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How to Be a Friend

An Ancient Guide to True Friendship

by Marcus Tullius Cicero
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018

A splendid new translation of one of the greatest books on friendship ever written In a world where social media, online relationships, and relentless self-absorption threaten the very idea of deep and lasting friendships, the search for true friends is more important than ever. In this short...
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Almanac

Poems

by Austin Smith
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2013

Almanac is a collection of lyrical and narrative poems that celebrate, and mourn the passing of, the world of the small family farm. But while the poems are all involved in some way with the rural Midwest, particularly with the people and land of the northwestern Illinois dairy farm where Austin Smith...
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Facing Fear

The History of an Emotion in Global Perspective

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Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2012

Fear is ubiquitous but slippery. It has been defined as a purely biological reality, derided as an excuse for cowardice, attacked as a force for social control, and even denigrated as an unnatural condition that has no place in the disenchanted world of enlightened modernity. In these times of institutionalized...
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Fearful Symmetry

A Study of William Blake

by Northrop Frye
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013

This brilliant outline of Blake's thought and commentary on his poetry comes on the crest of the current interest in Blake, and carries us further towards an understanding of his work than any previous study. Here is a dear and complete solution to the riddles of the longer poems, the so-called "Prophecies,"...
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Lydia Ginzburg's Prose

Reality in Search of Literature

by Emily Van Buskirk
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016

The Russian writer Lydia Ginzburg (1902–90) is best known for her Notes from the Leningrad Blockade and for influential critical studies, such as On Psychological Prose, investigating the problem of literary character in French and Russian novels and memoirs. Yet she viewed her most vital work to...
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Personal Impressions

Updated Edition

by Isaiah Berlin, Noel Annan
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2014

In this collection of remarkable biographical portraits, the great essayist and intellectual historian Isaiah Berlin brings to life a wide range of prominent twentieth-century thinkers, politicians, and writers. These include Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Chaim Weizmann, Albert Einstein,...
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Clear and Simple as the Truth

Writing Classic Prose - Second Edition

by Francis-Noël Thomas, Mark Turner
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011

For more than a decade, Clear and Simple as the Truth has guided readers to consider style not as an elegant accessory of effective prose but as its very heart. Francis-Noël Thomas and Mark Turner present writing as an intellectual activity, not a passive application of verbal skills. In classic...
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by Peter Brooks
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011

"We know that it matters crucially to be able to say who we are, why we are here, and where we are going," Peter Brooks writes in Enigmas of Identity. Many of us are also uncomfortably aware that we cannot provide a convincing account of our identity to others or even ourselves. Despite or because...
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Living on Paper

Letters from Iris Murdoch, 1934–1995

by Iris Murdoch
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016

Iris Murdoch was an acclaimed novelist and groundbreaking philosopher whose life reflected her unconventional beliefs and values. But what has been missing from biographical accounts has been Murdoch's own voice—her life in her own words. Living on Paper—the first major collection of Murdoch's...
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States and Power in Africa

Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control - Second Edition

by Jeffrey Herbst, Jeffrey Herbst
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2014

Theories of international relations, assumed to be universally applicable, have failed to explain the creation of states in Africa. There, the interaction of power and space is dramatically different from what occurred in Europe. In States and Power in Africa, Jeffrey Herbst places the African state-building...
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Mirror, Mirror

The Uses and Abuses of Self-Love

by Simon Blackburn
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2014

Everyone deplores narcissism, especially in others. The vain are by turns annoying or absurd, offending us whether they are blissfully oblivious or proudly aware of their behavior. But are narcissism and vanity really as bad as they seem? Can we avoid them even if we try? In Mirror, Mirror, Simon...
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by Jason Stanley
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015

Our democracy today is fraught with political campaigns, lobbyists, liberal media, and Fox News commentators, all using language to influence the way we think and reason about public issues. Even so, many of us believe that propaganda and manipulation aren't problems for us—not in the way they were...
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Emergency Politics

Paradox, Law, Democracy

by Bonnie Honig
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2009

This book intervenes in contemporary debates about the threat posed to democratic life by political emergencies. Must emergency necessarily enhance and centralize top-down forms of sovereignty? Those who oppose executive branch enhancement often turn instead to law, insisting on the sovereignty of...
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The Twilight of the Middle Class

Post-World War II American Fiction and White-Collar Work

by Andrew Hoberek
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009

In The Twilight of the Middle Class, Andrew Hoberek challenges the commonly held notion that post-World War II American fiction eschewed the economic for the psychological or the spiritual. Reading works by Ayn Rand, Ralph Ellison, Saul Bellow, Phillip Roth, Flannery O'Connor, Thomas Pynchon, Don...
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