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Alexis de Tocqueville
Democracy in America
The first English-language edition published in 1838 and translated by Henry Reeve, Esq. with Preface and notes by John C. Spencer. This landmark work initiated a dialogue about the nature of democracy and the United States and its people that continues to this day. In 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville [1...
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Gary Snyder
Gary Snyder: Essential Prose (LOA #391) (Library of America, 391)
In one volume, the indispensable prose of our “poet laureate of deep ecology” Here is Gary Snyder's own selection of his pathbreaking environmental essays, Buddhist journals, poetic notebooks, and more, including previously uncollected material Gathered for the first time in a single volume a...
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Elizabeth F Heath
The Architecture Lover's Guide to Rome (City Guides)
For lovers of Rome, a guidebook that presents a historical tour of the Eternal City's better- and lesser-known buildings and monuments. Rome’s architectural remains date as far back as the city’s founding in the 8th century BCE. The primitive settlement that began on the Palatine Hill grew ove...
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Ovid
Metamorphoses, Volume I: Books 1-8 (Loeb Classical Library)
The poetry of change. Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 BC–AD 17), born at Sulmo, studied rhetoric and law at Rome. Later he did considerable public service there, and otherwise devoted himself to poetry and to society. Famous at first, he offended the emperor Augustus by his Ars amatoria, and wa...
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Colin Turnbull
The Forest People
The bestselling, classic text on one anthropologist’s incredible experience living among the African Mbuti Pygmies, and what he learned from their culture, customs, and love of life. In this bestselling book, Colin Turnbull, a British cultural anthropologist, details the incredible Mbuti pygmy p...
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Mikhail Sholokhov
And Quiet Flows the Don
Mikhail Sholokhov's groundbreaking epic novel gives a sweeping depiction of Russian life and culture in the early twentieth century. In the same vein as War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy, And Quiet Flows the Don gives listeners a glimpse into many aspects of Russian culture, and the choices a countr...
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Yashar Kemal
They Burn the Thistles (Memed)
Turkey’s greatest novelist, Yashar Kemal is an unsurpassed storyteller who brings to life a world of staggering violence and hallucinatory beauty. Kemal’s books delve deeply into the entrenched social and historical conflicts that scar the Middle East. At the same time scents and sounds, vistas ...
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Desmond Conacher
Euripides: Alcestis (Aris & Phillips Classical Texts)
The theme of Euripides’ Alcestis blends the primitive folk-tale of the self-sacrificing bride, Alcestis, and of Heracles’ heroic struggles with the ogre Death, with a morality tale of “virtue rewarded”, in this case twice rewarded. The Alcestis is the only tragedy which we know to have b...
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Hazel Wells Tison
Better Times A Comin'
Better Times A-Comin ', by Hazel Wells Tison, contains articles printed in the weekly hometown news paper over a time span of 15 plus years from 2004 until 2021. It covers growing up on a 2 mule farm in the rural south during "Hard Times" better known as Hoover Days or The Great Depression. This lar...
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Mary Oliver
Swan: Poems and Prose Poems
“Joy is not made to be a crumb,” writes Mary Oliver, and certainly joy abounds in her new book of poetry and prose poems. Swan, her twentieth volume, shows us that, though we may be “made out of the dust of stars,” we are of the world she captures here so vividly. Swan is Oliver’s trib...
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Thomas Smyth
An Ecclesiastical Catechism of the Presbyterian Church for the use of Families, Bible-classes and Private Members
Originally printed in 1843, "An Ecclesiastical Catechism of the Presbyterian Church" is a definitive text giving insight and instruction regarding the form of church government known as presbyterianism, or rule of elders. Replete with Scripture references, "An Ecclesiastical Catechism of the Presbyt...
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Geoff Baggett
Frenchmen and Long Knives: Patriots of the American Revolution Series Book Three
Pierre Grimard’s dream was to leave his boyhood home in France and voyage to America. He longed to begin a new life, business, and family in the French settlements of the faraway frontier in the Illinois country. Ten years later it seemed that Pierre had fulfilled every one of his dreams. He had a...
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Dr Stefano Carpani
2024 JUNGIANEUM YEARBOOK / AN(N)UARIO / JAHRBUCH / 年鉴 / ЕЖЕГОДНИК FOR CONTEMPORARY ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY AND NEO-JUNGIAN STUDIES
JUNGIANEUM/Yearbook, like every other pro-bono initiative by Jungianeum: Contemporary Initiatives for Analytical Psychology and Neo-Jungian Studies, aims to strengthen society's ability to discuss and address conflicts, and to challenge them effectively in a Jungian psychosocial way. In this spirit,...
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Mario Vargas Llosa
The Way to Paradise: A Novel
The dramatic lives of two bold, independent adventurers--Paul Gaugin and his grandmother Flora Tristan, a trail-blazing women's suffragist--as imagined by "one of the master storytellers of our time" (Chicago Tribune Book World) In 1844, Flora Tristán embarked on a tour of France to campaign for ...
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Mary Oliver
The Truro Bear and Other Adventures: Poems and Essays
The Truro Bear and Other Adventures , a companion volume to Owls and Other Fantasies and Blue Iris , brings together ten new poems, thirty-five of Oliver's classic poems, and two essays all about mammals, insects, and reptiles. The award-winning poet considers beasts of all kinds: bears, snakes, ...
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Alexandra Sasha Tarakanov Plax
A Thousand Days to Yourself: A Story of Past Lives, Present Courage, and the Soul That Is Waiting
When James walked through her door for his first past life regression, he was a young professional who felt something stirring beneath the surface of his ordinary life. Three sessions and about a thousand days later, he was channeling a fifth-dimensional consciousness in front of a live audience ...
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Claudia Marseille
But You Look So Normal: Lost and Found in a Hearing World
2024 IPPY Awards Gold Winner in Best First Book (Nonfiction/Personal) By age four, Claudia Marseille had hardly uttered a word. When her parents finally had her hearing tested and learned she had a severe hearing loss, they chose to mainstream her, hoping this would offer her the most “normal...
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Belinda Jack
George Sand: A Woman's Life Writ Large
The author of classic novels including Indiana and Lélia , George Sand is perhaps better known for her unconventional life. Belinda Jack unravels the many facets of this writer who counted among her friends and lovers everyone from Chopin and Liszt to Dostoyevsky and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. ...
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Stefan Helmreich
Silicon Second Nature : Culturing Artificial Life in a Digital World
Silicon Second Nature takes us on an expedition into an extraordinary world where nature is made of bits and bytes and life is born from sequences of zeroes and ones. Artificial Life is the brainchild of scientists who view self-replicating computer programs―such as computer viruses―as new form...
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Mrs Irene Giannakopoulos
My Amorgos: Traditional Greek flavours & culture
Gastronomy and “My Amorgos” Book! Gastronomy is a big issue in Amorgos, and the Gastronomy Club of Amorgos was established in 2017 by Irene Giannakopoulos, an elected member of Municipality of Amorgos island Council. Everyone on Amorgos recognizes the importance of gastronomic tourism to the eco...
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