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  • - Anthropology and Anthropophagy
    by William Arens
    £17.99

    A fascinating and well-researched look into what we really know about cannibalism.

  • by Stephen Rogers Peck
    £12.99

    Unsurpassed as a manual for students, this Atlas includes sections on bones, muscles, surface anatomy, proportion, equilibrium, and locomotion. Other unique features are sections on the types of human physique, anatomy from birth to old age, an orientation on racial anatomy, and an analysis of facial expressions.

  • - Volume 3: Paradiso
    by Dante Alighieri
    £10.99

    An invaluable source of pleasure to those English readers who wish to read this great medieval classic with true understanding, Sinclair's three-volume prose translation of Dante's Divine Comedy provides both the original Italian text and the Sinclair translation, arranged on facing pages, and commentaries, appearing after each canto, which serve as brilliant examples of genuine literary criticism. This volume contains the complete translation of Dante's Paradiso.

  • - The Erotic Ascetic
    by Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty
    £19.99

    Originally called `Asceticism and eroticism in the mythology of Siva'.

  • by Alfred Einstein
    £22.49

  • - A Study of Indian Culture and Society
    by Richard Lannoy
    £12.49 - 29.99

    Explores India's past, its cultural development,a nd its contemporary social achievements and dilemmas.

  • by Don E. Fehrenbacher
    £15.99 - 16.99

  • by David Brion Davis
    £17.99 - 22.99

  • - An Introduction
    by A. H. Gardiner
    £17.99

  • - A Biography
    by Merrill D. Peterson
    £75.99

    A definitive biography of Jefferson, this book explores the dominant themes of his career--democracy, nationality, and enlightenment--and reveals his powerful role in shaping America.

  • - Selected Tales
    by Thomas Malory
    £18.99

    Includes an extensive introduction encompassing biographical, and critical material which makes it ideal for students.

  • - The Oldest English Epic. Translated into alliterative verse with a critical introduction
     
    £12.49

    This unique poetic rendering, available for the first time in a paperback edition, brings the experience of this earliest extant English poem closer to the modern reader. It uses the four-beat alliterative measure without attempting to reproduce the conventional Old English half-line. Consonance and assonance have also been freely used to retain the stylistic feeling of the original while keeping the language readable and contemporary.

  • - Symbol for an Age
    by John William Ward
    £17.99

    Was the man who lent his name to "Jacksonian America" a rough-hewn frontiersman? A powerful, victorious general? Or merely a man of will? Separating myth from reality, John William Ward here demonstrates how Andrew Jackson captured the imagination of a generation of Americans and came to represent not just leadership but the ideal of courage, foresight, and ability.

  • - Historical Origins of Racism in the United States
    by Winthrop D. Jordan
    £13.99

    An abridgement of the acclaimed White Over Black, which won both the National Book Award and a Bancroft Prize. This study attempts to answer a simple question: What were the attitudes of white men toward Negroes during the first two centuries of European and African settlement in what became the United States of America?

  • by Margaret A. Murray
    £16.99

    This celebrated study of witchcraft in Europe traces the worship of the pre-Christian and prehistoric Horned God from paleolithic times to the medieval period.

  • - The Life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton
    by Elisabeth Griffith
    £13.99

    Elizabeth Cady Stanton was the most important woman suffragist and feminist reformer in 19th-century America. This first comprehensive, fully documented biography of Stanton brings to life an extraordinary woman, sheds new light on her struggle to gain women full legal rights, and documents her achievements as lecturer, editor, and organization leader.

  • - Politics and History Since 1917
    by Stephen F. Cohen
    £23.49

    An examination of Soviet politics and history since 1917.

  • - Ontological Analyses and Ethical Applications
    by Paul Tillich
    £13.49

    Speaking with understanding and force, Tillich offers a basic analysis of love, power, justice, and all concepts fundamental in the mutual relations of people, of social groups, and of humankind to God. His concern is to penetrate to the essential, or ontological foundation of the meaning of each of these words.

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    £21.49

    Deals with the relationship between mystics and the religious communities out of which they emerge and of which they are a part.

  • - The Illuminations
    by Arthur Rimbaud
    £13.49

    This new translation, with the French text on the facing pages, captures the tone and rhythm of Rimbaud's language as well as the quality of his thought.

  • - American Youth in the 1920s
    by Paula S. Fass
    £40.49

    Explores the changes that occurred as young people of the 1920s broke with nineteenth-century traditions, and assesses the impact of those changes on American life, then and now.

  • - Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages
    by Norman Cohn
    £21.49

    The Middle Ages inherited from antiquity a tradition of prophecy and gave it new life. This tradition foretold a millennium in which humanity would enjoy a new paradise on earth, free from suffering and sin. This is the story of those millenarian fanaticisms, and points to their persistence in the modern era.

  • - A Study in Religion, Culture, and Social Change
    by David E. Stannard
    £17.99

    The Puritan Way of Death is more than a book about Puritans or about death. It is also about family, community, and identity in the modern world. Even before publication, eminent historians, sociologists, and religious scholars in the United States and Europea-among them, Gordon Wood, Philippe Ariès, William Clebsch, and Robert Nisbet-hailed it as a "pathbreaking, provocative, and exciting" work, a "terse, urbane, learned, clear, humane" volume.

  • by Aldo Leopold
    £17.99

    To those who know the grace of Aldo Leopold's writing in A Sand County Almanac, this posthumous collection from his journals and essays will be a new delight. These daily journal entries on hunting, fishing and exploring, written in camp during his many field trips in lower California, New Mexico, Canada, and Wisconsin, indicate the source of Leopold's ideas on land ethics found in his longer essays. The excerpts from these journals - many taken from notes written around a camp fire, spattered with a slapped mosquito or a drop of coffee - show in direct context what he did in his own leisure time. The essays are taken from more contemplative notes which were still in manuscript when Leopold died, fighting a grass fire in 1948. Round River has been edited by Leopold's son, Luna, a geologist well-known in the field of conservation. It is also illustrated throughout with line drawings by Charles W. Schwartz. All admirers of Leopold's work - indeed, all lovers of nature - will find this book richly rewarding.

  • by A. N. Whitehead
    £12.49

  • - Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman
    by F. O. Matthiessen
    £48.99

  • - Modern Essays in Criticism
     
    £21.49

    Compiles critical essays on the Romantic Age and the individual works of Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats.

  • - Visions of Gender in Victorian America
    by Carroll (Associate Professor of History and Psychiatry Smith-Rosenberg
    £18.99

    This collection of essays explores the sweeping changes in male-female relations, in family structure, sex, and social custom that took place in 19th-century America as its colonial world was supplanted by the rapidly-evolving industrial society.

  • - A History of the Roman Catholic Community in the United States
    by James Hennesey
    £26.99

    Written by one of the foremost historians of American Catholicism, this book presents a comprehensive history of the Roman Catholic Church in America from colonial times to the present. Hennesey examines, in particular, minority Catholics and developments in the western part of the United States, a region often overlooked in religious histories.

  • - Industrial Work and Family Life in the United States, 1900-1930
    by Leslie Woodcock Tentler
    £15.99

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