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301 Stylish Storage Ideasby Better Homes and Gardens Books, Linda HallamISBN 0696208571 (0-696-20857-1)
Softcover, Meredith Books
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Covers the simplest furniture pieces and retail shelving to space-saving built-ins.
Organized into five chapters with numbered tips.
Takes a room-by-room approach to practical organization and decorative display.
Quick Fixes" spread in each chapter features illustrate how to plan, create, and utilize storage throughout the home. [via]
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505 Quilt Blocks: Plus 36 Beautiful Projectsby Better Homes and Gardens, Carol Field DahlstromISBN 0696216531 (0-696-21653-1)
Hardcover, Better Homes & Gardens Books
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Color photographs inspire quilters to create new projects for themselves and for others.
Step-by-step instructions, illustrations, and full-size quilt blocks make quilting easy even for beginners. [via]
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American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oaklandby Robert O. SelfISBN 0691124868 (0-691-12486-8)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictoral Representationby E. H. GombrichISBN 0691070008 (0-691-07000-8)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The Barbarians Speak: How the Conquered Peoples Shaped Roman Europeby Peter S. WellsISBN 0691089787 (0-691-08978-7)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Barbarians Speak: How the Conquered Peoples Shaped Roman Europe'Book summary:The Barbarians Speak tells the story of the Roman Empire's expansion from an entirely new perspective, that of a people nearly stricken from historical memory. Dismissed as "barbarians" by the Romans who conquered them, the Celts and Germans inhabiting temperate Europe from 58 B.C. to 83 A.D. left no written record of their experiences. If we were to rely on accounts by Julius Caesar and a handful of Roman writers, we would think that prior to contact with the Romans, European natives had no political system or urban life, no evolving social identities, and that they practiced human sacrifice. A more accurate and nuanced picture of the indigenous people, emerges, however, from the vast archaeological remains of the Iron Age. Here Peter Wells brings together information that has belonged to the realm of specialists and enables the general reader to share in the excitement of reinterpreting a major episode of Western civilization. In so doing, he is the first to marshal material evidence in a broad-scale examination of the response by the Celts and Germans to the Roman presence in their lands.
The recent discovery of large pre-Roman settlements throughout central and western Europe has only begun to show just how urbanized native Europeans were before the conquest. Remnants of walls, bone fragments, pottery, jewelry, and coins tell much about such activities as farming, trade, and religious ritual in their communities: objects found at gravesites shed light on the richly varied lives of individuals, including their status and wealth. Wells explains that the presence -- or absence -- of Roman influence among these artifacts reveals a range of attitudes toward Rome at particular times,from enthusiastic acceptance among urban elites to creative resistance among rural inhabitants.
In fascinating detail, Wells shows that these societies did grow more sophisticated under Roman occupation, but that the inhabitants were much more than passive beneficiaries; in many cases they ingeniously blended Roman ways with their own traditions. On a broader level, this book encourages us to reconsider our preconceptions of nonliterate and indigenous societies. [via]
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Behind Deep Blue: Building the Computer That Defeated the World Chess Championby Feng-Hsiung HsuISBN 0691118183 (0-691-11818-3)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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In nontechnical, conversational prose, Feng-hsiung Hsu, the system architect of Deep Blue, tells us how he and a small team of fellow researchers forged ahead at IBM with a project they'd begun as students at Carnegie Mellon in the mid-1980s: the search for one of the oldest holy grails in artificial intelligence--a machine that could beat any human chess player in a bona fide match. Back in 1949 science had conceived the foundations of modern chess computers but not until almost fifty years later--until Deep Blue--would the quest be realized.
Hsu refutes Kasparov's controversial claim that only human intervention could have allowed Deep Blue to make its decisive, "uncomputerlike" moves. In riveting detail he describes the heightening tension in this war of brains and nerves, the "smoldering fire" in Kasparov's eyes. Behind Deep Blue is not just another tale of man versus machine. This fascinating book tells us how man as genius was given an ultimate, unforgettable run for his mind, no, not by the genius of a computer, but of man as toolmaker.
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Better Homes and Gardens New Junior Cook BookISBN 0696004054 (0-696-00405-4)
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Better Homes and Gardens New Junior Cookbookby Jennifer Dorland DarlingISBN 0696207087 (0-696-20708-7)
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Better Homes and Gardens New Junior Cook Bookby Seth F. Abramson, Jan MillerISBN 0696220008 (0-696-22000-8)
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Better Homes and Gardens All-Time FavoritesISBN 0696211289 (0-696-21128-9)
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Better Homes and Gardens Americas Best Cross Stitchby Better Homes and GardenISBN 0696016257 (0-696-01625-7)
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Better Homes and Gardens Homemade CookiesISBN 0696018462 (0-696-01846-2)
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Better Homes and Gardens Homemade Cookiesby Better Homes & GardensISBN 0696211939 (0-696-21193-9)
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Better Homes and Gardens Homemade Cookies Cook BookISBN 0696007800 (0-696-00780-0)
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Biggest Book of Slow Cooker Recipesby Better Homes and Gardens, Better Homes and Gardens Books, Carrie HolcombISBN 0696215462 (0-696-21546-2)
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Birds Of Australiaby Ken Simpson, Nicolas Day, Peter TruslerISBN 0691120498 (0-691-12049-8)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Blue: The History of a Colorby Michel PastoureauISBN 0691090505 (0-691-09050-5)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Biggerby Marc LevinsonISBN 0691123241 (0-691-12324-1)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Caesarby Michael GrantISBN 0695805428 (0-695-80542-8)
Hardcover, Follett Pub Co
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Chapman's Homer: The Odysseyby Homer, Allardyce Nicoll, George ChapmanISBN 0691048916 (0-691-04891-6)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chapman's Homer: The Odyssey'Book summary:George Chapman's translations of Homer are among the most famous in the English language. Keats immortalized the work of the Renaissance dramatist and poet in the sonnet "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer." Swinburne praised the translations for their "romantic and sometimes barbaric grandeur," their "freshness, strength, and inextinguishable fire." The great critic George Saintsbury (1845-1933) wrote: "For more than two centuries they were the resort of all who, unable to read Greek, wished to know what Greek was. Chapman is far nearer Homer than any modern translator in any modern language." This volume presents the original text of Chapman's translation of the Odyssey (1614-15), making only a small number of modifications to punctuation and wording where they might confuse the modern reader. The editor, Allardyce Nicoll, provides an introduction, textual notes, a glossary, and a commentary. Garry Wills's preface to the Odyssey explores how Chapman's less strained meter lets him achieve more delicate poetic effects as compared to the Iliad. Wills also examines Chapman's "fine touch" in translating "the warm and human sense of comedy" in the Odyssey.
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That deep-browed Homer ruled as his demesne;
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Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracyby Mary L. DudziakISBN 0691095132 (0-691-09513-2)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The Collected Dialogues of Plato, Including the Lettersby Edith Hamilton, Huntington CairnsISBN 0691097186 (0-691-09718-6)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Biographia Literaria or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinionsby James Engell, W. Jackson BateISBN 0691098743 (0-691-09874-3)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Cottage Styleby Denise L. Caringer, Better Homes and Gardens BooksISBN 0696215608 (0-696-21560-8)
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Cradle of Life: The Discovery of Earth's Earliest Fossilsby J. William SchopfISBN 0691088640 (0-691-08864-0)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Creating the National Pastime - Baseball Transforms Itself, 1903-1953by G. Edward WhiteISBN 0691058857 (0-691-05885-7)
Softcover, Princeton University Press
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The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sexby Charles Robert DarwinISBN 0691082782 (0-691-08278-2)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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"The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex is a book on evolutionary theory by English naturalist Charles Darwin, first published in 1871. It was Darwin's second large book on evolutionary theory, following his 1859 work, The Origin of Species, and is concerned with outlining the application of Darwin's theory to human evolution, and detailing the theory of sexual selection. The book touches on a number of related issues, including evolutionary psychology, evolutionary ethics, differences between human races, differences between human sexes, and the relevance of the evolutionary theory to society." (Quote from wikipedia.org)
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Publisher's Preface; Preface To The Second Edition; Introduction; The Descent Or Origin Of Man; The Evidence Of The Descent Of Man From Some Lower Form; On The Manner Of Development Of Man From Some Lower Form; Comparison Of The Mental Powers Of Man And The Lower Animals; Comparison Of The Mental Powers Of Man And The Lower Animals; On The Development Of The Intellectual And Moral Faculties During Primeval And Civilised Times; On The Affinities And Genealogy Of Man; On The Races Of Man; Sexual Selection; Principles Of Sexual Selection; Secondary Sexual Characters In The Lower Classes Of The Animal Kingdom; Secondary Sexual Characters Of Insects; Insects; Secondary Sexual Characters Of Fishes, Amphibians, And Reptiles; Secondary Sexual Characters Of Birds; Birds; Birds; Birds; Secondary Sexual Characters Of Mammals; Secondary Sexual Characters Of Mammals; Sexual Selection In Relation To Man, And Conclusion; Secondary Sexual Characters Of Man; Secondary Sexual Characters Of Man; General Summary And Conclusion; Supplemental Note. On Sexual Selection In Relation To Monkeys; Index
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Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, Esoteric and Mythology. www.forgottenbooks.org
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Eros the Bittersweetby Anne CarsonISBN 0691066817 (0-691-06681-7)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The Ethics of Identityby Kwame Anthony AppiahISBN 0691130280 (0-691-13028-0)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ethics of Identity'Book summary:Race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender, sexuality: in the past couple of decades, a great deal of attention has been paid to such collective identities. They clamor for recognition and respect, sometimes at the expense of other things we value. But to what extent do "identities" constrain our freedom, our ability to make an individual life, and to what extent do they enable our individuality? In this beautifully written work, renowned philosopher and African Studies scholar Kwame Anthony Appiah draws on thinkers through the ages and across the globe to explore such questions.
The Ethics of Identity takes seriously both the claims of individuality--the task of making a life---and the claims of identity, these large and often abstract social categories through which we define ourselves.
What sort of life one should lead is a subject that has preoccupied moral and political thinkers from Aristotle to Mill. Here, Appiah develops an account of ethics, in just this venerable sense--but an account that connects moral obligations with collective allegiances, our individuality with our identities. As he observes, the question who we are has always been linked to the question what we are.
Adopting a broadly interdisciplinary perspective, Appiah takes aim at the clichés and received ideas amid which talk of identity so often founders. Is "culture" a good? For that matter, does the concept of culture really explain anything? Is diversity of value in itself? Are moral obligations the only kind there are? Has the rhetoric of "human rights" been overstretched? In the end, Appiah's arguments make it harder to think of the world as divided between the West and the Rest; between locals and cosmopolitans; between Us and Them. The result is a new vision of liberal humanism--one that can accommodate the vagaries and variety that make us human.
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A Field Guide to the Birds of Australiaby Graham PizzeyISBN 0691082774 (0-691-08277-4)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Flatlandby Edwin Abbott Abbott, Thomas BanchoffISBN 0691123667 (0-691-12366-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Flatland'Book summary:Over a hundred years ago, Edwin Abbott Abbott wrote a mathematical adventure set in a two-dimensional plane world, populated by a hierarchical society of regular geometrical figures-who think and speak and have all too human emotions. Since then Flatland has fascinated generations of readers, becoming a perennial science-fiction favorite. By imagining the contact of beings from different dimensions, the author fully exploited the power of the analogy between the limitations of humans and those of his two-dimensional characters.
A first-rate fictional guide to the concept of multiple dimensions of space, the book will also appeal to those who are interested in computer graphics. This field, which literally makes higher dimensions seeable, has aroused a new interest in visualization. We can now manipulate objects in four dimensions and observe their three-dimensional slices tumbling on the computer screen. But how do we interpret these images? In his introduction, Thomas Banchoff points out that there is no better way to begin exploring the problem of understanding higher-dimensional slicing phenomena than reading this classic novel of the Victorian era.
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From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Filmby Siegfried Kracauer, Leonardo QuaresimaISBN 0691115192 (0-691-11519-2)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film'Book summary:A landmark, now classic, study of the rich cinematic history of the Weimar Republic, From Caligari to Hitler was first published by Princeton University Press in 1947. Siegfried Kracauer--a prominent German film critic and member of Walter Benjamin's and Theodor Adorno's intellectual circle--broke new ground in exploring the connections between film aesthetics, the prevailing psychological state of Germans in the Weimar era, and the evolving social and political reality of the time. Kracauer's pioneering book, which examines German history from 1921 to 1933 in light of such movies as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, M, Metropolis, and The Blue Angel, has never gone out of print. Now, over half a century after its first appearance, this beautifully designed and entirely new edition reintroduces Kracauer for the twenty-first century. Film scholar Leonardo Quaresima places Kracauer in context in a critical introduction, and updates the book further with a new bibliography, index, and list of inaccuracies that crept into the first edition. This volume is a must-have for the film historian, film theorist, or cinema enthusiast.In From Caligari to Hitler, Siegfried Kracauer--the German-born writer and film critic who shared many ideas and interests with his friend Walter Benjamin--made a startling (and still controversial) claim: films as a popular art provide insight into the unconscious motivations and fantasies of a nation. In films of the 1920s such as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, M, Metropolis, and The Blue Angel, he traced recurring visual and narrative tropes that expressed, he argued, a fear of chaos and a desire for order, even at the price of authoritarian rule. The book has become an undisputed classic of film historiography, laying the foundations for the serious study of film.
In From Caligari to Hitler, Siegfried Kracauer made a startling (and still controversial) claim: films as a popular art provide insight into the unconscious motivations and fantasies of a nation. In films of the 1920s, he traced recurring visual and narrative tropes that expressed, he argued, a fear of chaos and a desire for order, even at the price of authoritarian rule. The book has become an undisputed classic of film historiography, laying the foundations for the serious study of film.
Kracauer was an important film critic in Weimar Germany. A Jew, he escaped the rise of Nazism, fleeing to Paris in 1933. Later, in anguish after Benjamin's suicide, he made his way to New York, where he remained until his death in 1966. He wrote From Caligari to Hitler while working as a "special assistant" to the curator of the Museum of Modern Art's film division. He was also on the editorial board of Bollingen Series. Despite many critiques of its attempt to link movies to historical outcomes, From Caligari to Hitler remains Kracauer's best-known and most influential book, and a seminal work in the study of film. Princeton published a revised edition of his Theory of Film: The Redemption of Physical Reality in 1997.
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The Global City: New York, London, Tokyoby Saskia SassenISBN 0691070636 (0-691-07063-6)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Halloween Fun: 101 Ideas to Get in the Spiritby Better Homes and GardensISBN 0696213885 (0-696-21388-5)
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Hero With A Thousand Facesby Joseph CampbellISBN 0691097437 (0-691-09743-7)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The History of Italyby Francesco GuicciardiniISBN 0691054177 (0-691-05417-7)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Spaceby Janna LevinISBN 0691096570 (0-691-09657-0)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The I Ching: Or, Book of Changesby R. Wilhelm, C.F. BaynesISBN 069109750X (0-691-09750-X)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern Americaby Mae M. NgaiISBN 0691124299 (0-691-12429-9)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Mae Ngai offers a close reading of the legal regime of restriction that commenced in the 1920s--its statutory architecture, judicial genealogies, administrative enforcement, differential treatment of European and non-European migrants, and long-term effects. In well-drawn historical portraits, Ngai peoples her study with the Filipinos, Mexicans, Japanese, and Chinese who comprised, variously, illegal aliens, alien citizens, colonial subjects, and imported contract workers. She shows that immigration restriction, particularly national-origin and numerical quotas, re-mapped the nation both by creating new categories of racial difference and by emphasizing as never before the nation's contiguous land borders and their patrol. This yielded the "illegal alien," a new legal and political subject whose inclusion in the nation was a social reality but a legal impossibility--a subject without rights and excluded from citizenship. Questions of fundamental legal status created new challenges for liberal democratic society and have directly informed the politics of multiculturalism and national belonging in our time.
Ngai's analysis is based on extensive archival research, including previously unstudied records of the U.S. Border Patrol and Immigration and Naturalization Service. Contributing to American history, legal history, and ethnic studies, Impossible Subjects is a major reconsideration of U.S. immigration in the twentieth century.
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Introduction to Mathematical Logicby Alonzo ChurchISBN 0691079846 (0-691-07984-6)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The Jews of Islamby Bernard LewisISBN 0691054193 (0-691-05419-3)
Hardcover, Princeton University Press
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Lesser Evil: Political Ethics In An Age Of Terrorby Michael IgnatieffISBN 0691123934 (0-691-12393-4)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Life on a Young Planet: the First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earthby Andrew H. KnollISBN 0691120293 (0-691-12029-3)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The very latest discoveries in paleontology--many of them made by the author and his students--are integrated with emerging insights from molecular biology and earth system science to forge a broad understanding of how the biological diversity that surrounds us came to be. Moving from Siberia to Namibia to the Bahamas, Knoll shows how life and environment have evolved together through Earth's history. Innovations in biology have helped shape our air and oceans, and, just as surely, environmental change has influenced the course of evolution, repeatedly closing off opportunities for some species while opening avenues for others.
Readers go into the field to confront fossils, enter the lab to discern the inner workings of cells, and alight on Mars to ask how our terrestrial experience can guide exploration for life beyond our planet. Along the way, Knoll brings us up-to-date on some of science's hottest questions, from the oldest fossils and claims of life beyond the Earth to the hypothesis of global glaciation and Knoll's own unifying concept of ''permissive ecology.''
In laying bare Earth's deepest biological roots, Life on a Young Planet helps us understand our own place in the universe--and our responsibility as stewards of a world four billion years in the making.
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Machiavellian Moment Florentine Political Thoughtby J. G. PocockISBN 0691100292 (0-691-10029-2)
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Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Traditionby J.G.A. PocockISBN 0691114722 (0-691-11472-2)
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After examining this problem in the thought of Machiavelli, Guicciardini, and Giannotti, Pocock turns to the revival of republican thought in Puritan England and in Revolutionary and Federalist America. He argues that the American Revolution can be considered the last great act of civic humanism of the Renaissance. He relates the origins of modern historicism to the clash between civic, Christian, and commercial values in the thought of the eighteenth century.
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The Machiavellian Moment:Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Traditionby J.G.A. PocockISBN 0691075603 (0-691-07560-3)
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After examining this problem in the thought of Machiavelli, Guicciardini, and Giannotti, Pocock turns to the revival of republican thought in Puritan England and in Revolutionary and Federalist America. He argues that the American Revolution can be considered the last great act of civic humanism of the Renaissance. He relates the origins of modern historicism to the clash between civic, Christian, and commercial values in the thought of the eighteenth century. [via]
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Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Ageby Peter ParetISBN 0691092354 (0-691-09235-4)
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Making Peace With the 60sby David BurnerISBN 0691059535 (0-691-05953-5)
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The Meaning of Relativityby Albert EinsteinISBN 0691080070 (0-691-08007-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Meaning of Relativity'Book summary:In 1921, a young Albert Einstein traveled to America to give four lectures at Princeton University, paving the way for a more complete acceptance of his theory of general relativity. These lectures are published together as The Meaning of Relativity, and were revised with each new edition until Einstein's death. Despite Einstein's profession that he thought without using words, his examples and descriptions of the relativistic world he perceived are clear and easy to follow. Unfortunately for nontechnical readers, his presentation requires deep diversions into mathematics often enough to break up the flow of his narrative, and they may find this rough terrain. But for the mathematically sophisticated or the devoted scientific historian, these lectures are profoundly illuminating--Einstein's bright, quiet genius shines through in the simplicity and economy of his writing. Two appendices follow the lectures: the first covers advances and experimental verifications after 1921; the second, "Relativistic Theory of the Non-Symmetric Field," was Einstein's last scientific paper. The Meaning of Relativity documents a revolution in progress and yields to the careful student deeper truths than those found in physics textbooks. --Rob Lightner [via]
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The Meaning Of Relativity: Including the Relativistic Theory of the Non-Symmetric Fieldby Albert Einstein, Brian GreeneISBN 0691120277 (0-691-12027-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Meaning Of Relativity: Including the Relativistic Theory of the Non-Symmetric Field'Book summary:In 1921, a young Albert Einstein traveled to America to give four lectures at Princeton University, paving the way for a more complete acceptance of his theory of general relativity. These lectures are published together as The Meaning of Relativity, and were revised with each new edition until Einstein's death. Despite Einstein's profession that he thought without using words, his examples and descriptions of the relativistic world he perceived are clear and easy to follow. Unfortunately for nontechnical readers, his presentation requires deep diversions into mathematics often enough to break up the flow of his narrative, and they may find this rough terrain. But for the mathematically sophisticated or the devoted scientific historian, these lectures are profoundly illuminating--Einstein's bright, quiet genius shines through in the simplicity and economy of his writing. Two appendices follow the lectures: the first covers advances and experimental verifications after 1921; the second, "Relativistic Theory of the Non-Symmetric Field," was Einstein's last scientific paper. The Meaning of Relativity documents a revolution in progress and yields to the careful student deeper truths than those found in physics textbooks. --Rob Lightner [via]
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Medieval Cities: Their Origins and the Revival of Tradeby H. PirenneISBN 0691051763 (0-691-05176-3)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Military Strategy and the Origins of the First World War: An International Security Readerby International security, Steven MillerISBN 0691076790 (0-691-07679-0)
Hardcover, Princeton University Press
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Mission: Organizationby Meredith Books, Hgtv BooksISBN 0696222841 (0-696-22284-1)
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Moon, Sun, and Witches: Gender Ideologies and Class in Inca and Colonial Peruby Irene SilverblattISBN 0691077266 (0-691-07726-6)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to Historyby Bruce B. Lawrence, N. J. Dawood, Franz Rosenthal, Ibn KhaldunISBN 0691120544 (0-691-12054-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History'Book summary:The Muqaddimah, often translated as "Introduction" or "Prolegomenon," is the most important Islamic history of the premodern world. Written by the great fourteenth-century Arab scholar Ibn Khaldûn (d. 1406), this monumental work laid down the foundations of several fields of knowledge, including philosophy of history, sociology, ethnography, and economics. The first complete English translation, by the eminent Islamicist and interpreter of Arabic literature Franz Rosenthal, was published in three volumes in 1958 as part of the Bollingen Series and received immediate acclaim in America and abroad. A one-volume abridged version of Rosenthal's masterful translation was first published in 1969.
This new edition of the abridged version, with the addition of a key section of Rosenthal's own introduction to the three-volume edition, and with a new introduction by Bruce B. Lawrence, will reintroduce this seminal work to twenty-first-century students and scholars of Islam and of medieval and ancient history.
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Myth of the Eternal Returnby M. EliadeISBN 0691097984 (0-691-09798-4)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The Myth Of The Eternal Return: Cosmos And Historyby Mircea Eliade, Jonathan Z. Smith, Willard R. TraskISBN 0691123500 (0-691-12350-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Myth Of The Eternal Return: Cosmos And History'Book summary:This founding work of the history of religions, first published in English in 1954, secured the North American reputation of the Romanian émigré-scholar Mircea Eliade (1907-1986). Making reference to an astonishing number of cultures and drawing on scholarship published in no less than half a dozen European languages, Eliade's The Myth of the Eternal Return makes both intelligible and compelling the religious expressions and activities of a wide variety of archaic and "primitive" religious cultures. While acknowledging that a return to the "archaic" is no longer possible, Eliade passionately insists on the value of understanding this view in order to enrich our contemporary imagination of what it is to be human. Jonathan Z. Smith's new introduction provides the contextual background to the book and presents a critical outline of Eliade's argument in a way that encourages readers to engage in an informed conversation with this classic text.
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Nietzsche, Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichristby Walter Arnold KaufmannISBN 0691072078 (0-691-07207-8)
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The Night Before Christmasby Clement Clarke Moore, Dana ReganISBN 0694004243 (0-694-00424-3)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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Offside: Soccer and American Exceptionalismby Andrei S. Markovits, Steven L. HellermanISBN 069107447X (0-691-07447-X)
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On Beauty and Being Justby Elaine ScarryISBN 0691089590 (0-691-08959-0)
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The Other Women's Movement: Workplace Justice and Social Rights in Modern Americaby Dorothy Sue CobbleISBN 0691123683 (0-691-12368-3)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Personal Impressionsby Isaiah Berlin, Henry Hardy, Noel AnnanISBN 0691088586 (0-691-08858-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Personal Impressions'Book summary:This remarkable collection contains Isaiah Berlin's appreciations of seventeen people of unusual distinction in the intellectual or political world, sometimes both. The names of many of them are familiar: Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Chaim Weizmann, Albert Einstein, and others. With the exception of Roosevelt, he met them all and knew many of them well. For this expanded edition, four new portraits have been added, including those of Virginia Woolf and Edmund Wilson. This volume also contains a vivid and moving account of Berlin's meetings in Russia with Boris Pasternak and Anna Akhmatova in 1945 and 1956. Perhaps the most fascinating of these "personal impressions" is found in the epilogue, where Berlin describes the three strands in his own personality: Russian, English, and Jewish.
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Philosophies of Indiaby Joseph Campbell, H ZimmerISBN 0691098115 (0-691-09811-5)
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Philosophy and the Mirror of Natureby Richard RortyISBN 0691072361 (0-691-07236-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature'Book summary:Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature hit the philosophical world like a bombshell. Richard Rorty, a Princeton professor who had contributed to the analytic tradition in philosophy, was now attempting to shrug off all the central problems with which it had long been preoccupied. After publication, the Press was barely able to keep up with demand, and the book has since gone on to become one of its all-time best-sellers in philosophy.
Rorty argued that, beginning in the seventeenth century, philosophers developed an unhealthy obsession with the notion of representation. They compared the mind to a mirror that reflects reality. In their view, knowledge is concerned with the accuracy of these reflections, and the strategy employed to obtain this knowledge--that of inspecting, repairing, and polishing the mirror--belongs to philosophy. Rorty's book was a powerful critique of this imagery and the tradition of thought that it spawned. He argued that the questions about truth posed by Descartes, Kant, Hegel, and modern epistemologists and philosophers of language simply couldn't be answered and were, in any case, irrelevant to serious social and cultural inquiry. This stance provoked a barrage of criticism, but whatever the strengths of Rorty's specific claims, the book had a therapeutic effect on philosophy. It reenergized pragmatism as an intellectual force, steered philosophy back to its roots in the humanities, and helped to make alternatives to analytic philosophy a serious choice for young graduate students. Twenty-five years later, the book remains a must-read for anyone seriously concerned about the nature of philosophical inquiry and what philosophers can and cannot do to help us understand and improve the world.
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Photographyby Phil DavisISBN 0697003000 (0-697-00300-0)
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Rude Republic: Americans and Their Politics in the Nineteenth Centuryby Glenn C. Altschuler, Stuart M. BluminISBN 0691089868 (0-691-08986-8)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The Sonoma Diet: Trimmer Waist, Better Health in Just 10 Days!by Guttersen, Connie, Dr.ISBN 0696228319 (0-696-22831-9)
Hardcover, Meredith Books
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Source Book in Indian Philosophyby Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Charles A. MooreISBN 0691071381 (0-691-07138-1)
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Stanley Spencerby Stanley Spencer, Kitty HauserISBN 0691090246 (0-691-09024-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stanley Spencer'Book summary:One of the most highly regarded and well known of all twentieth-century British artists, Stanley Spencer (1891-1959) is famous for two things. He immortalized the Berkshire village of Cookham, where he was born and spent most of his life. And he celebrated sex both on his canvases and through his unconventional understanding of relationships.
Perhaps best known for his paintings of biblical subjects set in and around Cookham--in particular, The Resurrection, Cookham--Spencer was also an official war artist during both World Wars. In his paintings and in his life, he reveled in the intense ordinariness of the world he inhabited. His mature art fuses things most often thought of as separate: religion and sex, the real and the imaginary, public and private, the young and the old, the self and others.
In this excellent introduction to the artist and his work, Kitty Hauser reveals how Spencer's art grew out of places, experiences, and social relations that enriched his imagination. Though Spencer is often described as visionary, this book shows that his brand of mysticism was firmly grounded in material reality--in landscapes, homes, and the human relationships he felt so strongly.
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Success Through Failure: The Paradox of Designby Henry PetroskiISBN 0691122253 (0-691-12225-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Success Through Failure: The Paradox of Design'Book summary:Design pervades our lives. Everything from drafting a PowerPoint presentation to planning a state-of-the-art bridge embodies this universal human activity. But what makes a great design? In this compelling and wide-ranging look at the essence of invention, distinguished engineer and author Henry Petroski argues that, time and again, we have built success on the back of failure--not through easy imitation of success.
Success through Failure shows us that making something better--by carefully anticipating and thus averting failure--is what invention and design are all about. Petroski explores the nature of invention and the character of the inventor through an unprecedented range of both everyday and extraordinary examples--illustrated lectures, child-resistant packaging for drugs, national constitutions, medical devices, the world's tallest skyscrapers, long-span bridges, and more. Stressing throughout that there is no surer road to eventual failure than modeling designs solely on past successes, he sheds new light on spectacular failures, from the destruction of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in 1940 and the space shuttle disasters of recent decades, to the collapse of the World Trade Center in 2001.
Petroski also looks at the prehistoric and ancient roots of many modern designs. The historical record, especially as embodied in failures, reveals patterns of human social behavior that have implications for large structures like bridges and vast organizations like NASA. Success through Failure--which will fascinate anyone intrigued by design, including engineers, architects, and designers themselves--concludes by speculating on when we can expect the next major bridge failure to occur, and the kind of bridge most likely to be involved.
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Tokugawa Ideology: Early Constructs, 1570-1680by Herman OomsISBN 0691054444 (0-691-05444-4)
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Twice upon a Time: Women Writers and the History of the Fairy Taleby Elizabeth Wanning HarriesISBN 0691115672 (0-691-11567-2)
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Universities In The Marketplace: The Commercialization Of Higher Educationby Derek BokISBN 0691120129 (0-691-12012-9)
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Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Yearsby Brian BoydISBN 0691067945 (0-691-06794-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years'Book summary:This first major critical biography of Vladimir Nabokov, one of the greatest of 20th-century writers, finally allows us full access to the dramatic details of his life and the depths of his art. An intensely private man, Nabokov was uprooted first by the Russian Revolution and then by World War II. Transformed into a permanent wanderer, he did not achieve fame until late in life, with the success of "Lolita." In this first of two volumes, Brian Boyd vividly describes the liberal milieu of the aristocratic Nabokovs, their escape from Russia, Nabokov's education at Cambridge, and the murder of his father in Berlin. Boyd then turns to the years that Nabokov spent, impoverished, in Germany and France, until the coming of Hitler forced him to flee, with wife and son, to the U.S.
This volume stands on its own as a fascinating exploration of Nabokov's Russian years and Russian worlds, pre-revolutionary and emigre. In the course of his 10 years' work on the biography, Boyd traveled along Nabokov's trail everywhere from Yalta to Palo Alto. The only scholar to have had free access to the Nabokov archives in Montreux and the Library of Congress, he also interviewed at length Nabokov's family and scores of his friends and associates.
For the general reader, Boyd offers an introduction to Nabokov the man, his works, and his world. For the specialist, he provides a basis for all future research on Nabokov's life and art, as he dates and describes the composition of all Nabokov's works, published and unpublished. Boyd investigates Nabokov's relation to and his independence from his time, examines the special structures of his mind and thought, and explains the relations between his philosophy andhis innovations of literary strategy and style. At the same time he provides succinct introductions to all the fiction, dramas, memoirs, and major verse; presents detailed analyses of the major books that break new ground for the scholar, while providing easy paths into the works for other readers; and shows the relationship between Nabokov's life and the themes and subjects of his art. [via]
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A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Riversby Henry David Thoreau, William L. Howarth, Elizabeth Hall Witherell, Carl F. Hovde, John McPheeISBN 0691118787 (0-691-11878-7)
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In the late summer of 1839, Thoreau and his older brother John made a two-week boat-and-hiking trip from Concord, Massachusetts, to the White Mountains of New Hampshire. After John's sudden death in 1842, Thoreau began to prepare a memorial account of their excursion. He wrote two drafts of this story at Walden Pond, which he continued to revise and expand until 1849, when he arranged for its publication at his own expense. The book's heterodoxy and apparent formlessness troubled its contemporary audience. Modern readers, however, have come to see it as an appropriate predecessor to Walden, with Thoreau's story of a river journey depicting the early years of his spiritual and artistic growth.
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Wiring 1-2-3: Canadian Editionby Home Depot Books, Ben AllenISBN 0696228122 (0-696-22812-2)
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Wiring 1-2-3by Meredith BooksISBN 0696222469 (0-696-22246-9)
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Wiring 1-2-3: Install, Upgrade, Repair, and Maintain Your Home;S Electrical Systemby The Home DepotISBN 069621184X (0-696-21184-X)
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