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Jess Munday
A Place Between Dreams
He can't remember what he did, and he'll do anything to keep it that way. Tennessee Walker blinks his eyes open in his San Francisco apartment and realizes he's washing blood off his hands with no memory of what happened. His girlfriend, Lucy, is nowhere to be found, and all that remains are shatter...
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Judy Jo Small
Positive as Sound: Emily Dickinson's Rhyme
The strange rhymes of Emily Dickinson's verse have offended some readers, attracted others, and proved a stumbling block for critics. In the first thorough analysis of the poet's rhyming practices, Judy Jo Small goes beyond simple classification and enumeration to reveal the aesthetic and semantic v...
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Pat Rogers
The Poet and the Publisher: The Case of Alexander Pope, Esq., of Twickenham versus Edmund Curll, Bookseller in Grub Street
“Drawing on deep familiarity with the period and its personalities, Rogers has given us a witty and richly detailed account of the ongoing war between the greatest poet of the eighteenth century and its most scandalous publisher.”—Leo Damrosch, author of The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Fr...
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Jean-Yves Leloup
The Gospel of Philip: Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and the Gnosis of Sacred Union
A new translation and analysis of one of the most controversial of the apocryphal gospels • Emphasizes an initiatic marriage between the male and female principles as the heart of the Christian mystery • Bears witness to the physical relationship shared by Jesus and Mary Magdalene • Tran...
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Rosina Lhevinne
Basic Principles in Pianoforte Playing (Dover Books On Music: Piano)
This little book, written at the height of his career by Josef Lhevinne, the "inward poet of the piano," is a clear statement of principles based on his lifelong experience in performance and teaching. Lhevinne was, with Rachmaninoff, Schnabel, and Hoffman, one of the great modern masters, and was t...
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Lawrence Wright
Remembering Satan: A Tragic Case of Recovered Memory
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower comes "the most powerful and disturbing true crime narrative to appear since Truman Capote's In Cold Blood" ( TIME )—a case that destroyed a family, engulfed a small town, and captivated an America obsessed by rumors of a satanic underg...
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Jonathan Clements
Japan at War in the Pacific: The Rise and Fall of the Japanese Empire in Asia: 1868-1945
"A lucid history of the rise and fall of militarism in Japan…" — New York Journal of Books Japan at War in the Pacific recounts the dramatic story of Japan's transformation from a Samurai-led feudal society to a modern military-industrial empire in the space of a few decades—and the many w...
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Alan M. Dershowitz
Preemption: A Knife That Cuts Both Ways (Issues of Our Time)
An incisive, prophetic look at our increasing reliance on preemptive action from profiling to preventive war. Every so often, a startling book emerges that gives voice to a new or previously unexamined trend that is transforming society. Alan M. Dershowitz's provocative new work, Preemption , is j...
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The Death Penalty: An American History
The death penalty arouses our passions as does few other issues. Some view taking another person’s life as just and reasonable punishment while others see it as an inhumane and barbaric act. But the intensity of feeling that capital punishment provokes often obscures its long and varied history in...
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Philip K. Howard
The Collapse of the Common Good: How America's Lawsuit Culture Undermines Our Freedom
In pursuit of fairness at any cost, we have created a society paralyzed by legal fear: Doctors are paranoid and principals powerless. Little league coaches, scared of liability, stop volunteering. Schools and hospitals start to crumble. The common good fades, replaced by a cacophony of people claimi...
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Patrick Boyde
Dante Philomythes and Philosopher: Man in the Cosmos (Cambridge Paperback Library) (Volume 0)
This book is devoted to a full and lucid exposition of Boyde's ideas. In the first two parts, the author presents a systematic account of the universe as Dante accepted it, and explains the processes of 'creation' and 'generation' as they operate in the non-human parts of the cosmos. Dr Boyde then s...
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Anna Powell
Deleuze, Altered States and Film
Deleuze, Altered States and Film offers a typology of altered states, defining dream, hallucination, memory, trance and ecstasy in their cinematic expression. The book presents altered states films as significant neurological, psychological and philosophical experiences. Chapters engage with films ...
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Bobby J. Leggett
Early Stevens: The Nietzschean Intertext
In recent years Nietzsche has emerged as a presiding genius of our intellectual epoch. Although scholars have noted the influence of Nietzsche's thought on Wallace Stevens, the publication of Early Stevens establishes, for the first time, the extent to which Nietzsche pervades Steven's early work....
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Malcolm Barber
The New Knighthood: A History of the Order of the Temple (Canto Classics)
The Order of the Temple, founded in 1119 to protect pilgrims around Jerusalem, developed into one of the most influential corporations in the medieval world. It has retained its hold on the modern imagination thanks to the dramatic events of the Templars' trial and abolition two hundred years later,...
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Simon Green
Governance in Contemporary Germany: The Semisovereign State Revisited
Much has changed in Germany over the past twenty years. In 1987 Peter Katzenstein produced a seminal analysis of the 'semisovereign' politics of West Germany, providing a compelling account of policy-making in Europe's largest economy. However, unification in 1990 changed Germany's institutional con...
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Chelsea Wakefield Lcsw
Negotiating the Inner Peace Treaty: Becoming the Person You Were Born to Be
"A real gift to anyone interested in finding out more about the many selves that make up our Inner Cast of Characters . Clear, thoughtful, and lyrical, it guides the reader along the fascinating journey of self-discovery, providing support and practical suggestions along the way." --Hal Stone, Ph...
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The Maharal of Prague
Tiferet Yisrael: Translation and Commentary―Volume 1: Introduction and Chapters 1–9 (1)
The famed Maharal of Prague, a 16th-century mystic, is known for the legend of the Golem, but his Torah scholarship has remained a closed book to English speakers for far too long. While several attempts have been made to translate or abridge the Maharal’s Torah, the complexity of his thought has ...
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Adam Smith
Essential Adam Smith
The sheer strength of his great work, The Wealth of Nations , discourages many from attempting to explore its rich and lucid arguments. In this brilliantly crafted volume, one of the most eminent economists of our day provides a generous selection from the entire body of Smith's work, ranging from ...
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Anthony A. Barrett
Rome Is Burning: Nero and the Fire That Ended a Dynasty (Turning Points in Ancient History)
Drawing on new archaeological evidence, an authoritative history of Rome’s Great Fire―and how it inflicted lasting harm on the Roman Empire According to legend, the Roman emperor Nero set fire to his majestic imperial capital on the night of July 19, AD 64 and fiddled while the city burned. It...
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William F. Buckley Jr
The Fall of the Berlin Wall (Turning Points in History, 20)
Eloquent . . . immensely readable . . . the saga of the victory of capitalism over the brutal and irrational fraud that was state socialism. — The Baltimore Sun ""Buckley's lucid account celebrates the tenacity of the human spirit and the will to achieve freedom."" — Publishers Weekly ""This is ...
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