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The Beat Hotel: Ginsberg, Burroughs, and Corso in Paris, 1957-1963 The Beat Hotel has been closed for nearly forty years. But for a brief period, from just after the publication of Howl in 1957 until the building was sold in 1963; it was home to Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Brion Gysin, Peter Orlovsky, Harold Norse, and a host of other luminaries of the Beat Generation. Now, Barry Miles; acclaimed author of many books on the Beats and a personal acquaintance of many of them, vividly excavates this remarkable period and restores it to a historical picture that has, until now, been skewed in favor of the two coasts of America.
Montcalm and Wolfe "The strife that armed all the civilized world began here," wrote Francis Parkman of the conflict between the French and British in the New World. Montcalm and Wolfe, long considered Parkman's masterpiece, is the grand, sweeping tale of that continental strife; what North America called the French and Indian War, and England called the Seven Years' War. Accompanied by over 40 detailed maps and illustrations; some selected specially for this edition; Parkman's timeless work shows how the enormous transfer of land from France to England at the war's end sowed the first seeds of colonialism; seeds that, in due course, led America to its revolution, and eventually, its independence.
Midnight All Day In this astonishing collection of new stories, Hanif Kureishi confirms his reputation as Britain's foremost chronicler of the loveless, the lost and the dispossessed. The characters in Midnight All Day are familiar to all of us: frustrated and intoxicated, melancholic and sensitive, yet capable of great cruelty, and, if necessary, willing to break the constraints of an old life to make way for the new.
Plays, Prose Writings and Poems Brilliant and tragic, decadent yet radical, a socialist dandy and a witty moralist, Oscar Wilde embodied all the contradictions of the 1890s. The scope of his genius is indicated in this volume by the inclusion of the period's most scintillating comedy The Importance of Being Earnest; its most notorious novel The Picture of Dorian Gray; and its most haunting elegy The Ballad of Reading Gaol; together with a selection of his most acclaimed essays and stories. This expanded new edition now includes the complete version of De Profundis and Wilde's teasing parable about Shakespeare, The Portrait of Mr. W. H.
Songs from a Bamboo Village Almost a century after Shiki Masaoka's death in 1902, he remains a powerful influence on modern haiku and tanka poetry. His life story is one of high drama and courage. He was the major voice of authority in bringing about the revival of haiku in Meiji Japan, yet he also suffered from tuberculosis and caries of the spine, excruciatingly painful illnesses which left him bedridden for nearly the last seven years of his life. It was at this time of prolonged physical pain that he set about restoring the declining tanka tradition to its high position in Japanese literature. In this unique collection, the longest anthology of Shiki's tanka poetry in English, precise English translations are accompanied by romanized renderings of the original Japanese script.
The Gospel According to Luke Each volume of this series of commentaries on the New English Bible comments on one book, or a few short books, of the Bible, and in each the text is given in full. Sections of text and commentary alternate, so that the reader does not have to keep two books open, or turn from one part of the book to the other, or refer to a commentary in small type at the foot of the page. Great care has been taken to see that the commentary is suitable for the student and the layman: there is no Greek or Hebrew, and no strings of biblical references, but the commentary does convey the latest and best scholarship. |
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The Second Coming Will Barrett, a lonely widower, suffers from a depression so strange and severe that he decides he doesn't want to continue living. But then he meets Allison, a mental hospital escapee making a new life for herself, living alone in a greenhouse.
Conversing with the Planets Pre-Columbian shamans, Galileo, Darwin, and NASA have all had the same concern at the heart of their inquiries: to understand the workings of the universe. As Anthony Aveni shows, these quests have also shaped and guided cultures over the millennia. Today we scan the heavens with high-tech instruments, but by being deeply attuned to the sun, moon, and stars, civilizations seen as "primitive" have unlocked many of the secrets of the cosmos. Naked-eye observation produced extraordinarily accurate records and projections of meteorological phenomena long before the Hubble telescope, and in turn helped establish our intricate mythologies and frameworks of belief. Anthony Aveni lucidly and engagingly interweaves astronomy, mythology, and anthropology to explore what the universe means to us. He also illustrates the influence of our culture and beliefs on the path of scientific discovery, tracing the rise and fall of astronomy as blown by the prevailing wind of religious, philosophical, and political change.
Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy: Volume XVIII Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial length, and include critical notices of major books. From 2000, OSAP is being published not once but twice yearly, to keep up with the abundance of good material submitted; and it is being made available ; and it is being made available in response to scholars wishing to purchase it. This volume, the first of 2000, features contributors from Britain, America, Europe, and Japan contributing pieces on Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Epicureanism, Pyrrhonism, and the recently discovered papyrus text of Empedocles.
The Magic of the Many: Josiah Quincy and the Rise of Mass Politics in Boston, 1800-1830 A study of partisan politics and class conflict in early nineteenth-century Boston, this book traces the history of a popular revolt against an entrenched ruling elite. Led by an unlikely populist, patrician Josiah Quincy, the rebellion against the reigning Federalist party not only altered the political landscape of Boston but also signaled the advent of the Jacksonian Age. "A well-written and well-researched book. In the rough and tumble of the Boston school of politics, Josiah Quincy was a master. Not until the days of James Michael Curley would this city see another like him." William M. Fowler Jr., director, Massachusetts Historical Society
Soaring and Settling: Buddhist Perspectives on Contemporary Social and Religious Issues "This incomparable collection will be a rewarding companion to scholars and lovers of the Buddha Dharma. As Rita Gross pursues the implications of Buddhist teachings for the study of religion and for our life in the world, she offers not only chewy, nourishing food for the mind but also an inspiring example of personal integrity. Here we find undiluted the rare honesty, audacity, thoroughness, and clarity which characterize her work. She enriches my understanding of the balance between engagement and renunciation, immanence and transcendence, that is made possible by the Middle Path." Joanna Macy
Warriors Into Traders: The Power of the Market in Early Greece "An interesting and often brilliant study of an important question, nothing less than the constitution of the Greek city in the eighth century B.C. Tandy makes use at once of archaeological sources, which he knows very well, and the techniques of demographers and economic historians. I know of few interdisciplinary studies that are so complete and successful." Pierre Vidal-Naquet |
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