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Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girlby Anne Frank, Eleanor Roosevelt, B. M. Mooyaart-DoubledayISBN 0553296981 (0-553-29698-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl'Book summary:A beloved classic since its initial publication in 1947, this vivid, insightful journal is a fitting memorial to the gifted Jewish teenager who died at Bergen-Belsen, Germany, in 1945. Born in 1929, Anne Frank received a blank diary on her 13th birthday, just weeks before she and her family went into hiding in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam. Her marvelously detailed, engagingly personal entries chronicle 25 trying months of claustrophobic, quarrelsome intimacy with her parents, sister, a second family, and a middle-aged dentist who has little tolerance for Anne's vivacity. The diary's universal appeal stems from its riveting blend of the grubby particulars of life during wartime (scant, bad food; shabby, outgrown clothes that can't be replaced; constant fear of discovery) and candid discussion of emotions familiar to every adolescent (everyone criticizes me, no one sees my real nature, when will I be loved?). Yet Frank was no ordinary teen: the later entries reveal a sense of compassion and a spiritual depth remarkable in a girl barely 15. Her death epitomizes the madness of the Holocaust, but for the millions who meet Anne through her diary, it is also a very individual loss. --Wendy Smith [via]
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Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics, Books Ii--ivby Aristotle, Roger CrispISBN 0521635462 (0-521-63546-2)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics, Books Ii--iv'Book summary:Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, based on lectures that he gave in Athens in the fourth century BCE, is one of the most significant works in moral philosophy, and has profoundly influenced the whole course of subsequent philosophical endeavor. Topics covered include the role of luck in human wellbeing, responsibility, courage, justice, friendship and pleasure. This accessible new translation follows the Greek text closely and also provides a non-Greek reader with something of the flavor of the original. The volume also includes a historical and philosophical introduction and notes on further reading. [via]
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Aristotle: Politicsby Aristotle, Stephen EversonISBN 0521357314 (0-521-35731-4)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aristotle: Politics'Book summary:This new edition of The Politics provides students with an unusually lucid and accessible account of this complex, difficult and enormously influential work. It is based on Jonathan Barnes' revision of the renowned Jowett translation, and includes detailed note, a guide to further reading and a chronology of the principal events in Aristotle's life. In his introduction Stephen Everson tackles those problems most likely to hamper students in understanding The Politics. Aristotle's political theory is closely related to claims and types of explanations which he uses and justifies elsewhere in his works, and so one of Everson's main purposes is to show how Aristotle's arguments can best be grasped through an understanding of what he has to say in The Physics about nature and in the The Ethics about human flourishing. [via]
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Art in Theory 1900-2000: An Anthology of Changing Ideasby Charles Harrison, Paul WoodISBN 0631227083 (0-631-22708-3)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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Augustine: Earlier Writingsby Augustinus, Aurelius, Saint, Bp. of HippoISBN 066424162X (0-664-24162-X)
Softcover, Presbyterian Pub Corp
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklinby Benjamin Franklin, Lewis LearyISBN 0613124731 (0-613-12473-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin'Book summary:This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. [via]
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Bacchae: Euripidesby Euripides, David Franklin, John Harrison, Judith AffleckISBN 052165372X (0-521-65372-X)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Beowulf and Other Old English Poemsby Constance R. HieattISBN 0553213474 (0-553-21347-4)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beowulf and Other Old English Poems'Book summary:Unique and beautiful, Beowulf brings to life a society of violence and honor, fierce warriors and bloody battles, deadly monsters and famous swords. Written by an unknown poet in about the eighth century, this masterpiece of Anglo-Saxton literature transforms legends, myth, history, and ancient songs into the richly colored tale of the hero Beowulf, the loathsome man-eater Grendel, his vengeful water-hag mother, and a treasure-hoarding dragon. The earliest surviving epic poem in any modern European language. Beowulf is a stirring portrait of a heroic worldsomber, vast, and magnificent. [via]
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Berlioz Rememberedby Michael RoseISBN 0571178634 (0-571-17863-4)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Beyond Good and Evilby Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Rolf-Peter Horstmann, Judith NormanISBN 0521779138 (0-521-77913-8)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beyond Good and Evil'Book summary:This is a major work by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, whose writings have been deeply influential on subsequent generations of philosophers. It is offered here in a new translation by Judith Norman, with an introduction by Rolf Peter Horstmann that places the work in its historical and philosophical context. [via]
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The Black Deathby Elizabeth A. LehfeldtISBN 0618463429 (0-618-46342-9)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Black Death'Book summary:New to the Problems in European Civilization series, this is the only text to contain secondary sources on the Black Death. Organized by cultural, municipal, and medical reaction to the disease, the essays are preceded by helpful introductions to provide students with a context for each source. The text features the latest in scholarship and a flexible format that allows instructors to assign those essays and sections that best suit course needs. [via]
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Blacks in Bondageby Robert S. StarobinISBN 0531064972 (0-531-06497-2)
Softcover, Scholastic Library Pub
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The Brothers Karamazov: Library Editionby Fyodor DostoevskyISBN 0553212168 (0-553-21216-8)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Brothers Karamazov: Library Edition'Book summary:In 1880 Dostoevsky completed The Brothers Karamazov, the literary effort for which he had been preparing all his life. Compelling, profound, complex, it is the story of a patricide and of the four sons who each had a motive for murder: Dmitry, the sensualist, Ivan, the intellectual; Alyosha, the mystic; and twisted, cunning Smerdyakov, the bastard child. Frequently lurid, nightmarish, always brilliant, the novel plunges the reader into a sordid love triangle, a pathological obsession, and a gripping courtroom drama. But throughout the whole, Dostoevsky searhes for the truth--about man, about life, about the existence of God. A terrifying answer to man's eternal questions, this monumental work remains the crowning achievement of perhaps the finest novelist of all time. [via]
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Canterbury Talesby Geoffrey Chaucer, Geraldine McCaughreanISBN 0528826735 (0-528-82673-5)
Hardcover, Checkerboard Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Canterbury Tales'Book summary:They set off on an April morning with the rain dripping from the branches. Even with the rain, they were glad to be on their way--priests, nuns, tradesmen, men from the city, all pilgrims on the road to Canterbury.
To pass the long journey they told each other stories: of magic and trickery, of animals with blazing eyes, of people with their pants on fire, of two thousand men battling before smoking walls, stories of love and death and the devil. There were written down by Geoffrey Chaucer, and he called them The Canterbury Tales.
Geraldine McCaughrean retells The Canterbury Tales for children in a lively and humorous style which captures the original flair of Chaucer himself. She introduces us to the characters who told these tales: the shy, battle-hardened Knight, the Summoner whose breath smells of onions, the angry Miller with his read beard, and the Widow of Bath who likes a happy ending.
The stories and the characters are vividly brought to life by Victor Ambrus, with pictures of wild chases, exciting battles, and the April countryside through which the pilgrims travel. [via]More editions of Canterbury Tales:
Capitalism, Socialisby J. SchumpeterISBN 0613913434 (0-613-91343-4)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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Catullus:the Complete Poems for American Readers: The Complete Poems for American Readersby Gaius Valerius Catullus, Reney Myers, Robert J. OrmsbyISBN 0525078150 (0-525-07815-0)
Hardcover, Dutton
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Chaucer: The Canterbury Talesby Steve EllisISBN 0582248817 (0-582-24881-7)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales'Book summary:This new addition to the Longman Critical Readers Series provides an overview of the various ways in which modern critical theory has influenced Chaucer Studies over the last fifteen years. There is still a sense in the academic world, and in the wider literary community, that Medieval Studies are generally impervious to many of the questions that modern theory asks, and that it concerns itself only with traditional philological and historical issues. On the contrary, this book shows how Chaucer, specifically the Canterbury Tales, has been radically and excitingly 'opened up' by feminist, Lacanian, Bakhtinian, deconstructive, semiotic and anthropological theories to name but a few.
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The book provides an introduction to these new developments by anthologising some of the most important work in the field, including excerpts from book-length works, as well as articles from leading and innovative journals. The introduction to the volume examines in some detail the relation between the individual strengths of each of the above approaches and the ways in which a 'postmodernist' Chaucer is seen as reflecting them all.
This convenient single volume collection of key critical analyses of Chaucer, which includes work from some journals and studies that are not always easily available, will be indispensable to students of Medieval Studies, Medieval Literature and Chaucer, as well as to general readers who seek to widen their understanding of the forces behind Chaucer's writing.
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A Choice of Anglo-Saxon Verseby Richard HamerISBN 0571087655 (0-571-08765-5)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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City of Godby AugustineISBN 0606310711 (0-606-31071-1)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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The City of God Against the Pagansby R.W. Dyson, AugustineISBN 0521468434 (0-521-46843-4)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The City of God Against the Pagans'Book summary:This is the first new rendition for a generation of The City of God, the first major intellectual achievement of Latin Christianity and one of the classic texts of Western civilization. Robert Dyson has produced a complete, accurate, authoritative and fluent translation of De Civitate Dei, edited together with full biographical notes, a concise introduction, bibliography and chronology of Augustine's life. The result is an important contribution of interest to students of theology, philosophy, ecclesiastical history, the history of political thought and late antiquity. [via]
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Common Sense: Library Editionby Thomas Paine, Diana GabaldonISBN 0553214659 (0-553-21465-9)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Common Sense: Library Edition'Book summary:"These are the times that try men's souls," begins Thomas Paine's first Crisis paper, the impassioned pamphlet that helped ignite the American Revolution. Published in Philadelphia in January of 1776, Common Sense sold 150,000 copies almost immediately. A powerful piece of propaganda, it attacked the idea of a hereditary monarchy, dismissed the chance for reconciliation with England, and outlined the economic benefits of independence while espousing equality of rights among citizens. Paine fanned a flame that was already burning, but many historians argue that his work unified dissenting voices and persuaded patriots that the American Revolution was not only necessary, but an epochal step in world history. [via]
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Contingency, Irony and Solidarityby Richard RortyISBN 0521367816 (0-521-36781-6)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Contingency, Irony and Solidarity'Book summary:In this book, major American philosopher Richard Rorty argues that thinkers such as Nietzsche, Freud, and Wittgenstein have enabled societies to see themselves as historical contingencies, rather than as expressions of underlying, ahistorical human nature, or as realizations of suprahistorical goals. This ironic perspective on the human condition is valuable but it cannot advance Liberalism's social and political goals. In fact, Rorty believes that it is literature and not philosophy that can do this, by promoting a genuine sense of human solidarity. Specifically, it is novelists such as Orwell and Nabokov who succeed in awakening us to the cruelty of particular social practices and individual attitudes. Thus, a truly liberal culture would fuse the private, individual freedom of the ironic, philosophical perspective with the public project of human solidarity as it is engendered through the insights and sensibilities of great writers. Rorty uses a wide range of references--from philosophy to social theory to literary criticism--to elucidate his beliefs. [via]
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Critique of the Power of Judgmentby Immanuel Kant, Paul Guyer, Eric MatthewsISBN 0521348927 (0-521-34892-7)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Critique of the Power of Judgment'Book summary:This entirely new translation of Kant's Critique of the Power of Judgment follows the principles and high standards of all other volumes in The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant. This volume includes for the first time the first draft of Kant's introduction to the work; the only English edition notes to the many differences between the first (1790) and second (1793) editions of the work; and relevant passages in Kant's anthropology lectures where he elaborated on his aesthetic views. [via]
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Culture and Anarchy and Other Writingsby Matthew Arnold, Stefan ColliniISBN 052137796X (0-521-37796-X)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Culture and Anarchy and Other Writings'Book summary:Matthew Arnold's Culture and Anarchy (1869), is one of the most celebrated works of social criticism ever written. It has become a reference point for all subsequent discussion of the relations between politics and culture. This edition establishes the authoritative text of this much-revised work, and places it alongside Arnold's three most important essays on political subjects. The introduction sets these works in the context of nineteenth-century intellectual and political history. This edition also contains a chronology of Arnold's life, a bibliographical guide and full notes on the names and historical events mentioned in the texts. [via]
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The Dialogues of Platoby PlatoISBN 0553213717 (0-553-21371-7)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dialogues of Plato'Book summary:Socrates' ancient words are still true, and the ideas found in Plato's Dialogues still form the foundation of a thinking person's education. This superb collection contains excellent contemporary translations selected for their clarity and accessibility to today's reader, as well as an incisive introduction by Erich Segal, which reveals Plato's life and clarifies the philosophical issues examined in each dialogue. The first four dialogues recount the trial and execution of Socrates-the extraordinary tragedy that changed Plato's life and forever altered the course of Western thought. Other dialogues create a rich tableau of intellectual life in Athens in the fourth century b.c., and examine such timeless-and timely-issues as the nature of virtue and love, knowledge and truth, society and the individual. Resounding with the humor and astounding brilliance of Socrates, the immortal iconoclast, these great works remain powerful, probing, and essential. [via]
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The Diary of a Young Girlby Anne FrankISBN 0553577123 (0-553-57712-3)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition'Book summary:Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl is among the most enduring documents of the twentieth century. Since its publication in 1947, it has been read by tens of millions of people all over the world. It remains a beloved and deeply admired testament to the indestructible nature of the human spirit. Restored in this Definitive Edition are diary entries that were omitted from the original edition. These passages, which constitute 30 percent more material, reinforce the fact that Anne was first and foremost a teenage girl, not a remote and flawless symbol. She fretted about and tried to cope with her own sexuality. Like many young girls, she often found herself in disagreements with her mother. And like any teenager, she veered between the carefree nature of a child and the full-fledged sorrow of an adult. Anne emerges more human, more vulnerable and more vital than ever. Anne Frank and her family, fleeing the horrors of Nazi occupation, hid in the back of an Amsterdam warehouse for two years. She was thirteen when she went into the Secret Annex with her family. [via]
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A Dictionary of the English LanguageISBN 0582073804 (0-582-07380-4)
Hardcover, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd
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The Divine Comedy: Text With Translation in the Metre of the Original by Geoffrey L. Bickerstethby Geoffrey BickerstethISBN 063112926X (0-631-12926-X)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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Don Quixoteby Michael BurganISBN 0613048709 (0-613-04870-9)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Don Quixote'Book summary:This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. [via]
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Don Quixoteby Michael HarrisonISBN 0613214528 (0-613-21452-8)
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An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. And Other Writingsby Stephen BuckleISBN 0521604036 (0-521-60403-6)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. And Other Writings'Book summary:David Hume's An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, first published in 1748, is a concise statement of Hume's central philosophical positions. It develops an account of human mental functioning which emphasizes the limits of human knowledge and the extent of our reliance on (non-rational) mental habits. It then applies that account to questions of free will and religious knowledge before closing with a defence of moderate scepticism. This volume, which presents a modified version of the definitive 1772 edition of the work, offers helpful annotation for the student reader, together with an introduction that sets this profoundly influential work in its philosophical and historical contexts. The volume also includes a selection of other works by Hume that throw light on both the circumstances of the work's genesis and its key themes and arguments. [via]
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Faust, Part Iby Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheISBN 0553213482 (0-553-21348-2)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Faust, Part I'Book summary:Goethes masterpiece and perhaps the greatest work in German literature, Faust has made the legendary German alchemist one of the central myths of the Western world. Here indeed is a monumental Faust, an audacious man boldly wagering with the devil, Mephistopheles, that no magic, sensuality, experience, or knowledge can lead him to a moment he would wish to last forever. Here, in Faust, Part I, the tremendous versatility of Goethes genius creates some of the most beautiful passages in literature. Here too we experience Goethes characteristic humor, the excitement and eroticism of the witches Walpurgis Night, and the moving emotion of Gretchens tragic fate.
This authoritative edition, which offers Peter Salms wonderfully readable translation as well as the original German on facing pages, brings us Faust in a vital, rhythmic American idiom that carefully preserves the grandeur, integrity, and poetic immediacy of Goethes words. [via]More editions of Faust, Part I:
Faust/Bilingualby Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheISBN 055321182X (0-553-21182-X)
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The Gallery of Regrettable Foodby James LileksISBN 0609607820 (0-609-60782-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gallery of Regrettable Food'Book summary:WARNING:
This is not a cookbook. You'll find no tongue-tempting treats within -- unless, of course, you consider Boiled Cow Elbow with Plaid Sauce to be your idea of a tasty meal. No, The Gallery of Regrettable Food is a public service. Learn to identify these dishes. Learn to regard shivering liver molds with suspicion. Learn why curries are a Communist plot to undermine decent, honest American spices. Learn to heed the advice of stern, fictional nutritionists. If you see any of these dishes, please alert the authorities.
Now, the good news: laboratory tests prove that The Gallery of Regrettable Food AMUSES as well as informs. Four out of five doctors recommend this book for its GENEROUS PORTIONS OF HILARITY and ghastly pictures from RETRO COOKBOOKS. You too will look at these products of post-war cuisine and ask: "WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?" It's an affectionate look at the days when starch ruled, pepper was a dangerous spice, and Stuffed Meat with Meat Sauce was considered health food.
Bon appetit!
The Gallery of Regrettable Food is a simple introduction to poorly photographed foodstuffs and horrid recipes from the Golden Age of Salt and Starch. It's a wonder anyone in the 1940s, '50s, and '60s gained any weight. It isn't that the food was inedible; it was merely dull. Everything was geared toward a timid palate fearful of spice. It wasn't nonnutritious -- no, between the limp boiled vegetables, fat-choked meat cylinders, and pink whipped Jell-O desserts, you were bound to find a few calories that would drag you into the next day. It's just that the pictures are so hideously unappealing.
Author James Lileks has made it his life's work to unearth the worst recipes and food photography from that bygone era and assemble them with hilarious, acerbic commentary: "This is not meat. This is something they scraped out of the air filter from the engines of the Exxon Valdez." It all started when he went home to Fargo and found an ancient recipe book in his mom's cupboard: Specialties of the House, from the North Dakota State Wheat Commission. He never looked back. Now, they're not really recipe books. They're ads for food companies, with every recipe using the company's products, often in unexpected and horrifying ways. There's not a single appetizing dish in the entire collection.
The pictures in the book are ghastly -- the Italian dishes look like a surgeon had a sneezing fit during an operation, and the queasy casseroles look like something on which the janitor dumps sawdust. But you have to enjoy the spirit behind the books -- cheerful postwar perfect housewifery, and folks with the guts to undertake such culinary experiments as stuffing cabbage with hamburger, creating the perfect tongue mousse when you have the fellas over for a pregame nosh, or, best of all, baking peppers with a creamy marshmallow sauce. Alas, too many of these dishes bring back scary childhood memories. [via]More editions of The Gallery of Regrettable Food:
Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empireby Edward Gibbon, Rosemary WilliamsISBN 0528810146 (0-528-81014-6)
Hardcover, Rand McNally
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Gulliver's Storiesby Jonathan SwiftISBN 0590418424 (0-590-41842-4)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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Gulliver's Travelsby Jonathan SwiftISBN 0582426626 (0-582-42662-6)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd
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Gulliver's Travelsby James RiordanISBN 0613216563 (0-613-21656-3)
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Gulliver's Travels and Other Writingsby Jonathan SwiftISBN 055321232X (0-553-21232-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gulliver's Travels and Other Writings'Book summary:Considered one of English literature's first and greatest satirists, Jonathan Swift possessed a timeless genius for pointing out the foibles of human nature that still has the power to provoke, amuse, and, at times, even outrage our modern sensibilities. This representative collection of Swift's major writings includes the complete Gulliver's Travels as well as A Tale of a Tub, "The Battle of the Books," "A Modest Proposal," "An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity," "The Bickerstaff Papers," and many more of his brilliantly satirical works. Here too are selections from Swift's poetry and portions of his Journal to Stella. Swift's savage ridicule, corrosive wit, and sparkling humor are fully displayed in this comprehensive collection. [via]
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The Human Record: Sources of Global Historyby Alfred J. Andrea, James H. OverfieldISBN 0618042474 (0-618-04247-4)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Kingsford's Stonor Letters and Papers, 1290-1483by Christine CarpenterISBN 0521555868 (0-521-55586-8)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press
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The Letters of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochesterby Jeremy Treglown, Rochester, John Wilmot, 2d Earl OfISBN 063112831X (0-631-12831-X)
Hardcover, B. Blackwell
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Leviathanby Thomas Hobbes, Richard TuckISBN 0521567971 (0-521-56797-1)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Leviathan'Book summary:S. A. Lloyd proposes a radically distinct interpretation of Hobbes's Leviathan that shows transcendent interests - interests that override the fear of death - to be crucial to both Hobbes's analysis of social disorder and his proposed remedy to it. Most previous commentators in the analytic philosophical tradition have argued that Hobbes thought that credible threats of physical force could be sufficient to deter people from political insurrection. Professor Lloyd convincingly shows that because Hobbes took the transcendence of religious and moral interests seriously, he never believed that mere physical force could ensure social order. Lloyd's interpretation demonstrates the ineliminability of that half of Leviathan devoted to religion, and attributes to Hobbes a much more plausible conception of human nature than the narrow psychological egoism traditionally attributed to Hobbes. [via]
Leviathanby Richard TuckISBN 0521394929 (0-521-39492-9)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa the Africanby Olaudah Equiano, Paul EdwardsISBN 0582030706 (0-582-03070-6)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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Major Problems in American Women's History: Documents and Essaysby Mary Beth Norton, Ruth M. AlexanderISBN 0618719180 (0-618-71918-0)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Major Problems in American Women's History: Documents and Essaysby Ruth M. Alexander, Mary Beth NortonISBN 0618122192 (0-618-12219-2)
Softcover, D C Heath & Co
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Major Problems in the History of Imperial Russiaby James CracraftISBN 0618129278 (0-618-12927-8)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Major Problems in the History of the Vietnam War: Documents and Essaysby Robert J. McMahonISBN 061819312X (0-618-19312-X)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin Company
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Medieval Russia's Epics, Chronicles, and Talesby Serge A. ZenkovskyISBN 0525473637 (0-525-47363-7)
Hardcover, Dutton
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Moby Dickby Herman MelvilleISBN 0553213113 (0-553-21311-3)
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Modern American Women: A Documentary Historyby Susan WareISBN 0534110193 (0-534-11019-3)
Softcover, Cengage Learning
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Nietzsche: The Gay Scienceby Bernard Williams, Adrian Del Caro, Josefine NauckhoffISBN 0521636450 (0-521-63645-0)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The Oresteiaby AeschylusISBN 055321070X (0-553-21070-X)
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Translated by E. D. A. Morshead
The Oresteia (458 BC):
Agamemnon Translated by E. D. A. Morshead
The Libation Bearers (also known as Choephoroi) Translated by E. D. A. Morshead
The Eumenides (also known as The Furies) Translated by E. D. A. MorsheadThe Oresteia is a trilogy of Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus which concerns the end of the curse on the House of Atreus. Though originally written as tetralogy, it is the only surviving example of a trilogy of ancient Greek plays; the fourth play, Proteus, a satyr play that would have been performed as finale, has not survived. The Oresteia was originally performed at the Dionysia festival in Athens in 458 BC, where it won first prize. Overall, this trilogy emblemizes the shift from a monarchal system of vendetta in Argos to a democratic system of litigation in Athens.
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The Paradisoby Dante AlighieriISBN 0553212044 (0-553-21204-4)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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Past Speaks: Sources and Problems in English Historyby Smith, Jean Reeder SmithISBN 0669246018 (0-669-24601-8)
Softcover, D C Heath & Co
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Perspectives on American Politicsby William LasserISBN 0618312005 (0-618-31200-5)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Plutarch's Lives: The Dryden Translationby Plutarch, Arthur Hugh Clough, John DrydenISBN 0553585959 (0-553-58595-9)
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Politicsby Aristotle, Stephen EversonISBN 0521354498 (0-521-35449-8)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Rise and Fall of the Third Reichby William L. ShirerISBN 0606030387 (0-606-03038-7)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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Sophocles Ajaxby Sophocles, Shormit DuttaISBN 0521655641 (0-521-65564-1)
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The Souls of Black Folkby W. E. B. Du BoisISBN 0553213369 (0-553-21336-9)
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Sources of the Western Tradition: From the Scientific Revolution Ot the Presentby Marvin Perry, Theodore H. Von Laue, Joseph R. PedenISBN 0618162283 (0-618-16228-3)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Ten Plays by Euripidesby EuripidesISBN 0553213636 (0-553-21363-6)
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Tom Jonesby Henry Fielding, Janet McAlpinISBN 0582364140 (0-582-36414-0)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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Two Treatises of Governmentby John Locke, Peter LaslettISBN 0521357306 (0-521-35730-6)
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Uncle Tom's Cabinby Harriet Beecher StoweISBN 0534521983 (0-534-52198-3)
Softcover, Wadsworth Pub Co
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Vanity Fairby William Makepeace ThackeryISBN 0553214624 (0-553-21462-4)
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Walden and Civil Disobedienceby Henry David ThoreauISBN 0534522068 (0-534-52206-8)
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The Way We Lived: Essays and Documents in American Social Historyby David M. Reimers, Frederick M. BinderISBN 0669090301 (0-669-09030-1)
Softcover, D.C. Heath
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The Way We Lived Vol. I : Essays and Documents in American Social Historyby Frederick M. Binder, David M. ReimersISBN 0618305858 (0-618-30585-8)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin Company
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Winnie-The-Pooh Calendar 2005: Includes more than 50 full-color stickersby A. A. Milne, Ernest H. ShepardISBN 0525472797 (0-525-47279-7)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Winnie-The-Pooh's 2004 Calendarby Serge A. ZenkovskyISBN 0525483667 (0-525-48366-7)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Words That Built a Nation : A Young Person's Collection of Historic American Documentsby Marilyn MillerISBN 059029881X (0-590-29881-X)
Softcover, Scholastic Canada, Limited
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LA Chanson De Rolandby F. WhiteheadISBN 0631003908 (0-631-00390-8)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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