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  • Sparks
    Johnson, Ian
    Using history to challenge Communist Party rule.Sparks: China's Underground Historians and their Battle for the Future describes how some of China's best-known writers, filmmakers, and artists have overcome crackdowns and censorship to forge a nationwide movement that challenges the Communist Party on its most hallowed ground: its control of history.The past is a battleground i...

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  • 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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  • 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 wer...

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  • 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
    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
    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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  • Discourses, Fragments, Handbook
    Epictetus
    The only complete modern translation of Epictetus' Discourses, the most widely read and influential of all Stoic writings, together with the Handbook, and fragments.- A new translation by Robin Hard combining philosophical accuracy and accessibility as modern English.- Introduction by Christopher Gill takes into account the most recent work on the interpretation of Epictetus an...

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  • 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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  • Billy Budd, Sailor and Selected Tales
    Melville, Herman
    Billy Budd is among the greatest of Melville's works and, in its richness and ambiguity, among the most problematic. Outwardly a compelling narrative of events aboard a British man-of-war during the turmoil of the Napoleonic Wars, Billy Budd, Sailor is a nautical recasting of the Fall, a parable of good and evil, a meditation on justice and political governance, and a searching...

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  • 5 Plays
    Chekhov, Anton
    Chekhov's worldwide reputation as a dramatist rests on five great plays: Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard. All are presented in this collection, taken from the authoritative Oxford Chekhov, in Ronald Hingley's acclaimed translation. Hingley has also written an introduction specifically for this volume in which he provides a detailed histor...

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  • 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
    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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  • Atlas of World History
    O´Brien, Patrick (Ed.)
    Oxford's Atlas of World History is the result of years of intensive work by a specialist team of scholars, editors, and cartographers. It presents the story of humanity in its physical setting, from the emergence of the earliest hominoids to the present day. Truly international in scope, the atlas incorporates the latest research into Asian, African, and Central and South Ameri...

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  • 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
    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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  • Complete Fairy Tales
    Perrault, Charles
    The only complete edition of all Perrault's tales both in prose and verse, in a translation by Christopher BettsPerrault's fairy tales established the versions of Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Little Red Riding-Hood, and others that we know today, and also include the verse tales Griselda, Three Silly Wishes, and the notorious Donkey-SkinThe tales are accompanied by a fascinatin...

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  • Stories and Poems
    Kipling, Rudyard
    'Hear and attend and listen...'Rudyard Kipling is a supreme master of the short story in English and a poet of brilliant gifts. His energy and inventiveness poured themselves into every kind of tale, from the bleakest of fables to the richest of comedies, and he illuminated every aspect of human behaviour, of which he was a fascinated (and sometimes appalled) observer. This gen...

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  • Aztecs, The
    Carrasco, David
    This Very Short Introduction employs the disciplines of history, religious studies, and anthropology as it illuminates the complexities of Aztec life. Readers meet a people highly skilled in sculpture, astronomy, city planning, poetry, and philosophy, who were also profoundly committed to cosmic regeneration through the thrust of the ceremonial knife and through warfare. David ...

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  • 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
    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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  • 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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  • 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
    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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  • Phenomenology of Spirit
    Hegel, G.W.F.
    This brilliant study of the stages in the mind's necessary progress from immediate sense-consciousness to the position of a scientific philosophy includes an introductory essay and a paragraph-by-paragraph analysis of the text to help the reader understand this most difficult and most influential of Hegel's works. ...

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  • 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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  • Last Man, The
    Shelley, Mary
    A futuristic story of tragic love and of the gradual extermination of the human race by plague, The Last Man is Mary Shelley's most important novel after Frankenstein. With intriguing portraits of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron, the novel offers a vision of the future that expresses a reaction against Romanticism, and demonstrates the failure of the imagination and of art ...

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  • Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, and...
    Hume, David
    David Hume is the greatest and also one of the most provocative philosophers to have written in the English language. No philosopher is more important for his careful, critical, and deeply perceptive examination of the grounds for belief in divine powers and for his sceptical accounts of the causes and consequences of religious belief, expressed most powerfully in the Dialogues...

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  • Metamorphoses
    Ovid
    The theme of the Metamorphoses is change and transformation, as illustrated in Graeco-Roman myth and legend. On this ostensibly unifying thread Ovid strings together a vast and kaleidoscopic sequence of brilliant narratives, in which the often paradoxical and always arbitrary fates of his human and divine characters reflect the never-ending flux and reflux of the universe itsel...

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  • Qur'an, The
    Haleem, M.A.S. Abdel
    The Qur'an, believed by Muslims to be the word of God, was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad 1400 years ago. It is the supreme authority in Islam and the living source of all Islamic teaching; it is a sacred text and a book of guidance, that sets out the creed, rituals, ethics, and laws of the Islamic religion. It has been one of the most influential books in the history of lite...

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  • 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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