Editions Artisan Devereaux Llc: 263 books

Cover of The Mind of Primitive Man
by Franz Boas
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2014

FRANZ BOAS (1858-1942) has long been considered the father of modern American anthropology. He introduced the relativistic, culture-centered principles and methods of investigation that continue to dominate the field today. By attempting to fuse anthropology with political and social activism, he...
Cover of Fidel Castro 10 Speeches That Changed the World
by Fidel Castro
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2016

“A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.” Fidel Castro was perhaps the most charismatic and controversial head of state in modern times. Castro took power on New Year’s Day in 1959 serenaded by the Western media for toppling dictator Fulgencio...
Cover of The Perversity of Human Nature
by Ada Cambridge
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018

“A thoroughly refined and harmonious house, in short; such a house as could only belong to cultivated and enlightened people...” According to Susan Lever and Elizabeth Morrison, The Perversity of Human Nature by Ada Cambridge records a precise moment in Melbourne’s urban history before...
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The Turing Hypothesis

The Complete Manuscript

by Alan Turing
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017

Could a computer be made to think? Alan Turing's groundbreaking 1950 paper, “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” has become one of the most cited in philosophical literature. Turing was a founding father of artificial intelligence and of modern cognitive science, and was a leading early...
Cover of Goblin Market
by Christina Rossetti
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016

“We must not look at goblin men, We must not buy their fruits: Who knows upon what soil they fed Their hungry thirsty roots?” In ‘Goblin Market’, Christina Rossetti, an important and oft-quoted literary master, experiments with language, form and imagery to create a beautiful and voluptuous...
Cover of Counter-Attack and Other Poems
by Siegfried Sassoon
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018

SIEGFRIED SASSOON, CBE, MC (1886–1967) was an English poet, writer, and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, Sassoon is best remembered for his angry and compassionate poems of the First World War, which brought him public and critical acclaim. Avoiding the sentimentality...
Cover of Ms. Found In A Bottle
by Edgar Allan Poe
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2018

Ms. Found In A Bottle is a small prototypical story by the master, whose extravagantly macabre tales have inspired such latter-day disciples as H.P. Lovecraft, and Stephen King. We follow an unnamed sailor at sea who finds himself in a series of traumatic circumstances. First, his vessel...
Cover of Nightmare Abbey & Crotchet Castle
by Thomas Love Peacock
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2018

Nightmare Abbey concerns the unhappy love interests of one Scythrop Glowry, as those interests take shape at various times in the persons of Miss Marionetta O’Carroll and Miss Celinda Toobad. Do these characters represent deliberate portraits of Percy Bysshe Shelley, his first wife, Harriet,...
Cover of The Torrents of Spring
by Ivan Turgenev
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2015

Ivan Turgenev gave his generation a literary legacy that dealt with the extraordinary moral complexities of his age. A novel of haunting beauty, Torrents of Spring is a fascinating account of one of Turgenev's favorite themes: man's inability to love without becoming a slave to the destructive...
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Voltaire

A Sketch of His Life and Works

by J. M. Wheeler, G. W. Foote
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018

Voltaire – A Sketch of His Life and Works is a compilation of some of Voltaire’s greatest themes, quotes and sketches. Voltaire was a versatile and prolific writer, producing works in almost every literary form, including plays, poems, novels, essays and historical and scientific works....
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Sir Walter Raleigh

A Biography

by William Stebbing
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016

“He gave the taste vogue, teaching the courtiers to smoke their pipes  with silver bowls, and supplying them with the leaf.” -Stebbing’s description of Raleigh introducing pipes and tobacco to England. William Stebbing crafts a deft portrait of one of the most notable figures...
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The Naked Citizen

Notes on Privacy in the Twenty-First Century

by Philip Dossick
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2014

Feel like someone’s watching? You’re probably right. Your anonymity is an illusion. The trend toward constant surveillance is disturbing. Supporters often argue, "If you're obeying the law, you have nothing to fear." But is that true? While many refuse to acknowledge...
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Pedro Calderon de la Barca

The Mighty Magician, Life is a Dream

by Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016

The Mighty Magician, Pedro Calderon de la Barca’s Faustian story of religious conversion is his sublime musing on the human condition and one of the greatest works of the Spanish golden age. It looks forward to such modern dramatic themes as our ever-changing perceptions of reality and the...
Cover of Brandeis and Warren - Privacy As A Concept
by Louis Brandeis
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2014

Praise for this edition of the timeless classic, The Right To Privacy by Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis and Samuel Warren: Feel like someone’s watching? You’re probably right. Your anonymity is an illusion. The trend toward constant surveillance is disturbing. Supporters...
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