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Alec Douglas-Homeby D.R. ThorpeISBN 1856195090 (1-85619-509-0)
Softcover, Sinclair-Stevenson
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderlandby Lewis CarrollISBN 1853260029 (1-85326-002-9)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'Book summary:That Alice. When she's not traipsing after a rabbit into Wonderland, she's gallivanting off into the topsy-turvy world behind the drawing-room looking glass. In Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll's masterful and zany sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, she makes more eccentric acquaintances, including Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the White Queen, and a somewhat grumpy Humpty Dumpty. Through a giant and elaborate chess game, Alice explores this odd country, where one must eat dry biscuits to quench thirst, and run like the wind to stay in one place. As in life, Alice must stay on her toes to learn the rules of this game. Through the Looking Glass immediately took its rightful place beside its partner on the shelf of eternal classics. And luckily for generations of enraptured children, Carroll was again able to persuade John Tenniel to create the fantastic woodblock engravings that have become so indelibly associated with the Alice stories. For almost 130 years, Alice's curious adventures have amused, perplexed, and delighted readers, young and old. This gorgeous, deluxe boxed set of both volumes contains engravings from Tenniel's original woodblocks that were discovered in a London bank in 1985, and reproduced for the first time here. "'What is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures?'" What indeed? (All ages) [via]
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glassby Lewis Carroll, John TennielISBN 1853261181 (1-85326-118-1)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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Almost Like a Whale: The Origin of Speciesby Steve JonesISBN 1862300259 (1-86230-025-9)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Almost Like a Whale: The Origin of Species'Book summary:Steve Jones describes Darwin's The Origin of Species as "the only bestseller to change man's conception of himself ... without doubt, the book of the millennium." That book's sensational central proposition, that speciation arose from descent with modification through the mechanism of natural selection, constituted a kind of Grand Unifying Theory of the biological sciences, allowing what had been until Darwin's time an essentially anecdotal practice to cohere into a modern discipline. In the century and a half since its publication, Darwin's big idea has been attacked many times, on many grounds, but has never convincingly been refuted. Yet, as Jones points out, hardly anybody reads The Origin of Species now for its science. It is celebrated as a landmark in the history of ideas, as a contribution to the philosophy of science and as a masterly work of high Victorian prose. The idea of evolution has pervaded almost every aspect of human thought. But it has almost been forgotten that it is primarily a work of science. Almost like a Whale is an attempt to redress the balance. Jones, himself a geneticist, assumes the mantle of Darwin and rewrites his masterpiece for the modern reader, borrowing the structure and thesis but writing with the benefit of 150 years' hindsight. Throughout the 20th century new sciences have emerged that have in all cases buttressed the central claims of evolution, chief among them embryology and Jones' own discipline of genetics. Almost Like a Whale draws widely on them for its arguments and many illuminating stories and case- studies.
It is a bold and ambitious project, carried off with considerable style and wit. Any suspicion of lightness is misplaced, though, as the seriousness and profundity of the underlying arguments are signalled early in the book: Jones destroys one of the main creationist objections to the theory of evolution--that no-one has ever seen it happen--with a devastating account of the well-documented 50-year evolution of the AIDS virus into its present varieties. The title is not a near-miss reference to Hamlet: it is Darwin himself, speculating on whether a bear seen swimming and catching food with its mouth as it swam, might represent the first, behavioural step on an evolutionary journey towards a new creature" almost like a whale." This is a powerfully entertaining book, engrossing in its science, erudite and cogent. --Robin Davidson [via]
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Anarcho-Syndicalismby Noam Chomsky, Rudolf Rocker, Nicolas WalterISBN 1853050776 (1-85305-077-6)
Softcover, Univ of Michigan Pr
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Antigoneby SophoclesISBN 1854592009 (1-85459-200-9)
Softcover, Theatre Communications Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Antigone'Book summary:The first great 'resistance' drama - and perhaps the definitive Greek tragedy. Creon, the King of Thebes, has forbidden the burial of Antigone's brother because he was put to death as a traitor to the crown. Despite being engaged to Creon's son Haemon, Antigone disobeys the King and buries her brother. Enraged, Creon condemns Antigone to death and buries her alive in a cave. The prophet Teiresias warns Creon against such rash actions, and eventually Creon relents ⬠but when he goes to release Antigone it is too late: she has already hanged herself. Translated and introduced by Marianne McDonald. (20120223) [via]
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Arctic Dreamsby Barry Holstun LopezISBN 1860465838 (1-86046-583-8)
Softcover, Harvill Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Arctic Dreams'Book summary:Based on 15 extended trips to the Canadian far north over a five-year period, Arctic Dreams celebrates the mysteries of what documentarians fondly call "last frontiers." Such places are everywhere in danger of destruction in the interest of ever-elusive economic progress, but Lopez writes no jeremiads. Instead, he aims to foster a kind of learned understanding of wild places, in this case the vast, scarcely knowable northern landscape. Writing of the natural history of the Arctic and its inhabitants--narwhals, polar bears, beluga whales, musk oxen, and caribou among them--Lopez draws powerful lessons from the land and imparts them assuredly and gracefully. Arctic Dreams deservedly won a National Book Award in 1986 when it was first published. [via]
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Averroes : His Life, Works and Influenceby Majid FakhryISBN 1851682694 (1-85168-269-4)
Softcover, Oneworld Publications
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Between Cultures : Tension in the Struggle for Recognitionby Alexander Garcia Duttmann, Kenneth B. WoodgateISBN 1859842739 (1-85984-273-9)
Softcover, Verso Books
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Cartesian Linguistics: A Chapter in the History of Rationalist Thoughtby Noam ChomskyISBN 187727545X (1-877275-45-X)
Softcover, Cybereditions Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cartesian Linguistics: A Chapter in the History of Rationalist Thought'Book summary:In this extraordinarily original and profound work, Noam Chomsky discusses themes in the study of language and mind since the end of the sixteenth century in order to explain the motivations and methods that underlie his work in linguistics, the science of mind, and even politics. This edition includes a new and specially written introduction by James McGilvray, contextualising the work for the twenty-first century. It has been made more accessible to a larger audience; all the French and German in the original edition has been translated, and the notes and bibliography have been brought up to date. The relationship between the original edition (published in 1966) and contemporary biolinguistic work is also explained. This challenging volume is an important contribution to the study of language and mind, and to the history of these studies since the end of the sixteenth century. [via]
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Confessions of an English Opium-Eaterby Thomas De QuinceyISBN 1853260967 (1-85326-096-7)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Confessions of an English Opium-Eater'Book summary:In the first part of this famous work, published in 1821 but then revised and expanded in 1856, De Quincey vividly describes a number of experiences during his boyhood which he implies laid the foundations for his later life of helpless drug addiction. The second part consists of his remarkable account of the pleasures and pains of opium, ostensibly offered as a muted apology for the course his life had taken but often reading like a celebration of it. The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater is thus both a classic of English autobiographical writing the prose equivalent, in its own time, of Wordsworths The Prelude or Growth of a Poets Mind and at the same time a crucial text in the long history of the Western Worlds ambivalent relationship with hard drugs. Full of psychological insight and colourful descriptive writing, it surprised and fascinated De Quinceys contemporaries and has continued to exert its powerful and eccentric appeal ever since. [via]
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The Consciousness Revolution: A Transatlantic Dialogue Two Days With Stanislav Grof, Ervin Laszlo, and Peter Russellby Peter Russell, Stanislav Grof, Ervin LaszloISBN 1862045402 (1-86204-540-2)
Hardcover, Element Books Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Consciousness Revolution: A Transatlantic Dialogue Two Days With Stanislav Grof, Ervin Laszlo, and Peter Russell'Book summary:As we enter the 21st Century faced with current global and human crises, society is being questioned as never before. In The Consciousness Revolution, three pioneers at the cutting-edge of Western thought reflect on the chances of peace in the world, on how society is changing, and on the changes we can make in ourselves. They consider the roles of art, science, education, goals and values, world views, religion, spirituality and, above all, consciousness - for the state of our consciousness is the key issue underlying almost everything else. As Ken Wilber asks in his Foreword, what does it all finally come down to? Peter Russell puts it like this: 'Each little bit counts we are all part of the same ground-swell. The most important question we need to ask is how can I put my own life in greater alignment with that ground-swell? How can I do my little one-hundred-thousandth worth to facilitate that shift a bit further? These intense and memorable discussions among three of the finest minds of our time convey a sense of excitement and passion which we can carry forward in our own lives. The Consciousness Revolution is an essential guide to how our map of reality is changing in the midst of the global transformation going on in all parts of the world and in every sphere of life, in us and around us. [via]
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Cool Memories Iv, 1995-2000by Jean Baudrillard, Chris TurnerISBN 1859844626 (1-85984-462-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Critique of Everyday Life: Foundations for a Sociology of the Everydayby Henri Lefebvre, John MooreISBN 1859846505 (1-85984-650-5)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Cultural Turnby Fredric JamesonISBN 1859841821 (1-85984-182-1)
Softcover, Verso Books
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Defenders of Reason in Islam : Mu'tazilism from Medieval School to Modern Symbolby Richard C. Martin, Mark R. WoodwardISBN 1851681477 (1-85168-147-7)
Softcover, Oneworld Publications
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The Democratic Paradoxby Chantal MouffeISBN 1859842798 (1-85984-279-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Discussions of Wittgensteinby Rush RheesISBN 1855064928 (1-85506-492-8)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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Doctor Faustusby Christopher MarloweISBN 1854593358 (1-85459-335-8)
Softcover, Theatre Communications Group
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The Elements of Buddhismby John SnellingISBN 1862040273 (1-86204-027-3)
Softcover, Thorsons Element
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The Elements of Human Potentialby Nevill DruryISBN 1852300868 (1-85230-086-8)
Softcover, Element Books Ltd
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The Encyclopedia of Celtic Wisdom: A Celtic Shaman's Sourcebookby John Matthews, Caitlin MatthewsISBN 1852305614 (1-85230-561-4)
Hardcover, Element Books Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Encyclopaedia of Celtic Wisdom: The Celtic Shaman's Sourcebook'Book summary:In this stunning gift edition, Celtic experts Caitlin and John Matthews present inspirational primary material, rich in ancient wisdom, lore, and mythology. For readers who are fascinated by Celtic traditions, and spiritual heritage, this unique reference introduces several new translations of powerful Celtic literature, including stories, poems, and visionary writing-many dating from the 7th century.
Brimming with invaluable ancestral knowledge and previously unavailable texts, this invaluable sourcebook offers readers a rare insight into shamanic memory, druidic divination and prophecy, shape-shifting myths, stories about soul loss and restoration, legendary magic, and healing traditions. [via]
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The Encyclopedia of Stupidityby Matthijs van Boxsel, Arnold Pomerans, Erica PomeransISBN 1861892314 (1-86189-231-4)
Softcover, University of Chicago Press
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The Ethics of Uncertainty: A New Christian Approach to Moral Decision-Makingby R. John ElfordISBN 1851682171 (1-85168-217-1)
Softcover, Oneworld Pubns Ltd
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Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowdsby Charles MacKay, Norman StoneISBN 1853263494 (1-85326-349-4)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds'Book summary:Why do otherwise intelligent individuals form seething masses of idiocy when they engage in collective action? Why do financially sensible people jump lemming-like into hare-brained speculative frenzies--only to jump broker-like out of windows when their fantasies dissolve? We may think that the Great Crash of 1929, junk bonds of the '80s, and over-valued high-tech stocks of the '90s are peculiarly 20th century aberrations, but Mackay's classic--first published in 1841--shows that the madness and confusion of crowds knows no limits, and has no temporal bounds. These are extraordinarily illuminating,and, unfortunately, entertaining tales of chicanery, greed and naivete. Essential reading for any student of human nature or the transmission of ideas.
In fact, cases such as Tulipomania in 1624--when Tulip bulbs traded at a higher price than gold--suggest the existence of what I would dub "Mackay's Law of Mass Action:" when it comes to the effect of social behavior on the intelligence of individuals, 1+1 is often less than 2, and sometimes considerably less than 0. [via]
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F Scott Fitzgerald: The Great GatsbyISBN 1874166676 (1-874166-67-6)
Softcover, Totem Books
Find This BookBook summary:F. Scott Fitzgerald has become something of a defining figure of the twenties - the decade he so famously described as 'The Jazz Age'. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald's writing is at its finest, exposing a society's tendency towards decadence and moral collapse through a decade of hedonism. Regarded as the most searching and tightly written of his novels, The Great Gatsby was the work that assured Fitzgerald's place amongst the major writers of the twentieth century. In this Readers' Guide, Nicolas Tredell introduces and sets in context the key critical debates surrounding a novel about which more critical material exists than any other work of American fiction. The extracts and essays included here reflect on The Great Gatsby's place as one of the first American novels to make significant use of modernist techniques, and explore the influence of the work on later American writings. Considering secondary sources from the Twenties to the present, the Guide offers readers an invaluable resource for the study of this complex rendering of a moment in American history. [via]
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Faith and Belief : The Difference Between Themby Wilfred C. SmithISBN 1851681655 (1-85168-165-5)
Softcover, Element Books, Incorporated
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False Necessity: Anti Necessitarian Social Theory in the Service of Radical Democracyby Roberto UngerISBN 185984331X (1-85984-331-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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False Necessity: Anti-Necessitarian Social Theory in the Service of Radical Democracy from Politics A Work in Constructive Social Theoryby Roberto Mangabeira UngerISBN 1859846556 (1-85984-655-6)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'False Necessity: Anti-Necessitarian Social Theory in the Service of Radical Democracy from Politics A Work in Constructive Social Theory'Book summary:This new edition of "False Necessity" marks the beginning of Verso's reissuing of Unger's major works in political and social thought, first published under the collective title of "Politics". This book develops a radical alternative to Marxism and a progressive alternative to the dominant ideological conceptions of neo-liberalism and social democracy. It explores new institutions that can democratize markets and empower individuals. For this new edition, Unger has written an introduction that explores the limits of our understanding of society and our practice of politics. [via]
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Fashion: A Philosophyby Lars Svendsen, John IronsISBN 1861892918 (1-86189-291-8)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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For They Know Not What They Do : Enjoyment as a Political Factorby Slavoj ZizekISBN 185984460X (1-85984-460-X)
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Fragments: Cool Memories Iii, 1990-1995by Jean Baudrillard, Emily AgarISBN 1859841236 (1-85984-123-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Fragments: Cool Memories Iii, 1991-95by Jean Baudrillard, Emily AgarISBN 1859848915 (1-85984-891-5)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Frankensteinby Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyISBN 1853260231 (1-85326-023-1)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frankenstein'Book summary:Frankenstein, loved by many decades of readers and praised by such eminent literary critics as Harold Bloom, seems hardly to need a recommendation. If you haven't read it recently, though, you may not remember the sweeping force of the prose, the grotesque, surreal imagery, and the multilayered doppelgänger themes of Mary Shelley's masterpiece. As fantasy writer Jane Yolen writes of this (the reviewer's favorite) edition, "The strong black and whites of the main text [illustrations] are dark and brooding, with unremitting shadows and stark contrasts. But the central conversation with the monster--who owes nothing to the overused movie image & but is rather the novel's charnel-house composite--is where [Barry] Moser's illustrations show their greatest power ... The viewer can all but smell the powerful stench of the monster's breath as its words spill out across the page. Strong book-making for one of the world's strongest and most remarkable books." Includes an illuminating afterword by Joyce Carol Oates. [via]
God, Chance & Necessityby Keith WardISBN 1851681167 (1-85168-116-7)
Softcover, Oneworld Pubns Ltd
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The Great Gatsbyby F. Scott FitzgeraldISBN 185326041X (1-85326-041-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great Gatsby'Book summary:The Great Gatsby, a novel by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that takes place from spring to autumn 1922, during the Roaring Twenties and Prohibition. [via]
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The Greek Myths and the Hebrew Mythsby Robert Graves, Michael PharandISBN 1857544803 (1-85754-480-3)
Hardcover, Carcanet Press, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Greek Myths and the Hebrew Myths'Book summary:The Greek Myths has long been among Graves's most popular works, compendious in scope and lively in the telling. No poet of the twentieth century, not even Ezra Pound, was so compendiously learned as Graves in the origins of our Mediterranean cultures. While his approach to myth is original and sometimes contentious, his narrative is always compelling. Graves tells the myths of creation, the origins of the Gods and their lives, the exploits of the heroes and the Trojan War. The retelling is modern but the matter is not modernised: Graves is alive to the vivid otherness of the world he evokes. The Greek Myths are more than cultural archaeology: it recovers the coherence of the ancient world. Graves's organisation and comparisons of sources infer connections, common themes, synergies and tropes; his riskiest conclusions are persuasive because of the energy and penetration of his mind. He sees history, not psychology, through the myths and suggests that they have actual occasions which, in the telling and retelling, became charged spiritually, maturing into the coherence of religion. The Greek Myths, a reference book or as an exploration of our common roots is corrected in a limited edition as part of the Millennium Graves Programme. [via]
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Haunted Weather: Music, Silence, And Memoryby David ToopISBN 1852427892 (1-85242-789-2)
Softcover, Serpents Tail
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Haunted Weather: Music, Silence, And Memory'Book summary:In the first chapter of this fascinating exploration of present and future sound worlds, author David Toop describes what composer John Cage discovered when he entered a totally soundproof anechoic chamber. "Drawn to silence, he expected to discover that," writes Toop. "Instead, he heard two persistent noises. The engineer in charge of the anechoic chamber at Harvard University explained: the high sound was the working of Cage's nervous system, the low sound was blood pulsing through his circulation. In other words, he was hearing his own lifeforce." For Toop, the implication is clear: we humans are musical creatures who create and enjoy an immensely varied soundscape. In Haunted Weather, Toop examines how ideas about the creation, manipulation, and meaning of sound are undergoing a radical overhaul. He argues that "the recent explosion of digital technology in sound work has established a kind of year zero." Besides including observations from his own work as a critic and a musician, Toop travels the globe to interview proponents of improvisational and experimental music (e.g., British free-jazz guitarist Derek Bailey, Finnish electronica duo Pan Sonic), as well as figures in the field of sound art, like Canada's Janet Cardiff. In the process, Toop poses some intriguing questions: in what sense is a musician onstage with only a laptop computer "performing"? When one song is sampled to create another, what is the relationship between old and new? Can the sound of a forest at night be considered music? What is the difference between silence and quiet?
Haunted Weather returns to the some of the same themes that Toop examined in Ocean of Sound and Exotica. As in those books, he draws unusual connections between disparate areas of music and culture. He also accomplishes the always tricky task of describing things meant to be heard. At one point, he likens the shriek of starlings in his garden to "nature's equivalent of latter-day free jazz when the point was to blow at the outer limits of volume and duration until all the energy in a room had been vacuumed into silence." Anyone eager to hear many of the artists whose work he describes so poetically in Haunted Weather can investigate a double CD by the same name. Other readers may develop a new appreciation for the sound worlds they already experience. --Jason Anderson [via]
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The Heart of Darknessby Joseph ConradISBN 1853262404 (1-85326-240-4)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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Heresiesby John GrayISBN 1862077185 (1-86207-718-5)
Softcover, Granta Books
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The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Workby Joseph Campbell, Phil CousineauISBN 1862045984 (1-86204-598-4)
Hardcover, Element Books Ltd
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History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Centuryby Leslie StephenISBN 1855060876 (1-85506-087-6)
Hardcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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The Idiotby Fyodor DostoyevskyISBN 1853261750 (1-85326-175-0)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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Immediatismby Hakim BeyISBN 1873176422 (1-873176-42-2)
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The Information Bombby Paul Virilio, Chris TurnerISBN 1859843697 (1-85984-369-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Introducing Jungby Maggie Hyde, Michael McGuinnessISBN 1874166056 (1-874166-05-6)
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Introducing Kafkaby Robert Crumb, David MairowitzISBN 1874166099 (1-874166-09-9)
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Introducing Nietzscheby Richard Appignanesi, Laurence Gane, Kitty ChanISBN 1874166633 (1-874166-63-3)
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Introducing Nietzsche introduces the reader to a fearless critic of vanity and bad faith -- the philosopher whom Freud believed, "...had greater self-knowledge than anyone I have read". [via]
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Introducing Walter Benjaminby Andrzej Klimowski, Howard Caygill, Richard Appignanesi, Alex ColesISBN 1874166870 (1-874166-87-0)
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Jude the Obscureby Thomas HardyISBN 1853262617 (1-85326-261-7)
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Karl Marxby Francis WheenISBN 1857026373 (1-85702-637-3)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Karl Marx'Book summary:Karl Marx, whose influence on modern times has been compared to that of Jesus Christ, spent most of his lifetime in obscurity. Penniless, exiled in London, estranged from relations, and on the run from most of the police forces of Europe, his ambitions as a revolutionary were frequently thwarted, and his major writings on politics and economics remained unpublished (in some cases until after the Second World War). He has not lacked biographers, but even the most distinguished have been more interested in the evolution of his ideas than any other aspect of his life. Francis Wheen's fresh, lively, and moving biography of Marx considers the whole man--brain, beard, and the rest of his body. Unencumbered by ideological point scoring, this is a very readable, humorous, and sympathetic account. Wheen has an ear for juicy gossip and an eye for original detail. Marx comes across as a hell-raising bohemian, an intellectual bully, and a perceptive critic of capitalist chaos, but also a family man of Victorian conformity (personally vetting his daughters' suitors), Victorian ailments (carbuncles above all), and Victorian weaknesses (notably alcohol, tobacco, and, on occasion, his housekeeper). But there is great pathos, too, as Marx witnessed the deaths of four of his six children. For those readers who feel Marxism has given Marx a bad name, this is a rewarding and enlightening book. --Miles Taylor, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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Lewis Carroll, Alice Through the Looking-glass: And What Alice Found Thereby Lewis Carroll, Marco Livingstone, Peter BlakeISBN 1858943299 (1-85894-329-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lewis Carroll, Alice Through the Looking-glass: And What Alice Found There'Book summary:Welcome back to the world of Helen Oxenbury's Alice! An exuberant edition of the Lewis Carroll masterpiece, lavishly illustrated by one of the most beloved children's book artists of our time.
Helen Oxenbury's ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND set a new standard for contemporary editions of Lewis Carroll's beloved classic. And now she has illustrated its companion, ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING- GLASS, with equal intimacy, warmth, and charm. Here again is Alice, dressed in her bright blue jumper and ready for adventure like any modern child. All it takes is a bit of curiosity about the room reversed in the mirror and suddenly Alice is in the Looking-Glass world with all manner of comical and magical characters -- Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the lion and the unicorn, and a whole game board of chess pieces come to life.
On page after page, Helen Oxenbury's incomparable line drawings, sepia illustrations, and full-color paintings give today's children their own utterly accessible view into Lewis Carroll's timeless nonsense. [via]More editions of Lewis Carroll, Alice Through the Looking-glass: And What Alice Found There:
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Liberals and Cannibals: The Implications of Diversityby Steven LukesISBN 1859845959 (1-85984-595-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Liberals and Cannibals: The Implications of Diversity'Book summary:Steven Lukes confronts liberal thought with its own limitations.
The essays in this collection focus on the perennial but newly urgent questions of how the tension between relativism and the moral universalism current in contemporary politics can be resolved within the framework of liberalism. How is liberal society to interpret the diversity of morals? Is pluralism the appropriate response? How does pluralism differ from the widely condemned relativism more specifically, the double bind of ethnocentric universalism, or 'liberalism for the Liberals, cannibalism for the cannibals.'
Taking as his starting point Robert Frost's accusation that a liberal is someone who can't take his own side in an argument, Steven Lukes confronts liberal thought with its own limitations. While recognizing the dangers of moral imperialism, Lukes argues that a relativist position based on identifying clearly distinct cultural and moral communities is incoherent. Drawing on work in anthropology and philosophy, he examines the nature of social justice, the politics of identity and human rights theory, as well as discussing how ideas drawn from the work of Isaiah Berlin can shed light on these debates.
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'Steven Lukes, the distinguished political theorist, has written a witty secularised update of The Pilgrim's Progress ... a good introduction to current debates in socio-political philosophy.' Richard Rorty
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Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheistby Dan BarkerISBN 187773313X (1-877733-13-X)
Hardcover, Freedom from Religion Fndtn
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The Man Who Was Thursdayby G. K. ChestertonISBN 1853262366 (1-85326-236-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Man Who Was Thursday'Book summary:In an article published the day before his death, G.K. Chesterton called The Man Who Was Thursday "a very melodramatic sort of moonshine." Set in a phantasmagoric London where policemen are poets and anarchists camouflage themselves as, well, anarchists, his 1907 novel offers up one highly colored enigma after another. If that weren't enough, the author also throws in an elephant chase and a hot-air-balloon pursuit in which the pursuers suffer from "the persistent refusal of the balloon to follow the roads, and the still more persistent refusal of the cabmen to follow the balloon."
But Chesterton is also concerned with more serious questions of honor and truth (and less serious ones, perhaps, of duels and dualism). Our hero is Gabriel Syme, a policeman who cannot reveal that his fellow poet Lucian Gregory is an anarchist. In Chesterton's agile, antic hands, Syme is the virtual embodiment of paradox:
He came of a family of cranks, in which all the oldest people had all the newest notions. One of his uncles always walked about without a hat, and another had made an unsuccessful attempt to walk about with a hat and nothing else. His father cultivated art and self-realization; his mother went in for simplicity and hygiene. Hence the child, during his tenderer years, was wholly unacquainted with any drink between the extremes of absinthe and cocoa, of both of which he had a healthy dislike.... Being surrounded with every conceivable kind of revolt from infancy, Gabriel had to revolt into something, so he revolted into the only thing left--sanity.
Elected undercover into the Central European Council of anarchists, Syme must avoid discovery and save the world from any bombings in the offing. As Thursday (each anarchist takes the name of a weekday--the only quotidian thing about this fantasia) does his best to undo his new colleagues, the masks multiply. The question then becomes: Do they reveal or conceal? And who, not to mention what, can be believed? As The Man Who Was Thursday proceeds, it becomes a hilarious numbers game with a more serious undertone--what happens if most members of the council actually turn out to be on the side of right? Chesterton's tour de force is a thriller that is best read slowly, so as to savor his highly anarchic take on anarchy. --Kerry Fried [via]More editions of The Man Who Was Thursday:
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Mysticism: The Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousnessby Evelyn UnderhillISBN 1851681965 (1-85168-196-5)
Softcover, Oneworld Pubns Ltd
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The Nature of Personal Reality: Specific, Practical Techniques for Solving Everyday Problems and Enriching the Life You Knowby Jane RobertsISBN 1878424068 (1-878424-06-8)
Softcover, New World Library
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Neoplatonismby R. Wallis, Lloyd P. GersonISBN 1853994537 (1-85399-453-7)
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Oedipusby SophoclesISBN 1854596101 (1-85459-610-1)
Softcover, Theatre Communications Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Oedipus'Book summary:The great masterpiece on which Aristotle based his aesthetic theory of drama in the Poetics and from which Freud derived the Oedipus complex. King Oedipus puts out a sentence on the unknown murderer of his father Laius. By a gradual unfolding of incidents, Oedipus learns that he was the assassin and that Jocasta, his wife, is also his mother.[via]More editions of Oedipus:
The Origins of Postmodernityby Perry AndersonISBN 1859842224 (1-85984-222-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Oversoul Seven Trilogyby Jane RobertsISBN 1878424173 (1-878424-17-3)
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The Panopticon and Other Prison Writingsby Jeremy Bentham, Miran BozovicISBN 1859840833 (1-85984-083-3)
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Passwordsby Jean Baudrillard, Chris TurnerISBN 1859844634 (1-85984-463-4)
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Quasi Una Fantasia: Essays on Modern Musicby Theodore AdornoISBN 1859841597 (1-85984-159-7)
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Reading the Vampire Slayer: The New, Updated,Unofficial Guide to Buffy and Angelby Roz KaveneyISBN 186064984X (1-86064-984-X)
Softcover, Tauris Parke Paperbacks
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Reading the Vampire Slayer: The New, Updated,Unofficial Guide to Buffy and Angel'Book summary:The first edition of Reading the Vampire Slayer was highly praised in both the fan magazine SFX and the Times Literary Supplement. This second edition is hugely revised and expanded to cover the sixth and seventh seasons of Buffy and the third and fourth seasons of Angel. It contains chapters on the relationship between Buffy and the lovelorn vampire Spike and on the thematic structure of Angel, as well as interviews on the writing of Buffy with scriptwriters Jane Espenson and Steven DeKnight. Individual chapters have been updated and the useful episode guide is expanded to cover all seven seasons of Buffy and the four seasons of Angel, as is Roz Kaveney's general introduction to the scenes and structures of each season.[via]More editions of Reading the Vampire Slayer: The New, Updated,Unofficial Guide to Buffy and Angel:
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Reading the Vampire Slayer: An Unofficial Critical Companion to Buffy and Angelby Roz KaveneyISBN 1860647626 (1-86064-762-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Reading the Vampire Slayer: An Unofficial Critical Companion to Buffy and Angel'Book summary:Reading the Vampire Slayer is a very accessible collection of essays, edited by Amazon.co.uk contributor and respected SF and Fantasy reviewer Roz Kaveney, which analyses the first five seasons of the TV show "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and the first two seasons of "Angel". Kaveney's opening article sketches out the territory, providing an insightful introduction to the themes and structures of the two shows. The essays that follow consider a wide range of issues, but a common theme is the complexity and inventiveness of the shows, with their deconstruction of patriarchal authority and highlighting of the ambiguous nature of evil. Variously, the authors consider how Buffy subverts the "male gaze", the ways in which the shows challenge such concepts as established authority and traditional ways of learning and knowing, the use of humour, how the landscape of Southern California plays its part, and how fans have become actively involved in the writing of slash-fan fiction (which pairs characters such as Xander/Spike in sexual relationships). It's an eclectic mix, with some essays more obviously academic than others, but on the whole the style, which includes bibliographies for further reading, means this book should interest both students of cultural and media studies and more general readers. And it's a lot of fun to read, providing many thoughtful insights into two shows that have proved popular television can be both thought provoking and deeply moving. --Elizabeth Sourbut [via]
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A Realist Theory of Scienceby Roy BhaskarISBN 1859841031 (1-85984-103-1)
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The Reasonableness of Christianity: As Delivered in the Scripturesby John LockeISBN 1855065223 (1-85506-522-3)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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The Rosicrucians: The History, Mythology and Rituals of an Occult Orderby Christopher McIntoshISBN 1852740256 (1-85274-025-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Selected Writings of William Hazlittby William Hazlitt, Duncan WuISBN 1851963693 (1-85196-369-3)
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A Serious Proposal to the Ladiesby Patricia Springborg, Mary AstellISBN 1851962689 (1-85196-268-9)
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Signs Taken for Wonders: Essays in the Sociology of Literary Formsby Franco MorettiISBN 1859841716 (1-85984-171-6)
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Sophoclesby Richard C. Jebb, P. E. Easterling, Jeffrey RustenISBN 1853996432 (1-85399-643-2)
Softcover, Bristol Classical Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sophocles'Book summary:This is one of the seven plays of Sophocles in the full editions by R.C. Jebb, all of which will be reissued under the BCP imprint. They have occasionally been reprinted but never before in affordable paperback versions. In this set, each volume contains a foreword by P.E. Easterling, concerned with Jebb and his contribution to Sophoclean scholarship; there follows an introduction by a noted Sophoclean scholar dealing with Jebb's treatment of the individual play and its value for - and contrast with - subsequent interpretations, for which a select bibliography is included. [via]
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The Spectre of Hegel : Early Writingsby Louis Althusser, G. M. GoshgarianISBN 185984099X (1-85984-099-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Spectre of Hegel : Early Writings'Book summary:Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Louis Althusser enjoyed virtually unrivalled status as the foremost living Marxist philosopher. Today, he is remembered as the scourge and severest critic of "humanist" or Hegelian Marxism, as the proponent of rigorously scientific socialism and as the theorist who posited a sharp rupture - an epistemological break - between the early and the late Marx. This collection of texts from the period of 1945-1953 turns these interpretations of Althusser on their head. Readers discover that there was a "young Althusser", as well as the "mature Althusser" people are already familiar with. In his Masters thesis, "On Content in the Thought of G.W.F. Hegel" (1947), Althusser developed a position which he was later to attack ferociously: namely, that the revolutionary potential of the Hegelian dialectic could be defended against Hegel's own political convervatism. Althusser is seen wrestling with the spectres of Hegel and of Catholicism in another long text, his letter to Jean Lacroix and, finally, his own "epistemological break" is shown in the piece "On Marxism" from 1953. Other texts included are his critique of Alexander Kojeve (whose interpretation Francis Fukuyama has recently revived), and his attack on the French Church's teachings on women, sex and the family. This collection not only gives an insight into the formation of this major intellectual figure, but should also restore the "unknown Althusser" to the centre of the history of Marxism and of philosophy since World War II. Louis Althusser is the author of "For Marx", "Reading Capital", "Essays in Ideology", and "Philosophy and the Spontaneous Philosophy of the Scientists". [via]
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Spinozaby Richard H. PopkinISBN 1851683399 (1-85168-339-9)
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Surrealist Gamesby Alastair BrotchieISBN 1870003217 (1-870003-21-7)
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Symposium & Death of Socratesby PlatoISBN 1853264792 (1-85326-479-2)
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Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of Everyday Life (or Six Good Reasons to Stay at Home and Bolt the Door)by Lynne TrussISBN 1861979339 (1-86197-933-9)
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Tao Te Ching: The New Translationby Martin Palmer, Jay Ramsay, Man-Ho KwokISBN 1852303220 (1-85230-322-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tao Te Ching: The New Translation'Book summary:For more than 2,500 years, the Tao Te Ching has been the major underlying influence in Chinese thought and culture. This outstanding collector's edition is a completely fresh translation, meticulously drawn from the earliest known Chinese manuscript, and rendered into a powerful text by poet John Ramsay. Illustrated in full color with calligraphy and 14th-century Chinese paintings. [via]
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The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Educationby Grace LlewellynISBN 1862041040 (1-86204-104-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education'Book summary:You won't find this book on a school library shelf--it's pure teenage anarchy. While many homeschooling authors hem and haw that learning at home isn't for everyone, this manifesto practically tells kids they're losers if they do otherwise. With the exception of a forwarding note to parents, this book is written entirely for teenagers, and the first 75 pages explain why school is a waste of time. Grace Llewellyn insists that people learn better when they are self-motivated and not confined by school walls. Instead of homeschooling, which connotes setting up a school at home, Llewellyn prefers "unschooling," a learning method with no structure or formal curriculum. There are tips here you won't hear from a school guidance counselor. Llewellyn urges kids to take a vacation--at least for a week--after quitting school to purge its influence. "Throw darts at a picture of your school" or "Make a bonfire of old worksheets," she advises. She spends an entire chapter on the gentle art of persuading parents that this is a good idea. Then she gets serious. Llewellyn urges teens to turn off the TV, get outside, and turn to their local libraries, museums, the Internet, and other resources for information. She devotes many chapters to books and suggestions for teaching yourself science, math, social sciences, English, foreign languages, and the arts. She also includes advice on jobs and getting into college, assuring teens that, contrary to what they've been told in school, they won't be flipping burgers for the rest of their days if they drop out.
Llewellyn is a former middle-school English teacher, and she knows her audience well. Her formula for making the transition from traditional school to unschooling is accompanied by quotes on freedom and free thought from radical thinkers such as Steve Biko and Ralph Waldo Emerson. And Llewellyn is not above using slang. She capitalizes words to add emphasis, as in the "Mainstream American Suburbia-Think" she blames most schools for perpetuating. Some of her attempts to appeal to young minds ring a bit corny. She weaves through several chapters an allegory about a baby whose enthusiasm is squashed by a sterile, unnatural environment, and tells readers to "learn to be a human bean and not a mashed potato." But her underlying theme--think for yourself--should appeal to many teenagers. --Jodi Mailander Farrell [via]
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This Book Is Not Requiredby Inge BellISBN 1878020048 (1-878020-04-8)
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To the Lighthouseby Virginia WoolfISBN 1853260916 (1-85326-091-6)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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Vision of Kantby David ApplebaumISBN 1852306246 (1-85230-624-6)
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The Way of All Flesh: A Celebration of Decayby Midas DekkersISBN 1860467628 (1-86046-762-8)
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The White Goddess : A Historical Grammar of Poetic Mythby Robert Graves, Grevel LindopISBN 1857542487 (1-85754-248-7)
Hardcover, Carcanet Press, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The White Goddess : A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth'Book summary:Robert Graves, the late British poet and novelist, was also known for his studies of the mythological and psychological sources of poetry. With The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth, Graves was able to combine many of his passions into one work. While the book is so poetically written that many of the passages amount to prose poems, it is also frequently plot driven enough to feel like a novel, and it is rich with scholarly insight into the deep wells of poetry. Especially fascinating is the chapter in which Graves explores the ancient and ongoing practice of poets' invoking the muse. Graves details the practice in both the Eastern and Western literary traditions, and shows specific similarities and differences among Greek, British, and Irish tales and myths about the muse. Graves has much to offer students of history and myth, but poetry lovers will also be fascinated with The White Goddess. [via]
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Wuthering Heightsby Emily BronteISBN 1853260010 (1-85326-001-0)
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