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Ancient near East in Pictures Relating to the Old Testament with Supplement
by James B. Pritchard

ISBN 0691035024 (0-691-03502-4)
Hardcover, Princeton University Press

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Ancient Near Eastern Texts: Relating to the Old Testament With Supplement
by James B. Pritchard

ISBN 0691035032 (0-691-03503-2)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr

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This anthology brought together the most important historical, legal, mythological, liturgical, and secular texts of the ancient Near East, with the purpose of providing a rich contextual base for understanding the people, cultures, and literature of the Old Testament. A scholar of religious thought and biblical archaeology, James Pritchard recruited the foremost linguists, historians, and archaeologists to select and translate the texts. The goal, in his words, was "a better understanding of the likenesses and differences which existed between Israel and the surrounding cultures." Before the publication of these volumes, students of the Old Testament found themselves having to search out scattered books and journals in various languages. This anthology brought these invaluable documents together, in one place and in one language, thereby expanding the meaning and significance of the Bible for generations of students and readers. As one reviewer put it, "This great volume is one of the most notable to have appeared in the field of Old Testament scholarship this century."
Princeton published a follow-up companion volume, The Ancient Near East in Pictures Relating to the Old Testament (1954), and later a one-volume abridgment of the two, The Ancient Near East: An Anthology of Texts and Pictures (1958). The continued popularity of this work in its various forms demonstrates that anthologies have a very important role to play in education--and in the mission of a university press.
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Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
by James M. McPherson

ISBN 019516895X (0-19-516895-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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Published in 1988 to universal acclaim, this single-volume treatment of the Civil War quickly became recognized as the new standard in its field. James M. McPherson, who won the Pulitzer Prize for this book, impressively combines a brisk writing style with an admirable thoroughness. He covers the military aspects of the war in all of the necessary detail, and also provides a helpful framework describing the complex economic, political, and social forces behind the conflict. Perhaps more than any other book, this one belongs on the bookshelf of every Civil War buff. [via]
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Beautiful Mind: A Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, 1994
by Sylvia Nasar

ISBN 0684853701 (0-684-85370-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster

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Stories of famously eccentric Princetonians abound--such as that of chemist Hubert Alyea, the model for The Absent-Minded Professor, or Ralph Nader, said to have had his own key to the library as an undergraduate. Or the "Phantom of Fine Hall," a figure many students had seen shuffling around the corridors of the math and physics building wearing purple sneakers and writing numerology treatises on the blackboards. The Phantom was John Nash, one of the most brilliant mathematicians of his generation, who had spiraled into schizophrenia in the 1950s. His most important work had been in game theory, which by the 1980s was underpinning a large part of economics. When the Nobel Prize committee began debating a prize for game theory, Nash's name inevitably came up--only to be dismissed, since the prize clearly could not go to a madman. But in 1994 Nash, in remission from schizophrenia, shared the Nobel Prize in economics for work done some 45 years previously.
Economist and journalist Sylvia Nasar has written a biography of Nash that looks at all sides of his life. She gives an intelligent, understandable exposition of his mathematical ideas and a picture of schizophrenia that is evocative but decidedly unromantic. Her story of the machinations behind Nash's Nobel is fascinating and one of very few such accounts available in print (the CIA could learn a thing or two from the Nobel committees). This highly recommended book is indeed "a story about the mystery of the human mind, in three acts: genius, madness, reawakening." --Mary Ellen Curtin [via]
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A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash
by Sylvia Nasar

ISBN 0743224574 (0-7432-2457-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster

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Stories of famously eccentric Princetonians abound--such as that of chemist Hubert Alyea, the model for The Absent-Minded Professor, or Ralph Nader, said to have had his own key to the library as an undergraduate. Or the "Phantom of Fine Hall," a figure many students had seen shuffling around the corridors of the math and physics building wearing purple sneakers and writing numerology treatises on the blackboards. The Phantom was John Nash, one of the most brilliant mathematicians of his generation, who had spiraled into schizophrenia in the 1950s. His most important work had been in game theory, which by the 1980s was underpinning a large part of economics. When the Nobel Prize committee began debating a prize for game theory, Nash's name inevitably came up--only to be dismissed, since the prize clearly could not go to a madman. But in 1994 Nash, in remission from schizophrenia, shared the Nobel Prize in economics for work done some 45 years previously.
Economist and journalist Sylvia Nasar has written a biography of Nash that looks at all sides of his life. She gives an intelligent, understandable exposition of his mathematical ideas and a picture of schizophrenia that is evocative but decidedly unromantic. Her story of the machinations behind Nash's Nobel is fascinating and one of very few such accounts available in print (the CIA could learn a thing or two from the Nobel committees). This highly recommended book is indeed "a story about the mystery of the human mind, in three acts: genius, madness, reawakening." --Mary Ellen Curtin [via]
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Beowulf
by Anonymous, John McNamara

ISBN 1593083831 (1-59308-383-1)
Hardcover, Fine Communications

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Beowulf, by Anonymous, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices & Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesbiographical, historical, and literaryto enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works.

Widely regarded as the first true masterpiece of English literature, Beowulf describes the thrilling adventures of a great Scandinavian warrior of the sixth century. Its lyric intensity and imaginative vitality are unparalleled, and the poem has greatly influenced many important modern novelists and poets, most notably J. R. R. Tolkien, author of The Lord of the Rings.

Part history and part mythology, Beowulf opens in the court of the Danish king where a horrible demon named Grendel devours men in their sleep every night. The hero Beowulf arrives and kills the monster, but joy turns to horror when Grendels mother attacks the hall to avenge the death of her son. Ultimately triumphant, Beowulf becomes king himself and rules peacefully for fifty years until, one dark day, a foe more powerful than any he has yet faced is arousedan ancient dragon guarding a horde of treasure. Once again, Beowulf must summon all his strength and courage to face the beast, but this time victory exacts a terrible price.

New translation by John McNamara. Features an original map and genealogy chart.

John McNamara is Professor of English at the University of Houston, where he teaches the early languages and literatures of England, Scotland, and Ireland, with a special focus on their oral traditions. He is the co-editor of Medieval Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Myths, Legends, Tales, Beliefs, and Customs.
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A Bibliography of Russian Literature and Patents on Loose Abrasive Finishing
by L.K. Gillespie, A. P. Babichev

ISBN 0965607658 (0-9656076-5-8)
Hardcover, Deburring Technology International, Inc.

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Chants Democratic: New York City And the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788-1850
by Sean Wilentz

ISBN 0195174496 (0-19-517449-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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Chants Democratic is a fascinating reinterpretation of the origins and development of our nation's working class, as seen through the politics, culture, and ideas of New York City during the Jacksonian period. Here, Wilentz explores the dramatic social and intellectual changes that accompanied early industrialization in New York. Wilentz examines the significant roles played by immigration, religion, and women in the formation of new social classes. Using court records, ceremonial speeches, and art to illuminate the changes of the period, Chants Democratic presents a rich and detailed portrait of the social life, political battles, and cultural development in the emerging American metropolis. [via]
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The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton
by Jerome Karabel

ISBN 061877355X (0-618-77355-X)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin

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A landmark, revelatory history of admissions from 1900 to todayand how it shaped a nation

The competition for a spot in the Ivy Leaguewidely considered the ticket to successis fierce and getting fiercer. But the admissions policies of elite universities have long been both tightly controlled and shrouded in secrecy. In The Chosen, the Berkeley sociologist Jerome Karabel lifts the veil on a century of admission and exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. How did the policies of our elite schools evolve? Whom have they let in and why? And what do those policies say about America?

A grand narrative brimming with insights, The Chosen provides a lens through which to examine some of the main events and movements of America in the twentieth centuryfrom immigration restriction and the Great Depression to the dropping of the atomic bomb and the launching of Sputnik, from the Cold War to the triumph of the market ethos.

Many of Karabels findings are astonishing: the admission of blacks into the Ivy League wasnt an idealistic response to the civil rights movement but a fearful reaction to inner-city riots; Yale and Princeton decided to accept women only after realizing that they were losing men to colleges (such as Harvard and Stanford) that had begun accepting the second sex; Harvard had a systematic quota on intellectuals until quite recently; and discrimination against Asian Americans in the 1980s mirrored the treatment of Jews earlier in the century.

Drawing on decades of meticulous research, Karabel shines a light on the ever-changing definition of merit in college admissions, showing how it shapedand was shaped bythe country at large. Full of colorful characters, from FDR and Woodrow Wilson to Kingman Brewster and Archibald Cox, The Chosen charts the century-long battle over opportunityand offers a new and deeply original perspective on American history.

Jerome Karabel is a professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, and a senior fellow of the Longview Institute. An award-winning author, he has written for the New York Review of Books, the New York Times Book Review, the Nation, the New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times.

In vivid and electrifying prose, Karabel exposes the intimate and occasionally scandalous social and political relationships that marked college admissions at the Big Three throughout the twentieth century. The Chosen is a refreshingly candid account of the admissions madness at elite colleges, where merit often functioned simply as a handmaiden to power. -- Lani Guinier, Bennett Boskey Professor at Harvard Law School and coauthor of The Miners Canary

Millions of Americans think of the Ivy League as a training ground for the best and brightest. But for most of the twentieth century Harvard, Yale, and Princeton were more interested in sustaining the aristocracy than in shaping the nations intellectual elite. Jerome Karabels marvelous study traces the titanic struggles that defined--and redefined--the Ivy ideal. An utterly absorbing account of politics and privilege on Americas most revered campuses. -- Kevin Boyle, National Book Award-winning author of Arc of Justice

This is a remarkable book. Until you read it, you can have no real idea how crudely these elite universities discriminated in admissions -- against women, Jews, blacks, and others. It is a staggering hidden history. --Anthony Lewis, former New York Times columnist and author of Gideons Trumpet

A magisterial and even-handed account of a vexed and important issue. -- Justin Kaplan, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain and Walt Whitman

As someone who was chosen for Princeton a long time ago (but surely couldnt get in now), I was fascinated by Jerome Karabels full and rich account of how my alma mater, and Harvard and Yale, picked us so often for all the wrong reasons. I learned much more about my species from reading The Chosen than everr I did when I was there myself, in flower. -- Frank Deford, NPR commentator and author of The Old Ball Game

"The Chosen is a tour de force of investigative sociology. Burrowing into the Harvard, Yale, and Princeton archives, Karabel has found out where a lot of minds as well as bodies were buried, then exhumed them and dragged them into the light. Anyone who wishes to understand the shifting grounds of the American establishment should read The Chosen, get shocked by the raw bigotries of the past, and accept Karabels challenge to rethink the meritocratic ideal. -- Todd Gitlin, professor of journalism and sociology, Columbia University, and author of The Sixties

This dispassionate book deals with the reluctant, often painful, always controversial, processes by which the Big Three -- Harvard, Yale, Princeton -- have democratized themselves. The Chosen is a fascinating study in American cultural history." -- Arthur Schlesingerr, Jr., historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author ooooof A Thousand Days
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The Creation Of The Media: Political Origins Of Modern Communications
by Paul Starr

ISBN 0465081940 (0-465-08194-0)
Softcover, Basic Books

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America's leading role in today's information revolution may seem simply to reflect its position as the world's dominant economy and most powerful state. But by the early nineteenth century, when the United States was neither a world power nor a primary center of scientific discovery, it was already a leader in communications-in postal service and newspaper publishing, then in development of the telegraph and telephone networks, later in the whole repertoire of mass communications.In this wide-ranging social history of American media, from the first printing press to the early days of radio, Paul Starr shows that the creation of modern communications was as much the result of political choices as of technological invention. His original historical analysis reveals how the decisions that led to a state-run post office and private monopolies on the telegraph and telephone systems affected a developing society. He illuminates contemporary controversies over freedom of information by exploring such crucial formative issues as freedom of the press, intellectual property, privacy, public access to information, and the shaping of specific technologies and institutions. America's critical choices in these areas, Starr argues, affect the long-run path of development in a society and have had wide social, economic, and even military ramifications. The Creation of the Media not only tells the history of the media in a new way; it puts America and its global influence into a new perspective.
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Darwin's Forgotten Defenders
by David N. Livingstone

ISBN 1573830933 (1-57383-093-3)
Softcover, Regent College Pub

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Darwin's Forgotten Defenders: The Encounter Between Evangelical Theology and Evolutionary Thought
by David N. Livingstone

ISBN 0802802605 (0-8028-0260-5)
Softcover, Eerdmans Pub Co

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The Day Is Ours!: An Inside View of the Battles of Trenton and Princeton, November 1776-January 1777
by William M. Dwyer

ISBN 0813526086 (0-8135-2608-6)
Softcover, Rutgers Univ Pr

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Forging Industrial Policy: The United States, Britain, and France in the Railway Age
by Frank Dobbin

ISBN 052162990X (0-521-62990-X)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr

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Heartwood: The First Generation of Theravada Buddhism in America
by Wendy Cadge

ISBN 0226089002 (0-226-08900-2)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr

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History of Princeton Seminary
by David B. Calhoun

ISBN 0851516955 (0-85151-695-5)
Hardcover, Banner of Truth

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The Illustrated Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era Leather
by James M. McPherson

ISBN 0195159012 (0-19-515901-2)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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This collector's quality, leather-bound edition of The Illustrated Battle Cry of Freedom, is hand-signed and numbered by the author, James M. McPherson. It features high-quality paper, colored end-papers, gold-foil edging, and packaged in a sturdy box-wrap. Order today, because quantities are limited.
Winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for History and a New York Times Bestseller, Battle Cry of Freedom is universally recognized as the definitive account of the Civil War. It was hailed in The New York Times as "historical writing of the highest order." The Washington Post called it "the finest single volume on the war and its background." And The Los Angeles Times wrote that "of the 50,000 books written on the Civil War, it is the finest compression of that national paroxysm ever fitted between two covers."
Now available in a splendid new edition is The Illustrated Battle Cry of Freedom. Boasting some seven hundred pictures, including a hundred and fifty color images and twenty-four full-color maps, here is the ultimate gift book for everyone interested in American history. McPherson has selected all the illustrations, including rare contemporary photographs, period cartoons, etchings, woodcuts, and paintings, carefully choosing those that best illuminate the narrative. More important, he has written extensive captions (some 35,000 words in all, virtually a book in themselves), many of which offer genuinely new information and interpretations that significantly enhance the text. The text itself, streamlined by McPherson, remains a fast-paced narrative that brilliantly captures two decades of contentious American history, from the Mexican War to Lee's surrender at Appomattox. The reader will find a truly masterful chronicle of the war itself--the battles, the strategic maneuvering on both sides, the politics, and the personalities--as well as McPherson's thoughtful commentary on such matters as the slavery expansion issue in the 1850s, the origins of the Republican Party, the causes of secession, internal dissent and anti-war opposition in the North and the South, and the reasons for the Union's victory.
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The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis
by Walter W. Powell, Paul J. Dimaggio

ISBN 0226677095 (0-226-67709-5)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr

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Long a fruitful area of scrutiny for students of organizations, the study of institutions is undergoing a renaissance in contemporary social science. This volume offers, for the first time, both often-cited foundation works and the latest writings of scholars associated with the "institutional" approach to organization analysis.

In their introduction, the editors discuss points of convergence and disagreement with institutionally oriented research in economics and political science, and locate the "institutional" approach in relation to major developments in contemporary sociological theory. Several chapters consolidate the theoretical advances of the past decade, identify and clarify the paradigm's key ambiguities, and push the theoretical agenda in novel ways by developing sophisticated arguments about the linkage between institutional patterns and forms of social structure. The empirical studies that follow--involving such diverse topics as mental health clinics, art museums, large corporations, civil-service systems, and national polities--illustrate the explanatory power of institutional theory in the analysis of organizational change.

Required reading for anyone interested in the sociology of organizations, the volume should appeal to scholars concerned with culture, political institutions, and social change.

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Person & Work of Christ
by Benjamin B. Warfield

ISBN 0875525296 (0-87552-529-6)
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Pricing the Priceless Child: The Changing Social Value of Children
by Viviana A. Zelizer

ISBN 0691034591 (0-691-03459-1)
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In this landmark book, sociologist Viviana Zelizer traces the emergence of the modern child, at once economically "useless" and emotionally "priceless," from the late 1800s to the 1930s. Having established laws removing many children from the marketplace, turn-of-the-century America was discovering new, sentimental criteria to determine a child's monetary worth. The heightened emotional status of children resulted, for example, in the legal justification of children's life insurance policies and in large damages awarded by courts to their parents in the event of death. A vivid account of changing attitudes toward children, this book dramatically illustrates the limits of economic views of life that ignore the pervasive role of social, cultural, emotional, and moral factors in our marketplace world.
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The Princeton Murders
by Ann Waldron

ISBN 0425188205 (0-425-18820-5)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group

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Princeton Seminary: Faith and Learning 1812-1868
by David B. Calhoun

ISBN 085151670X (0-85151-670-X)
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David Calhoun has captured more than the genius of the Seminary's thinkers. Like earlier students who sat at the feet of the Alexanders and the Hodges and under the hearing of Miller and Warfield, the author also has imbibed the piety of their spirit.

Especially does this first volume portray the godly balance of "faith and learning," a pattern that Alexander and Miller established at Princeton Seminary. These were men who first had ministered in established churches or on the revival circuit. They had witnessed God's Spirit at work and knew the minister's need of daily grace and divine intervention.

The 1800s did not bring all smooth sailing for the students and professors of Princeton's ivy halls. There were theological and church controversies in the new land that shaped the Princeton tradition. There were political issues and ultimately civil war. At every turn, however, the school's identity was defined by the Bible's application to contemporary challenge; the conscience of Princeton and its graduates spoke to the nation.

Princeton Seminary: Faith and Learning plays the most brilliant tones that the American church has ever produced. Rich in personal anecdote, the book's message is a long hymn of praise to the God Who molded Princeton Seminary for His glory.

David Calhoun has mined a treasure. In the lives of the early professors at Princeton Seminary he has brought to light a long-hidden wealth of wisdom and biblical piety. His account is enough to inspire excellence in coming generations of pastors and teachers who may search for a model for ministry. The original Princeton Seminary has set that unsurpassable model.
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The Princeton Theology 1812-1921: Scripture, Science, and Theological Method from Archibald Alexander to Ben Jamin Breckinridge Warfield
by Mark A. Noll

ISBN 0801067375 (0-8010-6737-5)
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The Real Rule of Four
by Joscelyn Godwin

ISBN 1932857087 (1-932857-08-7)
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The Return of Martin Guerre
by Natalie Davis

ISBN 0674766911 (0-674-76691-1)
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The Inventive Peasant Arnaud du Tilh had almost persuaded the learned judges at the Parlement of Toulouse, when on a summer's day in 1560 a man swaggered into the court on a wooden leg, denounced Arnaud, and reestablished his claim to the identity, property, and wife of Martin Guerre. The astonishing case captured the imagination of the Continent. Told and retold over the centuries, the story of Martin Guerre became a legend, still remembered in the Pyrenean village where the impostor was executed more than 400 years ago.
Now a noted historian, who served as consultant for a new French film on Martin Guerre, has searched archives and lawbooks to add new dimensions to a tale already abundant in mysteries: we are led to ponder how a common man could become an impostor in the sixteenth century, why Bertrande de Rols, an honorable peasant woman, would accept such a man as her husband, and why lawyers, poets, and men of letters like Montaigne became so fascinated with the episode.
Natalie Zemon Davis reconstructs the lives of ordinary people, in a sparkling way that reveals the hidden attachments and sensibilities of nonliterate sixteenth-century villagers. Here we see men and women trying to fashion their identities within a world of traditional ideas about property and family and of changing ideas about religion. We learn what happens when common people get involved in the workings of the criminal courts in the ancien régime, and how judges struggle to decide who a man was in the days before fingerprints and photographs. We sense the secret affinity between the eloquent men of law and the honey-tongued village impostor, a rare identification across class lines.
Deftly written to please both the general public and specialists, The Return of Martin Guerre will interest those who want to know more about ordinary families and especially women of the past, and about the creation of literary legends. It is also a remarkable psychological narrative about where self-fashioning stops and lying begins.
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The Rule Of Four
by Ian Caldwell, Dustin Thomason

ISBN 1844130053 (1-84413-005-3)
Hardcover, Century

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A New York Times Bestseller
An ivy league murder, a mysterious coded manuscript, and the secrets of a Renaissance prince collide - a brilliant work of fiction that weaves together suspense and scholarship, high art and unimaginable treachery. Princeton. Good Friday, 1999. On the eve of graduation, two students are a hairsbreadth from solving the mysteries of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, a Renaissance text that has baffled scholars for centuries.
Famous for its hypnotic power over those who study it, the book may finally reveal its secrets - to Tom Sullivan, whose father was obsessed with it, and Paul Harris, whose future depends on it - when an ancient diary surfaces. Armed with the final clue, the two friends delve into a world of forgotten erudition, strange sexual appetites, and terrible violence. But just as they begin to realize the magnitude of their discovery, the campus is rocked: a longtime student of the book has been murdered.
Ian Caldwell was Phi Beta Kappa in history at Princeton University. He lives in Newport News, Virginia. Dustin Thomason won the Hoopes Prize at Harvard University. He lives in New York City. They began writing The Rule of Four after graduating in 1998. The two have been best friends since they were eight years old. [via]
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A Sense of Where You Are
by John McPhee

ISBN 0374260931 (0-374-26093-1)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux

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A Sense of Where You Are: A Profile of William Warren Bradley
by John A. McPhee

ISBN 0374526893 (0-374-52689-3)
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The Shadow of God : A Journey Through Memory, Art, and Faith
by Scribner, Charles, III

ISBN 0385516584 (0-385-51658-4)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing

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Systematic Theology
by Charles Hodge

ISBN 1565634594 (1-56563-459-4)
Hardcover, Hendrickson Pub

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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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This Side of Paradise
by F. Scott Fitzgerald

ISBN 1404333517 (1-4043-3351-7)
Softcover, Indypublish.Com

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Fitzgerald's first novel, reprinted in the handsome Everyman's Library series of literary classic, uses numerous formal experiments to tell the story of Amory Blaine, as he grows up during the crazy years following the First World War. It also contains a new introduction by Craig Raine that describes critical and popular reception of the book when it came out in 1920. [via]
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Vermeer and His Milieu: A Web of Social History
by John M. Montias

ISBN 0691002894 (0-691-00289-4)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr

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Washington's Crossing
by David Hackett Fischer

ISBN 019518159X (0-19-518159-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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Six months after the Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution was all but lost. A powerful British force had routed the Americans at New York, occupied three colonies, and advanced within sight of Philadelphia.

Yet, as David Hackett Fischer recounts in this riveting history, George Washington--and many other Americans--refused to let the Revolution die. On Christmas night, as a howling nor'easter struck the Delaware Valley, he led his men across the river and attacked the exhausted Hessian garrison at Trenton, killing or capturing nearly a thousand men. A second battle of Trenton followed within days. The Americans held off a counterattack by Lord Cornwallis's best troops, then were almost trapped by the British force. Under cover of night, Washington's men stole behind the enemy and struck them again, defeating a brigade at Princeton. The British were badly shaken. In twelve weeks of winter fighting, their army suffered severe damage, their hold on New Jersey was broken, and their strategy was ruined.

Fischer's richly textured narrative reveals the crucial role of contingency in these events. We see how the campaign unfolded in a sequence of difficult choices by many actors, from generals to civilians, on both sides. While British and German forces remained rigid and hierarchical, Americans evolved an open and flexible system that was fundamental to their success. The startling success of Washington and his compatriots not only saved the faltering American Revolution, but helped to give it new meaning. [via]
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Who Got Einstein's Office: Eccentricity and Genius at the Institute for Advanced Study
by Edward Regis

ISBN 0201122782 (0-201-12278-2)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group

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Works of Benjamin Warfield
by Warfield

ISBN 0801096456 (0-8010-9645-6)
Hardcover, Baker Pub Group

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The most complete set available of the writings of the Princeton theology professor known for his precise Calvinistic scholarship, keen logic, and spiritual insight. [via]
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Una Mente Prodigiosa / A Beautiful Mind
by Sylvia Nasar, Ricard Martinez Muntada

ISBN 8497934393 (84-9793-439-3)
Softcover, Debolsillo

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