| Search | About | Preferences | Interact | Help | |
| 150 million books. 1 search engine. | ||
books tagged “politics”
books tagged “politics”
›› Find signed collectible books by ''
All over Creationby Ruth L. OzekiISBN 0142003891 (0-14-200389-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'All over Creation'More editions of All over Creation:
-
America's Queen: The Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassisby Sarah BradfordISBN 0141002204 (0-14-100220-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'America's Queen: The Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis'Book summary:Fresh from her well-received life of Queen Elizabeth II, the English historian and biographer Sarah Bradford turns her hand to America's own answer to royalty, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Painstakingly detailed, impressively fair, the result is the most definitive account yet of a woman who captured the imagination of the American public like no First Lady before or after her. Bradford seems to have interviewed almost everyone who had ever been intimate with Onassis, including George Plimpton, Gore Vidal, Joan Kennedy, and even a few ex-lovers. Most notably of all, Jackie's sister Lee Radziwill speaks with unexpected frankness about the mixture of rivalry and affection that marked their relationship since childhood. Jackie-lovers, take note: this is no hagiography, and its subject certainly comes off as no saint. As gracious as this American icon could be, she also had moments of coldness and even greed, including a particularly shocking moment by the bedside of Ari Onassis's dying son. Yet, in the end, non-airbrushed anecdotes like these only serve to make this most private of public figures even more fascinating. Jackie was, as Bradford writes, "a complex woman of many facets, concealed insecurities and intricate defense mechanisms, a strong urge toward the limelight contrasting with a desire for privacy and concealment.... Behind the mask of beauty and fame lay a shrewd mind, a ruthless judgment of people, antennae finely turned to any sign of pretentiousness or pomposity, and a wry, even raunchy sense of humor." The figure who emerges from subsequent pages is as compelling as the heroine of any novel, and it is to Bradford's credit that she doesn't seem to have fallen completely under her subject's spell. Her approach is sympathetic, but never fawning; candid, but never sensationalistic. For those who are curious not about Jackie's glamour but about its source, America's Queen offers an unprecedented look at the flesh-and-blood woman behind the Camelot myth. --Carlotta DeWitt [via]
More editions of America's Queen: The Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis:
-
The American Democratby James Fenimore Cooper, George Dekker, Larry JohnstonISBN 0140390685 (0-14-039068-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'THE AMERICAN DEMOCRAT'Book summary:In the 1830's, when reform was on everybody's lips, Cooper steered the course of a convinced Democrat who, however, was not an egalitarian. Family connexions and literary success introduced him to some of the leading politicians of France and England, as well as America, and his intellectual honesty allowed him to see that political deception was not peculiar to Europe. "The American Democrat" is essentially a condemnation of cant in American public life. Cooper is the author of "The Last of the Mohicans". [via]
More editions of The American Democrat:
-
The Americanization of Benjamin Franklinby Gordon S. WoodISBN 0143035282 (0-14-303528-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin'Book summary:[via]From the most respected chronicler of the early days of the Republicand winner of both the Pulitzer and Bancroft prizescomes a landmark work that rescues Benjamin Franklin from a mythology that has blinded generations of Americans to the man he really was and makes sense of aspects of his life and career that would have otherwise remained mysterious. In place of the genial polymath, self-improver, and quintessential American, Gordon S. Wood reveals a figure much more ambiguous and complexand much more interesting. Charting the passage of Franklins life and reputation from relative popular indifference (his death, while the occasion for mass mourning in France, was widely ignored in America) to posthumous glory, The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin sheds invaluable light on the emergence of our countrys idea of itself.
More editions of The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin:
Ashdown Diaries, 1988-1997by Paddy AshdownISBN 0140297758 (0-14-029775-8)
Softcover, Penguin Uk
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Ashdown Diaries, 1988-1997'More editions of Ashdown Diaries, 1988-1997:
-
The Book of the City of Ladiesby Christine, Rosalind Brown-GrantISBN 0140446893 (0-14-044689-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of the City of Ladies'Book summary:Christine de Pizan (c.1364-1430) was France's first professional woman of letters. Her pioneering Book of the City of Ladies begins when, feeling frustrated and miserable after reading a male writer's tirade against women, Christine has a dreamlike vision where three virtuesReason, Rectitude and Justiceappear to correct this view. They instruct her to build an allegorical city in which womankind can be defended against slander, its walls and towers constructed from examples of female achievement both from her own day and the past: ranging from warriors, inventors and scholars to prophetesses, artists and saints. Christine de Pizan's spirited defence of her sex was unique for its direct confrontation of the misogyny of her day, and offers a telling insight into the position of women in medieval culture. The Book of the City of Ladies provides positive images of women, ranging from warriors and inventors, scholars to prophetesses, and artists to saints. The book also offers a fascinating insight into the debates and controversies about the position of women in medieval culture.[via]More editions of The Book of the City of Ladies:
-
The Book of the Courtierby Castiglione, Baldassare, ConteISBN 0140441921 (0-14-044192-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of the Courtier'Book summary:[via]The courtier has to imbue with grace his movements, his gestures, his way of doing things and in short, his every action
In The Book of the Courtier (1528), Baldesar Castiglione, a diplomat and Papal Nuncio to Rome, sets out to define the essential virtues for those at Court. In a lively series of imaginary conversations between the real-life courtiers to the Duke of Urbino, his speakers discuss qualities of noble behaviour chiefly discretion, decorum, nonchalance and gracefulness as well as wider questions such as the duties of a good government and the true nature of love. Castigliones narrative power and psychological perception make this guide both an entertaining comedy of manners and a revealing window onto the ideals and preoccupations of the Italian Renaissance at the moment of its greatest splendour.
George Bulls elegant translation captures the variety of tone in Castigliones speakers, from comic interjections to elevated rhetoric. This edition includes an introduction examining Castigliones career in the courts of Urbino and Mantua, a list of the historical characters he portrays and further reading.
More editions of The Book of the Courtier:
-
A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitutionby Carol BerkinISBN 0151009481 (0-15-100948-1)
Hardcover, Harcourt Trade Publishers
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution'Book summary:"The majority of historians seem to suggest that the founders knew just what to do--and did it, creating a government that would endure for centuries," writes CUNY historian Carol Berkin in the introduction to A Brilliant Solution. Sitting atop the pedestals we've placed them on, these figures would be "amused" by such notions, she says, because in reality the Constitutional Convention was gripped by "a near-paranoid fear of conspiracies" and might easily have succumbed to "a collective anxiety" over its daunting task. The story of the birth of the U.S. Constitution has been told many times, perhaps best by Catherine Drinker Bowen in Miracle at Philadelphia. Berkin's rendition of these well-known events is clear and concise. It does a bit more telling than showing, but this seems to be in the service of brevity--the main text is only about 200 pages. (Another 100 pages of useful appendices follow, including the full texts of the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution, plus short biographies of all the convention delegates.) Berkin is an opinionated narrator, unafraid, for instance, to call Maryland's Luther Martin "determinedly uncouth." She also points out that American government has evolved in ways that would make the founders cringe: they believed the presidency would be a ceremonial office (rather than the locus of the nation's political power) and that political parties were bad (when, in fact, they have served democracy well). Readers who want a sure-footed introduction to America's founding would do well to start here. --John J. Miller [via]
More editions of A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution:
Britain Unwrapped: Government and Constitution Explainedby Hilaire BarnettISBN 0140291709 (0-14-029170-9)
Hardcover, Penguin
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Britain Unwrapped: Government and Constitution Explained'More editions of Britain Unwrapped: Government and Constitution Explained:
-
City of Djinns: A Year in Delhiby William Dalrymple, Olivia FraserISBN 0142001007 (0-14-200100-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi'Book summary:[via]Sparkling with irrepressible wit, City of Djinns peels back the layers of Delhi's centuries-old history, revealing an extraordinary array of characters along the way-from eunuchs to descendants of great Moguls. With refreshingly open-minded curiosity, William Dalrymple explores the seven "dead" cities of Delhi as well as the eighth citytoday's Delhi. Underlying his quest is the legend of the djinns, fire-formed spirits that are said to assure the city's Phoenix-like regeneration no matter how many times it is destroyed. Entertaining, fascinating, and informative, City of Djinns is an irresistible blend of research and adventure.
More editions of City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi:
The City of Ladiesby Christine De Pizan, Rosalind Brown-GrantISBN 0143037544 (0-14-303754-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The City of Ladies'More editions of The City of Ladies:
-
Civil Wars: A Battle for Gay Marriageby David MoatsISBN 015101017X (0-15-101017-X)
Hardcover, Harcourt Trade Publishers
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Civil Wars: A Battle for Gay Marriage'Book summary:In 2000 Vermont became the first state to grant gay and lesbian couples the right to join in civil unions-a groundbreaking decision that has inspired similar legislation in six states thus far. But it was not an easy victory; the ruling sparked the fiercest political conflict in the state's memory. David Moats was in the thick of it, writing a series of balanced, humane editorials that earned a Pulitzer Prize. Now he tells the intimate stories behind the battle and introduces us to all the key actors in the struggle, including the couples who first filed suit; the lawyers who spent years championing the case; and the only openly gay legislator in Vermont, who ensured victory with an impassioned, deeply personal speech on the House floor at a crucial moment.
Civil Wars is a remarkable drama of democracy at work on a human scale.
[via]More editions of Civil Wars: A Battle for Gay Marriage:
Closing the Leadership Gap: Why Women Can and Must Help Run the Worldby Marie C. WilsonISBN 0143034782 (0-14-303478-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Closing the Leadership Gap: Why Women Can and Must Help Run the World'More editions of Closing the Leadership Gap: Why Women Can and Must Help Run the World:
-
The Comedy of Dante Alighieriby Alighieri Dante, Dorothy L. SayersISBN 0140441050 (0-14-044105-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Comedy of Dante Alighieri'Book summary:Dante (12651321) is the greatest of Italian poets, and his Divine Comedy is the finest of all Christian allegories. To the consternation of his more academic admirers, who believed Latin to be the only proper language for dignified verse, Dante wrote his Comedy in colloquial Italian, wanting it to be a poem for the common reader. Taking two threads of a story that everybody knew and loved the story of a vision of Hell, Purgatory and Paradise, and the story of the lover who has to brave the Underworld to find his lost lady he combined them into a great allegory of the souls search for God. He made it swift, exciting and topical, lavishing upon it all his learning and wit, all his tenderness, humour and enthusiasm, and all his poetry. In Paradise, which T. S. Eliot among others has found either incomprehensible or intensely exciting, Dante journeys through the encircling spheres of heaven towards God. Translated by and introduced by Dorothy L. Sayers [via]
More editions of The Comedy of Dante Alighieri:
-
Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Florentine Cantica II Purgatoryby Dorothy L. SayersISBN 0140440461 (0-14-044046-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Florentine Cantica II Purgatory'Book summary:Beginning with Dante's liberation from Hell, Purgatory relates his ascent, accompanied by Virgil, of the Mount of Purgatory a mountain of nine levels, formed from rock forced upwards when God threw Satan into depths of the earth. As he travels through the first seven levels, Dante observes the sinners who are waiting for their release into Paradise, and through these encounters he is himself transformed into a stronger and better man. For it is only when he has learned from each of these levels that he can ascend to the gateway to Heaven: the Garden of Eden. The second part of one of the greatest epic poems, Purgatory is an enthralling Christian allegory of sin, redemption and ultimate enlightenment. [via]
More editions of Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Florentine Cantica II Purgatory:
-
The Complete Essaysby Michel De Montaigne, M. A. ScreechISBN 0140446044 (0-14-044604-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Essays'Book summary:In 1572, Montaigne retired to his estates in order to devote himself to leisure, reading and reflection. There he wrote his constantly expanding 'essays', inspired by the ideas he found in books from his library and his own experience. He discusses subjects as diverse as war-horses and cannibals, poetry and politics, sex and religion, love and friendship, ecstasy and experience. Above all, Montaigne studied himself to find his own inner nature and that of humanity. The Essays are among the most idiosyncratic and personal works in all literature. An insight into a wise Renaissance mind, they continue to engage, enlighten and entertain modern readers. [via]
More editions of The Complete Essays:
Democracy Derailed : Initiative Campaigns and the Power of Moneyby David S. BroderISBN 0151004641 (0-15-100464-1)
Hardcover, Harcourt Trade Publishers
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Democracy Derailed : Initiative Campaigns and the Power of Money'More editions of Democracy Derailed : Initiative Campaigns and the Power of Money:
-
Democracy in Americaby Alexis De Tocqueville, Isaac Kramnick, Gerald E. BevanISBN 0140447601 (0-14-044760-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Democracy in America'Book summary:[via]In 1831 Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat and ambitious civil servant, made a nine-month journey throughout America. The result was Democracy in America, a monumental study of the life and institutions of the evolving nation. Tocqueville looked to the flourishing democratic system in America as a possible model for post-revolutionary France, believing that the egalitarian ideals it enshrined reflected the spirit of the age and even divine will. His insightful work has become one of the most influential political texts ever written on America and an indispensable authority on democracy.
This new edition is the only one that contains all Tocqueville's writings on America, including the rarely-translated Two Weeks in the Wilderness, an account of Tocqueville's travels in Michigan among the Iroquois, and Excursion to Lake Oneida.More editions of Democracy in America:
-
Disgraceby J. M. CoetzeeISBN 0140296409 (0-14-029640-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Disgrace'Book summary:David Lurie is hardly the hero of his own life, or anyone else's. At 52, the protagonist of Disgrace is at the end of his professional and romantic game, and seems to be deliberately courting disaster. Long a professor of modern languages at Cape Town University College, he has recently been relegated to adjunct professor of communications at the same institution, now pointedly renamed Cape Technical University:
Although he devotes hours of each day to his new discipline, he finds its first premise, as enunciated in the Communications 101 handbook, preposterous: "Human society has created language in order that we may communicate our thoughts, feelings and intentions to each other." His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origins of speech lie in song, and the origins of song in the need to fill out with sound the overlarge and rather empty human soul.
Twice married and twice divorced, his magnetic looks on the wane, David rather cruelly seduces one of his students, and his conduct unbecoming is soon uncovered. In his eighth novel, J.M. Coetzee might have been content to write a searching academic satire. But in Disgrace he is intent on much more, and his art is as uncompromising as his main character, though infinitely more complex. Refusing to play the public-repentance game, David gets himself fired--a final gesture of contempt. Now, he thinks, he will write something on Byron's last years. Not empty, unread criticism, "prose measured by the yard," but a libretto. To do so, he heads for the Eastern Cape and his daughter's farm. In her mid-20s, Lucy has turned her back on city sophistications: with five hectares, she makes her living by growing flowers and produce and boarding dogs. "Nothing," David thinks, "could be more simple." But nothing, in fact, is more complicated--or, in the new South Africa, more dangerous. Far from being the refuge he has sought, little is safe in Salem. Just as David has settled into his temporary role as farmworker and unenthusiastic animal-shelter volunteer, he and Lucy are attacked by three black men. Unable to protect his daughter, David's disgrace is complete. Hers, however, is far worse.There is much more to be explored in Coetzee's painful novel, and few consolations. It would be easy to pick up on his title and view Disgrace as a complicated working-out of personal and political shame and responsibility. But the author is concerned with his country's history, brutalities, and betrayals. Coetzee is also intent on what measure of soul and rights we allow animals. After the attack, David takes his role at the shelter more seriously, at last achieving an unlikely home and some measure of love. In Coetzee's recent Princeton lectures, The Lives of Animals, an aging novelist tells her audience that the question that occupies all lab and zoo creatures is, "Where is home, and how do I get there?" David, though still all-powerful compared to those he helps dispose of, is equally trapped, equally lost.
Disgrace is almost willfully plain. Yet it possesses its own lean, heartbreaking lyricism, most of all in its descriptions of unwanted animals. At the start of the novel, David tells his student that poetry either speaks instantly to the reader--"a flash of revelation and a flash of response"--or not at all. Coetzee's book speaks differently, its layers and sadnesses endlessly unfolding. --Kerry Fried [via]
-
The Divine Comedyby Dante Alighieri, Mark MusaISBN 0140444416 (0-14-044441-6)
Softcover, Penguin USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Divine Comedy'Book summary:This splendid verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum provides an entirely fresh experience of Dante's great poem of penance and hope. As Dante ascends the Mount of Purgatory toward the Earthly Paradise and his beloved Beatrice, through "that second kingdom in which the human soul is cleansed of sin, " all the passion and suffering, poetry and philosophy are rendered with the immediacy of a poet of our own age. With extensive notes and commentary prepared especially for this edition.
"The English Dante of choice."--Hugh Kenner.
"Exactly what we have waited for these years, a Dante with clarity, eloquence, terror, and profoundly moving depths."--Robert Fagles, Princeton University.
"Tough and supple, tender and violent . . . vigorous, vernacular . . . Mandelbaum's Dante will stand high among modern translations."-- "The Christian Science Monitor" [via]
More editions of The Divine Comedy:
-
Divine Right and Democracy: An Anthology of Political Writing in Stuart Englandby David WoottonISBN 0140432507 (0-14-043250-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Divine Right and Democracy: An Anthology of Political Writing in Stuart England'Book summary:An anthology of political thought drawn from England's 'century of revolution' that focuses on the writings of those English theorists, essayists, speech writers, tract writers, and pamphleteers to whom Hobbes and Locke were immediately responding in their respective masterpieces of political theory. [via]
More editions of Divine Right and Democracy: An Anthology of Political Writing in Stuart England:
The Efficient Society: Why Canda Is As Close to Utopia As It Getsby Joseph HeathISBN 0140292489 (0-14-029248-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Efficient Society: Why Canda Is As Close to Utopia As It Gets'More editions of The Efficient Society: Why Canda Is As Close to Utopia As It Gets:
Empire Lite: Nation-Building in Bosnia, Kosovo, and Afghanistanby Michael IgnatieffISBN 0143014919 (0-14-301491-9)
Softcover, Penguin Canada
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Empire Lite: Nation-Building in Bosnia, Kosovo, and Afghanistan'More editions of Empire Lite: Nation-Building in Bosnia, Kosovo, and Afghanistan:
-
An Essay Concerning Human Understandingby John Locke, R. S. WoolhouseISBN 0140434828 (0-14-043482-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'An Essay Concerning Human Understanding'Book summary:This new, complete, and unabridged edition represents the very latest in critical thinking on Locke's pioneering work, which set the groundwork for modern philosophy.[via]More editions of An Essay Concerning Human Understanding:
-
An Essay on the Principle of Populationby Thomas MalthusISBN 014043206X (0-14-043206-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'An Essay on the Principle of Population'Book summary:English economist and professor Thomas R. Malthus (1766-1834) caused great public controversy among the optimistic positivitists of his day when his Essay on the Principle of Population (1798) showed incontrovertibly that population, when unchecked, tends to increase faster than the availability of subsistence therefore preventive checks on population increase are necessary. Malthus, whose work influenced the research of Charles Darwin, admitted he was pessimistic about the future of humankind. He argued, through mathematical proofs and scientific documentation, that without population control the societal result is overcrowding, disease, war, poverty, and vice. [via]
More editions of An Essay on the Principle of Population:
-
An Essay on the Principle of Population; And, a Summary View of the Principle of Populationby Thomas Robert MalthusISBN 0140400184 (0-14-040018-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'An Essay on the Principle of Population; And, a Summary View of the Principle of Population'More editions of An Essay on the Principle of Population; And, a Summary View of the Principle of Population:
-
The Essays: A Selectionby Michel E. De Montaigne, John M. CohenISBN 0140440836 (0-14-044083-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Essays: A Selection'Book summary:Living at a time of religious strife and the decline of the intellectual optimism that had begun in the Renaissance, Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592) expressed in his writings both a deep skepticism about human affairs and a wide-ranging intellectual curiosity reflective of the age. Having witnessed firsthand the bloody armed conflicts, fanaticism, and persecutions that arose out of religious differences between French Catholics and Protestant Huguenots, Montaigne was especially skeptical about human claims to knowledge. For this reason he published not systematic philosophy but mere attempts at knowledge, essays in understanding, or essais, as he called them in French. He thus inaugurated a new literary genre that proved to be very influential. Despite his skepticism, Montaigne realized that the intellectual horizon of his day was full of exciting new developments. The New World had only recently been discovered, and explorers to many parts of the hitherto undiscovered world were bringing back reports of strange lands, people, and customs. At the same time, the intellectual discoveries of the Renaissance had uncovered the powerful works of ancient Greek and Latin authors, and science, still in its infancy, was beginning to ask important new questions. The essays reflect all these interests, plus a refreshing honesty about the frailties of human nature. Montaigne writes about vanity, the value of friendship, constancy, idleness, liars, virtue, cowardice, prognostication, cannibals, the greatness of Rome, "That to Study Philosophy Is to Learn to Die," and a host of other topics. Filled with insights and keen observations that have inspired later writers as diverse as Shakespeare,Bacon, Voltaire, Rousseau, Flaubert, Virginia Woolf, and Roland Barthes, the Essays of Montaigne should be on the shelf of every student, scholar, and book lover. [via]
More editions of The Essays: A Selection:
-
The Fencing Masterby Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Margaret Jull CostaISBN 0151001812 (0-15-100181-2)
Hardcover, Harcourt
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fencing Master'Book summary:In The Club Dumas, Arturo Pérez-Reverte explored the labyrinthine world of antiquarian book dealers, spicing his tale of mystery and murder with characters straight out of Paradise Lost and The Three Musketeers. Next came The Flanders Panel, a brilliant puzzle comprised of art, chess, and untimely death whose resolution lies in a painting by a Flemish master. In The Seville Communion, Pérez-Reverte turned his sights on the tangled politics of the Roman Catholic Church as an appropriate backdrop--for murder. In his fourth novel translated into English, the Spanish writer changes centuries (if not his focus on homicide), returning to the mid-1800s to follow the exploits of Don Jaime Astarloa, the eponymous fencing master.
The year is 1866 and revolution is brewing in Spain. The corrupt Bourbon queen, Isabella II, is slowly losing her grip on power as equally corrupt exiled politicians vie to be her successor in a new republic. Against this background of political upheaval, Don Jaime goes about his business, teaching a dying art to a dwindling number of students. This is a man who resists changing times; to a friend he explains, "I have spent my whole life trying to preserve a certain idea of myself, and that is all. You have to cling to a set of values that do not depreciate with time. Everything else is the fashion of the moment, fleeting, mutable. In a word, nonsense." But then Adela de Otero--a woman with a mysterious past and an amazing talent for swordplay--comes into his life, and Don Jaime's world is turned upside down. As always, Pérez-Reverte offers literary excellence, a thumping good mystery, and fascinating insight into an arcane practice, in this case, fencing. Though the 19th-century politics in the book may resonate more with a Spanish audience than with English readers, the moral at the heart of The Fencing Master is universal: "to be honest, or at least honorable--anything, indeed, that has its roots in the word honor." In this, Don Jaime and Arturo Pérez-Reverte both succeed. --Alix Wilber [via]
More editions of The Fencing Master:
-
Fugitive Days : A Memoirby Bill AyersISBN 0142002550 (0-14-200255-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Fugitive Days : A Memoir'Book summary:Bill Ayers was born into privilege and is today a highly respected educator and community activist. In the late 1960s he was a founder of the militant activist group the Weather Underground. Living on the run, stealing explosives, and hiding from the law, Ayers was involved in the defining moments of his generation: the Days of Rage, SDS, the Black Panthers-and the explosion that killed his beloved comrade, Diana Oughton. Fugitive Days tells of these turbulent events, and of the tenacity with which Ayers slowly rebuilt his life after it all came apart. Ayers writes openly about his regrets and what he continues to believe was right. The result is a profoundly honest account of an incendiary chapter in our history. [via]
More editions of Fugitive Days : A Memoir:
The Gettysburg Address and Other Speechesby Abraham LincolnISBN 014600079X (0-14-600079-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gettysburg Address and Other Speeches'More editions of The Gettysburg Address and Other Speeches:
The Gilded Ageby Mark Twain, Charles Dudley WarnerISBN 014043920X (0-14-043920-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gilded Age'More editions of The Gilded Age:
The Good Soldier Svejk: And His Fortunes in the World Warby Jaroslav Hasek, Josef Lada, Cecil ParrottISBN 0140449914 (0-14-044991-4)
Softcover, Penguin Classics
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Good Soldier Svejk: And His Fortunes in the World War'More editions of The Good Soldier Svejk: And His Fortunes in the World War:
Grunwickby Joe RogalyISBN 0140523251 (0-14-052325-1)
Hardcover, Penguin
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Grunwick'More editions of Grunwick:
-
Hamletby William Shakespeare, Willard FarnhamISBN 0140714057 (0-14-071405-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Hamlet'Book summary:Undoubtedly the most famous of all of Shakespeare's plays, Hamlet remains one of the most enduring but also enigmatic pieces of western literature. The story of Hamlet, the young Prince of Denmark, his tortured relationship with his mother, and his quest to avenge his father's murder at the hand of his brother Claudius has fascinated writers and audiences ever since it was written around 1600.
For many years interest focused on both Hamlet's inability to avenge his father's death, claiming that "the native hue of resolution / Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought", and, according to none other than Freud, his oedipal fixation with his mother. However, more recently critics have turned their attention to Hamlet's bold theatrical self-reflexivity (most famously reflected in the performance of "The Mousetrap"), its fascination with issues of theology and Renaissance humanism, and its dense, complex poetic language. What is so remarkable about the play is the way in which it tends to uncannily reflect the concerns of different epochs. As a result, Hamlet has been at different moments defined as a romantic rebel, an angst-ridden existentialist, a paralysed intellectual and an ambivalent New Man. Whatever subsequent generations make of Hamlet, they are unlikely to exhaust the possibilities of this most extraordinary play. --Jerry Brotton [via]
-
Hard Timesby Charles Dickens, Kate FlintISBN 014143967X (0-14-143967-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Hard Times'Book summary:In the persons of Gradgrind and Bounderby, Dickens stigmatized the prevalent philosophy of utilitarianism which, whether in school or factory, allowed human beings to be caged in a dreary scenery of brick terraces and foul chimneys, to be enslaved to machines and reduced to numbers. [via]
More editions of Hard Times:
Holy Madness: Romantics, Patriots and Revolutionaries, 1776 to 1871by Adam ZamoyskiISBN 0141002239 (0-14-100223-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Holy Madness: Romantics, Patriots and Revolutionaries, 1776 to 1871'More editions of Holy Madness: Romantics, Patriots and Revolutionaries, 1776 to 1871:
-
How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New Yorkby Jacob A. Riis, Luc SanteISBN 0140436790 (0-14-043679-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York'Book summary:First published in 1890, Jacob Riis's remarkable study of the horrendous living conditions of the poor in New York City had an immediate and extraordinary impact on society, inspiring reforms that affected the lives of millions of people.[via]More editions of How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York:
-
Julius Caesarby William Shakespeare, Norman SandersISBN 0140707042 (0-14-070704-2)
Softcover, Viking Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Julius Caesar'Book summary:One of Shakespeare's most political plays, Julius Caesar continued Shakespeare's interest in Roman history, first developed in Titus Andronicus. Drawing on Plutarch, the great historian of Rome, Shakespeare dramatises one of the most crucial moments in Roman history--the assassination of Julius Caesar. Loved by the Roman crowd but increasingly feared by the Senators, Caesar increasingly shows signs of his desire to abolish the Republic and crown himself emperor. A conspiracy is hatched, led by Cassius and Brutus, who murder Caesar on the steps of the Capitol. Mourning over his dead friend's body, Mark Antony gives one of the famous rhetorical speeches in literature, asking "Friends, Romans, Countrymen" to lament Caesar's death, privately vowing to "let slip the dogs of war" against those who have shed Caesar's blood. Antony joins forces with Caesar's son Octavius to defeat Cassius and Brutus in battle, and establish an uneasy alliance whose collapse is dramatised in Shakespeare's later play Antony and Cleopatra. Written at the end of Queen Elizabeth's reign, Julius Caesar has been seen by many as a radically pro-Republican play which sailed close to the political wind of the time. --Jerry Brotton [via]
-
King Learby William Shakespeare, Stephen OrgelISBN 0140714766 (0-14-071476-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'King Lear'Book summary:King Lear stands alongside Hamlet as one of the most profound expressions of tragic drama in literature. Written between 1604 and 1605, it represents Shakespeare at the height of his dramatic power. Drawing on ancient British history, Shakespeare constructs a plot that reads like a fable in its clear-sighted but terrifying simplicity. The ageing King Lear calls his daughters, Goneril, Regan and Cordelia to witness that he wishes "to shake all cares and business from our age" and divide his kingdom between his three children. When Cordelia refuses to flatter her father with sycophantic words of love, her banishment leads to chaos and civil war as Lear's disastrous "division of the kingdom" gives free reign to the greed and ambition of his two remaining daughters.
As Lear sinks into rage and madness he is deserted by everyone except his "bitter" Fool, the loyal Kent and the exiled Cordelia. The play descends into a nighmarish theatre of cruelty and absurdity as Lear realises he has "ta'en / Too little care" of the poverty and corruption of his kingdom, and his loyal but foolish friend Gloucester has his eyes gouged out. Metaphors of monstrosity and perversions of nature structure the dramatic action, and the play's ending remains one of the most harrowing in all of Shakespeare. Many see a profound despair and nihilism in King Lear, and would agree with Kent's conclusion that "All's cheerless, dark and deadly". Other writers have identified a radical but pessimistic critique of contemporary conceptions of kingship and absolutist authority, yet it remains a remarkable tragedy of public misjudgement and intensely private grief and anguish. --Jerry Brotton [via]
More editions of King Lear:
Lawless World: The Whistle-Blowing Account of How Bush and Blair are Taking the Law into Their Own Handsby Philippe SandsISBN 014303782X (0-14-303782-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Lawless World: The Whistle-Blowing Account of How Bush and Blair are Taking the Law into Their Own Hands'More editions of Lawless World: The Whistle-Blowing Account of How Bush and Blair are Taking the Law into Their Own Hands:
-
The Life of Samuel Johnsonby James BoswellISBN 0140431160 (0-14-043116-0)
Softcover, Viking Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Life of Samuel Johnson'Book summary:James Boswell is for some the ideal scribe, for others a sycophantic toady. Edmund Wilson memorably labeled him "a vain and pushing diarist." Boswell can even be seen as someone unconsciously intent on undermining his idol in sonorous, balanced sentences. Early on in his massive Life, he puts all manner of ideas into our heads with his boobish attempts to clear the youthful Johnson of potential impropriety: "His juvenile attachments to the fair sex were, however, very transient; and it is certain that he formed no criminal connection whatsoever." And while it's often tempting to ignore Boswell's more personal intrusions and delight solely in the melancholic master's words and deeds, there are delightful admissions as, "I was at this time so occupied, shall I call it? or so dissipated, by the amusements of London that our next meeting was not till Saturday, June 25..."
Samuel Johnson was born in 1709 and died in 1784--a long life, though one marred by depression and fear of death. On April 20, 1764, for example, he declared, "I would consent to have a limb amputated to recover my spirits." Many of the quotes Boswell includes are a sort of greatest hits: Johnson's definitions of oats and lexicographer, his love for his cat Hodge, as well as thousands of bon, and mal, mots. ("Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel"; "Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hinder legs. It is not done well; but you are surprized to find it done at all.") But there are also many unfamiliar pleasures--Boswell's accounts of Johnson's literary industry, including the Dictionary, The Rambler and Lives of the Poets; Johnson's singular loathing for Scotland and France; and the surprising hints of revelry. Awakened at 3 AM by friends, he greets them with, "What, is it you, you dogs! I'll have a frisk with you." This at age 42. Johnson's final years were marked by pain and loneliness but certainly no loss of wit. [via]
More editions of The Life of Samuel Johnson:
-
Living My Lifeby Emma Goldman, Miriam BrodyISBN 0142437859 (0-14-243785-9)
Softcover, Penguin Classics
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Living My Life'Book summary:[via]Anarchist, journalist, drama critic, advocate of birth control and free love, Emma Goldman was the most famousand notoriouswoman in the early twentieth century. This abridged version of her two-volume autobiography takes her from her birthplace in czarist Russia to the socialist enclaves of Manhattans Lower East Side. Against a dramatic backdrop of political argument, show trials, imprisonment, and tempestuous romances, Goldman chronicles the epoch that she helped shape: the reform movements of the Progressive Era, the early years of and later disillusionment with Lenins Bolshevik experiment, and more. Sounding a call still heard today, Living My Life is a riveting account of political ferment and ideological turbulence.
- First time in Penguin Classics
- Condensed to half the length of Goldman's original work, this edition is accessible to those interested in the activist and her extraordinary era
More editions of Living My Life:
-
Lucky Georgeby WaldenISBN 0140282211 (0-14-028221-1)
Softcover, Penguin Uk
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Lucky George'More editions of Lucky George:
-
Macbethby William Shakespeare, Stephen OrgelISBN 0140714782 (0-14-071478-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Macbeth'Book summary:Shakespeares classic play of deception and murder is reinvented in the Japanese manga style and set on a vast ringworld encircling a sun. Artist Tony Tamais unique vision and style breathe new life into a captivating classic. [via]
-
The Man in the Iron Maskby Alexandre Dumas, Joachim Neugroschel, Francine Du Plessix GrayISBN 0140439242 (0-14-043924-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Man in the Iron Mask'Book summary:[via]In the Musketeers final adventure, DArtagnan remains in the service of the corrupt King Louis XIV after the Three Musketeers have retired and gone their separate ways. Meanwhile, a mysterious prisoner in an iron mask wastes away deep inside the Bastille. When the destinies of king and prisoner converge, the Three Musketeers and DArtagnan find themselves caught between conflicting loyalties.
More editions of The Man in the Iron Mask:
Mao Zedongby Jonathan SpenceISBN 0143037722 (0-14-303772-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Mao Zedong'More editions of Mao Zedong:
-
Mrs Dallowayby Virginia WoolfISBN 0151009988 (0-15-100998-8)
Hardcover, Harcourt
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Mrs Dalloway'Book summary:As Clarissa Dalloway walks through London on a fine June morning, a sky-writing plane captures her attention. Crowds stare upwards to decipher the message while the plane turns and loops, leaving off one letter, picking up another. Like the airplane's swooping path, Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway follows Clarissa and those whose lives brush hers--from Peter Walsh, whom she spurned years ago, to her daughter Elizabeth, the girl's angry teacher, Doris Kilman, and war-shocked Septimus Warren Smith, who is sinking into madness.
As Mrs. Dalloway prepares for the party she is giving that evening, a series of events intrudes on her composure. Her husband is invited, without her, to lunch with Lady Bruton (who, Clarissa notes anxiously, gives the most amusing luncheons). Meanwhile, Peter Walsh appears, recently from India, to criticize and confide in her. His sudden arrival evokes memories of a distant past, the choices she made then, and her wistful friendship with Sally Seton.
Woolf then explores the relationships between women and men, and between women, as Clarissa muses, "It was something central which permeated; something warm which broke up surfaces and rippled the cold contact of man and woman, or of women together.... Her relation in the old days with Sally Seton. Had not that, after all, been love?" While Clarissa is transported to past afternoons with Sally, and as she sits mending her green dress, Warren Smith catapults desperately into his delusions. Although his troubles form a tangent to Clarissa's web, they undeniably touch it, and the strands connecting all these characters draw tighter as evening deepens. As she immerses us in each inner life, Virginia Woolf offers exquisite, painful images of the past bleeding into the present, of desire overwhelmed by society's demands. --Joannie Kervran Stangeland [via]
More editions of Mrs Dalloway:
-
Mrs. Dalloway Readerby Francine ProseISBN 0151010447 (0-15-101044-7)
Hardcover, Harvest Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Mrs. Dalloway Reader'Book summary:This first volume of its kind contains the complete text of and guide to Virginia Woolf's masterpiece plus Mrs. Dalloway's Party, and numerous journal entries and letters by Virginia Woolf relating to the book's genesis and writing. The distinguished novelist Francine Prose has selected these pieces as well as essays and appreciations, critical views, and commentary by writers famous and unknown. This complete volume illuminates the creation of a beloved book and the genius of its author.[via]More editions of Mrs. Dalloway Reader:
Myra Breckinridge ; Myronby Gore VidalISBN 0141180285 (0-14-118028-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Myra Breckinridge ; Myron'More editions of Myra Breckinridge ; Myron:
-
Napoleonby Paul JohnsonISBN 0143037455 (0-14-303745-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Napoleon'Book summary:[via]In an ideal pairing of author and subject, the magisterial historian Paul Johnson offers a vivid look at the life of the strategist, general, and dictator who conquered much of Europe. Following Napoleon from the barren island of Corsica to his early training in Paris, from his meteoric victories and military dictatorship to his exile and death, Johnson examines the origins of his ferocious ambition. In Napoleon's quest for power, he sees a realist unfettered by loyalty or ideology; in his violent legacy, a model for the totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century. Napoleon is dramatic testimony to a single individual's ability to work his will on history.
More editions of Napoleon:
Necessity of Art: A Marxist Approachby Ernst FischerISBN 0140551514 (0-14-055151-4)
Softcover, Penguin USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Necessity of Art: A Marxist Approach'More editions of Necessity of Art: A Marxist Approach:
News from Nowhere and Other Writingsby William Morris, Clive WilmerISBN 0140433309 (0-14-043330-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'News from Nowhere and Other Writings'More editions of News from Nowhere and Other Writings:
-
Noli Me Tangereby Jose Rizal, Harold AugenbraumISBN 0143039695 (0-14-303969-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Noli Me Tangere'Book summary:[via]
In more than a century since its appearance, José Rizal's Noli Me Tangere has become widely known as the great novel of the Philippines. A passionate love story set against the ugly political backdrop of repression, torture, and murder, "The Noli," as it is called in the Philippines, was the first major artistic manifestation of Asian resistance to European colonialism, and Rizal became a guiding conscienceand martyrfor the revolution that would subsequently rise up in the Spanish province.
- This new translation includes an extensive introduction and notes that draw on a wealth of Rizal scholarship
- This is the first work of Filipino literature to be published in Penguin Classics
More editions of Noli Me Tangere:
-
-
Oliver Twistby Charles Dickens, Peter FaircloughISBN 0140430172 (0-14-043017-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Oliver Twist'Book summary:This fiercely comic tale stands in marked contrast to its genial predecessor, "The Pickwick Papers." Set against London's seedy back street slums, "Oliver Twist" is the saga of a workhouse orphan captured and thrust into a thieves' den, where some of Dickens's most depraved villains preside: the incorrigible Artful Dodger, the murderous bully Sikes, and the terrible Fagin, that treacherous ringleader whose grinning knavery threatens to send them all to the "ghostly gallows." Yet at the heart of this drama is the orphan Oliver, whose unsullied goodness leads him at last to salvation. In 1838 the publication of "Oliver Twist" firmly established the literary eminence of young Dickens. It was, according to Edgar Johnson, "a clarion peal announcing to the world that in Charles Dickens the rejected and forgotten and misused of the world had a champion." [via]
More editions of Oliver Twist:
-
Our Man in Havanaby Graham Greene, Christopher HitchensISBN 0142438006 (0-14-243800-6)
Softcover, Penguin Classics
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Our Man in Havana'Book summary:Graham Greene?s classic Cuban spy story, now with a new package and a new introduction[via]
First published in 1959, Our Man in Havana is an espionage thriller, a penetrating character study, and a political satire that still resonates today. Conceived as one of Graham Greene?s ?entertainments,? it tells of MI6?s man in Havana, Wormold, a former vacuum-cleaner salesman turned reluctant secret agent out of economic necessity. To keep his job, he files bogus reports based on Lamb?s Tales from Shakespeare and dreams up military installations from vacuum-cleaner designs. Then his stories start coming disturbingly true.More editions of Our Man in Havana:
The Penguin Atlas of War and Peaceby Dan SmithISBN 0142002941 (0-14-200294-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Penguin Atlas of War and Peace'More editions of The Penguin Atlas of War and Peace:
-
The Penguin Dictionary of Politicsby David RobertsonISBN 0140512764 (0-14-051276-4)
Softcover, Penguin Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Penguin Dictionary of Politics'More editions of The Penguin Dictionary of Politics:
Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grantby James M. McPherson, Ulysses S. GrantISBN 0140437010 (0-14-043701-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant'More editions of Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant:
-
Philosophical Dictionaryby Voltaire, Theodore BestermanISBN 014044257X (0-14-044257-X)
Softcover, Viking Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Philosophical Dictionary'Book summary:"Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary", first published in 1764, is a series of short, radical essays - alphabetically arranged - that form a brilliant and bitter analysis of the social and religious conventions that then dominated eighteenth-century French thought. One of the masterpieces of the Enlightenment, this enormously influential work of sardonic wit - more a collection of essays arranged alphabetically, than a conventional dictionary - considers such diverse subjects as Abraham and Atheism, Faith and Freedom of Thought, Miracles and Moses. Repeatedly condemned by civil and religious authorities, Voltaire's work argues passionately for the cause of reason and justice, and criticizes Christian theology and contemporary attitudes towards war and society - and claims, as he regards the world around him: 'common sense is not so common'. [via]
More editions of Philosophical Dictionary:
Politics and the Soviet Unionby Mary McAuleyISBN 0140809295 (0-14-080929-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Politics and the Soviet Union'More editions of Politics and the Soviet Union:
The Portable Hannah Arendtby Ed. Peter BaehrISBN 0142437565 (0-14-243756-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Portable Hannah Arendt'More editions of The Portable Hannah Arendt:
-
The Portable Sixties Readerby Ann ChartersISBN 0142001945 (0-14-200194-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Portable Sixties Reader'Book summary:[via]From civil rights to free love, JFK to LSD, Woodstock to the Moonwalk, the Sixties was a time of change, political unrest, and radical experiments in the arts, sexuality, and personal identity. In this anthology of more than one hundred selections of essays, poetry, and fiction by some of Americas most gifted writers, Ann Charters sketches the unfolding of this most turbulent decade.
The Portable Sixties Reader is organized into thematic chapters, from the Civil Rights movement to the Anti-Vietnam movement, the Free Speech movement, the Counterculture movement, drugs and the movement into Inner Space, the Beats and other fringe literary movements, the Black Arts movement, the Womens movement, and the Environmental movement. The concluding chapter, Elegies for the Sixties, offers tributes to ten figures whose livesand deathscaptured the spirit of the decade.
Contributors include:
Edward Abbey, Sherman Alexie, James Baldwin, Richard Brautigan, Lenny Bruce, Charles Bukowski, William Burroughs, Jim Carroll, Rachel Carson, Carlos Castenada, Bob Dylan, Betty Friedan, Nikki Giovanni, Michael Herr, Abbie Hoffman, Robert Hunter, Ken Kesey, Martin Luther King, Jr., Timothy Leary, Denise Levertov, Norman Mailer, Malcolm X, Country Joe McDonald, Kate Millet, Tim OBrien, Sylvia Plath, Susan Sontag, Gloria Steinem, Hunter S. Thompson, Calvin Trillin, Alice Walker, Eudora Welty and more.
More editions of The Portable Sixties Reader:
A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Manby James JoyceISBN 0140283285 (0-14-028328-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man'Book summary:[via]A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man portrays Stephen Dedaluss Dublin childhood and youth, providing an oblique self-portrait of the young James Joyce. At its center are questions of origin and source, authority and authorship, and the relationship of an artist to his family, culture, and race. Exuberantly inventive, this coming-of-age story is a tour de force of style and technique.
More editions of A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man:
-
Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy, Books IV and Vby John Stuart Mill, Donald WinchISBN 0140432604 (0-14-043260-4)
Softcover, Viking Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy, Books IV and V'Book summary:Discusses wealth, progress, the economic system, profits, the working class, government influences, taxes, national debt, and the principle of laissez-faire. [via]
More editions of Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy, Books IV and V:
- Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy, Books IV and V: ISBN 0140400176 (0-14-040017-6)
Hardcover, Penguin - Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy, Books IV and V: ISBN 0140432604 (0-14-043260-4)
Softcover, Viking Pr
- Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy, Books IV and V: ISBN 0140400176 (0-14-040017-6)
-
The Secret Historyby Procopius, G. WilliamsonISBN 0140441824 (0-14-044182-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Secret History'Book summary:A first century Byzantine historian offers portraits of the emperor Justinian, the empress Theodora, and the brilliant general Belisarius, describing the injustices of Justinian's reign. [via]
More editions of The Secret History:
-
Selected Worksby Marcus T. CiceroISBN 0140440992 (0-14-044099-2)
Softcover, Viking Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Works'Book summary:Collecting the most incisive and influential writings of one of Rome's finest orators, Cicero's "Selected Works" is translated with an introduction by Michael Grant in "Penguin Classics". Lawyer, philosopher, statesman and defender of Rome's Republic, Cicero was a master of eloquence, and his pure literary and oratorical style and strict sense of morality have been a powerful influence on European literature and thought for over two thousand years in matters of politics, philosophy, and faith. This selection demonstrates the diversity of his writings, and includes letters to friends and statesmen on Roman life and politics; the vitriolic Second Philippic Against Antony; and his two most famous philosophical treatises, "On Duties" and "On Old Age" - a celebration of his own declining years. Written at a time of brutal political and social change, Cicero's lucid ethical writings formed the foundation of the Western liberal tradition in political and moral thought that continues to this day. This translation by Michael Grant conveys the elegance of Cicero's writings. His introduction describes their social and political background, while maps, genealogical charts, timelines and a glossary place the works in context. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC), Roman orator and statesman, was born at Arpinium to a wealthy local family. Having been educated in Rome, by 70 BC he had established himself as a leading barrister and was beginning a successful political career. Cicero received honours usually reserved only for the Roman aristocracy and was one of the greatest Roman orators. If you enjoyed "Selected Works", you might like Suetonius' "The Twelve Caesars", also available in "Penguin Classics". [via]
More editions of Selected Works:
The State of War and Peace Atlasby Dan SmithISBN 0140513736 (0-14-051373-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The State of War and Peace Atlas'More editions of The State of War and Peace Atlas:
-
They Would Never Hurt A Fly: War Criminals on Trial in The Hagueby Slavenka DrakulicISBN 0143035428 (0-14-303542-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'They Would Never Hurt A Fly: War Criminals on Trial in The Hague'Book summary:[via]"Who were they? Ordinary people like you or meor monsters? asks internationally acclaimed author Slavenka Drakulic as she sets out to understand the people behind the horrific crimes committed during the war that tore apart Yugoslavia in the 1990s. Drawing on firsthand observations of the trials, as well as on other sources, Drakulic portrays some of the individuals accused of murder, rape, torture, ordering executions, and more during one of the most brutal conflicts in Europe in the twentieth century, including former Serbian president Slobodan Miloaevic; Radislav Krstic, the first to be sentenced for genocide; Biljana Plavaic, the only woman accused of war crimes; and Ratko Mladic, now in hiding. With clarity and emotion, Drakulic paints a wrenching portrait of a country needlessly torn apart.
More editions of They Would Never Hurt A Fly: War Criminals on Trial in The Hague:
-
The Thiefby Megan Whalen TurnerISBN 0140388346 (0-14-038834-6)
Softcover, Puffin
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Thief'Book summary:Because of his bragging--and his great skill at thievery--Gen lands in the King's Prison, shackled to the wall of his cell. After months of isolation, kept sane only by his sharp intelligence, Gen is released by none other than the King's Scholar, the Magus, who believes he knows the site of an ancient treasure. The Magus needs the best thief in the land to help him steal it, and that thief is Gen. To the Magus, Gen is simply a tool. But Gen is a survivor and a trickster--and he has ideas of his own. A tantalizing, suspenseful, exceptionally clever novel.The author's characterization of Gen is simply superb.The Thief is even more fun to re-read. --The Horn Book, starred review To miss this thief's story would be a crime. --Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, starred review [via]
More editions of The Thief:
The Third Side: Why We Fight and How We Can Stopby William UryISBN 0140296344 (0-14-029634-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Third Side: Why We Fight and How We Can Stop'More editions of The Third Side: Why We Fight and How We Can Stop:
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarkby William Shakespeare, G. B. HarrisonISBN 0140701028 (0-14-070102-8)
Hardcover, Penguin
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark'More editions of The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark:
-
The Tragedy of Julius Caesarby William Shakespeare, William MontgomeryISBN 0140714685 (0-14-071468-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tragedy of Julius Caesar'Book summary:One of Shakespeare's most political plays, Julius Caesar continued Shakespeare's interest in Roman history, first developed in Titus Andronicus. Drawing on Plutarch, the great historian of Rome, Shakespeare dramatises one of the most crucial moments in Roman history--the assassination of Julius Caesar. Loved by the Roman crowd but increasingly feared by the Senators, Caesar increasingly shows signs of his desire to abolish the Republic and crown himself emperor. A conspiracy is hatched, led by Cassius and Brutus, who murder Caesar on the steps of the Capitol. Mourning over his dead friend's body, Mark Antony gives one of the famous rhetorical speeches in literature, asking "Friends, Romans, Countrymen" to lament Caesar's death, privately vowing to "let slip the dogs of war" against those who have shed Caesar's blood. Antony joins forces with Caesar's son Octavius to defeat Cassius and Brutus in battle, and establish an uneasy alliance whose collapse is dramatised in Shakespeare's later play Antony and Cleopatra. Written at the end of Queen Elizabeth's reign, Julius Caesar has been seen by many as a radically pro-Republican play which sailed close to the political wind of the time. --Jerry Brotton [via]
More editions of The Tragedy of Julius Caesar:
-
The Tragical History of Hamlet Prince of Denmarkby William Shakespeare, A. R. BraunmullerISBN 0140714545 (0-14-071454-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tragical History of Hamlet Prince of Denmark'Book summary:Undoubtedly the most famous of all of Shakespeare's plays, Hamlet remains one of the most enduring but also enigmatic pieces of western literature. The story of Hamlet, the young Prince of Denmark, his tortured relationship with his mother, and his quest to avenge his father's murder at the hand of his brother Claudius has fascinated writers and audiences ever since it was written around 1600.
For many years interest focused on both Hamlet's inability to avenge his father's death, claiming that "the native hue of resolution / Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought", and, according to none other than Freud, his oedipal fixation with his mother. However, more recently critics have turned their attention to Hamlet's bold theatrical self-reflexivity (most famously reflected in the performance of "The Mousetrap"), its fascination with issues of theology and Renaissance humanism, and its dense, complex poetic language. What is so remarkable about the play is the way in which it tends to uncannily reflect the concerns of different epochs. As a result, Hamlet has been at different moments defined as a romantic rebel, an angst-ridden existentialist, a paralysed intellectual and an ambivalent New Man. Whatever subsequent generations make of Hamlet, they are unlikely to exhaust the possibilities of this most extraordinary play. --Jerry Brotton [via]
More editions of The Tragical History of Hamlet Prince of Denmark:
Under Western Eyes: Library Editionby Joseph Conrad, Boris FordISBN 0140432434 (0-14-043243-4)
Softcover, Penguin Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Under Western Eyes: Library Edition'More editions of Under Western Eyes: Library Edition:
Up from Slavery: An Autobiographyby Booker T. WashingtonISBN 0140390510 (0-14-039051-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Up from Slavery: An Autobiography'More editions of Up from Slavery: An Autobiography:
-
Utopiaby Paul Turner, Thomas MoreISBN 0140441654 (0-14-044165-4)
Softcover, Penguin USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Utopia'Book summary:Sir Thomas More's entertaining description of Utopia, an island supporting a perfectly organized and happy people, was a best-seller when it first appeared in Latin in 1516. This work of a Catholic martyr has later been seen as the source of Ana-baptism, Mormonism, and even communism. Utopia revolutionized Plato's classical blueprint of the perfect republic, mainly by its realism. Locating his island in the (then) New World, More endowed it with a language and poetry, and detailed the length of the working day and even the divorce laws. Such precision gives a disturbing and exciting impact to Utopia, which still remains a book of the future. [via]
More editions of Utopia:
-
Wanderlust: A History of Walkingby Rebecca SolnitISBN 0140286012 (0-14-028601-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Wanderlust: A History of Walking'Book summary:The ability to walk on two legs over long distances distinguishes Homo sapiens from other primates, and indeed from every other species on earth. That ability has also yielded some of the best creative work of our species: the lyrical ballads of the English romantic poets, composed on long walks over hill and dale; the speculations of the peripatetic philosophers; the meditations of footloose Chinese and Japanese poets; the exhortations of Henry David Thoreau and Walt Whitman.
Rebecca Solnit, a thoughtful writer and spirited walker, takes her readers on a leisurely journey through the prehistory, history, and natural history of bipedal motion. Walking, she observes, affords its practitioners an immediate reward--the ability to observe the world at a relaxed gait, one that allows us to take in sights, sounds, and smells that we might otherwise pass by. It provides a vehicle for much-needed solitude and private thought. For the health-minded, walking affords a low-impact and usually pleasant way of shedding a few pounds and stretching a few muscles. It is an essential part of the human adventure--and one that has, until now, been too little documented.
Written in a time when landscapes and cities alike are designed to accommodate automobiles and not pedestrians, Solnit's extraordinary book is an enticement to lace up shoes and set out on an aimless, meditative stroll of one's own. --Gregory McNamee [via]
More editions of Wanderlust: A History of Walking:
-
War and Peaceby Leo TolstoyISBN 0140444173 (0-14-044417-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'War and Peace'Book summary:Set against the sweeping panoply of Napoleon's invasion of Russia, War and Peacepresented here in the first new English translation in forty yearsis often considered the greatest novel ever written. At its center are Pierre Bezukhov, searching for meaning in his life; cynical Prince Andrei, ennobled by wartime suffering; and Natasha Rostov, whose impulsiveness threatens to destroy her happiness. As Tolstoy follows the changing fortunes of his characters, he crafts a view of humanity that is both epic and intimate and that continues to define fiction at its most resplendent.[via]
* Includes an introduction, note on the translation, cast of characters, maps, notes on the major battles depicted, and chapter summaries
"The best translation so far of Tolstoy's masterpiece into English."
-Robert A. Maguire, professor emeritus of Russian studies, Columbia University
"In Tolstoy's work part of the translator's difficulty lies in conveying not only the simplicity but the subtlety of the book's scale and effect. . . . Briggs has rendered both with a particular exactness and a vigorous precision not to be found, I think, in any previous translation."
-John Bayley, author of Elegy for Iris
-
The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Goodby William EasterlyISBN 0143038826 (0-14-303882-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good'Book summary:The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So M... [via]
More editions of The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good:
-
White Noiseby Don DelilloISBN 0140283307 (0-14-028330-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'White Noise'Book summary:Something is amiss in a small college town in Middle America. Something subliminal, something omnipresent, something hard to put your finger on. For example, teachers and students at the grade school are falling mysteriously ill:
Investigators said it could be the ventilating system, the paint or varnish, the foam insulation, the electrical insulation, the cafeteria food, the rays emitted by microcomputers, the asbestos fireproofing, the adhesive on shipping containers, the fumes from the chlorinated pool, or perhaps something deeper, finer-grained, more closely woven into the fabric of things.
J.A.K. Gladney, world-renowned as the living center, the absolute font, of Hitler Studies in North America in the mid-1980s, describes the malaise affecting his town in a superbly ironic and detached manner. But even he fails to mask his disquiet. There is menace in the air, and ultimately it is made manifest: a poisonous cloud--an "airborne toxic event"--unleashed by an industrial accident floats over the town, requiring evacuation. In the aftermath, as the residents adjust to new and blazingly brilliant sunsets, Gladney and his family must confront their own poses, night terrors, self-deceptions, and secrets.DeLillo is at his dark, hilarious best in this 1985 National Book Award winner, a novel that preceded but anticipated the explosion of the Internet, tabloid television, and the dialed-in, wired-up, endlessly accelerated tenor of the culture we live in. He doesn't just describe life in a hypermediated society, he re-creates it. His characters repeat phrases, information, and rumor gleaned from television, radio, and other media sources like people speaking in code. And DeLillo has seeded the book with short gemlike episodes that demand to be read aloud, and that haunt the imagination years after their first reading: a visit to the Most Photographed Barn in America. A plane that nearly falls out of the sky. An hour in a classroom, canonizing Elvis. These vignettes are vivid and unique, yet, like the phrases from television shows that interject themselves, out of context, into Gladney's consciousness, they are strangely unconnected to one another--reflections of the lives DeLillo is showing us we lead. --Jan Bultmann [via]
William Hazlitt Selected Writingsby Ronald BlytheISBN 0140430504 (0-14-043050-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'William Hazlitt Selected Writings'More editions of William Hazlitt Selected Writings:
Results page: PREV 1-100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201-300 301-344 NEXT
![[powered by Muze Inc.]](http://i.bookfinder.com/images/site/muze/powered_by_muze.gif){kind=small}