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Aristotleby John Herman RandallISBN 023108529X (0-231-08529-X)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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The Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawaby Yukichi FukuzawaISBN 0231083734 (0-231-08373-4)
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Becoming a Heroine : Reading about Women in Novelsby Rachel M. BrownsteinISBN 0231100000 (0-231-10000-0)
Softcover, Columbia University Press
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The Big Cats and Their Fossil Relatives: An Illustrated Guide to Their Evolution and Natural Historyby Alan Turner, Mauricio Anton, F. Clark HowellISBN 0231102291 (0-231-10229-1)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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The Big Cats and Their Fossil Relatives : An Illustrated Guide to Their Evolution and Natural Historyby Mauricio Antón, Alan Turner, F. Clark HowellISBN 0231102283 (0-231-10228-3)
Hardcover, Columbia University Press
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The Bookworm's Big Apple: A Guide to Manhattan's Booksellersby Susan Paula BarileISBN 0231084951 (0-231-08495-1)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Bosnia and Hercegovina: A Tradition Betrayedby Robert J. Donia, John V. A. FineISBN 0231101619 (0-231-10161-9)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Career of Philosophyby John Herman RandallISBN 0231086784 (0-231-08678-4)
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Christianity and the Encounter of the World Religions.by Paul TillichISBN 0231085559 (0-231-08555-9)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory: A Readerby Patrick Williams, Laura ChrismanISBN 0231100213 (0-231-10021-3)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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The Columbia History of Western Philosophyby Avrum Stroll, David Carr, Brian P. Copenhaver, Thomas R. Flynn, Rudolf A. Makkreel, Thomas M. Robinson, Gerald A. Press, Stephen F. Brown, Richard Henry PopkinISBN 0231101295 (0-231-10129-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Columbia History of Western Philosophy'Book summary:Richard Popkin has assembled 63 leading scholars to forge a highly approachable chronological account of the development of Western philosophical traditions. From Plato to Wittgenstein and from Aquinas to Heidegger, this volume provides lively, in-depth, and up-to-date historical analysis of all the key figures, schools, and movements of Western philosophy.
The Columbia History significantly broadens the scope of Western philosophy to reveal the influence of Middle Eastern and Asian thought, the vital contributions of Jewish and Islamic philosophers, and the role of women within the tradition. Along with a wealth of new scholarship, recently discovered works in 17th- and 18th-century philosophy are considered, such as previously unpublished works by Locke that inspire a new assessment of the evolution of his ideas. Popkin also emphasizes schools and developments that have traditionally been overlooked. Sections on Aristotle and Plato are followed by a detailed presentation on Hellenic philosophy and its influence on the modern developments of materialism and scepticism. A chapter has been dedicated to Jewish and Moslem philosophical development during the Middle Ages, focusing on the critical role of figures such as Averroës and Moses Maimonides in introducing Christian thinkers to classical philosophy. Another chapter considers Renaissance philosophy and its seminal influence on the development of modern humanism and science.
Turning to the modern era, contributors consider the importance of the Kaballah to Spinoza, Leibniz, and Newton and the influence of popular philosophers like Moses Mendelssohn upon the work of Kant. This volume gives equal attention to both sides of the current rift in philosophy between continental and analytic schools, charting the development of each right up to the end of the 20th century.
Each chapter includes an introductory essay, and Popkin provides notes that draw connections among the separate articles. The rich bibliographic information and the indexes of names and terms make the volume a valuable resource.
Combining a broad scope and penetrating analysis with a keen sense of what is relevant for the modern reader, The Columbia History of Western Philosophy will prove an accessible introduction for students and an informative overview for general readers.
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The Columbia History of Western Philosophyby Richard Henry PopkinISBN 0231101287 (0-231-10128-7)
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The Columbia History significantly broadens the scope of Western philosophy to reveal the influence of Middle Eastern and Asian thought, the vital contributions of Jewish and Islamic philosophers, and the role of women within the tradition. Along with a wealth of new scholarship, recently discovered works in 17th- and 18th-century philosophy are considered, such as previously unpublished works by Locke that inspire a new assessment of the evolution of his ideas. Popkin also emphasizes schools and developments that have traditionally been overlooked. Sections on Aristotle and Plato are followed by a detailed presentation on Hellenic philosophy and its influence on the modern developments of materialism and scepticism. A chapter has been dedicated to Jewish and Moslem philosophical development during the Middle Ages, focusing on the critical role of figures such as Averroës and Moses Maimonides in introducing Christian thinkers to classical philosophy. Another chapter considers Renaissance philosophy and its seminal influence on the development of modern humanism and science.
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Each chapter includes an introductory essay, and Popkin provides notes that draw connections among the separate articles. The rich bibliographic information and the indexes of names and terms make the volume a valuable resource.
Combining a broad scope and penetrating analysis with a keen sense of what is relevant for the modern reader, The Columbia History of Western Philosophy will prove an accessible introduction for students and an informative overview for general readers.
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Columbia Reader on Lesbians and Gay Men in Media, Society and Politicsby Larry P. Gross, James D. WoodsISBN 0231104472 (0-231-10447-2)
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The Cosmographia of Bernardus Silvestrisby Winthrop Wetherbee, Bernard SilvestrisISBN 0231096259 (0-231-09625-9)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cosmographia of Bernardus Silvestris'Book summary:Several studies on the often turbulent relationship between the Christians and the Jews. The first, by Professor Hyam Maccoby, is a historical-theological overview of Christian anti-Judaism and anti-Semitism. The second study, by the editor, provides a critical historical-political overview of the "We Remember" document. Three theologians also respond to the Vatican document: Reverend John F. Morley, a Catholic; Professor Franklin H. Littell, a Protestant minister; and Rabbi A. James Rudin. [via]
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Darsan, Seeing the Divine Image in Indiaby Diana L. EckISBN 0231108451 (0-231-10845-1)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Divine Hierarchy: Popular Hinduism in Central Indiaby Lawrence A. BabbISBN 0231083874 (0-231-08387-4)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Down the Asphalt Path: The Automobile and the American Cityby Clay McShaneISBN 0231083912 (0-231-08391-2)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Empire City: New York Through The Centuriesby Kenneth T. Jackson, David S. DunbarISBN 0231109091 (0-231-10909-1)
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The End of American Innocence: A Study of the First Years of Our Own Time 1912-1917by Henry F. MayISBN 0231096534 (0-231-09653-4)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literatureby Rosemarie Garland ThomsonISBN 0231105177 (0-231-10517-7)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Farm to Factory: Women's Letters, 1830-1860by Thomas DublinISBN 023108157X (0-231-08157-X)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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The FDR Years: On Roosevelt and His Legacyby William E. LeuchtenburgISBN 0231082991 (0-231-08299-1)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The FDR Years: On Roosevelt and His Legacy'Book summary:"Happy days are here again." That was the rallying cry of a nation picking itself up from the black gloom of the Great Depression with the election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Roosevelt left an indelible stamp on America and the Oval Office - many have gone so far as to call him the father of the modern American presidency. This text paints a picture of Roosevelt and the American decade he has come to define. The book investigates the many facets of Roosevelt's politics and personality that inspired a nation to believe that the presidency had been reborn. This account tells the story of Roosevelt's uniquely open relationship with the press, a sea change from previous presidential protocol, prompting one editor to proclaim that "for box office attraction you leave Clark Gable gasping for breath." It recounts the myth and history of the First Hundred Days, when Congress was said to be so trusting of their president that they "did not so much debate the bills it passed...as salute them as they went sailing by." Leuchtenburg details the massive impact Roosevelt had on presidents who followed, and on the American people, from the touching story of an impressionable young Republican couple who petitioned to have their son's name changed from Herbert Hoover Jones to Franklin D. Roosevelt Jones in the mid-1930s, to John F. Kennedy's famed "New Frontier" address of 1960, practically paraphrased from a 1935 speech by FDR. Leuchtenburg, who grew up like so many Americans listening to Roosevelt's "Fireside Chats" on the radio, peers into the less flattering details of FDR's world as well. He recounts Roosevelt's almost tyrannical attempts to control all of his government's dealings, threatening to override Congressional decisions that did not go his way. [via]
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From Bomba to Hip-Hop: Puerto Rican Culture and Latino Identityby Juan FloresISBN 0231110774 (0-231-11077-4)
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From Peepshow to Palace: The Birth of American Filmby David RobinsonISBN 0231103395 (0-231-10339-5)
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Hindu Nationalist Movement in Indiaby Christophe JaffrelotISBN 0231103352 (0-231-10335-2)
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History in Three Keys: The Boxers As Event, Experience, and Mythby Paul A. CohenISBN 0231106513 (0-231-10651-3)
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History of Portugal/Volumes 1&2 in Oneby Antonio Henrique R. De Oliveira MarquesISBN 023108353X (0-231-08353-X)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Homosexuality in Renaissance Englandby Alan BrayISBN 0231102895 (0-231-10289-5)
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Hsun Tzu: Basic Writingsby Burton WatsonISBN 0231106890 (0-231-10689-0)
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Hsun Tzu: Basic Writingsby Hsun TzuISBN 0231086075 (0-231-08607-5)
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Imperial Legacy: The Ottoman Imprint on the Balkans and the Middle Eastby L. Carl BrownISBN 0231103042 (0-231-10304-2)
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In Service and Servitude: Foreign Female Domestic Workers and the Malaysian "Modernity" Projectby Christine B. N. ChinISBN 0231109873 (0-231-10987-3)
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The Jazz Cadence of American Cultureby Robert G. O'MeallyISBN 0231104499 (0-231-10449-9)
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Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure: Working Women, Popular Culture, and Labor Politics at the Turn of the Twentieth Centuryby Nan EnstadISBN 0231111037 (0-231-11103-7)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Laughing Screaming: Modern Hollywood Horror and Comedyby William PaulISBN 023108465X (0-231-08465-X)
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The Logic of Japanese Politics: Leaders, Institutions, and the Limits of Changeby Gerald L. CurtisISBN 0231108435 (0-231-10843-5)
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The Lotus Sutraby Burton WatsonISBN 0231081618 (0-231-08161-8)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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As Watson notes in the introduction to his remarkable translation, " The Lotus Sutra is not so much an integral work as a collection of religious texts, an anthology of sermons, stories, and devotional manuals, some speaking with particular force to persons of one type or in one set of circumstances, some to those of another type or in other circumstances. This is no doubt why it has had such broad and lasting appeal over the ages and has permeated so deeply into the cultures that have been exposed to it."
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The Mahabharata: An English Version Based on Selected Versesby Chakravarthi Narasimhan, Columbia College (Columbia University), C. V. NarasimhanISBN 0231083211 (0-231-08321-1)
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Mahatma Gandhi: Nonviolent Power in Actionby Dennis DaltonISBN 0231081189 (0-231-08118-9)
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Medieval Trade in the Mediterranean Worldby Robert S. Lopez, Iriving W. RaymondISBN 0231096267 (0-231-09626-7)
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Modern Varieties of Judaismby J.L. BlauISBN 0231086687 (0-231-08668-7)
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Neorealism and Neoliberalism: The Contemporary Debateby David A. BaldwinISBN 0231084412 (0-231-08441-2)
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Ontological Relativity and Other Essaysby Willard QuineISBN 0231083572 (0-231-08357-2)
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An Ordered Society: Gender and Class in Early Modern Englandby Susan Dwyer AmussenISBN 0231099797 (0-231-09979-7)
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The Papers of Alexander Hamilton: Additional Letters 1777-1802 Addenda and Errata Cumulative Index Volumes I-Xxviiby Alexander Hamilton, Harold C. SyrettISBN 0231089260 (0-231-08926-0)
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Parchment, Printing and Hypermedia: Communication in World Order Transformationby Ronald J. DeibertISBN 0231107137 (0-231-10713-7)
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Platform Sutra of the 6th Patriarch: The Text of the Tun-Huang Manuscriptby Philip B. Yampolsky, HuinengISBN 0231083610 (0-231-08361-0)
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Postmodernism: A Readerby Thomas DochertyISBN 0231082215 (0-231-08221-5)
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Prison Notebooksby Antonio Gramsci, Joseph A. ButtigiegISBN 0231105924 (0-231-10592-4)
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Refiguring Life: Metaphors of Twentieth-Century Biologyby Evelyn Fox KellerISBN 0231102054 (0-231-10205-4)
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The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200-1336by Caroline Walker BynumISBN 0231081278 (0-231-08127-8)
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Revolt Against Chivalry: Jessie Daniel Ames and the Women's Campaign Against Lynchingby Jacquelyn Dowd HallISBN 0231082835 (0-231-08283-5)
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Revolt Against Chivalry is the account of how Jesse Daniel Ames and the antilynching campaign she led fused the causes of social feminism and racial justice in the South during the 1920s and 1930s.
The book traces Ames's political path from suffragism to militant antiracism and provides a detailed description of the Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching, which served through the 1930s as the chief expression of antilynching sentiment in the white South.
Revolt Against Chivalry is also a biography of Ames herself: it shows how Ames connected women's opposition to violence with their search for influence and self-definition, thereby leading a revolt against chivalry which was part of both sexual and racial emancipation.
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The Rise and Fall of Class in Britainby David CannadineISBN 0231096674 (0-231-09667-4)
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The Rwanda Crisis: History of a Genocideby Gerard PrunierISBN 023110409X (0-231-10409-X)
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Serendipities: Language & Lunacyby Umberto Eco, William WeaverISBN 0231111347 (0-231-11134-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Serendipities: Language & Lunacy'Book summary:The multitalented Umberto Eco--novelist, critic, and literary theorist--turns his attention to the history of linguistics. In linguistics, as in the other sciences, Eco explains, there are serendipities: "Even the most lunatic experiments can produce strange side effects, stimulating research that proves perhaps less amusing but scientifically more serious." In his earlier book The Search for the Perfect Language, for example, he discussed the project of discovering the language spoken before the collapse of the Tower of Babel. Although misconceived, the project by chance led to advances in mathematical logic, artificial intelligence, and even world peace--the goal of artificial languages like Esperanto and the unfortunately named Volapük. In the five essays in Serendipities, Eco explores some related serendipitous episodes in the history of linguistics; as always, his characteristic blend of playfulness and erudition is bound to be irresistible to any lover of language.
The first essay, "The Force of Falsity," discusses false documents with momentous repercussions, such as the letter of Prester John, which encouraged European explorers and conquerors to seek its supposed author, the Christian ruler of a distant and fantastically wealthy land. In the second essay, Eco considers Dante's relation to the idea of the perfect language. The third essay discusses early misinterpretations of Egyptian, Chinese, and Mexican ideograms. The Jesuit savant Athanasius Kircher, for example, devoted page upon page to mystical interpretations of a hieroglyph that later turned out to represent nothing more profound than the Greek letter lambda. The remaining two essays are devoted to single authors: "The Language of the Austral Land" concerns Gabriel de Foigny's instructive parody of contemporary attempts to devise the perfect language, while "The Linguistics of Joseph de Maistre" endeavors, with indifferent success, to make sense of the counterrevolutionary Savoyard's musings on the nature of language. --Glenn Branch [via]
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Shakespeare on Love and Lustby Maurice CharneyISBN 0231104294 (0-231-10429-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shakespeare on Love and Lust'Book summary:"Shakespeare on Love and Lust" looks at the complex and sometimes contradictory expressions of love in Shakespeare's works - ranging from the serious to the absurd and back again - and argues that they arise primarily from his dramatic and theatrical flair rather than from a unified philosophy of love. Untangling his witty, bawdy (and ambiguous) treatment of love, sex and desire requires a sharp eye and a steady hand. In "Shakespeare on Love and Lust", scholar Maurice Charney delves into Shakespeare's rhetorical and thematic development of this subject to reveal what makes his plays and poems resonate with contemporary audiences. The paradigmatic star-crossed lovers of "Romeo and Juliet", the comic confusions of couples wandering through the wood in "A Midsummer Night's Dream", Othello's tragic jealousy, the homoerotic ways Shakespeare played with cross-dressing on the Elizabethan stage - Charney explores the world in which Shakespeare lived, and how it is reflected and transformed in the one he created. While focusing primarily on desire between young lovers, Charney also explores themes of love in marriage (Brutus and Portia) and in same-sex pairings (Antonio and Sebastian). Against the conventions of Renaissance literature, Shakespeare qualified the Platonic view that true love transcends the physical. Instead, as Charney demonstrates, love in Shakespeare's work is almost always sexual as well as spiritual, and the full range of desire's dramatic possibilities is displayed. "Shakespeare on Love and Lust" begins by considering the ways in which Shakespeare drew upon and satirized the conventions of Petrarchan Renaissance love poetry in plays like "Romeo and Juliet", then explores how courtship is woven into the basic plot formula of the comedies. Next, Charney examines love in the tragedies and the enemies of love (Iago, for example). Later chapters cover the gender complications in such plays as "Macbeth" and "The Taming of the Shrew" as well as the homoerotic themes woven into many of the poems and plays. Charney concludes with a discussion of paradoxes and ambivalences about love expressed by Shakespeare's word play and sexual innuendoes. [via]
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Shapes, Space, and Symmetryby Alan HoldenISBN 0231083238 (0-231-08323-8)
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Sources of Chinese Traditionby Wing-Tsit Chan, Irene Bloom, Joseph Adler, Richard Lufrano, William T. DebaryISBN 0231109385 (0-231-10938-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sources of Chinese Tradition'Book summary:A collection of seminal primary readings on the social, intellectual, and religious traditions of China, Sources of Chinese Tradition, Volume 1 has been widely used and praised for almost forty years as an authoritative resource for scholars and students and as a thorough and engaging introduction for general readers. Here at last is a completely revised and expanded edition of this classic sourcebook, compiled by noted China scholars Wm. Theodore de Bary and Irene Bloom. Updated to reflect recent scholarly developments, with extensive material on popular thought and religion, social roles, and women's education, this edition features new translations of more than half the works from the first edition, as well as many new selections.
Arranged chronologically, this anthology is divided into four parts, beginning at the dawn of literate Chinese civilization with the Oracle-Bone inscriptions of the late Shang dynasty (1571--1045 B.C.E.) and continuing through the end of the Ming dynasty (C.E. 1644). Each chapter has an introduction that provides useful historical context and offers interpretive strategies for understanding the readings.
The first part, The Chinese Tradition in Antiquity, considers the early development of Chinese civilization and includes selections from Confucius's Analects, the texts of Mencius and Laozi, as well as other key texts from the Confucian, Daoist, and Legalist schools. Part 2, The Making of a Classical Culture, focuses on Han China with readings from the Classic of Changes ( I Jing), the Classic of Filiality, major Han syntheses, and the great historians of the Han dynasty. The development of Buddhism, from the earliest translations from Sanskrit to the central texts of the Chan school (which became Zen in Japan), is the subject of the third section of the book. Titled Later Daoism and Mahayana Buddhism in China, this part also covers the teachings of Wang Bi, Daoist religion, and texts of the major schools of Buddhist doctrine and practice. The final part, The Confucian Revival and Neo-Confucianism, details the revival of Confucian thought in the Tang, Song, and Ming periods, with historical documents that link philosophical thought to political, social, and educational developments in late imperial China.
With annotations, a detailed chronology, glossary, and a new introduction by the editors, Sources of Chinese Tradition will continue to be a standard resource, guidebook, and introduction to Chinese civilization well into the twenty-first century.
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Sources of Chinese Tradition: From Earliest Times to 1600by Irene Bloom, Joseph Adler, William Theodore De Bary, Richard LufranoISBN 0231109393 (0-231-10939-3)
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Sources of Japanese Traditionby William T. DebaryISBN 0231086059 (0-231-08605-9)
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Soviet Marxism: A Critical Analysisby Herbert MarcuseISBN 0231083793 (0-231-08379-3)
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The Story of Ancient Historyby James T. ShotwellISBN 0231085184 (0-231-08518-4)
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The Tale of Old Mortalityby Walter Scott, Douglas S. MackISBN 0231084706 (0-231-08470-6)
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Talking Horseby Bernard Malamud, Alan Cheuse, Nicholas DelbancoISBN 0231101856 (0-231-10185-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Talking Horse'Book summary:"I think it hurts a writer," said fiction writer Bernard Malamud, "to have his secrets known--his method of working disclosed while he is still active." Malamud was, according to his colleagues Alan Cheuse and Nicholas Delbanco (the editors of Talking Horse), "resolutely private about the construction of his finished work." Maybe so. But over a lifetime, he wrote an impressive amount of material about his own work, and about fiction in general. Talking Horse collects much of that material--speeches, book introductions, interviews, lesson plans, essays, and more. Included here are notes on The Natural, a defense of fantasy, musings on the great task of embarking on a novel, and a discussion about Jewishness in American fiction. Though most fiction writers see the short story as a warm-up for writing longer fiction, Malamud loved the form. "Within a dozen or few more pages," he said, "whole lives are implied and even understood." He displays here, by turns, endearing humility ("it took years for my work to impress me"), a piercing intellect, disdain for "gossips" who want to know the person behind the fiction, and a strong belief not only that the work must speak for itself, but that there is likely "more to a book or short story than the writer himself knows." A very satisfying collection from a man who liked to claim that "as a writer I learned from Charlie Chaplin." --Jane Steinberg [via]
Three Turk Plays from Early Modern England: Selimus, a Christian Turned Turk, and the Renegadoby Philip Massinger, Daniel J. Vitkus, Robert DaborneISBN 0231110294 (0-231-11029-4)
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Traditional Japanese Theater: An Anthology of Playsby Karen BrazellISBN 0231108737 (0-231-10873-7)
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Turks, Moors, and Englishmen in the Age of Discoveryby N. I. MatarISBN 0231110154 (0-231-11015-4)
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The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1941-1947by John Lewis GaddisISBN 0231083025 (0-231-08302-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1941-1947'Book summary:This work offers a history of US policy towards the Soviet Union during and immediately after World War II. It moves beyond the focus of economic considerations and examines instead the many other forces - domestic politics, and bureaucratic inertia - that influenced decision-makers in Washington. [via]
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The Voice in Cinemaby Michel ChionISBN 0231108230 (0-231-10823-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Voice in Cinema'Book summary:How can a voice whose source is never seensuch as Hal in 2001: A Space Odyssey or the mother of Norman Bates in Psychohave such a powerful hold on an audience? When does "synchronized sound" fail to link bodies to their voices, and how do such great stylists of sound film as Jacques Tati, Kenji Mizoguchi, and Marguerite Duras deploy the power of the voice?
In this brilliant essay, Michel Chion, internationally cited authority on the history and poetics of film sound, examines the human voice in cinema. The Voice in Cinema begins with the phenomenon of film's hidden, faceless voices and their magical powers, particularly in the context of Lang's Testament of Dr. Mabuse. Chion then explores subjective voices, bonding and entrapment by telephone, voice-thieves, screams (male and female), siren calls, and the silence of mute characters-all uniquely cinematic deployments. In conclusion, Chion considers "the monstrous marriage of the filmed voice and body" as embodied in Norman Bates. Claudia Gorbman's fluent translation retains Chion's sophisticated and accessible style, introducing readers to a distinct and paradigm-changing voice on film.
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The Washington Community, 1800-1828by James Sterling YoungISBN 0231083815 (0-231-08381-5)
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What Is Philosophy?by Felix Guattari, Gilles DeleuzeISBN 0231079893 (0-231-07989-3)
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Wheeling and Dealing: An Ethnography of an Upper-Level Drug Dealing and Smuggling Communityby Patricia A. AdlerISBN 0231081332 (0-231-08133-2)
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Writers and Partisans: A History of Literary Radicalism in Americaby James GilbertISBN 023108255X (0-231-08255-X)
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Writings on Psychoanalysisby Louis AlthusserISBN 0231101694 (0-231-10169-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Writings on Psychoanalysis'Book summary:Louis Althusser is perhaps better remembered for strangling his wife to death during a fit of temporary insanity than for most of his writings (with the possible exception of his essay on the "ideological state apparatus," an explication of normalizing social institutions that has become standard fare in academic postmodernism), but he was one of the key figures in postwar French philosophy. Writings on Psychoanalysis is a collection of essays, article drafts, and correspondence that displays the extent of his intellectual grappling with Freud's writings and with contemporary psychoanalytic theorist Jacques Lacan, a former friend whom Althusser would gradually come to view as a "magnificent and pitiful Harlequin." (Two of the pieces here deal with the 1980 conference at which Althusser vehemently broke with Lacan, ostensibly over the latter's stifling position of dominance among their colleagues.) Writings on Psychoanalysis is a bit heavy-going and theoretical in places, but of unique historical interest. [via]
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Writings on Psychoanalysis: Freud and Lacanby Louis Althusser, Olivier Corpet, Francois Matheron, Jeffrey MehlmanISBN 0231101686 (0-231-10168-6)
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