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  • Literature and the Taste of Knowledge

    Literature and the Taste of Knowledge

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    What does literature know? Does it offer us knowledge of its own or does it only interrupt and question other forms of knowledge? This book answers and prolongs these questions through the close...
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  • On Empson

    On Empson

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    From one of today's most distinguished critics, a beautifully written exploration of one of the twentieth century's most important literary criticsAre literary critics writers? As Michael Wood says,...
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  • In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great

    In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great

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    Between 334 and 324 B.C. the Macedonian army, led by Alexander the Great, marched relentlessly across Asia. An event of bravery and cruelty, endurance and greed, Alexander's expedition was a turning...
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  • The Road to Delphi

    The Road to Delphi

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    Cultures of all epochs have consulted oracles in times of need. This fascinating exploration of the enduring popularity of oracles examines how they are interpreted and why. Taking examples from...
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  • Marcel Proust

    Marcel Proust

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    A witty, refreshing, and fun book on the experience of reading Marcel Proust. What would the world be like without this work, where would we be if it hadn't happened? This is how Michael Wood found...
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  • Children of Silence

    Children of Silence

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    An engaging series of reflections on the literary landscape of our time -- from the writings of Roland Barthes to those of Stephen King -- Wood explores such issues as the shift of interest from...
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  • The Magician's Doubts

    The Magician's Doubts

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    As a child in Russia, Vladimir Nabokov enjoyed conjuring: "I loved doing simple tricks--turning water into wine, that kind of thing." In this engrossing book Michael Wood explores the blend of...
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  • Habits of Distraction

    Habits of Distraction

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    "The thoughts traced in this book may seem a little complicated but the project itself is simple. It is to see what sort of weight and extension Walter Benjamin's phrase 'reception in distraction'...
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  • Love's Work

    Love's Work

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    Love’s Work is at once a memoir and a work of philosophy. Written by the English philosopher Gillian Rose as she was dying of cancer, it is a book about both the fallibility and the endurance of...
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  • Essays and Reviews

    Essays and Reviews

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    The first collection of popular reviews and essays from distinguished philosopher Bernard WilliamsBernard Williams was one of the most important philosophers of the past fifty years, but he was also...
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  • Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy | | 9780198249498

    Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy

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    The fourth volume of Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is devoted to essays in honor of Professor John Ackrill on the occasion of his 65th birthday. Contributors include: David Wiggins, Colin...
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  • Eudemian Ethics

    Eudemian Ethics

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    Text: English, Greek (translation)
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  • Nation, Language, and the Ethics of Translation | | 9780691116082

    Nation, Language, and the Ethics of Translation

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    In recent years, scholarship on translation has moved well beyond the technicalities of converting one language into another and beyond conventional translation theory. With new technologies blurring...
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  • Nation, Language, and the Ethics of Translation

    Nation, Language, and the Ethics of Translation

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    In recent years, scholarship on translation has moved well beyond the technicalities of converting one language into another and beyond conventional translation theory. With new technologies blurring...
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  • Italo Calvino

    Italo Calvino

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    The first collection of letters in English by one of the great writers of the twentieth centuryThis is the first collection in English of the extraordinary letters of one of the great writers of the...
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  • Dictionary of Untranslatables

    Dictionary of Untranslatables

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    A one-of-a-kind reference to the international vocabulary of the humanitiesThis is an encyclopedic dictionary of close to 400 important philosophical, literary, and political terms and concepts that...
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  • Heidegger | | 9780198828662

    Heidegger

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    Martin Heidegger, considered by some to be the greatest charlatan ever to claim the title of "philosopher," by some as an apologist for Nazism, and by others as an acknowledged leader in continental...
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  • Interest and Prices

    Interest and Prices

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    With the collapse of the Bretton Woods system, any pretense of a connection of the world's currencies to any real commodity has been abandoned. Yet since the 1980s, most central banks have abandoned...
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  • The Nature of Time

    The Nature of Time

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    Why does time appear to run in only one direction? We remember the past- but why not the future? We can influence the future- but could we, even theoretically, influence the past? Generations of...
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  • International Macroeconomics | | 9780691170640

    International Macroeconomics

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    An essential introduction to one of the most timely and important subjects in economicsInternational Macroeconomics presents a rigorous and theoretically elegant treatment of real-world international...
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