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Michael North
Making Common Sense

Common sense is supposed to be so obvious it can go without saying. And yet, it has been hard to pin down, partly because its contents are vague and inconsistent, and partly because it has always been dif…

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Ana Kinsella
Literary Landscapes: Dublin

A bibliophile's journey through Dublin's rich heritage, storied lore, and lively craic: exploring bookshops, museums, and authors' watering holes, offering an experience for literature students, Irish nat…

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Ruby Tandoh
All Consuming

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK Food dominates our every waking minute: Hype restaurants. Allrecipes. The Great British Bake Off . In this dazzling cultural history, bestselling food writer Ruby Tandoh (aut…

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Eddie S Glaude
America, U.S.A.

The New York Times bestselling author of Begin Again confronts America's unfinished story in this blistering reassessment of race, freedom, and the myths that bind us.Celebrated public intellectual Eddie …

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Vered Lev Kenaan, Patricia A Rosenmeyer
Classics Transformed in Jewish, Israeli, and Palestinian Receptions

This volume explores how classical antiquity influenced the writings of poets, translators, and scholars emerging from modern Jewish diasporas, Mandatory Palestine, and the State of Israel. The chapters e…

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Emanuele Severino,
War

The first English translation of Emanuele Severino's provocative analysis of the philosophy behind war in the West.Drawing on a broad range of sources, from Heraclitus to 20th-century grassroots movements…

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The Self in Ancient and Early Modern Philosophy

This remarkable open access collection of scholarly studies by internationally distinguished experts explores the intricate and multifaceted philosophical concepts of the Self as understood in Graeco-Roma…

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Michael North
Making Common Sense

Common sense is supposed to be so obvious it can go without saying. And yet, it has been hard to pin down, partly because its contents are vague and inconsistent, and partly because it has always been dif…

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François-Réne Chateaubriand,
Memoirs from Beyond the Grave: 1815-1830

The third part of the epic autobiography of Chateaubriand, the aristocratic Frenchman who lived through the beginning of the French Revolution and who would become the founder of the Romantic movement in …

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We Rode the Rhythms as One

We Rode the Rhythms as One offers readers an immersive journey into the life and legacy of one of America's most unorthodox and inspiring poets. More than just a literary analysis, this book captures the …

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Essential Papers on Literature and Psychoanalysis

Collection of essays featuring contributions from Sigmund Freud, Steven Marcus, Patrick J. Mahony, Donald P. Spence, Otto Rank, Ernest Jones, Ernst Kris, Phyllis Greenacre, Florence Bonime and Marianne H.…

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Atrocity and Early Modern Drama

Extreme violence scarred the early modern period. Contemporary commentators grappled to find language to categorize the massacres, genocides, assassinations, enslavements, sacks, rapes, riots and regicide…

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Imelda Whelehan,
Post-War Adaptations

Noted scholar Imelda Whelehan looks at key adaptations released during this period and considers the impact of social change, film consumption and film tastes, as well as noting the most popular genres at…

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Stephen J May
Michener's South Pacific

The creation of one of the most beloved books and Broadway musicals of the centuryWhen the Japanese military attacked Pearl Harbor, James A. Michener was an obscure textbook editor working in New York. Wi…

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Wole Soyinka
Ake

A dazzling memoir of an African childhood from Nobel Prize-winning Nigerian novelist, playwright, and poet Wole Soyinka.Aké: The Years of Childhood gives us the story of Soyinka's boyhood before and durin…

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Mary Dearborn
Ernest Hemingway

A St. Louis Post Dispatch Best Book of 2017The first full biography of Ernest Hemingway in more than fifteen years is the first to draw on a wide array of never-before-used material, resulting in the most…

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Thomas Wright, Paul Kinsella
Oscar Wilde, Parnellite Home Ruler and Gladstonian Liberal

This book presents original archival findings concerning Wilde's membership of a Liberal Party club and his views on Irish Home Rule. The findings have significant implications for our understanding of hi…

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Jerome K. Jerome
Jerome, J: Three Men in a Boat

Three late-Victorian gentlemen, George, Harris and the writer himself as well as their fox terrier Montmorency take a trip in a boat along the River Thames to Oxford. What ensues is a hilarious journey th…

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Teaching the Mexican Revolution

Essays on the Mexican Revolution and its literary and cultural legaciesThe Mexican Revolution lives on in literature, film, song, and popular culture. An enduring part of the cultural memory of Mexican an…

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Curtis White
On Resistance

From the writer Ellecalls the "most inspiringly wicked social critic of the moment" comes a hands-on, don't-lose-hope study of how writers, painters, musicians, and other cultural figures respon…

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