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Il Socialismo Di Stato: Nella Ragione E Nella Vita Odierna: Libri Due D'Un Saggio Di Filosofia Economica (1887)

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Report copyright infringementby Sabino Fiorese (Author)Il libro ""Il Socialismo Di Stato: Nella Ragione E Nella Vita Odierna: Libri Due D��Un Saggio Di Filosofia Economica (1887)"" di Sabino Fiorese �� un'opera di filosofia economica che analizza il concetto di socialismo di stato. L'autore esplora la teoria del socialismo di stato e la sua applicazione nella vita moderna, con particolare attenzione alle implicazioni politiche ed economiche. Il libro �� diviso in due parti e offre ...

Encounter on the Seine: Essays - Hardcover

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by James Baldwin (Author)"James Baldwin was born for truth. It called upon him to tell it on the mountains, to preach it in Harlem, to sing it on the Left Bank in Paris. . . . He was a giant." -- Maya Angelou This collectible edition celebrates James Baldwin's 100th-year anniversary, delving into his years in France and Switzerland Originally published in Notes of a Native Son, the essays, "Encounter on the Seine: Black Meets Brown," "A Question of Identity," "Equal in Paris," and "Stranger i...

Hesiod and Theognis: Theogony, Works and Days, and Elegies - Paperback

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by Hesiod (Author), Theognis (Author), Dorothea Wender (Translator)Author BiographyVery little is known about Hesiod and it cannot definitely be proved that the same man wrote both the Theogony and Works and Days. He probably lived in the eighth century BC (contemporary with Homer) in Boeotia on the Greek mainland. Theognis lived and wrote chiefly in the sixth century BC. He came from Megara, probably the one on the Greek mainland, and was an aristocrat. There was a popular revolution, in whi...

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Report copyright infringementby Lawrence W. Distasi (Author)Earth Breath: Selected Blogs, 2009-2016, is a collection of 60 blogs chosen from a dozen years of blogging on my blogsite, distasiblog.blogspot.com. Unlike many others, my blogs range through a wide variety of subjects, usually responding to contemporary events or books I've read, or the impulse of the moment. Many are political, but many are not. Their overall tenor tends to be critical of current trends and attitudes that I find si...

The King Takes Your Castle: City Laws That Restrict Your Property Rights

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Report copyright infringementby Richard R. Sylvester (Author) This book describes intriguing issues raised by the sharing economy which has resulted in rapid financial growth for several internet firms, such as Airbnb and Expedia/HomeAway, which have rapidly become larger than major hotel chains. The impending surprise is the current economic disaster that is resulting from overreaching of city laws designed to raise city tax revenue, but instead are now causing severe damage the local and na...

The Scarlet Letter and Other Writings: A Norton Critical Edition - Paperback

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by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Author), Leland S. Person (Editor)This Second Norton Critical Edition also includes: - Revised and expanded explanatory footnotes, a new preface, and a note on the text by Leland S. Person. - Key passages from Hawthorne's notebooks and letters that suggest the close relationship between his private and public writings - Seven new critical essays by Brook Thomas, Michael Ryan, Thomas R. Mitchell, Jay Grossman, Jamie Barlowe, John Ronan, and John F. Birk. - A Chronology...

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by Euripides (Author), Reginald Gibbons (Translator), Charles Segal (Introduction by)Regarded by many as Euripides' masterpiece, Bakkhai is a powerful examination of religious ecstasy and the resistance to it. A call for moderation, it rejects the temptation of pure reason as well as pure sensuality, and is a staple of Greek tragedy, representing in structure and thematics anexemplary model of the classic tragic elements. Disguised as a young holy man, the god Bacchus arrives in Greece from A...

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Report copyright infringementby Barbara Fisher (Author)This volume represents the first biography of Alice MacDonald Kipling Fleming (1868-1948), known as Trix. Rarely portrayed with sympathy or accuracy in biographies of her famous brother Rudyard, Trix was a talented writer and a memorable character in her own right whose fascinating life was unknown until now. In telling Trix's story, Barbara Fisher rescues her from the misrepresentations, trivializations, and outright neglect of Rudyard's...

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by William Blake (Author), Alicia Ostriker (Editor)One of the great English Romantic poets, William Blake was also an artist, mystic, and visionary. His work ranges from the deceptively simple and lyrical Songs of Innocence and their counterpoint Experience--which juxtapose poems such as "The Lamb" and "The Tyger," and "The Blossom" and "The Sick Rose"--to highly elaborate, apocalyptic works, such as The Four Zoas, Milton and Jerusalem. Throughout his life Blake drew on a rich heritage of phi...

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Report copyright infringementby Omar Khayyam (Author), Edward Fitzgerald (Translator)The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and redesigned. These books are not made of scanned copies...

The Diné Reader: An Anthology of Navajo Literature - Paperback

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by Esther G. Belin (Editor), Jeff Berglund (Editor), Connie A. Jacobs (Editor)2022 Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award Winner The Diné Reader: An Anthology of Navajo Literature is unprecedented. It showcases the breadth, depth, and diversity of Diné creative artists and their poetry, fiction, and nonfiction prose.This wide-ranging anthology brings together writers who offer perspectives that span generations and perspectives on life and Diné history. The collected works display a r...

The Chicago Neighborhood Guidebook - Paperback

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by Martha Bayne (Editor)Part of Belt's Neighborhood Guidebook Series, The Chicago Neighborhood Guidebook is an intimate exploration of the Windy City's history and identity. "Required reading"--The Chicago TribuneOfficially, Chicago has 77 neighborhoods. Unofficially, though, that number's closer to 200. But what does that mean for the people who actually call Chicago home? In an eclectic collection of essays, poems, photos, and visual art, The Chicago Neighborhood Guidebook aims to explore t...

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's Civil War and Reconstruction

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Report copyright infringementby Eric Gardner (Author)In a trans-bellum public career of over fifty years, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper fought for abolition, women's suffrage, Black suffrage, civil rights, and temperance. She fashioned a sense of literature across genre that engaged deeply with both her activism and questions of aesthetics, craft, and art. Still, while Harper was well-known during her lifetime, many twentieth-century critics dismissed or ignored her. Even amid interest spurred...

Sara Allgood's Memories: Untold Stories of the Abbey Theatre and Early Hollywood

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Report copyright infringementby Elizabeth Brewer Redwine (Author)Sara Allgood, Abbey Theatre actress, Hollywood contract player, Inghinidhe na hÉireann member, and early film performer, wrote this autobiography, entitled Memories, towards the end of her life, encouraging readers to acknowledge the roles of performers and theatre-makers in the creation of the Abbey. The book allows readers into the worlds of late nineteenth-century Dublin, the early Abbey, the Easter Rising, both World Wars, H...

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Report copyright infringementby Kate Briggs (Author)This Little Art is published here as a limited edition casebound hardback as part of Fitzcarraldo Editions' First Decade Collection, featuring marbled endpapers and signed and numbered bookplates.An essay with the reach and momentum of a novel, Kate Briggs's This Little Art is a genre-bending song for the practice of literary translation, offering fresh, fierce and timely thinking on reading, writing and living with the works of others. Taki...

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Report copyright infringementby Nancy Bunge (Editor), Clarence Major (Author)For over forty years, Clarence Major (b. 1936) has engaged several artistic and literary pursuits, garnering acclaim for his paintings, edited anthologies, poetry collections, essays, and novels. His work within literature ranges from his popular dictionary of slang, Juba to Jive: A Dictionary of African-American Slang (1994), to such experimental novels as Emergency Exit (1979), Reflex and Bone Structure (1975), and...

Getting Naked with Harry Crews: Interviews

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Report copyright infringementby Erik Bledsoe (Editor)In these 26 interviews, novelist Harry Crews discusses writing, literary influences, his fascination with so-called "freaks," his failed relationships, the impact of alcohol and drugs on his life and work, and more.Front JacketHarry Crews on his tattoo and mohawk..."If you can't get past my 'too' -- my tattoo -- and my 'do' -- the way I got my hair cut -- it's only because you have decided there are certain things that can be done with hair...

Pioneer Players: The Lives of Louis and Hilda Esson

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Report copyright infringementby Peter Fitzpatrick (Author)This is a dual biography, the story of Louis Esson, the distinguished playwright who has been called 'the father of Australian drama', and his wife Hilda, who did her own pioneering in the theatre and in public health. The plays they wrote and performed reflected the drama of their lives: creative angst, intellectual conflict, untimely death, romantic entanglement, jealousy and despair. Yet Peter Fitzpatrick's book is more than a good ...

Audience, Agency and Identity in Black Popular Culture

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Report copyright infringementby Shawan M. Worsley (Author)Shawan M. Worsley analyzes black cultural representations that appropriate anti-black stereotypes. Her examination furthers our understanding of the historical circumstances that are influencing contemporary representations of black subjects that are purposefully derogatory and documents the consequences of these images. Author BiographyShawan M. Worsley is Assistant Professor in the Department of Performing Arts at the University of S...

Art in Contemporary Anglo-American Fiction: The Ekphrastic Novel

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Report copyright infringementby Sofie Behluli (Author)This book addresses the recent surge of Anglo-American novels about visual art since the 2010s and interprets it as a coming of age of an old literary sub-genre, which is here termed as the 'ekphrastic novel'. These novels are distinguished by their systematic use of ekphrasis which creatively and critically negotiates the intertwined aesthetics of literature and visual art. By addressing the challenge of representing visual images such as...

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by Greg Delanty (Author)An important celebratory collection of Irish poetry by graduates of University College, Cork writing in both English and Irish, which groups together poets of international standing in a single volume, Paul Durcan, Eileain Ni Chuilleanain and Michael Davitt. Irish language poetry, long considered the death wail of a dying beast, experienced a remarkable resurgence in the late 60s and early 70s. This emanated mainly from the poetry magazine INNTI, first issued as a broa...

Italian Comics in the New Millennium. Vol. 1. Continuity and Innovation

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Report copyright infringementby Alessio Aletta (Editor)The first issue of a two-volume collection, this book explores the transformation of Italian comics in the new millennium, offering a comprehensive analysis of the evolving landscape of "fumetti" through both historical and contemporary lenses. The book examines iconic serials from Disney Italia and Sergio Bonelli Editore, alongside innovative auteur-driven works, providing readers with an in-depth look at how Italy's most influential com...

Queer Beauty: Sexuality and Aesthetics from Winckelmann to Freud and Beyond

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Report copyright infringementby Whitney Davis (Author)The pioneering work of Johann Winckelmann (1717-1768) identified a homoerotic appreciation of male beauty in classical Greek sculpture, a fascination that had endured in Western art since the Greeks. Yet after Winckelmann, the value (even the possibility) of art's queer beauty was often denied. Several theorists, notably the philosopher Immanuel Kant, broke sexual attraction and aesthetic appreciation into separate or dueling domains. In t...

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Report copyright infringementby S. Jeyran Main (Author)Since 2016, Review Tales Magazine has stood as a beacon for the writing community, celebrating extraordinary talents and empowering authors from around the globe. As a monthly publication, it offers a carefully curated selection of book reviews chosen from the thousands of submissions we receive, ensuring that only the most exceptional works are featured. This magazine isn't just about books-it's about celebrating the art of storytelling ...

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by Mollie Hawkins (Author), Ian Bogost (Editor), Christopher Schaberg (Editor)Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The saxophone is a contradictory instrument that has rooted itself in the soil of pop culture. It's the "devil's horn," it's the voice of jazz - an extension of the player's soul - it is a character trait of U.S. Presidents, YouTube sensations, and cartoon characters. It has both enhanced and ruined songs, it i...

Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2022 - Paperback

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by Margaret Atwood (Author)In this brilliant selection of essays--including three new pieces--the award-winning, best-selling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments offers her funny, erudite, endlessly curious, and uncannily prescient take on everything from whether or not The Handmaid's Tale is a dystopia to the importance of how to define granola--and seeks answers to Burning Questions such as... - Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories? Including thoughts on the ...

George Berkeley and Romanticism: Ghostly Language - Hardcover

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by Chris Townsend (Author)George Berkeley's mainstream legacy amongst critics and philosophers, from Samuel Johnson to Bertrand Russell, has tended to concern his claim that the objects of perception are in fact nothing more than our ideas. Yet there's more to Berkeley than idealism alone, and the poets now grouped under the label 'Romanticism' took up Berkeley's ideas in especially strange and surprising ways. As this book shows, the poets Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Shelley focused le...

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by Walt Whitman (Author), Malcolm Cowley (Editor), Malcolm Cowley (Introduction by)"I am large, I contain multitudes" A Penguin Classic When Walt Whitman self-published his Leaves of Grass in July 1855, he altered the course of literary history. One of the greatest masterpieces of American literature, it redefined the rules of poetry while describing the soul of the American character. Throughout his great career, Whitman continuously revised, expanded, and republished Leaves of Grass, but m...

Wild for Austen: A Rebellious, Subversive, and Untamed Jane

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Report copyright infringementby Devoney Looser (Author)Incisive, funny, and deeply-researched insights into the life, writing, and legacy of Jane Austen, by the preeminent scholar Devoney Looser. Thieves! Spies! Abolitionists! Ghosts! If we ever truly believed Jane Austen to be a quiet spinster, scholar Devoney Looser puts that myth to rest at last in Wild for Austen. These, and many other events and characters, come to life throughout this rollicking book. Austen, we learn, was far wilder in...

Tale of Genji: A Reader's Guide - Paperback

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by William J. Puette (Author)"Those who wish to deepen their acquaintance with Murasaki's wondrous world will certainly find Puette's guide most helpful." --The Japan Times This is the most complete reader's guide available on Japan's highly revered novel, the eleventh-century classic, The Tale of Genji, by Murasaki Shikibu, referred to by Nobel Laureate Yasunari Kawabata as the "highest pinnacle of Japanese literature." Written specifically to accompany the translation of the work by Arthur ...

A Little Book on Form: An Exploration Into the Formal Imagination of Poetry - Paperback

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by Robert Hass (Author)From the former U.S. Poet Laureate, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winner, an illuminating dissection of poetic form for students, enthusiasts, and newcomers alikeA Little Book on Form brilliantly synthesizes Hass's formidable gifts as both a poet and essayist. In it he takes up the central tension between poetry as genre and the poetics of the imagination. A wealth of vocabulary exists with which to talk about poetry in traditional formal terms. But the more in...

Black Voices in Early Modern Spanish Literature, 1500-1750 - Hardcover

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by Diana Berruezo-S?nchez (Author) Number of Pages: 336 Dimensions: 1.04 x 9.37 x 6.44 IN Publication Date: December 05, 2024