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Abraham Lincoln: His Speeches and Writingsby Roy P. BaslerISBN 0306804042 (0-306-80404-2)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Abraham Lincoln: His Speeches and Writings'Book summary:This volume presents nearly 250 of Lincoln's most important speeches, state papers, and letters in their entirety. Here are not only the masterpieces the Gettysburg Address, the Inaugural Addresses, the 1858 Republican Convention Speech, the Emancipation Proclamation but hundreds of lesser-known gems. Alfred Kazin has written that Lincoln was "not just the greatest writer among our Presidents . . . but the most telling and unforgettable of all American 'public' writer-speakers," and it s never been cleaner than in this comprehensive edition.[via]More editions of Abraham Lincoln: His Speeches and Writings:
The Adventures of Don Quixote De La Manchaby Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra, Tobias George SmollettISBN 0374142327 (0-374-14232-7)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus, Giroux
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The Age of McCarthyismby SchrickerISBN 0312083491 (0-312-08349-1)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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The Age of McCarthyism: A Brief History With Documentsby Ellen SchreckerISBN 0312393199 (0-312-39319-9)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Age of McCarthyism: A Brief History With Documents'Book summary:Incorporating important recent scholarship, this popular supplement combines a comprehensive essay on the history of McCarthyism with compelling documents that trace the course of anti-Communist furor in the U.S. The volumes 95-page essay follows the campaign against domestic subversion from its origins in the 1930s through its escalation in the 1940s to its decline in the 1950s. The second part includes over 47 original documents (including 6 new sources) congressional transcripts, FBI reports, speeches, and letters that chronicle the anti-Communist crusade. The essay and documents have been thoroughly updated to reflect new scholarship and recently revealed archival evidence of Soviet spying in the U.S. Also included are headnotes to the documents, 15 black-and-white photographs, a glossary, a chronology of McCarthyism, a revised bibliographical essay, and an index.[via]More editions of The Age of McCarthyism: A Brief History With Documents:
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Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan - The Age of McCarthyism: A Brief History With Documents: ISBN 0312393199 (0-312-39319-9)
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Attitudes Toward Sex in Antebellum America: A Brief History With Documentsby Helen Lefkowitz HorowitzISBN 0312412266 (0-312-41226-6)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Attitudes Toward Sex in Antebellum America: A Brief History With Documents'Book summary:[via]With this colorful collection of documents, Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz overturns the monolithic picture of Victorian sexual repression to reveal four contending views at play during the antebellum period: earthy American folk wisdom, the anti-flesh teachings of evangelical Christianity, moral reform grounded in science, and the utopian free love movement. Horowitz's introduction discusses how these diverse views shaped the antebellum conversation about the moral, social, and physical implications of sex and reflected the larger cultural and economic changes of this period of rapid industrialization and urban migration. Helpful headnotes contextualize this selection of hard-to-find documents, which includes scientific manuals, religious pamphlets, advertisements, and popular fiction. Contemporary illustrations, a chronology, and a bibliography foster students' understanding of antebellum sexual attitudes.More editions of Attitudes Toward Sex in Antebellum America: A Brief History With Documents:
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklinby Benjamin FranklinISBN 0300098588 (0-300-09858-8)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: With Related Documentsby Louis P. MasurISBN 0312404158 (0-312-40415-8)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: With Related Documents'Book summary:This new edition of "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin" is built around J.A. Leo Lemay and P.R. Zall's text. Louis Masur's introduction sets the work in its historical context. Masur also discusses America after Franklin and why the autobiography has had such a tremendous impact on 19th- and 20th-century society and culture. The book prompts students to think critically about the text by raising fundamental issues, such as the inherent distortion that occurs in autobiography. The book also contains six portraits of Franklin. Louis Masur is the author of "Rites of Execution: Capital Punishment and the Transformation of American Culture, 1776-1865". [via]
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The Bacchae of Euripides: A New Versionby Euripides, C.K. WilliamsISBN 0374107947 (0-374-10794-7)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus, Giroux
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Beowulf: An Illustrated Editionby Seamus HeaneyISBN 0374111197 (0-374-11119-7)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beowulf: An Illustrated Edition'Book summary:In Beowulf warriors must back up their mead-hall boasts with instant action, monsters abound, and fights are always to the death. The Anglo-Saxon epic, composed between the 7th and 10th centuries, has long been accorded its place in literature, though its hold on our imagination has been less secure. In the introduction to his translation, Seamus Heaney argues that Beowulf's role as a required text for many English students obscured its mysteries and "mythic potency." Now, thanks to the Irish poet's marvelous recreation (in both senses of the word) under Alfred David's watch, this dark, doom-ridden work gets its day in the sun.
There are endless pleasures in Heaney's analysis, but readers should head straight for the poem and then to the prose. (Some will also take advantage of the dual-language edition and do some linguistic teasing out of their own.) The epic's outlines seem simple, depicting Beowulf's three key battles with the scaliest brutes in all of art: Grendel, Grendel's mother (who's in a suitably monstrous snit after her son's dismemberment and death), and then, 50 years later, a gold-hoarding dragon "threatening the night sky / with streamers of fire." Along the way, however, we are treated to flashes back and forward and to a world view in which a thane's allegiance to his lord and to God is absolute. In the first fight, the man from Geatland must travel to Denmark to take on the "shadow-stalker" terrorizing Heorot Hall. Here Beowulf and company set sail:
Men climbed eagerly up the gangplank,
After a fearsome night victory over march-haunting and heath-marauding Grendel, our high-born hero is suitably strewn with gold and praise, the queen declaring: "Your sway is wide as the wind's home, / as the sea around cliffs." Few will disagree. And remember, Beowulf has two more trials to undergo.
sand churned in the surf, warriors loaded
a cargo of weapons, shining war-gear
in the vessel's hold, then heaved out,
away with a will in their wood-wreathed ship.
Over the waves, with the wind behind her
and foam at her neck, she flew like a bird...Heaney claims that when he began his translation it all too often seemed "like trying to bring down a megalith with a toy hammer." The poem's challenges are many: its strong four-stress line, heavy alliteration, and profusion of kennings could have been daunting. (The sea is, among other things, "the whale-road," the sun is "the world's candle," and Beowulf's third opponent is a "vile sky-winger." When it came to over-the-top compound phrases, the temptations must have been endless, but for the most part, Heaney smiles, he "called a sword a sword.") Yet there are few signs of effort in the poet's Englishing. Heaney varies his lines with ease, offering up stirring dialogue, action, and description while not stinting on the epic's mix of fate and fear. After Grendel's misbegotten mother comes to call, the king's evocation of her haunted home may strike dread into the hearts of men and beasts, but it's a gift to the reader:
A few miles from here
In Heaney's hands, the poem's apparent archaisms and Anglo-Saxon attitudes--its formality, blood-feuds, and insane courage--turn the art of an ancient island nation into world literature. --Kerry Fried [via]
a frost-stiffened wood waits and keeps watch
above a mere; the overhanging bank
is a maze of tree-roots mirrored in its surface.
At night there, something uncanny happens:
the water burns. And the mere bottom
has never been sounded by the sons of men.
On its bank, the heather-stepper halts:
the hart in flight from pursuing hounds
will turn to face them with firm-set horns
and die in the wood rather than dive
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Beowulf: An Imitative Translationby Ruth LehmannISBN 0292707711 (0-292-70771-1)
Softcover, Univ of Texas Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beowulf: An Imitative Translation'Book summary:The name "Beowulf" lingers in our collective memory, although today fewer people have heard the tale of the Germanic hero's fight with Grendel, the dreadful Monster of the Mere, as recounted in this Anglo-Saxon epic.
This edition of Beowulf makes the poem more accessible than ever before. Ruth Lehmann's imitative translation is the only one available that preserves both the story line of the poem and the alliterative versification of the Anglo-Saxon original. The characteristic features of Anglo-Saxon poetry-- alliterative verse with first-syllable stress, flexible word order, and inflectional endings--have largely disappeared in Modern English, creating special problems for the translator. Indeed, many other translations of Beowulf currently available are either in prose or in some modern poetic form. Dr. Lehmann's translation alone conveys the "feel" of the original, its rhythm and sound, the powerful directness of the Germanic vocabulary.
In her introduction, Dr. Lehmann gives a succinct summary of the poem's plot, touching on the important themes of obligation and loyalty, of family feuds, unforgivable crimes, the necessity of revenge, and the internal and external struggles of the Scandinavian tribes. She also describes the translation process in some detail, stating the guiding principles she used and the inevitable compromises that were sometimes necessary.
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Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fableby Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, Ivor H. EvansISBN 0304935700 (0-304-93570-0)
Hardcover, Cassel
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Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fableby Ivor H. Evans, Ebenezer Cobham BrewerISBN 0304307068 (0-304-30706-8)
Hardcover, Cassell
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Catullusby Gaius Valerius Catullus, Kenneth QuinnISBN 0333017870 (0-333-01787-0)
Hardcover, Motorbooks Intl
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The Complete Poetry of Catullusby David D. Mulroy, Gaius Valerius CatullusISBN 0299177742 (0-299-17774-2)
Softcover, Univ of Wisconsin Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Poetry of Catullus'Book summary:A wild young poet in Julius Caesar's Rome
Catullus life was akin to pulp fiction. In Julius Caesars Rome, he engages in a stormy affair with a consuls wife. He writes her passionate poems of love, hate, and jealousy. The consul, a vehement opponent of Caesar, dies under suspicious circumstances. The merry widow romances numerous young men. Catullus is drawn into politics and becomes a cocky critic of Caesar, writing poems that dub Julius a low-life pig and a pervert. Not surprisingly, soon after, no more is heard of Catullus.
David Mulroy brings to life the witty, poignant, and brutally direct voice of a flesh-and-blood man, a young provincial in the Eternal City, reacting to real people and events in a Rome full of violent conflict among individuals marked by genius and megalomaniacal passions. Mulroys lively, rhythmic translations of the poems are enhanced by an introduction and commentary that provide biographical and bibliographical information about Catullus, a history of his times, a discussion of the translations, and definitions and notes that ease the way for anyone who is not a Latin scholar. [via]
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Creeds, Councils and Controversies: Documents Illustrating the History of the Church Ad 337-461by J. StevensonISBN 0281043272 (0-281-04327-2)
Softcover, Pilgrim Pr
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Culture and Anarchyby Matthew Arnold, Samuel LipmanISBN 0300058675 (0-300-05867-5)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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David Walker's Appeal: To the Coloured Citizens of the Worldby Peter P. Hinks, David WalkerISBN 0271019948 (0-271-01994-8)
Softcover, Pennsylvania State Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'David Walker's Appeal: To the Coloured Citizens of the World'Book summary:In 1829 David Walker, a free black born in Wilmington, North Carolina, wrote one of America's most provocative political documents of the nineteenth century, Walker's Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World. Decrying the savage and unchristian treatment blacks suffered in the United States, Walker challenged his 'afflicted and slumbering brethren' to rise up and cast off their chains. Walker worked tirelessly to circulate his book via underground networks in the South, and he was so successful that Southern lawmakers responded with new laws cracking down on 'incendiary' antislavery material. Although Walker died in 1830, the Appeal remained a rallying point for African Americans for many years to come, anticipating the radicalism of later black leaders, from Malcolm X to Martin Luther King, Jr. In this new edition of the Appeal, the first in over thirty years, Peter P. Hinks, the leading authority on David Walker, provides a masterly introduction and extensive annotations that incorporate the most up-to-date research on Walker, much of it first reported by Hinks in his highly acclaimed biography, To Awaken My Afflicted Brethren. Hinks also includes a unique appendix of documents showing the contemporary respons from North and South, black and white to the Appeal itself and Walker's attempts to distribute it in the South. Historians and political activists have long recognized the importance of Walker's Appeal. At last we have an edition worthy of its persuasive immediacy and its enduring place in American history. [via]
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empireby Edward Gibbon, Hans-Friedrich Mueller, Daniel J. BoorstinISBN 0345478843 (0-345-47884-3)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'Book summary:British parliamentarian and soldier Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) conceived of his plan for Decline and Fall while "musing amid the ruins of the Capitol" on a visit to Rome. For the next 10 years he worked away at his great history, which traces the decadence of the late empire from the time of the Antonines and the rise of Western Christianity. "The confusion of the times, and the scarcity of authentic memorials, pose equal difficulties to the historian, who attempts to preserve a clear and unbroken thread of narration," he writes. Despite these obstacles, Decline and Fall remains a model of historical exposition, and required reading for students of European history. [via]
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The Dialogues of Plato: The Symposiumby R.E. AllenISBN 0300048742 (0-300-04874-2)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Discovery and Conquest of Mexico 1517-1521by Bernal Diaz Del CastilloISBN 030681319X (0-306-81319-X)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Discovery and Conquest of Mexico: 1517-1521'Book summary:Bernal Díaz del Castillo(14951584) served under Cortés through the entire Mexican campaign, and his narrative, one of only four extant firsthand accounts, is both an invaluable hirstorical document and a spectacular epic. He was with Cortés when the latter sank the ships, thus committing the small band of conquistadors irrevocably to the Conquest; he was privy to the counsels of the leaders and was at hand when Montezuma was made a prisoner in his own palace. Bernal Díaz fought in over a hundred battles and skirmishes against an enemy who made living sacrifices of their prisoners. These things he saw and recorded in a bold blunt voice whose immediacy, in Maudslays classic translation, reaches across the centuries to invite readers to witness for themselves the horrors and wonders of the initial, apocalyptic clash between two great civilizations.[via]More editions of The Discovery and Conquest of Mexico 1517-1521:
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End of the Worldby Lewis H. Lapham, Simon SchamaISBN 0312252641 (0-312-25264-1)
Softcover, St. Martin's Press
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Existentialism Is a Humanismby Jean Paul Sartre, John Kulka, Arlette Elkanm-sartre, Annie Cohen-Solal, Carol MacomberISBN 0300115466 (0-300-11546-6)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Existentialism Is a Humanism'Book summary:[via]This book presents a new English translation of two seminal works by Jean-Paul Sartre, the most dominant European intellectual of the post-World War II decades. The volume includes Sartres 1945 lecture Existentialism Is a Humanism and his analysis of Camuss The Stranger, along with a discussion of these works by acclaimed Sartre biographer Annie Cohen-Solal. This edition is a translation of the 1996 French edition, which includes Arlette Elkaïm-Sartres introduction and a Q&A with Sartre about his lecture. In her foreword, intended for an American audience, acclaimed Sartre biographer Annie Cohen-Solal offers an assessment of both works.
It was to correct common misconceptions about his thought that Sartre accepted an invitation to speak on October 29, 1945, at the Club Maintenant in Paris. The unstated objective of his lecture ( Existentialism Is a Humanism ) was to expound his philosophy as a form of existentialism, a term much bandied about at the time. Sartre asserted that existentialism was essentially a doctrine for philosophers, though, ironically, he was about to make it accessible to a general audience. The published text of his lecture quickly became one of the bibles of existentialism and made Sartre an international celebrity.
The idea of freedom occupies the center of Sartres doctrine. Man, born into an empty, godless universe, is nothing to begin with. He creates his essencehis self, his beingthrough the choices he freely makes ( existence precedes essence ). Were it not for the contingency of his death, he would never end. Choosing to be this or that is to affirm the value of what we choose. In choosing, therefore, we commit not only ourselves but all of mankind.More editions of Existentialism Is a Humanism:
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Faustby Martin Greenberg, Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheISBN 0300056567 (0-300-05656-7)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Faust'Book summary:Perhaps some apology ought to be given to English scholars, that is, those who do not know German, (to those, at least, who do not know what sort of a thing Faust is in the original,) for offering another translation to the public, of a poem which has been already translated, not only in a literal prose form, but also, twenty or thirty times, in metre, and sometimes with great spirit, beauty, and power.
The author of the present version, then, has no knowledge that a rendering of this wonderful poem into the exact and ever-changing metre of the original has, until now, been so much as attempted. To name only one defect, the very best versions which he has seen neglect to follow the exquisite artist in the evidently planned and orderly intermixing of male and female rhymes, i.e. rhymes which fall on the last syllable and those which fall on the last but one. Now, every careful student of the versification of Faust must feel and see that Goethe did not intersperse the one kind of rhyme with the other, at random, as those translators do; who, also, give the female rhyme (on which the vivacity of dialogue and description often so much depends,) in so small a proportion.
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Faustby Randall Jarrell, Peter Sis, Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheISBN 0374164770 (0-374-16477-0)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Faust'Book summary:Randall Jarrell's translation of Goethe's classic, illustrated with extraordinary new drawings by Peter Sis[via]
Randall Jarrell's translation of Faust is one of his most important achievements. In 1957 he inscribed Goethe's motto on the first page of his notebook: "Ohne Hast aber ohne Rast" ("Without haste but without rest"), and from then until his death in 1965 he worked on the masterpiece of his "own favorite daemon, dear good great Goethe." His intent was to make the German poetry free, unrhymed poetry in English. He all but finished the job before he died, and the few lines that remained untouched--Gretchen's Spinning Song--were rendered into English by Robert Lowell.
This elegant new edition features numerous beautiful line drawings by the renowned Czech artist, Peter Sis, author of the award-winning books The Starry Messenger and Tibet: Through the Red Box.More editions of Faust:
Freedom of the Willby Jonathan Edwards, Paul RamseyISBN 0300008481 (0-300-00848-1)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Guerra Y Pazby Leo N. Tolstoy, Gala Arias RubioISBN 0307273911 (0-307-27391-1)
Softcover, Random House Espanol
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Guerra Y Paz'Book summary:The well-known works of literature in this series constitute the most valuable treasures of universal literature. The affordably priced imitation leather bound books enhance any library, putting the works of Shakespeare, Cervantes, Dostoyevsky, and Tolstoy within everyone's reach.[via]More editions of Guerra Y Paz:
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Gulliver's Travelsby Jonathan Swift, Christopher FoxISBN 0312066651 (0-312-06665-1)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gulliver's Travels'Book summary:[via]This work includes the complete authoritative text with biographical & historical contexts, critical history and essays from five contemporary critical perspectives.
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Hardcover, Prentice Hall of Canada Ltd - Gulliver's Travels: ISBN 0306803399 (0-306-80339-9)
Softcover, Perseus Books - Gulliver's Travels: ISBN 0333634381 (0-333-63438-1)
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A Handbook of Costumeby Janet ArnoldISBN 0333124812 (0-333-12481-2)
Hardcover, Macmillan
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The Iliad of Homer, Books I-XIIby Homer, Malcolm M. WillcockISBN 0333157389 (0-333-15738-9)
Hardcover, Macmillan Education
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Images of Quattrocentro Florence: Selected Writings in Literature, History, and Artby Arielle Saiber, Stefano Ugo BaldassarriISBN 0300080522 (0-300-08052-2)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Imitation of Christby Thomas A. KempisISBN 0340247010 (0-340-24701-0)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Imitation of Christ'Book summary:The Thomas à Kempis fan club includes St. Ignatius, Thomas Merton, Thomas More, and even Agatha Christie's Miss Marple. (She reads a chapter of The Imitation of Christ every night before sleep.) Imitation has exerted immense influence on Christian worship, ethics, and church structure, because it gives specific yet broad-minded guidance about the central task of Christian life--learning to live like Jesus. Better to read this book a little here and there, now and then, than to try gobbling it cover to cover. Imitation is no triumph of orderly thinking, but it's a great monument and incentive to deep living. --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equianoby Olaudah Equiano, Robert J. AllisonISBN 0312442033 (0-312-44203-3)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano'Book summary:Widely admired for its vivid accounts of the slave trade, Olaudah Equiano's autobiography -- the first slave narrative to attract a significant readership -- reveals many aspects of the eighteenth-century Western world through the experiences of one individual. The second edition reproduces the original London printing, supervised by Equiano in 1789. Robert J. Allison's introduction, which places Equiano's narrative in the context of the Atlantic slave trade, has been revised and updated to reflect the heated controversy surrounding Equiano's birthplace, as well as the latest scholarship on Atlantic history and the history of slavery. Improved pedagogical features include contemporary illustrations with expanded captions and a map showing Equiano's travels in greater detail. Helpful footnotes provide guidance throughout the eighteenth-century text, and a chronology and an up-to-date bibliography aid students in their study of this thought-provoking narrative. [via]
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equianoby Robert J. Allison, Olaudah EquianoISBN 0312111274 (0-312-11127-4)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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James Boswell's Life of Johnson: An Edition of the Original Manuscript in Four Volumes, 1766-1776by James Boswell, Elizabeth GoldringISBN 0300079699 (0-300-07969-9)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Joan of Arc: Her Storyby Bonnie Wheeler, Regine Pernoud, Marie-Veronique Clin, Jeremy Duquesnay AdamsISBN 0312214421 (0-312-21442-1)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Joan of Arc: Her Story'Book summary:The peasant girl who led an army against the English and placed Charles VII on the French throne has inspired countless books since her death at age 19. While others have claimed Joan the Maid (as she called herself) for every cause from feminism to working-class radicalism, this meticulous volume by two French scholars sticks close to the known facts. The authors make extensive use of contemporary documents that bring to life the turbulent political scene in which Joan operated as well as her forceful personality. Joan followed the directives of voices she believed were sent to her by God; her deep piety, self-assurance, decisiveness, and shrewd intelligence radiate from her letters and from her responses to hostile questioning at the rigged trial that resulted in her being burned alive as a heretic in 1431. General readers may be intimidated at first by a detailed narrative studded with lengthy quotations, but those who persevere will discover a story all the more moving because it is not manipulated to make a modern-day point. This English translation updates the 1986 French volume's bibliography, supplements the biographies in part 2 with sketches of historical figures less familiar outside of France, and generally makes the book more accessible for English-language readers. --Wendy Smith [via]
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Joan of Arc: Her Storyby Regine Pernoud, Marie-Veronique ClinISBN 0312227302 (0-312-22730-2)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Joan of Arc: Her Story'Book summary:The peasant girl who led an army against the English and placed Charles VII on the French throne has inspired countless books since her death at age 19. While others have claimed Joan the Maid (as she called herself) for every cause from feminism to working-class radicalism, this meticulous volume by two French scholars sticks close to the known facts. The authors make extensive use of contemporary documents that bring to life the turbulent political scene in which Joan operated as well as her forceful personality. Joan followed the directives of voices she believed were sent to her by God; her deep piety, self-assurance, decisiveness, and shrewd intelligence radiate from her letters and from her responses to hostile questioning at the rigged trial that resulted in her being burned alive as a heretic in 1431. General readers may be intimidated at first by a detailed narrative studded with lengthy quotations, but those who persevere will discover a story all the more moving because it is not manipulated to make a modern-day point. This English translation updates the 1986 French volume's bibliography, supplements the biographies in part 2 with sketches of historical figures less familiar outside of France, and generally makes the book more accessible for English-language readers. --Wendy Smith [via]
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Lancelot: The Knight of the Cartby Chretien, Burton RaffelISBN 0300071213 (0-300-07121-3)
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Lenin And the Making of the Soviet State: A Brief History With Documentsby Jeffrey Brooks, Georgiy ChernyavskiyISBN 0312412665 (0-312-41266-5)
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Letters from Mexicoby Hernan Cortes, Anthony PagdenISBN 0300090943 (0-300-09094-3)
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Many Are Calledby Walker Evans, Rosenheim, Jeff L. (AFT), Luc Sante, James AgeeISBN 0300106173 (0-300-10617-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Many Are Called'Book summary:[via]Between 1936 and 1941 Walker Evans and James Agee collaborated on one of the most provocative books in American literature, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941). While at work on this book, the two also conceived another less well-known but equally important book project entitled Many Are Called. This three-year photographic study of subway passengers made with a hidden camera was first published in 1966, with an introduction written by Agee in 1940. Long out of print, Many Are Called is now being reissued with a new foreword and afterword and with exquisitely reproduced images from newly prepared digital scans.
Many Are Called came to fruition at a slow pace. In 1938, Walker Evans began surreptitiously photographing people on the New York City subway. With his camera hidden in his coatthe lens peeking through a buttonholehe captured the faces of riders hurtling through the dark tunnels, wrapped in their own private thoughts. By 1940-41, Evans had made over six hundred photographs and had begun to edit the series. The book remained unpublished until 1966 when The Museum of Modern Art mounted an exhibition of Evanss subway portraits.
This beautiful new editionpublished in the centenary year of the NYC subwayis an essential book for all admirers of Evanss unparalleled photographs, Agees elegant prose, and the great City of New York.
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Meditationsby Marcus Aurelius, Gregory HaysISBN 0345472373 (0-345-47237-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Meditations'Book summary:One measure, perhaps, of a book's worth, is its intergenerational pliancy: do new readers acquire it and interpret it afresh down through the ages? The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, translated and introduced by Gregory Hays, by that standard, is very worthwhile, indeed. Hays suggests that its most recent incarnation--as a self-help book--is not only valid, but may be close to the author's intent. The book, which Hays calls, fondly, a "haphazard set of notes," is indicative of the role of philosophy among the ancients in that it is "expected to provide a 'design for living.'" And it does, both aphoristically ("Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now take what's left and live it properly.") and rhetorically ("What is it in ourselves that we should prize?"). Whether these, and other entries ("Enough of this wretched, whining monkey life.") sound life-changing or like entries in a teenager's diary is up to the individual reader, as it should be. Hays's introduction, which sketches the life of Marcus Aurelius (emperor of Rome A.D. 161-180) as well as the basic tenets of stoicism, is accessible and jaunty. --H. O'Billovich [via]
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Moby Dickby Herman Melville, John Bryant, Haskell SpringerISBN 0321228006 (0-321-22800-6)
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A New Eusebius: Documents Illustrating the History of the Church to Ad 337by William H. FrendISBN 0281042683 (0-281-04268-3)
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A New Eusebius: Documents Illustrative of the History of the Church to A.D. 337by James Stevenson, Eusebius, B. J. KiddISBN 0281008027 (0-281-00802-7)
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On Revolutionby Hannah ArendtISBN 0313234930 (0-313-23493-0)
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On the Social Contract With Geneva Manuscript and Political Economyby Jean-Jacques RousseauISBN 0312694466 (0-312-69446-6)
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The Oresteiaby Ted Hughes, AeschylusISBN 0374227217 (0-374-22721-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oresteia'Book summary:During the final years of his life, Ted Hughes poured much of his energy into translating the classics. Given the triumph of the Birthday Letters, some readers may regret this canonical moonlighting. Yet it's hard to feel shortchanged by the work Hughes did produce: his version of Ovid was a brilliant blend of Latinate suavity and contemporary grit, and he negotiated the alexandrines of Racine's Phèdre with spectacular ease. Now we have his translation of the Oresteia, which was commissioned by the Royal National Theater in the late 1990s. Has Hughes done right by Aeschylus?
The answer would have to be yes--with a couple of qualifications. Hughes made no secret of the fact that he was after an "acting version" of the trilogy, one that would convey the power of Aeschylus's classic bloodbath to a modern audience. He has therefore taken more liberties with the text than we might expect, chopping and channeling the original to fit his own conception. Perhaps the result is closer to what Robert Lowell called an "imitation"--an attempt to capture the work's spirit without precisely mimicking its form. In any case, this Oresteia succeeds on both counts. The darkness and destructive movement of the original remain intact in the Hughes's free-verse lines:
The men of Troy are a litter of corpses,
Yet Hughes has also left his elemental imprint on the play. Always drawn to violence in his own verse--particularly the impersonal assault and battery of the natural world--he has made his Oresteia more bloody-minded than the original (and that's saying something). There's nothing sensationalistic about this extra quantum of wrack and ruin. It's merely Hughes's personal response to Aeschylus--and a necessary preparation, perhaps, for Athena's clarifying cameo at the end of The Eumenides: "Let your rage pass into understanding / As into the coloured clouds of a sunset, / Promising a fair tomorrow. / Do not let it fall / As a rain of sterility and anguish / On Attica." Her plea for conciliation is as powerful as the horrors that have preceded it, which may (to tread on some rather thin biographical ice) reflect the poet's own final impulses. In any case, this is passionate, memorable, deeply human poetry--i.e., what becomes a classic most. --Anita Urquhart [via]
Rubbish-heaps of corpses. Troy on its hill
Cascades with blood, as under a downpour
Of bodies from the heavens,
Shattered and entangled with each other
In every passage--mutilations,
Amputations, eviscerations. The women
Are kneeling, shoulders heaving, with eyes hidden,
Over what were yesterday
Husbands, fathers, sons.
They labour at a grief that is already
The first labour of slaves.
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The Oresteia of Aeschylusby Aeschylus, Robert LowellISBN 0374227233 (0-374-22723-3)
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Oroonokoby Aphra Behn, Catherine Gallagher, Simon SternISBN 0312108133 (0-312-10813-3)
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Our Hearts Fell to the Ground: Plains Indian Views of How the West Was Lostby Colin G. CallowayISBN 0312133545 (0-312-13354-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Our Hearts Fell to the Ground: Plains Indian Views of How the West Was Lost'Book summary:[via]This unique anthology chronicles the Plains Indians' struggle to maintain their traditional way of life in the changing world of the nineteenth century. Its rich variety of 34 primary sources - including narratives, myths, speeches, and transcribed oral histories - gives students the rare opportunity to view the transformation of the West from Native American perspective. Calloway's comprehensive introduction offers crucial information on western expansion, territorial struggles among Indian tribes, the slaughter of the buffalo, and forced assimilation through the reservation system. More than 30 pieces of Plains Indian art are included, along with maps, headnotes, questions for consideration, a bibliography, a chronology, and an index.
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Plato's Parmenidesby Plato, R.E. AllenISBN 0300066163 (0-300-06616-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Plato's Parmenides'Book summary:Among Plato's later dialogues, the Parmenides is one of the most significant. Not only a document of profound philosophical importance in its own right, it also contributes to the understanding of Platonic dialogues that followed it, and it exhibits the foundations of the physics and ontology that Aristotle offered in his Physics and Metaphysics VII.
In this book, R. E. Allen provides a superb translation of the Parmenides along with a structural analysis that procedes on the assumption that formal elements, logical and dramatic, are important to its interpretation and that the argument of the Parmenides is aporetic, a statement of metaphysical perplexities. Allen has revised his original translation of and commentary on the Parmenides, which were published in 1983 to great acclaim. [via]
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Plessy V. Ferguson: A Brief History With Documentsby Brook ThomasISBN 0312162847 (0-312-16284-7)
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Plessy Vs Fergusonby ThomasISBN 0312137435 (0-312-13743-5)
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Reflections on the Revolution in Franceby Edmund Burke, Frank M. Turner, Conor Cruise O'Brien, Alan Wolfe, Jack N. Rakove, Darrin M. McMahonISBN 0300099797 (0-300-09979-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Reflections on the Revolution in France'Book summary:"Reflections on the Revolution in France" was written in 1790 and has remained in print ever since. Edmund Burke's analysis of revolutionary change established him as the chief framer of modern European conservative political thought. This new edition of the "Reflections" presents Burke's famous text along with a historical introduction by Frank Turner and four critical essays by leading scholars. The volume sets the "Reflections" in the context of Western political thought, highlights its ongoing relevance to contemporary debates, and provides abundant critical notes, a glossary and a glossary-index to ensure its accessibility. Contributors to the book examine various provocative aspects of Burke's thought. Conor Cruise O'Brien explores Burke's hostility to "theory", Darrin McMahon considers Burke's characterization of the French Enlightenment, Jack Rakove contrasts the views of Burke and American constitutional framers on the process of drawing up constitutions, and Alan Wolfe investigates Burke, the social sciences, and liberal democracy. [via]
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The Ruling Classby Gaetano Mosca, Arthur Livingston, Hannah D. KahnISBN 0313226172 (0-313-22617-2)
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A Rumor of Warby Philip CaputoISBN 0345331222 (0-345-33122-2)
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"Compelling . . . A thoroughly honest view of what the experience of Vietnam meant to a young college graduate, a 'gung-ho' lieutenant in the marine corps who enlisted for the 'heroic experience' of war . . . It is the most eloquent statement yet on what Vietnam was for the lower echelons who had to do the dirty work." -- Seattle Times
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The Souls of Black Folkby W. E. B. Du Bois, David W. Blight, Robert Gooding-WilliamsISBN 0312091141 (0-312-09114-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Souls of Black Folk'Book summary:William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) is the greatest of African American intellectuals--a sociologist, historian, novelist, and activist whose astounding career spanned the nation's history from Reconstruction to the civil rights movement. Born in Massachusetts and educated at Fisk, Harvard, and the University of Berlin, Du Bois penned his epochal masterpiece, The Souls of Black Folk, in 1903. It remains his most studied and popular work; its insights into Negro life at the turn of the 20th century still ring true.
With a dash of the Victorian and Enlightenment influences that peppered his impassioned yet formal prose, the book's largely autobiographical chapters take the reader through the momentous and moody maze of Afro-American life after the Emancipation Proclamation: from poverty, the neoslavery of the sharecropper, illiteracy, miseducation, and lynching, to the heights of humanity reached by the spiritual "sorrow songs" that birthed gospel and the blues. The most memorable passages are contained in "On Booker T. Washington and Others," where Du Bois criticizes his famous contemporary's rejection of higher education and accommodationist stance toward white racism: "Mr. Washington's programme practically accepts the alleged inferiority of the Negro races," he writes, further complaining that Washington's thinking "withdraws many of the high demands of Negroes as men and American citizens." The capstone of The Souls of Black Folk, though, is Du Bois' haunting, eloquent description of the concept of the black psyche's "double consciousness," which he described as "a peculiar sensation.... One ever feels this twoness--an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder." Thanks to W.E.B. Du Bois' commitment and foresight--and the intellectual excellence expressed in this timeless literary gem--black Americans can today look in the mirror and rejoice in their beautiful black, brown, and beige reflections. --Eugene Holley Jr. [via]
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The Spirit of Seventy-Six: The Story of the American Revolution As Told by Participantsby Richard B. Morris, Henry Steele CommagerISBN 0306806207 (0-306-80620-7)
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State and Revolution: Marxist Teachings About the Theory of the State and the Tasks of the Proletariat in the Revolutionby Vladimir LeninISBN 0313203512 (0-313-20351-2)
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Symposiumby Plato, Reginald E. AllenISBN 0300056990 (0-300-05699-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Symposium'Book summary:"The unexamined life is not worth living." Socrates's ancient words are still true, and the ideas sounded 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 execution of Socrates--the extraordinary tragedy that changed Plato's life and so altered the course of Western though. Other dialogues create a rich tableau of intellectual life in Athens in the fourth century B.C., and examine 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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Thackeray, Vanity Fair: A Casebookby Arthur PollardISBN 0333215133 (0-333-21513-3)
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To the King's Taste: Richard Ii's Book of Feasts and Recipesby Lorna J. Sass, Samuel PeggeISBN 0312807481 (0-312-80748-1)
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Tudor and Jacobean Portraits / Vol I, Text/ Vol Ii, Platesby Roy StrongISBN 0312822200 (0-312-82220-0)
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Twenty Years at Hull-Houseby Jane Addams, Victoria Bissell BrownISBN 0312157061 (0-312-15706-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Twenty Years at Hull-House'Book summary:While on a trip to East London in 1883, Jane Addams witnessed a distressing scene late one night: masses of poor people were bidding on rotten vegetables that were unsalable anywhere else.
Their pale faces were dominated by that most unlovely of human expressions, the cunning and shrewdness of the bargain-hunter who starves if he cannot make a successful trade, and yet the final impression was not of ragged, tawdry clothing nor of pinched and sallow faces, but of myriads of hands, empty, pathetic, nerveless, and workworn, showing white in the uncertain light of the street, and clutching forward for food which was already unfit to eat.
This scene haunted Addams for the next two years as she traveled through Europe, and she hoped to find a way to ease such suffering. Five years later, she visited Toynbee Hall, a London settlement house, and resolved to replicate the experiment in the U.S. On September 18, 1889, Jane Addams and her friend Ellen Starr moved into the second floor of a rundown mansion in Chicago's West Side. From the outset, they imagined Hull-House as a "center for a higher civic and social life" in the industrial districts of the city. Addams, Starr, and several like-minded individuals lived and worked among the poor, establishing (among other things) art classes, discussion groups, cooperatives, a kindergarten, a coffee house, a lending library, and a gymnasium. In a time when many well-to-do Americans were beginning to feel threatened by immigrants, Hull-House embraced them, showed them the true meaning of democracy, and served as a center for philanthropic efforts throughout Chicago.
Hull-House also provided an outlet for the energies of the first generation of female college graduates, who were educated for work yet prevented from doing it. In some respects, however, Addams's impressive work, often hailed by historians as "revolutionary," was nothing of the sort. She embraced the sexual stereotypes of her day, and, though she was clearly an independent woman, soothed public fears by acting primarily in the traditional roles of nurturer and caregiver. Hull-House was a rousing success, and it inspired others to follow in Addams's footsteps.
Though Twenty Years at Hull-House is meant to be an autobiography, it is Hull-House itself that stands in the spotlight. Addams devotes the first third of the book to her upbringing and influences, but the remainder focuses on the organization she built--and the benefits accruing to those who work with the poor as well as to the poor themselves. At times Addams's prose is difficult to follow, but her ideals and her actions are truly inspiring. A classic work of history--and a model for today's would-be philanthropists. --Sunny Delaney [via]
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Two Treatises of Government and a Letter Concerning Tolerationby John Locke, Ian Shapiro, John Dunn, Ruth W. GrantISBN 0300100183 (0-300-10018-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Two Treatises of Government and a Letter Concerning Toleration'Book summary:Two of Locke's most mature and influential political writings and three brilliant interpretive essays have been combined here in one volume. Among the most influential writings in the history of Western political thought, John Locke's "Two Treatises of Government" and "A Letter Concerning Toleration" remain vital to political debates more than three centuries after they were written. The complete texts are accompanied by interpretive essays by three prominent Locke scholars. Ian Shapiro's introduction places Locke's political writings in historical and biographical context. John Dunn explores both the intellectual context in which Locke wrote the "Two Treatises of Government" and "A Letter Concerning Toleration" and the major interpretive controversies surrounding their meaning. Ruth Grant offers a comprehensive discussion of Locke's views on women and the family, and Shapiro contributes an essay on the democratic elements of Locke's political theory. Taken together, the texts and essays in this volume offer insights into the history of ideas and the enduring influence of Locke's political thought. [via]
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Uncle Tom's Cabinby Harriet Beecher StoweISBN 0312446519 (0-312-44651-9)
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Victors and Vanquished: Spanish and Nahua Views of the Conquest of Mexicoby Stuart B. SchwartzISBN 0312393555 (0-312-39355-5)
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War and Peaceby Leo TolstoyISBN 0345472403 (0-345-47240-3)
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The Well at the World's Endby William MorrisISBN 0345019822 (0-345-01982-2)
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The Will to Powerby Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Walter Arnold Kaufmann, R.J. HollingdaleISBN 0297763326 (0-297-76332-6)
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The World Turned Upside Down: Indian Voices from Early Americaby Colin G. CallowayISBN 0312083505 (0-312-08350-5)
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Worlds of History: A Comparative Reader Since 1400by Kevin ReillyISBN 0312446861 (0-312-44686-1)
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Worlds of History: A Comparative Reader To 1550by Kevin ReillyISBN 031244687X (0-312-44687-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Worlds of History: A Comparative Reader To 1550'Book summary:[via]Assembled by award-winning community college teacher and distinguished world historian Kevin Reilly, the documents in the best-selling Worlds of History bring history alive for students. Students read voices from the distant and more recent past that address topics and issues -- like patriarchy, love and marriage, and imperialism -- of enduring interest and relevance. Ranging widely across regions and cultures, each chapter takes up a major theme and asks students to examine it in the context of two or more cultures, encouraging them to make cross-cultural connections and comparisons. The flexible comparative and thematic framework easily accommodates the variety of approaches instructors bring to teaching world history while supporting the general goal of cultivating critical thinking skills.More editions of Worlds of History: A Comparative Reader To 1550:
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