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The Art of Warby Tzu Sun, Samuel B. GriffithISBN 0195014766 (0-19-501476-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Art of War'Book summary:Like Machiavelli's The Prince and the Japanese Book of Five Rings , Sun Tzu's The Art of War is as timely for business people today as it was for military strategists in ancient China. Written in China more than 2,000 years ago, Sun Tzu's classic The Art of War is the first known study of the planning and conduct of military operations. These terse, aphoristic essays are unsurpassed in comprehensiveness and depth of understanding, examining not only battlefield maneuvers, but also relevant economic, political, and psychological factors. Indeed, the precepts outlined by Sun Tzu regularly applied outside the realm of military theory. It is read avidly by Japanese businessmen and was touted in the movie Wall Street as the corporate raider's bible. Providing a much-needed translation of this classic, Samuel Griffith has made this powerful and unique work even more relevant to the modern world. Including an explanatory introduction and selected commentaries on the work, this edition makes Sun Tzu's timeless classic perfectly accessible to modern readers. [via]
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The Art of War: The Essential Translation of the Classic Book of Lifeby Sun-TzuISBN 0195015401 (0-19-501540-1)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Art of War: The Essential Translation of the Classic Book of Life'Book summary:Written in China more than 2,000 years ago, Sun Tzu's classic The Art of War is the first known study of the planning and conduct of military operations. These terse, aphoristic essays are unsurpassed in comprehensiveness and depth of understanding, examining not only battlefield maneuvers, but also relevant economic, political, and psychological factors. Indeed, the precepts outlined by Sun Tzu can be applied outside the realm of military theory. It is read avidly by Japanese businessmen and in fact was touted in the movie Wall Street as the corporate raider's bible.
In addition to an excellent translation of Sun Tzu's text, Samuel Griffith also provides commentaries written by Chinese strategists, plus several thought-provoking essays on topics such as the influence of Sun Tzu on Mao Tse-tung and on Japanese military thought, the nature of warfare in Sun Tzu's time, and the life of Sun Tzu and other important commentators. Remarkable for its clear organization, lucid prose, and the acuity of its intellectual and moral insights, The Art of War is the definitive study of combat. [via]More editions of The Art of War: The Essential Translation of the Classic Book of Life:
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Bacchae and Other Playsby Euripides, James Morwood, Edith HallISBN 019283875X (0-19-283875-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bacchae and Other Plays'Book summary:The four plays newly translated for this volume are among Euripides most exciting works. Iphigenia among the Taurians is a story of escape contrasting Greek and barbarian civilization, set on the Black Sea at the edge of the known world. Bacchae, a profound exploration of the human psyche, deals with the appalling consequences of resistance to Dionysus, god of wine and unfettered emotion. Iphigenia at Aulis centers on the ultimate dysfunctional family as emotion is tested in the crucible of the Greek expedition against Troy. And Rhesus, probably the work of another playwright, is an action-packed Iliad in miniature, dealing with a grisly event in the Trojan War. [via]
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Between Eden and Armageddon: The Future of World Religions, Violence, and Peacemakingby Marc GopinISBN 019513432X (0-19-513432-X)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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The BFGby Roald Dahl, Quentin BlakeISBN 0224020404 (0-224-02040-4)
Hardcover, J. Cape
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The BFG'Book summary:Evidently not even Roald Dahl could resist the acronym craze of the early eighties. BFG? Bellowing ferret-faced golfer? Backstabbing fairy godmother? Oh, oh ... Big Friendly Giant! This BFG doesn't seem all that F at first as he creeps down a London street, snatches little Sophie out of her bed, and bounds away with her to giant land. And he's not really all that B when compared with his evil, carnivorous brethren, who bully him for being such an oddball runt. After all, he eats only disgusting snozzcumbers, and while the other Gs are snacking on little boys and girls, he's blowing happy dreams in through their windows. What kind of way is that for a G to behave?
The BFG is one of Dahl's most lovable character creations. Whether galloping off with Sophie nestled into the soft skin of his ear to capture dreams as though they were exotic butterflies; speaking his delightful, jumbled, squib-fangled patois; or whizzpopping for the Queen, he leaves an indelible impression of bigheartedness. (Ages 9 to 12) [via]
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Black Dogsby Ian McEwanISBN 022403572X (0-224-03572-X)
Hardcover, J. Cape
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Dogs'Book summary:In 1946, a young couple set off on their honeymoon. Fired by their ideals and passion for one another, they plan an idyllic holiday, only to encounter an experience of darkness so terrifying it alters their lives forever. In this highly praised national bestseller, Ian McEwan has written his most humane and compelling novel to date. [via]
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Chronicle of a Death Foretoldby Gabriel Garcia MarquezISBN 0224019902 (0-224-01990-2)
Hardcover, J. Cape
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chronicle of a Death Foretold'Book summary:"Chronicle of a Death Foretold" is a compelling, moving story exploring injustice and mob hysteria by the Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, author of "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and "Love in the Time of Cholera". "On the day they were going to kill him, Santiago Nasar got up at five-thirty in the morning to wait for the boat the bishop was coming on." Santiago Nasar is brutally murdered in a small town by two brothers. All the townspeople knew it was going to happen - including the victim. But nobody did anything to prevent the killing. Twenty seven years later, a man arrives in town to try and piece together the truth from the contradictory testimonies of the townsfolk. To at last understand what happened to Santiago, and why..."A masterpiece." ("Evening Standard"). "A work of high explosiveness - the proper stuff of Nobel prizes. An exceptional novel." ("The Times"). "Brilliant writer, brilliant book." ("Guardian"). As one of the pioneers of magic realism and perhaps the most prominent voice of Latin American literature, Gabriel Garcia Marquez has received international recognition for his novels, works of non-fiction and collections of short stories. Those published in translation by Penguin include "Autumn of the Patriarch", "Bon Voyage Mr. President", "Collected Stories", "The General in his Labyrinth", "In the Evil Hour", "Innocent Erendira and Other Stories", "Leaf Storm", "Living to Tell the Tale", "Love in the Time of Cholera", "Memories of Melancholy Whores", "News of a Kidnapping", "No-one Writes to the Colonel", "Of Love and Other Demons", "The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor" and "Strange Pilgrims". [via]
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Claire Denisby Judith MayneISBN 0252072383 (0-252-07238-3)
Softcover, Univ of Illinois Pr
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Complete Poemsby Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Ollive MabbottISBN 0252069218 (0-252-06921-8)
Softcover, Univ of Illinois Pr
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Concrete Islandby J.G. BallardISBN 0224009702 (0-224-00970-2)
Hardcover, Cape
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Concrete Island'Book summary:On a day in April, just after three o'clock in the afternoon, Robert Maitland's car crashes over the concrete parapet of a high-speed highway onto the island below, where he is injured and, finally, trapped. What begins as an almost ludicrous predicament soon turns into horror as Maitland--a wickedly modern Robinson Crusoe--realizes that, despite evidence of other inhabitants, this doomed terrain has become a mirror of his own mind. Seeking the dark outer rim of the everyday, Ballard weaves private catastrophe into an intensely specular allegory.
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Covering Violence: A Guide to Ethical Reporting About Victims and Traumaby Roger Simpson, William CotTISBN 0231133936 (0-231-13393-6)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Crime and Punishmentby Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Jessie Coulson, Richard Arthur PeaceISBN 0192833839 (0-19-283383-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crime and Punishment'Book summary:Crime and Punishment is one of the most important novels of the nineteenth century. It is the story of a murder committed on principle, of a killer who wishes to set himself outside and above society. The novel is marked by Dostoevsky's own harrowing experience in penal servitude, and yet contains moments of wild humor. This new edition of the authoritative and readable Coulson translation comes with a challenging new introduction and notes that elucidate many of the novel's most important--and difficult--aspects. [via]
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Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy: Infernoby Mark Musa, Dante AlighieriISBN 0253332141 (0-253-33214-1)
Hardcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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"Musas commentary is thorough and clear... recommended." Library Journal
"Among currently available parallel-text editions, this one certainly has the most elaborate and helpful annotation..." Choice
The publication of the first two volumes of the six-volume ÂDivine Comedy brings readers Mark Musas vivid verse translation of the ÂInferno. Musa has revised his earlier version, long cited as the most accessible and reliable of the English translations. The dual-language first volume presents Musas translation with facing Italian text, and compiled in the second volume is his lifetime study of the ÂInferno, where Musa examines and discusses the critical commentary of other Dante scholars and presents his own ideas and interpretations.
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Dante's Infernoby Dante AlighieriISBN 0253141842 (0-253-14184-2)
Hardcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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Dante's Inferno: The Indiana Critical Editionby Mark Musa, Alighieri DanteISBN 0253209307 (0-253-20930-7)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dante's Inferno: The Indiana Critical Edition'Book summary:This new critical edition, including Mark Musas classic translation, provides students with a clear, readable verse translation accompanied by ten innovative interpretations of Dantes masterpiece.
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Deliveranceby James DickeyISBN 0241019273 (0-241-01927-3)
Hardcover, Hamish Hamilton
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Deliverance'Book summary:The setting is the Georgia wilderness, where the states most remote white-water river awaits. In the thundering froth of that river, in its echoing stone canyons, four men on a canoe trip discover a freedom and exhilaration beyond compare. And then, in a moment of horror, the adventure turns into a struggle for survival as one man becomes a human hunter who is offered his own harrowing deliverance.
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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieriby Dante AlighieriISBN 0195004124 (0-19-500412-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri'Book summary:An invaluable source of pleasure to those English readers who wish to read this great medieval classic with true understanding, Sinclair's three-volume prose translation of Dante's Divine Comedy provides both the original Italian text and the Sinclair translation, arranged on facing pages, and commentaries, appearing after each canto, which serve as brilliant examples of genuine literary criticism. [via]
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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Infernoby Robert M. Durling, Alighieri Dante, Robert TurnerISBN 0195087445 (0-19-508744-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Inferno'Book summary:This first volume of Robert Durling's new translation of The Divine Comedy brings a new power and accuracy to the rendering of Dante's extraordinary vision of Hell, with all its terror, pathos, and humor. Remarkably true to both the letter and spirit of this central work of Western literature, Durling's is a prose translation (the first to appear in twenty-five years), and is thus free of the exigencies of meter and rhyme that hamper recent verse translations. As Durling notes, "the closely literal style is a conscious effort to convey in part the nature of Dante's Italian, notoriously craggy and difficult even for Italians." Rigorously accurate as to meaning, it is both clear and supple, while preserving to an unparalleled degree the order and emphases of Dante's complex syntax. The Durling-Martinez Inferno is also user-friendly. The Italian text, newly edited, is printed on each verso page; the English mirrors it in such a way that readers can easily find themselves in relation to the original terza rima . Designed with the first-time reader of Dante in mind, the volume includes comprehensive notes and textual commentary by Martinez and Durling: both are life-long students of Dante and other medieval writers (their Purgatorio and Paradiso will appear next year). Their introduction is a small masterpiece of its kind in presenting lucidly and concisely the historical and conceptual background of the poem. Sixteen short essays are provided that offer new inquiry into such topics as the autobiographical nature of the poem, Dante's views on homosexuality, and the recurrent, problematic body analogy (Hell has a structure parallel to that of the human body). The extensive notes, containing much new material, explain the historical, literary, and doctrinal references, present what is known about the damned souls Dante meets --from the lovers who spend eternity in the whirlwind of their passion, to Count Ugolino, who perpetually gnaws at his enemy's skull--disentangle [via]
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Double Play: The San Francisco City Hall Killingsby Mike WeissISBN 0201095955 (0-201-09595-5)
Hardcover, Addison-Wesley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Double Play: The San Francisco City Hall Killings'Book summary:Double Play - The San Francisco City Hall Killings by Mike Weiss 1984 First Edition- First Printing. 1st/1st Nonfiction/Biography Brown boards w/gilded lettering. [via]
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Ecstasyby Irvine WelshISBN 022404270X (0-224-04270-X)
Hardcover, J. Cape
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Equusby Peter ShafferISBN 0233965432 (0-233-96543-2)
Hardcover, Deutsch
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F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsbyby Nicolas TredellISBN 0231115350 (0-231-11535-0)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'F. Scott Fitzgerald: 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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Family Violence: Legal, Medical, and Social Perspectivesby Harvey WallaceISBN 0205153879 (0-205-15387-9)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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A Festival of Violence: An Analysis of the Lynching of African-Americans in the American South, 1882-1930by Stewart Emory Tolnay, Elwood Meredith BeckISBN 0252064135 (0-252-06413-5)
Softcover, Univ of Illinois Pr
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Formations of Violence: The Narrative of the Body and Political Terror in Northern Irelandby Allen FeldmanISBN 0226240711 (0-226-24071-1)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Freedom Riders: 1961 And the Struggle for Racial Justiceby Raymond ArsenaultISBN 0195136748 (0-19-513674-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Freedom Riders: 1961 And the Struggle for Racial Justice'Book summary:Here is the definitive account of a dramatic and indeed pivotal moment in American history, a critical episode that transformed the civil rights movement in the early 1960s.
Raymond Arsenault offers a meticulously researched and grippingly written account of the Freedom Rides, one of the most compelling chapters in the history of civil rights. Arsenault recounts how in 1961, emboldened by federal rulings that declared segregated transit unconstitutional, a group of volunteers--blacks and whites--traveled together from Washington DC through the Deep South, defying Jim Crow laws in buses and terminals, putting their bodies and their lives on the line for racial justice. The book paints a harrowing account of the outpouring of hatred and violence that greeted the Freedom Riders in Alabama and Mississippi. One bus was disabled by Ku Klux Klansmen, then firebombed. In Birmingham and Montgomery, mobs of white supremacists swarmed the bus stations and battered the riders with fists and clubs while local police refused to intervene. The mayhem in Montgomery was captured by news photographers, shocking the nation, and sparking a crisis in the Kennedy administration, which after some hesitation and much public outcry, came to the aid of the Freedom Riders. Arsenault brings the key actors in this historical drama vividly to life, with colorful portraits of the Kennedys, Jim Farmer, John Lewis, Diane Nash, Fred Shuttlesworth, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Their courage, their fears, and the agonizing choices made by all these individuals run through the story like an electric current.
The saga of the Freedom Rides is an improbable, almost unbelievable story. In the course of six months, some four hundred and fifty Riders expanded the realm of the possible in American politics, redefining the limits of dissent and setting the stage in the years to come for the 1963 Birmingham demonstrations, Freedom Summer and the Selma-to-Montgomery March. With characters and plot lines rivaling those of the most imaginative fiction, this is a tale of heroic sacrifice and unexpected triumph. [via]More editions of Freedom Riders: 1961 And the Struggle for Racial Justice:
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 100 Years of Solitude: A Casebookby Gene H. Bell-VilladaISBN 0195144554 (0-19-514455-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 100 Years of Solitude: A Casebook'Book summary:Casebooks in Criticism offer analytical and interpretive frameworks for understanding key texts in world literature and film. Each casebook reprints documents relating to a work's historical context and reception, presents the best critical studies, and, when possible, features an interview with the author. Accessible and informative to scholars, students, and nonspecialist readers alike, the books in this series provide a wide range of critical and informative commentaries on major texts.
Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude is arguably the most important novel in twentieth-century Latin American literature. This Casebook features ten critical articles on García Márquez's great work. Carefully selected from the most important work on the novel over the past three decades, they include pieces by Carlos Fuentes, Iris Zavala, James Higgins, Jean Franco, Michael Wood, and Gene H. Bell-Villada. Among the intriguing aspects of the work discussed are its mythic dimension, its "magical" side, its representations of women, its relationship with past chronicles of exploration and discovery, its portrayals of Western power and imperialism, its astounding diffusion throughout the globe and the media, and its simple truth-telling, its fidelity to the tangled history of Latin America. The book incorporates several theoretical approaches--historical, feminist, postcolonial; the first English translation of Fuentes's renowned, oft-cited, eight page meditation on the work; a general introduction; and a 1982 interview with García Márquez. [via]More editions of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 100 Years of Solitude: A Casebook:
The Gracchiby David StocktonISBN 0198721056 (0-19-872105-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Holy Terrors: Thinking About Religion After September 11by Bruce LincolnISBN 0226482030 (0-226-48203-0)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Holy Terrors: Thinking About Religion After September 11'Book summary:In the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks, it is tempting to regard their perpetrators as evil incarnate. But their motives, as Bruce Lincoln shows in this timely offering, were profoundly and intensely religious. What we need, then, after September 11 is greater clarity about what we take religion to be. With rigor and incisiveness, Holy Terrors examines the implications of September 11 for our understanding of religion and how it interrelates with politics and culture.[via]
Lincoln begins with a gripping dissection of the instruction manual given to each of the hijackers. In their evocation of passages from the Quran, we learn how the terrorists justified acts of destruction and mass murder "in the name of God, the most merciful, the most compassionate." Lincoln then offers a provocative comparison of President Bush's October 7 speech announcing U.S. military action in Afghanistan and Osama bin Laden's videotape released hours later. Each speech, he argues, betrays telling contradictions. Bin Laden, for instance, conceded implicitly that Islam is not unitary, as his religious rhetoric would have it, but is torn by deep political divisions. And Bush, steering clear of religious rhetoric for the sake of political unity, still reassured his constituents through coded allusions that American policy is firmly rooted in faith.
Lincoln ultimately broadens his discussion further to consider the role of religion since September 11 and how it came to be involved with such fervent acts of political revolt. In the postcolonial world, he argues, religion is widely considered the most viable and effective instrument of rebellion against economic and social injustices. It is the institution through which unified communities ensure the integrity and continuity of their culture in the wake of globalization. Brimming with insights such as these, Holy Terrors will become one of the essential books on September 11 and a classic study on the character of religion.More editions of Holy Terrors: Thinking About Religion After September 11:
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Honor And Violence in the Old Southby Bertram Wyatt-BrownISBN 0195042425 (0-19-504242-5)
Softcover, Oxford University Press
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The Human Potential For Peace: An Anthropological Challenge To Assumptions About War And Violenceby Douglas P. FryISBN 0195181786 (0-19-518178-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Centuryby Jonathan GloverISBN 0224052403 (0-224-05240-3)
Hardcover, J. Cape
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century'Book summary:In Humanity, English ethicist Jonathan Glover begins with the now commonplace observation that the last 100 years were perhaps the most brutal in all history. But the problem wasn't that human nature suddenly took a sharp turn for the worse: "It is a myth that barbarism is unique to the twentieth century: the whole of human history includes wars, massacres, and every kind of torture and cruelty," he writes. Technology has made a huge difference, but psychology has remained the same--and this is what Glover seeks to examine, through discussions of Nietzsche, the My Lai atrocity in Vietnam, Hiroshima, tribal genocide in Rwanda, Stalinism, Nazism, and so on.
There is much history here, but Humanity is fundamentally a book of philosophy. In his first chapter, for instance, Glover announces his goal "to replace the thin, mechanical psychology of the Enlightenment with something more complex, something closer to reality." But he also seeks "to defend the Enlightenment hope of a world that is more peaceful and more humane, the hope that by understanding more about ourselves we can do something to create a world with less misery." The result is an odd combination of darkness and light--darkness because the subject matter of the 20th century's moral failings is so bleak, light because of Glover's earnest optimism, which insists that "keeping the past alive may help to prevent atrocities." He cites Stalin's bracing comment, made while signing death warrants: "Who's going to remember all this riff-raff in ten or twenty years' time? No one." At one level, Humanity is a book of remembrance. But it's more than that: it's also an attempt to understand what it is in the human mind that makes moral disaster always loom--and a prayer that this aspect of our psychology might be better controlled. --John J. Miller [via]
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The Iliadby Richmond Lattimore, HomerISBN 0226469379 (0-226-46937-9)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Iliad'Book summary:[via]"Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus son Achilleus / and its devastation." For sixty years, that's how Homer has begun the Iliad in English, in Richmond Lattimore's faithful translationthe gold standard for generations of students and general readers.
This long-awaited new edition of Lattimore's Iliad is designed to bring the book into the twenty-first centurywhile leaving the poem as firmly rooted in ancient Greece as ever. Lattimore's elegant, fluent verseswith their memorably phrased heroic epithets and remarkable fidelity to the Greekremain unchanged, but classicist Richard Martin has added a wealth of supplementary materials designed to aid new generations of readers. A new introduction sets the poem in the wider context of Greek life, warfare, society, and poetry, while line-by-line notes at the back of the volume offer explanations of unfamiliar terms, information about the Greek gods and heroes, and literary appreciation. A glossary and maps round out the book.
The result is a volume that actively invites readers into Homer's poem, helping them to understand fully the worlds in which he and his heroes livedand thus enabling them to marvel, as so many have for centuries, at Hektor and Ajax, Paris and Helen, and the devastating rage of Achilleus.More editions of The Iliad:
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Iliad of Homerby Ennis Rees, HomerISBN 0195068262 (0-19-506826-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Iliad of Homer'Book summary:This translation of Homer's "Iliad" by the poet and classicist Ennis Rees attempts to be both faithful to the original and accessible to the modern reader. [via]
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Iliad of Homerby Homer, Richmond LattimoreISBN 0226469409 (0-226-46940-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Iliad of Homer'Book summary:"The finest translation of Homer ever made into the English language."--William Arrowsmith "Certainly the best modern verse translation."--Gilbert Highet "This magnificent translation of Homer's epic poem . . . will appeal to admirers of Homer and the classics, and the multitude who always wanted to read the great Iliad but never got around to doing so."-- The American Book Collector "Perhaps closer to Homer in every way than any other version made in English."--Peter Green, The New Republic "The feat is decisive that it is reasonable to foresee a century or so in which nobody will try again to put the Iliad in English verse."--Robert Fitzgerald "Each new generation is bound to produce new translations. [Lattimore] has done better with nobility, as well as with accuracy, than any other modern verse translator. In our age we do not often find a fine scholar who is also a genuine poet and who takes the greatest pains over the work of translation."--Hugh Lloyd-Jones, New York Review of Books "Over the long haul Lattimore's translation is more powerful because its effects are more subtle."-- Booklist "Richmond Lattimore is a fine translator of poetry because he has a poetic voice of his own, authentic and unmistakable and yet capable of remarkable range of modulation. His translations make the English reader aware of the poetry."--Moses Hadas, The New York Times [via]
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The Illustrated Art of War: The Definitive English Translation by Samuel B. Griffithby Samuel B. Griffith, SunziISBN 019518999X (0-19-518999-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Illustrated Art of War: The Definitive English Translation by Samuel B. Griffith'Book summary:With well over a million copies sold, Sun Tzu's The Art of War is a true masterpiece, a series of brilliant aphorisms that illuminate the planning and conduct of war. Now this classic work is available in an elegant illustrated edition, featuring seventy-five color and black-and-white images.
From perceptive descriptions of the nine varieties of terrain, to advice on how to gage an enemy's weaknesses and strengths, to suggestions on the employment of secret agents, here is timeless advice on combat and military strategy. Sun Tzu's writings are unsurpassed in depth of understanding, shedding light not only on battlefield maneuvers, but also on the relevant economic, political, and psychological factors that can shape the outcome of warfare. Equally important, the precepts outlined by Sun Tzu over two thousand years ago can be applied with great success outside the theater of war. Indeed, it is read avidly by corporate executives worldwide and has been touted in the movie Wall Street and the television series The Sopranos as the ultimate guide to strategy. Finally, this edition offers the definitive translation of Sun Tzu's text, by former U.S. Marine Brigadier General Samuel Griffith, who was also an authority of Mao Tse-Tung.
Remarkable for its clear organization, lucid prose, and the acuity of its intellectual and moral insights, The Art of War is the definitive study of combat. It is an essential book for military history buffs, and an ideal gift for anyone who is interested in tactics and strategy, whether on the battlefield or in the boardroom. [via]More editions of The Illustrated Art of War: The Definitive English Translation by Samuel B. Griffith:
Improper Advances: Rape and Heterosexual Conflict in Ontario, 1880-1929by Karen DubinskyISBN 0226167542 (0-226-16754-2)
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The Karamazov Brothersby Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ignat AvseyISBN 0192835092 (0-19-283509-2)
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The Last Manby Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Morton D. PaleyISBN 0192838652 (0-19-283865-2)
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A Lexicon of Terror: Argentina and the Legacies of Tortureby Marguerite FeitlowitzISBN 0195134168 (0-19-513416-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Lexicon of Terror: Argentina and the Legacies of Torture'Book summary:Argentina still struggles as a nation with the shame and horror of the so-called "dirty-war" of the decade following Juan Peron's death. During that horrific time, torture and kidnapping were the instruments of choice for the enforcement of political will. Feitlowitz unflinchingly examines life under sadistic military rule with detailed descriptions of the experiences of prisoners in concentration camps. The Argentinean vocabulary now includes words like desaparacido (disappeared person) and chupado (sucked up or kidnapped), vivid reminders of how commonplace kidnapping and murder became. Victims, often guilty only of nothing more than practicing psychology or journalism or being Jewish, have not been forgotten.
Though Feitlowitz touches on the linguistic effects of government terrorism in Argentina, her book's greatest strength lies in the voice it gives the victims. The author spent years talking to survivors of the terror as well as some of the people responsible for instigating it. What A Lexicon of Terror does particularly well is capture the ongoing consequences of the dirty war--victims encountering their tormentors on the streets, Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo still marching to remind their government that the fates of thousands of disappeared are still not known, a government held hostage by the fear of army uprisings should any attempt to bring culprits to justice be made. Argentina is the subject of this particular Lexicon, but surely the citizens of other nations such as Chile, Guatemala, and El Salvador might see their own experiences mirrored here. [via]
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The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmesby Arthur Conan Doyle, Christopher RodenISBN 0192838113 (0-19-283811-3)
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The Metamorphosesby Ovid, A.D. Melville, E.J. KenneyISBN 019283472X (0-19-283472-X)
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MFby Anthony BurgessISBN 0224618458 (0-224-61845-8)
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The Moonstoneby Wilkie Collins, John SutherlandISBN 0192833383 (0-19-283338-3)
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Murder in Our Midst: The Holocaust, Industrial Killing, and Representationby Omer BartovISBN 019509848X (0-19-509848-X)
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No One Writes To The Colonel: And Other Storiesby Gabriel Garcia MarquezISBN 0224005308 (0-224-00530-8)
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Oliver Twistby Charles Dickens, Kathleen Mary Tillotson, Stephen Charles Gill, Charles DickencISBN 0192833391 (0-19-283339-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Oliver Twist'Book summary:This fiercely comic tale stands in marked contrast to its genial predecessor, "The Pickwick Papers." Set against London's seedy back street slums, "Oliver Twist" is the saga of a workhouse orphan captured and thrust into a thieves' den, where some of Dickens's most depraved villains preside: the incorrigible Artful Dodger, the murderous bully Sikes, and the terrible Fagin, that treacherous ringleader whose grinning knavery threatens to send them all to the "ghostly gallows." Yet at the heart of this drama is the orphan Oliver, whose unsullied goodness leads him at last to salvation. In 1838 the publication of "Oliver Twist" firmly established the literary eminence of young Dickens. It was, according to Edgar Johnson, "a clarion peal announcing to the world that in Charles Dickens the rejected and forgotten and misused of the world had a champion." [via]
One Hundred Years of Solitudeby Gabriel Garcia MarquezISBN 0224032356 (0-224-03235-6)
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The Origin and Evolution of Culturesby Robert Boyd, Peter J. RichersonISBN 019518145X (0-19-518145-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Origin and Evolution of Cultures'Book summary:Oxford presents, in one convenient and coherently organized volume, 20 influential but until now relatively inaccessible articles that form the backbone of Boyd and Richerson's path-breaking work on evolution and culture. Their interdisciplinary research is based on two notions. First, that culture is crucial for understanding human behavior; unlike other organisms, socially transmitted beliefs, attitudes, and values heavily influence our behavior. Secondly, culture is part of biology: the capacity to acquire and transmit culture is a derived component of human psychology, and the contents of culture are deeply intertwined with our biology. Culture then is a pool of information, stored in the brains of the population that gets transmitted from one brain to another by social learning processes. Therefore, culture can account for both our outstanding ecological success as well as the maladaptations that characterize much of human behavior. The interest in this collection will span anthropology, psychology, economics, philosophy, and political science. [via]
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Our Mutual Friendby Charles Dickens, Michael CotsellISBN 0192835238 (0-19-283523-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Our Mutual Friend'Book summary:Our Mutual Friend was the last novel Charles Dickens completed and is, arguably, his darkest and most complex. The basic plot is vintage Dickens: an inheritance up for grabs, a murder, a rocky romance or two, plenty of skullduggery, and a host of unforgettable secondary characters. But in this final outing the author's heroes are more flawed, his villains more sympathetic, and the story as a whole more harrowing and less sentimental. The mood is set in the opening scene in which a riverman, Gaffer Hexam, and his daughter Lizzie troll the Thames searching for drowned men whose pockets Gaffer will rifle before turning the body over to the authorities. On this particular night Gaffer finds a corpse that is later identified as that of John Harmon, who was returning from abroad to claim a large fortune when he was apparently murdered and thrown into the river.
Harmon's death is the catalyst for everything else that happens in the novel. It seems the fortune was left to the young man on the condition that he marry a girl he'd never met, Bella Wilfer. His death, however, brings a new heir onto the scene, Nicodemus Boffin, the kind-hearted but low-born assistant to Harmon's father. Boffin and his wife adopt young Bella, who is determined to marry money, and also hire a mysterious young secretary, John Rokesmith, who takes an uncommon interest in their ward. Not content with just one plot, Dickens throws in a secondary love story featuring the riverman's daughter, Lizzie Hexam; a dissolute young upper-class lawyer, Eugene Wrayburn; and his rival, the headmaster Bradley Headstone. Dark as the novel is, Dickens is careful to leaven it with secondary characters who are as funny as they are menacing--blackmailing Silas Wegg and his accomplice Mr. Venus, the avaricious Lammles, and self-centered Charlie Hexam. Our Mutual Friend is one of Dickens's most satisfying novels, and a fitting denouement to his prolific career. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Ovid Metamorphosesby Naso Publius OvidiusISBN 0253200016 (0-253-20001-6)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ovid Metamorphoses'Book summary:"The Metamorphoses of Ovid offers to the modern world such a key to the literary and religious culture of the ancients that it becomes an important event when at last a good poet comes up with a translation into English verse." -John Crowe Ransom"... a charming and expert English version, which is right in tone for the Metamorphoses."Â -Francis Fergusson"This new Ovid, fresh and faithful, is right for our time and should help to restore a great reputation." -Mark Van DorenThe first and still the best modern verse translation of the Metamorphoses, Humphries' version of Ovid's masterpiece captures its wit, merriment, and sophistication.Everyone will enjoy this first modern translation by an American poet of Ovid's great work, the major treasury of classical mythology, which has perennially stimulated the minds of men. In this lively rendering there are no stock props of the pastoral and no literary landscaping, but real food on the table and sometimes real blood on the ground.Not only is Ovid's Metamorphoses a collection of all the myths of the time of the Roman poet as he knew them, but the book presents at the same time a series of love poems-about the loves of men, women, and the gods. There are also poems of hate, to give the proper shading to the narrative. And pervading all is the writer's love for this earth, its people, its phenomena.Using ten-beat, unrhymed lines in his translation, Rolfe Humphries shows a definite kinship for Ovid's swift and colloquial language and Humphries' whole poetic manner is in tune with the wit and sophistication of the Roman poet. [via]
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Ovid: Metamorphosesby Publius Ovidius NasoISBN 0253337550 (0-253-33755-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ovid: Metamorphoses'Book summary:The first English translation of one of the supreme masterpieces of Latin literature, "Golding's Metamorphoses" (1567) decisively influenced Shakespeare, Spenser and the character of English Renaissance writing. Ovid's deliciously witty and poignant epic starts with the creation of the world and brings together a series of ingeniously linked myths and legends in which men and women are transformed, often by love - into flowers, trees, stones and stars. This robustly vernacular version adds a Christian moral framework, clarifies obscurities and gives an English flavour to the rustic settings, thus making readily available to later writers a treasure-trove of comic, eerie and erotic tales. [via]
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Philosophy, Politics, Autonomyby Cornelius Castoriadis, David Ames CurtisISBN 0195069633 (0-19-506963-3)
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Revolutionary War:Western Response: Western Responseby David S. Sullivan, Martin J. SattlerISBN 0231086644 (0-231-08664-4)
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The Riders of the Purple Sageby Zane Grey, Lee Clark MitchellISBN 0192833251 (0-19-283325-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Riders of the Purple Sage'Book summary:The novel that set the pattern for the modern Western, Riders of the Purple Sage was first published in 1912, immediately selling over a million copies. In the remote border country of southern Utah, a man is about to be whipped by the Mormons in order to pressure Jane Withersteen into marrying against her will. The punishment is halted by the arrival of the hero, Lassiter, a gunman in black leather, who routs the persecutors and then gradually recounts his own history of an endless search for a woman abducted long ago by the Mormons. Secrecy, seduction, captivity, and escape: out of these elements Zane Grey fashioned his magnificent classic of the American West. [via]
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Romeo and Julietby William ShakespeareISBN 019832149X (0-19-832149-X)
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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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Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul 1789-1794by William Blake, Geoffrey KeynesISBN 0195199774 (0-19-519977-4)
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A Spectacular Secret: Lynching in American Life And Literatureby Jacqueline GoldsbyISBN 0226301389 (0-226-30138-9)
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State Of Exceptionby Giorgio Agamben, Kevin AttellISBN 0226009254 (0-226-00925-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'State Of Exception'Book summary:Two months after the attacks of 9/11, the Bush administration, in the midst of what it perceived to be a state of emergency, authorized the indefinite detention of noncitizens suspected of terrorist activities and their subsequent trials by a military commission. Here, distinguished Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben uses such circumstances to argue that this unusual extension of power, or "state of exception," has historically been an underexamined and powerful strategy that has the potential to transform democracies into totalitarian states.[via]
The sequel to Agamben's Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, State of Exception is the first book to theorize the state of exception in historical and philosophical context. In Agamben's view, the majority of legal scholars and policymakers in Europe as well as the United States have wrongly rejected the necessity of such a theory, claiming instead that the state of exception is a pragmatic question. Agamben argues here that the state of exception, which was meant to be a provisional measure, became in the course of the twentieth century a normal paradigm of government. Writing nothing less than the history of the state of exception in its various national contexts throughout Western Europe and the United States, Agamben uses the work of Carl Schmitt as a foil for his reflections as well as that of Derrida, Benjamin, and Arendt.
In this highly topical book, Agamben ultimately arrives at original ideas about the future of democracy and casts a new light on the hidden relationship that ties law to violence. 
The Tenant of Wildfell Hallby Anne Bronte, Herbert Rosengarten, Margaret SmithISBN 0192834622 (0-19-283462-2)
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hallby Herbert Rosengarten, Anne BronteISBN 0198125968 (0-19-812596-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tenant of Wildfell Hall'Book summary:Published in June 1848, less than a year before her death, Anne Brontë's second (and last) novel, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, is the somber account of the breakdown of a marriage in the face of alcoholism and infidelity. The novel enjoyed a modest success that led its publisher, the unscrupulous T.C. Newby, to issue a "Second Edition" less than two months later. The present edition, which completes the Clarendon Edition of the Novels of the Brontës, offers a text based on the collation of the first edition with the second. The introduction details the work's composition and early printing history, including its first publication in America; and the text is fully annotated. Appendices record the substantive variants in the first English and American editions, and discuss the author's belief in the doctrine of universal salvation. [via]
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Tess Of The d'Urbervillesby Simon Gatrell, Penny Boumelha, Juliet Grindle, Thomas HardyISBN 019284069X (0-19-284069-X)
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Hardy's indictment of society's double standards, and his depiction of Tess as "a pure woman," caused controversy in his day and has held the imagination of readers ever since. Hardy thought it his finest novel, and Tess the most deeply felt character he ever created. This unique critical text is taken from the authoritative Clarendon edition, which is based on the manuscript collated with all Hardy's subsequent revisions. [via]More editions of Tess Of The d'Urbervilles:
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Tess of the D'Urbervillesby Thomas Hardy, Simon Gatrell, Juliet GrindleISBN 0192833626 (0-19-283362-6)
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Tess of the D'urbervilles: Stage 6 2,500 Headwordsby Thomas Hardy, Jennifer BassettISBN 0194230945 (0-19-423094-5)
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The Three Musketeers: Being the First of the D'artagnan Romances; and Twenty Years After, a Sequelby Alexandre Dumas, David CowardISBN 0192835750 (0-19-283575-0)
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The Tragedy of King Richard IIIby William Shakespeare, John JowettISBN 0192839934 (0-19-283993-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tragedy of King Richard III'Book summary:Richard III is one of Shakespeare's most popular plays on the stage and has been adapted successfully for film. This new and innovative edition recognizes the play's pre-eminence as a performance work: a perspective that informs every aspect of the editing. challenging traditional practice, the text is based on the 1597 Quarto which, it is argued, brings us closest to the play as it would have been staged in Shakespeare's theatre. The introduction, which is illustrated, explores the long performance history from Shakespeare's time to the present. Its critical engagement with the play responds to recent historicist and gender-based approaches. The commentary gives detailed explication of matters of language, staging, text, and historical and cultural contexts, providing coverage that is both carefully balanced and alert to nuance of meaning.
Documentation of the extensive textual variants is organized for maximum clarity: the readings of the Folio and the Quarto are presented in separate banks, and more specialist information is given at the back of the book. Appendices also include selected passages from the main source and a special index of actors and other theatrical personnel. [via]More editions of The Tragedy of King Richard III:
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Under the Greenwood Treeby Thomas Hardy, Simon GatrellISBN 0192835173 (0-19-283517-3)
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Unholy War: Terror in the Name of Islamby John L. EspositoISBN 0195168860 (0-19-516886-0)
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Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief: The Great Chicago Fire, the Haymarket Bomb, and the Model Town of Pullmanby Carl S. SmithISBN 0226764176 (0-226-76417-6)
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Violence Against Women: Classic Papersby Claire M. Renzetti, Jeffrey L. Edleson, Raquel L. Bergen KennedyISBN 0205392636 (0-205-39263-6)
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Violence in Republican Romeby A. W. LintottISBN 0198152825 (0-19-815282-5)
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The Violence of Hate: Confronting Racism, Anti-semitism, and Other Froms of Bigotryby Jack LevinISBN 0205460879 (0-205-46087-9)
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Walter Benjamin's Graveby Michael TaussigISBN 0226790045 (0-226-79004-5)
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War Musicby Homer, Christopher LogueISBN 0224015346 (0-224-01534-6)
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White Fangby Pauline FrancisISBN 0237525321 (0-237-52532-1)
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Yellow Dogby Martin AmisISBN 0224050613 (0-224-05061-3)
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P. Ovidi Nasonis Metamorphosesby R.J. TarrantISBN 0198146663 (0-19-814666-3)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'P. Ovidi Nasonis Metamorphoses'Book summary:For this edition of the Metamorphoses R. J. Tarrant has freshly collated the oldest fragments and manuscripts and has drawn more fully than previous editors on the twelfth-century manuscripts, the earliest extant witnesses to many potentially original readings. He has also given more scope to conjecture than other recent editors, and has been readier than his predecessors to identify certain verses as interpolated. This edition will be indispensable for future study of Ovid's greatest work. [via]
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