at 16 disguised as a boy, Una has her ship sunk by her own monstrous whale, and survives a harrowing shipwreck:
I was so horrified by the whale's deliberate charge that I could not move. Then my own name flew up from below like a spear: "Una!" Giles' voice broke my trance, and I scrambled down the rigging. No sooner did my foot touch the deck than there was such a lurch that I fell to my face. I heard and felt the boards break below the waterline, the copper sheathing nothing but decorative foil. The whole ship shuddered. A death throe.
The ship dies, but Una returns to land to pursue the life of the mind. The novel's opening line--"Captain Ahab was neither my first husband nor my last"--also diminishes Melville's hero in the broader scheme of things. Naslund exposes the reader to the unsung, real-life heroes of Melville's world, including Margaret Fuller and her Boston salon, and Nantucket astronomer Maria Mitchell. There is a chance meeting with a veiled Nathaniel Hawthorne in the woods, and throughout the novel the story brims with references to the giants of literature: Shakespeare, Goethe, Coleridge, Keats, and Wordsworth. Although her novel runs long at nearly 700 pages, Naslund has created an imaginative, entertaining, and very impressive work. --Ted Leventhal [via]More editions of Ahab's Wife Or, the Star-Gazer:
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The Artist's Way at Work: Riding the Dragonby Julia Cameron, Catherine Allen, Mark A. BryanISBN 0688166350 (0-688-16635-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Artist's Way at Work: Riding the Dragon'Book summary:Adapting their techniques for fostering creativity as a means to spiritual fulfillment for the workplace, the authors of The Artist's Way at Work have shown that people can thrive at their jobs when they take time to nurture their spirit and listen to their thoughts. The book features psychological guidance, anecdotes, and exercises to assist the reader in sorting out the multitude of happenings, commitments, and choices in one's life. Again, these authors of the enormously successful The Artist's Way recommend their fundamental technique of "morning pages"--a kind of free-form journaling--to unravel thoughts and feelings, focus energy, and direct action. The beautiful surprise of this deceivingly simple exercise is that it actually works! It's making the time to do morning pages that's the real battle. But, if you, like so many others, feel swept up by the tidal wave of our fast-paced, noisy culture, then the authors' slow and steady steps toward reclaiming the spiritual self are invaluable. Some of the suggestions and exercises are a bit out of touch with the complex, and often emotionally-charged, political maneuverings of corporate culture, but the aim of cultivating an individual's ingenuity and resourcefulness is effective and expertly structured. Overall, the authors' philosophy boils down to change that begins with a constantly emerging self. With this book's help, you'll not only find how that new self spawns clarity and grace, but how widely their effects can reverberate throughout the workplace. --Karen Karleski [via]
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The Authentic Voice: A Pre-Writing Approach to Student Writingby Donald C. StewartISBN 0697037037 (0-697-03703-7)
Hardcover, W. C. Brown Co
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Berlitz Jr Spanishby Berlitz Schools of Languages of AmericaISBN 0689713150 (0-689-71315-0)
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Buenas Noches Luna / Goodnight Moonby Margaret Wise Brown, Teresa Mlawer, Clement HurdISBN 0694016519 (0-694-01651-9)
Hardcover, Harperfestival
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Caesarby Colleen McCulloughISBN 0688093728 (0-688-09372-8)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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Caesar's Womenby Colleen McCulloughISBN 068809371X (0-688-09371-X)
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Chinese Primer: Hanyu Pinyinby Perry Link, Yih-Jian Tai, Hai-Tao Tang, Ta-Tuan Ch'EnISBN 0691036950 (0-691-03695-0)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Clear and Simple As the Truth: Writing Classic Proseby Mark Turner, Francis-Noel ThomasISBN 0691029172 (0-691-02917-2)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Clear and Simple As the Truth: Writing Classic Prose'Book summary:These days, discussions of writing style are generally limited to superficialities such as serial commas and approved abbreviations. It's a pity. While consistency in writing does make for more pleasant reading, no amount of rule-abiding can mask poorly wrought prose. In Clear and Simple As the Truth, Francis-Noël Thomas and Mark Turner argue that "writing is an intellectual activity, not a bundle of skills." The first half of their book is a probing examination of classic style, the form popularized by 17th-century French prose writers such as Descartes, Pascal, and Madame de Sévigné and best typified contemporarily by much of the writing in the pre-1985 New Yorker. The authors liken classic style to those theorems in mathematics valued for being "brief, efficient, clear, elegant, and pure." The classic sentence appears effortless, "as if it could have been written in no other way," and while "the writer may speak with a technical mastery not possessed by the reader ... his attitude is always that the reader lacks this mastery only accidentally." While one can hardly hope to distill the essence of classic style into a sentence, Thomas and Turner describe it most succinctly as expression that is "clear and simple as the truth, but no clearer or simpler."
The second half of the book is a "museum" of classic prose, by Thomas Jefferson, Descartes, Jane Austen, Mark Twain, Richard Feynman, Oscar Wilde, Philip Larkin, and many others, accompanied by commentary from the authors. [via]
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Codes and Secret Writingby Herbert Spencer ZimISBN 0688311784 (0-688-31178-4)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Creative News Editingby Alfred A. CrowellISBN 0697043266 (0-697-04326-6)
Hardcover, W. C. Brown
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Dictionary of Foreign Termsby Charles Berlitz, C. MawsonISBN 0690001711 (0-690-00171-1)
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Did Mohawks Wear Mohawks? and Other Wonders, Plunders, and Blundersby Mark Watson, Bruce TindallISBN 0688098592 (0-688-09859-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Divine Comedyby Dante AlighieriISBN 0691018952 (0-691-01895-2)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Divine Comedy'Book summary:This splendid verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum provides an entirely fresh experience of Dante's great poem of penance and hope. As Dante ascends the Mount of Purgatory toward the Earthly Paradise and his beloved Beatrice, through "that second kingdom in which the human soul is cleansed of sin, " all the passion and suffering, poetry and philosophy are rendered with the immediacy of a poet of our own age. With extensive notes and commentary prepared especially for this edition.
"The English Dante of choice."--Hugh Kenner.
"Exactly what we have waited for these years, a Dante with clarity, eloquence, terror, and profoundly moving depths."--Robert Fagles, Princeton University.
"Tough and supple, tender and violent . . . vigorous, vernacular . . . Mandelbaum's Dante will stand high among modern translations."-- "The Christian Science Monitor" [via]
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The Divine Comedy II Vol. 1 : Purgatorio: Textby Charles S. Singleton, Dante AlighieriISBN 0691019096 (0-691-01909-6)
Softcover, Princeton University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Divine Comedy II Vol. 1 : Purgatorio: Text'Book summary:This splendid verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum provides an entirely fresh experience of Dante's great poem of penance and hope. As Dante ascends the Mount of Purgatory toward the Earthly Paradise and his beloved Beatrice, through "that second kingdom in which the human soul is cleansed of sin, " all the passion and suffering, poetry and philosophy are rendered with the immediacy of a poet of our own age. With extensive notes and commentary prepared especially for this edition.
"The English Dante of choice."--Hugh Kenner.
"Exactly what we have waited for these years, a Dante with clarity, eloquence, terror, and profoundly moving depths."--Robert Fagles, Princeton University.
"Tough and supple, tender and violent . . . vigorous, vernacular . . . Mandelbaum's Dante will stand high among modern translations."-- "The Christian Science Monitor" [via]
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Dora's Opposites / Opuestos De Doraby Robert Roper, Phoebe BeinsteinISBN 0689848196 (0-689-84819-6)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster Merchandise &
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Economy of the Unlost: Reading Simonides of Keos With Paul Cby Anne CarsonISBN 0691091757 (0-691-09175-7)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Economy of the Unlost: Reading Simonides of Keos With Paul C'Book summary:The ancient Greek lyric poet Simonides of Keos was the first poet in the Western tradition to take money for poetic composition. From this starting point, Anne Carson launches an exploration of the idea of poetic economy. She offers a reading of certain Simonides' texts and aligns these with writings of the modern Romanian poet Paul Celan, a Jew and survivor of the Holocaust, whose "economies" of language are notorious. Asking such questions as, "what is lost when words are wasted?" and "who profits when words are saved?", Carson reveals the two poets' striking commonalities. In Carson's view, Simonides and Celan share a similar mentality or disposition toward the world, language and the work of the poet. "Economy of the Unlost" begins by showing how each of the two poets stands in a state of alienation between two worlds. In Simonides' case, the gift economy of 5th-century BC Greece was giving way to one based on money and commodities, while Celan's life spanned pre- and post-Holocaust worlds, and he himself, writing in German, became estranged from his native language. Carson goes on to consider various aspects of the two poets' techniques for coming to grips with the invisible through the visible world. A focus on the genre of the epitaph grants insights into the kinds of exchange the poets envision between the living and the dead. Assessing the impact on Simonidean composition of the material fact of inscription on stone, Carson suggests that a need for brevity influenced the exactitude and clarity of Simonides' style, and proposes a comparison with Celan's interest in the "negative design" of printmaking: both poets, though in different ways, employ a kind of negative image making, cutting away all that is superfluous. This book's juxtaposition of the two poets illuminates their differences - Simonides' fundamental faith in the power of the word, Celan's ultimate despair - as well as their similarities; it provides fertile ground for the interplay of Carson's scholarship and her poetic sensibility. [via]
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Egyptian Hieroglyphs for Everyone: An Introduction to the Writing of Ancient Egyptby Joseph Scott, Lenore ScottISBN 0690047533 (0-690-04753-3)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Eros the Bittersweetby Anne CarsonISBN 0691066817 (0-691-06681-7)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Eugene Oneginby Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, Aleksandr Sergeevich PushkinISBN 0691018375 (0-691-01837-5)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Eugene Oneginby Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, Vladimir Vladimirovich NabokovISBN 0691019053 (0-691-01905-3)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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European Literature and the Latin Middle Agesby Ernst Robert CurtiusISBN 0691018995 (0-691-01899-5)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages'Book summary:In this "magnificent book" (T. S. Eliot), Ernst Robert Curtius (1886-1956), one of the foremost literary scholars of this century, examines the continuity of European literature from Homer to Goethe, with particular emphasis on the Latin Middle Ages. In an extensive new epilogue, drawing on hitherto unpublished material, Peter Godman analyzes the intellectual and political context and character of Curtius's ideas.
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Hardcover, Princeton University Press - European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages: ISBN 0691099693 (0-691-09969-3)
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The First Man in Romeby Colleen McCulloughISBN 068809368X (0-688-09368-X)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Follett Vest Pocket Dictionary-FrenchISBN 0695807781 (0-695-80778-1)
Softcover, Xs Books
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Forgotten Englishby Jeffrey KacirkISBN 0688150187 (0-688-15018-7)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Forgotten English'Book summary:Some think that the obsolescing of words from the English language is a sorry indication of its constant decline. Not so, argues Jeffrey Kacirk, the author of this charming collection of quirky antiquated words and the stories behind them. "In fact," he writes in his introduction, "the richness and maturity of a language may be gauged by the volume and quality of words it can afford to lose." The wonderful sounds these forgotten words make--nimgimmer, tup-running, mocteroof, frubbish, grog-blossom, wayzgoose, galligaskin, sockdolager--are half the fun. Their fabulous meanings, particularly those that seem inevitable once you learn them, make up the rest. And as the history of the words unfolds, so does history itself. Among the many strange and outmoded folk Kacirk introduces are the bird-swindler, a 19th-century "purveyor of expensive, exotic-looking birds that, upon closer inspection, were found to be one of several common varieties of local birds that had been trimmed and dyed"; the eye-servant, "a devious domestic or other employee ... who was too lazy to efficiently perform duties except when 'within eyeshot' of his or her master"; the prickmedainty, a 16th-century "man-about-town who coifed himself in an overly careful manner, frequently seeking the services of his barber"; and the dog-flogger, "a minor church official ... whose duty it was to supervise and discipline the unruly canines that traditionally accompanied their owners to English church services." [via]
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A Gaggle of Geese and Other Animal Groupsby Philippa-Alys BrowneISBN 0689807619 (0-689-80761-9)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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Goodnight Moonby Margaret Wise Brown, Clement HurdISBN 0694003611 (0-694-00361-1)
Hardcover, Harperfestival
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Goodnight Moon'Book summary:"In the great green room / There was a telephone / And a red balloon / And a picture of-- / The cow jumping over the moon." Maybe you and your favorite baby have heard this soothing, rhythmic beginning to Margaret Wise Brown and illustrator Clement Hurd's classic Goodnight Moon once or a thousand times. But has your child ever heard it while sporting Goodnight Moon bunny slippers? This compact, clear-plastic tote carries the sturdy board-book edition of Goodnight Moon and one pair of baby-sized slippers, ready to take along for bedtime, naptime, or storytime. These 4-inch-long slippers, equipped with rubber-dotted soles, are made of a thin, soft, blue-and-white-striped fabric with felt-like bands of orange cloth around the elasticized ankles. Best of all perhaps is the sweet bunny head on the top of each slipper, and the white bunny tails on the heels. (The slippers are sized for babies 6 months to one year old) [via]
The Grass Crownby Colleen McCulloughISBN 0688093698 (0-688-09369-8)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Great Expressions: How Our Favorite Words, Phrases, and Sayings Have Come to Mean What They Meanby Marvin VanoniISBN 0688079903 (0-688-07990-3)
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Hodgepodge Two: Another Commonplace Bookby J. BryanISBN 0689120648 (0-689-12064-8)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Human Geography: Landscapes of Human Activitiesby Arthur Getis, Judith Getis, Jerome Donald FellmannISBN 069705330X (0-697-05330-X)
Hardcover, W.C. Brown
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I'Ve Got Goose Pimples: Our Great Expressions and How They Came to Beby Marvin Vanoni, Chris L. DemarestISBN 068809421X (0-688-09421-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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If You Were a Writerby Joan Lowery Nixon, Bruce DegenISBN 0689719000 (0-689-71900-0)
Softcover, Aladdin Paperbacks
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Indian Sign Languageby Robert HofsindeISBN 0688316107 (0-688-31610-7)
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The Infernoby Dante Alighieri, Charles Southward SingletonISBN 0691018324 (0-691-01832-4)
Softcover, Princeton University Press
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International Thesaurus of Quotationsby Rhoda Thomas TrippISBN 0690445849 (0-690-44584-9)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Jewish Humor: What the Best Jewish Jokes Say About the Jewsby Joseph TelushkinISBN 0688163513 (0-688-16351-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Language & Reality: A Semantics Approach to Writingby Geoffrey Atheling Wagner, Sanford R. RadnerISBN 069000494X (0-690-00494-X)
Hardcover, Crowell
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Language Arts Process Product and Assessment: Process, Product, and Assessmentby Pamela J. FarrisISBN 0697241351 (0-697-24135-1)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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Literary Language & Its Public in Late Latin Antiquity and in the Middle Agesby Erich Auerbach, Ralph ManheimISBN 0691024685 (0-691-02468-5)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Maya Iconographyby Elizabeth P. Benson, Gillett G. GriffinISBN 0691035903 (0-691-03590-3)
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Meaning and Context: Quentin Skinner and His Criticsby James TullyISBN 0691023018 (0-691-02301-8)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Meaning and Context: Quentin Skinner and His Critics'Book summary:Quentin Skinner is one of the leading thinkers in the social sciences and humanities today. Since the publication of his first important articles some two decades ago, debate has continued to develop over his distinctive contributions to contemporary political philosophy, the history of political theory, the philosophy of social science, and the discussion of interpretation and hermeneutics across the humanities and social sciences. Nevertheless, his most valuable essays and the best critical articles concerning his work have been scattered in various journals and difficult to obtain. Meaning and Context includes five of the most widely discussed articles by Skinner, which present his approach to the study of political thought and the interpretation of texts. Following these are seven articles by his critics, five of these drawn from earlier publications and two, by John Keane and Charles Taylor, written especially for this volume. Finally, there appears a fifty-seven page reply by Skinner--a major new statement in which he defends and reformulates his method and lays out new lines of research. The editorial introduction provides a systematic overview of the evolution of Skinner's work and of the main reactions to it.
Besides James Tully, John Keane, and Charles Taylor, the contributors include Joseph V. Femia, Keith Graham, Martin Hollis, Kenneth Minogue, and Nathan Tarcov.
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Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literatureby Erich AuerbachISBN 069111336X (0-691-11336-X)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The Myth of Egypt and Its Hieroglyphs in European Traditionby Erik IversenISBN 0691021244 (0-691-02124-4)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Nart Sagas from the Caucasus: Myths and Legends from the Circassians, Abazas, Abkhaz, and Ubykhsby John ColarussoISBN 0691026475 (0-691-02647-5)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poeticsby Alex Preminger, T. V. F. BroganISBN 0691021236 (0-691-02123-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics'Book summary:From abecedarius to zeugma, by way of cywydd, estribillo, Nibelungenstrophe, Tachtigers, and other poetic terms that sound like poetry, The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics is a gold mine for readers and writers of poetry alike. First published in 1965, this tome has evolved to reflect developments in critical thinking and an expanding knowledge of non-Western poetry (without, heaven forfend, being trendy: "a reference work," the editors explain, "must always distance itself from its time while it works to embrace that time"). For this third edition, the editors write, nearly every entry has been changed significantly, and 162 entries have been added. The preface claims coverage of every poetic tradition in the world, and one doesn't doubt it. There's enough material here to keep one browsing well past Yeats's "Second Coming." If that's not enough to quench your poetic thirst, fret not: a detailed bibliography concludes each entry. [via]
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Paradigms Lost: Images of Man in the Mirror of Scienceby John L. CastiISBN 0688081312 (0-688-08131-2)
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Philosophical Analysis In The Twentieth Century: The Age Of Meaningby Scott SoamesISBN 0691123128 (0-691-12312-8)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Philosophical Analysis In The Twentieth Century: The Age Of Meaning'Book summary:This is a major, wide-ranging history of analytic philosophy since 1900, told by one of the tradition's leading contemporary figures. The first volume takes the story from 1900 to mid-century. The second brings the history up to date.
As Scott Soames tells it, the story of analytic philosophy is one of great but uneven progress, with leading thinkers making important advances toward solving the tradition's core problems. Though no broad philosophical position ever achieved lasting dominance, Soames argues that two methodological developments have, over time, remade the philosophical landscape. These are (1) analytic philosophers' hard-won success in understanding, and distinguishing the notions of logical truth, a priori truth, and necessary truth, and (2) gradual acceptance of the idea that philosophical speculation must be grounded in sound prephilosophical thought. Though Soames views this history in a positive light, he also illustrates the difficulties, false starts, and disappointments endured along the way. As he engages with the work of his predecessors and contemporaries--from Bertrand Russell and Ludwig Wittgenstein to Donald Davidson and Saul Kripke--he seeks to highlight their accomplishments while also pinpointing their shortcomings, especially where their perspectives were limited by an incomplete grasp of matters that have now become clear.
Soames himself has been at the center of some of the tradition's most important debates, and throughout writes with exceptional ease about its often complex ideas. His gift for clear exposition makes the history as accessible to advanced undergraduates as it will be important to scholars. Despite its centrality to philosophy in the English-speaking world, the analytic tradition in philosophy has had very few synthetic histories. This will be the benchmark against which all future accounts will be measured.
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A Prayer for Owen Meanyby John IrvingISBN 0688087604 (0-688-08760-4)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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Press One For English: Language Policy, Public Opinion, And American Identityby Deborah Jill SchildkrautISBN 0691118140 (0-691-11814-0)
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Purgatorioby Dante Alighieri, Charles Southward SingletonISBN 069101843X (0-691-01843-X)
Softcover, Princeton University Press
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Reading Minds: The Study of English in the Age of Cognitive Scienceby Mark TurnerISBN 0691001073 (0-691-00107-3)
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Reference & Description: The Case Against Two-Dimensionalismby Scott SoamesISBN 069113099X (0-691-13099-X)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The Riddle of the Rosetta Stoneby James Cross GiblinISBN 0690047975 (0-690-04797-5)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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Selected Poemsby Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Christopher MiddletonISBN 0691036586 (0-691-03658-6)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Poems'Book summary:This new series brings into modern English a reliable translation of a representative portion of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's vast body of work. This edition, selected from over 140 volumes in German, is the new standard in English, and contains poetry, drama, fiction, memoir, criticism, and scientific writing by the man who is probably the most influential writer in the German language. The executive editors of this collection are Victor Lange of Princeton University, Eric Blackall of Cornell University, and Cyrus Hamlin of Yale University.
Princeton University Press is proud to be the distributor of the twelve volumes in hardcover of the originating publisher, Suhrkamp Verlag. In addition, Princeton will issue paperback reprints of these volumes over the next two years, beginning with volumes one through three.
Goethe, the founder of the poetry of experience, created a body of poetry that is unsurpassed in lucidity of speech and imagery and in instinct for melody and rhythm. Nonetheless, many of his poems are relatively unknown to English-speaking audiences, partly because of the difficulties they have posed to translators. This volume contains translations, side by side with the German originals, of Goethe's major poems--all prepared by eminent American and English writers, and all attesting to his poetic genius.
Goethe's most complex and profound work, Faust was the effort of the great poet's entire lifetime. Written over 60 years, it can be read as a document of Goethe's moral and artistic development. Faust is made available to the English reader in a completely new translation that communicates both its poetic variety and its many levels of tone. The language is present-day English, and Goethe's formal and rhythmic variety is reproduced in all its richness.
The reflections on art and literature that Goethe produced throughout his life are the premise and corollary of his work as poet, novelist, and man of science. This volume contains such important essays as "On Gothic Architecture," "On the Laocoon Group," and "Shakespeare: A Tribute." Several works in this collection appear for the first time unabridged and in fresh translations.
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Semanticsby Anatol RapoportISBN 0690002858 (0-690-00285-8)
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The Shrines of Tut-Ankh-Amonby Alexandre PiankoffISBN 0691018189 (0-691-01818-9)
Hardcover, Princeton University Press
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Speech and Brain Mechanismsby Lamar Roberts, Penfield WilderISBN 0691023662 (0-691-02366-2)
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The Stories of Eva Lunaby Isabel Allende, Margaret Sayers PedenISBN 0689121024 (0-689-12102-4)
Hardcover, Key Porter Books
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Sun Tzu: The New Translationby Sun-Tzu, J. H. HuangISBN 0688124003 (0-688-12400-3)
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Sun-Tzu is not simply another of many translations already available, but an entirely new text, based on manuscripts recently discovered in Linyi, China, that predates all previous texts by as much as one thousand years. In translating the text, researcher and interpreter J. H. Huang traced the roots of the language to before 221 B.C. to get to the original intent; Besides offering a wonderfully clear translation, Huang adds an introduction to the history behind Sun-Tzu and his own comments on the meaning of the text. In addition, Sun-Tzu includes six appendices, five of which were uncovered at Linyi and are not found in other editions.
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Taking Libertyby Ann Rinaldi, C. Michael DudashISBN 068985188X (0-689-85188-X)
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Terms of Political Discourseby William E. ConnollyISBN 0691022232 (0-691-02223-2)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Tristes Tropiquesby Claude Levi-StraussISBN 0689701225 (0-689-70122-5)
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Two by Twoby Toby Talbot, Marie AngelISBN 0695804847 (0-695-80484-7)
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Wayward Contracts: The Crisis of Political Obligation in England, 1640-1674by Victoria Ann KahnISBN 069111773X (0-691-11773-X)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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When They Severed Earth from Sky: How the Human Mind Shapes Mythby Elizabeth Wayland Barber, Paul T. BarberISBN 0691127743 (0-691-12774-3)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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A Wizard of Earthseaby Ursula K. Le GuinISBN 0689317204 (0-689-31720-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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In this first book, A Wizard of Earthsea readers will witness Sparrowhawk's moving rite of passage--when he discovers his true name and becomes a young man. Great challenges await Sparrowhawk, including an almost deadly battle with a sinister creature, a monster that may be his own shadow. [via]
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A Woman of the Iron Peopleby Eleanor ArnasonISBN 0688103758 (0-688-10375-8)
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Writing Road to Readingby Walter T. Spalding, Romalda SpaldingISBN 0688100074 (0-688-10007-4)
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The Writing Road to Reading: A Modern Method of Phonics for Teaching Children to Readby Walter T. Spalding, Romalda Bishop SpaldingISBN 0688078184 (0-688-07818-4)
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