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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Romanticism and Revolution
Book SynopsisRomanticism and Revolution: A Readerpresents an anthology of the key texts that both defined the debate over the French Revolution during the 1790s and influenced the Romantic authors. Presents readings chronologically to allow readers to experience the unfolding of the debate as it occurred in the 1790s Provides anaccessible and in-depth sampling of the major contributors to the Revolution debate, from Price, Burke, and Paine to Wollstonecraft and Godwin Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements. A Note on the Texts. Introduction. 1. Richard Price, A Discourse on the Love of Our Country. [What has the love of their country hitherto been among mankind?] [A narrower interest must give way to a more extensive interest]. [Every degree of illumination … hastens the overthrow of priestcraft and tyranny]. [The principles of the Revolution]. [Be encouraged, all ye friends of freedom and writers in its defence!] 2. Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London relative to That Event. [All the nakedness and solitude of metaphysical abstraction]. [The public declaration of a man much connected with literary caballers]. [The two principles of conservation and correction]. [The very idea of the fabrication of a new government, is enough to fill us with disgust and horror]. [Our liberties, as an entailed inheritance derived to us from our forefathers]. [Their blow was aimed at an hand holding out graces, favours, and immunities]. [A profligate disregard of a dignity which they partake with others]. [The real rights of men]. [But the age of chivalry is gone. – That of sophisters, oeconomists, and calculators, has succeeded]. [The real tragedy of this triumphal day]. [We have not … lost the generosity and dignity of thinking of the fourteenth century]. [Society is indeed a contract]. [The political Men of Letters]. [We do not draw the moral lessons we might from history]. [By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little]. [Old establishments … are the results of various necessities and expediencies]. [Some popular general … shall draw the eyes of all men upon himself]. 3. Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Men, in a Letter to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke. Advertisement. [I have not yet learned to twist my periods, nor … to disguise my sentiments]. [I perceive … that you have a mortal antipathy to reason]. [The champion of property, the adorer of the golden image which power has set up]. [Misery, to reach your heart, I perceive, must have its cap and bells]. [In reprobating Dr. Price's opinions you might have spared the man]. [The younger children have been sacrificed to the eldest son]. [The respect paid to rank and fortune damps every generous purpose of the soul]. [The spirit of romance and chivalry is in the wane; and reason will gain by its extinction]. [Reason at second-hand]. [This fear of God makes me reverence myself]. [The cold arguments of reason, that give no sex to virtue]. [What were the outrages of a day to these continual miseries?]. 4. Thomas Paine, Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution. [The vanity and presumption of governing beyond the grave]. [Mr. Burke has set up a sort of political Adam, in whom all posterity are bound for ever]. [Mr. Burke does not attend to the distinction between men and principles]. [The Quixote age of chivalry nonsense is gone]. [Lay then the axe to the root, and teach governments humanity]. [We are now got at the origin of man, and at the origin of his rights]. [The natural rights of man … the civil rights of man]. [Governments must have arisen, either out of the people, or over the people]. [Titles are but nick-names … a sort of foppery in the human character which degrades it]. [Toleration is not the opposite of Intolerance, but is the counterfeit of it]. [The church with the state, a sort of mule animal]. Miscellaneous Chapter. Conclusion. [In mixed Governments there is no responsibility]. [The Revolutions of America and France, are a renovation of the natural order of things]. [It is an age of Revolutions, in which every thing may be looked for]. 5. Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects. To M. Talleyrand-Périgord, Late Bishop of Autun. [The prevailing notion respecting a sexual character was subversive of morality]. Introduction. [I shall disdain to cull my phrases or polish my style]. Chap. II The Prevailing Opinion of a Sexual Character Discussed. [The grand end of their exertions should be to unfold their own faculties]. [To endeavour to reason love out of the world, would be to out Quixote Cervantes]. [Surely she has not an immortal soul who can loiter life away]. Chap. III The Same Subject Continued. [It is time to effect a revolution in female manners]. Chap. IV Observations on the State of Degradation to Which Woman Is Reduced by Various Causes. [Their senses are inflamed, and their understandings neglected]. Chap. V Animadversions on Some of the Writers Who Have Rendered Women Objects of Pity, Bordering on Contempt – Sect. i [Rousseau]. [Is it surprising that some of them hug their chains, and fawn like the spaniel?]. [Let us then … arrive at perfection of body]. Sect. ii [Dr. Fordyce's sermons]. [Why are girls to be told that they resemble angels; but to sink them below women?]. Chap. VI The Effect Which an Early Association of Ideas Has upon the Character. Chap. VII Modesty. – Comprehensively Considered, and Not as a Sexual Virtue. [Those women who have most improved their reason must have the most modesty]. Chap. VIII Morality Undermined by Sexual Notions of the Importance of a Good Reputation. [If the honour of a woman … is safe, she may neglect every social duty]. [The two sexes mutually corrupt and improve each other]. Chap. IX Of the Pernicious Effects Which Arise from the Unnatural Distinctions Established in Society. [How can a being be generous who has nothing of its own? or virtuous, who is not free? [I really think that women ought to have representatives]. Chap. X Parental Affection. Chap. XI Duty to Parents. [They are prepared for the slavery of marriage]. Chap. XII On National Education. [Morality, polluted in the national reservoir, sends off streams of vice]. Chap. XIII Some Instances of the Folly Which the Ignorance of Women Generates; with Concluding Reflections on the Moral Improvement That a Revolution in Female Manners Might Naturally Be Expected to Produce – Sect. ii. [Sentimental jargon]. Sect. vi [Women at present are by ignorance rendered foolish or vicious]. [Let woman share the rights and she will emulate the virtues of man]. 6. Thomas Paine, Rights of Man. Part the Second. Combining Principle and Practice. Preface. Introduction. Chap. I Of Society and Civilization. Chap. II Of the Origin of the Present Old Governments. Chap. III Of the Old and New Systems of Government. [Republicanism]. [Monarchy … is a scene of perpetual court cabal and intrigue]. Chap. IV Of Constitutions. [Government … has of itself no rights; they are altogether duties]. [The bill of rights is more properly a bill of wrongs]. [The sepulchre of precedents]. [Europe may form but one great Republic]. Chap. V Ways and Means of Improving the Condition of Europe, Interspersed with Miscellaneous Observations. [I have been an advocate for commerce, because I am a friend to its effects]. [When … we see age going to the workhouse and youth to the gallows, something must be wrong in the system of government]. [The aristocracy are … the drones, a seraglio of males]. [The plan is easy in practice]. [Active and passive revolutions]. [In what light religion appears to me]. [What pace the political summer may keep with the natural, no human foresight can determine]. 7. William Godwin, An Enquiry concerning Political Justice, and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness. Preface. Book I Of the Importance of Political Institutions – Chap. i Introduction. Chap. ii History of Political Society. Chap. iv Three Principal Causes of Moral Improvement Considered – I. Literature. [Truth … must infallibly be struck out by the collision of mind with mind]. II. Education. III. Political Justice. Chap. vi Human Inventions Capable of Perpetual Improvement. [Let us not look back]. Book II Principles of Society – Chap. i Introduction. Chap. ii Of Justice. Chap. iv Of the Equality of Mankind. Chap. v Rights of Man. [The impossibility by any compulsatory method of bringing men to uniformity of opinion]. Chap. vi Of the Exercise of Private Judgment. [Punishment inevitably excites in the sufferer … a sense of injustice]. Book III – Chap. vii Of Forms of Government. Book IV Miscellaneous Principles – Chap. ii Of Revolutions – Section I. Duties of a Citizen Section II. Mode of Effecting Revolutions. Section III. Of Political Associations. [There is at present in the world a cold reserve that keeps man at a distance from man]. Section IV. Of the Species of Reform to Be Desired. Chap. iv Of the Cultivation of Truth – Section II. Of Sincerity. [A gradation in discovery and a progress in the improvement, which do not need to be assisted by the stratagems of their votaries]. Chap. v Of Free Will and Necessity. [Mind is a topic of science]. [That in which the mind exercises its freedom, must be an act of the mind]. [So far as we act with liberty … our conduct is as independent of morality as it is of reason]. Book V Of Legislative and Executive Power – Chap. xiii Of the Aristocratical Character. [The principle of aristocracy is founded in the extreme inequality of conditions]. [Is it sedition to enquire whether this state of things may not be exchanged for a better?]. Book VI Of Opinion Considered as a Subject of Political Institution – Chap. i General Effects of the Political Superintendence of Opinion. Book VII Of Crimes and Punishments – Chap. i Limitations of the Doctrine of Punishment Which Result from the Principles of Morality. [The abstract congruity of crime and punishment]. Book VIII Of Property – Chap. vii Of the Objection to This System from the Principle of Population. 8. William Godwin, Enquiry concerning Political Justice, and Its Influence on Morals and Happiness. Preface to the Second Edition. [No man can more fervently deprecate scenes of commotion and tumult, than the author of this book]. Book VIII Of Property – Chap. viii Appendix. Of Cooperation, Cohabitation and Marriage. [Our judgement in favour of marriage]. Further Reading. Index.
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Pan Macmillan Os Little Book of Happiness
Book SynopsisWith a sprightly dose of insightful inspiration, a sprinkling of practical advice, and a bounty of exuberant stories by great writers, O's Little Book of Happiness features some of the best work ever to have appeared in O, The Oprah Magazine. Inside you'll find Elizabeth Gilbert's ode to the triumph of asking for what you want... Jane Smiley's tribute to the animal who taught her about lasting fulfillment... Shonda Rhimes's secret to trading stress for serenity... Brene Brown's celebration of the power of play... Neil de Grasse Tyson's take on our joyful participation in the universe... and much more. In revisiting fifteen years of the magazine's rich archives, O's editors have assembled a collection as stunning as it is spirit-lifting.
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Union Square & Co. Janesplains
Book SynopsisJane Austen is one of the most eminently quotable authors in all of English letters and her books abound with delightful observations that are memorable for their sparkling wit and humor.
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Union Square & Co. Dubliners
Book SynopsisJames Joyce's collection of fifteen short stories portrays the lives of Dublin's middle class during the turn of the twentieth century. Structured from childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and death, each story shows people paralyzed by the mundaneness of everyday life.
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Union Square & Co. The Art of War
Book SynopsisMore than 2,000 years old, this classic of Chinese philosophy lays out a systematic, rational approach to tactics and strategy that leaders worldwide have applied not only to the military, but also to business, law, martial arts, and sports.
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Sourcebooks Crimes of Cymru Classic Mystery Tales of Wales
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Edinburgh University Press AntiColonial Texts from Central American Student
Book SynopsisBridging a half-century of student protest from 1929 to 1983, this source reader contains more than sixty texts from Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, and Costa Rica, including editorials, speeches, manifestos, letters, and pamphlets.
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Edinburgh University Press Nasser in the Egyptian Imaginary
Book SynopsisTraces, contextualizes, and analyses the making of the late President of Egypt, Gamal Abdel Nasser's image(s) in creative productions including novels, short stories, autobiographies and film.
£81.00
Edinburgh University Press The Revolutionary and AntiImperialist Writings of
Book SynopsisThis anthology will bring James Connolly's writings as pertinent in Ireland and the postcolonial world a century after his execution for leadership of the 1916 Easter Rising against British rule in Ireland as in his own lifetime to a new global and Irish readership.
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Edinburgh University Press An Anthology of Arabic Literature
Book SynopsisIntroducing readers to the extremely rich tradition of Arabic literature, this Anthology covers some of its major themes and concerns across the centuries, from its early beginnings to modern times.
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Edinburgh University Press Walking with James Hogg
Book SynopsisCelebrates theextraordinary life of a flawed and lovable character, and provides a brief and accessible study of Hogg's works.
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Edinburgh University Press British Women Short Story Writers
Book SynopsisWhat is the relationship between the British woman writer and the short story? This collection examines what this versatile genre offers women writers and what this can tell us about the society and culture they inhabit.
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Edinburgh University Press If I Survive
Book SynopsisMarking the 200th anniversary of Frederick Douglass' birth, this first collective history and comprehensive collection of the Douglass family writings and portraits sheds new light not only on Douglass as a freedom-fighter and family man but on the lives and works of Lewis Henry, Frederick Jr., and Charles Remond.
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Edinburgh University Press Transatlantic Anglophone Literatures 17761920
Book SynopsisThe first anthology to bring together Anglophone transatlantic writing across the period of the long nineteenth century.
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Edinburgh University Press The United States Through Arab Eyes
Book SynopsisA vibrant collection of writings about America from its earliest Arab immigrants, as they reflected on and described the United States for the very first time.
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Edinburgh University Press The United States Through Arab Eyes
Book SynopsisA vibrant collection of writings about America from its earliest Arab immigrants, as they reflected on and described the United States for the very first time.
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Edinburgh University Press Sensation Drama 1860 1880
Book SynopsisThis pioneering edition provides access to some of the most popular plays of the nineteenth century.
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Edinburgh University Press The Retrospective Raj
Book SynopsisExplores the 20th century literary revival of Empire and the post-imperial novel through a critical medical humanities lens.Trade Review"This absorbing study of post-war Anglo-Indian historical fiction examines the representation of medicine in its material aspects and metaphorical meanings in a detailed, perceptive reading of a select number of significant novels that implicitly articulate Britain's post-imperial condition. Goodman's timely book is an intelligent contribution to scholarship on post-war fiction, imperial nostalgia and the medical humanities. " -Mariadele Boccardi, University of the West of England
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Edinburgh University Press The Retrospective Raj
Book SynopsisExplores the 20th century literary revival of Empire and the post-imperial novel through a critical medical humanities lens.
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Edinburgh University Press The Entail
Book SynopsisGalt's tragi-comic novel of conflicted desires presented in historical, legal, and local contexts.
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Edinburgh University Press Anthology of 19th Century African American
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Edinburgh University Press The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Book SynopsisThe first scholarly edition of the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes including a detailed introduction, an essay on the text, a textual apparatus and explanatory notesTrade Review"The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes not only features the great detective's earliest known cases, it also introduces his older and smarter brother Mycroft and brings us face to face with that Napoleon of Crime, the chilling Professor Moriarty. This is, in short, the volume through which Conan Doyle dramatically enlarges the Holmesian universe--and just one reason why any serious Sherlockian will want a copy of these stories in this handsome Edinburgh edition, superbly introduced and crisply annotated by Jonathan Cranfield." -Michael Dirda, author of the Edgar Award-winning On Conan Doyle
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Edinburgh University Press The Gentle Shepherd
Book SynopsisThe first full and consistent edition of Allan Ramsay's most influential text, The Gentle Shepherd.
£139.50
Edinburgh University Press A NeoFatimid Treasury of Books
Book SynopsisExplores communities, manuscripts and their spaces of dwelling
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Edinburgh University Press Alison Light Inside History
Book SynopsisA collection of thought-provoking essays spanning thirty-five years of Alison Light's work.
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Edinburgh University Press Early Radio
Book SynopsisThe first anthology to explore early radioTrade Review"The publication of this anthology is a pivotal event in the field of radio studies. With its sound historical grounding, canny selection of archival texts, superb editorial apparatus, and intellectually crisp introduction, Early Radio sets the standard against which other such collections will be measured. The scholarship in the volume is of the highest order." -Damien Keane, State University of New York at Buffalo
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Simon & Schuster The Brown Reader
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University of Texas Press Voices of Change in the Spanish American Theater
Book SynopsisA selection of plays that are representative of a fresh spirit and of societal pressures and changes in Spanish American culture.Table of Contents Introduction The Day They Let the Lions Loose, by Emilio Carballido The Camp, by Griselda Gambaro The Library, by Carlos Maggi In the Right Hand of God the Father, by Enrique Buenaventura The Mulatto’s Orgy, by Luisa Josefina Hernandez Viña: Three Beach Plays, by Sergio Vodánovic
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University of Texas Press Theatre for Youth II
Book SynopsisThis substantially updated edition of the classic anthology of plays for young audiences presents contemporary plays that treat more mature, realistic themes while still encouraging youth to embrace life and follow their dreams.Table of Contents Acknowledgments Foreword Introduction The Plays Original Stories The Arkansaw Bear Super Cowgirl and Mighty Miracle Tomato Plant Girl Compelling Adaptations Afternoon of the Elves Broken Hearts Courage! Historical Drama Mother Hicks Johnny Tremain Diverse Themes la ofrenda The Transition of Doodle Pequeño Friendship In the Garden of the Selfish Giant Future Societies With Two Wings Appendices Twelve More Plays with Mature Themes for Consideration / Deliberation Another Twelve Plays with Mature Themes for Reading / Study Quotation from the Foreword by Jed H. Davis to the first edition of Theatre For Youth: Twelve Plays With Mature Themes, 1986
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University of Texas Press The Texanist
Book SynopsisThe first collection of acclaimed illustrator Jack Unruh's work, this book gathers the best of the illustrations he created for The Texanist, Texas Monthly's back-page column, along with the serious and not-so-serious questions that inspired them.Trade Review"Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction What is the proper answer when asked, “Where are you from?” I have a co-worker who dips Copenhagen and spits into a Styrofoam cup in the office. Is this appropriate? If, when you visit a friend’s house, he has parked on his front yard, may you also park there? Is it really okay to make love in a campground? Can one have too many Texas-themed tattoos? What are the guidelines for male friends helping each other apply sunscreen? Is it okay to buy my daughter a homecoming mum and say it’s from a secret admirer? How old need a boy be to receive the gift of a first gun? What can I do to keep varmints from destroying my beautiful landscaping? Do I have to go with my family to take a bluebonnet photo this year? What’s the best cure for jellyfish stings? Propane or charcoal? Will hiring a lawn service to do my yard work make me soft? Is it wrong to wear your football team’s jersey to church? Is it real Tex-Mex if it’s served with a side of black beans? How do I break into the business of ranching? When out at a dance hall, do I need to stick with the one that brung me? What do I tell my young son when he asks me to identify a roadside crop I don’t recognize? Can I have school spirit for a college I didn’t attend? How many Gulf oysters does it take for a person to see results from the aphrodisiac qualities that they are said to possess? May I pick the bluebonnets? What are the rules of the road when it comes to driving behind a tractor? If I hit a deer with my car, is it legal to collect it and eat it? Is there such thing as gravel-road etiquette, and if so, how best can I teach it to the neighbors? How do I get out of a wedding scheduled for Super Bowl Sunday? Is disciplining my niece over spilt Dublin Dr Pepper okay? Are “truck nuts” appropriate? Do country dancers ever go clockwise? Can I shoot a rattlesnake in my suburban backyard? May I keep a loose dog even if I have a pretty good idea where he came from? Is there a point at which I should stop condoning my daughter’s tomboy side? What are the rules regarding the setup of a new tailgating spot? Is it legal to be buried on my own property? Should I unleash my dogs on the possum that visits my back porch? If two ranches are separated by a length of old barbed-wire fencing and that fence needs repair, who is responsible come fence-mending time? Have rural Texans always been closed-minded about clothes? Why is driving allowed on beaches in Texas? Can you recommend a cure for cedar fever? Does anyone ever have an actual “roll” in the hay? Is there really “no such thing as bad barbecue”? Are the banks of a river free to use for camping? How is it possible that the word “Texan” is not accepted for play in the game Words With Friends? When did we start referring to a chicken’s “second joint” as its thigh? Tell us about your little sidekick? Instead of handing my pocketknife over to airport security, I used a service that promised to mail it back to me. I haven’t seen it since. Is it gone forever? Can you recommend other Texas beaches that compare with the old South Padre Island? What should I do if I encounter a tornado while driving? How should a Texan handle himself in the presence of a small stinging insect? I let my daughter use my husband’s chili pot to tie-dye some T-shirts, and he’s really upset. How do I make it right? Is not liking Willie Nelson’s music a relationship deal-breaker? My husband and I are Texans living in Florida, but recently he told someone that we were from Florida. Will you please explain to him why this cannot continue? What do I tell my friend who insists on giving Tennessee credit for the “birth of Texas”? I’ve been thinking about getting a license to carry a gun, but my wife insists this is a bad idea. I seek your counsel. My wife-to-be loves animals and wants a miniature Vietnamese potbellied pig as a wedding gift. Is this insane?
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University of Texas Press Dakotah
Book SynopsisIn this fourth volume of his Unnatural History of America series, acclaimed journalist Charles Bowden interweaves his own biography with a vivid history of the American Great Plains to explore how identity is forged.Trade Review[Dakotah] is about hope, disappointment, impermanence and erasure...This is a meditation Bowden fans will not want to miss. * Arizona Daily Star *This posthumous work continues Bowden's uniquely ecocritical writing—starting from human common ground and ending with the ground itself—and allows us to hear his voice long past his own time in earth. It is a worthy offering. * Western American Literature *Table of Contents Foreword by Terry Tempest Williams My Piece of Ground Heartland Andrew Jackson Lewis and Clark Dakotah Heartland Jude Heartland Dakotah Jude Heartland Bo Delta Heartland Dakotah Daniel Boone Disney My Piece of Ground Jude and Bo Dakotah Daniel Boone Dakotah Lewis and Clark Dakotah Daniel Boone Heartland Lewis and Clark Dakotah Lewis and Clark Dakotah Disney Daniel Boone Dakotah Jude and Bo: Part III Daniel Boone Dakotah Daniel Boone Delta Dakotah Lewis and Clark Jude and Bo: Part IV Notes
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New York University Press Scents and Flavors
Book SynopsisCollecting 635 meticulous recipes, Scents and Flavors invites us to savor an inventive cuisine that elevates simple ingredients by combining the sundry aromas of herbs, spices, fruits, and flower essences. This popular thirteenth-century Syrian cookbook is an ode to what its anonymous author calls the greater part of the pleasure of this life, namely the consumption of food and drink, as well as the fragrances that garnish the meals and the diners who enjoy them. Organized like a meal, it opens with appetizers and juices and proceeds through main courses, side dishes, and desserts, including such confections as candies based on the higher densities of sugar syrupan innovation unique to the medieval Arab world. Apricot beverages, stuffed eggplant, pistachio chicken, coriander stew, melon crepes, and almond pudding are seasoned with nutmeg, rose, cloves, saffron, and the occasional rare ingredient like ambergris to delight and surprise the banqueter. BookendeTrade ReviewAn extraordinary achievement, a brilliant translation of a very important work by an author who really understands cooking, and a valuable addition to our understanding of Middle Eastern culture and gastronomy. -- Claudia Roden, author of The New Book of Middle Eastern FoodAn extensive glossary, plus facing pages of the original Arabic text, make this a desirable reference work for scholars. * AramcoWorld *Hopefully, this cookbook can be made part of many library collections around the world, accessible to many Syrian chefs and food-lovers, wherever they may be. * Qantara.de *The book will interest epicures and cultural historians alike. * Islamic Horizons *We can learn a lot from an old cookbook. And the recent release of Scents and Flavors, a new translation from NYU Press's Library of Arabic Literature, provides a glimpse of social history that feels particularly timely. * FoodandWine.com *A significant scholarly contribution . . . Presented and framed in a way that renders it accessible to food scholars who work on other regions and cuisines . . . Provides a useful framing of the cookbook in the broader context of Middle Eastern culinary history, medieval Islamic medicine, and the specific sequencing and practices of feasting in thirteenth-century Syria. * Gastronomica *A good example of the best that can come out of a combination of quality scholarship and practical experience. * Journal of the American Oriental Society *Fun for history buffs and amateur chefs, the recipes making for a fantastic dinner party. * AlJazeera *
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New York University Press Maqamat Abi Zayd alSaruji
Book SynopsisMaqamat Abi Zayd al-Saruji is a scholarly, Arabic-only edition of the celebrated work by al-?ariri, which is also available in English translation from the Library of Arabic Literature as Impostures. Al-?ariri''s text consists of fifty stories about the adventures of the itinerant con man and master of persuasion Abu Zayd al-Saruji, as told by the equally itinerant and often gullible narrator al-?arith ibn Hammam. Al-?ariri was a virtuoso writer of the rhymed prose narrative genre known as the maqamah, which would continue as a popular literary form into the twentieth century.An Arabic edition with an Arabic foreword and English scholarly apparatus.
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New York University Press Impostures
Book SynopsisOne of the Wall Street Journal''s Top 10 Books of the YearWinner, 2020 Sheikh Zayed Book Award, Translation CategoryShortlist, 2021 National Translation AwardFinalist, 2021 PROSE Award, Literature CategoryFifty rogue's tales translated fifty waysAn itinerant con man. A gullible eyewitness narrator. Voices spanning continents and centuries. These elements come together in Impostures, a groundbreaking new translation of a celebrated work of Arabic literature.Impostures follows the roguish Abu Zayd al-Saruji in his adventures around the medieval Middle Eastwe encounter him impersonating a preacher, pretending to be blind, and lying to a judge. In every escapade he shows himself to be a brilliant and persuasive wordsmith, composing poetry, palindromes, and riddles on the spot. Award-winning translator Michael Cooperson transforms Arabic wordplay into English wordpTrade Review[An] astounding new adaptation of the Maqāmāt of al-Harīrī… The verbal profusion is ludicrous, joyfully so. Speaking to an interviewer, Mr. Cooperson remarked that the Maqāmāt is 'a book that shows off everything that Arabic can do.' Impostures shows off English in the same flattering light, demonstrating its dynamism, its endurance, its mutability and its glorious, weedy wildness. In this way, a translation that is so brazen in its liberties is faithful to the spirit of the original. * Wall Street Journal *An astounding performance of literary skill...[A]n important translation of a criminally neglected work of world literature, and an impressive literary work in its own right. * Mada Masr *It's absolutely delightful...pure pleasure to read. * LanguageHat.com *A Herculean effort... Al-Hariri stands as a giant of Arabic literature. After reading Cooperson’s translation of Impostures, the translator is worthy of similar praise. * Free Lance-Star *To translate a work that has been called untranslatable for a thousand years requires more than just expertise in languages—it requires wit, creativity, and an ocean-deep reservoir of knowledge of history and literature and humanity. Michael Cooperson has all of that, plus the most essential, and rarest element: the courage to climb this Everest of world literature. The result isn’t just a translation—it’s a dazzling work of literary creation in its own right, with the linguistic gymnastics of Pale Fire, the genre-switching of Cloud Atlas, and the literary range of 2666. -- Peter Sagal, Host of NPR's Wait, Wait... Don't Tell Me!One might describe al-Ḥarīrī's twelfth-century Arabic classic as 'Melville's Confidence-Man meets Queneau's Exercices de style,' but in this remarkable Oulipean carnival of a translation by Michael Cooperson, there are so many other voices—and languages: Singlish, Spanglish, Shakespeare, middle management-speak, Harlem jive, the rogue's lexicon, Naijá... Impostures is a wild romp through languages and literatures, places and times, that bears out and celebrates Borges's dictum: 'Erudition is the modern form of the fantastic.' -- Esther Allen, translator of Zama, winner of the 2017 National Translation AwardBoth engrossing and entertaining to read. * Asian Review of Books *Examples of Cooperson’s creativity and flair are endless, with a different dialect, technique or imitation used for each of the fifty maqamat. This bold choice manages to show the elaborate nature of classical Arabic storytelling, but also of the English language. From Singlish to London slang, al-Hariri’s wandering bard Abu Zayd and his companion al-Harith ibn Hammam are made living proofs of the diversity of English’s linguistic landscape, incorporating historical and cultural nuance through the translator’s careful but innovative approach. * Translation Exchange *Wildly inventive, acerbic, and funny. * Public Books *The author’s 12th-century Arabic masterpiece, the Maqamat, is a feast of stories, told in a bewildering variety of voice and registers, and in this, the best translated work of 2020, Michael Cooperson somehow uncannily manages to go all that rhetorical virtuosity one better. The result is simply astonishing, and almost embarrassingly entertaining. * Open Letters Review *A lot of fun to read… Anyone interested in language in general or English and its literatures will enjoy Impostures, and those who can read al-Ḥarīrī in Arabic can marvel at the surprising and myriad ways in which Cooperson manages to maintain a certain fidelity to the original. * Marginalia *Cooperson is a master of mimicry; he deploys Scots, Indian English and Spanglish with seemingly effortless aplomb… A dazzling achievement, showy and extravagant as the Arabic original. * Times Literary Supplement *A virtuoso English version of a famously challenging Arabic text… Highly ingenious and very erudite. * Al-Ahram Weekly *Innovative and bold. * The Markaz Review *Cooperson has executed a work of capacious breadth and skill, and has artfully rendered much of the spirit of the original [...] In Impostures, the Library of Arabic Literature has once again shepherded the production of an innovative and brilliant volume. * Journal of Arabic Literature *
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New York University Press In Darfur
Book SynopsisA merchant's remarkable travel account of an African kingdomMu?ammad al-Tunisi (d. 1274/1857) belonged to a family of Tunisian merchants trading with Egypt and what is now Sudan. Al-Tunisi was raised in Cairo and a graduate of al-Azhar. In 1803, at the age of fourteen, al-Tunisi set off for the Sultanate of Darfur, where his father had decamped ten years earlier. He followed the Forty Days Road, was reunited with his father, and eventually took over the management of the considerable estates granted to his father by the sultan of Darfur.In Darfur is al-Tunisi's remarkable account of his ten-year sojourn in this independent state, featuring descriptions of the geography of the region, the customs of Darfur's petty kings, court life and the clothing of its rulers, marriage customs, eunuchs, illnesses, food, hunting, animals, currencies, plants, magic, divination, and dances. In Darfur combines literature, history, ethnography, linguistics, and travel aTrade ReviewIn Darfur offers an interesting glimpse of a (still) neglected part of Africa, and a surprising wealth of information. * The Complete Review *As edited, translated, and presented by Davies, al-Tūnisī’s account is not only a rich primary source for the early nineteenth-century history of Darfur but also a literary gem marking Egypt’s dynamic and innovative intellectual history at mid-century. * Journal of the American Oriental Society *The translation is most readable and fluent, yet it also follows the text closely. The arrangement of Arabic and English side by side makes it extremely valuable for research, particularly for the historian, the Arabist, and for teaching purposes on the whole. If a reader with knowledge of Arabic is interested, s/he is able to consult the Arabic with ease ... This is the first published and complete English translation. * African Studies Review *
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New York University Press The Book of Travels
Book SynopsisThe adventures of the man who created AladdinThe Book of Travels is ?anna Diyab's remarkable first-person account of his travels as a young man from his hometown of Aleppo to the court of Versailles and back again, which forever linked him to one of the most popular pieces of world literature, the Thousand and One Nights. Diyab, a Maronite Christian, served as a guide and interpreter for the French naturalist and antiquarian Paul Lucas. Between 1706 and 1716, Diyab and Lucas traveled through Syria, Cyprus, Egypt, Tripolitania, Tunis, Italy, and France. In Paris, ?anna Diyab met Antoine Galland, who added to his wildly popular translation of the Thousand and One Nights several tales related by Diyab, including Aladdin and Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. When Lucas failed to make good on his promise of a position for Diyab at Louis XIV's Royal Library, Diyab returned to Aleppo. In his old age, he wrote this engaging account of his youthfulTrade ReviewDiyab’s memoir of his Mediterranean adventures is a mixture of clear-eyed observation and wide-eyed innocence, nicely captured by Muhanna’s lucid yet folksy English version...Throughout The Book of Travels, realistic details are suffused with a sense of the marvelous. * New York Review of Books *It is a joy to celebrate [Ḥannā Diyāb's] work in Elias Muhanna's vibrant translation. * Middle East Eye *
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New York University Press The Philosopher Responds
Book SynopsisQuestions and answers from two great philosophersWhy is laughter contagious? Why do mountains exist? Why do we long for the past, even if it is scarred by suffering? Spanning a vast array of subjects that range from the philosophical to the theological, from the philological to the scientific, The Philosopher Responds is the record of a set of questions put by the litterateur Abu ?ayyan al-Taw?idi to the philosopher and historian Abu ?Ali Miskawayh. Both figures were foremost contributors to the remarkable flowering of cultural and intellectual life that took place in the Islamic world during the reign of the Buyid dynasty in the fourth/tenth century.The correspondence between al-Taw?idi and Miskawayh holds a mirror to many of the debates of the time and reflects the spirit of rationalistic inquiry that animated their era. It also provides insight into the intellectual outlooks of two thinkers who were divided as much by their distinctive temperaments as byTrade ReviewTawhidi’s questions are often epigrammatic essays; they assert the limits of human reason and dwell on man’s 'deficiencies,' while evincing a Johnsonian keenness towards observing the contradictions of the human character, the fortunes of life and the spirit of the age. . . . There was no better recorder of his distempered century than Tawhidi; but there was also no other thinker of his time whose disillusioned and restless spirit is more modern, or whose character comes across more strongly in his writings. * Times Literary Supplement *A fascinating read, particularly for the aspiring scholar of classical Arabic texts, who will benefit from a solid English translation alongside the original Arabic. * Al Jadid *...Through an elegant and fluent English translation, makes this unique work accessible to an audience of non-specialists. * Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies *A marvel of literary finesse, of an English style seemingly able to match the often ornate prose of the Arabic... A pleasure to read throughout. * Journal of Near Eastern Studies *
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New York University Press Love Death Fame
Book SynopsisPoems and tales of a literary forefather of the United Arab EmiratesLove, Death, Fame features the poetry of al-Mayidi ibn ?ahir, who has been embraced as the earliest poet in what would later become the United Arab Emirates. Although little is known about his life, he is the subject of a sizeable body of folk legend and is thought to have lived in the seventeenth century, in the area now called the Emirates. The tales included in Love, Death, Fame portray him as a witty, resourceful, scruffy poet, at times combative and at times kindhearted.His poetry primarily features verses of wisdom and romance, with scenes of clouds and rain, desert migrations, seafaring, and pearl diving. Like Arabian Romantic and Arabian Satire, this collection is a prime example of Naba?i poetry, combining vernacular language of the Arabian Peninsula with archaic vocabulary and images dating to Arabic poetry's very origins. Distinguished by Ibn ?ahir's unique v
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New York University Press Impostures
Book SynopsisOne of the Wall Street Journal''s Top 10 Books of the YearWinner, 2020 Sheikh Zayed Book Award, Translation CategoryShortlist, 2021 National Translation AwardFinalist, 2021 PROSE Award, Literature CategoryFifty rogue's tales translated fifty waysAn itinerant con man. A gullible eyewitness narrator. Voices spanning continents and centuries. These elements come together in Impostures, a groundbreaking new translation of a celebrated work of Arabic literature.Impostures follows the roguish Abu Zayd al-Saruji in his adventures around the medieval Middle Eastwe encounter him impersonating a preacher, pretending to be blind, and lying to a judge. In every escapade he shows himself to be a brilliant and persuasive wordsmith, composing poetry, palindromes, and riddles on the spot. Award-winning translator Michael Cooperson transforms Arabic wordplay into English wordpTrade Review[An] astounding new adaptation of the Maqāmāt of al-Harīrī… The verbal profusion is ludicrous, joyfully so. Speaking to an interviewer, Mr. Cooperson remarked that the Maqāmāt is 'a book that shows off everything that Arabic can do.' Impostures shows off English in the same flattering light, demonstrating its dynamism, its endurance, its mutability and its glorious, weedy wildness. In this way, a translation that is so brazen in its liberties is faithful to the spirit of the original. * Wall Street Journal *An astounding performance of literary skill...[A]n important translation of a criminally neglected work of world literature, and an impressive literary work in its own right. * Mada Masr *It's absolutely delightful...pure pleasure to read. * LanguageHat.com *A Herculean effort... Al-Hariri stands as a giant of Arabic literature. After reading Cooperson’s translation of Impostures, the translator is worthy of similar praise. * Free Lance-Star *To translate a work that has been called untranslatable for a thousand years requires more than just expertise in languages—it requires wit, creativity, and an ocean-deep reservoir of knowledge of history and literature and humanity. Michael Cooperson has all of that, plus the most essential, and rarest element: the courage to climb this Everest of world literature. The result isn’t just a translation—it’s a dazzling work of literary creation in its own right, with the linguistic gymnastics of Pale Fire, the genre-switching of Cloud Atlas, and the literary range of 2666. -- Peter Sagal, Host of NPR's Wait, Wait... Don't Tell Me!One might describe al-Ḥarīrī's twelfth-century Arabic classic as 'Melville's Confidence-Man meets Queneau's Exercices de style,' but in this remarkable Oulipean carnival of a translation by Michael Cooperson, there are so many other voices—and languages: Singlish, Spanglish, Shakespeare, middle management-speak, Harlem jive, the rogue's lexicon, Naijá... Impostures is a wild romp through languages and literatures, places and times, that bears out and celebrates Borges's dictum: 'Erudition is the modern form of the fantastic.' -- Esther Allen, translator of Zama, winner of the 2017 National Translation AwardBoth engrossing and entertaining to read. * Asian Review of Books *Examples of Cooperson’s creativity and flair are endless, with a different dialect, technique or imitation used for each of the fifty maqamat. This bold choice manages to show the elaborate nature of classical Arabic storytelling, but also of the English language. From Singlish to London slang, al-Hariri’s wandering bard Abu Zayd and his companion al-Harith ibn Hammam are made living proofs of the diversity of English’s linguistic landscape, incorporating historical and cultural nuance through the translator’s careful but innovative approach. * Translation Exchange *Wildly inventive, acerbic, and funny. * Public Books *The author’s 12th-century Arabic masterpiece, the Maqamat, is a feast of stories, told in a bewildering variety of voice and registers, and in this, the best translated work of 2020, Michael Cooperson somehow uncannily manages to go all that rhetorical virtuosity one better. The result is simply astonishing, and almost embarrassingly entertaining. * Open Letters Review *A lot of fun to read… Anyone interested in language in general or English and its literatures will enjoy Impostures, and those who can read al-Ḥarīrī in Arabic can marvel at the surprising and myriad ways in which Cooperson manages to maintain a certain fidelity to the original. * Marginalia *Cooperson is a master of mimicry; he deploys Scots, Indian English and Spanglish with seemingly effortless aplomb… A dazzling achievement, showy and extravagant as the Arabic original. * Times Literary Supplement *A virtuoso English version of a famously challenging Arabic text… Highly ingenious and very erudite. * Al-Ahram Weekly *Innovative and bold. * The Markaz Review *Cooperson has executed a work of capacious breadth and skill, and has artfully rendered much of the spirit of the original [...] In Impostures, the Library of Arabic Literature has once again shepherded the production of an innovative and brilliant volume. * Journal of Arabic Literature *
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Baen Books Citizens
Book SynopsisA science fiction anthology by military veterans.
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Baen Books Fangs For The Mammaries
Book Synopsis Having inflicted the smug homes of suburbia with witches and werewolves,Esther Friesner now unleashes the undead to tap a vein of blood and humor, anddrain the suburbs dry of both. Vampires and the suburbs are a match made inheaven, or maybe Levittown. Remember Dracula? He didn't run into any realproblems until he took his act on the road and traveled to the Big City. But inthe suburbs, everyone is polite and respectful of their neighbors' rightto privacy. Who says you have to stay in the city if you want good take-outmeals delivered right to your door? There's no one quite like a vampirefor saying, All of you kids get off of my lawn! and putting someteeth into it. The stories in these pages by Sarah A. Hoyt, K.D. Wentworth, DaveFreer, and more, including Esther Friesner herself will convince thereader that vampires and suburbs go together like wine and cheese, gin andtonic, desperation and housewives, marriage and pre-nups. Enter freely and ofyour own will...
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Baen Books In Fire Forged Worlds Of Honor 5
Book Synopsis"In Fire Forged: Worlds Of Honor 5."
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Adams Media Corporation The Quotable Intellectual 1417 Bon Mots Ripostes
Book SynopsisA collection of 1,200 quotations from the mouths of the wildly famous to the painfully obscure.
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University of Toronto Press The Pleasant Nights Volume 1
Book SynopsisRenowned today for his contribution to the rise of the modern European fairy tale, Giovan Francesco Straparola (c. 1480–c. 1557) is particularly known for his dazzling anthology The Pleasant Nights. Originally published in Venice in 1550 and 1553, this collection features seventy-three folk stories, fables, jests, and pseudo-histories, including nine tales we might now designate for ‘mature readers’ and seventeen proto-fairy tales. Nearly all of these stories, including classics such as ‘Puss in Boots,’ made their first ever appearance in this collection; together, the tales comprise one of the most varied and engaging Renaissance miscellanies ever produced. Its appeal sustained it through twenty-six editions in the first sixty years.This full critical edition of The Pleasant Nights presents these stories in English for the first time in over a century. The text takes its inspiration from the celebrated Waters translation, whichTrade Review'Beecher deserves full credit and admiration for having produced a superlative piece of work.' -- Joseph Russo Journal of Folklore Research; October 22, 2013 'Beecher has produced a handsome edition of Water's translation, and has thoroughly reworked the reference apparatus... His book is a distinctly valuable and scholarly contribution to the subject.' -- Ruth B. Bottigheimer Renaissance Quarterly vol 67:01:2014
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Andrews McMeel Publishing Wetter Louder Stickier A Baby Blues Collection 38
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Andrews McMeel Publishing Lunch Wore a Speedo The Nineteenth Shermans
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Andrews McMeel Publishing Tales from the Deep That Are Completely
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Andrews McMeel Publishing No Yelling
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