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originally: $34.95 Beginning with the Heroic Era of the Greek world, Keegan advances through the ages to illustrate key moments in the unfolding history of the world's military cultures. The military practices of primitive peoples is as important to our understanding of warfare as is the strategy of the blitzkrieg
originally: $24.95 Our greatest opportunity for discovery and growth, according to bestselling author and Fortune 500 consultant David Whyte, is in the thing we most often want to get away from: our work. It's where people spend the majority of their time, and it's where many spend much of it wishing they were somewhere else, doing something else. Being engaged elsewhere during work is damaging to our souls. Crossing the Unknown Sea is about reawakening the sleeping captain in us before that soul crashes on the rocks. The book takes us on the holiest of pilgrimages, to the center of identity and the roots of growth.
originally: $24.95 From mermaids to mutinies, shipwrecks to cholera, the life of Charles Tyng was a nonstop voyage of adventure. His quarter century under sail took him around the world half a dozen times. Fortunately, he proved to be as natural a storyteller as he was a sailor. Whether you're a sailor yourself, an armchair traveler, a history buff, or simply a lover of pulse-quickening maritime adventure stories, you'll be as drawn to this book as Charles Tyng was to the siren song of the sea.
originally: $12.95 Remote, unpeopled, forbidding; the poles were one of earth's last frontiers, and they still exert a powerful hold on the imagination. The North Pole proved to be an icebound spot in a frozen sea, but Antartica is a substantial landmass with a compelling beauty all its own. Today these wildernesses are under threat: Discover how they were explored and how today nations are banding together to protect them in the pocket sized compendium of dates, facts and beautiful full color illustrations.
originally: $12.95 In the 6th century BC, a prince from northern India left family and fortune in search of the answer to the universal question of suffering and death. His name was Siddhartha Gautama, but he came to be known as the Buddha, father of the religion that soon spread around the world. The Wisdom of the Buddha will introduce you to the man and the philosophy that illuminates the way for more than three hundred million people today, two and a half millennia after its founder's birth.
originally: $16.99 Bob Flanagan grew up with cystic fibrosis (a genetically inherited, nearly-always fatal disease). He died at the age of 43, one of the oldest people with the disease. The physical pain of his childhood suffering was principally alleviated by masturbation and sexual experimentation, where pain and pleasure became inextricably linked, resulting in his lifelong practice of extreme masochism. In deeply confessional interviews, Bob details his sexual practices and his extraordinary relationship with long-term partner and Mistress, photographer Sheree Rose. Through his insider's perspective on the Sado-Masochistic community, we learn firsthand about branding, piercing, whipping, bondage and endurance trials. The most extreme narratives are infused with humor, honesty and self-reflective irony.
originally: $12.99 Finally back in print: Octave Mirbeau's fabulously rare 1899 classic novel, The Torture Garden, once described as "the most sickening work of art of the nineteenth century." Following the twin trails of desire and depravity to a shocking sadistic paradise; a garden in China where torture is practiced as an art form; a dissolute Frenchman discovers the true depths of degradation, infinitely beyond his prior bourgeois imaginings. Well ahead of its time, The Torture Garden is exceptional for its detailed descriptions of sexual euphoria and exquisite torture; its political critique of government corruption and bureaucracy; and its revolutionary portrait of a woman, which challenges even contemporary role models of feminine autonomy. |
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originally: $15.99 Originally printed in a small edition and withdrawn by the publisher after one month, this book (out of print for nearly 20 years), is brought back to eye-popping life with many new photos. Daniel P. Mannix, now enjoying a cult revival, is the author of noir classics such as Those About to Die, The History of Torture, The Hell-fire Club, Memoirs of a Sword Swallower, and many others. A former sword-swallower, fire-eater, fakir and world traveler, Mr. Mannix still lives on the family farm with his falcon, miniature horses and reptile collection.
originally: $40.00 Henri Matisse is one of the masters of twentieth-century art and a household word to millions of people who find joy and meaning in his light-filled, colorful images; yet, despite all the books devoted to his work, the man himself has remained a mystery. Now, in the hands of the superb biographer Hilary Spurling, the unknown Matisse becomes visible at last. By unearthing never before revealed dealings surrounding Matisse and his in-laws, the Parayres, Spurling has discovered the truth behind Matisse's "dark period" in the early part of the twentieth-century and its roots in the Humbert and Dreyfus affair scandals. In Hilary Spurling, Matisse has found a biographer with a detective's ability uncover facts, the narrative power of a novelist, and profound empathy for her subject.
originally: $35.00 This book concerns the energetic exchange of ideas and influences that passed between jazz musicians and other artists of the "Lost Generation." Indeed, Body and Soul is a veritable pageant of the glittering luminaries of the day: James Joyce, Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe, Paul Strand, John Dos Passos, Langston Hughes, Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway. Together they "jammed" and improvised, collaborated and swapped riffs, forging an entirely new kind of cultural "sound". This new sound was modernism, and it was distinctively American, but more particularly, it was rooted in the texture and rhythm of America's jazz metropolis, New York, a city far more important than Paris to the birth of American modernism.
originally: $24.98 The great turning point of Western civilization that we call the Renaissance; the rebirth of literature, art, architecture, and philosophy in Europe form the fourteenth through the seventeenth century; marked the emergence of the modern world from the dark ages. This ingeniously organized, profusely illustrated book presents the entire epoch of the Renaissance through a spectacular collection of images, offering all the tools anyone needs to explore this age of reawakening, invention, and achievement. Spanning the whole of Europe, this exciting book includes time lines of important events and developments in history, ideas, literature, art, and architecture; a glossary; and a biographical dictionary that includes family trees of the most influential dynasties. With clarity and comprehensiveness, The Panorama of the Renaissance offers a lively, accessible, and up-to-date window on an enthralling world.
originally: $24.00 Death of a Hornet is Robert Finch's elegant rendering of Cape Cod, a sandy, scrub-oaked, tough and vulnerable spit of land reaching out into the Atlantic Ocean. The pieces in this collection are "natural adventures" that readers of Finch's previous books have come to expect, as well as longer meditations on the future of the Cape's fragile environment, the experience of living in one place for a long time, the relationships between mind, spirit, and nature, and the limitations of human sympathy. |
The Book of War
Crossing the Unknown Sea
Before the Wind: The Memoir of an American Sea Captain
North Pole, South Pole
The Wisdom of the Buddha
Bob Flanagan: Supermasochist
The Torture Garden
Freaks: We Who Are Not As Others
The Unknown Matisse: The Early Years, 1869-1908
Body and Soul: The Making of American Modernism
The Panorama of the Renaissance
Death of a Hornet: And Other Cape Cod EssaysFor questions about these titles, contact remainders@harvardsquarebookstore.com.
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