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Although a very prolific poet--and arguably America's greatest--Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) published fewer than a dozen of her eighteen hundred poems. Instead, she created at home small handmade...

The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects:...

The poet, John Clare, who lived from 1793-1864, was the son of a Northamptonshire labourer and himself at various times a herd boy, militiaman, vagrant and unsuccessful farmer. He writes of the...

This volume, the second of four, includes her correspondence from early 1918 to the autumn of 1919. Her love for Middleton Murry, her response to the First World War, and her acceptance of the...

An all-star cast of radical intellectuals discuss the continued importance of communist principlesIn 2009 Slavoj Žižek brought together an acclaimed group of intellectuals to discuss the continued...

25 classic works by Plato with an active table of contents.Works include:Alcibiades IAlcibiades IIApologyCharmidesCratylusCritiasCritoEuthydemusEuthyphroGorgiasIonLachesLesser...

"For most people the phrase 'Shakespeare's Sonnets' refers to the 154 poems published in 1609 under the title Shakespeare's Sonnets: Never before Imprinted. These have since appeared in numerous...

The Amazon and Orinoco basins in northern South America are home to the highest concentration of freshwater fish species on earth, with more than 3,000 species allotted to 564 genera. Amazonian...

A collection of excerpts emphasizing discipline, respect, obedience, and patriotism, reflecting the moral and social philosophy of the late-Victorian period.

From the Introduction: "This volume of selected papers of Jacob Wolfowitz is published to honor the 70th birthday of this leader of research in statistical inference and information theory...We have...

Walter Benjamin was one of the most original and important critical voices of the twentieth century, but until now only a few of his writings have been available in English. Harvard University Press...

In 1908, American philosopher Josiah Royce foresaw the future. Race questions and prejudices, he said, "promise to become, in the near future, still more important than they have ever been before."...

A scholarly edition of works by Matthew Prior. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.

Coleridge began in 1795 a series of public lectures. This volume includes all the printed and manuscript versions of the Bristol lectures in chronological sequence. Among the contents are "Lectures...

As a law student and young lawyer in the 1760s, Thomas Jefferson began writing abstracts of English common law reports. Even after abandoning his law practice, he continued to rely on his legal...

Cyprus has always shown a remarkable openness to divergent cultures--at no time more than in the Middle Ages, when successive Byzantine and Latin conquerors settled on the island and dominated its...

Feminist theologians from thirteen countries in North, Central, and South America analyze the relationships of religion, culture, feminism, and power and explore how they can work together to develop...

A beautiful collector’s hardcover of never-before-translated poems by the widely beloved medieval Persian poet Rumi. AN EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY POCKET POET.Rumi (1207–1273) was trained in Sufism—a mystic...

The year's finest mathematical writing from around the worldThis annual anthology brings together the year's finest mathematics writing from around the world. Featuring promising new voices alongside...

Dystopic imagery has figured prominently in modern depictions of the urban landscape. The city is often portrayed as a terrifying world of darkness, crisis, and catastrophe. Noir Urbanisms traces the...