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Volume 1. Panathenaic Oration. in Defence of Oratory by Aelius Aristides
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Literature Connections Sourcebook: A Wrinkle in Time and Related Readings
McDougal Littell - 1997
The Taming of Red Butte Western
Francis Lynde - 2005
You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.
A Grammar of the English Tongue
Samuel Johnson - 2005
You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.
Flor del fango
José María Vargas Vila - 1895
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The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell: 1903-1959
Bertrand Russell - 1959
It covers the most fertile and the most lasting work on every significant area he published in.
Chucky Volume 2
Jason M. Burns - 2009
Who will be his next victim!?
Escape from Dubai
Herve Jaubert - 2009
From a life of luxury in the opulent city of Dubai to promised ruination, Jaubert tells a tale of espionage and escape that rivals any best selling novel on the market. Immersed in a luxury submarine business, Jaubert was hired as CEO by Dubai World to develop and design miniature subs for the wealthy. Once problems developed within the business, Herve Jaubert became the scapegoat of government officials and found himself ensnared in a web of police threats, extortion, human rights abuses and coercion. With no chance to make it through their biased legal system, Jaubert planned the escape of his life.
The Vintage Mencken
H.L. Mencken - 1955
The anthology that spans an entire lifetime of writing by America's greatest curmudgeon, with a "flick of mischief on nearly every page."
Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
Richard Hofstadter - 1963
It is a book which throws light on many features of the American character. Its concern is not merely to portray the scorners of intellect in American life, but to say something about what the intellectual is, and can be, as a force in a democratic society.Hofstadter set out to trace the social movements that altered the role of intellect in American society from a virtue to a vice. In so doing, he explored questions regarding the purpose of education and whether the democratization of education altered that purpose and reshaped its form.In considering the historic tension between access to education and excellence in education, Hofstadter argued that both anti-intellectualism and utilitarianism were consequences, in part, of the democratization of knowledge.Moreover, he saw these themes as historically embedded in America's national fabric, an outcome of her colonial European and evangelical Protestant heritage. Anti-intellectualism and utilitarianism were functions of American cultural heritage, not necessarily of democracy.
The Long Shadow
B.M. Bower - 2011
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The Passion of the Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas that Have Shaped Our World View
Richard Tarnas - 1991
Richard Tarnas performs the near-miracle of describing profound philosophical concepts simply but without simplifying them. Ten years in the making and already hailed as a classic, THE PASSION OF THE WESERN MIND is truly a complete liberal education in a single volume.
Civilization: A New History of the Western World
Roger Osborne - 2006
But the history of our civilization is also filled with unspeakable brutality—for every Leonardo there is a Mussolini, for every Beethoven symphony a concentration camp, for every Chrysler Building a My Lai massacre.An ambitious historical assessment of the Western world—tying together the histories of empires, art, philosophy, science, and politics—Civilization reexamines and confronts us with all of our glories and catastrophes. At such a dangerous time in the world's history, this brilliant book is required reading.
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
Bernard Bailyn - 1967
In it he discusses the intense, nation-wide debate on the ratification of the constitution, stressing the continuities between that struggle over the foundations of the national government and the original principles of the Revolution. This study of the persistence of the nation's ideological origins adds a new dimension to the book and projects its meaning forward into vital present concerns.
Measures Taken and Other Lehrstücke
Bertolt Brecht - 1977
Now available in the Arcade definitive edition, the Lehrstucke (or learning plays) lie at the heart of Brechtian theater.
Emerson, Thoreau, and the Transcendentalist Movement
Ashton Nichols - 2006
A series of 24 Lectures on the New England Transcendalist Movement delivered by Ashton Nichols, Professor of English at Dickinson College.