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  • John Williams
    John Williams
    Greiving, Tim
    The first biography of a great American composer of the cinema ageJohn Williams is one of the most important film composers of all time, having almost singlehandedly revived the Hollywood symphonic scoring tradition and helped restore the livelihood of American orchestras through the popularity of film music programming. His film music, in the words of director Oliver Stone, "c...

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  • Sparks
    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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  • Mirabelle in Double Trouble
    Mirabelle in Double Trouble
    Muncaster, Harriet
    Mirabelle is looking forward to her family holiday to a fancy witch resort, but when she makes a new friend and meets her match in the mischief stakes, she finds herself in a heap of trouble . . . with dragons involved!Will Mirabelle's family believe that Mirabelle is (mostly) innocent this time or is it just a case of double the trouble? ...

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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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  • 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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  • 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 wer...

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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Stories, The
    Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Stories, The
    Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
    Charlotte Perkins Gilman was America's leading feminist intellectual of the early twentieth century. The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories makes available the fullest selection ever printed of her short fiction, featuring the pioneering feminist masterpiece of the title, her stories contemporary with The Yellow Wallpaper, the fiction from her neglected California period (1890-...

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  • Figaro Trilogy, The
    Figaro Trilogy, The
    Beaumarchais, Pierre-Augustin Caron de
    The Barber of Seville, The Marriage of Figaro and The Guilty Mother were the first plays to use a set of recurring characters who develop over time. They chronicle the slide of the ancien regime into revolution and Figaro was seen as a threat to the establishment. The impertinent, bustling servant was appropriated by Mozart and Rossini for their own purposes, and Beaumarchais b...

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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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  • Atlas of World History
    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
    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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  • 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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  • Confessions
    Confessions
    Agustine, Hippon
    In his own day the dominant personality of the Western Church, Augustine of Hippo today stands as perhaps the greatest thinker of Christian antiquity, and his Confessions is one of the great works of Western literature. In this intensely personal narrative, Augustine relates his rare ascentfrom a humble Algerian farm to the edge of the corridors of power at the imperial court i...

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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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  • How the South Won the Civil War
    How the South Won the Civil War
    Richardson, Heather Cox
    In this provocative new work, Heather Cox Richardson argues that while the North won the Civil War, ending slavery, oligarchy, and giving the country a "new birth of freedom," the victory was short-lived. Settlers from the East pushed into the West, where the seizure of Mexican lands at the end of the Mexican-American War and treatment of Native Americans cemented racial hierar...

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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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  • Manipulation
    Manipulation
    Coons, Christian / Weber, Michael (eds.)

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

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  • Dictionary: Oxford Roald Dahl
    Dictionary: Oxford Roald Dahl
    Dahl, Roald

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  • Problems of Philosophy, The
    Problems of Philosophy, The
    Russell, Bertrand

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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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  • Oxford Illustrated Book of American Children's Poems, The
    Oxford Illustrated Book of American...
    Hall, Donald

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  • Mirabelle in Witch City
    Mirabelle in Witch City
    Muncaster, Harriet

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