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Soft cover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. 1st Paperback Edition. POWERFUL: CLASSIC: INDISPENSABLE: AS-NEW First Edition paperback (orig. 1995) probable first printing: AS-NEW cover w/ sharp AS-NEW edges & corners, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, PRISITNE pristine interior handsomely printed on EXCELLENT unblemished archival paper * 6.0" x 9.22" x 1.36", 0.76 kg, xiv+504 (518) pp. * ABOUT THE BOOK: Henry Adams sought, late in life, to thwart prospective biographers by writing his own biography. Published soon after his death in 1918, "The Education of Henry Adams" was rightly greeted as a masterpiece. Not until 30 years later, w/ the appearance of the first volume of Ernest Samuels' biography, did it become apparent how much the story had been colored by Adams' singular philosophy of history & how great was the disparity between the protagonist of the "Education" & Adams as he actually was. Upon its completion in 1964, Samuels' life of Henry Adams was hailed as one of the great biographical achievements of our time; its laurels included a Pulitzer Prize. Ernest Samuels has now distilled his ample narrative into a single absorbing volume. We see Adams as a lively undergraduate, in contrast to the jaded young man of the "Education"; as budding writer, newspaper correspondent, eager participant in political maneuvering in Washington & at the American embassy in London; as teacher at Harvard & editor of the North American Review; settled in Washington, as scholar, biographer, historian & novelist; as insatiable traveler; as friend & adviser to statesmen; as elderly cosmopolitan spending half of each year abroad; & always as witty chronicler of the social scene & trenchant commentator on the events of his time. We are drawn into the personal drama of Adams' middle years: his married life w/ Clover; the halcyon period in Washington in the early 1880s, catastrophically terminated by Clover's depression & suicide; his growing passion for Elizabeth Cameron; & his flight to the South Seas. Throughout the book we follow the genesis & progress of his writings, from his muck-racking journalism in President Grant's Washington, through the social & political criticism of his novels, his biographies, & his great History, to the classic "Mont Saint Michel & Chartres", the daring theories of the "Education", & his last essays. Few biographies have so broad a canvas: 60 years of American political, social & intellectual life, from the pre-Civil War years to the First World War. And few offer so revealing a portrait of a complex human being & an extraordinary career. * HIGHEST PRAISE: "One of the most POWERFUL literary-intellectual biographies ever done of an American." -R.W.B. Lewis * SHIPPING: We custom wrap & label & securely package this superb book for shipment via USPS Media Mail at no charge (or via USPS Priority Mail for a nominal $10.00 charge) within the United States or at our posted rates to international destinations via USPS First Class Airmail (recommended) or USPS Priority Airmail.…

black & black 1/2 cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. pencil marked copy in good cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. approximately 29 pages in first three chapters with pencil underlining and/or margin notes. dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped. nice reading or study copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, no remainder markings etc~. first edition. first printing (same date on title & copyright pg. no additional printinds indicateed). endpaper maps. 327p. sources. index. world history. philosophy. religion. politics. middle east history. far east history. ~ THE EVENTS OF SEPTEMBER II, 2001, forever changed the world as we knew it. In their wake, the quest for international order has prompted a reshuffling of global aims and priorities. In a fresh approach, Gilles Kepel focuses on the Middle East as a nexus of international disorder and decodes the complex language of war, propaganda, and terrorism that holds the region in its thrall. The breakdown of the Israeli Palestinian peace process in 2000 was the first turn in a downward spiral of violence and retribution. Meanwhile, a neoconservative revolution in Washington unsettled U.S. Mideast policy, which traditionally rested on the twin pillars of Israeli security and access to Gulf oil. In Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan, a transformation of the radical Islamist doctrine of Bin Laden and Zawahiri relocated the arena of terrorist action from Muslim lands to the West: Islamist radicals proclaimed jihad against their enemies worldwide. Kepel examines the impact of global terrorism and the ensuing military operations to stem its tide. He questions the United States' ability to address the Middle East challenge with Cold War rhetoric, while revealing the fault lines in terrorist ideology and tactics. Finally, he proposes a way out of the Middle East quagmire that triangulates the interests of Islamists, the West, and the Arab and Muslim ruling elites. That path leads through Muslim immigrant communities in the West~the ultimate battlefield where the struggle for the democratization of Islamic societies will be won or lost.…

black & green 1/2 cloth hardbound 8vo. 8º (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. near fine cond. mint cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. several page corner turndowns, otherwise contents free of markings. (a few stray pencil marks have been erased). dustwrapper in fine cond. a little nick in the rear flap edge, not torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings or store stamps, no stickers or bookplates, no names, no inking , no underlining, no remainder markings etc ~. first edition. first printing (NAP). xv+943p. references. index. psychology. sociology. anthropology. biology. pedagogy. ~ THIS BOOK is an intellectual tour de force: A comprehensive Darwinian interpretation of human devetopment. Looking at the entire range of human evolutionary history, Melvin Konner tells a compelling and complex story of how cross~cultural and universal characteristics of our growth from infancy to adolescnece became rooted in genetically inherited characteristics of the human form. A study of our evolution starts with one simple truth: humanfbeings take an extraordinarily long time to grow up. Wlhat does this extended period of dependency have to do with human brain growth and social interactions ? And why is play a sign of cognititve coplexity and a spur for cultural evolution? As Konner explores these questions, and topics ranging from bipedal walking to incest taboos, he firmly lays the foundation of psychology in biology. As his book eloquently explains, human learning and the greatest human intellectual accomplishments are rooted in our inherited capacity for attachments to each other. In our love of those we learn from,we find our way as individuals and as a species. Never before has this intersection of the biology and psychology of childhood been so brilliantly described. "Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution," wrote Dobzhansky. In this remarkable book, Melvin Konner shows that nothing in childhood makes sense except in the light of evolution. …

grey, black & metallic silver cloth hardbound 8vo. dustwrapper in protective plastic. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. small erasure spot on front flyleaf, otherwise contents free of all markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. a bit of minor rubbing, not torn or price clipped. first edition. first printing ( # 1 in # line). nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, no names, inking , underlining, remainder markings etc ~ 462p. notes. works cited. acknowl. index. american history. consitutional history. legal history. politics. american civil right movement. american indians. american civil war. madison. jefferson. hamilton. lincoln. reconstruction. brown vs board of education. nixon tapes. abolition. death penalty. fourteenth amendment. andrew jackson. judicial supremacy. marbury vs madison. plessy vs ferguson. labor conflict. race conflict. secession. slavery. thirteenth amendment. supreme court.…

black 1/2 cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. very fine cond. mint cond. looks new. like new. as new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first edition. first printing (NAP). ix+250p. b&w photo illustations. notes. bibliography. index. american history. biography. american civil war. conspiracy theory. secret societies. covert operations. true crime ~ IN THE NIGHT of the presidential election in 1876, a gang of counterfeiters out of Chicago attempted to steal the entombed embalmed body of Abraham Lincoln and hold it for ransom. The custodian of the tomb was so shaken by the incident that he willingly dedicated the rest of his life to protecting the president's corpse. In a lively and dramatic narrative, Thomas J. Craughwell returns to this bizarre, and largely forgotten, event with the first book to place the grave robbery in historical context. He takes us through the planning and execution of the crime and the outcome of the investigation. He describes the reactions of Mary Todd Lincoln and Robert Todd Lincoln to the theft~and the peculiar silence of a nation. He follows the unlikely tale of what happened to Lincoln's remains after the attempted robbery and details the plan devised by the Lincoln Guard of Honor to prevent a similar abominable occurrence. Along the way, Craughwell offers entertaining sidelights on the rise of counterfeiting in America and the establishment of the Secret Service to combat it: the prevalence of grave robberies: the art of nineteenth~century embalming: and the emergence among Irish imrnigrants of an ambitious middle class~and a criminal underclass. This rousing story of hapless con men, intrepid federal agents, and ordinary Springfield citizens who honored their native son by keeping a valuable, burdensome secret for decades offers a riveting glimpse into late nineteenth~century America and underscores that truth really is sometimes stranger than fiction.…

Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Edition. ABOUT THE BOOK: Spanning evolutionary science from its inception to its latest findings, from discoveries and data to philosophy and history, this book is the most complete, authoritative, and inviting one-volume introduction to evolutionary biology available. Clear, informative, and comprehensive in scope, Evolution opens with a series of major essays dealing with the history and philosophy of evolutionary biology, with major empirical and theoretical questions in the science, from speciation to adaptation, from paleontology to evolutionary development (evo devo), and concluding with essays on the social and political significance of evolutionary biology today.A second encyclopedic section travels the spectrum of topics in evolution with concise, informative, and accessible entries on individuals from ­Aristotle and Linneaus to Louis Leakey and Jean Lamarck; from T. H. Huxley and E. O. Wilson to Joseph Felsenstein and Motoo Kimura; and on subjects from altruism and amphibians to evolutionary psychology and Piltdown Man to the Scopes trial and social Darwinism. Readers will find the latest word on the history and philosophy of evolution, the nuances of the science itself, and the intricate interplay among evolutionary study, religion, philosophy, and ­society.Appearing at the beginning of the Darwin Year of 2009—the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin and the 150th anniversary of the publication of the Origin of Species—this volume is a fitting tribute to the science Darwin set in motion. * ABOUT THE EDITORS: MICHAEL RUSE is Lucyle T. Werkmeister Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Program in the History and Philosophy of Science, Florida State University. He is the founder and editor of the journal Biology and Philosophy, and has appeared on "Quirks and Quarks" and the Discovery Channel. JOSEPH TRAVIS is Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of Biological Science at Florida State University. EDWARD O. WILSON (Foreword) is Pellegrino University Professor, Emeritus, at Harvard University. In addition to two Pulitzer Prizes (one of which he shares with Bert Hölldobler), Wilson has won many scientific awards, including the National Medal of Science and the Crafoord Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.* SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL (or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost charge) & via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL to all international destinations at our posted rates.…

tan & black 1/2 cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. very fine cond. mint cond. looks new. like new. as new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in very fine cond. looks new. not worn or torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first edition. first printing (nap). 485p. b&w photos & illustrations. notes. credits. index. american history. biography. american revolution. war of 1812. british empire. economics. ~ In 1776 the United States government started out on a shoestring and quickly went bankrupt fighting its War of Independence against Britain. At the war's end, the national government owed tremendous sums to foreign creditors and its own citizens. But lacking the power to tax, it had no means to repay them. The Founders and Finance is the first book to tell the story of how foreign~born financial specialists ~immigrants~ solved the fiscal crisis and set the United States on a path to long~term economic success. Pulitzer Prize~winning author Thomas K. Mccraw analyzes the skills and worldliness of Alexander Hamilton (from the Danish Virgin Islands), Albert Gallatin (from the Republic of Geneva), and other immigrant founders who guided the nation to prosperity. Their expertise with liquid capital far exceeded that of native~born plantation owners Washington, Jefferson, and Madison, who well understood the management of land and slaves but had only a vague knowledge of financial instruments, currencies, stocks, and bonds. The very rootlessness of America's immigrant leaders gave them a better understanding of money, credit, and banks, and the way each could be made to serve the public good. The remarkable financial innovations designed by Hamilton, Gallatin, and other immigrants enabled the United States to control its debts, to pay for the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, and ~barely ~ to fight the War of 1812, which preserved the nation's hard~won independence from Britain.…

Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Edition. IMPERATIVELY IMPORTANT: MAGNUM OPUS: EXTRAORDINARY: ORIGINAL: RIGOROUS: NEW First Edition hardcover (Orig. 2014) Unstated First Printing: NEW handsomely-designed unclipped mylar-protected jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & showing orig. $39.95 pub. price at top-right inside-front flyleaf, NEW cover w/ library-durable jet-black linen wrapping spine & extending 1.50" onto front & back panels covered in EXCELLENT matching jet-black paper & w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & titles handsomely gold-stamped on spine, NEW sewn binding w/ tight signatures & crimson silk-finish linen bands at spine caps, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, IMPECCABLE jet-black card-stock end-papers, PRISTINE interior SUPERBLY printed on EXCELLENT unblemished archival paper * 6.25" x 9.50" x 2.0", 1.26 kg, x+686 (696) pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation & distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, & the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. But satisfactory answers have been hard to find for lack of adequate data & clear guiding theories. In "Capital in the Twenty-First Century", Thomas Piketty analyzes a unique collection of data from 20 countries, ranging as far back as the 18th century, to uncover key economic & social patterns. His findings will transform debate & set the agenda for the next generation of thought about wealth & inequality. Piketty shows that modern economic growth & the diffusion of knowledge have allowed us to avoid inequalities on the apocalyptic scale predicted by Karl Marx. But we have not modified the deep structures of capital & inequality as much as we thought in the optimistic decades following World War II. The main driver of inequality (the tendency of returns on capital to exceed the rate of economic growth) today threatens to generate extreme inequalities that stir discontent & undermine democratic values. But economic trends are not acts of God. Political action has curbed dangerous inequalities in the past, Piketty says, & may do so again. A work of extraordinary ambition, originality, & rigor, "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" reorients our understanding of economic history & confronts us w/ sobering lessons for today. HIGHEST PRAISE: "It seems safe to say that 'Capital in the Twenty-First Century', the magnum opus of the French economist Thomas Piketty, will be the most important economics book of the year, and maybe of the decade. Piketty, arguably the world's leading expert on income & wealth inequality, does more than document the growing concentration of income in the hands of a small economic elite. He also makes a powerful case that we're on the way back to 'patrimonial capitalism', in which the commanding heights of the economy are dominated not just by wealth, but also by inherited wealth, in which birth matters more than effort & talent." -Paul Krugman, New York Times -- "Piketty has written a book that nobody interested in a defining issue of our era can afford to ignore." -John Cassidy, New Yorker * ABOUT THE AUTHOR: THOMAS PIKETTY is Director of Studies at L'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales & Professor at the Paris School of Economics. He is the author of "Capital in the Twenty-First Century".* SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL (or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee) & via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL to all international destinations at our posted rates. …

Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Edition. SPLENDID: SUBLIME: NEW First Edition hardcover (Orig. 2014) Unstated First Printing NEW handsomely-&-cleverly-illustrated mylar-protected jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & showing $39.95 orig. pub. price at top-tight inside-front flyleaf, NEW silk-finish golden-wheat linen-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & w/ titles ELEGANTLY gilt-stamped on spine, NEW binding w/ tight signatures & black banding at spine caps, IMPECCABLE smooth-cut text-block exterior, IMMACULATE ocher-gold card-stock end-papers, PRISTINE interior SUPERBLY designed & printed on EXCELLENT unblemished archival paper * 6.50" x 10.25" x 2.28", 1.90 kg, iv+xiv+1172+x (1200) pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: The 700-year history of the novel in English defies straightforward telling. Geographically & culturally boundless, w/ contributions from Great Britain, Ireland, America, Canada, Australia, India, the Caribbean, & Southern Africa; influenced by great novelists working in other languages; & encompassing a range of genres, the story of the novel in English unfolds like a richly varied landscape that invites exploration rather than a linear journey. In "The Novel: A Biography", Michael Schmidt does full justice to its complexity. Like his hero Ford Madox Ford in "The March of Literature", Schmidt chooses as his traveling companions not critics or theorists but "artist practitioners," men & women who feel "hot love" for the books they admire, & fulminate against those they dislike. It is their insights Schmidt cares about. Quoting from the letters, diaries, reviews, & essays of novelists & drawing on their biographies, Schmidt invites us into the creative dialogs between authors & between books, & suggests how these dialogs have shaped the development of the novel in English. Schmidt believes there is something fundamentally subversive about art: he portrays the novel as a liberalizing force & a revolutionary stimulus. But whatever purpose the novel serves in a given era, a work endures not because of its subject, themes, political stance, or social aims but because of its language, its sheer invention, & its resistance to cliché--some irreducible quality that keeps readers coming back to its pages. * HIGHEST PRAISE: "Michael Schmidt is one of literature's most ambitious champions, riding out against the naysayers, the indifferent, & the purse holders, determined to enlarge a readers' vision & rouse us all to pay attention. He has now turned his prodigious energies to telling the story of the novel's transformation through time: a Bildungsroman of the genre from a persevering & unappeasable lover." -Marina Warner * ABOUT THE AUTHOR: MICHAEL SCHMIDT is Professor of Poetry at the University of Glasgow & a writer in residence at St John's College, Cambridge. He is founder & editorial & managing director of Carcanet Press & for more than four decades editor of PN Review, the literary magazine. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE custom wraps & labels & securely packages this superb book for shipment via USPS Media Mail at no charge (or via USPS Priority Mail for a below-cost charge) within the United States, & at our posted rates to international destinations via postal-regulation Mandated USPS Priority Airmail with our below-cost fees quoted on request.…

Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Edition. NEW: First Edition hardcover (Orig. 2010) First Printing * 6.36" x 9.50" x 1.38", 0.80 kg, xii+452 (464) pp ABOUT THE BOOK: Few poetic forms have found more uses than the sonnet in English, & none is now more recognizable. It is one of the longest-lived of verse forms, & one of the briefest. A mere 14 lines, fashioned by intricate rhymes, it is, as Dante Gabriel Rossetti called it, "a moment's monument." From the Renaissance to the present, the sonnet has given poets a superb vehicle for private contemplation, introspection, & the expression of passionate feelings & thoughts "The Art of the Sonnet" collects 100 exemplary sonnets of the English language (& a few sonnets in translation), representing highlights in the history of the sonnet, accompanied by short commentaries on ea. of the poems. The commentaries by Stephen Burt & David Mikics offer new perspectives & insights, &, taken together, demonstrate the enduring as well as changing nature of the sonnet. The authors serve as guides to some of the most-celebrated sonnets in English as well as less-well-known gems by 19th- & 20th-century poets. Also included is a general introductory essay, in which the authors examine the sonnet form & its long & fascinating history, from its origin in medieval Sicily to its English appropriation in the 16th century to sonnet writing today in the United States, the United Kingdom, & other English-speaking parts of the world. ABOUT THE AUTHORS: STEPHEN BURT is Professor of English at Harvard. DAVID MIKICS is Professor of English at the University of Houston. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & packages this fine book w/ our greatest elegance & care for FREE shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL within the United States & its territories or via USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below cost fee of $14.00 w/ shipping to all international destinations via USPS FIRST CLASS MAIL at our posted rates.…

Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Edition. INDISPENSABLE: MAGISTERIAL: ENORMOUSY RICH: MUST-READ: TOUR DE FORCE: NEW First Edition hardcover (Orig. 2020) Stated Second Printing: NEW handsomely-designed unclipped mylar-protected jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & showing orig. $39.95 pub. price at top-right inside-front flyleaf, NEW jet-black paper-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & titles handsomely gold-stamped on spine, NEW perfect binding w/ tight signatures & gilt silk-finish linen bands at spine caps, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, IMPECCABLE jet-black card-stock end-papers, PRISTINE interior SUPERBLY printed on EXCELLENT unblemished archival paper * 6.25" x 9.50" x 2.18", 1.54 kg, x+1094 (1104) pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: NYT Bestseller, NPR Best Book of the Year: Thomas Piketty's bestselling "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" galvanized global debate about inequality. In this audacious follow-up, Piketty challenges us to revolutionize how we think about politics, ideology, & history. He exposes the ideas that have sustained inequality for the past millennium, reveals why the shallow politics of right & left are failing us today, & outlines the structure of a fairer economic system. Our economy, Piketty observes, is not a natural fact. Markets, profits, & capital are all historical constructs that depend on choices. Piketty explores the material & ideological interactions of conflicting social groups that have given us slavery, serfdom, colonialism, communism, & hyper-capitalism, shaping the lives of billions. He concludes that the great driver of human progress over the centuries has been the struggle for equality & education & not, as often argued, the sacralization of property rights or the pursuit of stability. The new era of extreme inequality that has derailed that progress since the 1980s, he shows, is partly a reaction against communism, but it is also the fruit of ignorance, intellectual specialization, & our drift toward the dead-end politics of identity. Once we understand this, we can begin to envision a more balanced approach to economics & politics. Piketty argues for a new "participatory" socialism, a system founded on an ideology of equality, social property, education, & the sharing of knowledge & power. "Capital and Ideology" is destined to be one of the indispensable books of our time, a work that will not only help us understand the world, but that will change it. * HIGHEST PRAISE: "Thomas Piketty's magisterial global & connected history takes us on a whirlwind journey across the world during the past 500 years to show how shifting ideas & politics have shaped a wide variety of inequality regimes. Fully embracing the power of historical analysis, "Capital & Ideology" emboldens us to re-imagine what is possible today. Enormously rich in argument & evidence, this tour de force by one of the most influential thinkers of our age is a must-read for anyone grappling w/ the dilemmas of our present." -Sven Beckert, author of "Empire of Cotton: A Global History". "A book of remarkable clarity & dynamism. Drawing lessons for a breathtaking survey of historical experiences, it teaches us that nothing is inevitable, that there exist a whole range of possibilities between hyper-capitalism & the disasters of the communist experience. Its up to us to make our future. Let's rolll up our sleeves." -Esther Duflo, Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL (or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee) & via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL to all international destinations at our posted rates. …

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Edition. MARVELOUS IN CONCEPTION: RICH IN COVERAGE: DEEP IN SCHOLARSHIP: AUTHORITATIVE: COMPREHENSIVE: ACCESSIBLE: ENTERTAINING & SURPRISING: AS-NEW: First Edition hardcover (Orig. 2010) First Printing (Unstated), BEAUTIFULY illustrated mylar-protected jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & showing orig. $49.95 pub. price at top-right inside-front flyleaf, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, NEW medium-blue linen-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & w/ titles ELEGANTLY silver-stamped on spine BUT MARRED w/ orig. owner's name neatly printed at top-left-inside beneath inside front flyleaf, SUPERB ocher-tan laid card-stock end-papers, NEW sewn binding w/ tight signatures, PRISITNE interior printed w/ ELEGANT CLARITY in 2-column format on EXCELLENT archival paper * 8.12" x 10.50" x 2.64", 2.69 kg, xx+1068 (1088) pp * SUPERBLY Illustrated * CONTENTS: Preface (vii), List of Articles (xiii), The Classical Tradition (1), Contributors (1003), Index (1011) * ABOUT THE BOOK: How do we get from the polis to the police? Or from Odysseus' sirens to an ambulance's? The legacy of ancient Greece & Rome has been imitated, resisted, misunderstood, & reworked by every culture that followed. In this volume some 500 articles by a wide range of scholars investigate the afterlife of this rich heritage in the fields of literature, philosophy, art, architecture, history, politics, religion, & science. Arranged alphabetically from Academy to Zoology, the essays (designed & written to serve scholars, students, & the general reader alike) show how the Classical tradition has shaped human endeavors from art to government, mathematics to medicine, drama to urban planning, legal theory to popular culture. At once authoritative & accessible, learned & entertaining, comprehensive & surprising, & accompanied by and extensive selection of illustrations, this guide illuminates the vitality of the Classical tradition that surrounds us today. ABOUT THE EDITORS: Anthony Gratfon is Henry Putnam University Professor of History & Chair of the Council of Humanities at Princeton University. He is the author of many books, including, most recently, "Worlds Made by Words" (Harvard). Glenn W. Most is Professor of Greek Philosophy, Scuola Normale de Pisa, & Professor of Social Thought, University of Chicago. He is the author of "Doubting Thomas" (Harvard). Salvatore Settis is Director & Professor of the History of Classical Art & Archaeology, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE wraps, labels, & packages this splendid book w/ our greatest elegance & care for prompt secure FREE shipment to all domestic destinations via USPS MEDIA MAIL or via USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a supplementary fee of $12.00. Due to its weight, which requires us to ship this book internationally via Mandatory USPS PRIORITY INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL (which assures delivery within 7 business days to most international destinations), our uniform below-cost international shipping rate for this title is $78.00.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Softcover. Light shelf wear. Binding cracked at halfway point but apparently sound. Old owner's stamp to half title page. Otherwise clean, tight, and unmarked. Very neat -- a sound copy.

Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Edition. SUPERB: An UNDER-APPRECIATED REVELATORY TREASURE: NEW First Edition hardcover (Orig. 2009) First Printing: NEW handsomely-designed mylar-protected color-illustrated jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & showing orig. $49.95 pub. price at top-right inside-front flyleaf, NEW library-durable slate-blue fabric-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, STRIKING royal-blue card-stock end-papers, IMPECCABLE unblemished smooth-cut text-block exterior, NEW sewn binding w/ tight signatures & silk-finish crimson banding at spine-caps, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed on SUPERB sik-finish paper * 6.74" x 10.24" x 2.12", 1.84 kg, xxx+1098 (1128) pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: America is a nation making itself up as it goes along―a story of discovery & invention unfolding in speeches & images, letters & poetry, unprecedented feats of scholarship & imagination. In these myriad, multiform, endlessly changing expressions of the American experience, the authors & editors of this volume find a new American history. In more than 200 original essays, "A New Literary History of America" brings together the nation's many voices. From the first conception of a New World in the 16th century to the latest re-envisioning of that world in cartoons, television, science fiction, & hip hop, the book gives us a new, kaleidoscopic view of what "Made in America" means. Literature, music, film, art, history, science, philosophy, political rhetoric: cultural creations of every kind appear in relation to each other, & to the time & place that give them shape.The meeting of minds is extraordinary as T.J. Clark writes on Jackson Pollock, Paul Muldoon on Carl Sandburg, Camille Paglia on Tennessee Williams, Sarah Vowell on Grant Wood's American Gothic, Walter Mosley on hard-boiled detective fiction, Jonathan Lethem on Thomas Edison, Gerald Early on Tarzan, Bharati Mukherjee on The Scarlet Letter, Gish Jen on Catcher in the Rye, & Ishmael Reed on Huckleberry Finn. From Anne Bradstreet & John Winthrop to Philip Roth & Toni Morrison, from Alexander Graham Bell & Stephen Foster to Alcoholics Anonymous, Life, Chuck Berry, Alfred Hitchcock, & Ronald Reagan, this is America singing, celebrating itself, & becoming something altogether different, plural, singular, new. * ABOUT THE AUTHORS: Greil Marcus is the author of "The Doors", "Mystery Train", and other books.Werner Sollors is Henry B. & Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature and Professor of African & African American Studies at Harvard University. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee & to international destinations via Mandatory USPS INTERNATIONAL PRIORITY AIRMAIL at below-cost rates available upon request. …

Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Edition. Bewigged, muscular and for his day unusually tall, adorned in soiled, rumpled clothes, beset by involuntary tics, opinionated, powered in his conversation by a prodigious memory and intellect, Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) was in his life a literary and social icon as no other age has produced. "Johnsonianissimus," as Boswell called him, became in the hands of his first biographers the rationalist epitome and sage of Enlightenment. These clichés—though they contain elements of truth—distort the complexity of the public and private Johnson. Peter Martin portrays a Johnson wracked by recriminations, self-doubt, and depression—a man whose religious faith seems only to have deepened his fears. His essays, scholarship, biography, journalism, travel writing, sermons, fables, as well as other forms of prose and poetry in which he probed himself and the world around him, Martin shows, constituted rational triumphs against despair and depression. It is precisely the combination of enormous intelligence and frank personal weakness that makes Johnson's writing so compelling.Benefiting from recent critical scholarship that has explored new attitudes toward Johnson, Martin's biography gives us a human and sympathetic portrait of Dr. Johnson. Johnson's criticism of colonial expansion, his advocacy for the abolition of slavery, his encouragement of women writers, his treatment of his female friends as equals, and his concern for the underprivileged and poor make him a very "modern" figure. The Johnson that emerges from this enthralling biography, published for the tercentenary of Johnson's birth, is still the foremost figure of his age but a more rebellious, unpredictable, flawed, and sympathetic figure than has been previously known. About the Author Peter Martin has taught English literature on both sides of the Atlantic and is the author of A Life of James Boswell.* SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL (or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost charge) & via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL to all international destinations at our posted rates.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Near Fine. 1st Edition. vi, 474 pp. 3 Parts / 14 titled chapters, notes, index. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press: First Edition, 2011. DJ Not Price Clipped. Only the very slightest wear to dj and boards. Near Pristine. No markings, binding tight, clean, white and bright. 6.5" x 9.5". Black half-cloth with green paper-covered boards, and glossy green lettering to spine. Illustrated dj in acetate protector. Size: Large Octavo. Book. …

Soft cover. Condizione: As New. No Jacket. 1st Paperback Edition. First softcover edition updated 1987 after 1976 hardcover edition, first printing, numbers line starts with 1. Softcover in glossy wraps without DJ as issued. Condition as new, square tight and clean book, spine not creased, sharp corners, no markings of any kind, no names no underlinings no highlights, no bent page corners, not a reminder. 4to, 352 pages, 216 illustrations, index.…

Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Edition. PREEMINENT: MASTERPIECE: NEW Stated First Edition (Orig. 2015) First Printing * 6.36" x 9.50" x 2.12", 1.62 kg, xii+1012 (1024) pp * Grand Prix Gobert de l'Academie Francaise (2014), Grand Prix de la Biographie Politique (2013), Grand Prix de la Fondation Napoleon (2013), Prix du Memorial / Grand Prix Litteraire d'Ajaccio (2014) * ABOUT THE BOOK: "Tens oif thousands of books have been devoted to Napoleon. But some trees, like this one, dominate the forest." -Le Figaro. Patrice Gueniffey is the leading French historian of the Revolutionary & Napoleonic age. This book, hailed as a masterwork on its publication in France, takes up the epic narrative at the heart of this turbulent period: the life of Napoleon himself, the man who―in Madame de Staël's words―made the rest of "the human race anonymous." Gueniffey follows Bonaparte from his obscure boyhood in Corsica, to his meteoric rise during the Italian & Egyptian campaigns of the Revolutionary wars, to his proclamation as Consul for Life in 1802. Bonaparte is the story of how Napoleon became Napoleon. A future volume will trace his career as emperor. Most books approach Napoleon from an angle―the Machiavellian politician, the military genius, the life w/o the times, the times w/o the life. Gueniffey paints a full, nuanced portrait. We meet both the romantic cadet & the young general burning w/ ambition―one minute helplessly intoxicated w/ Josephine, the next minute dominating men twice his age, & always at war w/ his own family. Gueniffey recreates the violent upheavals & global rivalries that set the stage for Napoleon's battles & for his crucial role as state builder. His successes ushered in a new age whose legacy is felt around the world today. Averse as we are now to martial glory, Napoleon might seem to be a hero from a bygone time. But as Gueniffey says, his life still speaks to us, the ultimate incarnation of the distinctively modern dream to will our own destiny. * ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Patrice Gueniffey is Director of the Raymond Aron Center for Political Research at L'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. One of France's leading historians of the Revolutionary & Napoleonic ages, he is the author of "Bonaparte", the monumental first volume of the definitive modern French biography of Napoleon. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & packages this fine book w/ our greatest elegance & care for FREE shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL within the United States & its territories or via USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below cost fee of $16.00 w/ shipping to all international destinations via USPS FIRST CLASS MAIL at our posted rates. …

Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Edition. NEW: First Edition (Orig 1996) Fourth Printing (200): NEW mylar-protected jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, NEW jet-black library-durable coated linen-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, NEW blued-gray end-papers on light card-stock, NEW perfect binding w/ tight signatures & uncreased spine, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed on EXCELLENT unblemished archival paper * 6.50" x 9.50" x 1.36", 0.88 kg, viii+520 pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: Walter Benjamin was one of the most original & important critical voices of the 20th century, but until now only a few of his writings have been available in English. Harvard University Press has now undertaken to publish a significant portion of his work in definitive translation, under the general editorship of Michael W. Jennings. This volume, the first of three, will at last give readers of English a true sense of the man & the many facets of his thought. (The magnum opus of Benjamin's Paris years, "The Arcades Project", has been published in a separate volume.) Walter Benjamin emerged from the head-on collision of an idealistic youth movement & the First World War, which Benjamin & his close friends thought immoral. He walked away from the wreck, scarred yet determined "to be considered as the principal critic of German literature." But the scene, as he found it, was dominated by "talented fakes," so—to use his words—"only a terrorist campaign would I suffice" to effect radical change. This book offers the record of the first phase of that campaign, culminating w/ "One Way Street," one of the most significant products of the German avant-garde of the Twenties. Against conformism, homogeneity, & gentrification of all life into a new world order, Benjamin made the word his sword. Volume I of the "Selected Writings" brings together essays long & short, academic treatises, reviews, fragments, & privately circulated pronouncements. Fully five-sixths of this material has never before been translated into English. The contents begin in 1913, when Benjamin, as an undergraduate in imperial Germany, was president of a radical youth group, & take us through 1926, when he had already begun, w/ his explorations of the world of mass culture, to emerge as a critical voice in Weimar Germany's most influential journals. The volume includes a number of his most important works, including "Two Poems by Friedrich Hölderlin," "Goethe's Elective Affinities," "The Concept of Criticism in German Romanticism," "The Task of the Translator," and "One Way Street." He is as compelling & insightful when musing on riddles or children's books as he is when dealing w/ weightier issues such as the philosophy of language, symbolic logic, or epistemology. We meet Benjamin the youthful idealist, the sober moralist, the political theorist, the experimentalist, the translator, &, above all, the virtual king of criticism, w/ his magisterial exposition of the basic problems of aesthetics. Benjamin's sentences provoke us to return to them again & again, luring us as though w/ the promise of some final revelation that is always being postponed. He is by turns fierce & tender, melancholy & ebullient; he is at once classically rooted, even archaic, in his explorations of the human psyche & the world of things, & strikingly progressive in his attitude toward society & what he likes to call the organs of the collective (its architectures, fashions, signboards). Throughout, he displays a far-sighted urgency, judging the present on the basis of possible futures. And he is gifted w/ a keen sense of humor. Mysterious though he may sometimes be (his Latvian love, Asia Lacis, once described him as a visitor from another planet), Benjamin remains perhaps the most consistently surprising & challenging of critical writers. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL (or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee) & via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL.…

Trade Paperback. Condizione: Like New. 1st Harvard Univ Press Ppbk Ed/ 3rd Pr. 381 pp. Clean, fresh copy with very light shelf wear, crisp pages and clean text. Gwen Frankfeldt (Design) (illustratore).

Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Edition. NEW First Edition hardcover (Orig. 2012) First Printing, NEW handsomely-illustrated mylar-protected jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed on EXCELLENT acid-free archival paper * 6.36" x 9.50" x 1.52", 1.00 kg, xii+552 (564) pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: The first classics in human history (the early works of literature, philosophy, & theology to which we have returned throughout the ages) appeared in the middle centuries of the first millennium BCE. The canonical texts of the Hebrew scriptures, the philosophical writings of Plato & Aristotle, the Analects of Confucius & the Daodejing, the Bhagavad Gita & the teachings of the Buddha, all of these works came down to us from the compressed period of history that Karl Jaspers memorably named the Axial Age. In "The Axial Age and Its Consequences", Robert Bellah & Hans Joas make the bold claim that intellectual sophistication itself was born worldwide during this critical time. Across Eurasia, a new self-reflective attitude toward human existence emerged, & w/ it an awakening to the concept of transcendence. From Axial Age thinkers we inherited a sense of the world as a place not just to experience but to investigate, envision, & alter through human thought & action. Bellah & Joas have assembled diverse scholars to guide us through this astonishing efflorescence of religious & philosophical creativity. As they explore the varieties of theorizing that arose during the period, they consider how these in turn led to Utopian visions that brought w/ them the possibility of both societal reform & repression. The roots of our continuing discourse on religion, secularization, inequality, education, & the environment all lie in Axial Age developments. Understanding this transitional era, the authors contend, is not just an academic project but a humanistic endeavor. * ABOUT THE EDITORS: ROBERT N. BELLAH was Elliott Professor of Sociology, Emeritus, at the University of California, Berkeley; HANS JOAS is Permanent Fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies & Professor of Sociology & Social Thought at the University of Chicago. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for an additional fee & via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL to all international destinations at our posted rates. …

Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Edition. SUPERB: ILLUMINATING: NEW First Edition hardcover (Orig. 2000), Unstated First Printing * 7.0" x 10.25" x 2.36", 2.16 kg, xviii+1024 (1042) pp * 32 pp of full-color illus. presented in four 8-pp-inserts * CONTENTS: Translators' Note (vii), Introduction: On Home Ground in a Distant Land (ix), Maps (xvi); PHILOSOPHY: The Philosopher (3), Images of the World (20), Myth & Knowledge (39), The Question of Being (51), Epistemology (72), Ethics (94); POLITICS: The Statesman As Political Actor (125), Inventing Politics (147), Utopia & the Critique of Politics (163), The Sage & Politics (180); THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE: Schools & Sites of Learning (191), Observation & Research (218), Demonstration & the Idea of Science (243), Astronomy (269), Cosmology (279), Geography (299), Harmonics (312), History (328), Language (338), Logic (355), Mathematics (386), Medicine (414), Physics (433), Poetics (452), Rhetoric (465), Technology (486), Theology & Divination (498), Theories of Religion (511); MAJOR FIGURES: Anaxagoras (525), Antisthenes (536), Archimedes (544), Aristotle (554), Democritus (576), Epicurus (586), Euclid (606), Galen (618), Heraclitus (631), Herodotus (642), Hippocrates (649), Parmenides (660), Plato (672), Plotinus (693), Plutarch (704), Polybius (712), Protagoras (721), Ptolemy (731), Pyrrhon (739), Socrates (745), Thucydudes (763), Xenophon (779), Zeno (785); CURRENTS OF THOUGHT: The Academy (799), Aristotelianism (822), Cynicism (843), Hellenism & Christianity (858), Hellenism & Judaisim (870), The Milesians (882), Platonism (893), Pythagoreanism (918), Skepticism (937), Sophsts (957), Stoicism (977); Chronology (999), Contributors (1007), Illustration Sources (1009), Index (1013) * ABOUT THE BOOK: Ancient Greek thought is the essential wellspring from which the intellectual, ethical, & political civilization of the West draws & to which, even today, we repeatedly return. In more than 60 essays by an international team of scholars, this volume explores the full breadth & reach of Greek thought: investigating what the Greeks knew as well as what they thought about what they knew, & what they believed , invented, and understood about the conditions & possibilities of knowing, Calling attention to the characteristic reflexivity of Greek thought, the analysis in this book reminds us of what our own reflections owe to theirs. In sections devoted to philosophy, politics, the pursuit of knowledge, major figures, & currents of thought, this work show us the Greeks looking at themselves, establishing the terms for understanding life, language, production, & action. The authors invoke not history, but the stories the Greeks told themselves about history; not their poetry, but their poetics; not their speeches, but their rhetoric. Essays that survey political, scientific, & philosophical ideas, such as those on "Utopia & the Critique of Politics," "Observation & Research," and "Ethics"; others on specific fields from Astronomy & History to Mathematics & Medicine; new perspectives on major figures, from Anaxagoras to Zeno of Elea; studies of core traditions from the Milesians to the various versions of Platonism: together these offer a sense of the unquenchable thirst for knowledge that marked Greek civilization & that Aristotle considered a natural & universal trait of humankind. With 32 pages of color illustrations, this work conveys the splendor & vitaity of the Greek intellectual adventure. * ABOUT THE EDITORS: Jacques Brunschwig is Professr Emeritus, Universite de Paris-I, Pantheon-Sorbonne. Geoffrey E.R. Lloyd is Professor of Ancient Philosophy & Science, University of Cambridge * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & packages this fine book w/ our greatest elegance & care for FREE shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL within the United States & its territories or via USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below cost fee of $18.00 & to international destinations via Mandatory USPS PRIORITY MAIL w/ our below-cost rates quoted on request. 32 pp of full-color illustrations presented in 8-pp-inserts on gloss-laminated stock following pp 174, 318, 510, & 654 (illustratore). …

Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Edition. INDISPENSABLE: ILLUMINATING: NEW Fist Edition hardcover (Orig. 2016) Second Printing: NEW handsomely designed mylar-protected jacket gray-scale-illustrated w/ a laurel-wreathed monument statue of Dante & w/ IMPECCABLE edges & corners & showing orig. $35.00 price at top-right inside-front flyleaf, NEW cover w/ library-durable black linen wrapping spine & extending 1.72" onto front-&-back panels covered in platinum-white marble-veined paper & w/ sharp edges & corners & titles handsomely silver-stamped on spine, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, NEW sewn-perfect binding w/ tight signatures & pale-blue cloth bands at spine-caps, BEAUTIFUL moire-silk crimson end-papers, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed w/ EXCEPTIONAL clarity on EXCELLENT acid-free archival paper * 6.36" x 9.50" x 1.68", 0.88 kg, x+486 (496) pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: Marco Santagata's "Dante: The Story of His Life" illuminates one of the world's supreme poets from many angles: writer, philosopher, father, courtier, political partisan. Santagata brings together a vast body of Italian scholarship on Dante's medieval world, untangles a complex web of family & political relationships for English readers, & shows how the composition of the "Commedia" was influenced by local & regional politics. Santagata traces Dante's attempts to establish himself in Florentine society as a man of both letters & action. He raises the intriguing possibility that Dante translated an illness, thought by some to be epilepsy, into an intensely physical phenomenology of love in the "Vita Nova". Most importantly, Santagata highlights Dante's constant need to readjust his political stance--his involvement w/ the pro-Papacy Guelph faction as well as his network of patrons--in response to unfolding events. Linking these shifts to the changing ethical & political convictions expressed in the "Commedia", Santagata reveals the paradoxical achievement of Dante's masterpiece: a unified, universal poem nonetheless intimately entwined w/ the day-to-day dealings of its author. The most striking facet of Dante's personality was a belief in his unique destiny. In every aspect of his life--his birth under the sign of Gemini, falling in love w/ Beatrice, banishment from Florence--Dante glimpsed the shadow of his fate. This idea, cultivated by the poet in his youth, grew into the conviction that God had invested him with the prophetic mission of saving humanity. * HIGH PRAISE: "Both specialized readers &the general public will benefit from this account of Dante Alighieri's life as a man of letters & of political action. A welcome addition to the catalog of intellectual biographies of Dante available in English." -Simone Marchesi, Princeton University. "Full of useful information & explanations of a very complicated time, well worth reading for its bold claims & wealth of historical evidence, this book constructs a novel, strong reading of Dante as a political actor." -Alison Cornish, University of Michigan * ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Marco Santagata is Professor of Italian Literature at the University of Pisa. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE wraps, seals & labels this fine book w/ our greatest care to assure immediate secure FREE shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL within the United States & its territories w/ USPS PRIORITY MAIL available within the United States for an additional below-cost fee w/ orders to all international destinations via USPS INTERNATIONAL FIRST CLASS AIRMAIL at our posted below-cost rates assuring delivery to most addresses throughout the world within 12-18 business days. …

Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Edition. INDISPENSABLE: ILLUMINATING: NEW Fist Edition hardcover (Orig. 2010) Unstated-Probable First Printing: NEW handsomely designed mylar-protected color jacket w/ IMPECCABLE edges & corners & showing orig. $35.00 price at top-right inside-front flyleaf, NEW black-paper-over-boards cover w/ matching black linen wrapping spine & extending 1.72" onto front & back panels w/ sharp edges & corners & w/ titles handsomely silver-stamped on spine, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, NEW sewn-perfect binding w/ tight signatures & black cloth bands at spine-caps, IMPECCABLE coal-black end-papers, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed w/ EXCEPTIONAL clarity on superb acid-free silk-finish archival paper * 6.56" x 9.50" x 1.28", 0.92 kg, xvi+540 (556) pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: Seamus Heaney, Denis Donoghue, William Pritchard, Marilyn Butler, Harold Bloom, & many others have praised Helen Vendler as one of the most attentive readers of poetry. Here, Vendler turns her illuminating skills as a critic to 150 selected poems of Emily Dickinson. As she did in "The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets", she serves as an incomparable guide, considering both stylistic & imaginative features of the poems. In selecting these poems for commentary Vendler chooses to exhibit many aspects of Dickinson's work as a poet, "from her first-person poems to the poems of grand abstraction, from her ecstatic verses to her unparalleled depictions of emotional numbness, from her comic anecdotes to her painful poems of aftermath". Included here are many expected favorites as well as more complex & less often anthologized poems. Taken together, Vendler's selection reveals Emily Dickinson's development as a poet, her astonishing range, & her revelation of what Wordsworth called "the history and science of feeling". In accompanying commentaries Vendler offers a deeper acquaintance w/ Dickinson the writer, "the inventive conceiver & linguistic shaper of her perennial themes". All of Dickinson's preoccupations--death, religion, love, the natural world, the nature of thought--are explored here in detail, but Vendler always takes care to emphasize the poet's startling imagination & the ingenuity of her linguistic invention. Whether exploring less familiar poems or favorites we thought we knew, Vendler reveals Dickinson as "a master" of a revolutionary verse-language of immediacy & power. "Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries" will be an indispensable reference work for students of Dickinson and readers of lyric poetry. * HIGHEST PRAISE: "The best close reader of poems to be found on the literary pages." -Seamus Heaney " "There is just no way of summarizing a critic as subtle & meticulous as [Vendler]." -Marilyn Butler * ABOUT THE AUTHOR: HELEN VENDLER was A. Kingsley Porter University Professor at Harvard University, and was long established as among our finest critics and teachers of poetry. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this EXCELLENT copy for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL (or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee) & via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL to international destinations at our posted rates.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. MASTERPIECE: COMPREHENSIVE: WITTY: ERUDITE: CHALLENGING: PROVOCATIVE: SWEEPING: CLASSIC: FINE virtually AS-NEW First Edition hardcover (Orig. 1979) Unstated First Printing: FINE jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & moderate tanning of spine, EXCELLENT steel-blue linen-over-boards cover w/ sharp AS-NEW edges & corners, EXCELLENT unmarked smooth-cut text-block exterior showing only slightest incidence of shelf dust-soiling, AS-NEW sewn binding w/ tight signatures & w/ blue-white-checked cloth bands at spine-caps, IMPECCABLE unmarked cream-white end-papers MARRED Only w/ a small cross-out (c. 0.75" x 0.25") at top-right-front corner, PRISTINE interior beautifully-printed n SUPERB unblemished archival paper * 6.50 x 10.24" x 1.86", 1.68 kg, x+898 (908) pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: This masterly study has a grand sweep. It ranges over centuries, w/ a long look backward over several millennia. Yet the history it unfolds is primarily the story of individuals: thinkers & dreamers who envisaged an ideal social order & described it persuasively, leaving a mark on their own & later times. The roster of Utopians includes men of all stripes in different countries & eras--figures as disparate as More & Fourier, the Marquis de Sade & Edward Bellamy, Rousseau & Marx. Fascinating character studies of the major figures are among the delights of the book. Utopian writings run the gamut from fictional narratives to theoretical treatises, from political manifestos to constitutions for a new society. The Manuels have structured five centuries of Utopian invention by identifying successive constellations, groups of thinkers joined by common social & moral concerns. Within this framework they analyze individual writings, in the context of the author's life & of the socio-economic, religious, & political exigencies of his time. Concentrating on innovative works, they highlight disjunctures as well as continuities in Utopian thought from the Renaissance through the 20th century. Witty & erudite, challenging in its interpretations & provocative in the questions it poses, the Manuels' anatomy of utopia is an adventure in ideas. * ABOUT THE AUTHOR: FRANK E. MANUEL was Kenan Professor of History, Emeritus, at New York University and Alfred and Viola Hart University Professor, Emeritus, at Brandeis University. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee & to all international destinations via USPS FIRST CLASS AIRMAIL at rates quoted upon request.…

Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Edition. UNPRECEDENTED: ELOQUENT: LANDMARK: VISIONARY: TOUR DE FORCE: MAGISTERIAL: NEW First edition hardcover (Orig. 2002) Sixth Printing (2002): NEW mylar-protected jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners (orig. pub. price not shown), NEW satin-finish ocher silk-linen-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & double-rule-gilt-bordered dark-chocolate title panel w/ titles thereon stamped on spine, NEW sewn perfect binding w/ white banding at spine caps, IMPECCABLE smooth-cut text-block exterior, IMMACULATE pale slate-lime card-stock end-papers, PRISTINE interior SUPERBLY designed & printed on EXCELLENT unblemished archival paper * 6.68" x 10.25" x 2.84", 2.30 kg, xxiv+1433 (1457) pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: The world's most revered & eloquent interpreter of evolutionary ideas offers here a work of explanatory force unprecedented in our time--a landmark publication, both for its historical sweep & for its scientific vision. W/ characteristic attention to detail, Stephen Jay Gould first describes the content & discusses the history & origins of the three core commitments of classical Darwinism: (1) that natural selection works on organisms, not genes or species; (2) that it is almost exclusively the mechanism of adaptive evolutionary change; & (3) that these changes are incremental, not drastic. Next, he examines the three critiques that currently challenge this classic Darwinian edifice: (1) that selection operates on multiple levels, from the gene to the group; (2) that evolution proceeds by a variety of mechanisms, not just natural selection; & (3) that causes operating at broader scales, including catastrophes, have figured prominently in the course of evolution.Then, in a stunning tour de force that will likely stimulate discussion & debate for decades, Gould proposes his own system for integrating these classical commitments & contemporary critiques into a new structure of evolutionary thought. In 2001 the Library of Congress named Stephen Jay Gould one of America's 83 Living Legends--people who embody the "quintessentially American ideal of individual creativity, conviction, dedication, & exuberance." Each of these qualities finds full expression in this peerless work, the likes of which the scientific world has not seen--& may not see again--for well over a century. * SHIPPING: Mnemosyne wraps, labels and securely packages this magisterial work for shipment at NO CHARGE to all destinations within the United States via USPS MEDIA MAIL or via USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below cost $16.00 fee & to all international destinations via Mandatory USPS PRIORITY INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL w/ below-cost country-by-country rates available on request.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good Plus. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good Plus. First Edition. 1987. xv, 520pp. Black and white photographs. "Walter B. Cannon was one of the twentieth century's most distinguished crusaders of medical science. As a scientist he left a rich legacy of discoveries that had a major impact on the direction of physiological research. As an educator at Harvard during the first decades of this century, Cannon played a pivotal role in charting a bold, innovative course for medical education within the United States. Cannon's life and career exemplified for many the courage of the researcher, and his work yielded many enduring scientific contributions. In the years before World War I Cannon created a sensation when he was the first to use Roentgen's x-rays for physiological purposes. Perhaps best known as the author of the 'flight or fight' response, Cannon was the first to define in physiological terms the body's remarkable ability to respond appropriately to a physical threat or emotional disturbance. This biography traces Cannon's life from his youth in Minnesota through the early years of his career as a professor of physiology at Harvard. Not only does it lay bare the private and public labors of Cannon, the emerging scientist, but it also examines in detail a dynamic and critical period during which medical science came into its own. Cannon proved to be a major agent of that change." Previous owner's name and address inscribed on the ffep. Otherwise both book and unclipped jacket are in excellent condition. All contents are tight and clean, and dust jacket is wrapped in a removable protective plastic cover.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 685 pages. The dust jacket has a little wear. The page edges are a lightly tanned and foxed. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.

Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. grey 1/2 cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective brodart book jacket cover. very fine cond. mint cond. looks new. like new. as new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in very fine cond. as new. not worn or torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first edition. first printing so stated. viii+549p. glossy b&w vintage illustrations. chronology. compendium of flaubert quotations. notes. sources & bibliography. index. biography. french literature. french history. ~ Michel Winock's biography situates Gustave Flaubert's life and work in France's century of great democratic transition. Flaubert did not welcome the egalitarian society predicted by Tocqueville. Wary of the masses, he rejected the universal male suffrage hard won by the Revolution of 1848, and he was exasperated by the nascent socialism that promoted the collective to the detriment of the individual. But above all, he hated the bourgeoisie. Vulgar, ignorant, obsessed with material comforts, impervious to beauty, the French middle class embodied for Flaubert every vice of the democratic age. His loathing became a fixation and a source of literary inspiration. Flaubert depicts a man whose personality, habits, and thought are a stew of paradoxes. The author of Madame Bovary and Sentimental Education spent his life inseparably bound to solitude and melancholy, yet he enjoyed periodic escapes from his "hole" in Croisset to pursue a variety of pleasures: fervent friendships, society soirees, and a whirlwind of literary and romantic encounters. He prided himself on the impersonality of his writing, but he did not hesitate to use material from his own life in his fiction. Nowhere are Flaubert's contradictions more evident than in his politics. An enemy of power who held no nostalgia for the monarchy or the church, he was nonetheless hostile to collectivist utopias. Despite declarations of the timelessness and sacredness of Art, Flaubert could not transcend the era he abominated. Rejecting the modern world, he paradoxically became its celebrated chronicler and the most modern writer of his time.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. The dust jacket has a little wear. The page edges are lightly tanned and foxed. 670 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.