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The truth behind the Gospel accounts of the Nativity, updated to include the latest research--a classic by a renowned scholar, hailed as "masterly" and "definitive" in the original edition.

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Many know of Scott Nearing in the context of his retreat from the urban environment to the simpler world of homesteading, subsistence farming, and vegetarianism, so movingly portrayed in the book written with his wife "Living the Good Life." This Scott...

Arthur Swille politicizes, patronizes, and frets on his plantation in Swin'erd, Virginia, while his runaway slave, Raven Quickskill gives poetry readings and abolitionist lectures in Emancipation City, prompting his fellow fugitives to anger, fear,...

Capturing the rich heritage of the Celtic imagination, this delightful collection of sixty-five Irish tales and poems about fairies, village ghosts, demons, witches, priests, and saints is set from the 1918 Modern Library edition.

A biography of the French artist Pierre Joseph Redoute, known for his beautiful paintings of flowers.

A TRAGI-COMEDY.

The second volume is in Koestler's own words âa typical case history of a member of the educated middle classes of Central Europe in our time. We see him in Germany, Russia, England, France and Spain, working for the cause he believed in until his...

[Koestler, Arthur] Hamilton, Iain. Koestler - A Biography. London, Secker & Warburg, 1982. Large Octavo. XVII, 398 pages. Original hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. With an...

In the tradition of such beloved classics as "The Thousand and One Nights and the Persian Shahnameh," here is the first unabridged English translation of a major Indo-Persian epic, "The Adventures of Amir Hamza "(Dastan-e Amir Hamza)-a panoramic tale of...

Summer, 1968. Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy are dead. The assassination conspiracies have begun to unravel. A dirty-tricks squad is getting ready to deploy at the Democratic Convention in Chicago. Black militants are warring in southside L.A. The...

Pan Ku's celebrated and influential History of the Former Han has been a model for dynastic history since its appearance in the first century A.D.Burton Watson has translated ten chapters from the biography section, including the lives of imperial...