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American Map Virginia State Road Atlasby AdcISBN 0875307736 (0-87530-773-6)
Softcover, Adc the Map People
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Anna Kareninaby Leo Tolstoy, Constance Black GarnettISBN 080959322X (0-8095-9322-X)
Softcover, Wildside Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anna Karenina'Book summary:Anna Karenina may be the greatest single novel ever written; it may also be just plainly and sublimely good. Regardless, there is no doubt that Anna Karenina (generally considered Tolstoy's finest novel) is a sublime achievement. Anna, miserable in a loveless marriage, succumbs to the desire for the dashing Vronsky. That sort of thing didn't stand one in good stead in 19th-century Russia; bad goes to worse, and the end Anna comes to is the stuff of legend. Tolstoy seamlessly captures a weaves a tapestry of Russian society -- as Matthew Arnold wrote in his celebrated essay on Tolstoy, "We are not to take Anna Karenina as a work of art; we are to take it as a piece of life." "One of the greatest love stories in world literature." -- Vladimir Nabokov [via]
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Aristotle's Poeticsby Aristotle, John Baxter, George Whalley, Patrick AthertonISBN 0773516123 (0-7735-1612-3)
Softcover, McGill Queens Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aristotle's Poetics'Book summary:The original, Aristotle's short study of storytelling, written in the fourth century B.C., is the world's first critical book about the laws of literature. Sure, it's 2400 years old, but Aristotle's discussions--Unity of Plot, Reversal of the Situation, Character--though written in the context of ancient Greek Tragedy, Comedy and Epic Poetry, still apply to our modern literary forms. The book is quite short, and Aristotle illuminates his points with clear examples, making the Poetics perfectly readable, the better to impress people at parties when you say, "Of course, as Aristotle says..." [via]
Bound Away: Virginia and the Westward Movementby David Hackett Fischer, James C. Kelly, Virginia Historical SocietyISBN 0813917743 (0-8139-1774-3)
Softcover, Univ of Virginia Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bound Away: Virginia and the Westward Movement'Book summary:Bound Away offers a new understanding of the westward movement. After the Turner thesis which celebrated the frontier as the source of American freedom and democracy, and the iconoclasm of the new western historians who dismissed the idea of the frontier as merely a mask for conquest and exploitation, David Hackett Fischer and James C. Kelly take a third approach to the subject. They share with Turner the idea of the westward movement as a creative process of high importance in American history, but they understand it in a different way.
Where Turner studied the westward movement in terms of its destination, Fischer and Kelly approach it in terms of its origins. Virginia's long history enables them to provide a rich portrait of migration and expansion as a dynamic process that preserved strong cultural continuities. They suggest that the oxymoron "bound away"from the folksong Shenandoahcaptures a vital truth about American history. As people moved west, they built new societies from old materials, in a double-acting process that made America what is today.
Based on an acclaimed exhibition at the Virginia Historical society, the book studies three stages of migration to, within, and from Virginia. Each stage has its own story to tell. All of them together offer an opportunity to study the westward movement through three centuries, as it has rarely been studied before.
Fischer and Kelly believe that the westward movement was a broad cultural process, which is best understood not only through the writings of intellectual elites, but also through the physical artifacts and folkways of ordinary people. The wealth of anecdotes and illustrations in this volume offer a new way of looking at John Smith and William Byrd, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, Daniel Boone, Dred Scott, and scores of lesser known gentry, yeomen, servants, and slaves who were all "bound away" to an old new world.
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Candideby Francois M. Voltaire, Diane Johnson, Peter ConstantineISBN 0812972015 (0-8129-7201-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Candide'Book summary:Political satire doesn't age well, but occasionally a diatribe contains enough art and universal mirth to survive long after its timeliness has passed. Candide is such a book. Penned by that Renaissance man of the Enlightenment, Voltaire, Candide is steeped in the political and philosophical controversies of the 1750s. But for the general reader, the novel's driving principle is clear enough: the idea (endemic in Voltaire's day) that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and apparent folly, misery and strife are actually harbingers of a greater good we cannot perceive, is hogwash.
Telling the tale of the good-natured but star-crossed Candide (think Mr. Magoo armed with deadly force), as he travels the world struggling to be reunited with his love, Lady Cunegonde, the novel smashes such ill-conceived optimism to splinters. Candide's tutor, Dr. Pangloss, is steadfast in his philosophical good cheer, in the face of more and more fantastic misfortune; Candide's other companions always supply good sense in the nick of time. Still, as he demolishes optimism, Voltaire pays tribute to human resilience, and in doing so gives the book a pleasant indomitability common to farce. Says one character, a princess turned one-buttocked hag by unkind Fate: "I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our most melancholy propensities; for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one's very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?"--Michael Gerber [via]
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Candide and Related Textsby Voltaire, David WoottonISBN 0872205460 (0-87220-546-0)
Softcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc
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Candide Ou L'Optimismeby VoltaireISBN 0844210765 (0-8442-1076-5)
Softcover, Natl Textbook Co
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Candide, Or, Optimismby Francois M. VoltaireISBN 0882951009 (0-88295-100-9)
Softcover, Harlan Davidson
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Catch As Cat Canby Rita Mae Brown, Michael GellatlyISBN 0786240458 (0-7862-4045-8)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Catch As Cat Canby Sneaky Pie Brown, Rita Mae BrownISBN 078624044X (0-7862-4044-X)
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Cliffsnotes Candideby Francois Marie ArouetISBN 0822002833 (0-8220-0283-3)
Softcover, Cliff Notes
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cliffsnotes Candide'Book summary:The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background.[via]CliffsNotes on Candide explores the best known philosophic tale from Voltaire. The tale is a vehicle for his profoundest views on politics, religion, and philosophy. At the same time, it is an adventure tale about a young hero who travels far and wide and experiences great dangers.
With this study guide, youll see why Voltaire is considered among the greatest satirists in literature. Along with detailed explanations of the plot, your understanding will increase with insight into the life and times of the author. Other features that help you study include
- Background on Voltaires contemporaries and influences
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- A character map that graphically illustrates the relationships among the characters
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Classic literature or modern modern-day treasure you'll understand it all with expert information and insight from CliffsNotes study guides.
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The Color of Waterby James McBrideISBN 0783818041 (0-7838-1804-1)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Color of Water'Book summary:Order this book ... and please don't be put off by its pallid subtitle, A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother, which doesn't begin to do justice to the utterly unique and moving story contained within. The Color of Water tells the remarkable story of Ruth McBride Jordan, the two good men she married, and the 12 good children she raised. Jordan, born Rachel Shilsky, a Polish Jew, immigrated to America soon after birth; as an adult she moved to New York City, leaving her family and faith behind in Virginia. Jordan met and married a black man, making her isolation even more profound. The book is a success story, a testament to one woman's true heart, solid values, and indomitable will. Ruth Jordan battled not only racism but also poverty to raise her children and, despite being sorely tested, never wavered. In telling her story--along with her son's--The Color of Water addresses racial identity with compassion, insight, and realism. It is, in a word, inspiring, and you will finish it with unalloyed admiration for a flawed but remarkable individual. And, perhaps, a little more faith in us all. [via]
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Criminal Proceedings in Colonial Virginia: Richmond County, 1710/11-1754by Peter Charles Hoffer, William ScottISBN 0820307203 (0-8203-0720-3)
Hardcover, Univ of Georgia Pr
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Darconville's Catby Alexander TherouxISBN 0805043659 (0-8050-4365-9)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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Devil Waterby Anya SetonISBN 0848803183 (0-8488-0318-3)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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Dictionary of Virginia Biographyby Sara B. Bearss, John T. KneeboneISBN 0884901998 (0-88490-199-8)
Hardcover, Library of Virginia
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The First Seventeen Years Virginia, 1607-1624by Charles E. HatchISBN 0813901308 (0-8139-0130-8)
Softcover, Univ of Virginia Pr
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Folk Housing in Middle Virginia: A Structural Analysis of Historic Artifactsby Henry H. GlassieISBN 0870492683 (0-87049-268-3)
Softcover, Univ of Tennessee Pr
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Gazetteer of Virginia and West Virginiaby Henry GannettISBN 0806306572 (0-8063-0657-2)
Softcover, Genealogical Pub Co
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Genealogical and Historical Notes on Culpeper County, Virginia: Embracing a Revised and Enlarged Edition of Dr. Philip Slaughter's History of St. Mark's Parishby Raleigh Travers GreenISBN 080637957X (0-8063-7957-X)
Hardcover, Genealogical Pub Co
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The Great Wagon Road: From Philadelphia to the Southby Parke RouseISBN 087517065X (0-87517-065-X)
Softcover, Dietz Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great Wagon Road: From Philadelphia to the South'Book summary:The Great Wagon Road from Philadelphia to the South was first publishedd by McGraw Hill as part of its "Great American Trails" series, edited by A. B. Gutherie, Jr. It was instantly recognized for its insight into the birth of the American South from the early 1700's until the Civil War. Historian Carl Bridenbaugh wrote that "In the last sixteen years of the colonial era, southbound traffic along the Great Philadelphia Wagon Road was numbered in tens of thousands; it was the most heavily travelled road in all America..." and Joshua Fry and Peter Jefferson marked its route on their map of Virginia in 1754 as "the great Wagon Road from the Yadkin River through Virginia to Philadelphia distant 435 miles."
Over the years the Road led countless Scotch-Irish, Germanic, and English settlers southward from Philadelphia to settle the Appalachian uplands from Pennsylvania to Georgia. Over the Road went the progenitors of John Sevier of Tennessee, John Caldwell Calhoun of South Carolina, Sam Houston of Texas, Cyrus McCormick of Virginia, and other Americans.
Countless cities and towns from Philadelphia to Augusta, Georgia, owe their beginning to early camp sites along the Road that grew into tavern locations, then into county seats, and then into centers of agriculture and industry. Today such Wagon Road towns as Lancaster, York, and Gettysburg, Pennsylvania; Harper's Ferry, West Virginia; Winchester, Newmarket, Harrisonburg, Staunton, Lexington, and Rocky Mount, Virginia; Winston-Salem, Salisbury, and Charlotte, North Carolina; and Newberry and Camden, South Carolina have grown along the onetime settler's trail.
The Great Wagon Road also tells of Daniel Boone's pioneering from Big Lick, Virginia-now Roanoke-into the territory of Kentucky. Boone Expedited western settlement by cutting a trail across Cumberland Gap on Virginia's frontier to lead settlers in Revolutionary years into dangerous Indian country. [via]
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Here Lies Virginia: An Archaeologist's View of Colonial Life and Historyby Ivor Noel HumeISBN 0813915287 (0-8139-1528-7)
Softcover, Univ of Virginia Pr
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Hikes in the Virginias: Virginia West Virginiaby David Emblidge, David LilliardISBN 0811726703 (0-8117-2670-3)
Softcover, Stackpole Books
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The Hornbook of Virginia History: A Ready-Reference Guide to the Old Dominion's People, Places, and Pastby Emily J. Salmon, Library of Virginia, Edward D.C. CampbellISBN 0884901785 (0-88490-178-5)
Softcover, Library of Virginia
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The Hornbook of Virginia History: A Ready-Reference Guide to the Old Dominion's People, Places, and Pastby Library of Virginia, Emily J. Salmon, Edward D.C. CampbellISBN 0884901777 (0-88490-177-7)
Hardcover, Library of Virginia
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hornbook of Virginia History: A Ready-Reference Guide to the Old Dominion's People, Places, and Past'Book summary:Since 1949, the Hornbook has been the definitive, handy reference guide to Virginia history and culture. Its name derives from the early practice of creating an educational tool for children by mounting printed text on a board and covering it with translucent animal horn. Historians, genealogists, librarians, students, editors, government officials, and citizens seeking to answer questions about the past regularly rely on the Hornbook's comprehensive and authoritative information. Among the book's contents are:
- A concise history of the commonwealth
- Total population figures, 1610-1990
- Lists of all the governors, lieutenant governors, and attorneys general from 1607 to the present
- Brief histories of the counties and cities presently in Virginia along with counties formerly in the commonwealth
- Concise descriptions of famous houses, places of worship, and other historical sites
- Brief histories of the colleges and universities in Virginia.
The Hornbook of Virginia History is a must on the bookshelf of everyone who reads, researches, writes, or cares about Virginia history. [via]More editions of The Hornbook of Virginia History: A Ready-Reference Guide to the Old Dominion's People, Places, and Past:
Houses of Stoneby Barbara MichaelsISBN 0816159378 (0-8161-5937-8)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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How Justice Grew: Virginia Counties An Abstract of Their Formationby Martha W. HidenISBN 0806350636 (0-8063-5063-6)
Softcover, Genealogical Pub Co
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Jamestown Rediscovery: Search for the 1607 James Fortby William M. KelsoISBN 0813920175 (0-8139-2017-5)
Softcover, Univ of Virginia Pr
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Let Me Lie: Being in the Main an Ethnological Account of the Remarkable Commonwealth of Virginia and the Making of Its Historyby James Branch CabellISBN 0813920434 (0-8139-2043-4)
Softcover, Univ of Virginia Pr
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Light-horse Harry Lee: And the Legacy of the American Revolutionby Charles RoysterISBN 0807119105 (0-8071-1910-5)
Softcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr
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Marriages of Richmond County Virginia: 1668-1858by George H.S. KingISBN 0893085790 (0-89308-579-0)
Hardcover, Southern Historical Pr
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My Antoniaby Willa Cather, James L. Woodress, Kari Ronning, Charles MignonISBN 0803263724 (0-8032-6372-4)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Antonia'Book summary:It seems almost sacrilege to infringe upon a book as soulful and rich as Willa Cather's My Ántonia by offering comment. First published in 1918, and set in Nebraska in the late 19th century, this tale of the spirited daughter of a Bohemian immigrant family planning to farm on the untamed land ("not a country at all but the material out of which countries are made") comes to us through the romantic eyes of Jim Burden. He is, at the time of their meeting, newly orphaned and arriving at his grandparents' neighboring farm on the same night her family strikes out to make good in their new country. Jim chooses the opening words of his recollections deliberately: "I first heard of Ántonia on what seemed to be an interminable journey across the great midland plain of North America," and it seems almost certain that readers of Cather's masterpiece will just as easily pinpoint the first time they heard of Ántonia and her world. It seems equally certain that they, too, will remember that moment as one of great light in an otherwise unremarkable trip through the world.
Ántonia, who, even as a grown woman somewhat downtrodden by circumstance and hard work, "had not lost the fire of life," lies at the center of almost every human condition that Cather's novel effortlessly untangles. She represents immigrant struggles with a foreign land and tongue, the restraints on women of the time (with which Cather was very much concerned), the more general desires for love, family, and companionship, and the great capacity for forbearance that marked the earliest settlers on the frontier.
As if all this humanity weren't enough, Cather paints her descriptions of the vastness of nature--the high, red grass, the road that "ran about like a wild thing," the endless wind on the plains--with strokes so vivid as to make us feel in our bones that we've just come in from a walk on that very terrain ourselves. As the story progresses, Jim goes off to the University in Lincoln to study Latin (later moving on to Harvard and eventually staying put on the East Coast in another neat encompassing of a stage in America's development) and learns Virgil's phrase "Optima dies ... prima fugit" that Cather uses as the novel's epigraph. "The best days are the first to flee"--this could be said equally of childhood and the earliest hours of this country in which the open land, much like My Ántonia, was nothing short of a rhapsody in prairie sky blue. --Melanie Rehak [via]
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The New History in an Old Museum: Creating the Past at Colonial Williamsburgby Richard Handler, Eric GableISBN 0822319748 (0-8223-1974-8)
Softcover, Duke Univ Pr
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Notorious in the Neighborhood: Sex and Families Across the Color Line in Virginia, 1787-1861by Joshua D. RothmanISBN 0807854409 (0-8078-5440-9)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Old Virginia Housesby Emilee Hines, Emmie Ferguson FarrarISBN 0803853645 (0-8038-5364-5)
Hardcover, Hastings House
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On Poetry and Styleby AristotleISBN 0872200728 (0-87220-072-8)
Softcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc
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Parish Lines, Diocese of Southern Virginiaby Charles Francis CockeISBN 0884900495 (0-88490-049-5)
Hardcover, Library of Virginia
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Peninsula Pilgrimageby Elizabeth Valentine HuntleyISBN 0878610804 (0-87861-080-4)
Hardcover, Pyne Press
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Performance Art: From Futurism to the Presentby Roselee GoldbergISBN 0810923718 (0-8109-2371-8)
Softcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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Poeticsby Aristotle, Theodore Alois BuckleyISBN 0879757760 (0-87975-776-0)
Softcover, Prometheus Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Poetics'Book summary:Analyzing the poetic genres of his own day, particularly epic and tragedy, Aristotle sets forth a comprehensive theory of the poetic art. In this seminal and highly influential work of ancient literary criticism, Aristotle discusses poetry's esthetic function as well as its emotional value, revealing at the same time the basic principles of literary art and giving practical hints to the poet. [via]
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Poetics Iby Aristotle, Richard JankoISBN 0872200337 (0-87220-033-7)
Softcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc
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Poetics I With the Tractatus Coislinianus: A Hypothetical Reconstruction of Poetics IIby AristotleISBN 0872200345 (0-87220-034-5)
Hardcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc
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The Poetics of Aristotle: Translation and Commentaryby Stephen HalliwellISBN 0807842036 (0-8078-4203-6)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Prince Edward : A Novelby Dennis McFarlandISBN 0805068333 (0-8050-6833-3)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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Recipes from the Raleigh Tavern Bake Shopby Colonial Williamsburg Foundation StaffISBN 0879351063 (0-87935-106-3)
Softcover, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
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The Red Badge of Courageby Stephen CraneISBN 0812504798 (0-8125-0479-8)
Softcover, Tor Books
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Retold Classic Novel: The Scarlet Letterby Pat PerrinISBN 0780712153 (0-7807-1215-3)
Hardcover, Perfection Learning
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The Scarlet Letterby Nathaniel HawthorneISBN 0785407227 (0-7854-0722-7)
Softcover, Pearson Prentice Hall
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This edition of The Scarlet Letter includes a Preface, Biographical Note, and Afterword by Keith Neilson.
The Puritans thought Hester Prynne's crime was unforgivable. She was convicted, imprisoned--and then forced to wear, forever, a public reminder of her sin. The Scarlet letter. The Letter was unending punishment: it set hester apart from society, it tormented her days and haunted her soul.
But the Letter haunted others, as well, its mystery turned Roger Chillingworth from a gentle healer into a man driven by revenge. Its meaning burned into Rev. Arthur Dimsdale's heart, as deadly as cancer. And its power loomed over the life of Hester's daughter, the uncontrollable child Pearl.
Four people would be destroyed by a entangled web of guilt and secrets, unless one of them had the courage--and love--to reveal the truth of--The Scarlet Letter.More editions of The Scarlet Letter:
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The School for Wivesby MoliereISBN 0822209993 (0-8222-0999-3)
Softcover, Dramatist's Play Service
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The Science of Good and Evil : Why People Cheat, Share, Gossip, and Follow the Golden Ruleby Michael ShermerISBN 0805075208 (0-8050-7520-8)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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A century and a half after Darwin first proposed an evolutionary ethics, science has begun to tackle the roots of morality. Just as evolutionary biologists study why we are hungry (to motivate us to eat) or why sex is enjoyable (to motivate us to procreate), they are now searching for the roots of human nature.
In The Science of Good and Evil, psychologist and science historian Michael Shermer explores how humans evolved from social primates to moral primates, how and why morality motivates the human animal, and how the foundation of moral principles can be built upon empirical evidence. Along the way he explains the im-plications of statistics for fate and free will; fuzzy logic for the existence of pure good and pure evil; and ecology for the development of early moral sentiments among the first humans. As he closes the divide between science and morality, Shermer draws on stories from the Yanamamö, infamously known as the fierce people of the tropical rain forest, to the Aum Shinrikyo cult in Japan, to John Hinckleys insanity defense. The Science of Good and Evil is ultimately a profound look at the moral animal, belief, and the scientific pursuit of truth.More editions of The Science of Good and Evil : Why People Cheat, Share, Gossip, and Follow the Golden Rule:
Sour Pussby Sneaky Pie Brown, Rita Mae BrownISBN 0786284501 (0-7862-8450-1)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Tidewater Virginia Families: Generations Beyondby Virginia Lee Hutcheson DavisISBN 0806315784 (0-8063-1578-4)
Softcover, Genealogical Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tidewater Virginia Families: Generations Beyond'Book summary:When Tidewater Virginia Families was published by GPC in 1990 it was considered a landmark publication, so powerful a contribution to Virginia genealogy that it was numbered among a handful of genealogical compendia that would command the respect and admiration of all serious genealogists. In the intervening eight years enough new material has turned up to warrant publication of this supplement, Generations Beyond. But this is no mere addendum. In fact, to the forty Tidewater Virginia families treated in the original publication, no fewer than eleven new families have been added. In addition, the supplement includes vignettes and anecdotes of family life, descriptions and locations of family homes and burial sites, extensions of sibling lines, identification of neighbors, county maps, a place name index, and, where necessary, corrections and updates to the original volume. As in the original publication, all families tie in with the earliest Hutcheson, Peatross, Butler, and Lee settlers in the colony of Virginia, and in each instance the family history, its vital statistics, and the events of the time are reported, as are brief accounts of collateral issue in each generation. With the benefit of myriad sources both in print and manuscript, Mrs. Davis has once again managed to create a microcosmic genealogy of Tidewater Virginia, which includes the counties of Amherst, Caroline, Charles City, Dinwiddie, Elizabeth City, Essex, Fairfax, Fauquier, Gloucester, Goochland, Hanover, Henrico, Isle of Wight, James City, King William, Lancaster, Mathews, Northumberland, Prince William, Prince George, Spotsylvania, Surry, Sussex, and York. [via]
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Tidewater Virginia Families: The Families of Bell, Binford, Bonnerby Virginia L. DavisISBN 0806312831 (0-8063-1283-1)
Softcover, Genealogical Pub Co
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The Trails of Virginia: Hiking the Old Dominionby Allen De HartISBN 0807854719 (0-8078-5471-9)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Virginia Genealogy: Sources & Resourcesby Carol McGinnisISBN 080631379X (0-8063-1379-X)
Hardcover, Genealogical Pub Co
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The Virginia Housewifeby Mary RandolphISBN 0872494233 (0-87249-423-3)
Hardcover, Univ of South Carolina Pr
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Virginia State Road Atlasby Not AvailableISBN 0875303560 (0-87530-356-0)
Softcover, Langenscheidt Pub Inc
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Waterfalls of the Blue Ridgeby Nicole Blouin, Steve Bordonaro, Marilou Wier BordonaroISBN 0897321901 (0-89732-190-1)
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From the Smoky Mountains to the Shenandoah National Park, follow the authors as they guide you to nearly 100 of the best waterfalls on the Blue Ridge. Some are a stones throw from the road while others are more remote. Directions, distance, difficulty, and a brief history of the area accompanies each description. So get out of your chair and into the woods. And don't forget to take your camera; you'll want to capture plenty of the elusive beauty found around the Waterfalls of the Blue Ridge. [via]
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Wildflowers of the Shenandoah Valley and Blue Ridge Mountainsby Oscar W. Gupton, Fred C. SwopeISBN 0813921139 (0-8139-2113-9)
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Williamsburg Before and After: The Rebirth of Virginia's Colonial Capitalby George Humphrey YetterISBN 0879350776 (0-87935-077-6)
Hardcover, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
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L'Ecole Des Femmesby MoliereISBN 0785931317 (0-7859-3131-7)
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