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  • Ballet in the Cold War
    Ballet in the Cold War
    Searcy, Anne
    In 1959, the Bolshoi Ballet arrived in New York for its first ever performances in the United States. The tour was part of the Soviet-American cultural exchange, arranged by the governments of the US and USSR as part of their Cold War strategies. This book explores the first tours of the exchange, by the Bolshoi in 1959 and 1962, by American Ballet Theatre in 1960, and by New Y...

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  • Green Tea
    Green Tea
    Fanu, J. Sheridan Le / Worth, Aaron (ed.)
    'Well, a corpse is a natural thing; but this was the dreadfullest sight I ever sid...'Sheridan Le Fanu is one of the indispensable figures in the history of Gothic and horror fiction-the most important such writer in English, certainly, between Poe and M. R. James. While a number of his sensation and mystery novels were popular with mid-Victorian readers, it was in shorter form...

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  • Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
    Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
    Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
    In his Discourses (1755), Rousseau argues that inequalities of rank, wealth, and power are the inevitable result of the civilizing process. If inequality is intolerable - and Rousseau shows with unparalledled eloquence how it robs us not only of our material but also of our psychological independence - then how can we recover the peaceful self-sufficiency of life in the state o...

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  • Film Noir
    Film Noir
    Naremore, James
    James Naremore introduces film noir, highlighting key themes, films, and styles, and exploring why the genre is so difficult to categorize. First associated with Hollywood thrillers of the 1940s and 50s, film noir has become fully international in its nature and appeal, attracting the interest of great directors right up to our present time.• Considers the fascinating genre of ...

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  • Not For Long
    Not For Long
    Turner II, Robert W.
    The NFL is the most popular professional sports league in the United States. Its athletes receive multimillion-dollar contracts and almost endless media attention. The league's most important game, the Super Bowl, is practically a national holiday. Making it to the NFL, however, is not about the promised land of fame and fortune. Robert W. Turner II draws on his personal experi...

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  • Devils
    Devils
    Dostoevsky, Fyodor
    Devils, also known in English as The Possessed and The Demons, was first published in 1871-2. The third of Dostoevsky's five major novels, it is at once a powerful political tract and a profound study of atheism, depicting the disarray which follows the appearance of a band of modish radicals in a small provincial town. Dostoevsky compares infectious radicalism to the devils th...

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  • Love Songs
    Love Songs
    Gioia, Ted
    The love song is timeless. From its beginnings, it has been shaped by bohemians and renegades, slaves and oppressed minorities, prostitutes, immigrants and other excluded groups. But what do we really know about the origins of these intimate expressions of the heart? And how have our changing perceptions about topics such as sexuality and gender roles changed our attitudes towa...

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  • Six Tragedies
    Six Tragedies
    Seneca
    Here is a lively, readable, and accurate verse translation of the six best plays by one of the most influential of all classical Latin writers--the only tragic playwright from ancient Rome whose work survives. Tutor to the emperor Nero, Seneca lived through uncertain, oppressive, and violent times, and his dramas depict the extremes of human behavior. Rape, suicide, child-murde...

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  • Plays and Petersburg Tales
    Plays and Petersburg Tales
    Gogol, Nikolai
    In these tales Gogol guides us through the elegant streets of St Petersburg, the city erected by force and ingenuity on the marshes of the Neva estuary. Something of the deception and violence of the city's creation seems to lurk beneath its harmonious facade, however, and it confounds its inhabitants with false dreams and absurd visions - `nothing is what it seems!' warns Gogo...

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  • Lord Jim
    Lord Jim
    Conrad, Joseph
    Lord Jim tells the story of a young, idealistic Englishman--"as unflinching as a hero in a book"--who is disgraced by a single act of cowardice while serving as an officer on the Patna, a merchant-ship sailing from an eastern port. His life is ruined: an isolated scandal has assumed horrifying proportions. But, then he is befriended by an older man named Marlow who helps to est...

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  • Myself When I Am Real
    Myself When I Am Real
    Santoro, Gene
    Charles Mingus was one of the most innovative jazz musicians of the 20th century, and ranks with Charles Ives and Duke Ellington as one of America's greatest composers. By temperament, he was a high-strung and sensitive romantic, a towering figure whose tempestuous personal life foundpowerfully coherent expression in the ever-shifting textures of his music. Now, acclaimed music...

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  • Adam Bede
    Adam Bede
    Eliot, George
    Clarendon Edition of the Novels of George EliotThe Clarendon edition of Adam Bede (1859) is the first critical edition of the work that established George Eliot's reputation. Its extensive textual apparatus lists manuscript and first edition variants from the copy-text, which is the corrected eighth edition of 1861--her last revision of the book. The introduction locates the ge...

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  • Selfish Gene, The
    Selfish Gene, The
    Dawkins, Richard
    As influential today as when it was first published, The Selfish Gene has become a classic exposition of evolutionary thought. Professor Dawkins articulates a gene's eye view of evolution - a view giving centre stage to these persistent units of information, and in which organisms can be seen as vehicles for their replication. This imaginative, powerful, and stylistically brill...

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  • Invention of Angela Carter, The
    Invention of Angela Carter, The
    Gordon, Edmund
    Offers the first full account of Carter's amazing life and enduring workFeatures previously untold anecdotes of her youth, marriages, professional struggles, and her painful battle with cancerIncludes over thirty photos, most never published beforeStructured in succinct, briskly moving chapters that make the biography read like an absorbing novel ...

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  • Strategy
    Strategy
    Freedman, Lawrence
    Selected as a Financial Times Best Book of 2013In Strategy: A History, Sir Lawrence Freedman, one of the world's leading authorities on war and international politics, captures the vast history of strategic thinking, in a consistently engaging and insightful account of how strategy came to pervade every aspect of our lives.The range of Freedman's narrative is extraordinary, mov...

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  • Mexico
    Mexico
    Camp, Roderic
    Today all would agree that Mexico and the United States have never been closer-that the fates of the two republics are inextricably intertwined. It has become an intimate part of life in almost every community in the United States, through immigration, imported produce, business ties, or illegal drugs. It is less a neighbor than a sibling; no matter what our differences, it is ...

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  • Orestes
    Orestes
    Euripides
    A translation of Euripides's Orestes by Peck, a poet, and Nisetich, a classicist, with introduction, glossary, and full stage directions. ...

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  • Flatland
    Flatland
    Abbott, Edwin A.
    'Upward, yet not Northward.'How would a creature limited to two dimensions be able to grasp the possibility of a third?Edwin A. Abbott's droll and delightful 'romance of many dimensions' explores this conundrum in the experiences of his protagonist, A Square, whose linear world is invaded by an emissary Sphere bringing the gospel of the third dimension on the eve of the new mil...

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  • Diary of a Nobody, The
    Diary of a Nobody, The
    Grossmith, George and Weedon
    `Why should I not publish my diary? I have often seen reminiscences of people I have never even heard of, and I fail to see - because I do not happen to be a `Somebody' - why my diary should not be interesting.'The Diary of a Nobody (1892) created a cultural icon, an English archetype. Anxious, accident-prone, occasionally waspish, Charles Pooter has come to be seen as the epit...

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  • Wondrous Strange
    Wondrous Strange
    Bazzana, Kevin
    When Mikhail Baryshnikov defected in Toronto in 1974, he admitted that he knew only three things about Canada: It had great hockey teams, a lot of wheatfields, and Glenn Gould.In Wondrous Strange, Kevin Bazzana vividly recaptures the life of Glenn Gould, one of the most celebrated pianists of our time. Drawing on twenty years of intensive research, including unrestricted access...

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  • Language, Cognition, and Human Nature
    Language, Cognition, and Human Nature
    Pinker, Steven
    Language, Cognition, and Human Nature collects together for the first time much of Steven Pinker's most influential scholarly work on language and cognition. Pinker's seminal research explores the workings of language and its connections to cognition, perception, social relationships, child development, human evolution, and theories of human nature.This eclectic collection span...

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  • Selected Tales
    Selected Tales
    Poe, Edgar Allan
    Since their first publication in the 1830s and 1840s, Edgar Allan Poe's extraordinary Gothic tales have established themselves as classics of horror fiction and have also created many of the conventions which still dominate the genre of detective fiction.Yet, as well as being highly enjoyable, Poe's tales are works of very real intellectual exploration. Abandoning the criteria ...

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  • Fifth Sun
    Fifth Sun
    Townsend, Camilla
    In November 1519, Hernando Cortés walked along a causeway leading to the capital of the Aztec kingdom and came face to face with Moctezuma. That story--and the story of what happened afterwards--has been told many times, but always following the narrative offered by the Spaniards. After all, we have been taught, it was the Europeans who held the pens. But the Native Americans w...

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  • Expedition Of Cyrus, The
    Expedition Of Cyrus, The
    Xenophon
    The Expedition of Cyrus tells the story of the epic march of the Ten Thousand, an army recruited at the end of the fifth century BC by a young Persian prince, Cyrus, who rose in revolt agains his brother, the King of Persia. After Cyrus' death, the army is left stranded in the desert of Mespotamia, a thousand miles from home. Their long march, across mountains and plateaus to t...

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  • Politics
    Politics
    Aristotle

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  • Oxford Book of American Poetry,The
    Oxford Book of American Poetry,The
    Lehman, David / Brehm, John (Eds.)

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  • Illustrated Art of War, The
    Illustrated Art of War, The
    Tzu, Sun

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  • Major Works, The
    Major Works, The
    Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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  • Snow White and Other Tales
    Snow White and Other Tales
    Grimm, Jacob

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  • Creators, Conquerors, and Citizens
    Creators, Conquerors, and Citizens
    Waterfield, Robin
    We Greeks are one in blood and one in language; we have temples to the gods and religious rites in common, and a common way of life. So the fifth-century historian Herodotus has some Athenians declare, in explanation of why they would never betray their fellow Greeks to the enemy, thebarbarian Persians. And he might have added further common features, such as clothing, foodways...

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