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Drawing on countless interviews, letters and top secret memos, this book traces the evolution of the military occupation…

Traces Russian poetry from its Golden Age to the modern era, including work by several great poets - Georgy Ivanov and…

Alice has everything. So why isn't she happy? After all, she has a handsome husband, a gorgeous home and membership of…

This is an edition of the Old English epic poem "Beowulf", offering linguistic and glossarial aids on each page.…

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'Georgic' means 'to work the earth'. This poetic guide to country living combines practical wisdom on tending the land with…

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The ultimate sociological resource Written by three eminent professors, this reference has been updated to reflect the…

Alphonse Daudet's novels established him as the most successful writer in France by the end of the XIX century. Throughout…

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John Milton was celebrated and denounced in his own time both as a poet and as a polemicist. This edition of Milton's major…

A collection of three works exploring the profound effects on protagonists who embark on psychological voyages of…

The "Canzoniere", a sequence of sonnets and other verse forms, were written over a period of about 40 years. They describe…

A collection of essays that contains some of the important pieces of criticism of the twentieth century, including the…

What do philosophers mean by 'absolute' and 'akrasia'? What are 'Polish notation' and 'prime matter'? What contributions to…

In his pioneering treatise on education, the great French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) presents concepts…

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Deals with the answers that historians, philosophers, theologians, practising politicians and would-be revolutionaries have…

A critique of American snobbery and wastefulness. It satirizes practices such as 'conspicuous consumption', a pattern of…

A collection of works that have profoundly shaped the history of criticism in the Western world: they created much of the…

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Set on the eve of the Sino-Japanese war, this work recounts the exuberant misadventures of the hapless hero Fang Hung-chien,…

Collects works that form the true foundation of Western philosophy - the base upon which Plato and Aristotle and their…

Icelandic literary culture was one of the richest and most important in the medieval world. This title brings together the…

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Cook led three famous expeditions to the Pacific Ocean between 1768 and 1779. In voyages that ranged from the Antarctic…

By a detailed investigation of the universal phenomenon of dreaming, the author discovered a radical way of exploring the…

A translation of the idiosyncratic diary of a C10 court lady in Heian Japan. Along with the "Tale of Genji", it is one of…

Presents a collection of ten stories, which develops from early realism towards myth and fairy tale, murder, and ghost…

A.T. Hatto's translation conveys the bold exuberance and complexities of 'Parzival', the great German poem on the Holy…

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A shining exploration of why we marry from writer and academic Devorah Baum For better or worse, for richer for poorer, till…

How many of us sometimes feel that we are scratching at the walls of this life, seeking to find our way into a wider space…

A Beginner's Guide to Reality is an introduction to philosophy for people who don't read philosophy. Jim Baggott's sources…