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An Academic Questionby Barbara PymISBN 0525244417 (0-525-24441-7)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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The Aeneid of Virgilby Virgil, Allen MandelbaumISBN 0520016203 (0-520-01620-3)
Hardcover, University of California Press
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The Aeneid of Virgilby Allen MandlebaumISBN 0520045505 (0-520-04550-5)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Aeneid of Virgil'Book summary:This deluxe edition of Virgil's epic poems, recounting the wanderings of Aeneas and his companions after the fall of Troy, contains a new preface by Allen Mandelbaum and fourteen powerful renderings created by Barry Moser to illustrate this volume.[via]More editions of The Aeneid of Virgil:
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found Thereby Lewis Carroll, John TennielISBN 0529050315 (0-529-05031-5)
Hardcover, Collins-World
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There'Book summary:That Alice. When she's not traipsing after a rabbit into Wonderland, she's gallivanting off into the topsy-turvy world behind the drawing-room looking glass. In Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll's masterful and zany sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, she makes more eccentric acquaintances, including Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the White Queen, and a somewhat grumpy Humpty Dumpty. Through a giant and elaborate chess game, Alice explores this odd country, where one must eat dry biscuits to quench thirst, and run like the wind to stay in one place. As in life, Alice must stay on her toes to learn the rules of this game. Through the Looking Glass immediately took its rightful place beside its partner on the shelf of eternal classics. And luckily for generations of enraptured children, Carroll was again able to persuade John Tenniel to create the fantastic woodblock engravings that have become so indelibly associated with the Alice stories. For almost 130 years, Alice's curious adventures have amused, perplexed, and delighted readers, young and old. This gorgeous, deluxe boxed set of both volumes contains engravings from Tenniel's original woodblocks that were discovered in a London bank in 1985, and reproduced for the first time here. "'What is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures?'" What indeed? (All ages) [via]
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The Argonautika: The Story of Jason and the Quest for the Golden Fleeceby Apollonios Rhodios, Peter GreenISBN 0520076877 (0-520-07687-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Argonautika: The Story of Jason and the Quest for the Golden Fleece'Book summary:The Argonautika, the only surviving epic of the Hellenistic era, is a retelling of the tale of Jason and the Golden Fleece, probably the oldest extant Greek myth. Jason, a young prince, is sent on a perilous expedition but comes through various ordeals with the aid of the king's daughter, Medeia, winning the golden fleece and carrying off Medeia herself. He is a very modern figure, not at all Achillean: almost an anti-hero. Along the way, the story incorporates vivid accounts of early exploration and colonizing ventures. Peter Green's lively, readable verse translation captures the swift narrative movement of Apollonios's epic Greek.[via]
Apollonios Rhodios (c. 305-235 B.C.), the author of the Argonautika, was appointed Chief Librarian in the legendary library at Alexandria around 265 B.C. His first draft of this poem, composed when he was a very young man, drew scornful reactions from the literati of the day, Kallimachos in particular, who thought epic passé and long poems vulgar. Apollonios withdrew to the maritime island of Rhodes (his work is notable for its nautical expertise), where he hammered out the text as we know it today, returning to eventual success in the city that had rejected him. The compromise that resulted is a fascinating combination of age-old myth and modern treatment that produces a gripping and unforgettable narrative. Peter Green has translated this renowned poem with skill and wit, offering a refreshing interpretation of a timeless story.
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The Argonautikaby Apollonius, Peter GreenISBN 0520076869 (0-520-07686-9)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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Apollonios Rhodios (c. 305-235 B.C.), the author of the Argonautika, was appointed Chief Librarian in the legendary library at Alexandria around 265 B.C. His first draft of this poem, composed when he was a very young man, drew scornful reactions from the literati of the day, Kallimachos in particular, who thought epic passé and long poems vulgar. Apollonios withdrew to the maritime island of Rhodes (his work is notable for its nautical expertise), where he hammered out the text as we know it today, returning to eventual success in the city that had rejected him. The compromise that resulted is a fascinating combination of age-old myth and modern treatment that produces a gripping and unforgettable narrative. Peter Green has translated this renowned poem with skill and wit, offering a refreshing interpretation of a timeless story.
The cloth edition of the Argonautika includes Peter Green's lively and incisive commentary, the first on all four books since Mooney's in 1912. While clarifying text and background, the commentary takes full advantage throughout of the recent upsurge of scholarly interest in Apollonios.
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Aristotle: Politicsby Aristotle, Stephen EversonISBN 0521357314 (0-521-35731-4)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Augustine Political Writings: Political Writingsby E. M. Edtatkins, E.M. Atkins, Robert J. DodaroISBN 0521441722 (0-521-44172-2)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Augustine Political Writings: Political Writingsby E.M. Atkins, Robert J. DodaroISBN 052144697X (0-521-44697-X)
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Beowulfby Edwin MorganISBN 0520008812 (0-520-00881-2)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beowulf'Book summary:This translation of Beowulf was made in the last years of the 1940s and was published in hardback by the Hand and Flower Press in 1952. In the present Carcanet edition, poem and introduction have been kept the same. [via]
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Birthing the Nation: Strategies of Palestinian Women in Israelby Rhoda Ann Kanaaneh, Hanan AshrawiISBN 0520229444 (0-520-22944-4)
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Buddha Is Hiding: Refugees, Citizenship, and the New Americaby Aihwa OngISBN 0520238249 (0-520-23824-9)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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C. The New Cambridge English Course: Practice 1 + Keyby Michael Swan, Catherine WalterISBN 0521664918 (0-521-66491-8)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Ruleby Ann Laura StolerISBN 0520231112 (0-520-23111-2)
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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieriby Dante AlighieriISBN 0520045165 (0-520-04516-5)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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Emmaby Jane Austen, Dorothy McMillan, Richard CroninISBN 0521824370 (0-521-82437-0)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Emma'Book summary:Of all Jane Austen's heroines, Emma Woodhouse is the most flawed, the most infuriating, and, in the end, the most endearing. Pride and Prejudice's Lizzie Bennet has more wit and sparkle; Catherine Morland in Northanger Abbey more imagination; and Sense and Sensibility's Elinor Dashwood certainly more sense--but Emma is lovable precisely because she is so imperfect. Austen only completed six novels in her lifetime, of which five feature young women whose chances for making a good marriage depend greatly on financial issues, and whose prospects if they fail are rather grim. Emma is the exception: "Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her." One may be tempted to wonder what Austen could possibly find to say about so fortunate a character. The answer is, quite a lot.
For Emma, raised to think well of herself, has such a high opinion of her own worth that it blinds her to the opinions of others. The story revolves around a comedy of errors: Emma befriends Harriet Smith, a young woman of unknown parentage, and attempts to remake her in her own image. Ignoring the gaping difference in their respective fortunes and stations in life, Emma convinces herself and her friend that Harriet should look as high as Emma herself might for a husband--and she zeroes in on an ambitious vicar as the perfect match. At the same time, she reads too much into a flirtation with Frank Churchill, the newly arrived son of family friends, and thoughtlessly starts a rumor about poor but beautiful Jane Fairfax, the beloved niece of two genteelly impoverished elderly ladies in the village. As Emma's fantastically misguided schemes threaten to surge out of control, the voice of reason is provided by Mr. Knightly, the Woodhouse's longtime friend and neighbor. Though Austen herself described Emma as "a heroine whom no one but myself will much like," she endowed her creation with enough charm to see her through her most egregious behavior, and the saving grace of being able to learn from her mistakes. By the end of the novel Harriet, Frank, and Jane are all properly accounted for, Emma is wiser (though certainly not sadder), and the reader has had the satisfaction of enjoying Jane Austen at the height of her powers. --Alix Wilber [via]
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The English Language: A Historical Introductionby Charles BarberISBN 0521785707 (0-521-78570-7)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The English Language: A Historical Introduction'Book summary:The English Language: A Historical Introduction covers the history of the English language from its remote Indo-European origins to the present day. It provides substantial information about the English language at different periods, and introduces the main theoretical and technical concepts of historical linguistics. Chapters on the nature of language and on language change are followed by a chronological survey, beginning in the Prehistoric age and working down from Anglo-Saxon times to the twentieth century. Topics covered include vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, semantics, attitudes to language, and English as a world language. Short passages of English are used to illustrate the state of the language in different periods and all over the world, in a range of contexts. This thoroughly updated edition of Charles Barber's The Story of Language is the ideal introduction to the subject for students of English language and linguistics, accessible to all readers who are curious about language. [via]
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English Phonetics And Phonology: A Practical Courseby Peter RoachISBN 0521282527 (0-521-28252-7)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'English Phonetics And Phonology: A Practical Course'Book summary:These audio cassettes accompany a basic course in English phonetics and phonology, for native and non-native speakers who may be training to teach English or studying the language at advanced level. The edition takes account of recent developments in the teaching of phonology. [via]
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English Phonetics and Phonology: A Practical Course/Student's Editionby Peter John RoachISBN 0521786134 (0-521-78613-4)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'English Phonetics and Phonology: A Practical Course/Student's Edition'Book summary:Recognised as the most practical and comprehensive text in the field of phonetics, this third edition of English Phonetics and Phonology includes revised transcriptions, a wider discussion of different varieties of English and an updated treatment of intonation. [via]
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The Enterprise University: Power, Governance and Reinvention in Australiaby Mark Considine, Simon MarginsonISBN 052179448X (0-521-79448-X)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Fairy Talesby Milo Winter, H.C. Andersen, Valdemar Edward PaulsenISBN 0528821679 (0-528-82167-9)
Hardcover, Rand McNally
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The First Quarto of Hamletby William Shakespeare, Jay L. Halio, A. R. Braunmuller, Brian GibbonsISBN 0521587077 (0-521-58707-7)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The First Quarto of King Lear'Book summary:The first printed text of Shakespeare's Hamlet is about half the length of the more familiar second quarto and Folio versions. It reorders and combines key plot elements to present its own workable alternatives. This is the only modernized critical edition of the 1603 quarto in print. Kathleen Irace explains its possible origins, special features and surprisingly rich performance history, and while describing textual differences between it and other versions, offers alternatives that actors or directors might choose for specific productions. [via]
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Fundamentals of Geophysicsby William LowrieISBN 0521467284 (0-521-46728-4)
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Goode's World Atlasby John C. Hudson, Espenshade, Edward B., Jr.ISBN 0528843362 (0-528-84336-2)
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Goode's World Atlasby Edward B. Espenshade, Joel L. Morrison, John C. HudsonISBN 0528839985 (0-528-83998-5)
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The Great Gatsbyby F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew Joseph BruccoliISBN 0521402301 (0-521-40230-1)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great Gatsby'Book summary:In 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald announced his decision to write "something new--something extraordinary and beautiful and simple + intricately patterned." That extraordinary, beautiful, intricately patterned, and above all, simple novel became The Great Gatsby, arguably Fitzgerald's finest work and certainly the book for which he is best known. A portrait of the Jazz Age in all of its decadence and excess, Gatsby captured the spirit of the author's generation and earned itself a permanent place in American mythology. Self-made, self-invented millionaire Jay Gatsby embodies some of Fitzgerald's--and his country's--most abiding obsessions: money, ambition, greed, and the promise of new beginnings. "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning--" Gatsby's rise to glory and eventual fall from grace becomes a kind of cautionary tale about the American Dream.
It's also a love story, of sorts, the narrative of Gatsby's quixotic passion for Daisy Buchanan. The pair meet five years before the novel begins, when Daisy is a legendary young Louisville beauty and Gatsby an impoverished officer. They fall in love, but while Gatsby serves overseas, Daisy marries the brutal, bullying, but extremely rich Tom Buchanan. After the war, Gatsby devotes himself blindly to the pursuit of wealth by whatever means--and to the pursuit of Daisy, which amounts to the same thing. "Her voice is full of money," Gatsby says admiringly, in one of the novel's more famous descriptions. His millions made, Gatsby buys a mansion across Long Island Sound from Daisy's patrician East Egg address, throws lavish parties, and waits for her to appear. When she does, events unfold with all the tragic inevitability of a Greek drama, with detached, cynical neighbor Nick Carraway acting as chorus throughout. Spare, elegantly plotted, and written in crystalline prose, The Great Gatsby is as perfectly satisfying as the best kind of poem. [via]
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Hamletby William Shakespeare, Philip Edwards, Philip EdwadsISBN 0521532523 (0-521-53252-3)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hamlet'Book summary:Undoubtedly the most famous of all of Shakespeare's plays, Hamlet remains one of the most enduring but also enigmatic pieces of western literature. The story of Hamlet, the young Prince of Denmark, his tortured relationship with his mother, and his quest to avenge his father's murder at the hand of his brother Claudius has fascinated writers and audiences ever since it was written around 1600.
For many years interest focused on both Hamlet's inability to avenge his father's death, claiming that "the native hue of resolution / Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought", and, according to none other than Freud, his oedipal fixation with his mother. However, more recently critics have turned their attention to Hamlet's bold theatrical self-reflexivity (most famously reflected in the performance of "The Mousetrap"), its fascination with issues of theology and Renaissance humanism, and its dense, complex poetic language. What is so remarkable about the play is the way in which it tends to uncannily reflect the concerns of different epochs. As a result, Hamlet has been at different moments defined as a romantic rebel, an angst-ridden existentialist, a paralysed intellectual and an ambivalent New Man. Whatever subsequent generations make of Hamlet, they are unlikely to exhaust the possibilities of this most extraordinary play. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - Hamlet: ISBN 0521293669 (0-521-29366-9)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - Hamlet: ISBN 0521434947 (0-521-43494-7)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - Hamlet: ISBN 0521646359 (0-521-64635-9)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - Hamlet: ISBN 052122151X (0-521-22151-X)
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Homer, Odyssey Books Vi-VIIIby A.F. GarvieISBN 0521338409 (0-521-33840-9)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Homer, Odyssey Books Vi-VIII'Book summary:This is the first self-contained edition of Books VI-VIII of the Odyssey--the account of Odysseus' time among the Phaeacians, and a popular introduction to Homer. While not neglecting matters of language and formulaic composition, the Commentary aims to provide guidance on questions of literary and narrative technique and poetic artistry. The Introduction deals with the problem of Homeric composition in general, and with the place of the Phaeacian books in the poem as a whole. There are also brief sections on Homeric meter and the text. [via]
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The House in Norham Gardensby Penelope LivelyISBN 0525323155 (0-525-32315-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Human Rights in International Relationsby David P. ForsytheISBN 0521684277 (0-521-68427-7)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Human Rights in International Relations'Book summary:This new textbook provides an introduction to human rights in international relations at the turn of the twenty-first century. It examines the policy-making process that establishes and tries to apply human rights norms through the UN, regional organizations, state foreign policy, human rights groups, and transnational corporations. It documents the many changes in international human rights during the past half-century, and considers the future of universal human rights. Containing chapter-by-chapter guides to further reading and discussion questions, this book will be of interest to undergraduate and graduate students of human rights, and their teachers. [via]
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Jane Eyreby Charlotte Bronte, Susan M. CockcroftISBN 052156865X (0-521-56865-X)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jane Eyre'Book summary:Cambridge Literature is a series of literary texts edited for study by students aged 14-18 in English-speaking classrooms. It will include novels, poetry, short stories, essays, travel-writing and other non-fiction. The series will be extensive and open-ended and will provide school students with a range of edited texts taken from a wide geographical spread. It will include writing in English from various genres and differing times. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte is edited by Susan Cockcroft of Mackworth College, Derby. [via]
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Kant: Political Writingsby Hans ReissISBN 0521292123 (0-521-29212-3)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kant: Political Writings'Book summary:The original edition of Kant: Political Writings was first published in 1970, and has long been established as the principal English-language edition of this important body of writing. In this new, expanded edition two important texts illustrating Kant's view of history are included for the first time, his reviews of Herder's Ideas on the Philosophy of the History of Mankind and Conjectures on the Beginning of Human History, as well as the essay What is Orientation in Thinking?. In addition to a general introduction assessing Kant's political thought in terms of his fundamental principles of politics, this edition also contains such useful student aids as notes on the texts, a comprehensive bibliogaphy and a new postscript, looking at some of the principal issues in Kantian scholarship that have arisen since the first edition. [via]
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Kant Political Writings: Political Writingsby Immanuel Kant, Hans Siegbert ReissISBN 0521398371 (0-521-39837-1)
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Kant's Political Writingsby Immanuel Kant, Hans Siegbert ReissISBN 0521077176 (0-521-07717-6)
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King Learby William Shakespeare, Jonathan Morris, Elsbeth Bain, Rob SmithISBN 0521466970 (0-521-46697-0)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'King Lear'Book summary:King Lear stands alongside Hamlet as one of the most profound expressions of tragic drama in literature. Written between 1604 and 1605, it represents Shakespeare at the height of his dramatic power. Drawing on ancient British history, Shakespeare constructs a plot that reads like a fable in its clear-sighted but terrifying simplicity. The ageing King Lear calls his daughters, Goneril, Regan and Cordelia to witness that he wishes "to shake all cares and business from our age" and divide his kingdom between his three children. When Cordelia refuses to flatter her father with sycophantic words of love, her banishment leads to chaos and civil war as Lear's disastrous "division of the kingdom" gives free reign to the greed and ambition of his two remaining daughters.
As Lear sinks into rage and madness he is deserted by everyone except his "bitter" Fool, the loyal Kent and the exiled Cordelia. The play descends into a nighmarish theatre of cruelty and absurdity as Lear realises he has "ta'en / Too little care" of the poverty and corruption of his kingdom, and his loyal but foolish friend Gloucester has his eyes gouged out. Metaphors of monstrosity and perversions of nature structure the dramatic action, and the play's ending remains one of the most harrowing in all of Shakespeare. Many see a profound despair and nihilism in King Lear, and would agree with Kent's conclusion that "All's cheerless, dark and deadly". Other writers have identified a radical but pessimistic critique of contemporary conceptions of kingship and absolutist authority, yet it remains a remarkable tragedy of public misjudgement and intensely private grief and anguish. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Learner English: A Teacher's Guide to Interference and Other Problemsby Bernard Smith, Michael SwanISBN 0521779391 (0-521-77939-1)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Learner English: A Teacher's Guide to Interference and Other Problems'Book summary:This updated edition is a practical reference guide which compares the relevant features of a student's own language with English, helping teachers to predict and understand the problems their students have. Learner English has chapters focusing on major problems of pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary and other errors as well as new chapters covering Korean, Malay/Indonesian and Polish language backgrounds. [via]
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Logic in Computer Science: Modelling and Reasoning About Systemsby Mark Ryan, Michael HuthISBN 052154310X (0-521-54310-X)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Languageby Eva HoffmanISBN 0525246010 (0-525-24601-0)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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New Cambridge English Course 1by Michael SwanISBN 0521376378 (0-521-37637-8)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'New Cambridge English Course 1'Book summary:The New Cambridge English Course, complete in four levels, provides teachers of adult and young adult learners with the most thorough and comprehensive modern course available, for beginner through to upper-intermediate level.Levels 1 and 2 have firmly established The New Cambridge English Course as the one course which provides the wide range of features needed for successful achievement and steady progress at the beginner and low-intermediate stages: - a multi-syllabus approach, systematically covering all aspects of language from grammar, notions and functions through to pronunciation, skills and vocabulary - effective development of fluency through controlled and freer activities, as well as thorough grounding in accuracy - wide range of topics, exercises and tasks, providing stimulus and variety for both teachers and learners - very clear organisation of teaching material, explicit aims for each lesson, high quality of page design, and detailed notes for teachers in the Teacher's Book (interleaved with the student's pages) - carefully-paced lessons, providing a minimum of 72 hours class work at each level - opportunities for self-study and learner choice in the Practice Books; frequent revision, informal testing in the Student's Books, with more formal testing in the additional Test Books for the teacher The New Cambridge English Course Level 3-Intermediate and Level 4-Upper-intermediate can be used by learners who have studied Levels 1 and 2, or as intermediate and upper-intermediate courses in their own right. The organisation and structure of the course has particular benefits at these levels, enabling learners to make clearly-marked progress through the " intermediate plateau", deepening their knowledge of grammar and vocabulary and at the same time developing their fluency and communication skills. The overall approach of the series ensures variety, personal involvement, stimulation and growth at this all-important level. Level 4 takes learners up to First Certificate standard, where they can take this or an equivalent exam with confidence, given suitable exam skills practice. [via]
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The Odyssey of Homerby Allen MandelbaumISBN 0520070216 (0-520-07021-6)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Odyssey of Homer'Book summary:The most popular epic of Western culture springs to life in Allen Mandelbaum's magnificent translation.
Homer's masterpiece tells the story of Odysseus, the ideal Greek hero, as he travels home to Ithaca after the Trojan Wara journey of ten years and countless thrilling adventures. Rich in Greek folklore and myth, featuring gods and goddesses, monsters and sorceresses, The Odyssey has enchanted listeners around the world for thousands of years.
Mandelbaum's robust, romantic, lyrical translation has an openness and immediacy unsurpassed by any other. Read aloud, it is a wonderful way to experience this enduring classic. [via]More editions of The Odyssey of Homer:
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Othelloby William Shakespeare, Scott McMillinISBN 0521535174 (0-521-53517-4)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Othello'Book summary:This new edition of Othello is part of the established Cambridge School Shakespeare series and has been substantially updated with new and revised activities throughout. Remaining faithful to the series' active approach it treats the play as a script to be acted, explored and enjoyed. As well as the complete script of Othello, you will find a variety of classroom-tested activities, an eight-page colour section and an enlarged selection of notes including information on characters, performance, history and language. [via]
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Othelloby Norman SandersISBN 0521294541 (0-521-29454-1)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Othello'Book summary:If anything, Othello has increased its stature as one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies ever since it was first written, between 1603 and 1604, due to the victimisation suffered by its tragic hero, Othello, as a result of his skin colour. Othello is a "noble Moor", a North African Muslim who has converted to Christianity and is deemed one of the Venetian state's most reliable soldiers. However, his ensign Iago harbours an obscure hatred against his general, and when Othello secretly marries the beautiful daughter of the Venetian senator Brabanzio, Iago begins his subtle campaign of vilification which will inevitably lead to the deaths of more than just Othello and Desdemona.
An extraordinary play, both for its dramatic economy and power as well as its remarkable language, from Othello's bombastic "traveller's history" to Desdemona's elegiac "willow song", the play raises uncomfortable questions about ongoing problems of not only racial identity but also sexuality, as Othello and Desdemona's sexual relationship becomes the voyeuristic site of Iago's attempt to destroy them. Particularly fascinated with the question of what it means to "see", Othello also contains one of the greatest tragic death scenes in all of Shakespeare, with Othello's final identification with "a malignant and a turbaned Turk". --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Persuasionby Jane Austen, Janet M. Todd, Antje BlankISBN 0521824184 (0-521-82418-4)
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Politicsby Aristotle, Stephen EversonISBN 0521354498 (0-521-35449-8)
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The Politics of International Lawby Christian Reus-SmitISBN 0521546710 (0-521-54671-0)
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The Pooh Perplex, a Freshman Casebook.by Frederick C. CrewsISBN 0525484116 (0-525-48411-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Prose Eddaby Snorri Sturluson, Jean I. YoungISBN 0520234774 (0-520-23477-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Prose Edda'Book summary:Prose Edda is a work without predecessor or parallel. Snorri Sturluson feared that the traditional techniques of Norse poetics, the pagan kennings, and the allusions to mythology would be forgotten with the introduction of new verse forms from Europe. Prose Edda was designed as a handbook for poets to compose in the style of the skalds of the Viking ages. It is an exposition of the rule of poetic diction with many examples, applications, and retellings of myths and legends. The present selection includes the whole of Gylfaginning (The deluding of Gylfi)--a guide to mythology that forms one of the great storybooks of the Middle Ages--and the longer heroic tales and legends of Skáldskaparmál (Poetic diction). Snorri Sturluson was a master storyteller, and this translation in modern idiom of the inimitable tales of the gods and heroes of the Scandinavian peoples brings them to life again.[via]More editions of The Prose Edda:
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Prose Edda of Snorri Sturlusonby Jean I. YoungISBN 0520012313 (0-520-01231-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Prose Edda of Snorri Sturluson'Book summary:The stirring, bloody, and tragic saga that inspired such artists as Wagner, Borges, and Tolkien
Written in Iceland a century after the close of the Viking Age, The Prose Edda is the source of most of what we know of Norse mythology. Its tales are peopled by giants, dwarves, and elves, superhuman heroes and indomitable warrior queens. Its gods live with the tragic knowledge of their own impending destruction in the cataclysmic battle of Ragnarok. Its time scale spans the eons from the worlds creation to its violent end. This robust new translation captures the magisterial sweep and startling psychological complexity of the Old Icelandic original. [via]More editions of Prose Edda of Snorri Sturluson:
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Prose Edda of Snorri Sturlusonby Snorri Sturlson, Jean Young, Snorri SturlusonISBN 0520012321 (0-520-01232-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Prose Edda of Snorri Sturluson'Book summary:The Prose Edda of Snorri Sturluson: Written by Iceland's most versatile literary genius, Snorri was born in western Iceland in 1179, the son of a great chieftain, and early in his career won a reputation at home and in Norway for his poetic talents. Later he traveled to Norway and wrote the lives of the kings: the Helmskringla Saga, Egil's Saga and St. Olaf's Saga, a work unsurpassed in Icelandic prose. The Prose Edda - edda means "the poetic art" - was designed as a handbook for poets to compose in the style of the skalds of the Viking ages. Snorri feared that the traditional techniques, the pagan kennings, and the allusions to mythology would be forgotten with the introduction of new verse forms from Europe [via]
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Rand Mcnally Goodes World Atlasby John Paul Goode, Edward B. Espensha, Joel L. MorrisonISBN 0528630091 (0-528-63009-1)
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Reading Latinby Peter V. Jones, Keith C. SidwellISBN 0521286239 (0-521-28623-9)
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Reading Latin: Grammar, Vocabulary and Exercisesby Peter V. Jones, Keith C. SidwellISBN 0521286220 (0-521-28622-0)
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Romeo and Julietby William Shakespeare, G. Blakemore EvansISBN 0521532531 (0-521-53253-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Romeo and Juliet'Book summary:This is undoubtedly the greatest love story ever written, spawning a host of imitators on stage and screen, including Leonard Bernstein's smash musical West Side Story, Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet filmed in 1968, and Baz Luhrmann's postmodern film version Romeo + Juliet. The tragic feud between "Two households, both alike in dignity/In fair Verona", the Montagues and Capulets, which ultimately kills the two young "star-crossed lovers" and their "death-marked love" creates issues which have fascinated subsequent generations. The play deals with issues of intergenerational and familial conflict, as well as the power of language and the compelling relationship between sex and death, all of which makes it an incredibly modern play. It is also an early example of Shakespeare fusing poetry with dramatic action, as he moves from Romeo's lyrical account of Juliet--"she doth teach the torches to burn bright!" to the bustle and action of a 16th-century household (the play contains more scenes of ordinary working people than any of Shakespeare's other works). It also represents an experimental attempt to fuse comedy with tragedy. Up to the third act, the play proceeds along the lines of a classic romantic comedy. The turning point comes with the death of one of Shakespeare's finest early dramatic creations--Romeo's sexually ambivalent friend Mercutio, whose "plague o' both your houses" begins the play's descent into tragedy, "For never was a story of more woe/Than this of Juliet and her Romeo". --Jerry Brotton [via]
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The Saga of the Volsungsby Jesse L. ByockISBN 0520232852 (0-520-23285-2)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Saga of the Volsungs'Book summary:The Saga of the Volsungs is an Icelandic prose epic whose anonymous thirteenth-century author based his story on the legends of Old Scandinavian folk culture. A trove of traditional lore, it tells of love, jealousy, vengeance, war, and the mythic deeds of the dragonslayer, Sigurd the Volsung.[via]
The Saga is of special interest to admirers of Richard Wagner, who drew heavily upon this Norse source in writing his Ring Cycle. With its magical ring acquired by the hero, and the sword to be reforged, the saga has also been a primary source for writers of fantasy such as J. R. R. Tolkien and romantics such as William Morris.
Byock's comprehensive introduction explores the history, legends, and myths contained in the saga and traces the development of a narrative that reaches back to the period of the great folk migrations in Europe when the Roman Empire collapsed.More editions of The Saga of the Volsungs:
Social Theory of International Politicsby Alexander WendtISBN 0521469600 (0-521-46960-0)
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This Side of Paradiseby F. Scott Fitzgerald, James L. W. WestISBN 0521402344 (0-521-40234-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'This Side of Paradise'Book summary:F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise is the opening statement of his literary career. Published originally in 1920, the novel captures the rhythm and feel of the gaudy decade that was to follow in America. This Side of Paradise made Fitzgerald simultaneously famous and infamous: famous for the stylish exuberance of his writing and infamous for the errors--in spelling, fact, grammar, and chronology--that peppered his text. This new edition, prepared with the most recent techniques of modern scholarly editing, brings into being an accurate, fully annotated text based on Fitzgerald's original manuscript. [via]
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Titus Andronicusby William Shakespeare, Alan Hughes, Brian Gibbons, A. R. BraunmullerISBN 0521673828 (0-521-67382-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Titus Andronicus'Book summary:A volume in The New Cambridge Shakespeare, newly edited to the meticulous standard for which this series has become known, this edition of Titus Andronicus includes an extensive introduction that leads the reader through the full spectrum of contemporary criticism of the play, major modern productions, and its performance history. Appendices explore how the play might have been performed at the Rose playhouse, which has been recently excavated, and how it could have been adapted for a touring company of fourteen men and boys. [via]
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The Tragedy of King Learby William Shakespeare, William ShakspeareISBN 0521847915 (0-521-84791-5)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tragedy of King Lear'Book summary:King Lear stands alongside Hamlet as one of the most profound expressions of tragic drama in literature. Written between 1604 and 1605, it represents Shakespeare at the height of his dramatic power. Drawing on ancient British history, Shakespeare constructs a plot that reads like a fable in its clear-sighted but terrifying simplicity. The ageing King Lear calls his daughters, Goneril, Regan and Cordelia to witness that he wishes "to shake all cares and business from our age" and divide his kingdom between his three children. When Cordelia refuses to flatter her father with sycophantic words of love, her banishment leads to chaos and civil war as Lear's disastrous "division of the kingdom" gives free reign to the greed and ambition of his two remaining daughters.
As Lear sinks into rage and madness he is deserted by everyone except his "bitter" Fool, the loyal Kent and the exiled Cordelia. The play descends into a nighmarish theatre of cruelty and absurdity as Lear realises he has "ta'en / Too little care" of the poverty and corruption of his kingdom, and his loyal but foolish friend Gloucester has his eyes gouged out. Metaphors of monstrosity and perversions of nature structure the dramatic action, and the play's ending remains one of the most harrowing in all of Shakespeare. Many see a profound despair and nihilism in King Lear, and would agree with Kent's conclusion that "All's cheerless, dark and deadly". Other writers have identified a radical but pessimistic critique of contemporary conceptions of kingship and absolutist authority, yet it remains a remarkable tragedy of public misjudgement and intensely private grief and anguish. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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The Tragedy of King Learby Jay L. HalioISBN 0521612632 (0-521-61263-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tragedy of King Lear'Book summary:For this updated critical edition of King Lear, Jay Halio has added a new introductory section on recent stage, film, and critical interpretations of the play. He provides a comprehensive account of Shakespeare's sources and the literary, political and folkloric influences at work in the play; a detailed reading of the action; and a substantial stage history of major productions. An updated reading list completes the edition. First Edition Hb (1992) 0-521-33111-0 First Edition Pb (1992) 0-521-33729-1 [via]
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