{"title":"Spring 2026 All Books except preorders (for tote bag offer)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis list includes all titles currently available and published before 3\/15\/26.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"city-abandoned","title":"City Abandoned","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCity Abandoned: Charting the Loss of Civic Institutions in Philadelphia \/ With essays by John Andrew Gallery and Kenneth Finkel \/ 147-page hardback \/ 9\" x 11\" \/ ISBN 978-1-58988-082-5 \/ Publication Date: March 2014\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSpecial Offer: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYou can purchase an autographed book and an 8\" by 10\" gelatin silver print by the author for $250. (Use the drop-down Format menu.)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"An aesthetic masterpiece—most relevant and revealing for our time.\"—Robert Venturi\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith the photographs in this book, Vincent Feldman offers Philadelphians a testament of who we were, who we are, and who we are likely to become. Some of his subjects have succumbed to neglect or demolition (the Ridge Avenue Farmers' Market, for example); some have been successfully rehabilitated to new uses (the Victory Building); while others remain in limbo in their ruined states—their futures far from secure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYet besides recording the current state of the buildings, Feldman's photographs can play an active role in their preservation and renovation. His photos can serve, not only as documentary records, but also as catalysts for the rescue and rehabilitation of some of Philadelphia's most significant and neglected \"abandoned\" city architecture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/philly\/living\/20140314_Changing_Skyline__Philadelphia_s_crumbling_buildings__Photos_of_a__City_Abandoned_.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003ci\u003ePhiladelphia Inquirer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, Inga Saffron calls \u003ci\u003eCity Abandoned\u003c\/i\u003e a \"deeply moving survey of the great civic structures that Philadelphia erected, then neglected...[Vincent] Feldman is not the kind of photographer who shoots and runs. An old-school craftsman, he uses a large-format view camera much like the one Mathew Brady hauled around to record the devastation of the Civil War. Feldman then retreats to the darkroom to print his images on paper, rendering them with such precision that bricks and stones appear to leap from the page in three-dimensional relief.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRead an interview with Vincent at \u003ci\u003eHidden City Philadelphia\u003c\/i\u003e: \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/hiddencityphila.org\/2014\/01\/photographing-the-abandoned-city\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ePhotographing The Abandoned City\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVincent was interviewed by WHYY's NewsWorks Tonight. Listen to the segment \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.newsworks.org\/index.php\/local\/the-latest\/65840-city-abandoned-a-view-of-philadelphia-through-the-lens-of-vincent-feldman\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e writes that the images of \u003ci\u003eCity Abandoned\u003c\/i\u003e are \"a melancholy catalog of such civic failures. In understated compositions that transcend merely local appeal, [Feldman] documents schools, theaters, hotels and churches left to deteriorate even as Philadelphia's downtown has boomed.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKen Finkel writes about \u003ci\u003eCity Abandoned\u003c\/i\u003e at the \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.phillyhistory.org\/blog\/index.php\/2014\/03\/city-abandoned-may-be-the-title-but-vince-feldman-is-no-fence-hopping-hipster\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ePhilly History blog\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.2;\"\u003eJoseph A. Gervasi interviewed Vincent Feldman for the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.2;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca style=\"line-height: 1.2;\" href=\"http:\/\/loudfastphilly.com\/interviews\/vincent-feldman-city-abandoned-book-legitimate-reason\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eLoud! Fast! Philly! project\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.2;\"\u003e (\"An aural history of the Philadelphia hardcore punk scene\").\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"By focusing on buildings that embody the civic aspirations of decades past and by portraying them in such stark terms, Vincent Feldman has created a body of work that is a vivid reminder of the fragile nature of what we have inherited and the need to remain ever diligent in its preservation.\"—John Andrew Gallery, \"On Vincent Feldman's Philadelphia\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"[Feldman's] images move us to a deeper feeling and understanding of the city, as they pose important questions about our stewardship and the city's future. It's the story of a city on the edge, and we're glad to be along for this freeze-frame journey of photographic brinksmanship.\"—Kenneth Finkel, \"Looking at the Past\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"By inviting you to look carefully at buildings from Philadelphia's past, I hope to promote inquiry about our history and also to inspire thoughtful discussion about what we might do for our future.\"—Vincent D. Feldman, from his Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong class=\"author\"\u003eVincent D. Feldman\u003c\/strong\u003e, a lifelong resident of Philadelphia, has been photographing architecture and the urban landscape for three decades. In the early 1990s his photography came to concentrate on the conflicts and questions that often surround historic buildings in Philadelphia. Feldman's photography helps uncover the stories attached to buildings, thus revealing the nature of the societies in which these structures were built—and then neglected.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFeldman received a Pew Fellowship in the Arts in 2001. His work is held in the Philadelphia Museum of Art and in museums and private collections internationally. He is a Master Lecturer in photography at the University of the Arts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Andrew Gallery\u003c\/b\u003e has been a member of Philadelphia's community development and historic preservation community for close to fifty years. From 2002 to 2013, he was Executive Director of the Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia, where he advocated for the city's historic built environment. He is the author of \u003ci\u003ePhiladelphia Architecture, A Guide to the City\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Planning of Center City Philadelphia: From William Penn to the Present\u003c\/i\u003e, and editor of \u003ci\u003eSacred Sites of Center City\u003c\/i\u003e, all available from Paul Dry Books.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKenneth Finkel\u003c\/b\u003e, a Temple University professor, specializes in American Studies and Public History. He has served as Curator of Prints and Photographs at the Library Company of Philadelphia, Program Officer at the William Penn Foundation, and Executive Director of Arts \u0026amp; Culture Service at WHYY. Finkel honed his historic\/civic voice as a regular contributor to the \u003ci\u003ePhiladelphia Inquirer\u003c\/i\u003e's op-ed page in the 1980s, and now writes regularly at the PhillyHistory.org blog. His books include \u003ci\u003eNineteenth-Century Photography in Philadelphia\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vincent D. 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In \u003cem\u003eHomeric Moments\u003c\/em\u003e, she brilliantly conveys the unique delights of Homer's epics as she focuses on the crucial scenes, or moments, that mark the high points of the narratives: Penelope and Odysseus, faithful wife and returning husband, sit face to face at their own hearth for the first time in twenty years; young Telemachus, with his father Odysseus at his side, boldly confronts the angry suitors; Achilles gives way to boundless grief at the death of his friend Patroclus.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEva Brann demonstrates a way of reading Homer's poems that yields up their hidden treasures. With an alert eye for Homer's extraordinary visual effects and a keen ear for the musicality of his language, she helps the reader see the flickering campfires of the Greeks and hear the roar of the surf and the singing of nymphs. In \u003cem\u003eHomeric Moments\u003c\/em\u003e, Brann takes readers beneath the captivating surface of the poems to explore the inner connections and layers of meaning that have made the epics \"the marvel of the ages.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Written with wit and clarity, this book will be of value to those reading the \u003cem\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem\u003eIliad\u003c\/em\u003e for the first time and to those teaching it to beginners.\"—\u003cem\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eHomeric Moments\u003c\/em\u003e is a feast for the mind and the imagination, laid out in clear and delicious prose. With Brann, old friends of Homer and new acquaintances alike will rejoice in the beauty, and above all the humanity, of the epics.\" —Jacob Howland, University of Tulsa, Author of \u003cem\u003eThe Paradox of Political Philosophy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"In \u003cem\u003eHomeric Moments\u003c\/em\u003e, Eva Brann lovingly leads us, as she has surely led countless students, through the gallery of delights that is Homer's poetry. Brann's enthusiasm is as infectious as her deep familiarity with the works is illuminating.\"—Rachel Hadas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Brann invites us to enter a conversation [about Homer] in which information and formal arguments jostle with appreciations and frank conjectures and surmises to increase our pleasure and deepen the inward dimension of our humanity.\"—Richard Freis, Millsaps College\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"For anyone eager to experience the profundity and charm of Homer's great epic poems, Eva Brann's book will serve as a passionate and engaging guide. Brann displays a deep sensitivity to the cadence and flow of Homeric poetry, and the kind of knowing intimacy with its characters that comes from years of teaching and contemplation. Her relaxed but informative approach succeeds in conveying the grandeur of the great Homeric heroes, while making them continually resonate for our own lives. Brann helps us see that this poetry has an urgency for our own era as much as it did for a distant past.\"—Ralph M. Rosen, University of Pennsylvania, Author of \u003cem\u003eOld Comedy\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Iambographic Tradition\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The most enjoyable books about Homer are always written by those who have read and taught him the most. Eva Brann's collection of astute observations, unusual asides, and visual snapshots of the \u003cem\u003eIliad\u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/em\u003e reveals a lifelong friendship with the poet, and is as pleasurable as it is informative. \u003cem\u003eHomeric Moments\u003c\/em\u003e is rare erudition without pedantry, in a tone marked by good sense without levity.\"—Victor Davis Hanson, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Other Greeks\u003c\/em\u003e and co-author of \u003cem\u003eWho Killed Homer?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso available as an ebook:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/KlDNqn\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAmazon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/book\/homeric-moments\/id546628867?mt=11\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eApple iTunes Bookstore\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/homeric-moments-eva-brann\/1111363979?ean=2940014726900\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBarnes \u0026amp; Noble\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details?id=Tr0sHkgKBmUC\u0026amp;rdid\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGoogle Play\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/pages\/eva-brann\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEva Brann\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e \u003cspan\u003eis a member of the senior faculty at St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, where she has taught for fifty-seven years. She is a recipient of the National Humanities Medal. Her other books include \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eUn-Willing\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Logos of Heraclitus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eFeeling Our Feelings\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eHomage to Americans\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eOpen Secrets \/ Inward Prospects\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Music of the Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThen \u0026amp; Now\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (all published by Paul Dry Books).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/paul-dry-books-inc.myshopify.com\/collections\/all\/eva-brann\"\u003eAll books by Eva Brann\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e","brand":"Eva Brann","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29131046985,"sku":"","price":18.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/products\/HomericMoments_72.jpg?v=1449160667"},{"product_id":"suzanne-davis-gets-a-life","title":"Suzanne Davis Gets a Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e236-page paperback \/ 5\" x 8\" \/ ISBN 978-1-58988-095-5 \/ Publication Date: May 2014\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Incredibly charming…\u003cem\u003eSuzanne Davis Gets a Life\u003c\/em\u003e has an emotional honesty and moments of real wisdom.\"—\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.pauldrybooks.com\/blogs\/news\/14328409-the-inquirer-loves-suzanne-davis-gets-a-life\"\u003e\u003ci\u003ePhiladelphia Inquirer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCohen \"portrays timeless and universal challenges through a buoyant combination of humor, pathos, and gumption.\"—\u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eSuzanne Davis Gets a Life\u003c\/i\u003e isn't just seriously entertaining, it's entertainingly serious…I want my romantic comedy heroines to have wit, but I want them to have character too, and be as interested in the world as in themselves. Paula Marantz Cohen has given me all of that.\"—Margo Jefferson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA \"witty commentary on contemporary life, enriched by a funny, flawed, and likable heroine.\"—\u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Ms. Cohen is a perceptive, comic writer.\"—\u003cem\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSuzanne Davis lounges around her tiny New York City apartment in her pajamas, writing press releases for the International Association of Air-Conditioning Engineers, listening to the ticking of her biological clock, and wondering where life is taking her. As her 35th birthday looms, Suzanne embarks on a wrong-headed, but very funny, quest—to find Mr. Right and start the family she hopes will give meaning to her life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHer quest plunges us into the world of her Upper West Side apartment building, a world of overly invested mothers, fanatical dog-owners, curmudgeonly longtime residents, and young (and not so young) professionals. All are keenly observed by Suzanne, whose witty self-deprecation endears her to us even as it makes us want to shake some sense into her.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLight in its tone but incisive in its social satire, \u003ci\u003eSuzanne Davis Gets a Life\u003c\/i\u003e balances its wit with true concern for its protagonist. We can't help but wish Suzanne success in \"getting a life.\" But can such a search possibly yield the meaning she craves? When her extremely annoying mother arrives on the scene, it appears that her plan has been hijacked. But serious illness opens her to new people and a new perspective. She ends by getting a life—even as she may lose one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso available as an ebook:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1lS9lVP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eAmazon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/book\/suzanne-davis-gets-a-life\/id881250297\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eApple iTunes Bookstore\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/suzanne-davis-gets-a-life-paula-marantz-cohen\/1117339034?ean=2940149283408\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eBarnes \u0026amp; Noble\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details\/Paula_Marantz_Cohen_Suzanne_Davis_Gets_a_Life?id=hLU_AwAAQBAJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eGoogle Play\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/store.kobobooks.com\/en-US\/ebook\/suzanne-davis-gets-a-life\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eKobo\u003c\/a\u003e (See IndieBound's \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/ebooks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003elist of independent booksellers selling e-books\u003c\/a\u003e.)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/paulamarantzcohen.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Paula Marantz Cohen author website\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003e\u003cstrong class=\"author\"\u003ePaula Marantz Cohen\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e's novels include \u003ci\u003eJane Austen in Scarsdale or Love, Death and the SATs\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eJane Austen in Boca\u003c\/i\u003e; and the recent \u003ci\u003eWhat Alice Knew: A Most Curious Tale of Henry James and Jack the Ripper\u003c\/i\u003e. Cohen is Distinguished Professor of English at Drexel University, and is host of the weekly public television program \u003ci\u003eThe Drexel Interview\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for Paula Marantz Cohen\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Cohen's wit is sharp, smart, and satirical, and her characterizations are vividly on target.\"—\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eJane Austen in Boca\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Utterly charming.\"—\u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Page turner of the week.\"—\u003ci\u003ePeople Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eMuch Ado about Jesse Kaplan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A brightly comic book.\"—\u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Kept me laughing from beginning to end...a comic tour-de-force.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe Hudson Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eJane Austen in Scarsdale\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Paula Marantz Cohen has done it again! Jane Austen in Scarsdale is laugh-out-loud funny, literate, wise—and best of all, a satirical mirror of our times. She has become our own Jane Austen.\"—Diane Ravitch, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Language Police\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eWhat Alice Knew\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A marvelously rich and intelligent read.\"—John Banville\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.pauldrybooks.com\/pages\/discussion-questions-for-suzanne-davis-gets-a-life\" title=\"Discussions Questions for Suzanne Davis Gets a Life\"\u003eBook Club Discussion Questions\u003c\/a\u003e for Suzanne Davis Gets a Life\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Paula Marantz Cohen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29131238281,"sku":"","price":12.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/products\/SuzanneDavis_hires.jpg?v=1399063034"},{"product_id":"the-selected-poetry-of-gabriel-zaid","title":"The Selected Poetry of Gabriel Zaid","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e100-page paperback \/ 5\" x 8\" \/ ISBN 978-1-58988-093-1 \/ Publication Date: March 2014\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.2;\"\u003eThis first appearance in English of Gabriel Zaid's poetry comprises forty-two poems (presented in both English and the original Spanish), translated by a variety of poets.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn his Introduction, Octavio Paz describes his appreciation of Zaid’s work:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Zaid is a religious and metaphysical poet, but also—or rather therefore—a poet of love. In his love poems, poetry functions once again as a force with the power to transfigure reality. This transfiguration is not change or transformation but rather an unveiling, a stripping: reality is presented as it is. Nothing is stranger than seeing things as they truly are. The reality of the presence of the beloved is a reality tainted by time; the bodies we love, while not losing their reality, suddenly show us a new side.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e***\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI am not the wind or the sail\u003cbr\u003eonly the rudder that cuts the trail.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI am not the water or the rudder:\u003cbr\u003eone who sings the song, no other.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI am not the voice or the throat\u003cbr\u003eonly the song sung by the boat.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWho I am and what I say I do not know\u003cbr\u003eonly where you go I follow.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTrans. George McWhirter\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eZaid's poems are playful and serious, full of feeling and thought, alert to time's depredations and eternity's bestowals. Paul Dry Books is delighted to introduce this new poetic voice to English-speaking readers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e***\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e\"The subject matters of the 42 poems in this collection vary—some are more lyric, others more spiritual, and still others satiric—but their procedure is recognizably that of a single sensibility. Here is a poet who favors both simple imagistic compression, using for his images mainly the materials of the natural order (though here and there an automobile or an elevator will appear), and the dynamic expansions and shifts of perspective made possible by inventive juxtapositions. The final effect, of the individual poems as well as of the book, is of an outward movement, at times that of slow natural growth and at other times of explosion.\"—Sven Birkerts, \u003cem\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.literalmagazine.com\/bilingual\/the-selected-poetry-of-gabriel-zaid-a-bilingual-collection\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eLiteral, Latin American Voices\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e***\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong class=\"author\"\u003eGabriel Zaid\u003c\/strong\u003e lives in Mexico City with the artist Basia Batorska, her paintings, their three cats, and ten thousand books. His books include collections of poetry and studies on the Mexican economy. He is a member of Mexico's Colegio Nacional. Zaid's \u003ci\u003eSo Many Books\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Secret of Fame\u003c\/i\u003e are also available from Paul Dry Books.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gabriel Zaid","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29047676489,"sku":"","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/products\/zaid3_hires.jpg?v=1399071869"},{"product_id":"the-summer-house","title":"The Summer House","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e339-page paperback \/ 5.5\" x 7.5\" \/ ISBN 978-1-58988-086-3 \/ Publication Date: April 2013\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A work of astonishing illumination and delight…so edgy, bright and subversive about women's inner lives and experience.\"—Francine Prose, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e Notable Book\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNancy Pearl recommended \u003ci\u003eThe Summer House\u003c\/i\u003e on NPR's Morning Edition. Listen \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2013\/12\/27\/255448752\/nancy-pearl-turns-back-the-pages-with-picks-from-the-past\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Summer House\u003c\/em\u003e trilogy, three very different women, with three very distinct perspectives, narrate three very witty novels concerning one disastrous wedding in the offing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Clothes in the Wardrobe\u003c\/em\u003e: Nineteen-year-old Margaret feels more trepidation than joy at the prospect of her marriage to forty-year-old Syl.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Skeleton in the Cupboard\u003c\/em\u003e: Syl’s mother, Mrs. Monro, doesn’t know quite what to make of her son’s life, but she knows Margaret should not marry him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Fly in the Ointment\u003c\/em\u003e: And then there’s Lili, the free spirit who is determined that the wedding shall not happen, no matter the consequences.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso available as an ebook:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/Yq0YWs\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eKindle\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/the-summer-house-alice-thomas-ellis\/1113113630?ean=2940016641287\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eNook\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/book\/the-summer-house\/id685778272\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eiTunes\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/store.kobobooks.com\/en-US\/ebook\/the-summer-house-a-trilogy\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eKobo\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details\/Alice_Thomas_Ellis_The_Summer_House?id=extm-SCwyDsC\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGoogle ebook\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Her style is succinct, her humor dry…Unputdownable.\"—\u003cem\u003eThe Spectator\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The subtlety of James, the comedy of Spark, the penetrating—and the deep, unflinching—eye of Jane Austen.\"—\u003cem\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A witty and original writer.\"—\u003cem\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Inspired malice…Alice Thomas Ellis only bothers with the things that really bother her. That's why her novel is short. That's why her novel is good.\"—Victoria Glendinning in \u003cem\u003eThe Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"it oozes enjoyable malice.\"—\u003cem\u003eObserver\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The glitter comes from Alice Thomas Ellis's mastery in keeping just the right distance between tones and undertones…This is a dark comedy.\"—\u003cem\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlice Thomas Ellis\u003c\/strong\u003e (1932–2005) was one of Britain's most widely admired writers. Her dozen novels include \u003cem\u003eThe 27th Kingdom\u003c\/em\u003e, which was nominated for a Booker Prize, and \u003cem\u003eThe Inn at the Edge of the World\u003c\/em\u003e, which won the 1991 Writers' Guild Award for Best Fiction. She also published many essays and edited books by Penelope Fitzgerald and Beryl Bainbridge. She was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alice Thomas Ellis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29047692105,"sku":"","price":15.16,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/products\/summerhouse_ellis_525.jpg?v=1399072934"},{"product_id":"hide-and-seek","title":"Hide and Seek","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHide and Seek: The Story of a Wartime Agent \/ new foreword by Robert Messenger \/ 188-page paperback \/ 5.5\" x 8.75\" \/ ISBN 978-1-58988-084-9 \/ Publication Date: July 2013\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"One of the great books of the Second World War\"—Antony Beevor\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eHide and Seek\u003c\/i\u003e, first published in 1954 and unavailable for many years, is surely among the best wartime memoirs. It is narrated in a vivid close-up style…by a man who spent two years in caves and other hideouts in the White Mountains, venturing to the coast only to guide a supply submarine with flashing torch, or to smuggle endangered or exhausted colleagues to safety in Cairo…It is remarkable that he lived to tell the tale; that he does so with such modesty, grace and humour is extraordinary.\"—James Campbell,\u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn January 1942, Xan Fielding landed on German-occupied Crete with orders to disrupt the resupply of Rommel's Afrika Korps and establish an intelligence network in cooperation with the Cretan resistance movement. Working with bands of Cretan partisans, he succeeded magnificently. In this memoir of his wartime exploits, Fielding presents a portrait of the quintessential English operative—amateur, gifted, daring, and charming.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the new foreword by Robert Messenger:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eHide and Seek\u003c\/i\u003e is a classic of British war literature, an understated account of a man's coming-of-age thanks to the sudden shouldering of great responsibility. Fielding is deprecating about the dangers and his own achievements. It is typical of the quiet and reticent man who preferred to live outside the limelight and wrote matter-of-factly about the war rather than with a gloss of adventure or heroism. There's a scene, late in 1943, when Fielding and a group of partisans study the German's list of 'wanted' men. He notes 'with regrettable but only human pride that the entry under my local pseudonym, which outlined in detail my physical characteristics, aliases and activities for a period of eighteen months, took no less than three-quarters of an octavo page in closely-set small-point type.' The Germans had surely measured his worth.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Xan Fielding was a gifted, many-sided, courageous and romantic figure, at the same time civilized and Bohemian, and his thoughtful cast of mind was leavened by humour, spontaneous gaiety, and a dash of recklessness. Almost any stretch of his life might be described as a picaresque interlude.\"—Patrick Leigh Fermor\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso available as an ebook:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/15FwvbO\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAmazon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/book\/hide-and-seek\/id685773698\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eApple iTunes Bookstore\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/hide-and-seek-xan-fielding\/1113113628?ean=2940148532880\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBarnes \u0026amp; Noble\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details?id=xHFVE3BdoMcC\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGoogle Play\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/store.kobobooks.com\/en-US\/ebook\/hide-and-seek-70\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eKobo\u003c\/a\u003e (See IndieBound's \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/ebooks\" target=\"_blank\"\u003elist of independent booksellers selling e-books\u003c\/a\u003e.)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong class=\"author\"\u003eXan Fielding \u003c\/strong\u003e(1918–1991) was a British writer and traveler, and a lifelong friend of Patrick Leigh Fermor, who served with him in Crete during World War II. (The introduction to Fermor's \u003cem\u003eA Time of Gifts\u003c\/em\u003e is written as a \"Letter to Xan Fielding.\") Fielding also translated many novels from French, most notably, \u003cem\u003eThe Bridge on the River Kwai\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Planet of the Apes\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong class=\"author\"\u003eRobert Messenger\u003c\/strong\u003e is the books editor of the \u003cem\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Xan Fielding","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29131021513,"sku":"","price":15.16,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/products\/fielding1_600.jpg?v=1399073082"},{"product_id":"the-stronghold","title":"The Stronghold","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Stronghold: Four Seasons in the White Mountains of Crete \/ New Foreword by Robert Messenger \/ 298-page paperback \/ 5.5\" x 8.75\" \/ ISBN 978-1-58988-085-6 \/ Publication Date: July 2013\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A splendid new edition.\"—James Campbell, \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Xan Fielding was a gifted, many-sided, courageous and romantic figure, at the same time civilized and Bohemian, and his thoughtful cast of mind was leavened by humour, spontaneous gaiety, and a dash of recklessness. Almost any stretch of his life might be described as a picaresque interlude.\"—Patrick Leigh Fermor\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDuring the Second World War, Xan Fielding served for two years as an officer in the British Special Operations Executive on German-occupied Crete, where he ran an intelligence network in cooperation with the Cretan resistance movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSeven years later, Fielding returned to Crete to spend a year traveling in the island's White Mountains (the \"stronghold\" of the title), revisiting sites of his wartime exploits and seeking out former comrades who had returned to their peacetime lives. His sojourn resulted in this remarkable memoir, a documentary-like record of days spent among Cretan peasants blended with history and literature—a travelogue like no other.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Stronghold\u003c\/i\u003e is a blending of \"history and culture with experience, but one wedded to fidelity. Fielding never arrives; there is no great journey of self. There is just a question answered about the war and youth…he can't shake Crete, as no man can shake the formative experience of his youth.\"—from the new foreword by Robert Messenger\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This book of mine does not claim to be a serious sociological work; it is simply the account of a more or less carefree year spent among people who seem to fit so perfectly into their startling surroundings that at times I imagined it was not the landscape that conditioned their lives but their personalities that had conditioned the landscape.\"—Xan Fielding\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom \u003cem\u003eThe Stronghold\u003c\/em\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The only craft afloat was a small blue rowing-boat anchored in the shallows a few feet off-shore, in which an old man called Yiorgaki spent all his waking hours—and his sleeping hours as well, for at night he would put away the line he had been dangling over the side all day and curl up on the floor-boards until dawn. He was the one person in Souyia who seemed happy to be on the sea, and his happiness was reflected in the smile which he wore on his lips as permanently as the straw hat on his head.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"'Caught anything?' I asked him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"'I have never caught anything,' he cheerfully replied.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso available as an ebook:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/11JUbIN\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAmazon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/book\/the-stronghold\/id685775430?mt=11\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eApple iTunes Bookstore\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/the-stronghold-xan-fielding\/1116303649?ean=2940148532958\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBarnes \u0026amp; Noble\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details\/Xan_Fielding_The_Stronghold?id=O7wnnzQq3U8C\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGoogle Play\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/store.kobobooks.com\/en-us\/ebook\/the-stronghold-5\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eKobo\u003c\/a\u003e (See IndieBound's \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/ebooks\" target=\"_blank\"\u003elist of independent booksellers selling e-books\u003c\/a\u003e.)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eXan Fielding \u003c\/strong\u003e(1918–1991) was a British writer and traveler, and a lifelong friend of Patrick Leigh Fermor, who served with him in Crete during World War II. (The introduction to Fermor's \u003cem\u003eA Time of Gifts\u003c\/em\u003e is written as a \"Letter to Xan Fielding.\") Fielding also translated many novels from French, most notably, \u003cem\u003eThe Bridge on the River Kwai\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Planet of the Apes\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRobert Messenger\u003c\/strong\u003e is the books editor of the \u003cem\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Xan Fielding","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29047688905,"sku":"","price":15.16,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/products\/fielding2_650.jpg?v=1399074696"},{"product_id":"the-writer-who-stayed","title":"The Writer Who Stayed","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e176-page paperback \/ 5\" x 8\" \/ ISBN 978-1-58988-080-1 \/ Publication Date: November 2012\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAdapted from \"Zinsser on Friday,\" \u003cem\u003eThe American Scholar\u003c\/em\u003e's National Magazine Award–Winning Essay Series\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWilliam Zinsser, author of \u003ci\u003eOn Writing Well\u003c\/i\u003e and many other books, wrote a weekly blog for the \u003ci\u003eAmerican Scholar\u003c\/i\u003e—about writing, the arts, New York, and popular culture. \u003ci\u003eThe Writer Who Stayed\u003c\/i\u003e collects these engaging pieces by one of America's best essayists. Relationships, storytelling, baseball, summer reading, comic strips, Woody Allen—Bill Zinsser illuminates modern life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e***\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReviews:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/ow.ly\/hyoME\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eOn Writing Well and Other Joys\u003c\/a\u003e\": The \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e reviews \u003ci\u003eThe Writer Who Stayed\u003c\/i\u003e by William Zinsser\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGeorge Will's \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e column on \u003ci\u003eThe Writer Who Stayed\u003c\/i\u003e, \"\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/george-f-will-william-zinsser-and-good-writing-as-art\/2013\/03\/13\/94c0da52-8b36-11e2-b63f-f53fb9f2fcb4_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eWilliam Zinsser and good writing as art\u003c\/a\u003e\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Zinsser—who, with \u003ci\u003eOn Writing Well\u003c\/i\u003e, taught a whole lot of us how to set down a clean English sentence—last year won a National Magazine Award for his Friday web columns in \u003ci\u003eThe American Scholar\u003c\/i\u003e. They're now in a collection that's completely charming, impeccably polished, and Strunk-and-White-ishly brief. He's the youngest 90-year-old you'll read this week.\"—\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/arts\/all\/to-do-2013-3-11\/index1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e on \u003ci\u003eThe Writer Who Stayed\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso available as an ebook:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/Rzhd1s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eAmazon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/book\/the-writer-who-stayed\/id685770023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eApple iTunes Bookstore\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/the-writer-who-stayed-william-zinsser\/1109675321?ean=2940015340501\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eBarnes \u0026amp; Noble\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details\/William_Zinsser_The_Writer_Who_Stayed?id=th2CpUjen9oC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eGoogle Play\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/store.kobobooks.com\/en-US\/ebook\/the-writer-who-stayed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eKobo\u003c\/a\u003e (See IndieBound's \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/ebooks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003elist of independent booksellers selling e-books\u003c\/a\u003e.)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong class=\"author\"\u003eWilliam Zinsser\u003c\/strong\u003e was a lifelong journalist and nonfiction writer—he began his career on the \u003ci\u003eNew York Herald Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e in 1946—and was also a teacher, best known for his book \u003ci\u003eOn Writing Well\u003c\/i\u003e, a companion held in affection by three generations of writers, reporters, editors, teachers, and students. His 17 other books range from memoir (\u003ci\u003eWriting Places\u003c\/i\u003e) to travel (\u003ci\u003eAmerican Places\u003c\/i\u003e), jazz (\u003ci\u003eMitchell \u0026amp; Ruff\u003c\/i\u003e), American popular song (\u003ci\u003eEasy to Remember\u003c\/i\u003e), baseball (\u003ci\u003eSpring Training\u003c\/i\u003e) and the craft of writing (\u003ci\u003eWriting to Learn\u003c\/i\u003e). During the 1970s he was at Yale University, where he was master of Branford College and taught the influential nonfiction workshop that would start many writers and editors on their careers. He taught at the New School, in New York, his hometown, and at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"William Zinsser","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29047860425,"sku":"","price":15.16,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/products\/zinsser3_hires.jpg?v=1399076598"},{"product_id":"birds-peace-wealth","title":"Birds, Peace, Wealth","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThree plays translated by Wayne Ambler and Thomas L. Pangle \/ 223-page paperback \/ 6\" x 8\" \/ ISBN 9781589880788 \/ Publication Date: February 2013\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn these three raucous comedies, mortals outwit and even replace Zeus and other Olympian deities of the Greek Pantheon. As Aristophanes provokes laughter at the foibles of gods and men, he arouses wonder at our human need for the divine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e*          *          *\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The three comic heroes in the plays included here raise the questions of whether there are gods, who they might be, how powerful they are, and how they might be changed or eliminated. Although the precise form of such questions changes from age to age, these are questions that are inseparable from political life; and they certainly are powerfully present in our own day…great theorists and architects of the modern liberal state designed its contours partly with an eye on the goal of diminishing the role of religion in the public square. Not unlike our three comic heroes, they wanted to reduce dependence on “Zeus” and his priests. In his place, and like our three heroes, they sought peace, wealth, and human rulers liberated from exaggerated piety. And nowadays the so-called New Atheists are pressing the case that it is high time for a final defeat and elimination of the powers of darkness that, in their view, have cost us so much blood and treasure…Aristophanes was not a modern liberal; still less would he agree with the New Atheists’ advocacy of universal public atheism. He does, however, put dissatisfaction with the gods at the center of the three plays included here, does bestow victories on the human critics of those gods, and does invite us to think with him about the justice of their causes, the tactics behind their victories, and the limits of their successes.”—From the Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAristophanes\u003c\/strong\u003e was a prolific and much acclaimed comic playwright of ancient Athens. Eleven of his forty plays survive virtually complete. Aristophanes has been said to recreate the life of ancient Athens more convincingly than any other author.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThomas Lee Pangle\u003c\/strong\u003e holds the Joe R. Long Chair in Democratic Studies at the University of Texas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWayne Ambler\u003c\/strong\u003e is associate professor in the Herbst Program of Humanities for Engineers at the University of Colorado.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aristophanes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29130877449,"sku":"","price":15.16,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/products\/aristophanes650.jpg?v=1399077005"},{"product_id":"from-berlin-to-jerusalem","title":"From Berlin to Jerusalem","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFrom Berlin to Jerusalem: Memories of My Youth \/ Foreword by Moshe Idel \/ 187-page paperback \/ 5.5\" x 8.5\" \/ ISBN 978-1-58988-073-3 \/ Publication Date: February 2012\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A serene, lucid and stylish essay in intellectual autobiography that at the same time commemorates a vanished world.\"—\u003cem\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"An extraordinary life—one that itself takes on symbolic, if not mystical, significance.\" —Robert Coles\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFrom Berlin to Jerusalem\u003c\/em\u003e portrays the dual dramas of the author's total break from his middle-class German Jewish family and his ever-increasing dedication to the study of Jewish thought. Played out during the momentous years just before, during, and after World War I, these experiences eventually led Scholem to immigrate to Palestine in 1923.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Gershom Scholem is historian who has remade the world…He is coming to be seen as one of the greatest shapers of contemporary thought, possibly the boldest mind-adventurer of our generation.\"—Cynthia Ozick, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A remarkable book.\"—Harold Bloom\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"[Scholem] vividly describes the spiritual and intellectual odyssey that drew him…to a rigorous immersion in the texts of Jewish tradition.\"—\u003cem\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso available as an ebook:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/MqfaI5\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAmazon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/book\/from-berlin-to-jerusalem\/id546628092?mt=11\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eApple iTunes Bookstore\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/from-berlin-to-jerusalem-gershom-scholem\/1103854160?ean=2940014801584\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBarnes \u0026amp; Noble\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details?id=OwyOztmPEZQC\u0026amp;rd\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGoogle Play\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/store.kobobooks.com\/en-us\/ebook\/from-berlin-to-jerusalem\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eKobo\u003c\/a\u003e (See IndieBound's \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/ebooks\" target=\"_blank\"\u003elist of independent booksellers selling e-books\u003c\/a\u003e.)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGershom Scholem\u003c\/strong\u003e (1897–1982) was born in Berlin and educated at the Universities of Berlin, Jena, Bern, and Munich. In 1923, he immigrated to Palestine, where he devoted the rest of his life to the study of the Jewish mystical tradition and the Kabbala. In Jerusalem, he was appointed the first professor of Jewish mysticism at Hebrew University and served as president of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Scholem was the author of many books, including \u003cem\u003eMajor Trends in Jewish Mysticism\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eOn the Kabbalah and Its Symbolism\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSabbatai Sevi: The Mystical Messiah\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eOn Jews and Judaism in Crisis: Selected Essays\u003c\/em\u003e (also now available from Paul Dry Books).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\u003c\/blockquote\u003e","brand":"Gershom Scholem","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29130995529,"sku":"","price":13.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/products\/scholem1_hires.jpg?v=1399077204"},{"product_id":"on-jews-and-judaism-in-crisis","title":"On Jews and Judaism in Crisis","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOn Jews and Judaism in Crisis: Selected Essays \/ Introduction by Werner Dannhauser \/ 306-page paperback \/ 5.5\" x 8.5\" \/ ISBN 978-1-58988-074-0 \/ Publication Date: February 2012\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"These essays, dealing as they do with modern Jewish history, literature, and religion, sustain a continuity of conviction that cannot help but inspire a new generation of Jewish intellectual life.\"—\u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEssays, letters, and articles written by the distinguished Jewish scholar over a fifty-year period. Includes three essays on Walter Benjamin.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOn Jews and Judaism in Crisis\u003c\/em\u003e presents Gershom Scholem confronting, studying, and judging the important ideas, events, and figures of twentieth-century Judaism. It includes essays on Martin Buber, S. Y. Agnon, and Scholem's friend Walter Benjamin; also his famous 1964 letter to Hannah Arendt. In a 1975 interview, Scholem provides fascinating information about his own life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"There is a revelation in store…for the Jewish reader who has not previously encountered Scholem, and even for the non-Jewish reader concerned about the meaning and preservation of ‘peoplehood’ in the twentieth century…On the meaning and problems of Israel, on the search through tradition for seeds of rebirth, on the resurrection of Hebrew, on the possibility of a modern Jewish theology, on the Jewish relationship to history, Scholem is precise, passionate, skeptical, wholly original.\"—\u003cem\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Gershom Scholem is historian who has remade the world…He is coming to be seen as one of the greatest shapers of contemporary thought, possibly the boldest mind-adventurer of our generation.\"—Cynthia Ozick, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong class=\"author\"\u003eGershom Scholem\u003c\/strong\u003e (1897–1982) was born in Berlin and educated at the Universities of Berlin, Jena, Bern, and Munich. In 1923, he immigrated to Palestine, where he devoted the rest of his life to the study of the Jewish mystical tradition and the Kabbala. In Jerusalem, he was appointed the first professor of Jewish mysticism at Hebrew University and served as president of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Scholem was the author of many books, including \u003cem\u003eMajor Trends in Jewish Mysticism\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eOn the Kabbalah and Its Symbolism\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSabbatai Sevi: The Mystical Messiah\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eFrom Berlin to Jerusalem\u003c\/em\u003e (also now available from Paul Dry Books).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gershom Scholem","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29131122057,"sku":"","price":15.16,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/products\/scholem2_hires.jpg?v=1399077403"},{"product_id":"the-magic-lantern-of-marcel-proust","title":"The Magic Lantern of Marcel Proust","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Magic Lantern of Marcel Proust: A Critical Study of Remembrance of Things Past \/ New Foreword by Damion Searls \/ 124-page paperback \/ 5\" x 8\" \/ ISBN 978-1-58988-079-5 \/ Publication Date: September 2012\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"[\u003cem\u003eThe Magic Lantern of Marcel Proust\u003c\/em\u003e] reduces the ungainly and intricately designed masterpiece to its shape, and with hardly a wasted word...The paragraphs on habit and memory are truly wonderful—wonderful as explication, as psychology, and as philosophy.\" —John Updike\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Almost everything Moss says seems to me right, illuminating, and new. This is the book of a mature and individual mind and sensibility, with a deep experience of moral, social, psychological, and aesthetic values which is rare among critics.\" —George D. Painter\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A moving and inspiring book. Moss clears away dark corners, clarifies motivations, and places the huge work within the reader's perspective. A book of great value to the scholar and the general reader.\" —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eRemembrance of Things Past\u003c\/em\u003e is more than a novel; it is a work in which a single person's life is transformed into a mythology, with its own pantheon of gods, its own religious rituals, and its own moral laws. A total vision, it does not rely on any system outside itself for support. It is as if Dante had set out to write the \u003cem\u003eParadiso\u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem\u003eInferno\u003c\/em\u003e utilizing only the facts of his own existence without any reference to Christianity...Other novelists describe or invent worlds. \u003cem\u003eRemembrance of Things Past\u003c\/em\u003e is an entire universe created and interpreted by Marcel Proust.\" — from Chapter 1\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Moss lays out the sweeping claims and overarching structure of \u003cem\u003eRemembrance of Things Past\u003c\/em\u003e—the significance of Swann's Way and the Guermantes Way, or why there are such long party scenes—and is equally good at bringing to light all sorts of tiny, revealing details.\" — from the new Foreword by Damion Searls\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso available as an ebook:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/RSjpiZ\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAmazon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/book\/id1053789259\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eApple iTunes Bookstore\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/the-magic-lantern-of-marcel-proust-howard-moss\/1111445817?ean=2940015369076\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBarnes \u0026amp; Noble\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details?id=u4cpyGTdVm0C\u0026amp;rdid\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGoogle Play\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/store.kobobooks.com\/en-us\/ebook\/the-magic-lantern-of-marcel-proust-1\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eKobo\u003c\/a\u003e (See IndieBound's \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/ebooks\" target=\"_blank\"\u003elist of independent booksellers selling e-books\u003c\/a\u003e.)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong class=\"author\"\u003eHoward Moss\u003c\/strong\u003e was poetry editor of the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e for almost forty years. He also wrote more than a dozen books of poetry, plays, criticism, and a book of arch parody-microbiographies of cultural figures, \u003cem\u003eInstant Lives\u003c\/em\u003e, illustrated by Edward Gorey.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong class=\"author\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.damionsearls.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eDamion Searls\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of \u003cem\u003eWhat We Were Doing and Where We Were Going\u003c\/em\u003e (stories) and has written for \u003cem\u003eHarper’s\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBookforum\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003en+1\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Believer\u003c\/em\u003e. As a translator—of authors including Marcel Proust (\u003cem\u003eOn Reading\u003c\/em\u003e)—he received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2012.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Howard Moss","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29047622985,"sku":"","price":11.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/products\/proust_hires.jpg?v=1399077484"},{"product_id":"the-music-of-the-republic","title":"The Music of the Republic","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Music of the Republic: Essays On Socrates' Conversations And Plato's Writings \/ 262 pages \/ 5.38\" x 8.5\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“This collection of Eva Brann’s is one of the most valuable aids a lover of Plato could have.”—Walter Nicgorski, University of Notre Dame\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn fourteen essays, Eva Brann talks with readers about the conversations Socrates engages in with his fellow Athenians. In doing so, she shows how Plato’s dialogues and the timeless matters they address remain important to us today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Music of the Republic\u003c\/i\u003e “will establish [Eva Brann] as one of the great readers and interpreters of the Platonic dialogues in modern times.”—Bruce Foltz, Eckerd College\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“It is a wonder and a delight to be led by Eva Brann through the Socratic conversations…Those who do not know the \u003ci\u003eRepublic\u003c\/i\u003e will be initiated into its treasures. Those who believe that it is a great book will understand better what they already know. And all who teach the dialogues will find their souls expanded in the presence of this most generous teacher.” —Ann Hartle, Emory University\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“In these wonderfully insightful essays, Eva Brann helps us hear the music of Plato’s dialogues and join the conversation…I found myself filled with envy for her students and happy, with this book, to now be included among them.”—Anthony T. Kronman, Yale University\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The title essay of this collection is a miniature masterpiece, one of the most seminal writings of our time on Plato's \u003cem\u003eRepublic\u003c\/em\u003e.\"—John Sallis, Pennsylvania State University\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso available as an ebook:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/Kra2G6\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAmazon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/book\/music-of-the-republic\/id546632348?mt=11\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eApple iTunes Bookstore\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/music-of-the-republic-eva-brann\/1101060969?ean=2940014801683\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBarnes \u0026amp; Noble\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details?id=4Xor4r9mlu0C\u0026amp;rd\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGoogle Play\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/store.kobobooks.com\/en-us\/ebook\/the-music-of-the-republic\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eKobo\u003c\/a\u003e (See IndieBound's \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/ebooks\" target=\"_blank\"\u003elist of independent booksellers selling e-books\u003c\/a\u003e.)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/pages\/eva-brann\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEva Brann\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e is a member of the senior faculty at St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, where she has taught for fifty-seven years. She is a recipient of the National Humanities Medal. Her other books include \u003cem\u003eUn-Willing\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Logos of Heraclitus\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFeeling Our Feelings\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHomage to Americans\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOpen Secrets \/ Inward Prospects\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThen \u0026amp; Now\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eHomeric Moments\u003c\/i\u003e (all published by Paul Dry Books).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/paul-dry-books-inc.myshopify.com\/collections\/all\/eva-brann\"\u003eAll books by Eva Brann\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e","brand":"Eva Brann","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":723482945,"sku":"","price":18.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":723484285,"sku":"","price":19.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/products\/music_hires.jpg?v=1399077849"},{"product_id":"open-secrets-inward-prospects","title":"Open Secrets \/ Inward Prospects","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOpen Secrets \/ Inward Prospects: Reflections On World And Soul \/ 435-page hardback \/ 4.5\" x 7\" \/ ISBN 978-1-58988-019-1 \/ Publication Date: October 2004\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn her latest book, Eva Brann has collected observations and aphorisms written over more than thirty years. \u003cem\u003eOpen Secrets \/ Inward Prospects\u003c\/em\u003e divides in a rough but ready way into two sorts: observations about our external world well known to all but not always openly told, and sightings of internal vistas and omens, wherein she looks at herself as a sample soul.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOften the aphorisms balance opposing thoughts, as if the writer were—simultaneously—on both ends of the seesaw.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the preface Eva Brann describes her manner of composition: \"I wrote these thoughts down on about two thousand sheets, two to three thoughts per paper, and I kept them in some used manila envelopes, the earliest of which bore a postmark of 1972.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eOpen Secrets \/ Inward Prospects\u003c\/i\u003e is a book of thoughts of one who thinks about everything. Such a person has a fascinating double life, says Eva Brann, one implicit like us and the other explicit for people like her. Her life is not apart from ours but layered over it. Philosophy for her is not a profession with its own methods, its own lingo, its own ethics abstracted from ordinary life. The philosopher looks at everything, and especially at everything human, but she sees better than the rest of us living with the same things.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe Weekly Standard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso available as an ebook:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/Ik1TSu\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAmazon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/book\/open-secrets\/id546635790?mt=11\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eApple iTunes Bookstore\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/open-secrets-inward-prospects-eva-brann\/1101060998?ean=2940014274944\u0026amp;format=nook-book\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBarnes \u0026amp; Noble\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details\/Eva_Brann_Open_Secrets_inward_Prospects?id=_wHYPUK0F4IC\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGoogle Play\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/store.kobobooks.com\/en-us\/ebook\/open-secrets-inward-prospects\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eKobo\u003c\/a\u003e (See IndieBound's \u003ca rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/ebooks\" target=\"_blank\"\u003elist of independent booksellers selling e-books\u003c\/a\u003e.)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/pages\/eva-brann\"\u003e\u003cstrong class=\"author\"\u003eEva Brann\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e is a member of the senior faculty at St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, where she has taught for more than forty years. Brann holds an M.A. in Classics and a Ph.D. in Archaeology from Yale University. Her other books include \u003cem\u003eThe Ways of Naysaying\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eWhat, Then, Is Time?\u003c\/em\u003e; and \u003cem\u003eThe World of the Imagination\u003c\/em\u003e. A volume of her selected essays, \u003cem\u003eThe Past-Present\u003c\/em\u003e, was published in 1997.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/paul-dry-books-inc.myshopify.com\/collections\/all\/eva-brann\"\u003eAll books by Eva Brann\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e","brand":"Eva Brann","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29131130377,"sku":"","price":19.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/products\/open_secrets_hires.jpg?v=1399078476"},{"product_id":"feeling-our-feelings","title":"Feeling Our Feelings","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e530-page paperback \/ 6\" x 9\" \/ ISBN 978-1-58988-046-7 \u003cbr\u003ePublication Date: November 2008\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"A dazzling wealth of stimulating reflection and wise insight. To read \u003cem\u003eFeeling Our Feelings\u003c\/em\u003e is to relive one's own early moments of intellectual awakening, with the all the advantages of age and experience. Eva Brann proves to be a most steady and enlightening guide on an inquiry into the relation between life and thought that few have pursued so thoroughly.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e —Susan Shell, Department of Political Science, Boston College\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eFeeling Our Feelings\u003c\/i\u003e, Eva Brann considers what the great philosophers on the passions and feelings have thought and written about them. She examines the relevant work of Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, Aquinas, Descartes, Spinoza, Adam Smith, Hume, Kierkegaard, and Heidegger, and also includes a chapter on contemporary studies on the brain. \u003ci\u003eFeeling Our Feelings\u003c\/i\u003e provides a comprehensive look at this pervasive and elusive topic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e\"Feeling our feelings\" comes from the words a little boy called Zeke said to me some thirty years ago when he was four. I was swinging him in a park in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and not doing it right. \"Swing me higher,\" he said, \"I want to feel my feelings.\" The phrase stuck with me; you might say it festered in my mind; it agitated questions: Why do we all want to feel our feelings, so generally that people \"not in touch\" with them are thought to be in need of therapy? What feeling was swinging high inducing? Was it an exultation of the body or an exhilaration of the soul? When he wanted to be feeling his feelings, was there a difference between the general feeling, the mere consciousness of being affected, and his particular feelings, the distinguishable affects?—as, when you sing a song, there is a difference between the singing done and the song sung—or is there? \u003cbr\u003e—Eva Brann, from her Preface\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso available as an e-book:\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/books.apple.com\/us\/book\/feeling-our-feelings-what-philosophers-think-and\/id6745490721\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eApple iTunes Bookstore\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details\/Eva_Brann_Feeling_Our_Feelings_What_Philosophers_T?id=ahxaEQAAQBAJ\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGoogle Play\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/us\/en\/ebook\/feeling-our-feelings-what-philosophers-think-and-people-know?sId=2e4d3a2c-3a5f-4d6f-b477-6a8ebd9d0631\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eKobo\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/pages\/eva-brann\"\u003e\u003cstrong class=\"author\"\u003eEva Brann\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e is a member of the senior faculty at St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, where she has taught for fifty years. Brann holds an M.A. in Classics and a Ph.D. in Archaeology from Yale University. She is a 2005 recipient of the National Humanities Medal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/paul-dry-books-inc.myshopify.com\/collections\/all\/eva-brann\"\u003eAll books by Eva Brann\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e","brand":"Eva Brann","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29130959433,"sku":"","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/products\/feelings_hires.jpg?v=1399078632"},{"product_id":"homage-to-americans","title":"Homage to Americans","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHomage to Americans: Mile-high Meditations, Close Readings, and Time-spanning Speculations \/ 273-page paperback \/ 5.38\" x 8.5\" \/ ISBN 978-1-58988-062-7 \u003cbr\u003ePublication Date: November 2010\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eHomage to Americans\u003c\/em\u003e, her latest collection of essays and lectures, Eva Brann explores the roots and essence of our American ways.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \"Mile-High Meditations,\" her flight's late departure from the Denver airport prompts a consideration of her manner of waiting (i.e., \"being\"). As she looks around, she notes (and compares to her own) the ways her fellow travelers pass their time. These observations lead her to wonder how each of us lives with ourselves and how we live together—and put up with one another.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith these questions in mind, the next two essays carefully examine two famous political documents that have shaped American self-understanding: James Madison's \"Memorial and Remonstrance,\" which is the essential argument for separation of church and state; and Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, which enlarged and refashioned our understanding of the American political character, first given formal expression in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \"Paradox of Obedience,\" a lecture originally delivered at the Air Force Academy, Brann considers the puzzling character of obedience in a country dedicated to liberty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe concluding piece, \"The Empire of the Sun and the West,\" takes us to Aztec Mexico at the time of the Spanish conquest. What allowed Cortes and his handful of men to overcome a great empire? In pursuit of an answer, Brann describes a human type whose fulfillment she sees in the American Character.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso available as an ebook:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/KramEF\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAmazon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/book\/homage-to-americans\/id546633216?mt=11\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eApple iTunes Bookstore\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/homage-to-americans-eva-brann\/1111531631?ean=2940014801645\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBarnes \u0026amp; Noble\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details?id=qKvsPAXYPYkC\u0026amp;rd\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGoogle Play\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/store.kobobooks.com\/en-us\/ebook\/homage-to-americans\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eKobo\u003c\/a\u003e (See IndieBound's \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/ebooks\" target=\"_blank\"\u003elist of independent booksellers selling e-books\u003c\/a\u003e.)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong class=\"author\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/pages\/eva-brann\"\u003eEva Brann\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e has taught at St. John's College in Annapolis for more than fifty years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/paul-dry-books-inc.myshopify.com\/collections\/all\/eva-brann\"\u003eAll books by Eva Brann\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e","brand":"Eva Brann","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29131036553,"sku":"","price":15.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/products\/homage_hires.jpg?v=1399078844"},{"product_id":"the-logos-of-heraclitus","title":"The Logos of Heraclitus","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e169-page paperback \/ 4.75\" x 7.38\" \/ ISBN 978-1-58988-070-2 \u003cbr\u003ePublication Date: October 2011\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“In this extraordinary meditation, Eva Brann takes us to the fierce core of Heraclitus's vision and shows us the music of his language. The thought and beautiful prose in \u003cem\u003eThe Logos of Heraclitus\u003c\/em\u003e are a delight.”—Barry Mazur, Harvard University\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e“An engaged solitary, an inward-turned observer of the world, inventor of the first of philosophical genres, the thought-compacted aphorism,” “teasingly obscure in reputation, but hard-hittingly clear in fact,” “now tersely mordant, now generously humane.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThus Eva Brann introduces Heraclitus—in her view, the West’s first philosopher.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collected work of Heraclitus comprises 131 passages. Eva Brann sets out to understand Heraclitus as he is found in these passages and particularly in his key word, Logos, the order that is the cosmos.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Whoever is captivated by the revelatory riddlings and brilliant obscurities of what remains of Heraclitus has to begin anew—accepting help, to be sure, from previous readings—in a spirit of receptivity and reserve. But essentially everyone must pester the supposed obscurantist until he opens up. Heraclitus is no less and no more pregnantly dark than an oracle…The upshot is that no interpretation has prevailed; every question is wide open.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso available as an ebook:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/zqfR12\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eKindle\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/logos-of-heraclitus-eva-brann\/1100278101?ean=2940013933484\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eNook\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/store.kobobooks.com\/en-US\/ebook\/the-logos-of-heraclitus\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eKobo\u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/book\/logos-of-heraclitus\/id526126713?mt=11\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eiTunes\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details\/Eva_Brann_The_Logos_of_Heraclitus?id=EAtXEOKog1MC\u0026amp;hl=en\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGoogle Play\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong class=\"author\"\u003eEva Brann\u003c\/strong\u003e has taught at St. John's College in Annapolis for more than fifty years. She is a 2005 recipient of the National Humanities Medal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/paul-dry-books-inc.myshopify.com\/collections\/all\/eva-brann\"\u003eALL BOOKS BY EVA BRANN\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e","brand":"Eva Brann","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29131374985,"sku":"","price":13.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/products\/heraclitus_hires.jpg?v=1399079301"},{"product_id":"only-the-longest-threads","title":"Only the Longest Threads","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e221-page paperback \/ 5.5\" x 8.5\" \/ ISBN 978-1-58988-088-7 \/ Publication Date: November 2014\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOnly the Longest Threads\u003c\/i\u003e presents dramatic and lucid accounts of the great breakthroughs in the history of physics—classical mechanics, electromagnetism, relativity, quantum mechanics, quantum field theory, and string theory—each from the viewpoint of a (fictional) witness to the events.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTasneem Zehra Husain re-imagines the pivotal moments in the history of physics when radical new theories shifted our perception of the universe, and our place in it. Husain immerses the reader in the immediacy and excitement of the discoveries—and she guides us as we begin to understand the underlying science and to grasp the revolutionary step forward each of these milestones represents.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Part fiction, part overview of 'Aha!' moments in the forward march of physics, \u003cem\u003eOnly the Longest Threads\u003c\/em\u003e takes readers dramatically through scientific fields such as quantum field theory, electromagnetism, relativity, quantum mechanics, and string theory. Each idea or concept is explored in an inventive chapter, each told from a different first-person narrator; the faux emails, letters, and diary entries take place from 1728 to the present day.\"—Boing Boing, \"\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2015\/01\/12\/the-best-books-for-nerds-from.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eThe Best Books for Nerds from 2014\u003c\/a\u003e\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The author demonstrates her own solid understanding of physics as she translates it for nonscientists, and she makes clever use of analogy to illustrate scientific concepts…A fictional approach to physics that captures both the substance of the theory and the passion of its practitioners.”—\u003cem\u003eKirkus\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"line-height: 1.2;\"\u003e \u003cimg style=\"float: right;\" src=\"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/files\/TasneemZehraHusain.jpg?1305\"\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"line-height: 1.2;\"\u003e\u003ca title=\"Tasneem Zehra Husain, author of Only the Longest Threads\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tasneemzehrahusain.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eTasneem Zehra Husain\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e (\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tasneemzhusain\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e@tasneemzhusain\u003c\/a\u003e) is a writer, educator, and Pakistan’s first female string theorist. She holds a PhD from Stockholm University and did post-doctoral research at Harvard University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHusain is fascinated by scientific theories, how we engage with them, and how they change us. She explores these themes in her fiction and nonfiction writing, her popular talks, and the educational workshops she conducts for science teachers. Husain is actively involved in science outreach, and frequently delivers talks about theoretical physics to students and lay audiences. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRead \u003ca title=\"Tasneem Zehra Husain profile, author of Only the Longest Threads\" href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/files\/TasneemZehraHusain_profile.pdf?1317\"\u003eTom Elliott's profile\u003c\/a\u003e of Tasneem Zehra Husain. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRead a \u003ca title=\"Q\u0026amp;A with Tasneem Zehra Husain\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pauldrybooks.com\/pages\/q-a-with-tasneem-zehra-husain\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eQ\u0026amp;A\u003c\/a\u003e with the author.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.pauldrybooks.com\/pages\/discussion-questions-for-only-the-longest-threads\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eDiscussion Questions\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso available as an ebook:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1wEcqxg\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAmazon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/book\/only-the-longest-threads\/id937108726\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eApple iTunes Bookstore\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/only-the-longest-threads-tasneem-zehra-husain\/1118329522?ean=2940150468122\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBarnes \u0026amp; Noble\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details\/Tasneem_Zehra_Husain_Only_the_Longest_Threads?id=j28cBQAAQBAJ\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGoogle Play\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/store.kobobooks.com\/en-US\/ebook\/only-the-longest-threads\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eKobo\u003c\/a\u003e (See IndieBound's \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/ebooks\" target=\"_blank\"\u003elist of independent booksellers selling e-books\u003c\/a\u003e.)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAdvance praise for \u003cem\u003eOnly the Longest Threads\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Science is done by real human beings, with human concerns. \u003cem\u003eOnly the Longest Threads\u003c\/em\u003e tells a story that conveys the human side of science in a way that is as moving as it is accurate.\u003cspan\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e—Sean Carroll, theoretical physicist at Caltech and author of \u003cem\u003eThe Particle at the End of the Universe\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003eTasneem Zehra Husain writes lyrically, poetically about life, love, and physics. I highly recommend this wonderful book for anyone interested in what physics, and indeed all of science, is about. She masterfully describes the most momentous moments in physics history with verve and talent.\u003cspan\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e—Amir D. Aczel, bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eFermat’s Last Theorem\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“A delightful meditation on the development of modern physics, culminating in the discovery of the Higgs. Husain follows the thread of its creation through a dialog between a journalist and young theory student, and as seen through the eyes of witnesses.”—John Huth, Donner Professor of Science, Harvard University\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“How do theoretical physicists think? Tasneem Zehra Husain knows. She knows their purpose, feels their passions, articulates their frustrations, shares their triumphs. Through the device of fiction \u003cem\u003eOnly the Longest Threads\u003c\/em\u003e communicates the history of physical thought—its roots in inquisitiveness and essential disinterest in outcome—with greater clarity than any popular science text.” —Michael Duff FRS, Abdus Salam Professor of Theoretical Physics, Imperial College London\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Well-written and cleverly constructed, this book takes us on a journey through the history of physics as a series of fictional adventures, loosely linked by another fiction, the storytellers’ emails to each other. Some books are praised because ‘I couldn’t put it down,’  but this one merits a deeper reading, one that stops, muses on, and savors each story before going on to the next. Each one captures not only the emergence of a significant idea in physics, but also something of the characters, culture, and times surrounding that development. So take your time, pause to ponder, but persevere, you will be well rewarded!”—Helen R. Quinn, Physicist, Science Educator, and Co-author of \u003cem\u003eThe Mystery of the Missing Antimatter, \u003c\/em\u003eProfessor Emeritus SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Tasneem Zehra Husain’s writing is both enlightening and entertaining as it captivates the challenge and excitement of working at the forefront of paradigm-shifting discoveries. Book-ended by the history-making discovery of the Higgs field, this tale offers a sparkling account of our understanding of fundamental physics. Through many voices rich with evocative metaphors, the threads woven through time and place that make up our current understanding of reality are revealed.”—Elizabeth F. McCormack, Professor of Physics, Bryn Mawr College\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eOnly the Longest Threads\u003c\/em\u003e describes the process of scientific discovery by focusing on the human elements: the bold conjectures, the wrong turns in the road, the competitiveness among scientists, the strength of their community, all seen from the point of view of the writers of letters and journals who make up the narrative. The clear, flawless prose is laced with a gentle wit when human behavior is described in the terms of physics—a welcome, light-handed nerdiness. Everyone who has studied physics but is unable to see the forest for the trees—and that means most of us—will relish this lovely little volume as it brings into perspective, through its accessible yet substantive treatment of the grand unifications, a magnificent edifice created by the human mind.”—Asad Abidi, Distinguished Chancellor’s Professor, UCLA Engineering\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Tasneem Zehra Husain skillfully weaves a poetic tapestry from tight threads of science and richly imagined strands of time. A weft of physics and warp of love makes a delightfully gripping read. Her flowing prose conducts us by some unfamiliar force from falling apples to colliding protons where the Higgs boson looms.”—Joseph Mazur, author of \u003cem\u003eEnlightening Symbols\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“This highly original book puts a fresh perspective on humanity's inevitable obsession with understanding the laws of Nature. On an artfully constructed journey through space and time, Tasneem Zehra Husain gives us a tantalizing taste of how physicists struggle to find ‘true nuggets of gold, and the only immortal elixir.’”—Freddy Cachazo, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Tasneem Zehra Husain’s observant narrators are witnesses to the intellectual revolutions of Newton, Maxwell, Einstein, Bohr, and others, the drama building to the mysteries of the present day. She uses her deep knowledge of physics to create a new genre—true science fiction, imagined vignettes of physics in all its humanity, woven together as a story within a story.”—Mark A. Peterson, author of \u003cem\u003eGalileo’s Muse\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eOnly the Longest Threads\u003c\/em\u003e is a page-turner that portrays the excitement of discovery in physics from Isaac Newton to string theory. I highly recommend it for anyone who wants to feel the thrill of the succession of ideas that have led us to the current highly successful, but incomplete, understanding of our universe.\"—Richard Dower, Chairman, Science Department, Roxbury Latin School\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“This book reveals a love affair, a love affair with physics. \u003cem\u003eOnly the Longest Threads\u003c\/em\u003e is not about formulas and mathematics, but about people who have changed the way we comprehend the universe. We meet these icons, some ancient and some brand new, in a very personal way, and see that the driving force behind discoveries is very often a passionate relationship with the problems you try to solve.”—Olov Amelin, Director of the Nobel Museum\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“With a self-referential structure reminiscent of Calvino’s novels, and a premise—that fiction can bring physics to life—similar to McCormmach’s \u003cem\u003eNight Thoughts of a Classical Physicist\u003c\/em\u003e, Tasneem Zehra Husain takes us on a journey through epic discoveries as they might have been seen at the time by amateur enthusiasts. With the story framed by the discovery of the Higgs boson at CERN, and carried forward through e-mails between an aspiring young physicist and a struggling science journalist, the ‘long threads’ of the ‘tapestry’ woven by Newton, Maxwell, Einstein, are examined in the course of elegantly composed letters between imagined witnesses to physics history, until the narrative is taken out of their hands for a buildup to the Higgs boson discovery, and a nod to string theory.”—Paul Townsend, DAMTP Professor of Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“It is very rare to come across a book popularizing science that not only gives an excellent rendition of the development of a research area but also has high literary qualities. Tasneem Zehra Husain has managed to combine an outstanding description of the development of several areas in physics while painting historical and geographical mini sketches, using voices from the times and places where key developments took place. Theoretical physicists will nod in recognition when reading about CERN, the Niels Bohr Institute, Trieste, Stockholm, Harvard and Cambridge University. The author is obviously sharing her experience of all these places. I have read many popular books describing various stages in the attempts to unify fundamental physics, but none as convincing and as good a read as this one.”—Ulf Lindström, Professor of Physics, Uppsala University\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Husain takes you by the hand and walks you through half a dozen of the most important discoveries in physics over the past three centuries, in each case as seen through the eyes of a fictional protagonist living through the discovery. Along the way she gives you an almost personal sense of how science feels as it is happening, along with distilled insights into the essence of the discoveries themselves. These vignettes are wrapped in a story that is in itself a page-turner. I can’t wait for the sequel.”\u003cspan\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003eKrishna Rajagopal, Professor and Associate Department Head for Education, Physics, MIT\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RiusA545_CA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003eloo\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e","brand":"Tasneem Zehra Husain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29131129865,"sku":"","price":13.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/products\/LongestThreads_R3.jpg?v=1411065432"},{"product_id":"ill-met-by-moonlight","title":"Ill Met By Moonlight","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAfterword by Patrick Leigh Fermor \/ 212-page paperback \/ 5.5\" x 8.5\" \/ ISBN 978-1-58988-066-5 \/ Publication Date: December 2010\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This amazing story is marvelously well told, in an exuberant, racing style that makes it impossible to lay the book aside once the first page is read.\"—\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIll Met By Moonlight\u003c\/i\u003e is the gripping account of the audacious World War II abduction of a German general from the island of Crete. 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Readers will walk away with a clearer understanding of segregation and the valiant Americans who fought against this injustice.\"—\u003cstrong\u003eDebra Newman Ham\u003c\/strong\u003e, Professor of History, Morgan State University\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eRound and Round Together\u003c\/em\u003e tells the inspiring story of how a generation of college and high school students provided the energy and enthusiasm that ended racial segregation in Baltimore's Gwynn Oak Amusement Park and changed the direction of Maryland's history.\"—\u003cstrong\u003eJames Henretta\u003c\/strong\u003e, Professor Emeritus, University of Maryland\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"With clarity and passion, Amy Nathan portrays the struggle of everyday citizens to end racial segregation in Baltimore. 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She does an excellent job connecting those local efforts to developments within the national civil rights movement.”—\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eMaryland Historical Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/files\/round_and_round_teachers_guide.pdf?1272\"\u003eTeacher's guide for \u003cem\u003eRound \u0026amp; Round Together\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e [PDF]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/files\/RoundAndRound_chap1.pdf?13022531036427182215\" title=\"Round and Round chapter 1\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eChapter 1: A Special Ride\u003c\/a\u003e [PDF]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RoundandRoundTogether\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eFacebook page\u003c\/a\u003e for \u003cem\u003eRound and Round Together\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eArticle about the book in Social Studies and the Young Learner: \"\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/files\/RoundAndRoundReview.pdf?1272\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eRound and Round Together: The Civil Rights Movement Comes to an Amusement Park\u003c\/a\u003e\" (pdf)\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso available as an ebook:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/MQra5p\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAmazon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/book\/round-and-round-together\/id546631307?mt=11\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eApple iTunes Bookstore\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/round-and-round-together-amy-nathan\/1111531687?ean=2940014801867\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBarnes \u0026amp; Noble\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details?id=Xoh9uxFK4WYC\u0026amp;rd\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGoogle Play\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/store.kobobooks.com\/en-US\/ebook\/round-and-round-together\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eKobo\u003c\/a\u003e (See IndieBound's \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/ebooks\" target=\"_blank\"\u003elist of independent booksellers selling e-books\u003c\/a\u003e.)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong class=\"author\"\u003eAmy Nathan\u003c\/strong\u003e is an award-winning author of several books for young people, including \u003cem\u003eA Ride to Remember\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Young Musician's Survival Guide\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eCount on Us: American Women in the Military\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eYankee Doodle Gals: Women Pilots of World War II\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eMeet the Musicians\u003c\/em\u003e. She grew up in Baltimore and went to Western High School. You can visit her on the web at \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.amynathanbooks.com\/\"\u003eAmyNathanBooks.com\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Amy Nathan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29131180489,"sku":"","price":11.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/products\/nathan_hires.jpg?v=1399081249"},{"product_id":"wilder-good-the-elk-hunt","title":"Wilder Good: The Elk Hunt","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e100-page paperback \/ 5\" x 8\" \/ ISBN 9781589880870 \/ Publication Date: August 2013\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"If you like Hank, you'll like Wilder Good, too.\"—\u003cstrong\u003eJohn R. Erickson, author of \u003ci\u003eHank the Cowdog\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Given the dearth of material on the topic and the readability of the text, this slim novel will be appreciated.\"—\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Favorites of 2013\"—\u003cstrong\u003eGlen Dromgoole,\u003ci\u003eTexas Reads \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Earnest and technical.\"—\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLamplighter Finalist 2015-16 (Triple Crown Awards)\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMeet 12-year-old Wilder Good, who lives with his parents and little sister, Molly, in a small town in southern Colorado. When he's lucky, he gets to go hunting with Gale Loving, a 72-year-old elder at the church the Goods attend, and a good friend and mentor to Wilder. They make sort of an odd pair, an old man and a boy, but they fit together pretty well in the outdoors. (Though sometimes Wilder still can't help but wonder what kind of a name \"Gale\" is for a grown man.)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWilder plays basketball, is active in his 4-H club, likes to read—his hero is Teddy Roosevelt—and does all the things that seventh-graders do. (He has a \"secret\" girlfriend, too.) He's a Dallas Cowboys fan. But mostly he loves the outdoors, hunting in the Colorado Rockies with Gale or his dad, or at his grandfather's Texas ranch.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWilder is on the threshold between being a kid and beginning to grow up, and he's trying his best to figure out just what it means to join that grownup world. There's a lot to learn, and he's grateful to have rock-steady Gale to guide him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Elk Hunt\u003c\/i\u003e, Wilder accompanies Gale into the mountains in search of his first elk. It's a special day for Wilder in many ways—the biggest game he's ever hunted, and the first chance to use his grandfather's Winchester .270. He's determined to succeed with high marks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHunting elk is an exciting and demanding pursuit, but even after Wilder and Gale are headed home, there's still danger to face—that's when nature decides to really test Wilder's resolve.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLearn more about Wilder at \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/wildergood.com\/\"\u003ewildergood.com\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and read his running journal entries about wild stuff.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRead an \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/lubbockonline.com\/local-news\/2013-09-17\/local-author-creates-young-hunter-book-series#.UjnGGH8o75p\" target=\"_blank\"\u003earticle in the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal\u003c\/a\u003e and see \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HDSOwMyidVY\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ea video piece\u003c\/a\u003e on the author and his book. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRead a\u003c\/em\u003e review in \u003ca title=\"The Old Schoolhouse Magazine\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theoldschoolhouse.com\/Homeschool_Reviews\/5422.php\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eThe Old Schoolhouse\u003c\/a\u003e. \u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe author received this note from a public schoolteacher in Missouri:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Tyler came in my room reluctant and unsure of himself. That was his personality but also as a reader, he was reluctant. He knew that he wanted to be part of something bigger than the 'baby' books I kept offering him. He wanted to be part of the group of kids who read and love to read.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"My first goal in teaching children to become readers is to help them discover that reading is enjoyable. Second, I want to make lifetime readers. I was not getting anywhere with these goals with this particular student. I had offered book after book. I picked out several books from the library to show him. He turned his nose up at every single one of them. He had no interest in them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Then one day Tyler saw \u003ci\u003eWilder Good : The Elk Hunt\u003c\/i\u003e sitting on my desk. He pointed to it and said, 'I want to read that book.' This is the first time those words had been said by this student. I decided to give him a copy to read at home. The book immediately became more than a book. It became a trophy, a rite of passage into the world of readers. He carried it around and showed a couple of other students, who then wanted their own copy. He set it carefully at the top of his desk for everyone to see.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Soon after, another student in my class began reading Wilder Good. Then they started discussing daily what chapter they were on. Tyler was not only reading, he was leading an informal reading group!\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso available as an ebook:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/14yPTb9\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAmazon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/book\/elk-hunt-adventure-begins\/id685760406\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eApple iTunes Bookstore\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/the-elk-hunt-s-j-dahlstrom\/1113113631?ean=2940148799115\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBarnes \u0026amp; Noble\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details\/S_J_Dahlstrom_The_Elk_Hunt?id=SfqMwmLHt-YC\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGoogle Play\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/store.kobobooks.com\/en-us\/ebook\/the-elk-hunt\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eKobo\u003c\/a\u003e (See IndieBound's \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/ebooks\" target=\"_blank\"\u003elist of independent booksellers selling e-books\u003c\/a\u003e.)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong class=\"author\"\u003eS. J. Dahlstrom\u003c\/strong\u003e lives in West Texas. He is a board member and founder of Whetstone Boys Ranch \u0026amp; Boarding School in Mountain View Missouri. In his writing he also draws on his experiences as a cowboy, husband, and father.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"S. J. Dahlstrom","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29131434633,"sku":"","price":7.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/products\/WilderGood01ElkHunt_72REV.jpg?v=1572985318"},{"product_id":"wilder-good-texas-grit","title":"Wilder Good: Texas Grit","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Adventures Of Wilder Good #2 \/ 141-page paperback \/ 5\" x 8\" \/ ISBN 9781589880948 \/ Publication Date: April 2014\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the 2015 Will Rogers Award—gold medal for \"Younger Readers\" category\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"If you like Hank, you'll like Wilder Good, too.\"—John R. Erickson, author of \u003ci\u003eHank the Cowdog\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"I am a big fan of this series. Last fall I included \u003cem\u003eThe Elk Hunt\u003c\/em\u003e in my list of favorite books of 2013, and \u003cem\u003eTexas Grit\u003c\/em\u003e is every bit as insightful and positive as the first one.\"—Glenn Dromgoole\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Dahlstrom writes about ranch life with flair and specific detail.\"—\u003cem\u003eWORLD \u003c\/em\u003emagazine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Family, friendships and faith converge to provide a thoughtful story for independent readers or for parents reading with their children.\"—\u003cem\u003eThe Christian Chronicle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e*****\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eTexas Grit\u003c\/i\u003e, Wilder spends a week in West Texas at his grandfather's ranch, while his mother and father travel to Denver to see her doctors.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWilder finds it hard to leave his parents. Papa Milam is a cowboy, gruff and sometimes a bit intimidating, yet grandfather and grandson care for each other very much—and find they actually have lots to learn from each other, too.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWilder works cattle on horseback and explores the rough ranch country with Papa. One night they start out to hunt for whitetail deer in the cottonwood bottoms but end up encountering a rattlesnake instead. A few days later, four cowboys arrive at the ranch to help with the branding of Papa's new calves. Wilder gets the opportunity to join the crew and takes his place alongside the grown men in the strenuous and sometimes dangerous work of herding, roping, and branding.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWilder does a lot of growing up over the week, and together he and Papa experience the kind of adventures that only a place like Texas can provide.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLearn more about Wilder at \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/wildergood.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ewildergood.com\u003c\/a\u003e and read his running journal entries about wild stuff.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRead an \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/lubbockonline.com\/local-news\/2013-09-17\/local-author-creates-young-hunter-book-series#.UjnGGH8o75p\" target=\"_blank\"\u003earticle in the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal\u003c\/a\u003e and see \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HDSOwMyidVY\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ea video piece\u003c\/a\u003e on the author and his books.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso available as an ebook:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1j7YmCq\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAmazon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/book\/texas-grit\/id881257138\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eApple iTunes Bookstore\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/texas-grit-s-j-dahlstrom\/1119074357?ean=2940149283477\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBarnes \u0026amp; Noble\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details\/S_J_Dahlstrom_Texas_Grit_The_Adventures_of_Wilder_?id=nQZQAwAAQBAJ\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGoogle Play\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/store.kobobooks.com\/en-us\/ebook\/texas-grit\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eKobo\u003c\/a\u003e (See IndieBound's \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/ebooks\" target=\"_blank\"\u003elist of independent booksellers selling e-books\u003c\/a\u003e.)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eS. J. Dahlstrom\u003c\/strong\u003e lives in West Texas. He is a board member and founder of Whetstone Boys Ranch \u0026amp; Boarding School in Mountain View Missouri. In his writing he also draws on his experiences as a cowboy, husband, and father.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"S. J. Dahlstrom","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29131423881,"sku":"","price":7.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/products\/WilderGood02TexasGrit_72_RE.jpg?v=1572985539"},{"product_id":"the-six-cornered-snowflake","title":"The Six-Cornered Snowflake","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e150-page paperback \/ 5\" x 7\" \/ ISBN 9781589880535 \u003cbr\u003ePublication Date: January 2010\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhen snow began to fall while he was walking across the Charles Bridge in Prague late in 1610, the eminent astronomer Johannes Kepler asked himself the following question: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhy do snowflakes, when they first fall, and before they are entangled into larger clumps, always come down with six corners and with six radii tufted like feathers?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn his effort to answer this charming and never-before-asked question about snowflakes, Kepler delves into the nature of beehives, peapods, pomegranates, five-petaled flowers, the spiral shape of the snail's shell, and the formative power of nature itself. While he did not answer his original question—it remained a mystery for another three hundred years—he did find an occasion for deep and playful thought.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRAISE FOR THE SIX-CORNERED SNOWFLAKE:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"In 1611, Kepler wrote an essay wondering why snowflakes always had perfect, sixfold symmetry. It's a simple enough question, but one that no one had ever asked before and one that couldn't actually be answered for another three centuries. Still, in trying to work out an answer, Kepler raised some fascinating questions about physics, math, and biology, and now you can watch in wonder as a great scientific genius unleashes the full force of his intellect on a seemingly trivial question, complete with new illustrations and essays to put it all in perspective.\"\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e— io9, from their list \"10 Amazing Science Books that Reveal the Wonders of the Universe\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\"A most suitable book for any and all during the winter and holiday seasons is a reissue of a holiday present by the great mathematician and astronomer Johannes Kepler . . . The modern paperback includes not only Kepler's small masterpiece in English and Latin but also substantial descriptive and introductory pieces by Owen Gingerich of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and Harvard, and by Guillermo Bleichmar of St. John's College in Santa Fe. Jacques Bromberg of the Tuxedo Park School provided the felicitous English translation, and snowflake drawings and a snowflake poem from 1990 are also included, the latter typographically displayed in snowflake form on the pages. Even the endnotes in this wonderful little book are interesting and educationally fun to read.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Jay Pasachoff in \u003cem\u003eThe Key Reporter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Six-Cornered Snowflake\u003c\/em\u003e includes:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNew English translation by Jacques Bromberg\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLatin text on facing pages\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAn essay, \"The Delights of a Roving Mind\" by Owen Gingerich\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAn essay, \"On \u003cem\u003eThe Six-Cornered Snowflake\u003c\/em\u003e\" by Guillermo Bleichmar\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSnowflake illustrations by Capi Corrales Rodrigáñez\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJohn Frederick Nims' poem \"The Six-Cornered Snowflake\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes by Jacques Bromberg and Guillermo Bleichmar\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlso available as an ebook:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/LkD0SJ\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAmazon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/book\/six-cornered-snowflake\/id546630391?mt=11\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eApple iTunes Bookstore\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/six-cornered-snowflake-johannes-kepler\/1101060988?ean=2940014791915\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBarnes \u0026amp; Noble\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details?id=yE8yTUFWLXgC\u0026amp;rd\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGoogle Play\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/store.kobobooks.com\/en-us\/ebook\/the-six-cornered-snowflake\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eKobo\u003c\/a\u003e (See IndieBound's \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/ebooks\" target=\"_blank\"\u003elist of independent booksellers selling e-books\u003c\/a\u003e.)\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong class=\"author\"\u003eJohannes Kepler \u003c\/strong\u003e(1571-1631) was an important figure in the seventeenth century astronomical revolution. He is best known for his eponymous laws of planetary motion. Kepler wrote: \"If there is anything that can bind the heavenly mind of man to this dusty exile of our earthly home…then it is verily the enjoyment of the mathematical sciences and astronomy.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johannes Kepler","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29047685641,"sku":"","price":11.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/products\/kepler_550.jpg?v=1447290752"},{"product_id":"infinity","title":"Infinity","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eInfinity: Beyond the Beyond the Beyond \/ Edited and with a New Foreword by Barry Mazur \/ Illustrations by Hugh Gray Lieber \/ 262-page paperback \/ 5\" x 8\" \/ ISBN 978-1-58988-036-8 \/ Publication Date: January 2008\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLillian and Hugh Lieber invite you to stretch your imagination \"beyond the beyond.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInfinity. It sounds simple…but is it? This elegant, accessible, and playful book artfully illuminates one of the most intriguing ideas in mathematics. Lillian Lieber presents an entertaining, yet thorough, explanation of the concept and cleverly connects mathematical reasoning to larger issues in society. Like our edition of \u003ca href=\"\/products\/the-education-of-t-c-mits\" title=\"The Education of T. C. Mits\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Education of T. C. MITS\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003cem\u003eInfinity\u003c\/em\u003e includes a new foreword by Harvard professor Barry Mazur.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong class=\"author\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/pages\/lillian-lieber\"\u003eLillian Lieber\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e was the head of the Department of Mathematics at Long Island University. She wrote a series of lighthearted (and well-respected) math books in the 1940s, including \u003cem\u003eThe Einstein Theory of Relativity\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eInfinity\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eMits, Wits \u0026amp; Logic\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong class=\"author\"\u003eHugh Gray Lieber\u003c\/strong\u003e was the head of the Department of Fine Arts at Long Island University. He illustrated many books written by his wife Lillian.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong class=\"author\"\u003eBarry Mazur\u003c\/strong\u003e is a mathematician and is the Gerhard Gade University Professor at Harvard University. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eImagining Numbers (particularly the square root of minus fifteen)\u003c\/em\u003e. He has won numerous honors in his field, including the Veblen Prize, Cole Prize, Steele Prize, and Chauvenet Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The interpolations tying mathematics into human life and thought are brilliantly clear.\" —\u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Her presentation…is conversational and humorous, and should help to simplify some complex concepts.\" —\u003cem\u003eKirkus\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Another excellent book for the lay reader of mathematics…In explaining [infinity], the author introduces the reader to a good many other mathematical terms and concepts that seem unintelligible in a formal text but are much less formidable when presented in the author's individual and very readable style.\" —\u003cem\u003eLibrary Journal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\"A thoroughly magnificent read.\" \u003cspan\u003e—Maria Popova, \u003cem\u003eBrain Pickings\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Mrs. Lieber, in this text illustrated by her husband, Hugh Gray Lieber, has tackled the formidable task of explaining infinity in simple terms, in short line, short sentence technique popularized by her in \u003cem\u003eThe Education of T.C. MITS\u003c\/em\u003e.\" —\u003cem\u003eChicago Sunday Tribune\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e","brand":"Lillian R. Lieber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29131067593,"sku":"","price":13.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/products\/infinity-cover.jpg?v=1415395710"},{"product_id":"seven-conversations-with-jorge-luis-borges","title":"Seven Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTranslated from the Spanish by Clark M. Zlotchew \u003cbr\u003e196-page paperback \/ 5.5\" x 8.5\" \/ ISBN 978-1-58988-060-3 \/ Publication Date: May 2010\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.2;\"\u003eThese wide-ranging conversations have an open and intimate tone, giving readers a uniquely personal glimpse of one of the most fascinating figures in contemporary world literature.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInterviewer Fernando Sorrentino, an Argentinian writer and anthologist, displays literary acumen, sensitivity, urbanity, and an encyclopedic knowledge of Borges' work. (In his prologue, Borges jokes that Sorrentino knows his work \"much better than I do.\") Borges wanders from nostalgic reminiscence to literary criticism and from philosophical speculation to political pronouncements. His thoughts on literature run the gamut from the Bible and Homer to Hemingway and Cortázar. We learn that Dante is the writer who most impressed Borges, that Borges considered García Lorca to be a \"second-rate poet,\" and that he considered Bioy Casares one of the most important authors of the twentieth century. Along the way, Borges dwells lovingly on his native Buenos Aires.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"For seven afternoons, the teller of tales preceded me, opening tall doors which revealed unsuspected spiral staircases, through the National Library's pleasant maze of corridors, in search of a secluded little room where we would not be interrupted by the telephone…The Borges who speaks to us in this book is a courteous, easy-going gentleman who verifies no quotations, who does not look back to correct mistakes, who pretends to have a poor memory; he is not the terse Jorge Luis Borges of the printed page, that Borges who calculates and measures each comma and each parenthesis.\" \u003cbr\u003e—from the Preface by Fernando Sorrentino\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"A treasure trove of insight.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Maria Popova, \u003cem\u003eThe Marginalian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRead the full article by Maria Popova: \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.themarginalian.org\/index.php\/2013\/09\/03\/jorge-luis-borges-on-writing\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eJorge Luis Borges on Writing: Wisdom from His Most Candid Interviews\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlso available as an ebook:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/L3krWA\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAmazon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/seven-conversations-with-jorge-luis-borges-fernando-sorrentino\/1101060962?ean=2940014801805\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBarnes \u0026amp; Noble\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details?id=_DYwpbz4yU8C\u0026amp;rd\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGoogle Play\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/store.kobobooks.com\/en-us\/ebook\/seven-conversations-with-jorge-luis-borges\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eKobo\u003c\/a\u003e (See IndieBound's \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/ebooks\" target=\"_blank\"\u003elist of independent booksellers selling e-books\u003c\/a\u003e.)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong class=\"author\"\u003eFernando Sorrentino \u003c\/strong\u003eis an Argentine writer born in Buenos Aires in 1942. His works have been translated into numerous languages. The University of Texas Press published his \u003cem\u003eSanitary Centennial and Selected Short Stories\u003c\/em\u003e. His website is \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.fernandosorrentino.com.ar\/\"\u003efernandosorrentino.com.ar\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong class=\"author\"\u003eClark M. Zlotchew \u003c\/strong\u003eis a professor of Spanish at SUNY Fredonia.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fernando Sorrentino","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29131190473,"sku":"","price":13.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/products\/borges_hires.jpg?v=1399082264"},{"product_id":"philadelphia-architecture","title":"Philadelphia Architecture: A Guide to the City (Fourth Edition)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e244-page paperback \/ 5.5\" x 10.5\" \/ ISBN 978-1-58988-110-5 \/ Publication Date: March 2016\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePhiladelphia Architecture, A Guide to the City \u003c\/em\u003e(Fourth Edition) provides more than three hundred descriptions and photo­graphs, both color and black and white, of the city’s architecturally most significant buildings. Spanning more than three hundred years, these great buildings char­acterize Philadelphia as unique among American cities, comprising, as they do, nearly every style of architecture found in the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDivided into four sections, \u003cem\u003ePhiladel­phia Architecture \u003c\/em\u003eproceeds chronologically from the founding of the city in 1682 into the early Federal period, through its in­dustrialization in the 19th century, and its growth as a metropolis in the 1900s, con­cluding with the latest buildings, erected in the 21st century. Each entry provides historical and architectural information pertinent to the structure and relates the building to its setting in the city.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis compact guide also includes short biographies of the city’s renowned architects; a building chart, which cata­logues the building types and dates of construction; and maps of ten walking and driving tours, which highlight impor­tant buildings and sites in Philadelphia and the surrounding region.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003ePhiladelphia Architecture, A Guide to the City \u003c\/em\u003eis a project of the Center for Archi­tecture, a nonprofit institution founded by the Philadelphia Chapter of the American Institute of Architects.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJohn Andrew Gallery\u003c\/strong\u003e received his M.Arch. from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He has served as Associate Dean of the School of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin, Director of the Philadelphia Office of Housing and Community Development, and Executive Director of the Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia. He is also the author of \u003cem\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.pauldrybooks.com\/products\/the-planning-of-center-city-philadelphia\"\u003eThe Planning of Center City Philadel­phia\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.pauldrybooks.com\/products\/sacred-sites-of-center-city\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eSacred Sites of Center City\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, both available from Paul Dry Books.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Andrew Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29131149257,"sku":"","price":22.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/products\/PhiladelphiaArchitecture4_72.jpg?v=1458921285"},{"product_id":"the-einstein-theory-of-relativity","title":"The Einstein Theory of Relativity","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Einstein Theory of Relativity: A Trip to the Fourth Dimension \/ Edited and with a Foreword by David Derbes and Robert Jantzen \/ Illustrations by Hugh Gray Lieber \/ 346-page paperback \/ 5\" x 8\" \/ ISBN 978-1-58988-044-3 \/ Publication Date: September 2008\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.2;\"\u003e\"Oh, what a delightful book! This is the clearest explanation of relativity available—and the most fun.\" —Walter Isaacson\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUsing \"just enough mathematics to help and not to hinder the lay reader,\" Lillian Lieber provides a thorough explanation of Einstein's theory of relativity. Her delightful style, in combination with her husband's charming illustrations, makes for an interesting and accessible read about one of the greatest ideas of all times.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/pages\/lillian-lieber\"\u003e\u003cstrong class=\"author\"\u003eLillian Lieber\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e was the head of the Department of Mathematics at Long Island University. She wrote a series of lighthearted (and well-respected) math books in the 1940s, including \u003cem\u003eThe Einstein Theory of Relativity\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eInfinity\u003c\/em\u003e, and\u003cem\u003eMits, Wits \u0026amp; Logic\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong class=\"author\"\u003eHugh Gray Lieber\u003c\/strong\u003e was the head of the Department of Fine Arts at Long Island University. He illustrated many books written by his wife Lillian.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong class=\"author\"\u003eRobert Jantzen\u003c\/strong\u003e is a professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Villanova University. His specialties are general relativity and cosmology, differential geometry, and Lie groups.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong class=\"author\"\u003eDavid Derbes\u003c\/strong\u003e teaches science at the University of Chicago Lab School.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A clear and vivid exposition of the essential ideas and methods of the theory of relativity...can be warmly recommended especially to those who cannot spend too much time on the subject.\" —Albert Einstein\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"If you know high-school math, are not afraid of equations, and want to find out what Einstein really said, read Lillian Lieber's book. She will lead you through special and general relativity, helping you at every step to understand the essential equations, including tensors, with amazing clarity and conciseness. This uniquely charming book remains as vivid as ever and even more helpful, thanks to the excellent new foreward and notes by David Derbes and Robert Jantzen.\" —Peter Pesic, author of \u003ci\u003eAbel's Proof: An Essay on the Sources and Meaning of Mathmatical Unsolvability\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSky in a Bottle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Does the nature of time fascinate you? Does gravity seem a mysterious subject? Are you interested in learning just what it is that Einstein actually did that made him so famous? Do you know a youngster who shows talent in mathematics and science? If yes to any or all of these questions, then this wonderful book is just the thing, either for you or as a gift. It's far beyond mere pop-science, but also nicely avoids being simply a dense thicket of equations. Like baby bear's porridge that best suited Goldilocks, this book is 'just right.' I read the original 1945 edition when I was a high school student in the 1950s, and it had a tremendous impact on me. I predict the same experience for you, or perhaps a young friend, with this new, updated edition.\" —Paul J. Nahin, author of \u003ci\u003eTime Machines\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOliver Heaviside\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eDr. Euler's Fabulous Formula\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"It's great to have it available again. Whether or not you're a scientist, you will relish this book.\" —Walter Isaacson, author of \u003ci\u003eEinstein: His Life and Universe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e","brand":"Lillian R. 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Difficult and fundamental, \u003cem\u003eThe Advancement of Learning\u003c\/em\u003e helps define the modern era.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso available as an ebook:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/L3joG3\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAmazon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/book\/advancement-of-learning\/id546636435?mt=11\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eApple iTunes Bookstore\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/advancement-of-learning-francis-bacon\/1100400253?ean=2940014801256\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBarnes \u0026amp; Noble\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details?id=94HxwH3y1KsC\u0026amp;rd\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGoogle Play\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/store.kobobooks.com\/en-us\/ebook\/the-advancement-of-learning-12\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eKobo\u003c\/a\u003e (See IndieBound's \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/ebooks\" target=\"_blank\"\u003elist of independent booksellers selling e-books\u003c\/a\u003e.)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong class=\"author\"\u003eFrancis Bacon\u003c\/strong\u003e (1561-1626) was a philosopher, statesman, and essayist. He served as the attorney general and Lord Chancellor of England and was the author of \u003cem\u003eNovum Organum\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong class=\"author\"\u003eJerry Weinberger\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of Political Science at Michigan State University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This extraordinary genius, when it was impossible to write a history of what men already knew, wrote one of that which they had to learn.\" —Diderot\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Bacon was the first to address the issues that have again become so pressing in our time: Why should we pursue scientific progress? What are the implications of modern science for religion and morality? Does technology enhance or disfigure the human soul? . . . It is therefore hard to imagine a book more attuned to our times.\" —from the new Introduction by Jerry Weinberger\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e","brand":"Francis Bacon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29131273225,"sku":"","price":18.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/products\/bacon_hires.jpg?v=1399097414"},{"product_id":"american-places","title":"American Places","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAmerican Places: A Writer's Pilgrimage to Sixteen of this Country's Most Visited and Cherished Sites \/ 193-page paperback \/ 5.25\" x 8\" \/ ISBN 978-1-58988-034-4 \/ Publication Date: April 2007\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This inspiring guide includes places everyone means to go to some day, all described with the usual clarity of the author of \u003cem\u003eOn Writing Well\u003c\/em\u003e.\"—\u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A fascinating take on ‘the search for memory’ and how certain places have come to symbolize deep American principles.\"—\u003cem\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJoin William Zinsser as he visits sixteen of our nation's most treasured historic sites—unlearning cliched assumptions and rediscovering fundamental truths about America. \u003cem\u003eAmerican Places\u003c\/em\u003e—and the ideals that Zinsser discovers these places represent—will never go out of fashion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Speaking across the centuries with stone and symbol, narrative and myth, America's iconic places remind us of our anchoring principles and best intentions. 'This is where we started and what we believed and who we hoped to become,' these places say. At least that's what they said to me.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Niagara Falls existed only in the attic of my mind where collective memory is stored: scraps of songs about honeymooning couples, vistas by painters who tried to get the plummeting waters to hold still, film clips of Marilyn Monroe running for her life in \u003cem\u003eNiagara\u003c\/em\u003e, odds and ends of lore about stuntmen who died going over the falls, and always, somewhere among the scraps, a boat called \u003cem\u003eMaid of the Mist\u003c\/em\u003e, which took tourists…where? Behind the falls? \u003cem\u003eUnder\u003c\/em\u003e the falls? Death hovered at the edge of the images in my attic, or at least danger. But I had never thought of going to see the place itself. That was for other people. Now I wanted to be one of those other people.\"—from \u003cem\u003eAmerican Places\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eAmerican Places\u003c\/em\u003e paints vivid word pictures that put you in those places and make you feel that you've been there, but it also encourages each of us to take our own trek through history.\"—\u003cem\u003eRiverside Press-Enterprise\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Zinsser's choices and descriptions are refreshing because of the obvious thought that went into the selections. It's also fun to read Zinsser's observations.\"—\u003cem\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso available as an ebook:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1uwliqz\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAmazon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/book\/american-places\/id995838967\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eApple iTunes Bookstore\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/american-places-william-zinsser\/1119079061?ean=2940149313501\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBarnes \u0026amp; Noble\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details\/William_Zinsser_American_Places?id=Y0SKSVi9cX8C\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGoogle Play\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/store.kobobooks.com\/en-US\/ebook\/american-places\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eKobo\u003c\/a\u003e (See IndieBound's \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/ebooks\" target=\"_blank\"\u003elist of independent booksellers selling e-books\u003c\/a\u003e.)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/pages\/william-zinsser\" title=\"William Zinsser\"\u003eWilliam Zinsser\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e is a lifelong journalist and nonfiction writer—he began his career on the \u003ci\u003eNew York Herald Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e in 1946—and is also a teacher, best known for his book \u003ci\u003eOn Writing Well\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, a companion held in affection by three generations of writers, reporters, editors, teachers, and students. His 17 other books range from memoir (\u003ci\u003eWriting Places\u003c\/i\u003e) to travel (\u003ci\u003eAmerican Places\u003c\/i\u003e), jazz (\u003ci\u003eMitchell \u0026amp; Ruff\u003c\/i\u003e), American popular song (\u003ci\u003eEasy to Remember\u003c\/i\u003e), baseball (\u003ci\u003eSpring Training\u003c\/i\u003e) and the craft of writing (\u003ci\u003eWriting to Learn\u003c\/i\u003e). During the 1970s he was at Yale University, where he was master of Branford College and taught the influential nonfiction workshop that would start many writers and editors on their careers. He has taught at the New School, in New York, his hometown, and at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\u003c\/blockquote\u003e","brand":"William Zinsser","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29130840329,"sku":"","price":13.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/products\/zinsser2_hires.jpg?v=1399097657"},{"product_id":"as-we-saw-them","title":"As We Saw Them","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eForeword by Carol Gluck \/ 232-page paperback \/ 5.5\" x 8.5\" \/ ISBN 978-1-58988-023-8 \/ Publication Date: August 2005\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Masao Miyoshi's masterful account is, by turns, alarming and hilarious as two cultures meet at the court of President James Buchanan. Their mutual incomprehension is, alas, still relevant as inscrutable East fails to make sense of mysterious West, and vice versa.\"—Gore Vidal\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Miyoshi has given a marvelous and revealing account of a dramatic case of confrontation of cultures and civilizations. It yields much insight into our own society, as seen from a sharply different perspective, and into the culture of the viewers as well-insights well worth pondering today.\"—Noam Chomsky\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eAs We Saw Them\u003c\/i\u003e is a pioneering work in the relationship between cultures. With extraordinary tact and brilliance Miyoshi in effect reconstructs the mind of Japan at that time, a pregnant moment of self-examination and emergence. For contemporary readers \u003ci\u003eAs We Saw Them\u003c\/i\u003e is an invaluable work of insight and interpretation.\"—Edward Said\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1860 the empire of Japan sent 170 officials—samurai and bureaucrats, inspectors and spies, half a dozen teenagers and one Confucian physician—to tour the United States, the first such visit to America and the first trip anywhere abroad in two hundred years. Politics and curiosity, on both sides, mixed to create an amazing journey. Using the travelers' own journals of the trip and American accounts of the group's progress, historian and critic Masao Miyoshi relates the fascinating tale of entrenched assumptions, startling impressions, and bewildering conclusions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMiyoshi finds in this unique encounter an entertaining adventure story of discovery and a paradigm of the attitudes and judgments that have ever since shaped American and Japanese perceptions of one another. This revealing account of \"otherness\" is still relevant today as we strive to understand peoples whom we think of as foreign—and therefore strangely other than we.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMasao Miyoshi\u003c\/b\u003e was Hajime Mori Professor of Japanese, English, and Comparative Literature at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eOff Center: Power and Culture Relations between Japan and the United States\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCarol Gluck\u003c\/b\u003e, George Sansom Professor of History at Columbia University, specializes in modern Japan, from the late nineteenth century to the present.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\u003c\/blockquote\u003e","brand":"Masao Miyoshi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29130864969,"sku":"","price":14.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/products\/miyoshi_hires.jpg?v=1399097801"},{"product_id":"boston-boy","title":"Boston Boy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e212-page paperback \/ 5.38\" x 8.5\" \/ ISBN 978-0-9679675-2-3 \/ Publication Date: December 2001\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBoston Boy\u003c\/em\u003e is Nat Hentoff's memoir of growing up in the Roxbury section of Boston in the 1930s and 1940s. He grapples with Judaism and anti-Semitism. He develops a passion for outspoken journalism and First Amendment freedom of speech. And he discovers his love of jazz music as he follows, and is befriended by, the great jazz musicians of the day, including Duke Ellington and Lester Young among others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This memoir of [Hentoff's] youth should be appreciated not only by adults who grew up through the fires of their own youthful rebellion, but by those restless young people who are now bringing their own views and questions to the world they are inheriting. They could learn from this example that rebels can be gentle as well as enraged and compassionate in their commitment.\"—\u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Nat Hentoff knows jazz. And it comes alive in this wonderful, touching memoir.\"—Ken Burns, creator of the PBS series \u003cem\u003eJazz\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"[A] charmingly bittersweet memoir.\"—\u003cem\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This is a touching book about a painful, wonderful time in Boston…I loved it.\"—Anthony Lewis\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso available as an ebook:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/JGyjUB\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAmazon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/book\/boston-boy\/id526108916?mt=11\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eApple iTunes Bookstore\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/boston-boy-nat-hentoff\/1101061017?ean=2940014320498\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBarnes \u0026amp; Noble\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details\/Nat_Hentoff_Boston_Boy?id=awo3bgssKw8C\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGoogle Play\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/store.kobobooks.com\/en-us\/ebook\/boston-boy\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eKobo\u003c\/a\u003e (See IndieBound's \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/ebooks\" target=\"_blank\"\u003elist of independent booksellers selling e-books\u003c\/a\u003e.)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong class=\"author\"\u003eNat Hentoff\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in Boston in 1925 and lived there until he moved to New York City at the age of twenty-eight. For many years he has written a weekly column for the \u003cem\u003eVillage Voice\u003c\/em\u003e. His column for the \u003cem\u003eWashington Times\u003c\/em\u003e is syndicated in 250 newspapers, and he writes regularly about music for the \u003cem\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/em\u003e. For twenty-five years, he was a staff writer for the \u003cem\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e and for many years was a columnist for the \u003cem\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/em\u003e. His numerous books cover subjects ranging from jazz music and musicians to civil rights and civil liberties, on which he is a recognized authority. He was jazz critic at \u003cem\u003eDown Beat\u003c\/em\u003e and has written liner notes for many important jazz recordings. His work has won him honors not only from the music industry, but also from the American Bar Association and the American Library Association.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\u003c\/blockquote\u003e","brand":"Nat Hentoff","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29130923017,"sku":"","price":13.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/products\/hentoff_hires.jpg?v=1399098039"},{"product_id":"cries-in-the-new-wilderness","title":"Cries in the New Wilderness","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e236 pages, available as a paperback or hardback \/ 5.75\" x 9\" \/ ISBN 978-0-9679675-5-4 \/ Publication Date: August 2002\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInside the disintegrating Soviet Union, a professor compiles \"The New Sectarianism,\" a classified manual of manifestos, articles, and sermons by members of banned religious sects—from the mystical Thingwrights and the absurdist Folls to the messianic Khazarists and the doomsday Steppies. \u003cem\u003eCries in the New Wilderness\u003c\/em\u003e is filled with the voices of these groups. As a counterpoint to this medley of comic, grotesque, poetic, banal, poignant, and harrowing voices is the voice of the commentator, Professor Gibaydulina, who struggles to maintain the purity and objectivity of her scientific atheism in the face of an amazing variety of religious experiences. Epstein's depiction of the inner drama of Gibaydulina's response to the crumbling of the Soviet Union and her quest for a new, creative atheism adds a tragic note to his polyphonic work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCries in the New Wilderness\u003c\/em\u003e is a work of extraordinary artistic and philosophical imagination, begun in Moscow in the mid-1980s and now available for the first time in English translation in an expanded version. Drawing on his own participation in Moscow's intellectual associations and in expeditions to study popular religious beliefs in southern Russia and Ukraine, Epstein recreates the spiritual experience of a whole Russian generation. His is not a documentary book, however, but a \"comedy of ideas,\" in which he constructs from the voices he hears in the culture around him the religious and philosophical worldviews of Foodniks and Domesticans, Arkists and Bloodbrothers, Atheans and Good-believers, Steppies and Pushkinians.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn award-winning essayist and critic, Mikhail Epstein has been compared to Jorge Luis Borges for his literary inventiveness and to Walter Benjamin for his acute observation of cultural phenomena. Transcending genres and disciplines, \u003cem\u003eCries in the New Wilderness\u003c\/em\u003e is a brilliantly original work, a \"virtual document\" that illuminates the spiritual condition of the Soviet Union as it reveals unsuspected affinities between Russian and American culture. In the mirror of Soviet society, we recognize our own enthusiasm for alternative spiritual experiences, our worship of technology, our doomsday cults. We may also recognize that we ourselves are participants in many of the sects Mikhail Epstein describes, sects that seem at first fantastic and outlandish, but prove to be the religious basis of our own lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The prolific, inexhaustibly inventive Mikhail Epstein has produced a novel — almost. \u003cem\u003eCries in the New Wildnerness\u003c\/em\u003e is fiction, but (according to Epstein's own philosophy of 'possibilism') not untrue: it has merely realized some of the vital potentials of post-atheistic Russian culture, where people thirst for a faith that can sacralize everyday practices while at the same time endorse a transcendent Whole. Whether you do Russia for a living or simply love the spectacle of dullness broken up into a thousand crazy glittering points of light, you will recognize, in reading it, a passion of your own.\" —Caryl Emerson, Princeton University\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Mikhail Epstein is probably the most important figure in Russian literary theory in the post-Bakhtin, post-Lotman era. What he has to say is of great interest to everyone interested in cultural studies.\" —Walter Laqueur, Chairman, Center for Strategic and International Studies\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Borgesian in its design, \u003cem\u003eCries in the New Wilderness\u003c\/em\u003e is the best example of that rare genre of theological fantasy that strikes a precise equilibrium between search for God and struggle against God.\" —Alexander Genis, author of \u003cem\u003eRed Bread\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eCries in the New Wilderness\u003c\/em\u003e presents a completely new view of the spiritual life of Russian society…The book is full of tragicomic tension and brings to mind the multivoiced novels of Dostoevsky.\" —Ilya Kabakov\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong class=\"author\"\u003eMikhail Epstein\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in Moscow in 1950 and graduated from Moscow State University summa cum laude in philology in 1972. 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He is the author of 15 books and approximately 400 essays and articles, translated into 14 languages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 2000 Mikhail Epstein was the recipient of the Liberty Prize, established in 1999 and awarded once a year to prominent Russian cultural figures who have made an outstanding contribution to American society. He has also received among many other awards the 1995 Social Innovations Award from the Institute for Social Inventions (London) for his electronic Bank of New Ideas, and the 1991 Andrei Belyi Prize (St. Petersburg) for the best work in literary criticism and scholarship.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong class=\"author\"\u003eEve Adler\u003c\/strong\u003e is professor of classics at Middlebury College and is the translator of several books, including \u003cem\u003eDictionary of Russian Slang \u0026amp; Colloquial Expressions\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mikhail N. Epstein","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":723783405,"sku":"","price":12.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/products\/CriesInTheNewWilderness_72.jpg?v=1450804853"},{"product_id":"the-discovery-of-slowness","title":"The Discovery of Slowness","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eForeword by Carl Honoré \/ Translated from the German by Ralph Freedman \/ 325-page paperback \/ 5.38\" x 8.5\" \/ ISBN 978-1-58988-024-5 \/ Publication Date: May 2005\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Absolutely stunning.\"—\u003cem\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"This book made my life more interesting.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Christoph Niemann (as described in the Netflix series \u003cem\u003eAbstract: The Art of Design\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Discovery of Slowness\u003c\/em\u003e—a huge commercial and critical success across Europe, where it is considered the popular author's masterpiece—recounts the life of the nineteenth-century British explorer Sir John Franklin (1786-1847).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThrough the author's acute reading of history and his marvelous storytelling prowess, the reader follows John Franklin's development from awkward schoolboy and ridiculed teenager to expedition leader, governor of Tasmania, and icon of adventure. Slow and deliberate from boyhood, Franklin appeared destined to be a misfit. But he escaped from the ever-expanding world of industry and Empire to the sea's silent landscape, where the universe seemed more manageable. At age fourteen he joined the navy. After surviving the harrowing battles of Copenhagen and Trafalgar, he embarked on several voyages of discovery into the Canadian North, and served as governor of Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania). Everyone with whom he came into contact sensed that Franklin was a rare man, one who was \"out of his time\" and who moved to a different, grander beat. That beat eventually led Franklin to sail once more—on his final, fateful voyage—into the Arctic in search of the Northwest Passage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Discovery of Slowness\u003c\/em\u003e is a riveting account of a remarkable and varied life. And it is also a profound and thought-provoking meditation on time. The result is an unforgettable and deeply moving reading experience that justifies the novel's reputation as one of the classics of contemporary world literature. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Vivid and constantly surprising…excels at conveying the feel of discovery…Nadolny evinces remarkable empathy with his unlikely Odysseus and Ralph Freedman's translation captures the crystalline freshness of the author's imagery.\"—\u003cem\u003eWashington Post Book World\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This remarkable, superbly translated novel derives from the life of the real 19th century explorer John Franklin…[whose] adventures are conveyed with spellbinding skill.\"—\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eThe Discovery of Slowness\u003c\/em\u003e is a masterpiece of characterization, a portrait of inwardness in the most outward-thrusting of lives.\"—\u003cem\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Fluid and suspenseful, a thought-provoking reminder of contemporary society's tendency to speed through everyday life.\"—\u003cem\u003eThe Providence Journal-Bulletin\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Amazing…His book is a historical painting, a seafarer's novel, a love story, an outcast's story all in one. This variety appears very harmonious, just as it incidentally, almost secretly, reflects on our right to discover the world at our own, personal pace.\"—\u003cem\u003eFrankfurter Allegemeine Zeitung\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Sir John Franklin is the embodied contrast to the frenetic agitation of the modern world. The discovery of slowness is the slowness of discovery.\"—\u003cem\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Nadolny's vision is conveyed with restraint and charm…He has written a Utopia of character.\"—\u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Its appeal lies in its observation of the texture of life, seen by a character who has to work everything out from first principles. It needs to be read slowly, to be absorbed as much as understood.\"—\u003cem\u003eScotland On Sunday\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This is more than an adventure; it's a meditation on time and perception…Not to be rushed, or forgotten.\"—\u003cem\u003eThe Herald\u003c\/em\u003e (Scotland)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Nadolny brilliantly sets the narrative pace to the rhythms of the frozen landscape, and to the 'slowness which is bred by hunger.'\"—Robert MacFarlane\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This is both a wonderful historical novel and a spell-binding individual portrait…This is a marvellous translation of a masterly work.\"—\u003cem\u003eThe Observer\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Time, action and vision—a magical hat-trick and one that this translation pays faithful tribute to, capturing grand adventures like a detailed painting.\"—\u003cem\u003eThe Scotsman\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Slow movements of emotion and plot pull the reader expertly in, and the book with its self-consciously ponderous charm, offers all the pleasures of the best historical fiction.\" —\u003cem\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A suspenseful and meaningful novel…The historical background and detail are effortlessly created, but most important, the hero's enthusiasm and persistence become infectious…The novel is a plea for humanity and against alienation.\"—\u003cem\u003eKurier\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Reading this book has a unique effect: it changes one's perception of the world, sharpens one's ear for rhythm and tempo, and sensitizes one for each person's unique inner time. At first glance, it is an historical novel; at closer glance it reveals itself as a plea to respect unalterable human rhythms in a time of rampant development.\"—\u003cem\u003eDie Weltwoche\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A rarity…a strikingly friendly, entertaining novel.\"—\u003cem\u003eDie Zeit\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"In this novel about a heroic anti-hero, the concepts of victory and defeat become unsuitable categories: the name of the game is to insist, gently and stubbornly, on one's own themes, the motifs of one's own life…A novel both of power and of cunning, sometimes roguish, gaiety.\"—\u003cem\u003eSüddeutsche Zeitung\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Nadolny is a writer who has studied history and has worked in film. All his interests are reflected in this novel: \u003cem\u003eThe Discovery of Slowness\u003c\/em\u003e is an historical biography, based on original sources, and at the same time is concerned with seeing, with the fixed as well as the quick and fleeting look, with the perception of movement and its speed…He knows how to rise above time with slow-motion and time-lapse takes, in close-ups or long shots, with changing perspectives…In Nadolny's hands, Franklin 's slowness becomes an entire system: a tolerance for the unique speed of each person, of respect for all men. The discovery of slowness becomes also a discovery of literature.\"—\u003cem\u003eNeue Zürcher Zeitung\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong class=\"author\"\u003eSten Nadolny\u003c\/strong\u003e (b. 1942) was an historian and filmmaker, before writing four novels and two collections of essays. He lives in Berlin and has been awarded four prizes: Ingeborg Bachmann (1981), Hans-Fallada (1985), Premio Vallombrosa (1986), Ernst Hoferichter (1995). \u003cem\u003eThe Discovery of Slowness\u003c\/em\u003e (1983) has been translated into all major languages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong class=\"author\"\u003eCarl Honoré\u003c\/strong\u003e has worked as a journalist in Europe and South America. He is also the author of the international bestseller \u003cem\u003eIn Praise of Slowness: How A Worldwide Movement Is Challenging The Cult of Speed\u003c\/em\u003e. He lives in London with his wife and two children.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong class=\"author\"\u003eRalph Freedman\u003c\/strong\u003e, born in Hamburg, emigrated to the US in 1939. His many publications include criticism, and two major biographies on Hesse and Rilke, as well as fiction. Having taught literature at Princeton for twenty-two years, he is now writing novels in his retirement.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sten Nadolny","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29131298889,"sku":"","price":15.16,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/products\/DiscoveryOfSlowness_72rev.jpg?v=1596647440"},{"product_id":"farewell-to-salonica","title":"Farewell to Salonica","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFarewell to Salonica: City at the Crossroads \/ 299-page paperback \/ 5.38\" x 8.5\" \/ ISBN 978-1-58988-002-3 \/ Publication Date: June 2003\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA World of Sephardic Jews, Greek Orthodox, and Turkish Muslims in the early 1900s\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A jewel of memory.\"—Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Book-of-the-Month Club\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt the crossroads of East and West, Salonica (now Thessaloniki) was an oasis in a swirl of conflicting powers and interests, a vibrant world of varied peoples, where Leon Sciaky grew up at the turn of the twentieth century. This Paul Dry Books rediscovered classic includes many photos courtesy of Leon Sciaky's son Peter, who has also written a short biographical sketch of his father's life in America.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eFarewell to Salonica\u003c\/em\u003e is a fresh and charming book that throws a kindly light on a sector of human life unknown to most Americans.\"—\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A gallery of beautiful and quaint sketches, revealing fascinating aspects of civilization in a strange city where East met West and the ancient past met the future…It creates an atmosphere of expectation and wonder and enjoyment. Most of all, an atmosphere of living.\"—\u003cem\u003eChristian Science Monitor\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"An altogether charming book, so simply and truthfully written…The Salonica one reads about is not only a fascinating and complex city in which many national and cultural strains run side by side, but it is a critical city of Aegean politics…The breakdown of the Turkish Empire and its consequences for Balkan affairs are better understood when one has read this book. But it is not the political value of the book that should be emphasized so much as its quiet charm, its unpretentious and easy portrayal of a cultural pattern through an account of an engaging family…A warm and softly luminous book.\"—\u003cem\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This is a story of one man's intensely happy boyhood, set against the politically seething years at the turn of the century in the ever-coveted prize city of the Balkans, Salonica…written in a charming and effortless manner.\"—\u003cem\u003ePhiladelphia Inquirer\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"For the gift of a happy youth, Mr. Sciaky has repaid his city handsomely…it recalls Rebecca West's\u003cem\u003eBlack Lamb and Grey Falcon\u003c\/em\u003e…It is an intensely personal story, yet so completely was [the young Sciaky] of his time and place that it is also the story of Salonica in the final phase of its existence; for the city that Sciaky knew, largely dominated by its 70,000 Spanish Jews, has gone…The author has made Salonica a living town, peopled by men and women of flesh and blood, people with all the human faults and weaknesses, but also with the lovable qualities that may be found in humanity everywhere by the man with skill to pick them out.\"—\u003cem\u003eNew York Herald Tribune\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A charming portrait of an era.\"—\u003cem\u003eHonolulu Advertiser\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This picture of a Jewish childhood among rich merchants in Salonica has a glow, the radiant sunshine of a protected childhood.\"—\u003cem\u003eChicago Sun\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso available as an ebook:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/IbUmAw\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAmazon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/book\/farewell-to-salonica\/id526115005?mt=11\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eApple iTunes Bookstore\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/farewell-to-salonica-leon-sciaky\/1118598949?ean=2940013913080\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBarnes \u0026amp; Noble\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/store.kobobooks.com\/en-us\/ebook\/farewell-to-salonica\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eKobo\u003c\/a\u003e (See IndieBound's \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/ebooks\" target=\"_blank\"\u003elist of independent booksellers selling e-books\u003c\/a\u003e.)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong class=\"author\"\u003eLeon Sciaky\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in 1894, when the Turkish flag still waved over Salonica. His family left their beloved but turbulent homeland in 1915, settling in New York City. Sciaky lived in America—mainly upstate New York—with his wife, Frances, and son until his death in 1958. He taught at a number of progressive schools and camps and, in his last years, owned and operated a school and camp with Frances.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\u003c\/blockquote\u003e","brand":"Leon Sciaky","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29130948361,"sku":"","price":13.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/products\/salonica_hires.jpg?v=1399099049"},{"product_id":"fat-wednesday","title":"Fat Wednesday","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e296-page paperback \/ 5.5\" x 8.5\" \/ ISBN 978-1-58988-054-2 \/ Publication Date: April 2010\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Experiencing a change of aspect is characterized by our recognition that something has altered and nothing has altered.\" —from \u003cem\u003eFat Wednesday\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eFat Wednesday\u003c\/em\u003e, John Verdi probes how the inexplicable connections of \u003ci\u003ewords\u003c\/i\u003e can help us understand the ever-changing connections of \u003ci\u003ethings\u003c\/i\u003e that we actually see in everyday experience. In his preface he writes, \"I explore two related concepts: aspect-seeing and experiencing the meaning of a word.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVerdi considers how our experience of seeing aspects, wherever they appear, helps us imagine possible meanings for philosophy's opening question: \"What is there?\" He illuminates Ludwig Wittgenstein's ideas on language and perception while challenging readers to think through for themselves the different ways in which we see.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA major influence in the development of analytic philosophy, Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889—1951) was a leading thinker in the study of logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language. Bertrand Russell described him as \"the most perfect example I have ever known of genius as traditionally conceived, passionate, profound, intense, and dominating.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A representational painting is essentially ambiguous: it is both paint on canvas and a representation of people and objects. We are not fooled by the painting; we see that it is both paint and picture. We take an interest in it because we take an interest in aspects.\" —from \u003ci\u003eFat Wednesday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong class=\"author\"\u003eJohn Verdi\u003c\/strong\u003e has taught at St. John's College in Annapolis and Santa Fe since 1975. His areas of special interest have included the writings of Wittgenstein and Nietzsche, the foundations of mathematics, and the common ground between psychology and philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Verdi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29130952777,"sku":"","price":18.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/products\/verdi_hires.jpg?v=1399099196"},{"product_id":"the-fiction-editor","title":"The Fiction Editor, The Novel, and The Novelist","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSecond edition, revised \/ 167-page paperback \/ 5\" x 8\" \/ ISBN 978-1-58988-030-6 \/ Publication Date: July 2007\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing upon 28 years of experience as the CEO and Editorial Director of St. Martin's Press, Thomas McCormack gives practical guidance about how to plan, write, and revise a novel. A standard reference for editors since its first publication in 1988, \u003cem\u003eThe Fiction Editor\u003c\/em\u003e has also become popular with writers because McCormack's advice is constructive at every step of the creative process: from individual word choice, right up to the overarching effect of the work as a whole. 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He was awarded LMP's Lifetime Achievement Award and the AAP's Curtis Benjamin Award for Creative Publishing. For two years, he wrote \"The Cheerful Skeptic\" column in \u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Thomas McCormack","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29131348617,"sku":"","price":13.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/products\/fiction_hires.jpg?v=1399099305"},{"product_id":"the-flight-of-ikaros","title":"The Flight of Ikaros","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e262-page paperback \/ 5.5\" x 8.5\" \/ ISBN 978-1-58988-064-1 \/ Publication Date: May 2010\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"One of the great and lasting books about Greece.\"—Patrick Leigh Fermor\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNamed one of the 12 Best Books about Greece by \u003cem\u003eThe Telegraph\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Kevin Andrews experienced the dangers of the countryside during the civil war. \u003ci\u003eThe Flight of Ikaros\u003c\/i\u003e, the book he produced from his travels, remains not only one of the greatest we have about postwar Greece—memorializing a village culture that has almost vanished—but also one of the most moving accounts I have ever read of people caught up in political turmoil…\u003ci\u003eFlight\u003c\/i\u003e was first published in 1959 and last reprinted by Penguin in 1984. For too many years, this rare account has languished out of print.\"—\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"An intense and compelling account of an educated, sensitive archaeologist wandering the back country during the civil war. Half a century on, still one of the best books on Greece as it was before 'development.'\"—\u003cem\u003eThe Rough Guide to the Greek Islands\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"He also is in love with the country…but he sees the other side of that dazzling medal or moon…If you want some truth about Greece, here it is.\"—Louis MacNeice, \u003cem\u003eThe Observer\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"One of the best and most honest books about the modern Greeks.\"—E. R. Dodds\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eIn 1947, at the age of twenty-three, Kevin Andrews received a Fulbright Fellowship to study medieval fortresses in the Peloponnese. Andrews spent the long summers of 1948 to 1951 traveling through the region and the winters writing in Athens. This opportunity to travel through little-frequented areas during Greece’s postwar civil war—and before the advent of tourism, industrialization, or easy communications—brought Andrews into immediate contact with village populations, shepherd clans, and the paramilitary vigilantes who kept their own kind of order in the provinces, as well as with the displaced peasants of the Athenian slums. The close experience of all these lives took shape in \u003cem\u003eThe Flight of Ikaros\u003c\/em\u003e, first published in 1959. Paul Dry Books is pleased to return to print this modern travel classic.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlso available as an ebook:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/SksSn8\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAmazon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/book\/flight-of-ikaros\/id526119509?mt=11\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eApple iTunes Bookstore\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/flight-of-ikaros-kevin-andrews\/1101060965?ean=2940013912953\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBarnes \u0026amp; Noble\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details\/Kevin_Andrews_The_Flight_of_Ikaros?id=jj1sfqC4PucC\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGoogle Play\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/store.kobobooks.com\/en-US\/ebook\/the-flight-of-ikaros\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eKobo\u003c\/a\u003e (See IndieBound's \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/ebooks\" target=\"_blank\"\u003elist of independent booksellers selling e-books\u003c\/a\u003e.)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eKevin Andrews\u003c\/strong\u003e (1924–1989) was a writer and archaeologist. After serving in the U.S. Army during World War II, he attended Harvard University and then traveled to Greece on a Fulbright fellowship. In addition to \u003cem\u003eThe Flight of Ikaros\u003c\/em\u003e, he wrote many other books about Greece, where he became a citizen in 1975.","brand":"Kevin Andrews","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29131359753,"sku":"","price":15.16,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/products\/ikaros_hires.jpg?v=1399099517"},{"product_id":"the-parnas","title":"The Parnas","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Parnas: A Scene from the Holocaust \/ Foreword by Rabbi Harold S. Kushner \/ 147-page paperback \/ 5.75\" x 8.5\" \/ ISBN 978-0-9664913-0-2 \/ Publication Date: March 2000\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eView the curriculum guide \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/files\/arieti_guide.pdf?1003\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Parnas\u003c\/em\u003e recreates the final days of Giuseppe Pardo Roques, the lay leader, or parnas, of the Sephardic Jewish community of Pisa, Italy, who was killed in his home by the Nazis in August, 1944. Pardo was a mentor to the author, and, indeed, he was a figure adored and celebrated not only by the Jews of Pisa but by the Christians as well. He was learned and generous, but he was also profoundly phobic. Animals terrified him: so much so that he almost never left his house—except to go to the synagogue—for fear of encountering stray dogs or cats. At the outbreak of World War II, Arieti fled to America where he became a renown psychiatrist. But the parnas, despite a wealth of connections that could have helped him escape, was too phobic to flee Pisa. On the morning of August 1, 1944, Nazi soldiers, searching for Pardo's fabled riches, entered his home. The soldiers found neither gold nor silver, but they did find the parnas, along with six fellow Jews whom he was sheltering and five Christian neighbors. All were murdered. In \u003cem\u003eThe Parnas\u003c\/em\u003e, Arieti imagines what took place in the home, and in the mind, of this devout, kindly, and tormented man in the last days of his life, providing, in the process, an overview of Italian Jewry. Arieti hopes to show \"that tragic times have a perfume of their own, and smiles of hope, and traces of charm, and offer olive branches and late warnings that may not be too late.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso available as an ebook:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/IfTP4l\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAmazon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/book\/parnas\/id526131351?mt=11\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eApple iTunes Bookstore\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/parnas-silvano-arieti\/1101061008?ean=2940014240291\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBarnes \u0026amp; Noble\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details\/Silvano_Arieti_The_Parnas?id=Jir7k1acmoAC\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGoogle Play\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/store.kobobooks.com\/en-US\/ebook\/the-parnas-a-scene-from-the-holocaust\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eKobo\u003c\/a\u003e (See IndieBound's \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/ebooks\" target=\"_blank\"\u003elist of independent booksellers selling e-books\u003c\/a\u003e.)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The psychiatrist's insight and the storyteller's skill offer an absorbing tale.\" —Elie Wiesel\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A book to read again and again with the same piety with which it has been written. A rare event in publishing: at once an accurate and documented historical study, and in the interpretation made by one of today's greatest psychologists of a strange and symbolic disease.\" —Primo Levi\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This is one of the most extraordinary stories yet to reach us from the bitter ashes of Nazism…Dr. Arieti weaves his story so beautifully that to unravel it would mean losing its dramatic effect. Suffice it to say that God, Jews, Christians, fascism, cowardice, and bravery are discussed throughout the story in such a way that the reader is at once shaken and enlightened as the plot unfolds. It is like a parable, suffused with the dignity of both the parnas and the author…a work of art.\" \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the Foreword by Rabbi Harold S. Kushner: \"In this brief, deceptively simple narrative, Arieti has told the story of Giuseppe Pardo, parnas (lay leader) of his native community of Pisa, and of his death at the hands of the Nazis. Pardo was the leading citizen of a small Jewish community that produced more that its share of distinguished Jews. He was a learned man, familiar with Bible, Talmud, and secular subjects. He was a wealthy man, and charitable to Jew and non-Jew alike. (He ultimately met his death together with six fellow Jews and five gentiles who had sought the protection of his home.) And he was a profoundly neurotic man, who had an irrational fear of animals, especially dogs. When he walked in the streets of Pisa—which was not often because of his fears—he would swing a cane from side to side behind him to drive away the imaginary animals. The distinguished psychiatrist tells of his strange life and equally strange death.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong class=\"author\"\u003eSilvano Arieti\u003c\/strong\u003e (1914-1981) was born in Pisa and immigrated to New York in 1939, where he lived until his death. He enjoyed a distinguished career as a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, with a particular interest in schizophrenia and depression. He was the editor-in-chief of the \u003cem\u003eAmerican Handbook of Psychiatry\u003c\/em\u003e, and the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Will to be Human\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eCreativity: The Magic Synthesis\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eUnderstanding and Helping the Schizophrenic\u003c\/em\u003e;\u003cem\u003eAbraham and the Contemporary Mind\u003c\/em\u003e; and \u003cem\u003eInterpretation of Schizophrenia\u003c\/em\u003e, for which he won the National Book Award for Science.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Silvano Arieti","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29047656457,"sku":"","price":13.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/products\/parnas_hires.jpg?v=1426177734"},{"product_id":"ovid-s-metamorphoses","title":"Ovid’s Metamorphoses","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOvid’s Metamorphoses \/ Arthur Golding’s translation of 1567 \/ Introduction by John Frederick Nims \/ 460-page paperback \/ 6\" x 9\" \/ ISBN 978-0-9664913-1-9 \/ Publication Date: March 2000\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Absolutely essential\"—\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This 1567 translation of Ovid's \u003ci\u003eMetamorphoses\u003c\/i\u003e…is tough, surprising, and lovely…To read it is to understand the Renaissance view of the classical world, storytelling and also Shakespeare's language and worldview.\"—A. S. Byatt\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"It is a tour de force of translation, and it deserves, more than 400 years after its composition, to be read.\"—\u003ci\u003eRain Taxi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The most beautiful book in the English language.\"—Ezra Pound\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSince its first publication in 1567, Arthur Golding's translation of Ovid has had an enormous influence on English literature and poetry. This is the translation that Shakespeare knew, read, and borrowed from. Golding's witty and beautiful verse continues to delight today's readers. This volume promises to be a valuable resource for students and teachers of Ovid and Shakespeare indeed, for anyone interested in the foundations of English literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"[Golding's translation] was the English Ovid from the time of publication in 1567 until about a decade after the death of Shakespeare in 1616. The Ovid, that is, for all who read him in English during the greatest period of our literature. And its racy verve, its quirks and oddities, its rugged English gusto, is still more enjoyable, more plain fun to read, than any other \u003ci\u003eMetamorphoses\u003c\/i\u003e in English.\"—From the Introduction by John Frederick Nims\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Ovid was Shakespeare's favorite classical poet. Both are writers who probe our humanity with great rigor, but ultimately do so in a spirit of sympathy for our frailties and indulgences. Ovid's world shuttles between human passions and natural phenomena. Shakespeare, with the assistance of Arthur Golding, carried the magic of that world into the medium of theatre.\"—From Jonathan Bate's Essay\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\u003c\/blockquote\u003e","brand":"Ovid","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29131138889,"sku":"","price":19.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/products\/OvidsMetamorphoses_72_c387a277-f029-41f1-8fcd-4d065865392d.jpg?v=1426796590"},{"product_id":"one-is-one","title":"One Is One","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e285-page paperback \/ 5\" x 8\" \/ ISBN 978-1-58988-027-6 \/ Publication Date: July 2006\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 14th-century England, Stephen de Beauville dreams of becoming a knight—not a promising ambition for a contemplative boy with a talent for drawing. Quiet and solitary, Stephen must endure the bitter torments of his brothers and cousins until he finds his first true friend; through that friendship Stephen gains courage to endure the lack of kindness in his life. But believing that Stephen will never possess the valor to be a knight, his father abruptly sends him away to spend the rest of his life in a monastery.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter a harsh apprenticeship in the monastery, Stephen realizes he must flee its confines. In a twist of fortune, he becomes squire to a wise knight and then attains knighthood himself. The death of his own young squire causes the twenty-six-year-old Stephen to re-examine his ambitions. In doing so, he makes an important discovery: His journey through dangerous times has instilled in him the strength and self-confidence to find his true place in the world. \u003ci\u003eOne is One \u003c\/i\u003eportrays a man ready to heed his mentor's maxim: \"Do not be afraid to do what you want to do.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSeveral of Barbara Leonie Picard’s many books, including \u003ci\u003eOne Is One\u003c\/i\u003e, have been shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal, Britain’s oldest children’s book award.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Her narratives have the ring of tales told by skald and bard, and her choice of words would fill great halls. Her literary fairy tales are lushly romantic, with poetic language and an almost other-worldly knowledge that informs and enriches them. Open one of her books and read it aloud. See how her words will still echo in the storytelling rooms and libraries that have become our great halls.\" —Janice M. Del Negro\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"In \u003cem\u003eOne is One\u003c\/em\u003e . . . there is a large cast of entirely credible characters and a good contrast is pointed between fourteenth-century courtly and monastic life. The strength of this book derives from its concern with important themes—loneliness, loyalty, courage and love; above all, self-knowledge.\" —\u003cem\u003eThe Spectator\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Miss Picard has been bold in choosing for her hero a weakling and a coward. 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Asekoff\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStephanie Brown\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHayden Carruth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGillian Conoley\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAmy Gerstler\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJudith Hall\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHunt Hawkins\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJane Hirshfield\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eClaudia Keelan\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYusef Komunyakaa\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLisa Lewis\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDana Levin\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLaurence Lieberman\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThomas Lux\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJane Mead\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJack Myers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDonald Revell\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLen Roberts\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMichael Ryan\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIra Sadoff\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHugh Seidman\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJennifer Snyder Gerald Stern\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLucien Stryk\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKaren Volkman\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTed Weiss\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJoe Wenderoth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Anyone interested in how language calls to language, and heart to heart, will find these pages irresistible.\" —\u003cem\u003eThe Philadelphia Inquirer\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"In this quirky, resonant, and necessary book, generously edited by Stephen Berg, a wide range of American poets at all stages of their writing lives offer their poems and choose their precursors, meditating with great humility and insight on the dual mysteries of influence and mastery, on the reading that fosters writing, on the shimmering nobility of poetry itself.\" —Edward Hirsch, Author of \u003cem\u003eHow to Read a Poem\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"[A]n intimate and diverse look at the interactive processes of reading and writing: at its best, a compelling revelation of the ways in which the lifeblood of the poetic tradition seeps into the veins of the maker and is remade by this process in as much as it molds it.\" —\u003cem\u003eRain Taxi\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eMy Business is Circumference\u003c\/em\u003e will intrigue apprentice poets, teachers, and readers fascinated by writers creatively exploring their own material and philosophical foundations.\" —Foreword Magazine\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The collection's abundance should last you several seasons at the very least.\" —The Jewish Exponent\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The poems selected are a delight. Placed with the work of the moderns they are sometimes a surprise. The juxtaposition invites the reader to puzzle out what the connection is between the two. It is a veritable Rorschach text touching on subtle and sometimes mysterious associations. The poets are generous in their description of their creative processes and revisit their first contact with the poems that inspired them, go on to share with us what touched them, what techniques influenced them and what they struggled with...With the encouragement of the editor, the poets in this book have generously offered to us their insight and art. For this they deserve a place of honor on our book shelves.\" —\u003cem\u003eSmall Press Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Not all invitational anthologies succeed in their missions, but poet Berg's inspired idea to ask American poets to choose several poems that influenced their work, write a short essay about their response to the poems, and contribute new poems of their own proved to be remarkably fecund. Poets are passionate readers of poetry, after all, and most poems are part of a grand, centuries-old conversation about the confusion, misery, bliss, and wonder of being. Jane Hirshfield, a superb poet and an interpreter and translator of poetry, writes elegantly about 'pebble-poems,' poems that are 'small, a little intractable, lithic in their singleness of perception.' Water is the element that connects Yusef Komunyakaa to poems by Robert Hayden and Elizabeth Bishop, and Hayden Carruth writes that he's 'been influenced by at least ten thousand poems written by at least one thousand poets,' then offers by way of examples works by Shakespeare, Pope, Dickinson, and Frost. Other radiant contributors to Berg's invigorating roundtable include A. R. Ammons, Thomas Lux, Jane Mead, Gerald Stern, and Karen Volkman.\" —\u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The younger poets male and female steal the show here; while many skirt the topic of mastery with respect to their own work, they are passionate about their influences, which range from Sei Shonagon to Walt Whitman to Sharon Olds.\" —\u003cem\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e","brand":"Stephen Berg (editor)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29131112265,"sku":"","price":21.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/products\/berg_hires.jpg?v=1399138593"},{"product_id":"mitchell-and-ruff","title":"Mitchell and Ruff","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMitchell and Ruff: An American Profile in Jazz \/ Foreword by Albert Murray \/ 191-page paperback \/ 5.38\" x 8.5\" \/ ISBN \t978-0-9664913-4-0 \/ Publication Date: November 2000\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eView the curriculum guide \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/files\/zinsser_guide.pdf?1003\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Highly recommended\"—\u003cem\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"In this account of the world adventures of two splendid jazz artists, Bill Zinsser has given us one of the most exciting books about America's original art form that I've ever read. It's a revelation.\"—Studs Terkel\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSince 1955, Dwike Mitchell and Willie Ruff have been playing, teaching, and sharing jazz around the U.S. and around the world. William Zinsser, one of our finest chroniclers of American life, tells their story as he travels with the duo to China, to Davenport, Iowa, to New York City, and—with Willie Ruff—to St. Mark's Basilica in Venice, where Ruff journeys back to the roots of Western music in order to understand jazz's musical legacy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eZinsser also accompanies Mitchell and Ruff as they visit their hometowns in Florida and Alabama. We listen as the two men tell of growing up in small towns in the American South of the 1930s and 40s; as they tell about the teachers, community leaders, and family members who believed in two young black men with talent but no formal musical training; as they tell of their struggles, their perseverance, and their ultimate success.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJazz is indeed a uniquely American musical tradition, and there are no better guides to this inspiring art than Dwike Mitchell and Willie Ruff.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"[This is a] thoughtful, adept, and satisfyingly unusual book of reportage…Though its contents are entirely factual, it concerns lives that give the sense of being but fatefully, imaginatively, arranged, and it constantly suggests improvisation—that is, 'something created during the process of delivery,' as Mr. Ruff explains the term to the Chinese…He also tells them improvisation is 'the lifeblood of jazz.' William Zinsser's book reminds us that improvisation is the lifeblood of life, too. [This book is also] about difficult passages that end in victorious arrival. Mitchell \u0026amp; Ruff is a deservedly happy book.\"—\u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A highly infectious, Studs Terkel-like chronicle about the unorthodox development of two distinguished musicians.\"—\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Jazz came to China for the first time on the afternoon of June 2, 1981, when the American bassist and French-horn player Willie Ruff introduced himself and his partner, the pianist Dwike Mitchell, to several hundred students and professors who were crowded into a large room at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. Probably they were not surprised to find that the two musicians were black…What they undoubtedly didn't expect was that Ruff would talk to them in Chinese.\"—from Chapter 1, \"Shanghai\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso available as an ebook:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/IgMkrk\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAmazon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/book\/mitchell-ruff\/id526127778?mt=11\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eApple iTunes Bookstore\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/mitchell-ruff-william-zinssser\/1109484843?ean=2940014320399\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBarnes \u0026amp; Noble\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details\/William_Knowlton_Zinsser_Mitchell_Ruff?id=AqqPS5GXWhoC\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGoogle Play\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/store.kobobooks.com\/en-us\/ebook\/mitchell-ruff\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eKobo\u003c\/a\u003e (See IndieBound's \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/ebooks\" target=\"_blank\"\u003elist of independent booksellers selling e-books\u003c\/a\u003e.)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/pages\/william-zinsser\"\u003eWilliam Zinsser\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e is author of the best-selling \u003cem\u003eOn Writing Well\u003c\/em\u003e and fourteen other books. His most recent is \u003cem\u003eEasy to Remember: The Great American Songwriters and Their Songs\u003c\/em\u003e. He has been a writer, columnist, critic, and editor at leading newspapers and magazines as well as general editor of the Book-of-the-Month Club. During the 1970s he was master of Branford College at Yale University, where he taught nonfiction writing and where he first met Willie Ruff. Mr. Zinsser is a part-time jazz pianist and a student of Dwike Mitchell.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong class=\"author\"\u003eAlbert Murray\u003c\/strong\u003e is a cultural critic, biographer, essayist, and novelist. He has taught at several colleges, including Colgate, Barnard, and Tuskegee. Mr. Murray's works include \u003cem\u003eThe Omni-Americans, South to a Very Old Place, Train Whistle Guitar, The Blue Devils of Nada\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Seven League Boots.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"William Zinsser","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29131088265,"sku":"","price":13.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/products\/zinsser1_hires.jpg?v=1399138811"},{"product_id":"the-metalogicon","title":"The Metalogicon","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Metalogicon: A Twelfth-century Defense of the Verbal and Logical Arts of the Trivium \/ Translated by Daniel D. McGarry \/ 305-page paperback \/ 6\" x 9\" \/ ISBN 978-1-58988-058-0 \/ Publication Date: November 2009\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWritten in 1159 and addressed to Thomas Becket, John of Salisbury's \u003cem\u003eThe Metalogicon\u003c\/em\u003e presents—and defends—a thorough study of the liberal arts of grammar, logic, and rhetoric. The very name \"Metalogicon,\" a coinage by the author, brings together the Greek \u003cem\u003emeta\u003c\/em\u003e (on behalf of) and \u003cem\u003elogicon\u003c\/em\u003e (logic or logical studies). Thus, in naming his text, he also explained it. With this lucid treatise on education, John of Salisbury urges a thorough grounding in the arts of words (oral and written) and reasoning, as these topics are addressed in grammar and logic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Metalogicon (Contents in brief)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePrologue — Occasion, Purpose, and General Nature of the Work\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBook I — The Trivium and Grammar\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBook II — Logic Proper: General Observations\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBook III — Logic: Contents (Porphyry and Aristotle)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBook IV — Logic: Contents and Truth\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe study of grammar in John of Salisbury's time included familiarization with the ancient Latin classics, and involved not only a reading of them but also an analysis and imitation of their style. It thus anticipated the humanism of the Renaissance. The study of logic, as it was then pursued, comprised learning and putting into practice the principles of Aristotle's \u003cem\u003eOrganon\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Metalogicon\u003c\/em\u003e, a leading medieval scholar summarizes the essential lineaments of existing twelfth-century education, describes his experiences while a student at Chartres and Paris, and affords personal glimpses of such contemporary intellectual leaders as Peter Abelard, Gilbert de la Porrée, and Thierry of Chartres.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWritten more than 950 years ago, \u003cem\u003eThe Metalogicon\u003c\/em\u003e still possesses an invigorating originality that invites readers to refresh themselves at the sources of Western learning.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Grammar is accordingly first among the liberal arts. Necessary for the young, gratifying to the old, and an agreeable solace in solitude, it alone, of all branches of learning, has more utility than show.\" — Quintilian, quoted by John of Salisbury in \u003cem\u003eThe Metalogicon\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong class=\"author\"\u003eJohn of Salisbury\u003c\/strong\u003e (ca. 1115-76) studied with many of the great masters of the early twelfth century, served as an aid to Thomas Becket, was friend to Pope Hadrian IV, was an annoyance if not an enemy to England’s King Henry II, and died as Bishop of Chartres.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong class=\"author\"\u003eDaniel D. McGarry\u003c\/strong\u003e was professor of history at Saint Louis University. His translation of \u003cem\u003eThe Metalogicon\u003c\/em\u003e was the first to appear in any modern language.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John of Salisbury","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29047635721,"sku":"","price":18.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/products\/metalogicon_hires.jpg?v=1399138987"},{"product_id":"memoirs-of-a-midget","title":"Memoirs of a Midget","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eForeword by Alison Lurie \/ 379-page paperback \/ 5.5\" x 8.5\" \/ ISBN 978-1-58988-012-2 \/ Publication Date: January 2004\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMiss M., the narrator of these fictional memoirs, is a diminutive young woman (though just how diminutive, the author never says) with a \"passion for shells, fossils, flints, butterflies, and stuffed animals.\" Miss M. tells of her early life as a dreamy orphan and, in particular, of her tempestuous twentieth year—in which she falls in love with a beautiful and ambitious full-sized woman and is courted by a male dwarf. Concluding that she must choose either to simply tolerate her difference or grow callous to it, Miss M. resolves to become independent by offering herself up as a spectacle in a circus.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"For centuries to come, this book will inspire imaginative people. Beyond all doubt, it will be an ingredient of future poetry.\"—Rebecca West\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"It may be read with a great deal of simple enjoyment and then it sticks like a splinter in the mind.\"—Angela Carter\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"It seems to me a perfect, utterly original novel, and no one but a poet could have written it…The book is totally idiosyncratic and yet there isn't a line you couldn't identify yourself with.\"—Harry Mathews\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"One of the strangest and most enchanting works of fiction ever written.\"—Alison Lurie, from her foreword\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Here is a great book.\"—\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Sentences, pages, whole chapters cause us to catch our breath.\"—\u003ci\u003eAtlantic Monthly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"De la Mare's masterpiece…It acts upon the reader like a ghostly visitation, at once unsettling and revelatory.\"—\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"After a long period of neglect de la Mare may be beginning to be seen as the remarkable writer that he is.\"—John Bayley, \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWalter de la Mare\u003c\/strong\u003e (1873–1956) wrote numerous novels, short stories, essays, and poems. He was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for \u003cem\u003eMemoirs of a Midget\u003c\/em\u003e. Other major works include the children’s novel, \u003cem\u003eThe Three Royal Monkeys\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eHenry Brocken\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Return\u003c\/em\u003e. His book \u003ca href=\"\/products\/desert-islands\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eDesert Islands\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e is also available from Paul Dry Books.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlison Lurie \u003c\/strong\u003eis the author of many highly praised novels as well as two collections of essays on children’s literature, \u003cem\u003eDon’t Tell the Grown-Ups\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eBoys and Girls Forever\u003c\/em\u003e. She has taught children’s literature and folklore at Cornell University for many years.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Walter de la Mare","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29131071753,"sku":"","price":11.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/products\/memoirs_hires.jpg?v=1415396248"},{"product_id":"the-logic-of-desire","title":"The Logic of Desire","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Logic of Desire: An Introduction to Hegel's Phenomenology Of Spirit \u003cbr\u003e537-page paperback \/ 6.13\" x 9.25\" \/ ISBN 9781589880375 \u003cbr\u003ePublication Date: January 2008\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePeter Kalkavage's \u003cem\u003eThe Logic of Desire\u003c\/em\u003e guides the reader through Hegel's great work. Given the book's legendary difficulty, one may well ask, \"Why even try to read the \u003cem\u003ePhenomenology\u003c\/em\u003e?\" In his preface, Kalkavage explains why he thinks a reader should try:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere is much to commend the study of Hegel: his attentiveness to the deepest, most fundamental questions of philosophy, his uncompromising pursuit of truth, his amazing gift for characterization and critique, his appreciation for the grand sweep of things and the large view, his profound admiration for all that is heroic, especially for the ancient Greeks, those heroes of thought in whom the philosophic spirit first dawned, his pene-trating gaze into modernity in all its forms, his enormous breadth of interests, and his audacious claim to have captured absolute knowing in a thoroughly rational account.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAccording to Kalkavage, the \u003cem\u003ePhenomenology\u003c\/em\u003e belongs to a quartet of the greatest works on education. The other three members of the quartet are Plato's \u003cem\u003eRepublic\u003c\/em\u003e, Dante's \u003cem\u003eDivine Comedy\u003c\/em\u003e, and Rousseau's \u003cem\u003eEmile\u003c\/em\u003e. No genuine philosophic education can omit a serious encounter with this giant of the modern age, the giant who absorbed all the worlds of spiritual vitality that came before him and tried to organize them into a coherent whole.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This book comes as close as I have seen to a guide to Hegel for the 'courageous non-specialist,' to employ Mr. Kalkavage's expression. He writes from what is obviously a lengthy and deep study of Hegel and of the \u003cem\u003ePhenomenology\u003c\/em\u003e in particular. There is no patronising of Hegel's complex teaching. The technical terminology is not avoided or concealed by the jovial jargon of a study manual. Kalkavage has mastered the art of presenting topics of great difficulty in a way that will instruct specialists as well as non-specialists. I found especially illuminating his portrait of determinate negation and the difference between consciousness and the phenomenolgical observer. This book should be in every college and university library.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Stanley Rosen\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Having taught philosophy to undergraduates for the past thirty-nine years, I can especially appreciate the value of Peter Kalkavage's book,\u003cem\u003eThe Logic of Desire\u003c\/em\u003e. This work will truly benefit anyone who wishes to learn what Hegel himself is teaching in his first major volume. It provides remarkable insights on Hegel's complex work as a whole as well as serving as a sure guide for every chapter and for virtually every paragraph. Even the many endnotes are very valuable. It should be made readily available to every undergraduate who has to read any part of the \u003cem\u003ePhenomenology\u003c\/em\u003e.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Dr. Donald C. Lindenmuth, Pennsylvania State University\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"author\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlso available as an e-book:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details\/Peter_Kalkavage_The_Logic_of_Desire?id=SDASq2t5ZpQC\u0026amp;utm_source=na_Med\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"author\"\u003eGoogle Play\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cstrong class=\"author\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/books.apple.com\/us\/book\/the-logic-of-desire\/id6743806319\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"author\"\u003eApple iTunes Bookstore\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/us\/en\/ebook\/the-logic-of-desire-an-introduction-to-hegel-s-phenomenology-of-spirit?sId=556e4876-a23e-479d-afdd-dd03fc5a0cf4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"author\"\u003eKobo\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cstrong class=\"author\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePeter Kalkavage\u003c\/strong\u003e is a member of the senior faculty at St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, where he has taught for thirty years. He is the author of numerous articles on philosophy. He translated Plato's \u003cem\u003eTimaeus\u003c\/em\u003e and co-translated Plato's \u003cem\u003ePhaedo\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSophist\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Kalkavage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42128964354288,"sku":"","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/products\/hegel_hires.jpg?v=1399139787"},{"product_id":"literary-genius","title":"Literary Genius","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLiterary Genius: 25 Classic Writers Who Define English and American Literature \/ Wood engravings by Barry Moser \/ 246-page hardback \/ 7.38\" x 9.25\" \/ ISBN 978-1-58988-035-1 \/ Publication Date: October 2007\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOur finest essayists discuss six centuries of literary genius.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Genius is one of those words upon which the world has agreed to form no clear consensus,\" Joseph Epstein tells us in his introduction. How then shall we define \"literary genius\"? In this collection, twenty-five contemporary authors endeavor to answer that question by considering twenty-five classic writers and their enduring works.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe learn that, more important than mere originality or creativity, it is the ability to make us experience the world in new ways that sets these writers apart. \"My task,\" Joseph Conrad wrote, \"is by the power of the written word to make you hear, to make you feel—it is above all to make you see. That—and no more, and it is everything.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWood-engraved portraits and illustrations by renowned artist Barry Moser accompany each essay. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJoseph Epstein, from his introduction: \"Literary genius comes in many varieties. Some literary geniuses seem natural (Charles Dickens, Mark Twain), others cultivated (George Eliot, Henry James). Some are prolific (Wordsworth, Whitman), some are more carefully concentrated (Jane Austen, T. S. Eliot). Some literary geniuses are stimulated by the difficult (Alexander Pope, John Milton). Some require absolute originality — entailing the need to invent their own style — to convey their vision (James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway). Some have perfected a form (Pope, the heroic couplet), some have tried to kill off a genre (Joyce, the novel). Not some but all literary geniuses can be read again and again, down through the generations. As Hilary Mantel, in her essay on Jane Austen, writes: 'Surely this is the definition of genius in a writer: the capacity to make a text that can give and give, a text that is never fully read, a text that goes on multiplying meanings.' Timelessness this is called, and it is another of the hallmarks of literary genius.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTom Shippey on Geoffrey Chaucer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLois Potter on William Shakespeare\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReynolds Price on John Milton\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnthony Hecht on Alexander Pope\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDavid Bromwich on Samuel Johnson\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDavid Womersley on Edward Gibbon\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDan Jacobson on William Wordsworth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHilary Mantel on Jane Austen\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrederic Raphael on William Hazlitt\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEavan Boland on John Keats\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDaniel Mark Epstein on Nathaniel Hawthorne\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA. N. Wilson on Charles Dickens\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJustin Kaplan on Walt Whitman\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWilliam H. Pritchard on Herman Melville\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePaula Marantz Cohen on George Eliot\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBruce Floyd on Emily Dickinson\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDavid Carkeet on Mark Twain\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJoseph Epstein on Henry James\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eElizabeth Lowry on Joseph Conrad\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStephen Cox on Willa Cather\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRobert Pack on Robert Frost\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJohn Gross on James Joyce\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJohn Simon on T. S. Eliot\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJoseph Blotner on William Faulkner\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJames L. W. West III on Ernest Hemingway\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eReynolds Price on John Milton\u003c\/em\u003e: “When Milton died in 1674, just short of the age of sixty-six, this man—who had begun his adult life with such an outrageous announcement of prophetic destiny, who had detoured his best gifts for twenty years through the bloody exchanges of a civil war and its grim aftermath, who had endured unusual domestic trials and finally been totally blinded—could reflect on an ultimate triumph unlike any other in literature… [H]e lodged himself where he longed to be—as a spur in the depths of our minds, a balm to our souls, a companionable hand in our solitary journey.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEavan Boland on John Keats\u003c\/em\u003e: “‘I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death.’ So wrote John Keats to his brother in the Autumn of 1818. It was an extraordinary claim for a twenty-three-year-old, whose first book of poems had been savagely dismissed, whose financial circumstances were hopeless, and who was only three years from his own death. Yet, in time, the claim would come to fit the circumstance. No poet in history has had a more extraordinary path from start to finish than John Keats.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eStephen Cox on Willa Cather\u003c\/em\u003e: “Cather is one of very few intellectual writers who appeal to readers of all stations and classes. She is also one of very few writers of the first rank for whom American readers feel genuine affection. . . . America’s continuing and growing affection for Cather is a remarkable fact, because she did nothing whatever to court popularity. She wrote for the sake of the writing itself, caring nothing about whom she pleased or offended.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eJohn Simon on T. S. Eliot\u003c\/em\u003e: “Not many geniuses were pleasant; some quite unpleasant—think Wagner, Rimbaud, Brecht. One may find both Thomas Stearns Eliot’s life and work unpleasant, which he ironically acknowledges in the ditty beginning, ‘How unpleasant to meet Mr. Eliot.’ But the job of the genius is not to be pleasant but to create works that last down the ages by revealing certain significant perceptions in a style that sticks in the reader’s mind, if not indeed to his ribs. Eliot has done that, at times in complex verse or prose formulations, at others with simple and penetrating phrases giving meaning the added benefit of image, rhythm, and cadence.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong class=\"author\"\u003eJoseph Epstein\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of nineteen books, most recently \u003cem\u003eIn a Cardboard Belt!: Essays Personal, Literary, and Savage\u003c\/em\u003e. For more than twenty years he was editor of \u003cem\u003eThe American Scholar\u003c\/em\u003e. A contributor to \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eCommentary\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/em\u003e, and other magazines, he also taught for many years in the English Department at Northwestern University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong class=\"author\"\u003eBarry Moser\u003c\/strong\u003e is an illustrator, author, and designer whose work appears in museums and libraries around the world. He has published nearly three hundred titles, including Lewis Carroll's \u003cem\u003eAlice's Adventures in Wonderland\u003c\/em\u003e, which won the American Book Award in 1983. In 1991 he won the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for his collaboration with Cynthia Rylant, \u003cem\u003eAppalachia: The Voices of Sleeping Birds\u003c\/em\u003e. A member of the National Academy of Design, he has served on the faculty of Rhode Island School of Design and is currently on the faculty of Smith College.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Joseph Epstein","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":724310457,"sku":"","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/products\/genius_hires.jpg?v=1399139980"},{"product_id":"in-pursuit-of-the-good","title":"In Pursuit of the Good","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn Pursuit of the Good: Intellect and Action in Aristotle's Ethics \/ 194-page paperback \/ 5.5\" x 8.5\" \/ ISBN 978-1-58988-050-4 \/ Publication Date: January 2010\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Where does happiness lie?\" \"What is the best life?\" Aristotle ponders these abiding questions in his\u003ci\u003eNicomachean Ethics\u003c\/i\u003e—a work which has profoundly influenced Western thinking on ethical matters. A book of apparent obviousness, the Ethics possesses a depth and complexity that a reader at first may overlook or not grasp. In his study, \u003ci\u003eIn Pursuit of the Good\u003c\/i\u003e, Eric Salem guides and deepens the reader's understanding of Aristotle’s masterpiece, thus helping him to decide what the Good Life should be.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe choice for Aristotle is between the life of action and the life of contemplation. Salem writes that for Aristotle:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHappiness does not lie in the enjoyment of bodily pleasures, in the \"childish amusement\" so prized by most men, including \"those in power.\" Nor does it lie in the exercise of the moral virtues; although Aristotle is careful to say that the happy man will practice the moral virtues as occasion dictates, the life of action is not, it seems, the happy life. Happiness rather lies in contemplation, in knowing, in \"seeing\" for its own sake; happiness is the activity of the intellect in accordance with wisdom.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso available as an ebook:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/z645DS\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAmazon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/book\/in-pursuit-of-the-good\/id526125131?mt=11\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eApple iTunes Bookstore\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/in-pursuit-of-the-good-eric-salem\/1101061057?ean=2940013933569\u0026amp;format=nook-book\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBarnes \u0026amp; Noble\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details\/Eric_Salem_In_Pursuit_Of_The_Good?id=wEqvKzXGw4cC\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGoogle Play\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/store.kobobooks.com\/en-us\/ebook\/in-pursuit-of-the-good\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eKobo\u003c\/a\u003e (See IndieBound's \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/ebooks\" target=\"_blank\"\u003elist of independent booksellers selling e-books\u003c\/a\u003e.)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEric Salem\u003c\/b\u003e has taught at St. John's College in Annapolis since 1990. He collaborated with Peter Kalkavage and Eva Brann on translations of Plato's \u003ci\u003eSophist\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePhaedo\u003c\/i\u003e. They are currently working on the Statesman.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Eric Salem","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29131066121,"sku":"","price":18.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/products\/pursuit_hires.jpg?v=1399140170"},{"product_id":"hotel-kid","title":"Hotel Kid","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHotel Kid: A Times Square Childhood \/ 214-page paperback or hardback \/ 5.5\" x 8.5\" \/ ISBN 978-1-58988-018-4 \/ Publication Date: September 2004\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Funny, poignant, sad and wistful…This is a very fine book—about a person, and a city, growing up.\"—\u003cem\u003ePhiladelphia Inquirer\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"The charming \u003cem\u003eHotel Kid\u003c\/em\u003e is as luxurious as the lobby in a five-star hotel.\"—\u003cem\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eA Manhattan landmark for fifty years, the Taft in its heyday in the 1930s and '40s was the largest hotel in midtown, famed for the big band in its basement restaurant and the view of Times Square from its towers. As the son of the general manager, Stephen Lewis grew up in this legendary hotel, living with his parents and younger brother in a suite overlooking the Roxy Theater. His engaging memoir of his childhood captures the colorful, bustling atmosphere of the Taft, where his father, the best hotelman in New York, ruled a staff of Damon Runyonesque house dicks, chambermaids, bellmen, and waiters, who made sure that Stephen knew what to do with a swizzle stick by the time he was in the third grade.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe star of this memoir is Lewis's fast-talking, opinionated, imperious mother, who adapted so completely to hotel life that she rarely left the Taft. Evelyn Lewis rang the front desk when she wanted to make a telephone call, ordered all the family's meals from room service, and had her dresses sent over from Saks. During the Depression, the tough kids from Hell's Kitchen who went to grade school with Stephen marveled at the lavish spreads his mother offered her friends at lunch every day, and later even his wealthy classmates at Horace Mann-Lincoln were impressed by the limitless hot fudge sundaes available to the Lewis boys.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLewis contrasts the fairy-tale luxury of his life inside the hotel with the gritty carnival spirit of his Times Square neighborhood, filled with the noise of trolleys, the smell of saloons, the dazzle of billboards and neon signs. In \u003cem\u003eHotel Kid\u003c\/em\u003e, lovers of New York can visit the nightclubs and movie palaces of a vanished era and thread their way among the sightseers and hucksters, shoeshine boys and chorus girls who crowded the streets when Times Square really was the crossroads of the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e\"Charming.\"\u003cspan\u003e—\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e\"This delightful yet poignant memoir is highly recommended.\"—\u003cem\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/em\u003e (starred review)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e\"[T]his postcard from a vanished age nicely captures a special childhood rivaling Eloise's\"—\u003cem\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e\"A colorful and nostalgic snapshot of a vanished era.\"—\u003cem\u003eBloomsbury Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e\"This literary memoir is perfect for those who long for the way things were.\"—\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e\"A sweet, moving and sometimes hilarious memoir.\"—\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Jewish Exponent\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e\"Chockfull of history and wit, Stephen Lewis' account of his charming yet preposterous childhood spent in a suite at the Taft Hotel ordering from room service and playing games like elevator free fall is a five-star read. \u003cem\u003eHotel Kid\u003c\/em\u003e pays tribute to an elegant time long ago that was very elegant and is very gone. It's a book we've been waiting for without realizing it: at long last, an Eloise for grown ups.\"—Madeleine Blais, author of \u003cem\u003eUphill Walkers: Portrait of a Family\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003eA Book-of-the-Month club Editor's Choice\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003eA New York Public Library \"Best Book for the Teen Age\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStephen Lewis on \u003cem\u003eHotel Kid\u003c\/em\u003e:\u003c\/strong\u003e \"Raised in a loving cocoon of chambermaids, bellboys, porters, waiters, and housedicks, I led a fairy tale existence as the son of the general manager of the Hotel Taft, just off Times Square and Radio City. During the darkest days of the Depression, my younger brother and I treated our friends to limitless chocolate éclairs and ice cream sodas. Vague longings for a 'real American life' rose only occasionally — as rare as the home-cooked meals my mother attempted once or twice a year. From my privileged vantage point in a four-room suite on the fifteenth floor, overlooking the chorus girls sunbathing on the roof of the Roxy Theater, I grew into adolescence, both street-smart and sheltered by the hundreds of hotel workers who had known me since I was a baby.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso available as an ebook:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/JIcbep\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAmazon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/book\/hotel-kid\/id546624643?mt=11\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eApple iTunes Bookstore\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/hotel-kid-stephen-lewis\/1101024347?ean=2940014240277\u0026amp;format=nook-book\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBarnes \u0026amp; Noble\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details\/Stephen_Lewis_Hotel_Kid?id=1-rMcMDhlBwC\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGoogle Play\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter graduating from Harvard in 1950, \u003cstrong\u003eStephen Lewis\u003c\/strong\u003e worked as a writer of children's cartoons and educational films. In 1964 he joined SRA, an innovative educational publisher, and served as Editorial Director of the Elementary and High School Division. He now lives and writes in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he founded and directed Writing Your Self, one of the first memoir-writing workshops in the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stephen Lewis","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":724317277,"sku":"","price":11.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/products\/hotel_kid_hires.jpg?v=1415313225"},{"product_id":"his-monkey-wife","title":"His Monkey Wife","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIntroduction by Eva Brann \/ 214-page paperback \/ 5.38\" x 8.5\" \/ ISBN 978-0-9664913-3-3 \/ Publication Date: May 2000\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the author's own words: \"This is a strange book…an emotional melodrama, complete with a Medusa villainess, an honest simpleton of a hero, and an angelic if only anthropoid heroine, all functioning in the two dimensional world of the old Lyceum poster or the primitive fresco…where an angel may outsize a church, and where a man may marry a monkey on a foggy day.\" —from John Collier's \"A Looking Glass\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen Alfred Fatigay returns to his native London, he brings along his trustworthy pet chimpanzee Emily who, unbeknownst to Fatigay, has become civilized: literate, literary—and in love with Fatigay himself. After Emily meets Alfred's fiancée Amy Flint, a 1920's \"modern woman,\" she sets out to save her beloved from Amy's cold grip. \"Emily is the perfect outside observer,\" writes Eva Brann in her introduction, \"because she is an African in Europe, a female in a man's world, a servant to liberated sophisticates, and above all an old-fashioned creature in a modern world.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong class=\"author\"\u003eJohn Collier\u003c\/strong\u003e (1901-1980) was born in Britain, but spent much of his life in the U.S., where he wrote screenplays for Hollywood (\u003cem\u003eThe African Queen\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSylvia Scarlet\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eI Am a Camera\u003c\/em\u003e among them) and short stories for the \u003cem\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e and other magazines. He was also a poet, editor, and reviewer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=4224217\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eListen\u003c\/a\u003e to Nancy Pearl tout the book on NPR\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A work of genius\" —\u003cem\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"From the first sentence of the novel the reader is aware that he is in the presence of a magician…[Collier] casts a spell and he does so always with a smile.\" —Paul Theroux\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A wayward masterpiece…Whatever this volume has cost you, it is, believe me, a great bargain.\" —Anthony Burgess\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"It is impossible to convey the subtle wit which makes you laugh out loud, the beauty and penetrating satire which blend so perfectly into its brilliance.\" —\u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The whole is written with sly humor throughout and is illuminated by splendid similes and metaphors which mark the author as a true humorist.\" —\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGood for the Season…But too good to be left on the beach\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBy Katherine A. Powers, The Boston Globe:\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvery other summer or so I reread \u003cem\u003eHis Monkey Wife\u003c\/em\u003e by John Collier and urge others to do so, too. The stumbling block has been that the book has been out of print for years. I, of course, am far too wise in the ways of the world to lend anyone my own copy. ('Never lend books,' advised Anatole France, 'for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are those that other people have lent me.') So, I am happy to report that Collier's work has just returned to print thanks to Paul Dry Books.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe novel is one of the great idiosyncratic comedies in English — a designation, incidentally, that is a literary category in my mind. To it belong other such noble curiosities as Stella Gibbons's \u003cem\u003eCold Comfort Farm\u003c\/em\u003e, Flann O'Brien's \u003cem\u003eAt Swim Two Birds\u003c\/em\u003e, G. V. Desani's \u003cem\u003eAll About H. Hatter\u003c\/em\u003e, J. R. Ackerley's \u003cem\u003eHindoo Holiday\u003c\/em\u003e, L. Rust Hill's \u003cem\u003eHow to Retire at Forty-one\u003c\/em\u003e, and — well, we'll leave the full list for another day. Suffice it to say that what distinguishes the books in this category is not only that each is so idiosyncratic as to be \u003cem\u003esui generis\u003c\/em\u003e, but also that the fulcrum of their comedy is cultural piety and the Western literary tradition. (It may be, alas, that in this day of enlightenment, the works can be enjoyed only by readers of 'a certain age.')\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHis Monkey Wife\u003c\/em\u003e is written in high-flown, often urgent, prose. It is a love story and concerns Mr. Fatigay, a schoolmaster, and his 'petite, dark and vivacious' disciple, Emily: the toast of the British Museum Reading Room and a chimpanzee. As in most love stories there are moments of passionate jealousy, longing, and fierce romantic intrigue, all conveyed with such a fine and delicate sensibility that one should, perhaps, be ashamed of oneself for laughing. But then, as P. G. Wodehouse observed, comedy is 'the kindly contemplation of the incongruous.'\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Collier","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29131026121,"sku":"","price":13.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/products\/collier_hires.jpg?v=1399151460"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.pauldrybooks.com\/collections\/spring-2026-all-books-except-preorders-for-tote-bag-offer.oembed","provider":"Paul Dry Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}