{"title":"APSA 2024","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"homeric-moments","title":"Homeric Moments","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHomeric Moments: Clues to Delight in Reading the Odyssey and the Iliad \/ 326-page paperback \/ 5.38\" x 8.5\" \/ ISBN 978-0-9679675-7-8 \/ Publication Date: September 2002\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFifty years of reading Homer—both alone and with students—prepared Eva Brann to bring the\u003cem\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem\u003eIliad\u003c\/em\u003e back to life for today's readers. 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=\"\/en-au\/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":"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":"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":"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=\"\/en-au\/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=\"\/en-au\/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=\"\/en-au\/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=\"\/en-au\/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":"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-advancement-of-learning","title":"The Advancement of Learning","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIntroduction by Jerry Weinberger \/ 263-page paperback \/ 5.88\" x 9\" \/ ISBN 978-0-9664913-6-4 \/ Publication Date: March 2001\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.2;\"\u003eFrancis Bacon's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"line-height: 1.2;\"\u003eThe Advancement of Learning\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.2;\"\u003e (1605) is considered the first major philosophical book written in English. In it, Bacon is concerned with scientific learning: the current state of knowledge, obstacles to its progress, and his own plans for revitalization of schools and universities. Here Bacon sets forth the first account of science as intended for \"the relief of man's estate.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith this newly designed and reset edition, this important work is again available in paperback. 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":"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":"my-business-is-circumference","title":"My Business is Circumference","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMy Business Is Circumference: Poets on Influence and Mastery \/ 294-page paperback \/ 6\" x 9\" \/ ISBN 978-0-9664913-9-5 \/ Publication Date: September 2001\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwenty-eight distinguished contemporary American poets provide a multifaceted view of the creative process. Each poet has contributed a poem and chosen several poems by other poets that have influenced it. In an essay, each poet then describes how those influences have led to a sense of poetic mastery.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Contributors:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA.R. Ammons\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eL.S. 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":"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":"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":"the-planning-of-center-city-philadelphia","title":"The Planning of Center City Philadelphia","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Planning of Center City Philadelphia: From William Penn to the Present \/ 96-page paperback \/ 5.5\" x 10.5\" \/ ISBN 978-0-9793787-0-6 \/ Publication Date: September 2007\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen William Penn founded the colony of Pennsylvania in 1682, he created a visionary plan for its principal city, Philadelphia, and the immediate surrounding region. Over the past 325 years Penn's plan of the city has been modified by many individuals to reflect an evolving vision of a city both beautiful and practical.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Planning of Center City Philadelphia: From William Penn to the Present\u003c\/em\u003e traces these three centuries of planning history, from Penn's original concept to the design of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway—one of the significant monuments of the City Beautiful movement in the United States—to the mid-20th century urban renewal efforts that made Philadelphia a national leader in city planning and urban revitalization. Richly illustrated with historic maps and photographs, the book also includes brief biographical sketches of nine Philadelphians who have contributed significantly to the practice of city planning, including Paul Philippe Cret, Edmund N. Bacon, David A. Wallace, and Denise Scott Brown. Also included are five walking tours of Center City, where the results of this planning history can be seen and experienced most easily: Old City, Society Hill, City Hall East, City Hall West (Penn Center), and the Benjamin Franklin Parkway.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe tours contain easily readable maps as well as photographs and descriptions of the most significant architectural landmarks in each area.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Andrew Gallery\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003ePhiladelphia Architecture, A Guide to the City\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and editor of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSacred Sites of Center City\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, also available from Paul Dry Books.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Andrew Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29047660233,"sku":"","price":14.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/products\/planning_hires.jpg?v=1399153685"},{"product_id":"sacred-sites-of-center-city","title":"Sacred Sites of Center City","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSacred Sites of Center City: A Guide to Philadelphia's Historic Churches, Synagogues and Meetinghouses \/ Photography by Tom Crane \/ 28 pages, saddle-stitched \/ 5.5\" x 10.5\" \/ ISBN 978-1-58988-042-9 \/ Publication Date: April 2008\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRead an \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/files\/sacred_takealook.pdf?1024\"\u003eexcerpt\u003c\/a\u003e (pdf)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCenter City Philadelphia contains a concentration and diversity of religious places unmatched by any other area of similar size in the country. \u003cem style=\"line-height: 1.2;\"\u003eSacred Sites of Center City\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.2;\"\u003e describes the history and architecture of these landmarks. The guide includes color photographs of each building and offers five walking tours that enable the visitor to experience the neighborhood environments in which these distinctive properties are located. Two churches located in the commercial shopping district are also included.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWilliam Penn described the founding of the colony of Pennsylvania in 1682 as a \"holy experiment.\" Central to that experiment was freedom of worship for all religions, something unavailable in any other part of the British Empire at that time. Penn hoped that tolerance of religious differences would lead to a society in which all individuals, of all backgrounds—including the local Native American population—would be able to live in peace and harmony. This was the second aspect of his holy experiment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe opportunity for freedom of worship encouraged people of many different faiths to come to the Philadelphia and construct places of worship. Many early settlers were, like Penn, members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), but Anglican, Catholic, and various Protestant churches, and Jewish synagogues quickly joined the Quaker meetinghouses. As the growth of the city moved south and then west from its original settlement in what is now called Old City, religious congregations followed, erecting larger and more sumptuous religious structures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese buildings stand as landmarks in every section of Center City to remind us of Penn’s vision.\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, \u003cem\u003eThe Planning of Center City Philadelphia\u003c\/em\u003e, and editor of \u003ci\u003eSacred Sites of Center City\u003c\/i\u003e, all available from Paul Dry Books.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Andrew Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29131183113,"sku":"","price":7.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/products\/sacred_hires.jpg?v=1399153826"},{"product_id":"the-republic","title":"The Republic","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e187-page paperback \/ 5.25\" x 8.5\" \/ ISBN 978-1-58988-015-3 \/ Publication Date: April 2004\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the \u003cem\u003eRepublic\u003c\/em\u003e, Plato addresses the deepest questions about the human soul and human community, the proper objects of worship and reverence, the nature of philosophy, and the relationship between the philosopher and the political community. As presented in the \u003cem\u003eRepublic\u003c\/em\u003e, Socratic philosophizing is eternally unfinished, paradoxical, and ambiguous. According to Jacob Howland, this openness allows for ever-fresh approaches to the questions Plato raises.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong class=\"author\"\u003eJacob Howland\u003c\/strong\u003e is McFarlin Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tulsa, where he teaches in the Honors Program as well as in philosophy. He has written and lectured on the work of Plato, Aristotle, Xenophon, and Hegel, among others. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Paradox of Political Philosophy: Socrates' Philosophic Trial\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eKierkegaard and Socrates\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eand Plato and the Talmud\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Clear, accessible, and very informative…a successful and inviting text.\"—\u003cem\u003eReview of Metaphysics\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"If only there were more books like this one! Jacob Howland's \u003cem\u003eThe Republic: The Odyssey of Philosophy\u003c\/em\u003e opens up the wealth of the experience of reading Plato's \u003cem\u003eRepublic\u003c\/em\u003e by carefully demonstrating how the dialogue cuts across the boundaries of philosophy and literature…[It] will be an invaluable aid to those teachers who want to introduce their students to a Plato that goes beyond the shopworn problems of Platonism.\"—Peter Warnek, University of Oregon\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Jacob Howland's book is an engaging, readable, and extremely suggestive addition to the literature on Plato's magnum opus.\"—\u003cem\u003eAncient Philosophy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"In this concise, stimulating and provocative book Howland is in effect dealing with the central and persistent problem about the interpretation of the \u003cem\u003eRepublic\u003c\/em\u003e : what is its purpose, and how do we establish what that is?\"—\u003cem\u003ePolis\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"I know of no other book devoted to the \u003cem\u003eRepublic\u003c\/em\u003e that so straightforwardly furnishes a healthy orientation to Plato's philosophic intentions. It will be of unqualified interest both to first-time students of the Republic and to their teachers. Yet it will also intrigue those looking for further, responsible light on apparently well-worn paths. A most inviting, helpful reading.\"—\u003cem\u003eSt. John's Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e","brand":"Jacob Howland","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29047663561,"sku":"","price":13.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/products\/howland_hires.jpg?v=1449162820"},{"product_id":"the-trivium","title":"The Trivium: The Liberal Arts of Logic, Grammar, and Rhetoric","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEdited by Marguerite McGlinn \u003cbr\u003e292-page paperback \/ 6.13\" x 9.25\" \/ ISBN 9780967967509 \u003cbr\u003ePublication Date: May 2002\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Whoever owns this book owns a treasure.\"―Eva Brann\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Plato’s \u003cem\u003eRepublic\u003c\/em\u003e Socrates proposes a course of study that may be the original presentation of the idea of the “Liberal Arts.” These “arts” are divided into two groups of learning: the Quadrivium, (number, geometry, music, and astronomy) and the Trivium (logic, grammar, and rhetoric). The study of the Trivium develops mastery in reading, writing, speaking, and intellectual reasoning. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Trivium is key to a classical education\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Trivium” means the crossroads where the three branches of language meet. In the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, students studied and mastered this integrated view of language. Regrettably, modern language teaching keeps the parts without the vision of the whole. In the 1940s, Sister Miriam Joseph at Saint Mary’s College rescued that integrated approach with \u003cem\u003eThe Trivium: The Liberal Arts of Logic, Grammar, and Rhetoric\u003c\/em\u003e. The Paul Dry Books edition provides new graphics and notes to make the book accessible to today’s readers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e* The nature and function of language\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e* General grammar\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e* Logic and reasoning: \u003c\/strong\u003epropositions, syllogisms, and fallacies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e* Induction and scientific method\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e* Rhetoric and communication:\u003c\/strong\u003e poetics, figurative language, metrical discourse\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e* Enlivened by examples:\u003c\/strong\u003e from Shakespeare, Milton, Plato, the Bible, Homer, and other great writers\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA perfect book for teachers, students, writers, lawyers, and all serious users of language.\u003cem\u003e The Trivium\u003c\/em\u003e invites the reader into a deeper understanding, one that includes rules, definitions, and guidelines, but whose ultimate end is to transform the reader into a liberal artist.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Is the trivium, then, a sufficient education for life? Properly taught, I believe that it should be.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Dorothy L. Sayers\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eThe Trivium\u003c\/em\u003e is a highly recommended and welcome contribution to any serious and dedicated writer's reference collection.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eMidwest Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\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\/J07VU3\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAmazon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/book\/trivium\/id526160339?mt=11\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eApple iTunes Bookstore\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/trivium-sister-miriam-joseph\/1101060978?ean=2940014554541\u0026amp;itm=1\u0026amp;usri=the+trivium\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBarnes \u0026amp; Noble\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details?id=lg0a-RJcn4gC\u0026amp;rd\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGoogle Play\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/store.kobobooks.com\/en-US\/ebook\/the-trivium-the-liberal-arts-of-logic-grammar-and-rhetoric\" 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\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Lovers of language who want to articulate its necessities and possibilities for themselves, teachers who want to explain its ways to their students, students who like the comfort of decisive clarity—all these will find this book a good companion, for Sister Miriam Joseph is one of those lovingly remembered teachers who arouses our critical abilities by offering us her firm but friendly learning. Her teaching is traditional. She fits language into the liberal arts, sets out the classical elements of grammar, explains Aristotelian logic, and gives solid advice on good writing, fleshing it all out with revealing examples.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Eva Brann (Eva suggested that we publish \u003cem\u003eThe Trivium\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong class=\"author\"\u003eSister Miriam Joseph Rauh, C.S.C.\u003c\/strong\u003e (1898–1982) earned her doctorate from Columbia University. A member of the Sisters of the Holy Cross, Sister Miriam was professor of English at Saint Mary's College from 1931 to 1960. She was also the author of \u003cem\u003eShakespeare's Use of the Arts of Language\u003c\/em\u003e and many articles on Shakespeare and on the trivium.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong class=\"author\"\u003eMarguerite McGlinn\u003c\/strong\u003e was an editor and writer whose essays and short stories appeared in \u003cem\u003eEnglish Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eSun-Sentinel\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003ePhiladelphia Inquirer\u003c\/em\u003e, and the \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sister Miriam Joseph","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29130738121,"sku":"","price":15.16,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/products\/trivium_hires.jpg?v=1426178469"},{"product_id":"un-willing","title":"Un-Willing","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eUn-willing: An Inquiry into the Rise of Will’s Power and an Attempt to Undo It \u003cbr\u003e367-page paperback \/ 6\" x 9\" \/ ISBN 9781589880962 \u003cbr\u003ePublication Date: September 2014\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSince ancient times, philosophers have written about \"the will.\" But the will is more than a philosophic and scholarly topic. In our everyday speech, what do we mean when we speak of the \"will\"? Will-words turn up everywhere in the English language. We make \u003ci\u003ewills\u003c\/i\u003e. We exert our \u003ci\u003ewillpower\u003c\/i\u003e. We are \u003ci\u003ewillful\u003c\/i\u003e at times but merely willing at others. Above all, will is there a hundred times a day, when we use the auxiliary verb \"will\" to express our intentions or expectations for the future, or simply to indicate the future tense.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYet it takes only a moment's reflection to see that there's a tremendous range of meaning here, and so something to think about. Moreover, all of us have wondered now and then, probably both as children and as adults, whether we are really free, and whether being free means being able to do what we want or being free of wants and desires or something else entirely. That is, we've all wrestled with the issue of free will in our informal, non-scholarly ways. Finally, we've probably all asked ourselves whether people who talk about will and willpower are all talking about the same thing or even talking sense.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese are among the issues that Eva Brann puts at the center of \u003ci\u003eUn-Willing\u003c\/i\u003e. She takes the whole range of questions about the will that are implicit in our everyday lives and everyday thinking, articulates them, shows us how they have been dealt with within the philosophic tradition and contemporary scientific thought—and then wrestles with them herself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e\"Eva Brann has a true aptitude for felicitous expression, and one can feel through her prose the presence of a great and patient teacher.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003eDennis L. Sepper, University of Dallas, author of \u003ci\u003eUnderstanding Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e\"In this monograph on the concept of will, Brann (St. John’s College, Annapolis, MD) remarks 'it is … the measure of a book’s quality how hard it makes us think.' By this criterion, her book is a work of significant quality. Brann approaches her topic as a self-professed outsider but hardly as an amateur, exploring the genealogy of the concept of will in canonical sources from Greek antiquity through to contemporary philosophy (both Continental and analytic) and experimental psychology. She concludes that the will is a 'notional miscellany,' a hodgepodge of accumulated ideas rather than a distinct mental faculty. She suggests replacing the concept of will as a pushing volitional force with 'un-willing,' the capacity to be drawn by reflective and loving interest. Brann's style and vocabulary are rich, and she indulges in lengthy parenthetical asides and lengthier exploratory endnotes. However, her prose voice remains direct and unevasive. This sometimes daunting work invites and encourages readers to put in the necessary effort to rise to its challenge.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—\u003ci\u003eCHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso available as an e-book:\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/books.apple.com\/us\/book\/un-willing-an-inquiry-into-the-rise-of-wills\/id6745490751\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eApple iTunes Bookstore\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details\/Eva_Brann_Un_Willing_An_Inquiry_into_the_Rise_of_W?id=RhxaEQAAQBAJ\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGoogle Play\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/us\/en\/ebook\/un-willing-an-inquiry-into-the-rise-of-will-s-power-and-an-attempt-to-undo-it?sId=b07fac6c-963b-4bf8-995d-749bf062f0a9\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eKobo\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/en-au\/pages\/eva-brann\" title=\"Un-Willing by 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-seven years. She is a recipient of the National Humanities Medal. Her other books include \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, \u003ci\u003eThe Music of the Republic\u003c\/i\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\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Eva Brann","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29131403529,"sku":"","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/products\/brann_unwilling_front_cover.jpg?v=1409941712"},{"product_id":"then-now","title":"Then \u0026 Now","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThen \u0026amp; Now: The World's Center and the Soul's Demesne \/ 140-page paperback \/ 4.75\" x 7.19\" \/ ISBN 978-1-58988-101-3 \u003cbr\u003ePublication Date: June 2015\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese two long essays make up a short book, one full of depth and knowledge, in which Eva Brann gets at the roots of our thinking—without tearing things apart.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThen\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the first, Brann parses out the schema and meaning of Herodotus’s \u003cem\u003eThe History\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem\u003eThe Persian Wars\u003c\/em\u003e). She writes that Herodotus worked by indirection. Giving a full account of the Persians and the peoples who constituted their empire—and whose empire encircled the Greeks (thus the “Greek center”)—Herodotus delineates the essential difference between the Barbarians and the Greeks. This difference Brann calls Athens’ “elusive essence,” its \u003cem\u003efreedom \u003c\/em\u003econtrasting with the slavery upon which the Persian empire depended.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNow\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the second essay, the author delves into what it means for a person to unite a disposition toward conservatism with a capacity to reiterate and rehearse events, scenes, and dramas in “the conservatory of the imagination.” To uncover the meanings and consequences of this union—this imaginative conservatism—and the type of soul to which it applies, Brann offers twelve perspectives, starting\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e with “Temperamental Disposition,” and ending with “Eccentric Centrality,” (without ever explicitly focusing on politics). Join her and you’ll find both delight and education.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e\"...[Y]ou will read \u003cem\u003eThen \u0026amp; Now\u003c\/em\u003e with deep abiding pleasure, slowly savoring the use of language in its highest locution.\"—\u003cem\u003eWashington Independent Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\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\/1AyDzaq\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAmazon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/book\/then-now\/id999190017?ls=1\u0026amp;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\/then-now-eva-brann\/1120332078?ean=2940151302746\" 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?id=tMNECQAAQBAJ\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGoogle\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/store.kobobooks.com\/en-US\/ebook\/then-now-the-world-s-center-and-the-soul-s-demesne\" 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=\"https:\/\/paul-dry-books-inc.myshopify.com\/pages\/eva-brann\" title=\"Un-Willing by 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-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, \u003ci\u003eThe Music of the Republic\u003c\/i\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":"Default Title","offer_id":29131410505,"sku":"","price":11.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/products\/ThenAndNow_cover.jpg?v=1432487588"},{"product_id":"doublethink-doubletalk","title":"Doublethink \/ Doubletalk","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e311-page paperback \/ 4.5\" x 7\" \/ ISBN 978-1-58988-113-6 \u003cbr\u003ePublication Date: August 2016\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Each aphorism is a tiny well-framed picture which at once observes and questions the world’s workings with its accumulated intellectual pleasures, beauties, and quirks.\"—\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWashington Independent Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\"At times, aphorisms are merely witty, but they can convey and evoke sustained reflection and thought, as those of Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, or Nicolás Gómez Dávila. To that list we can add Eva Brann . . . In the few hours spent with her, one finds a wise, slightly acerbic, good-humored teacher—one wishes for her friendship, for more time with her.\"—\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe University Bookman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\"Brann raises questions that briefly illuminate the world and, by removing herself just as quickly, inspires in readers a desire to shed light as well.\"—\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Weekly Standard\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePhilosopher Eva Brann describes the concept of “doublethink\/doubletalk” as “a flanking approach toward comprehending a pervasively duplex world, a world that sometimes flashes fleeting signs of covert wholeness.” In this, her second collection of aphorisms and observations, Brann shines a light on our world—on “the way things are”—and she does it with characteristic wit and insight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso available as an ebook:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2xLWX8F\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAmazon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/book\/id1394338797\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eApple iTunes Bookstore\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/doublethink-doubletalk-eva-brann\/1122750028?ean=2940162103097\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBarnes \u0026amp; Noble\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details?id=RbheDwAAQBAJ\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGoogle Play\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/us\/en\/ebook\/doublethink-doubletalk\" 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=\"http:\/\/www.pauldrybooks.com\/pages\/eva-brann\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEva Brann \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003ewas born in Berlin in 1929 into a Jewish family. In 1941 she came to Brooklyn as a refugee from the Nazis. She went to Brooklyn College, then to Yale University, where she studied Classics and Ancient History. She was a member of the Ameri­can School of Classical Studies at Athens and of its excavations of the Athenian Agora (Marketplace), charged with publishing some of its early pottery. In 1957 she joined the faculty of St. John’s College, Annapolis, and later Santa Fe, in whose all-required Great Books program she has taught ever since, ex­cept for 1990–1997, when she was dean of its Annapolis campus.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRead the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/ian-lindquist\/next-question\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eWeekly Standard\u003c\/em\u003e column\u003c\/a\u003e on Eva Brann and \u003cem\u003eDoublethink\/Doubletalk.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eExcerpts:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOn Action:\u003c\/em\u003e Life’s full of incident, especially if you stay home and read and scribble.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOn Action:\u003c\/em\u003e Of commodities people tend to contribute what they have in overplus, of care often what they lack and want themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOn Books:\u003c\/em\u003e How to read different difficult texts: 1. Pester them until they open up. 2. Leave well enough alone and think along a parallel path. Both in turn.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOn College:\u003c\/em\u003e Preamble to an early salary report of my college: “The work of teaching is invaluable” – a word that can, in a certain mood, be heard ambiguously. I’m still laughing at how true it turned out to be, money-wise.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOn Death:\u003c\/em\u003e It’s a little late to be afraid of death, now that, whenever it comes, it can’t be said to be untimely.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOn Love:\u003c\/em\u003e Some people grow more lovable the longer they’re dead.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOn Memoirs:\u003c\/em\u003e Human nature: Bumped up into first class; outraged because they’re out of my menu choice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOn Philosophy:\u003c\/em\u003e Why does every “putting of the question” expect two sides? Why not?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOn Teaching:\u003c\/em\u003e Our students often know more than they know how to say. Life passes, and it’s the other way around.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOn Teaching:\u003c\/em\u003e Watch the news: The human race is in decline. Teach the young: Humanity gets more wonderful by the year – an absolutely plausible paradox.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOn Teaching:\u003c\/em\u003e Vehement preconceptions are a world apart from firm opinions; that world between is opened by liberal learning.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOn Writing:\u003c\/em\u003e Brevity is, they say, the soul of wit – and the cause of extensive commentary (to wit, the Torah).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOn Youth:\u003c\/em\u003e People approve of the young striving to find themselves. Not me: they should lose themselves – in something. Forget identity, espouse alterity, and before you know it, you’re yourself.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Eva Brann","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":16988466053,"sku":"","price":15.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/products\/Doublethink_72.jpg?v=1466110753"},{"product_id":"the-usefulness-of-the-useless","title":"The Usefulness of the Useless","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTranslated by Alastair McEwen \u003cbr\u003e176-page paperback \/ 4.5\" x 7\" \/ ISBN 9781589881167 \u003cbr\u003ePublication Date: March 2017\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInternational Best Seller \/  Now in English for the First Time\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this thought-provoking and extremely timely work, Nuccio Ordine convincingly argues for the utility of useless knowledge and against the contemporary fixation on utilitarianism—for the fundamental importance of the liberal arts and against the damage caused by their neglect. Inspired by the reflections of great philosophers and writers (e.g., Plato, Dante, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Borges, and Calvino), Ordine reveals how the obsession for material goods and the cult of utility ultimately wither the spirit, jeopardizing not only schools and universities, art, and creativity, but also our most fundamental values—human dignity, love, and truth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso included is Abraham Flexner’s 1939 essay “The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge,” which originally prompted Ordine to write this book. Flexner—a founder and the first director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton—offers an impassioned defense of curiosity-driven research and learning.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso available as an ebook:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2m8FEZ1\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAmazon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/book\/id1394326513\" title=\"Usefulness of the Useless by Nuccio Ordine on iTunes\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eApple iTunes Bookstore\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/the-usefulness-of-the-useless-nuccio-ordine\/1123623728?ean=2940157212810\" title=\"Nuccio Ordine Usefulness of the Useless Abraham Flexner\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBarnes \u0026amp; Noble\u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details?id=NCArDgAAQBAJ\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGoogle Play\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/us\/en\/ebook\/the-usefulness-of-the-useless\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eKobo\u003c\/a\u003e \u003cspan\u003e(See IndieBound's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/ebooks\" target=\"_blank\"\u003elist of independent booksellers selling e-books\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A little masterpiece of originality and clarity.” —\u003cstrong\u003eGeorge Steiner\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A wonderful little book that will delight you.” —\u003cstrong\u003eFrançois Busnel\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A necessary book.” —\u003cstrong\u003eRoberto Saviano\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\"This small, brilliantly argued work champions frivolousness and the enjoyable activities that serve no useful purpose as imperative if one hopes to understand art, love, truth, and human dignity.\" —\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eForeword Reviews\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\"Nuccio’s wonderful, small book is a compilation of the many things from antiquity to nowadays, making this call, not to make a mistake. Already in the 18th century Schiller—in his \u003cem\u003eLetters on an Aesthetic Education\u003c\/em\u003e—informs us that utility has become the idol of our time. So this is not about arguing something new or original. As a great archivist, Nuccio has put it together in an extremely readable and accessible way.\" —\u003cstrong\u003eRob Riemen\u003cem\u003e, Five Books, \u003c\/em\u003eselected\u003cem\u003e The Usefulness of the Useless \u003c\/em\u003eas one of the Five Best Humanist Books of 2017\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNuccio Ordine \u003c\/strong\u003eis a professor of Italian Literature at the University of Calabria and one of the world’s leading experts on the Italian Renaissance and the philosopher Giordano Bruno. He has taught at Yale, New York University, the Sorbonne, the Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris, and the Warburg Institute London, among others. Professor Ordine has been named a Knight of the French Legion of Honour, a Knight Commander of the Republic of Italy, and given an honorary membership in the Russian Academy of Sciences. His books have been translated into twenty languages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbraham Flexner\u003c\/strong\u003e (1866–1959) was an educator and reformer whose work helped transform higher education throughout North America. 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Blitz clarifies Heidegger’s discussions, offers alternative analyses of phenomena central to Heidegger’s argument, and examines the connection between Heidegger’s position in \u003cem\u003eBeing and Time\u003c\/em\u003e and his support of Nazism.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e As Blitz explains in his new afterword, “When I began to study Martin Heidegger nearly fifty years ago, my goal was to explore the meaning of \u003cem\u003eBeing and Time\u003c\/em\u003e for political philosophy. I wished to discover what it might offer for clarifying the grounds on which the basic concepts and alternatives of political philosophy rest. Would a close reading of it help us understand the questions of justice, freedom, the common good, natural rights, virtue, human happiness, and the philosophic life? These questions are as important today as they were then.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlthough Blitz often questions and criticizes Heidegger’s views, he presents them with scrupulous care and clarity. Specialists and students in the areas of political theory, phenomenology, metaphysics, and moral philosophy will find \u003cem\u003eHeidegger’s Being and Time \u0026amp; the Possibility of Political Philosophy\u003c\/em\u003e an invaluable resource.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMark Blitz\u003c\/strong\u003e has been a professor of political philosophy at Claremont McKenna College for twenty years. He has also taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard, Georgetown, and Indiana University. He serves as Director of the Salvatori Center for the Study of Individual Freedom at Claremont McKenna. 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In her words: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe first essay looks at the “Pre-Socratics” Heraclitus and Parmenides. They appear to be in radical opposition, but they are really doing the same, new thing: seeing the world as an intelligible whole. Both observe external nature, construing it in their minds—so, from the outside in. The final essay again describes two ways of world-construing from the outside in—one by penetrating the surface of reality, the other by spinning a web of complexity over it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe five essays in between focus on works by Kant and display the world as constituted from the human inside out. 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Finally, his huge unpublished legacy agonizes about bringing a god, first conceived as an inner need, into external existence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso available as an ebook:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2y5C6cA\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAmazon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca title=\"How to Constitute a World by Eva Brann on iTunes\" href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/book\/id1394333193\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eApple iTunes Bookstore\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/how-to-constitute-a-world-eva-brann\/1125855807?ean=2940158563232\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBarnes \u0026amp; Noble\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details\/Eva_Brann_How_to_Constitute_a_World?id=2HU2DwAAQBAJ\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGoogle Play\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/us\/en\/ebook\/how-to-constitute-a-world\" 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\u003eEva Brann\u003c\/strong\u003e is a recipient of the National Humanities Medal. Her other books include \u003cem\u003eDoublethink \/ Doubletalk\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThen \u0026amp; Now\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eUn-Willing\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Logos of Heraclitus\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eFeeling Our Feelings\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eHomage to Americans\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eOpen Secrets \/ Inward Prospects\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Music of the Republic\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eHomeric Moments\u003c\/em\u003e (all published by Paul Dry Books).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Eva Brann","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43730835401,"sku":"","price":15.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/products\/HowToConstituteAWorld_cover.jpg?v=1503328948"},{"product_id":"same-sex-marriage-and-american-constitutionalism","title":"Same-Sex Marriage and American Constitutionalism","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSame-Sex Marriage and American Constitutionalism: A Study in Federalism, Separation of Powers, and Individual Rights \/ 192-page paperback \/ 5.5\" x 8.5\" \/ ISBN 9781589881020 \/ Publication Date: 11\/17\/2017\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe two-decades-long controversy over same-sex marriage in the United States was finally resolved on June 26, 2015, when the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, which held that the Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses required states to allow same-sex couples to marry on the same terms as opposite-sex couples.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUnder our American system of government, divisive and often abiding disputes may be resolved either through legislation or judicial decisions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSame-Sex Marriage and American Constitutionalism\u003c\/i\u003e, Murray Dry explains why the process by which Americans arrive at these resolutions can be as important as the substance of the resolutions themselves. By taking up the question of same-sex marriage, Dry excavates the bases of why and how Americans decide as we do (and as we have done when major questions arose in the past; think: school integration, abortion, gun control, and campaign finance).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs Professor Dry retraces the path that same-sex marriage took as it wended its way through the political (that is, the legislative) process and through the court system, he finds a vivid framework for the question, “Who should decide?” It’s a question often overlooked, but one that Dry believes should not be. He argues convincingly that it does matter whether the Supreme Court or the legislature makes the final decision—so that court-mandated law does not threaten democratic representative government, and so that legislation does not trample on fundamental constitutional rights.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso available as an ebook:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2xLCC3z\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAmazon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/book\/id1392805919\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eApple iTunes Bookstore\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/same-sex-marriage-and-american-constitutionalism-murray-dry\/1120450655?ean=2940162020479\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBarnes \u0026amp; Noble\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details?id=dvxcDwAAQBAJ\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGoogle Play\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/us\/en\/ebook\/same-sex-marriage-and-american-constitutionalism\" 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\u003eMurray Dry\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis the Charles A. Dana Professor of Political Science at Middlebury College where he has taught for fifty years. He is the author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eCivil Peace and the Quest for Truth\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Murray Dry","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":700285452297,"sku":"","price":15.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/products\/SameSexMarriage_72.jpg?v=1510345916"},{"product_id":"finance-and-philosophy","title":"Finance and Philosophy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFinance and Philosophy: Why We're Always Surprised \/ 183-page paperback \/ 5.5\" x 8.5\" \/ ISBN 9781589881303 \/ Publication Date: 10\/16\/2018\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTaking the 2008 financial crisis as his jumping off point, Alex Pollock deftly illustrates how private firms and governments alike have failed to understand the shifting risks that financial systems create. With candor, clarity, and wit, he uncovers the persistent uncertainties inherent in banking, central banking, and economics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso available as an ebook:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2KWEGcd\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAmazon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eApple iTunes Bookstore (coming soon)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/finance-and-philosophy-alex-j-pollock\/1133040461\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBarnes \u0026amp; Noble\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details?id=7DmqDwAAQBAJ\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGoogle Play\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/us\/en\/ebook\/finance-and-philosophy\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eKobo\u003c\/a\u003e \u003cspan\u003e(See IndieBound's \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/ebooks\" target=\"_blank\"\u003elist of independent booksellers selling e-books\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“At the height of the 2008 financial panic, Queen Elizabeth plaintively asked why nobody saw it coming. In the winning pages of \u003cem\u003eFinance and Philosophy\u003c\/em\u003e, Her Majesty can find the answer. With a lightness of touch that belies the complexity of his subject, Alex Pollock shows why the financial future is now, why it has been and always must be a closed book. A successful banker and gifted writer, Pollock tells us all we need to know about money and banking, risk and uncertainty, debt and temptation, and science and economics. He delights as he instructs.”—\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eJames Grant, founder and editor, Grant’s Interest Rate Observer\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Why can’t human beings take the lessons of boom and bust, bubbles and crashes that are clearly described in history books—and learn from experience? That’s where Mr. Pollock’s wry humor and philosophic bent help understand the hubris that makes every generation believe that not only can it predict the markets, but control them . . . [Finance and Philosophy] should be required reading in economics classes, or before opening an investment account—and by every member of Congress.—\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Washington Times\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Pollock’s observations and historical examples are compelling, and his wide-ranging discussion of banking and financial crises is not only accessible, but a pleasure to read.”\u003cem\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003eReal Clear Markets\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“An intellectually penetrating and thought-provoking book.”\u003cem\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003eCentral Banking\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eFinance and Philosophy\u003c\/em\u003e is a short, brilliant book . . . [Alex Pollock] knows what he is talking about. And he asks good questions.”—\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLaw \u0026amp; Liberty\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Alex Pollock shows how financial jargon obscures simple realities, how very smart people are prone to spectacular financial mistakes, and how government efforts to make finance smarter and more stable have made it much worse on both scores. Drawing on Pollock’s highly successful career in banking and scholarship, \u003cem\u003eFinance and Philosophy\u003c\/em\u003e is a fount of sharp insight and high wisdom.”—\u003cstrong\u003eChris DeMuth, President, American Enterprise Institute, 1986–2008\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“There is a lot of common sense and good home truths in the book. It should be widely read by all those in the finance market and its regulators.”—\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHousing Finance International\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“As in all of Alex Pollock’s writings, \u003cem\u003eFinance and Philosophy\u003c\/em\u003e combines the author’s subtle but caustic wit with brilliant insights grounded in his long experience analyzing America’s financial fads and foibles. No one does a better job of pointing out the philosophical and historical fallacies underlying the portentous pronouncements by our leading economic and fiscal ‘experts’ on everything from the future of interest rates and the national debt to the tech bubble of the 1990s and the 2007–09 financial meltdown. This book needs to be read by every present and future Secretary of the Treasury and chairman of the Federal Reserve.”—\u003cstrong\u003eArthur Herman, author of \u003cem\u003e1917: Lenin, Wilson, and the Birth of the New World Disorder\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlex J. Pollock\u003c\/strong\u003e is a distinguished senior fellow at the R Street Institute in Washington, DC. He was a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute from 2004 to 2015, and President and Chief Executive Officer of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago from 1991 to 2004.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #cc0000;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.aei.org\/events\/finance-and-philosophy-why-we-are-always-surprised\/\" style=\"color: #cc0000;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eWatch Alex Pollock's book talk\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e at the American Enterprise Institute. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.lawliberty.org\/2018\/10\/03\/knowledge-risk-and-the-surprised-banker-a-conversation-with-alex-pollock\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eListen to an interview\u003c\/a\u003e with Alex Pollock on the Liberty Law Talk.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/fedsoc.org\/events\/book-review-finance-and-philosophy-why-we-re-always-surprised\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eListen to a \u003cspan\u003ethe Federalist Society's \u003c\/span\u003epodcast\u003c\/a\u003e with Alex Pollock.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alex J. Pollock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":12419340992591,"sku":"","price":17.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/products\/9781589881303_FC.jpg?v=1533654808"},{"product_id":"glaucons-fate","title":"Glaucon's Fate","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGlaucon's Fate: History, Myth, and Character in Plato's Republic \u003cbr\u003e295-page paperback \/ 6\" x 9\" \/ ISBN 9781589881341 \u003cbr\u003ePublication Date: November 2018\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cem\u003eRepublic\u003c\/em\u003e dramatizes Socrates’ attempt to convince Plato’s brother Glaucon that the just life of philosophy is preferable to the unjust life of tyranny. Jacob Howland argues that he failed, and that Glaucon joined his relatives Critias and Charmides in the brutal oligarchy of the Thirty Tyrants that governed Athens in the immediate aftermath of the Peloponnesian War. What went wrong? This is the guiding question of \u003cem\u003eGlaucon’s Fate\u003c\/em\u003e, a book that promises to challenge our understanding of Plato’s masterwork.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eReviews and advance praise:\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eGlaucon's Fate\u003c\/em\u003e is one of the most interesting and insightful treatments of Plato's Republic in years . . . We may never know the real Socrates, but Howland's mastery and interpretation of an impressive array of works from Plato's time, along with his insight into many Platonic dialogues, including and especially the Republic, makes this book a must-read for anyone interested in Plato, Socrates, and the life of philosophy.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eThe New Criterion\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“In this exquisitely written book, Jacob Howland not only offers a profound reading of the \u003cem\u003eRepublic\u003c\/em\u003e, but he illuminatingly situates it in its historical context. Moreover, he treats the reader to a feast of fascinating parallels between the \u003cem\u003eRepublic\u003c\/em\u003e and other works of Greek literature: its epics, tragedies, comedies, its legends, poems, and myths . . . \u003cem\u003eGlaucon’s Fate\u003c\/em\u003e is the superb product of its author’s fine, fertile, and subtle mind, his clarity, depth, and erudition, and his courage, compassion, and, finally, optimism. It is a book not to be missed.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003ePolis: The Journal for Ancient Greek and Roman Political Thought\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eGlaucon’s Fate\u003c\/em\u003e is an erudite and closely argued book that will amply reward the attention of all readers interested in Platonic political philosophy. Among many other strong points, its discussion of Critias is excellent, and its interpretation of the myth of Er is thorough and thought-provoking.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eThe Review of Politics\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eGlaucon’s Fate\u003c\/em\u003e is thoughtful and illuminating, with many telling historical and literary references and a challenging thesis. It explores significant questions about Plato’s understanding of the connection between philosophy and politics and is well worth reading.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eThe Claremont Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Readers will be most grateful for this remarkable contribution to Plato scholarship.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eReview of Metaphysics\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"In this fresh, audacious new book on the most famous Platonic dialogue, Howland has delivered a virtuoso performance . . . A knowledgeable, careful, and intense reader of Plato, Howland picks up on a wide range of subtleties and details. Informed by a lifetime of studying Greek thought, his command of both relatively obscure Greek sources, such as Xenophon’s Hellenica, as well as the work of renowned poets such as Homer and Aeschylus, is evident throughout. \u003cem\u003eThe Republic\u003c\/em\u003e is chockfull of references to Greek myth, and hardly a single one seems to escape Howland.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eInterpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Jacob Howland masterfully reads Plato’s\u003cem\u003e Republic\u003c\/em\u003e as a work of literature and history. By putting the education of Glaucon—Plato’s brother—at the center of the text, he confirms Rousseau’s famous judgment that the Republic is the greatest work on education ever written. Socrates’ failure to turn Glaucon toward the philosophic life illustrates the vulnerabilities of philosophy when confronted with the allures of power and political rule. \u003cem\u003eGlaucon’s Fate\u003c\/em\u003e is a must-read for every serious student of Plato’s philosophy.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Steven B. Smith, Alfred Cowles Professor of Political Science, Yale University\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eGlaucon’s Fate\u003c\/em\u003e is splendid. It shows the \u003cem\u003eRepublic\u003c\/em\u003e as no mere epic but a proper Greek tragedy, with the violence, as is traditional, taking place offstage. I found Howland’s book enlightening on every page.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Lenn E. Goodman, Professor of Philosophy and Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities, Vanderbilt University\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“In \u003cem\u003eGlaucon’s Fate\u003c\/em\u003e, Jacob Howland reveals exquisitely how Plato’s thought was formed by his lived experience. Through close attention to the historical personalities in the circle of Socrates, Howland shows how memory of Glaucon –Plato’s brother, who also figures in Xenophon’s Memorabilia of Socrates—provided a foil for Plato to construct his ideal philosopher-ruler. Our reading of the \u003cem\u003eRepublic\u003c\/em\u003e is richly informed by this book.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Mark Munn, Professor of Ancient Greek History and Greek Archaeology, The Pennsylvania State University\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Howland’s book reorients nearly every detail of this dialogue that we think we know so well. \u003cem\u003eGlaucon’s Fate\u003c\/em\u003e is an exhilarating read. It will change the landscape of the scholarly debate about Plato’s \u003cem\u003eRepublic \u003c\/em\u003efor many years to come.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Anne-Marie Schultz, Professor of Philosophy, Baylor University\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAlso available as an e-book:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/books.apple.com\/us\/book\/glaucons-fate-history-myth-and-character-in-platos\/id6744705573\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eApple iTunes Bookstore\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/glaucons-fate-jacob-howland\/1128402295?ean=2940184312323\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBarnes \u0026amp; Noble\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details\/Jacob_Howland_Glaucon_s_Fate_History_Myth_and_Char?id=VKNWEQAAQBAJ\u0026amp;hl=en_US\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGoogle Play\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/us\/en\/ebook\/glaucon-s-fate-history-myth-and-character-in-plato-s-republic?sId=57bf7949-9d47-4e5b-9226-f679f272afc1\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eKobo\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJacob Howland\u003c\/strong\u003e is McFarlin Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tulsa. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Republic: The Odyssey of Philosophy \u003c\/em\u003e(Paul Dry Books, 2004).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jacob Howland","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":12419347841103,"sku":"","price":23.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/products\/9781589881341_FC.jpg?v=1533655241"},{"product_id":"iron-filings-or-scribblings","title":"Iron Filings or Scribblings","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e266-page paperback \/ 5.5\" x 8.5\" \/ ISBN 9781589881334 \u003cbr\u003ePublication Date: 2\/19\/2019\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAs iron filings configure themselves around a magnet, so these essays display Eva Brann’s form of oppositional, or polar, thinking.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo introduce her book, Eva Brann calls up the image of Iron Filings as they \"settle themselves along the lines of force that form a field of influence around a bar magnet that has itself been allowed to settle itself in its natural direction. The whole configuration makes, by nature’s wit, a suggestive figure for the thinking mind—at least of a cross-section in its life.\" So these essays range from Ms. Brann’s thoughts \"Of God,\" \"Of Novels,\" \"Of Booklessness,\" to, well, a surprising diversity of topics which comes, unsurprisingly to completion with an essay \"Of Endings.\" Eva Brann thinks a thought and then thinks a thought somewhat on the other side of the first thought—hence the display of thought like iron filings around two ends of a magnet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEva Brann\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a recipient of the National Humanities Medal. Her other books include \u003cem\u003eHow to Constitute a World\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eDoublethink \/ Doubletalk\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThen \u0026amp; Now\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eUn-Willing\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Logos of Heraclitus\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eFeeling Our Feelings\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eHomage to Americans\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eOpen Secrets \/ Inward Prospects\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Music of the Republic\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eHomeric Moments\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (all published by Paul Dry Books).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Eva Brann","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":21123753967695,"sku":"","price":18.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/products\/IronFilings_72_89eb16ac-53e5-47ae-be02-7458272a9b50.jpg?v=1549908594"},{"product_id":"wakefulness-and-world","title":"Wakefulness and World","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWakefulness And World: An Invitation To Philosophy \/ 197-page paperback \/ 5\" x 8\" \/ ISBN 9781589881365 \/ Publication Date: 7\/9\/2019\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Reading \u003cem\u003eWakefulness and World\u003c\/em\u003e gives one the experience of taking an \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eindependent study with a master teacher . . . Linck explains high-level concepts and arguments from all the thinkers he engages in a clear, conversational style, relatively free of jargon, while avoiding oversimplification and maintaining a high degree of precision and rigor.\"―\u003cem\u003eInterpretation\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePhilosophy begins in the middle of ordinary experience. Consider these four aspects of daily life: we have conversations which require us to strive to make ourselves understood and to understand others; we easily pick out nameable items in the world and also sense how the things around us hang together; we count things and do simple arithmetic, and are sure we know what we’re doing; we give reasons for knowing the things we claim to know. Philosophy gets off the ground when we ask how it is possible that we are already doing these things.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWakefulness and World\u003c\/i\u003e takes up this question by reading works by Plato, Aristotle, Kant, and Hegel. The invitation is two-fold: to accompany the author in reading some philosophical texts and to think together about the manifest and puzzling intelligibility of the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso available as an ebook:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/31SFbuQ\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAmazon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/books.apple.com\/us\/book\/wakefulness-and-world\/id1477992572?ls=1\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eApple iTunes Bookstore\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/wakefulness-and-world-matthew-linck\/1133040310?ean=2940161434161\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBarnes \u0026amp; Noble\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details?id=rgKqDwAAQBAJ\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGoogle Play\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca title=\"wakefulness and world matthew linck\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/us\/en\/ebook\/wakefulness-and-world\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eKobo\u003c\/a\u003e \u003cspan\u003e(See IndieBound's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/ebooks\" target=\"_blank\"\u003elist of independent booksellers selling e-books\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.)\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“The subject of this slim and lucid volume is the wondrous intelligibility of experience as it comes to light through philosophical attentiveness to the richly articulated whole of the world. Linck models wakefulness as he moves from the tentative hypotheses of Plato’s Socrates, to Aristotle’s elucidation of the determinateness of natural and artificial beings, to Kant’s and Hegel’s astonishing explorations of the ways the world’s intelligibility arises from within the mind itself. A deeply intelligent and subtle book by a master reader and teacher, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eWakefulness and World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e will engage and inform educated amateurs and accomplished scholars alike.”―\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eJacob Howland, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Republic: The Odyssey of Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eGlaucon's Fate\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“This project is an introduction to philosophy in the way that having a discussion with the finest teachers of philosophy is rumored to have been: Wittgenstein puzzling out utterances; Aristotle on peripatetic garden walks; and Socrates, whose every illustration proved both familiar and unsettling. Like Socrates, Linck speaks directly to beginners as well as practiced scholars about our endeavors to understand, from the images that lure us into reflection, to the confrontation between intelligible generalization and everyday experience. Linck’s book brings us into conversation with Plato’s Socrates, with Aristotle, Kant, Hegel, and with Newton. Through these encounters, he guides the reader to a profound reckoning with the conditions that allow careful, critical inquiry to flourish.”―\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eKatie Terezakis, Professor of Philosophy, Rochester Institute of Technology\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“An invitation to philosophy in the strongest sense. Through a patient and elegant discussion of some key moments in classic texts from Plato, Aristotle, Kant and Hegel, Linck invites his readers to wake up to the strangeness and miraculousness which is the making intelligible of the world in thought.”―\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eLouis Colombo, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Bethune-Cookman University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“\u003cem\u003eWakefulness and World\u003c\/em\u003e invites readers into a brief history of Western Philosophy through close readings of Plato, Aristotle, and Kant. More importantly, through a series of imagination exercises, it urges us to reconsider seemingly ordinary acts: what it means to see, to speak, and to count, reigniting early childhood experiences of astonishment at the very fact of being in the world. Each chapter provides foundational lessons in how to read (another person, a text, a statement, a scene, a concept, a swarm). Rather than outline a familiar philosophical trajectory from the sensible to the intelligible, Linck stages their entanglement and shows the urgency of returning to topics (and figures) that deepen through renewed contact. If philosophy is a never-ending project of awakening, \u003cem\u003eWakefulness and World\u003c\/em\u003e leaves one feeling newly alert to the ongoing project of philosophizing, as well as freshly alive to ‘the astonishing space of intelligible luminosity that we call the world.’”—\u003cb\u003eMegan Craig, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Art, Stony Brook University \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.sjc.edu\/news\/tutors-talk-books-matthew-linck-his-new-book-wakefulness-and-world\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eRead an interview\u003c\/a\u003e that the author gave to St. John's College.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eMatthew Linck\u003c\/b\u003e is a member of the senior faculty at St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland, where he has taught since 2008.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Matthew Linck","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":22081837137999,"sku":"","price":13.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/products\/Wakefulness_72.jpg?v=1565719262"},{"product_id":"the-battle-between-the-frogs-and-the-mice","title":"The Battle Between the Frogs and the Mice","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrations by Grant Silverstein\u003c\/strong\u003e \/ 110-page paperback \/ 7\" x 10\" \/ ISBN 9781589881426 \/ Publication Date: 10\/15\/2019\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"A virtuosic, witty, charming translation of the greatest epic ever written about mice, with wonderful illustrations by Grant Silverstein. Stallings’ elegant rhyming couplets are the perfect choice to honor the mousy Muse.\"—Emily Wilson, Professor of Classics, University of Pennsylvania\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the award-winning poet and translator A. E. Stallings comes a lively new edition of the ancient Greek fable \u003ci\u003eThe Battle between the Frogs and the Mice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. Originally attributed to Homer, but now thought to have been composed centuries later by an unknown author, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Battle\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis the tale of a mouse named Crumbsnatcher who is killed by the careless frog King Pufferthroat, sparking a war between the two species. This dark but delightful parable about the foolishness of war is illustrated throughout in striking drawings by Grant Silverstein.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe clever introduction is written from the point of view of a mouse who argues that perhaps the unknown author of the fable is not a human after all: “Who better than a mouse, then, to compose our diminutive, though not ridiculous, epic, a mouse born and bred in a library, living off lamp oil, ink, and the occasional nibble of a papyrus, constantly perched on the shoulder of some scholar or scholiast of Homer, perhaps occasionally whispering in his ear? Mouse, we may remember, is only one letter away from Muse.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso available as an ebook:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3f1CFd5\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAmazon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/books.apple.com\/us\/book\/id1510669002\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eApple iTunes Bookstore\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details?id=z7PfDwAAQBAJ\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGoogle Play\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca title=\"A Dinner of Herbs by John Verney kobo e-book\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/us\/en\/ebook\/the-battle-between-the-frogs-and-the-mice\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eKobo\u003c\/a\u003e \u003cspan\u003e(See IndieBound's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/ebooks\" target=\"_blank\"\u003elist of independent booksellers selling e-books\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.)\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"[Stallings] couplets . . . have a lively, nimble music that should captivate modern ears . . . Providing an earthy, oboe-like obligato to Ms. Stallings's airs are the illustrations of Grant Silverstein, cross-hatched sketches that multiply like mice on the page . . . \u003cem\u003eThe Battle\u003c\/em\u003e, in which beans are happily worn rather than eaten, still has the power to delight.\"\u003cspan\u003e—\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWall Street Journal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\"Stallings' translation of this ancient epic is a delight: charming, witty, and vividly alive, with buoyant rhymes and eye-catching illustrations. I suspect this will become a beloved addition in many home libraries.\"—\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMadeline Miller\u003c\/strong\u003e, bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eCirce\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"It takes real poetic skill to parody a master so subtly that the result becomes mistaken for the poetry of the master himself at play. And now, in A. E. Stallings translation of the \u003cem\u003eBatrachomyomachia\u003c\/em\u003e, we have what seems a comparably ambitious and convincing re-creation of that ancient recreation. Stallings is both a trained classicist and a well-regarded poet in English. And she is especially well regarded for her seemingly natural command of meter and rhyme — a command that’s uncommon in our era. Her rhymed couplets are the product of an innately sensitive ear . . . The main section presents the poem interwoven on every page with Silverstein’s pencil drawings — of frogs and mice and weasels and hawks and snakes and gods with human faces. At first, I thought of the illustration as maybe somewhat analogous to medieval illumination. But as I read on, I realized it wasn’t that at all. There’s too much drama in the drawings’ visual punctuation. I instead came to appreciate their larger role as visual harmonics — a substitute for a lyre, of sorts, accompanying the combined voices of bard and translator. They are an integral part of the success of this small volume, which I am very glad to have read.\"\u003cspan\u003e—\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\"With two introductions – one under Stallings’s name and another by ‘A. Nony Mouse’ – plus a glossary of dramatis personae, an appendix and the notes of an erudite classicist, this is a playful yet serious work of scholarship in miniature. It shouldn’t be so rare for a poet to be serious and to sparkle at the same time, but Stallings is one of the few.\"—\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\"\u003cspan\u003eThe battle begins in Aesopian style with a frog luring a mouse to its death. (Was it deliberate? You decide.) The subsequent outcry leads to all-out war, albeit a tiny one. Those familiar with the \u003cem\u003eIliad\u003c\/em\u003e will thrill at its miniaturization. The names of the heroes (King Pufferthroat begins the plot, and one whiskered Morselsnatcher is its fiercest fighter), the armor and armaments (chickpea shells for helmets and bean pods for shin protection, spears made of rushes), and the inevitable interference of the gods are all present and adorably parallel with expectations. It even ends with a \u003cem\u003ecrustaceus ex machina\u003c\/em\u003e you will not expect . . . Of course, because this is Stallings, the translation is in tight rhymed verse that balances both the grandeur of epic and the particular qualities of the warriors . . . The illustrations by Grant Silverstein maintain this balance, taking the combatants seriously (or as seriously as one can take the skinny legs of a standing frog wielding a beet leaf for a shield) and conveying the intensity of the battle.\"—\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLight Poetry Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"What fun it must have been for A. E. Stallings to discover \u003cem\u003eThe Battle Between the Frogs and the Mice\u003c\/em\u003e when it first appeared at the Gennadius Library in Athens. The story is a classic parable 'in good Homeric Greek' that underscores the futility of war but is replete with foolish names and activities that an author like Stallings can play with in rhymed couplets, giving free range to her imagination and wit. She might have taken a scholarly approach; instead the book is a rollicking, fast-paced romp, easily read in a sitting.\"\u003cspan\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Hudson Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\"A delightful surprise . . . Adding to the humour already presented in the original (like the names of the creatures, all adapted into English), clever puns and plays-on-words punctuate the translation and the introduction . . . There is something Carrollian in Stallings’ taste for puns and in the lightness of her translation as a whole . . . Grant Silverstein’s gracious etchings of animals and gods evoke well-known drawings by Renaissance artists like Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, and provide a lively visual counterpart to the narrative.\"—\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eBryn Mawr Classical Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\"A unique and delightfully entertaining read.\u003cspan\u003e\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMidwest Book Review\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The characters of this dazzling epic spring to life (and death!) in Grant Silverstein's exquisitely detailed drawings.\"—\u003cstrong\u003eAnn Temkin\u003c\/strong\u003e, Chief Curator, Department of Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A delightful translation of an overlooked gem of ancient Greek satire.\"—\u003cstrong\u003eA.M. Juster\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA. E. Stallings\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis an American poet who has lived in Athens, Greece since 1999. She studied Classics at the University of Georgia, and later at Oxford University. She has published four collections of poetry,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eArchaic Smile\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(which won the 1999 Richard Wilbur Award),\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eHapax\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(recipient of the Poets’ Prize),\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eOlives\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award), and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eLike \u003c\/i\u003e(a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry). Her translation of Lucretius (into rhyming fourteeners),\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Nature of Things\u003c\/i\u003e, was called by Peter Stothard in the TLS “One of the most extraordinary classical translations of recent times.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStallings has received a translation grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (US), and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and United States Artists, as well as a \"genius grant\" from the MacArthur Foundation. She is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her work is widely anthologized, and has been included in the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eBest American Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ein 1994, 2000, and 2015, and in the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eBest of the Best American Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(ed. Robert Pinsky). Her poems appear in\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic Monthly, The Beloit Poetry Review, The Dark Horse, The New Yorker, Poetry, Poetry Magazine, Poetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eTLS\u003c\/i\u003e, among others. She also contributes essays and reviews to the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmerican Scholar, Parnassus, Poetry Magazine, Poetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e, the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eTLS\u003c\/i\u003e, and the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eYale Review\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStallings is married to the journalist, John Psaropoulos, and has two children, Jason and Atalanta.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/lithub.com\/a-e-stallings-im-optimistic-about-poetry-but-thats-maybe-the-only-thing\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eRead an interview\u003c\/a\u003e with Literary Hub.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGrant Silverstein\u003c\/strong\u003e is an American artist who specializes in etchings of a narrative character and in studies of figures, landscapes, and animals. With his wife and two cats, he spends winters holed up in his studio in rural Pennsylvania, where he uses a catch and release system for visiting mice and the occasional frog. Come spring, he ventures forth to display his work at outdoor festivals; he feels fortunate to have made his living this way for forty years. He has illustrated two previous Paul Dry Books titles, \u003cem\u003eDavey McGravy\u003c\/em\u003e by David Mason and \u003cem\u003eThe Verb 'To Bird'\u003c\/em\u003e by Peter Cashwell.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"A. E. 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To Ms. Brann our inalienable right to the pursuit of happiness is the right not to an “endless chase,” but rather the right to \u003cem\u003ethe actual practice\u003c\/em\u003e of happiness, as in the “pursuit of a vocation.” With essays like “Tips on Reading Homer” and “The Greatness of Great Books” she keeps at her calling: to understand the world around us, and between us, to listen to our inner self-talk, and to consider what comes, perhaps, from beyond us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“[Brann] is a person of many strong interests. The central chapter of this book, 'On Being Interested,' offers a road map to staying happy: cultivate real interests . . . For John Locke and his disciple Thomas Jefferson, happiness is not pleasure. Like those precursors, Brann teaches Americans to free themselves from attachment to superficial gratifications and to pursue a higher-quality contentment with life. She locates this contentment in our ‘interestedness.’ . . . As an American, my encounter with Brann’s work calls me back to a sense of my own good fortune. Against a keening background noise of lament—over the economy, the climate, the pandemic, the predations of technology, crime—Eva Brann’s bright witness lifts me up and out.”—\u003cstrong\u003ePeggy Ellsberg, \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Brann holds us steady in a world that sometimes seems chaotic . . . At this time, the loudest voices among us are dystopian, and spoken language is losing all civility. If you want a change from this, \u003cem\u003ePursuits of Happiness\u003c\/em\u003e is a good place to start. Here’s a fascinating, independent-minded writer whose words connect us to living more fully toward a more beneficial life — thought-forms as catalysts.\"\u003cspan\u003e—\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWashington Independent Review of Books\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Eva Brann leads us into the imaginations and the perplexities of Milton, Socrates, and Mann, and gets us to delight with her in so many things: from Jane Austen’s scorpion-like sentences to Lincoln’s appreciation of Macbeth, to her musings about her engagement with ancient Greek pots when she was a young archeologist in Athens. Reading her thrilling thoughts about Hypothesis, Being, and the Good is more than the pursuit of happiness: it is sheer happiness.”—\u003cstrong\u003eBarry Mazur, author of \u003cem\u003eImagining Numbers: (particularly the square root of minus fifteen)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e“Eva Brann’s \u003cem\u003ePursuits of Happiness\u003c\/em\u003e is engrossing—appropriate for the topic at hand. I couldn’t help but be completely captivated. The essays are serious and playful at the same time. I often laughed from sheer joy in the middle of thinking through and reading about the interests we hold and that hold us. Brann’s reflections on interest elicit that pleasure which is inevitable when we authentically explore the things we love with someone else. She provides here that exciting opportunity to thoughtfully engage with our humanity through the particulars of a soul looking closely at itself in the middle of things.”—\u003cstrong\u003eAmritpal Singh, PhD student at Cornell University and St. John’s College Graduate, 2015\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEva Brann\u003c\/strong\u003e is a recipient of the National Humanities Medal. 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Ruth’s story sheds light on certain enduring questions of human life, and on the Hebrew Bible’s answers to those questions: the meaning of national membership and identity; the nature and limits of female friendship, marital love, and familial obligations; the importance of attachment to the land; and, especially, the redemptive powers for human life of childbirth, loving-kindness, and loyal devotion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso available as an e-book:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3ygpjmJ\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAmazon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/books.apple.com\/us\/book\/reading-ruth\/id6442958629\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eApple iTunes Bookstore\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/reading-ruth-leon-r-kass\/1137650010?ean=2940185662885\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBarnes and Noble\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details\/Leon_Kass_Reading_Ruth_Birth_Redemption_and_the_Wa?id=rmRxEAAAQBAJ\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGoogle Play\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/us\/en\/ebook\/reading-ruth-birth-redemption-and-the-way-of-israel\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eKobo\u003c\/a\u003e (See IndieBound's \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/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\"Layers of questions and meanings emerge as authors Kass and his granddaughter Mandelbaum explicate the text, exploring themes like friendship, intermarriage, community, punishment, incest, and God's fateful hand . . . A small but thoughtful and thought-provoking book.\"—\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBooklist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\"A delightful and inspiring analysis of the biblical Book of Ruth.\"\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003eJewish Media Review\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Through a close reading of the Book of Ruth, Leon Kass and Hannah Mandelbaum transform how we see the story and how we see ourselves. A marvelous gem of a book.”—\u003cstrong\u003eRuss Roberts\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“To ‘read Ruth’ with Leon Kass and his granddaughter Hannah is to find a host of new meanings in that familiar tale. This little book, infused with the ineffable quality of chesed, is a pure delight.”—\u003cstrong\u003eMary Ann Glendon, author of \u003cem\u003eA World Made New:  Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\"Kass and Mandelbaum’s passion for the material, often felicitous phrasing, and the accessibility of their work to a wider range of readers than a typical scholarly commentary make the volume a worthwhile read independent of one’s previous study of Ruth . . . It succinctly but sumptuously conveys the pathos, profundity, and artistry of the pastoral tale that has inspired countless kindnesses for generations.\"\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLehrhaus\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This new approach to the Biblical Book of Ruth radiates intelligence, wisdom, and kindness. The authors guide the readers through the memorable story of Noemi and Ruth, two women closely attached to each other, who come home to the Promised Land, Noemi as a returning native who has lost her husband and her sons, and Ruth, her widowed daughter-in-law, as a stranger. Rectitude, modesty and courage are their virtues, which, thanks to a beautiful love encounter with wise, generous Boaz, lead to Ruth’s marriage, conversion and motherhood. At each step, Kass and Mandelbaum help us capture the feelings of the characters, their mutual fidelity, and the happiness they achieve in a Biblical Israel open to virtue and piety. A deeply moving book, uplifting and true.”—\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThomas Pavel, University of Chicago\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e“\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eReading\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRuth\u003c\/em\u003e combines careful reading of the Book of Ruth with sensitive regard for the human experiences that lie at its core. Capturing the authenticity of the uplifting human interactions between the protagonists of this short narrative, the book reflects upon themes such as loyalty and devotion, family and marriage, friendship, community, and nobility of character. Allowing us a glimpse into the unadulterated joy of a study partnership laced with affection, the authors invite us to join them on a delightful journey into the Book of Ruth. Reading Ruth with respect and warmth, Kass and Mandelbaum unveil the inner world of Ruth’s characters, engaging the reader’s head and heart, and allowing the places, dialogues, and dilemmas of the biblical book to spring to life.”—\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eYael Ziegler, author of \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRuth: From Alienation to Monarchy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\"Not only an insightful reading of the book of Ruth, but also a wonderful demonstration of its tenets, being itself an act of familial transmission.\"—\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAssaf Inbari, author of\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Home \u003c\/em\u003eand\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e The Tank\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e“[O]ur era has somehow contrived to produce the ideal teacher in Leon Kass: learned humanist, medical doctor, bioethicist of distinction, gentleman, and wise counselor.”—\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGeorge Weigel, Distinguished Senior Fellow and William E. Simon Chair in Catholic Studies, Ethics and Public Policy Center, on\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Founding God's Nation: Reading Exodus\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e“Do you have the Bible on your bookshelf, but wish you knew it better?\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Reading Ruth \u003c\/em\u003eis for anyone—religious or secular, Jew or Christian—who seeks solace in the Hebrew Scriptures and who loves the Jewish people. Yet behind the familiar yet inexhaustible story of Ruth, Naomi, and Boaz, there is the story of Leon and Hannah. The authors who draw so much wisdom from the deep well of this biblical text are a grandfather and granddaughter, separated by an ocean, yet united in mourning their beloved Amy [wife to Leon and grandmother to Hannah]. 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Thinking through \u003ci\u003ethe\u003c\/i\u003e biblical story of personal friendship, women and family, without losing the political frame of the transition from the world of judges to kings, pondering the question of why an 'outsider' should be identified as the origin of the royal Davidic line, the authors draw their readers into reflection with them on fundamental human questions.\"—\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRonna Burger, Professor of Philosophy, Catherine \u0026amp; Henry J. Gaisman Chair and Director of Judeo-Christian Studies, Sizeler Professor of Jewish Studies, Tulane University\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLeon Kass\u003c\/strong\u003e is the Addie Clark Harding Professor Emeritus in the Committee on Social Thought at the College at the University of Chicago and Scholar Emeritus at the American Enterprise Institute. He was Chairman of the President’s Council on Bioethics from 2001 to 2005. His numerous articles and books include:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eToward a More Natural Science: Biology and Human Affairs, The Hungry Soul: Eating and the Perfecting of Our Nature, Wing to Wing, Oar to Oar: Readings on Courting and Marrying\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(with Amy A. Kass),\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eLife, Liberty, and the Defense of Dignity: The Challenge for Bioethics, The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis, What So Proudly We Hail: The American Soul in Story, Speech, and Song\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(with Amy A. Kass and Diana Schaub),\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eLeading a Worthy Life: Finding Meaning in Modern Times\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eFounding God's Nation: Reading Exodus\u003c\/i\u003e. 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She aspires someday to teach Biblical texts to the young.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Leon Kass","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32836746510415,"sku":"","price":13.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/products\/9781589881587_FC.jpg?v=1610040174"},{"product_id":"strange-to-say","title":"Strange To Say: Etymology as Serious Entertainment","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e194-page paperback \/ 5.5\" x 8.5\" \/ ISBN 9781589881570 \/ Publication Date: 8\/17\/2021\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“You can’t stop language, because \u003cem\u003ewhen all’s said and done\u003c\/em\u003e is never.”\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn her witty account of the origins of many English words and expressions, Deborah Warren educates as she entertains―and entertain she does, leading her readers through the amazing labyrinthian history of related words. “Language,” she writes, “is all about mutation.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRead here about the first meanings of common words and phrases, including dessert, vodka, lunatic, tulip, dollar, bikini, peeping tom, peter out, and devil’s advocate. A former Latin teacher, Warren is a gifted poet and a writer of great playfulness. \u003cem\u003eStrange to Say\u003c\/em\u003e is a cornucopia of joyful learning and laughter.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"[Warren's] curiosity and embrace of the unpredictable, as well as her delight in both the archaic and the homespun, animate \u003cem\u003eStrange to Say\u003c\/em\u003e, a tour of English that savors the language's mutability.\"―\u003cem\u003eWall Street Journal \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Warren, a poet and teacher of English and Latin, draws on her vast knowledge of the English language to transport readers into the inner-workings of the mind of a philologist: someone who studies the origins of words and how they are used in written works. This fast-paced nonfiction book will be enjoyed by those who find humor and excitement in exploring languages . . . a great read for those who appreciate seeing the whimsy in words, as Warren remarkably achieves etymological entertainment.\"―\u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\"[Warren] brings a poet’s ear and eye to \u003cem\u003eStrange to Say\u003c\/em\u003e, finding joy in the words as much as in their pedigrees. There is an artistry present in \u003cem\u003eStrange to Say\u003c\/em\u003e that I have rarely encountered in word books . . . It is a strong piece of work on etymologies—a brilliant, holistic approach by a most gifted amateur.\"―\u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\"The author, a poet, is a sure and, indeed, entertaining guide to the evolution of words and meaning.\"―\u003cem\u003eHarvard Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDid you know…\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLord Cardigan was a British aristocrat and military man known for the sweater jackets he sported.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA lying lawyer might \u003cem\u003epull the wool over a judge’s eyes\u003c\/em\u003e—yank his wig down across his face.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIn the original tale of Cinderella, her slippers were made of \u003cem\u003evair\u003c\/em\u003e (“fur”)—which in the orally-told story mistakenly turned into the homonym \u003cem\u003everre\u003c\/em\u003e (“glass”).\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLike \u003cem\u003elaundry, lavender\u003c\/em\u003e evolved from Italian \u003cem\u003elavanderia\u003c\/em\u003e, “things to be washed.” The plant was used as a clothes freshener. It smells better than, say, the misspelled Downy Unstopable with the ad that touts its “feisty freshness,” unaware that \u003cem\u003efeisty\u003c\/em\u003e evolved from Middle English \u003cem\u003efisten\u003c\/em\u003e—fart.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRAISE FOR DEBORAH WARREN'S OTHER BOOKS:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Warren goes anywhere, inhabits anything: it is fun to see a poet so willing to embrace metamorphosis . . . A great book.”―\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Millions\u003c\/em\u003e on \u003cem\u003eConnoisseurs of Worms\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Immensely engaging . . . Steeped in references to Greek and Roman history and literature, this book sings with an erudite yet accessible energy one might expect from a former Latin teacher. After finishing this collection, readers will definitely want to dive into the rest of Warren’s oeuvre.”―\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e on \u003cem\u003eConnoisseurs of Worms\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Not since Richard Wilbur has a poet combined formal grace, visual imagination, and worldly wisdom as appealingly as Deborah Warren. Whether she is writing about the largest subjects―history, love, the soul―or the smallest―housecats, Latin lessons, Cleopatra's nose―Warren, like the craftsman she writes about in 'The Glassblower,\" shows that she is a master of the 'possibility and prism' of her art.\"―\u003cstrong\u003eAdam Kirsch on \u003cem\u003eDream with Flowers and Bowl of Fruit\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Warren is among the very finest American poets who still observe the strictures of meter and rhyme. She informs her work with lively feeling, wit, wisdom, and memorable music; she keeps us sitting up and interested.\"―\u003cstrong\u003eX. J. Kennedy. on \u003cem\u003eZero\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eMeridian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Ms. Warren’s poems combine imagination with intelligence, music with emotional energy. The language sparkles in poem after poem.”―\u003cstrong\u003eDana Gioia on\u003cem\u003e Zero Meridian\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eAlso available as an ebook:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Strange-Say-Etymology-Serious-Entertainment-ebook\/dp\/B09DZMCW42\/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8\u0026amp;qid=1649807295\u0026amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAmazon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/books.apple.com\/us\/book\/strange-to-say\/id6442918141\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eApple iTunes Bookstore\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/strange-to-say-deborah-warren\/1137973204?ean=2940162522416\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBarnes \u0026amp; Noble\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details\/Strange_to_Say_Etymology_as_Serious_Entertainment?id=f_0_EAAAQBAJ\u0026amp;hl=en_US\u0026amp;gl=US\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGoogle Play\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/us\/en\/ebook\/strange-to-say-etymology-as-serious-entertainment\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eKobo\u003c\/a\u003e (See IndieBound's \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/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\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDeborah Warren\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of four books of poetry―\u003cem\u003eConnoisseurs of Worms, The Size of Happiness, Zero Meridian\u003c\/em\u003e, winner of the New Criterion Poetry Prize, and \u003cem\u003eDream with Flowers and Bowl of Fruit\u003c\/em\u003e, winner of the Richard Wilbur Award―and a translation of Ausonius: \u003cem\u003eThe Moselle and Other Poems\u003c\/em\u003e. Warren's writing has appeared in the \u003cem\u003eNew Yorker, Paris Review, Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e, and other publications, and she has won the Robert Penn Warren Prize, Howard Nemerov Award, Robert Frost Award, and Meringoff Award for her work. She lives in Massachusetts.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Deborah Warren","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39333646336079,"sku":"","price":13.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/products\/9781589881570_FC.jpg?v=1619621420"},{"product_id":"feigning","title":"Feigning","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFeigning: On the Originals of Fictive Images \u003cbr\u003e237-page paperback \/ 5.5\" x 8.5\" \/ ISBN 9781589881617 \u003cbr\u003ePublication Date: 2\/8\/22\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"What is the original of an image, whether beheld in the imagination or the world?\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhere do the images in our imagination come from? These images, Eva Brann reminds us, are not what they themselves display. They feign or imitate or copy what they seem to stand for. Ms. Brann turns and returns to a consideration of the nature of these images using words, their etymology, and their capacity to prompt image-making in her adventure in tracking down the ultimate source of our inner images.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso available as an ebook:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Feigning-Originals-Fictive-Eva-Brann-ebook\/dp\/B09QP25MZ3\/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8\u0026amp;qid=1646061099\u0026amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAmazon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/books.apple.com\/us\/book\/feigning\/id6442918196\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eApple iTunes Bookstore\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca title=\"Studying with Miss Bishop, Nook e-book\" href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/feigning-eva-brann\/1139320218?ean=2940160738123\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBarnes \u0026amp; Noble\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details\/Eva_Brann_Feigning?id=HOBeEAAAQBAJ\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGoogle Play\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca title=\"Studying with Miss Bishop kobo e-book\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/us\/en\/ebook\/feigning\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eKobo\u003c\/a\u003e \u003cspan\u003e(See IndieBound's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/ebooks\" target=\"_blank\"\u003elist of independent booksellers selling e-books\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.)\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEva Brann\u003c\/strong\u003e was a member of the senior faculty at St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland, where she taught for more than sixty years. She holds degrees from Brooklyn College and Yale University and is a recipient of the National Humanities Medal. Feigning is her thirteenth book from Paul Dry Books. Her other books include \u003cem\u003ePursuits of Happiness, Iron Filings or Scribblings, How to Constitute a World, Doublethink \/ Doubletalk, Then \u0026amp; Now, Un-Willing, The Logos of Heraclitus, Feeling Our Feelings, Homage to Americans, Open Secrets \/ Inward Prospects, The Music of the Republic\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eHomeric Moments.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Eva Brann","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42162247991536,"sku":"","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/products\/9781589881617_FC.jpg?v=1634149081"},{"product_id":"liberal-and-illiberal-arts","title":"Liberal and Illiberal Arts","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLiberal and Illiberal Arts: Essays (Mostly Jewish) \/ 232-page paperback \/ 5.5\" x 8.5\" \/ ISBN 9781589881600 \/ Publication Date: 3\/15\/2022\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHow did Humphrey Bogart end up telling Lauren Bacall a Talmudic story in the film \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKey Largo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, and what does that have to do with Plato’s theory of recollection—or American Jewish assimilation? 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These essays, tracing a journey from a yeshiva to Oberlin College and from Franz Kafka to Rabbi Kook, are a loving, cutting, whimsical, and wise look at a Jewish moment that he senses might be ending.”—\u003cstrong\u003eMatti Friedman\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eSpies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A true reckoning of Jewish ideas and Western thought and culture—both classic and popular—and its discontents, especially as played out on the contemporary university campus.”—\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTradition\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n“In an era where our intellectual life is muddy with ideology, our religious life muddy with politics, our political life muddy with moral posturing, and our morality muddy with self-righteousness, Abe Socher performs an enormous public service and clears away the mud. In this moving collection, he offers us what we direly need: clarity.”—\u003cstrong\u003eDara Horn\u003cem\u003e,\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e author of\u003cem\u003e People Love Dead Jews\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“With a lightness of touch and freshness of interpretation, Socher’s essays flash with wry humor and measured chagrin. They are also an eloquent, exacting defense of moral seriousness—and of Jewishness itself.”—\u003cstrong\u003eBenjamin Balint\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eKafka’s Last Trial\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“These beautiful essays by a leading Jewish-American intellectual portray with minute precision our cultural moment—a pleasure and an alarm at one and the same time.”—\u003cstrong\u003eYitzhak Melamed\u003c\/strong\u003e, Charlotte Bloomberg Professor of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University, author of \u003cem\u003eSpinoza’s Metaphysics: Substance and Thought\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAlso available as an ebook:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Liberal-Illiberal-Arts-Essays-Mostly-ebook\/dp\/B09QNJKGT4\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1B7TM034DQQNE\u0026amp;keywords=liberal+and+illiberal+arts+socher\u0026amp;qid=1646061675\u0026amp;s=books\u0026amp;sprefix=liberal+and+illiberal+arts+socher%2Cstripbooks%2C69\u0026amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAmazon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/books.apple.com\/us\/book\/liberal-and-illiberal-arts\/id6442917914\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eApple iTunes Bookstore\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/liberal-and-illiberal-arts-abraham-socher\/1139320217?ean=2940160738208\" title=\"Studying with Miss Bishop, Nook e-book\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBarnes \u0026amp; Noble\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details\/Abraham_Socher_Liberal_and_Illiberal_Arts?id=AQNgEAAAQBAJ\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGoogle Play\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/us\/en\/ebook\/liberal-and-illiberal-arts\" title=\"Studying with Miss Bishop kobo e-book\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eKobo\u003c\/a\u003e \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e(See IndieBound's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/ebooks\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/ebooks\" target=\"_blank\"\u003elist of independent booksellers selling e-books\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e.)\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAbraham Socher\u003c\/b\u003e is the editor of the \u003cem\u003eJewish Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e, which he founded, and a professor emeritus of Jewish Studies and Religion at Oberlin College. His recent edition of the \u003cem\u003eAutobiography of Solomon Maimon\u003c\/em\u003e (Princeton University Press) was a finalist for a National Jewish Book Award. Socher lives with his family in Beachwood, Ohio.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Abraham Socher","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39676898869327,"sku":"","price":15.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/products\/LiberalandIlliberalArts_350dpi.jpg?v=1636648260"},{"product_id":"surprised-again-the-covid-crisis-and-the-new-market-bubble","title":"Surprised Again!","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSurprised Again! 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Their book lays out the many elements of the panic and its aftermath, from the massive elastic currency operations which rode to the rescue by financing the bust with unprecedented government debt, to the consequent asset price boom, which included a renewed bubble in house prices financed by government guarantees. It considers key leveraged sectors such as commercial real estate, student loans, pension funds, banks, and the government itself. It reflects on how to understand these events both in retrospect and prospect.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“A helpful and insightful analysis of current economics . . . The chapters on prime market funds and cryptocurrencies are especially enlightening due to their exploration of regulations, both real and theoretical, that influence their behavior.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A masterful survey of the financial sector and its post-COVID dependence on easy money from the Federal Reserve. This book is the first place to turn for a clear exposition of key financial topics—housing, municipal debt, pension funds, student loans, cryptocurrencies, and more. The reader will be surprised yet again at the extent of financial problems lurking below the surface.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003eThomas H. Stanton, Johns Hopkins University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e“Pollock and Adler masterfully track governments’ financial response to the global pandemic—and raise critical questions about the future implications of increasing backstops for housing, student loans, pensions, and maybe even cryptocurrencies. A brilliant and clear recounting of the last two years, and a roadmap for the next potential crisis.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003eWinthrop Watson, President and CEO of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Pittsburgh\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e“\u003cem\u003eSurprised Again!\u003c\/em\u003e is a highly sophisticated analysis of every major potential problem in the US financial system today, presented in a delightfully readable and accessible form . . . The lesson is clear: surprises can never be ruled out, but it is possible to understand where the most likely economic or financial dangers lurk. The authors lay these out with admirable clarity. Forewarned is forearmed.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003ePeter J. Wallison, Senior Fellow Emeritus, American Enterprise Institute\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Tired of government bailouts with taxpayer money? Want government programs designed to maximize benefits while minimizing costs to the public fisc? Thought about risk transfers associated with federal intervention in the market? Then read this book!”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003eKeith Noreika, former Acting Comptroller of the Currency\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlso available as an e-book:\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Surprised-Again-Crisis-Market-Bubble-ebook\/dp\/B0BHTW423S\/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8\u0026amp;qid=1666710970\u0026amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAmazon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/books.apple.com\/us\/book\/surprised-again\/id6443817768\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eApple iTunes Bookstore\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/surprised-again-alex-j-pollock\/1140296600?ean=2940186634546\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBarnes \u0026amp; Noble\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details?id=kiGUEAAAQBAJ\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGoogle Play\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/us\/en\/ebook\/surprised-again-the-covid-crisis-and-the-new-market-bubble\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eKobo\u003c\/a\u003e \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e(See IndieBound's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca data-mce-fragment=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/ebooks\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/ebooks\" target=\"_blank\"\u003elist of independent booksellers selling e-books\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e.)\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlex J. Pollock\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Senior Fellow of the Mises Institute and the author of \u003cem\u003eFinance and Philosophy: Why We're Always Surprised\u003c\/em\u003e (Paul Dry Books) and \u003cem\u003eBoom and Bust: Financial Cycles and Human Prosperity\u003c\/em\u003e. He was Principal Deputy Director of the Office of Financial Research, U.S. Treasury, from November 2019 to February 2021, and has been a fellow of the R Street Institute and the American Enterprise Institute, president and CEO of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago, and a director of CME Group, Ascendium Education Group, and the Great Books Foundation. Pollock’s work includes the study of financial systems and their recurring crises; the politics of finance, risk, and uncertainty; central banking; and housing finance. He is a graduate of Williams College, the University of Chicago, and Princeton University, and he lives in Lake Forest, Illinois.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHoward B. Adler\u003c\/strong\u003e is an attorney and former government official. From May 2019 through January 2021, he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for the Financial Stability Oversight Council, where he was responsible for monitoring the financial stability of the United States during the first year of the Covid-19 crisis. He was awarded the Treasury’s Distinguished Service Award for his efforts by the Secretary of the Treasury. Mr. Adler was a partner for over thirty years in the Gibson, Dunn \u0026amp; Crutcher, LLP law firm, where he served as co-head of both the firm’s Corporate Transactional Practice Group and REIT Practice Group. Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, he served as Executive Vice President and General Counsel of The Riggs National Bank of Washington, D.C. Mr. Adler has also served as the Treasurer of the Washington, D.C. Bar and on the Board of Governing Trustees of American Ballet Theatre. He is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University and New York University School of Law, and he lives in the Washington, D.C. area.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alex Pollock and Howard Adler","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42408884437232,"sku":"","price":17.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/products\/9781589881655_FC.jpg?v=1644505082"},{"product_id":"is-equality-an-absolute-good","title":"Is Equality an Absolute Good?","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e103-page paperback \/ 4.75\" x 7.25\" \/ ISBN 9781589881631 \u003cbr\u003ePublication Date: 9\/13\/22\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Declaration of Independence aimed to turn our continent from a British colony into an American nation. Yet its first, its primary claim, is that we are all individually equal. What’s that got to do with national independence? However, the Declaration’s claim of universal human equality has grown into our primary political passion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis brief book asks: What concrete, substantial good do we get out of this equality? Well, specific safety of our equality before the law. But beyond that, and the easement of our envy? Equality at work, equalizing, is a mere leveling relation. Whatever is worth having involves distinction, that’s \u003cem\u003einequality\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso available as an e-book:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Equality-Absolute-Good-Eva-Brann-ebook\/dp\/B0B2BV8Z1F\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2EMGK7QOVXJ67\u0026amp;keywords=is+equality+an+absolute+good+brann\u0026amp;qid=1653578602\u0026amp;sprefix=is+equality+an+absolute+good+brann%2Caps%2C68\u0026amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAmazon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/books.apple.com\/us\/book\/is-equality-an-absolute-good\/id6442917921\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eApple iTunes Bookstore\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/is-equality-an-absolute-good-eva-brann\/1141100775?ean=2940185663059\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBarnes \u0026amp; Noble\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details\/Eva_Brann_Is_Equality_an_Absolute_Good?id=pmRxEAAAQBAJ\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGoogle Play\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/us\/en\/ebook\/is-equality-an-absolute-good\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eKobo \u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e(See IndieBound's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/ebooks\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" target=\"_blank\"\u003elist of independent booksellers selling e-books\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e.)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e Eva Brann\u003c\/strong\u003e was a member of the senior faculty at St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland, where she taught for more than sixty years. She holds degrees from Brooklyn College and Yale University and is a recipient of the National Humanities Medal. \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIs Equality an Absolute Good?\u003c\/em\u003e is her fourteenth book from Paul Dry Books. Her other books include \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFeigning, Pursuits of Happiness, Iron Filings or Scribblings, How to Constitute a World, Doublethink \/ Doubletalk, Then \u0026amp; Now, Un-Willing, The Logos of Heraclitus, Feeling Our Feelings, Homage to Americans, Open Secrets \/ Inward Prospects, The Music of the Republic, and Homeric Moments.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Eva Brann","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42720930562288,"sku":"","price":11.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/products\/EqualityAbsoluteGood_FINALCOVER1.17.22.jpg?v=1650476034"},{"product_id":"politics-nature-and-piety","title":"Politics, Nature, and Piety","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePolitics, Nature, and Piety: On the Natural Basis of Political Life \/ Edited by Alex Priou \/ 359-page paperback \/ 5.5\" x 8.5\" \/ ISBN 9781589881693 \/ Publication Date: 11\/15\/22\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe essays in \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePolitics, Nature, and Piety \u003c\/em\u003etake\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eup the central question of political philosophy: What is the good life, and what place do nature, politics, and piety have in that life? “The unity of the essays,” Alex Priou writes in his introduction, “lies in the various tensions explored: between ancients and moderns, religion and philosophy, magnanimity and prudence, justice and friendship, and, most fundamentally, spiritedness and the intellect.” Laurence Berns proves an excellent guide for beginning one’s study of the great books of political philosophy, from Plato to the present.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Laurence Berns was a generous colleague and a dear friend. I sang with him in barbershop groups at the college and loved hearing his rich baritone. The warmth of his voice was emblematic of the man. A devoted student of human nature, especially in its political aspect, he was eminently humane. He knew as much about textual irony as any student of Leo Strauss but was not blinded by it. His mode was direct personal engagement with what his beloved authors had to teach him about the objects of their concern. These are aptly summarized as politics, nature, and piety.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe writings in this volume are the fruit of a lifetime devoted to the study of ‘ancients’ and ‘moderns,’ both poetic and philosophic. Full of insights into foundational texts ranging from Aristotle’s \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePoetics\u003c\/em\u003e to the Declaration of Independence, they are marked by an admirable clarity of thought and expression and a persistent effort to engage the reader as a fellow thinker. I rejoice that the writings of Laurence Berns are now available in a single volume. Readers will profit not only from the individual chapters but also from their thematic intersections and resonances.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Peter Kalkavage, Tutor, St. John’s College and author of \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Logic of Desire: An Introduction to Hegel’s \u003c\/em\u003ePhenomenology of Spirit\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAlso available as an e-book:\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Politics-Nature-Piety-Natural-Political-ebook\/dp\/B0BHTSF5VF\/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8\u0026amp;qid=1666711317\u0026amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAmazon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/books.apple.com\/us\/book\/politics-nature-and-piety\/id6443817643\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eApple iTunes Bookstore\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/politics-nature-and-piety-laurence-berns\/1141100796?ean=2940186634324\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBarnes \u0026amp; Noble\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details\/Laurence_Berns_Politics_Nature_and_Piety_On_the_Na?id=RSGUEAAAQBAJ\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGoogle Play\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/us\/en\/ebook\/politics-nature-and-piety-on-the-natural-basis-of-political-life\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eKobo\u003c\/a\u003e \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e(See IndieBound's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/ebooks\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/ebooks\" target=\"_blank\"\u003elist of independent booksellers selling e-books\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e.)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLaurence Berns\u003c\/strong\u003e (1928 - 2011) taught at St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland from 1960 to 1999. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago where he studied with Leo Strauss.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlex Priou\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of \u003cem\u003eBecoming Socrates: Political Philosophy in Plato’s\u003c\/em\u003e Parmenides and \u003cem\u003eDefending Socrates: Political Philosophy Before the Tribunal of Science\u003c\/em\u003e (forthcoming). He teaches at the University of Colorado, Boulder.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Laurence Berns","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43188278132976,"sku":"","price":23.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/products\/PoliticsNatureandPiety_FINALCOVER_highres.jpg?v=1657731441"},{"product_id":"i-dont-smoke-enough-to-quit","title":"I Don't Smoke Enough to Quit","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI Don't Smoke Enough to Quit: An Epic of Diminished Proportions \/ 221-page paperback \/ 5\" x 8.5\" \/ ISBN 9781589881716 \/ Publication Date: 2\/7\/2023\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“Dreesen presents an unusual and welcoming memoir-in-verse, an epic colloquial journey through his childhood in a chaotic, eight-kid family as they ran a 24-hour highway truck stop and popular roadhouse in Nebraska. Dreesen portrays the intriguing characters they met as well as the characters they became . . . Dreesen expertly plays with language, cadence, texture, emotion, memory, and facts to impart the sense that all our knowledge is ‘second hand,’ full of miscomprehension of other people and their perceptions, and yet our experiences are precious, our stories illuminating.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“And what I’m about to tell you can’t be told\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003estraight, so needs to be contained by form,\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003efor the tale is messy and meandering,\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eif not downright weedy and windy\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eas all the characters who blew through our lives\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eback then and who we had to bend into,\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003egrimacing and hunched over, holding hands\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eso as not to lose one another, sieve.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eIn his imaginative memoir-in-verse, Robert Dreesen captures the stop-and-start rhythm of growing up in his family’s 24-hour truck stop and drinkin’ and dancin’ bar alongside the Pan-American Highway in northeastern Nebraska. 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Dreesen has captured a time and a place perfectly.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003eLadette Randolph, Editor-in-chief,\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Ploughshares \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eon \u003cem\u003eI Don't Smoke Enough to Quit\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The poems in Robert Dreesen’s\u003cem\u003e I Don't Smoke Enough to Quit\u003c\/em\u003e may be set in a truck stop bar but its ‘cricks’ are deep, concealing the poet’s family’s loving reticence—‘for anything declared might be taken away’—with raucous living. Dreesen, for whom two pianos in the room resembled ‘two horses in the pasture resting heads on one another’s rumps,’ carries this blank verse tribute to his father from ‘engine whisperers’ to ‘a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest.’ \u003cem\u003eI Don't Smoke Enough to Quit\u003c\/em\u003e tells a sad, sure story with a wallop of an ending.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003eTerese Svoboda, author of \u003cem\u003eBlack Glasses Like Clark Kent \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eon\u003cem\u003e I Don't Smoke Enough to Quit\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\"Robert Dreesen's debut chapbook titled \u003cem\u003e20th Century Tool Shed\u003c\/em\u003e constructs a narrative that simmers as he chisels a penetrating commentary on the modern world. With dexterity, Dreesen creates precise poems that matter to us, where 'The Shovel is willful, \/ God of the Old Testament \/ before he 'got religion.' These poems are full and contain sharp insights into ourselves and our histories.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMichael Catherwood, author of \u003cem\u003eProjector \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eon\u003cem\u003e 20th Century Tool Shed \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRead an excerpt from Part I: \u003cem\u003eI Ain’t Lewis and You Ain’t Clark\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e10.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eI’m surprised we all turned up\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eafter the storm and weren’t scattered throughout the fields\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003elike crimsoned snow geese after a hunt,\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ethe dogs bringing us back to the gunners\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ewho brought us down from the sky with their aim.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe bar and station were the world outside\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ethe \u003cem\u003eEncyclopedia Britannica\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ewe had at home—a concession to a middle-class life\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ethat always seemed beyond\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ethe horizon—along with an upright piano.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTwenty-four years the truck stop served as meeting house,\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003epacking house and clearing house, house\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eof the rising sun and house of no fun\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eif you had to work there on nights gone wrong too fast.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e11.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe world walked through that doubtful door\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eto show us boys, as Rose called us, what sure\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ewas out there waiting, what didn’t shine or smile\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ebut walked right back to the beer cooler\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eor disappeared into the bathroom\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eonly to walk right out the front door, turn back\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eand say, \u003cem\u003eYou got a goddamn problem, kid?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe pissing East Coast and West Coast elites,\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ethe filmmakers and marketers, don’t know\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ewhat they’re dealing with in the Midwest,\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eas if an accent and silence around\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ethe dinner table, conveyed by a black\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eand white art movie, could catch who’s hiding\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ein a culvert at the end of a country lane.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e12.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe graveyard shift was interesting until\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eit wasn’t, until the traffic slowed\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eand your friends went home and your body buzzed\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003efrom all the candy bars and ice cream\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eand pop; and soon the sugar high would\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003edrop, surely as the silence while you watched\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ethe clock and shivered, listening for the ding ding\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eof the driveway bell, then argued whose turn\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eit was to go outside and pump some gas.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe truck stop went bankrupt eponymously,\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003efor Kenny knew how to make a dollar\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ebut didn’t know the value of a penny,\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eand you can bank on that, and if you can’t,\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ewell, Kenny will let you charge it, no doubt.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlso available as an e-book:\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Dont-Smoke-Enough-Quit-Proportions-ebook\/dp\/B0BPW4H8JF\/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8\u0026amp;qid=1673011130\u0026amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAmazon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/books.apple.com\/us\/book\/i-dont-smoke-enough-to-quit\/id6445299119\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eApple iTunes Bookstore\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/i-dont-smoke-enough-to-quit-robert-j-dreesen\/1141100795?ean=2940185674406\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBarnes \u0026amp; Noble\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details\/Robert_Dreesen_I_Don_t_Smoke_Enough_to_Quit_An_Epi?id=L_ChEAAAQBAJ\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGoogle Play\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/us\/en\/ebook\/i-don-t-smoke-enough-to-quit-an-epic-of-diminished-proportions\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eKobo\u003c\/a\u003e (See IndieBound's \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/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 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRobert J. Dreesen\u003c\/strong\u003e is a publisher of scholarly books in New York City, where he has lived for the past thirty years. He is the author of \u003cem\u003e20th Century Tool Shed\u003c\/em\u003e, a poetry collection. Dreesen returns to Nebraska every fall for an annual trip up the Missouri River with his brothers-in-bottle called “I Ain’t Lewis and You Ain’t Clark.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Robert J. Dreesen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43514792149232,"sku":"","price":14.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/products\/9781589881716_FC.jpg?v=1664554589"},{"product_id":"rug-man","title":"Rug Man","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e188-page paperback \/ 5.5\" x 8.5\" \/ ISBN 9781589881730 \u003cbr\u003ePublication Date: 3\/21\/2023\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFor fans of Richard Russo and Stewart O’Nan comes a frank and funny debut novel about the workaday world of an unassuming carpet installer\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFrank “Ace” Renzetti has been installing carpet for over forty years, working the upscale neighborhoods of Philadelphia’s Main Line. At a time when he should be considering retirement, Frank takes on one of the biggest—and strangest—jobs of his career. The house is owned by a volatile and eccentric divorcee, its rooms teeming with weary contractors, many of whom have been on the job for months. A pampered dog regularly sabotages everyone’s work, and the general contractor patrols the site as if it’s the border.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAmid this week-long circus, Frank’s body starts to fail him, and when he loses both his helpers to a drug bust, he is left to complete the job by himself on one good leg. Desperate, he poaches a day-laborer from his competitor and finds that the young, paperless El Salvadoran has a way with carpet and just might be the future of the trade. As the physical challenges of the job mount, the fate of Frank’s business, and, with that, the fate of his blue-collar genius, become increasingly uncertain.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWry and insightful, \u003cem\u003eRug Man\u003c\/em\u003e is a tribute to a bygone era of craftsmen whose work was the source of their greatest suffering but also their greatest pride.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRAISE FOR RUG MAN:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner, Athenaeum of Philadelphia 2023 Literary Award\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003ePhiladelphia Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e included \u003cem\u003eRug Man\u003c\/em\u003e on their list of \"\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.phillymag.com\/things-to-do\/2023\/05\/25\/best-books-philly-summer-2023\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eThe Best Books to Read This Summer\u003c\/a\u003e\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"It takes a skilled writer to craft an interesting and entertaining tale about carpet installation, but David Amadio has done that and a lot more in his delightful debut novel, \u003cem\u003eRug Man\u003c\/em\u003e. Of course, the story here is not just about carpet installation, for Amadio has a larger tale to tell. In its heart, \u003cem\u003eRug Man\u003c\/em\u003e is about discipline, sacrifice, humility, dedication to craft and the possibility of unexpected grace when one’s world seems to be – um, well –unraveling.”\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eItalian American Herald\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“A thousand suburban nightmares converge in David Amadio’s perfectly measured debut. But Frank Renzetti can handle it. Frank is more than the forgotten man—he is the forgotten manner of man. It’s a great pleasure to meet him again.”\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Nathaniel Popkin, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Year of the Return\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/articles\/david-amadio-comic-book-rug-man\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eListen to a WHYY interview\u003c\/a\u003e with the author and his father, the inspiration for the main character in\u003cem\u003e Rug Man.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/jmwwblog.wordpress.com\/2023\/06\/19\/inspiral-carpets-an-interview-david-amadio-by-curtis-smith\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eRead Curtis Smith's interview\u003c\/a\u003e of David Amadio for JMWW.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAlso available as an e-book:\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Rug-Man-David-Amadio-ebook\/dp\/B0BTMCDW4S\/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8\u0026amp;qid=1677261362\u0026amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAmazon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/books.apple.com\/us\/book\/rug-man\/id6445797823\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eApple iTunes Bookstore\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/rug-man-david-amadio\/1141100767?ean=2940185894590\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBarnes \u0026amp; Noble\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details\/David_Amadio_Rug_Man?id=jrWqEAAAQBAJ\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGoogle Play\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/us\/en\/ebook\/rug-man\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eKobo\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(See IndieBound's\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/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\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDavid Amadio\u003c\/strong\u003e teaches Creative Writing and Composition at Lincoln University, America’s first degree-granting HBCU. His work has appeared in \u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCleaver\u003c\/span\u003e, \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePackingtown Review\u003c\/span\u003e, \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAdaptation\u003c\/span\u003e, \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTalking River\u003c\/span\u003e, \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNerve Cowboy\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e, and the \u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSan Francisco Examiner\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e He belongs to a three-man comedy troupe called the Minor Prophets, which has written, directed, and produced over thirty award-winning short films. David lives in suburban Philadelphia with his wife and two children. \u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRug Man\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e is his first novel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David Amadio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43536839639280,"sku":"","price":14.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/products\/RugMan_FinalCover_highres.jpg?v=1665079804"},{"product_id":"platos-symposium-and-phaedrus","title":"Plato's Symposium and Phaedrus","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e194-page paperback \/ 6\" x 9\" \/ ISBN 9781589881778 \u003cbr\u003ePublication Date 6\/27\/2023\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Joe Sachs is a national treasure. His brilliant translations from the Greek, spanning works from Homer to Aristotle, have long enriched scholars and students alike. He crowns those achievements with this exquisite rendering of two of Plato’s most beautiful dialogues, with an introduction that evidences his deft ability to drill down to 'the thing itself.'\" —Thomas Sheehan, Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies, Stanford University\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cem\u003ePhaedrus\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSymposium\u003c\/em\u003e are Plato’s two dialogues about Eros—that is, desirous longing. In these new translations by former St. John’s College tutor Joe Sachs, the reader imaginatively becomes a member, if a silent one, of the conversations Socrates has with his companions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhile both dialogues are about love, they differ in intriguing and important ways. The conversation of the \u003cem\u003ePhaedrus\u003c\/em\u003e takes place in the countryside and that of the \u003cem\u003eSymposium\u003c\/em\u003e in Athens. In the \u003cem\u003ePhaedrus\u003c\/em\u003e only Socrates and Phaedrus are present; in the \u003cem\u003eSymposium\u003c\/em\u003e many participate in the drinking party. But in both, Socrates presents singularly abiding images: The winged horses and chariot in the \u003cem\u003ePhaedrus\u003c\/em\u003e; the ladder of love in the \u003cem\u003eSymposium\u003c\/em\u003e. These compelling images attract and move the reader to ask questions of the dialogues, which in their unique ways seem to reply.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe interplay of the two texts may spark an unfolding in the reader’s thinking about love, but for the dialectical motion that must occur between the speeches and between the lines of Plato’s texts, the reader must do the work, provoked, invited, and assisted by what they contain. The context for our thinking includes in one case the subject of tragedy and comedy, in the other the nature of rhetoric and writing, but it is philosophy, and not poetry or politics, that persistently claims the center of attention. The dialogues themselves seem as different as night from day, as urbane wit from rustic charm—but do they point to opposing or converging attitudes toward erotic love?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Accessible and lively.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e—Bryn Mawr Classical Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"One striking feature of the translations is their relative clarity and directness. This is particularly impressive given the variety, complexity, and often highly poetic character of the speeches contained in the Symposium and Phaedrus . . . All students of Plato should welcome Joe Sachs’s contributions.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Interpretation\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eAlso available as an e-book:\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Platos-Symposium-Phaedrus-Plato-ebook\/dp\/B0C69V7TFZ\/ref=sr_1_5?crid=W2CM1VON3A1Y\u0026amp;keywords=Plato%27s+Symposium+and+Phaedrus\u0026amp;qid=1686591736\u0026amp;sprefix=%2Caps%2C569\u0026amp;sr=8-5\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAmazon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/books.apple.com\/us\/book\/platos-symposium-and-phaedrus\/id6449498593\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eApple iTunes Bookstore\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/platos-symposium-and-phaedrus-joe-sachs\/1142117090?ean=2940160836942\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBarnes \u0026amp; Noble\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details\/Plato_Plato_s_Symposium_and_Phaedrus?id=jnfAEAAAQBAJ\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGoogle Play\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/us\/en\/ebook\/plato-s-symposium-and-phaedrus\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eKobo\u003c\/a\u003e (See IndieBound's list of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/ebooks\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eindependent booksellers selling e-books\u003c\/a\u003e.)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJoe Sachs\u003c\/strong\u003e taught for thirty years in the Great Books program at St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland. He has translated Homer's \u003cem\u003eIliad\u003c\/em\u003e (Paul Dry Books, 2018) and \u003cem\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/em\u003e (Paul Dry Books, 2014); Aristotle’s \u003cem\u003ePhysics\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMetaphysics\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eOn the Soul and On Memory and Recollection, Nicomachean Ethics, Rhetoric, Politics\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003ePoetics\u003c\/em\u003e; and Plato’s \u003cem\u003eTheaetetus, Republic, Gorgias\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eSocrates and the Sophists\u003c\/em\u003e. He lives in Annapolis.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plato, translated by Joe Sachs","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43869096706288,"sku":"","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/products\/9781589881778_FC.jpg?v=1677173140"},{"product_id":"ear-training-literary-essays","title":"Ear Training: Literary Essays","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cem\u003e382-page paperback \/ 6\" x 9\" \/ ISBN 9781589881822 \u003cbr\u003ePublication Date 11\/7\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“These pieces reflect Pritchard’s abiding joy in literature, especially poetry … Included here are insightful appreciations of Anthony Trollope, Anthony Powell, and a sublime reading of Philip Larkin. His essay on Elizabeth Bishop will have poetry lovers reaching for volumes of her work. Pritchard is particularly strong in his evaluations of other critics, including Edmund Wilson, Hugh Kenner, and especially, Clive James … Pritchard is demanding, fastidious, and occasionally cantankerous, yet in a refreshing way that reminds readers what it means to care deeply about literature.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Booklist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eEar Training\u003cspan\u003e \u003cem\u003egathers thirty essays and reviews by one of America’s most playful critics.\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKnown for his long career as a professor and writer of critical biographies, for this collection William H. Pritchard has selected some of his favorite shorter pieces on a wide range of topics. United by Pritchard’s philosophy of literature, which he calls “ear training,” pieces on subjects from John Updike to Emily Dickinson to Frank Sinatra to the soap opera \u003ci\u003eThe Young and the Restless \u003c\/i\u003eurge us to consider how literature sounds and how a sense of play in our approach to the world can uncover buried truths and meanings. Also included are the series of letters Pritchard wrote to his students in the early months of the COVID pandemic in 2020, meant to offer commentary on four English writers—Dryden, Swift, Pope, and Samuel Johnson. Throughout the collection Pritchard urges the reader to engage with texts he has found particularly delightful and illuminating, taking us on a tour of the world as he has heard it through poetry, prose, music, and the voices of people he has known. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for William H. 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He has a third gift, however, his solid anchorage in another art form. He has refined his ear for music in tune with his love for poetry and prose. Pritchard is a great critic with perfect pitch.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Christopher Benfey, author of A Summer of Hummingbirds on Ear Training\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\"Pritchard’s wide range and freedom from cant have endured . . . Those qualities, to be treasured in a book reviewer, are on display in Ear Training.\"\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—The New Criterion on Ear Training\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A savvy literary critic . . . Pritchard writes with both uncommon clarity and easygoing erudition.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Publishers Weekly \u003cem\u003eon\u003c\/em\u003e Updike: America's Man of Letters\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Pritchard's sympathetic, kinetic engagement with the canon has always distinguished him from other voices of the academy. Maybe that's because Pritchard believes less in great books than in great writing. His immersion in literature is emotional and philosophical, as well as technical and professional.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e on \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTalking Back to Emily Dickinson, and Other Essays\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\"What shines through here is Pritchard's passionate commitment to literature and writing in an impoverished academic world. This is a clear-minded and judicious tale of one critic's quest to situate his critical identity in a world that has largely left his kind behind.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e on \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEnglish Papers: A Teaching Life\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRead\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(43, 0, 255);\"\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.amherst.edu\/news\/magazine\/issues\/2024_spring\/amherst-creates\/a-writers-kind-of-teacher\" style=\"color: rgb(43, 0, 255);\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\"A Writer's Kind of Teacher\"\u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ein \u003cem\u003eAmherst Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003eRead John Wilson's reivew in \u003cem\u003eFirst Things:\u003c\/em\u003e \"\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(43, 0, 255);\"\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/firstthings.com\/learning-to-read-by-ear\/\" style=\"color: rgb(43, 0, 255);\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eLearning to Read by Ear\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e.\"\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWilliam H. Pritchard\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of several essay collections and literary biographies including \u003ci\u003eRandall Jarrell: A Literary Life\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eUpdike: America’s Man of Letters\u003c\/i\u003e. He is professor of English emeritus at Amherst College where he taught for sixty years. He lives in western Massachusetts.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"William H. Pritchard","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44117469724912,"sku":"","price":23.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/files\/EarTraining_FINALCOVER.jpg?v=1686581503"},{"product_id":"in-search-of-circle-z","title":"In Search of Circle Z","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e143-page paperback \/ 8\" x 8\" \/ ISBN 9781589881808 \/ Publication Date: 10\/17\/2023 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Dry’s keen visual sensibility propels her graceful and intriguing chronicle\u003cem\u003e . . . \u003c\/em\u003eShe introduces James Perry Wilson, a master diorama landscape painter, and analyzes the power of those mesmerizing museum displays and her own wondrously soothing memoryscapes. Dry has channeled the 'magical presence' of both into drawings, photographs, and her own small dioramas, visual works that deepen this unique and evocative inquiry into perception and 'how images work for us.'”\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Booklist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eWhen Constance Dry began to experience spontaneous mental images brought on by chronic migraine disease, she termed them “memoryscapes.” These memoryscapes were inspired by the landscape of Circle Z Ranch where Dry has spent time since childhood, and they have helped alleviate the pain of migraine. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eIn Search of Circle Z,\u003c\/em\u003e Dry explores the relationship between these unbidden images and habitat dioramas, specifically those in the American Museum of Natural History in New York. 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It can be hard at points to remember the book is actually a work of nonfiction.\"\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e―\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eChristian Science Monitor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Ariadne Objective\u003c\/em\u003e is the extraordinary story of the Nazi occupation of Crete told from the perspective of an eccentric band of British gentleman spies. These amateur soldiers―writers, scholars, archaeologists―included Patrick Leigh Fermor, a future travel-writing luminary; John Pendlebury, a pioneering archaeologist whose walking stick concealed a sword; Xan Fielding, who would later translate books like \u003cem\u003eBridge over the River Kwai\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003ePlanet of the Apes\u003c\/em\u003e into English; Sandy Rendel, a future \u003cem\u003eTimes of London\u003c\/em\u003e reporter; and W. 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It is surely is a good thing that we no longer associate war with adventure; if it were always as appealing as Davis has made it here, we would grow to love it too much.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e―The Daily Beast\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Fascinating.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e―New York Post\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Already thrilling in premise, Davis's execution of this previously untold war story is spot on especially when he colors in history with intricate descriptions of the exotic locale.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e―Publishers Weekly\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An exciting, tense narrative that unfolds like an espionage novel.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e―Booklist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"History both crucial and swashbuckling.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e―Library Journal\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An exciting, earnestly narrated World War II story.\"\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e―Kirkus Reviews\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlso available as an e-book:\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Ariadne-Objective-Patrick-Fermor-Underground-ebook\/dp\/B0CTHQTBV6\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3EC5HZCPVIPYL\u0026amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.ehWkhOa5buzJCVQapKbyMhRrXdEf8-qtyJduO0SYjD2PTN-oiC5_86YH0MKIYLKQ3sVGIW8FahVhlg4aplX70cAd-YeswoCMxRWY3tRdW_4.TrDYEL6ZnSX64wdM1WPYtXXqlNX1WBA4SLtMJVItbLk\u0026amp;dib_tag=se\u0026amp;keywords=ariadne+objective\u0026amp;qid=1711977788\u0026amp;sprefix=ariadne+objective%2Caps%2C79\u0026amp;sr=8-1\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAmazon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/books.apple.com\/us\/book\/the-ariadne-objective\/id6479700022\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eApple iTunes Bookstore\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/the-ariadne-objective-wes-davis\/1119954786?ean=2940186189428\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBarnes \u0026amp; Noble\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details\/Wes_Davis_The_Ariadne_Objective_Patrick_Leigh_Ferm?id=wSL7EAAAQBAJ\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGoogle Play\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/us\/en\/ebook\/the-ariadne-objective-patrick-leigh-fermor-and-the-underground-war-to-rescue-crete-from-the-nazis\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eKobo\u003c\/a\u003e (See IndieBound's \u003ca rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/ebooks\" target=\"_blank\"\u003elist of independent booksellers selling e-books\u003c\/a\u003e.)\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWes Davis\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of \u003cem\u003eAmerican Journey: On the Road with Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, and John Burroughs\u003c\/em\u003e and editor of \u003cem\u003eAn Anthology of Modern Irish Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e. He served for two years as an assistant to the director of excavations at Kavousi in Eastern Crete, not far from the plateau where Patrick Leigh Fermor parachuted onto the island during WWII. He holds a Ph.D. in English Literature from Princeton University and is a former assistant professor of English at Yale University. Davis has written for many publications including the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times, the Wall Street Journal,\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Nation.\u003c\/em\u003e He lives outside New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wes Davis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44741024579824,"sku":"","price":19.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/files\/9781589881884_FC.jpg?v=1702485223"},{"product_id":"strauss-plato-nietzsche-the-beijing-lectures","title":"The Beijing Lectures: Strauss, Plato, Nietzsche","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e211-page paperback \/ 5.5\" x 8.5\" \/ ISBN 9781589881907\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublication Date: 7\/2\/2024\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSix essays from a well-known Nietzsche scholar on Strauss, Plato, Nietzsche, and the history of western philosophy\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Beijing Lectures: \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eStrauss, Plato, Nietzsche,\u003c\/em\u003e Laurence Lampert presents what he calls the new history of philosophy made possible by Friedrich Nietzsche. This “new” history takes seriously Nietzsche’s claim that “the greatest thoughts are the greatest events.” To put it even more assertively that “genuine philosophers are commanders and legislators.”\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBeginning with Leo Strauss and how his recovery of the philosophers’ art of writing can change our way of viewing the history of philosophy, Lampert then focuses on six Platonic dialogues—\u003cem\u003eProtagoras, Charmides, Republic, Phaedo, Parmenides, \u003c\/em\u003eand\u003cem\u003e Symposium\u003c\/em\u003e. These, he believes, mark a turning point in Western history and set the pattern for the whole Western philosophic tradition. In the third and final section, Lampert considers Nietzsche in order to show how he revolutionized our understanding of the world, and in particular why it is appropriate to view him as “the first comprehensive ecological philosopher.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“In this brilliant analysis of the coming to be of Strauss, Plato, and Nietzsche as philosophers and poets, Laurence Lampert reaches new heights and plumbs new depths. An extraordinarily rich and insightful book, thoughtful and beautiful in its execution. A masterful performance by a thinker and author at the height of his power.”\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e—Michael Allen Gillespie, author of\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Nietzsche’s Final Teaching\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\"[Lampert] shows us how to navigate the works themselves. Lampert permits us to read over his shoulder while he works through a text. He presents decades of work in all of its original excitement and freshness.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e—Voegelin View\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e“\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Beijing Lectures: \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eStrauss, Plato, Nietzsche\u003c\/em\u003e is a subtle and illuminating discussion of the three thinkers, of the connection between philosophical understanding and philosophers’ political-theological activity, and of the art of writing that is central to this activity.”\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Mark Blitz, author of \u003cem\u003eHeidegger’s Being and Time and the Possibility of Political Philosophy\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e“\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Beijing Lectures: \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eStrauss, Plato, Nietzsche\u003c\/em\u003e presents a wonderfully vivid, illuminating, and thought-provoking account of three great philosophers, with special attention to their philosophic art of writing and to the philosophic lives they led. What makes this book especially thrilling is that it is a monument to a most significant intellectual event, what Lampert calls 'the best intellectual experience of my life': the encounter of a most distinguished scholar of philosophy with an audience of distinguished Beijing scholars and students, at a time of a momentous flowering within China of philosophic interest in philosophers both from the East and from the West, both classical and modern.”\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Peter J. Ahrensdorf, author of \u003cem\u003eHomer and the Tradition of Political Philosophy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e“Laurence Lampert’s \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBeijing Lectures\u003c\/em\u003e sum up a lifetime of reading and thinking, of learning and discovering, and what a voyage it is. With laser focus, Lampert guides the reader through the artful writings of Strauss, Plato and Nietzsche. With grace, gratitude and joy, he leads us far beyond the received history of philosophy to uncover a scintillating tradition of philosophic poetry that illuminates both the past and the future.”\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—David Janssens, Tilburg University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e“Laurence Lampert is among the very best guides to each of these magnificent thinkers, and no one has done more to develop the comparison among them. Regarding ‘philosophic poetry,’ Lampert argues powerfully that, between the lines, Plato’s Socrates was appropriating a poetic ethos rather than attempting to vanquish philosophy’s rival in the so-called ‘ancient quarrel’ between them. Deploying compact yet sparkling prose, the book does justice to both contestants along with Strauss, Plato, and Nietzsche.”\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Peter Minowitz, author of \u003cem\u003eStraussophobia\u003c\/em\u003e and \"Getting 'Woke' with Socrates\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso available as an e-book:\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Beijing-Lectures-Strauss-Plato-Nietzsche-ebook\/dp\/B0D4B28162\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=U6J2C5FN67I7\u0026amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.HCTz69BYdql7BD2P0OokAA.kok8QJbfxMhFcDTsMc6Cp_Mx8ZJpEBR6c0fzSqDJ4rY\u0026amp;dib_tag=se\u0026amp;keywords=beijing+lectures+lampert\u0026amp;qid=1718213678\u0026amp;sprefix=beijing+lectures+lampert%2Caps%2C84\u0026amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAmazon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/books.apple.com\/us\/book\/the-beijing-lectures-strauss-plato-nietzsche\/id6502708181\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eApple iTunes Bookstore\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/the-beijing-lectures-laurence-lampert\/1145179503?ean=2940186017059\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBarnes \u0026amp; Noble\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details\/Laurence_Lampert_The_Beijing_Lectures_Strauss_Plat?id=fssHEQAAQBAJ\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGoogle Play\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/us\/en\/ebook\/the-beijing-lectures-strauss-plato-nietzsche\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eKobo\u003c\/a\u003e (See IndieBound's \u003ca rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/ebooks\" target=\"_blank\"\u003elist of independent booksellers selling e-books\u003c\/a\u003e.)\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLaurence Lampert \u003c\/strong\u003e(1941-2024) taught for thirty-five years at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis and was the author of eight books of philosophy, most recently \u003cem\u003eHow Socrates Became Socrates \u003c\/em\u003eand\u003cem\u003e What a Philosopher Is: Becoming Nietzsche\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Laurence Lampert","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44993855521008,"sku":"","price":19.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/files\/StraussPlatoNietzsche_coverwithborder.jpg?v=1706129194"},{"product_id":"eugene-nadelman-a-tale-of-the-1980s-in-verse","title":"Eugene Nadelman","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e135-page paperback \/ 5\" x 8.5\" \/ ISBN 9781589881938\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublication date 9\/17\/24\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Move over, Onegin—we’ve a new Eugene for the ages.”\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Liel Leibovitz, editor at large,\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003cem\u003eTablet Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“Weingrad is a true talent, and this book is a joy.”\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Jewish Journal\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e“[A] wistful and emotionally resonant novel that finds true poetry in teenage life.”—\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eForeword Reviews\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFull of humor, pathos, and pop cultural references, \u003ci\u003eEugene Nadelman \u003c\/i\u003eis a tale of young love and American manners in the era of Ronald Reagan and MTV—written in the witty sonnet form of Alexander Pushkin’s \u003ci\u003eEugene Onegin\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt’s 1982, and teenaged Eugene attends his cousin’s bar mitzvah in suburban Philadelphia. There he meets a kindred spirit in the savvy, sensitive Abigail. But when Eugene’s best friend also becomes smitten with Abby, a tragic rivalry ensues and, just as in the Pushkin poem, one character kills another in a duel. (Well, in a Dungeons \u0026amp; Dragons game, in this case.) \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEugene and Abby’s romance deepens against a backdrop of '80s music, fashion, and VHS rentals—with serious world events like AIDS and the Cold War hovering overhead. But when Eugene leaves for sleepaway camp and Abby for Europe, temptations abound, and one question becomes paramount: can their love survive a summer separation? \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Move over, Onegin—we’ve a new Eugene for the ages. 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With effortlessly brilliant rhymes, perfect recall for period details, and bittersweet blend of nostalgia and satire, Michael Weingrad offers us literary pleasures of a kind that most contemporary poets have forgotten—if they ever knew it existed.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Adam Kirsch, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Discarded Life\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e“Smart, funny, and full of charm, \u003cem\u003eEugene Nadelman\u003c\/em\u003e is a perfect coupling of form and content. Simultaneously a glorious evocation of a specific time, place, and atmosphere, and a timeless love story worthy of Pushkin’s Eugene.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Maya Arad, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Hebrew Teacher\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e“Delightful.”\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—New Verse Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e“A novel in verse inspired by Pushkin’s classic \u003cem\u003eEugene Onegin\u003c\/em\u003e, with dungeons, dragons, Yiddishkeit, summer camp, and a 1980s soundtrack.”\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—Kirkus Reviews\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e“Michael Weingrad's \u003cem\u003eEugene Nadelman\u003c\/em\u003e is many things: a time capsule of cultural artifacts from the early 1980s, a history of growing up Jewish in the city of Philadelphia, and a poetic appreciation of the vicissitudes of young love. But it is also a rumination on memory itself, the ways in which we revisit the past through people, places, events, ephemera. Reflecting on the forgotten wonders of the pre-internet age, Weingrad teaches us the crucial art of looking back, one sonnet at a time.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—David Amadio, author of \u003cem\u003eRug Man\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\"This admirably idiosyncratic, frequently funny, 1980s-nostalgic twist on \u003cem\u003eEugene Onegin\u003c\/em\u003e is an impudent experiment that pays off.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—James Kennedy, author of \u003cem\u003eBride of the Tornado\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e“Onrushing beauty, technical virtuosity, wit, insight, revelry of language all the way through—this is what you have to look forward to from \u003cem\u003eEugene Nadelman\u003c\/em\u003e. The story of this Philly Jewish ’80s kid—“not the sort for teenage strife, \/ He dresses, eats a bowl of Life”—is a story of Everyboy. Weingrad is a matchmaker who brings unsuspecting soulmate words together: “The plaintive piano chords of Journey \/ Intensify our hero’s yearny \/ Anticipation and despair, \/ His open arms enfolding air.” To read this work is to be wowed by a bravura performance and deeply touched in equal measure.” \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e—Jessica Hornik, author of\u003cem\u003e A Door on the River\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRead \u003ca rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/deborahkalbbooks.blogspot.com\/2024\/09\/q-with-michael-weingrad.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ea Q\u0026amp;A with the author and Deborah Kalb\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlso available as an e-book:\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Eugene-Nadelman-Tale-1980s-Verse-ebook\/dp\/B0D9SVQFQH\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2EDTQSP1K59VY\u0026amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.vkZ-ivrXnYqJIjSebAbOMA.YGvLyNLpud72CQbgsvYJmMeUquHR-AZEn4ukfvwHMmo\u0026amp;dib_tag=se\u0026amp;keywords=Eugene+Nadelman%3A+A+Tale+of+the+1980s+in+Verse\u0026amp;qid=1729276337\u0026amp;sprefix=eugene+nadelman+a+tale+of+the+1980s+in+verse%2Caps%2C160\u0026amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAmazon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/eugene-nadelman-michael-weingrad\/1144973191?ean=2940185698297\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBarnes \u0026amp; Noble\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details\/Michael_Weingrad_Eugene_Nadelman_A_Tale_of_the_198?id=WAEVEQAAQBAJ\u0026amp;hl=en_US\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGoogle Play\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/us\/en\/ebook\/eugene-nadelman-a-tale-of-the-1980s-in-verse\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eKobo\u003c\/a\u003e (See IndieBound's \u003ca rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/ebooks\" target=\"_blank\"\u003elist of independent booksellers selling e-books\u003c\/a\u003e.)\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMichael Weingrad \u003c\/strong\u003eis the author of \u003cem\u003eAmerican Hebrew Literature: Writing Jewish National Identity in the United States \u003c\/em\u003eand the editor and translator of \u003cem\u003eLetters to America: Selected Poems of Reuven Ben-Yosef.\u003c\/em\u003e He was born and raised in Philadelphia, attending McCall and Masterman public schools. His essays and reviews, on topics ranging from Israeli fantasy and science fiction to the Jews of Baghdad, have appeared in the\u003cem\u003e Jewish Review of Books, Mosaic\u003c\/em\u003e, and a range of other magazines and scholarly journals. Weingrad has been a Fulbright Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Montague Burton Fellow in Jewish Studies at the University of Leeds, and a Harry Starr Fellow at the Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard. Today, he is a professor of Jewish Studies and lives in Portland, Oregon.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Michael Weingrad","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45443844178160,"sku":"","price":13.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/files\/EugeneNadelman_FINALCOVER.jpg?v=1719238224"},{"product_id":"to-turn-the-soul","title":"To Turn the Soul: Essays Inspired by Jacob Klein","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e395-page paperback \/ 6\" x 9\" \/ ISBN 9781589881976 \u003cbr\u003ePublication Date: 1\/21\/2025\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eTo Turn the Soul\u003c\/em\u003e collects fourteen essays (three by Eva Brann) inspired by the life and thought of philosopher Jacob Klein. The contributors have been animated by Klein’s legacy—whether because they knew him, studied at St. John’s College, the institution he shaped, or found his writings a rich stimulus for thought and exploration. While the majority of the essays are based primarily on the study of Klein’s writings, they all take up an inquiry inspired by an encounter with his work. Their goal is to deepen or expand Klein’s thought by exploring its consequences, or traveling down avenues of investigation that Klein himself pursued and in some cases even initiated. The essays are offered in the hope that they inspire others to read Klein’s writings and think for themselves about the matters he takes up in them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eContributors:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAndrew Romiti\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Tutor at St. John’s College in Annapolis, MD, where he also did his undergraduate studies. He earned his doctorate in Philosophy from the Catholic University of America, where he wrote a dissertation on Jacob Klein and Descartes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDaniel P. Maher\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of Philosophy at Assumption University in Worcester, MA, where he is also Director of the Core Texts \u0026amp; Enduring Questions Program. He earned his doctorate at Boston College with a dissertation on Aristotle’s understanding of counting and number, which was inspired by Klein’s work. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEva Brann\u003c\/strong\u003e has been a member of the faculty at St. John’s College in Annapolis, MD for more than sixty years, serving as Dean of the College from 1990 to 1997. She is the author of numerous books and essays and is translator of \u003cem\u003eGreek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra\u003c\/em\u003e, by Jacob Klein, her colleague at St. John’s until his death in 1978.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJulia Klein\u003c\/strong\u003e is an alumna of the undergraduate program at St. John’s College in Santa Fe, NM. She holds an M.A. in Humanities from Duke University and an M.A. in Philosophy from The Catholic University of America, where she is also a Doctoral Candidate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaul T. Wilford\u003c\/strong\u003e is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Boston College. He graduated from St. John’s College in Annapolis, MD, and then earned a second B.A. in Classics and an M.Phil. in Intellectual History and Political Thought from King’s College at Cambridge University, followed by a doctorate in Philosophy from Tulane University. He is the co-editor with Samuel A. Stoner of \u003cem\u003eKant and the Possibility of Progress\u003c\/em\u003e (PENN, 2021) and with Kate Rozansky of\u003cem\u003e Athens, Arden, Jerusalem \u003c\/em\u003e(Lexington, 2017). \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDavid Lawrence Levine\u003c\/strong\u003e taught for twenty-seven years at St. John’s College in Santa Fe, NM, where he served as both Dean of the College and Director of the Graduate Institute. He has written and lectured broadly on Plato, Aristotle, Plutarch, Rousseau, Goethe, Tocqueville, Nietzsche, Husserl, and the Great Books Program at St. John’s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAntonio Marino Lopez\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of Greek Philosophy at Facultad de Estudios Superiores of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. He was a student of Jacob Klein’s at St. John’s College in Annapolis, MD.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMary Elizabeth Halper\u003c\/strong\u003e is Dean of the Humanities at Hertog program and, since 2021, a Tutor at St. John’s College in Annapolis, MD. She holds a B.A. in Philosophy and Classics from the University of Dallas and a doctorate in Philosophy from The Catholic University of America.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBurt C. Hopkins, PhD.,\u003c\/strong\u003e is affiliated with the University of Lille, France ( UMR-CNRS 8163 STL), and the Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Prague (Czechia). He is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Origin of the Logic of Symbolic Mathematics: Edmund Husserl and Jacob Klein\u003c\/em\u003e, along with numerous articles on Klein’s thought as it relates to Ancient Greek philosophy and mathematics, early modern mathematics, and the tradition of phenomenology inaugurated by Husserl early in the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMichael Dink\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Tutor at St. John’s College in Annapolis, MD, where he also served as Dean of the College and Director of the Graduate Institute in Liberal Education. He is an alumnus of St. John’s College in Annapolis, where he was a student of Jacob Klein’s in a preceptorial on Plato’s \u003cem\u003eSophist\u003c\/em\u003e. He earned his doctorate from the School of Philosophy at The Catholic University of America.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRichard F. Hassing\u003c\/strong\u003e is Research Associate Professor in the School of Philosophy at The Catholic University of America, where he has taught since 1990. He holds M.A. degrees from The Catholic University of America (Philosophy) and from University of Toronto (Political Theory), and he earned his doctorate in Theoretical Physics from Cornell University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJoseph Cosgrove\u003c\/strong\u003e is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Providence College. His recent scholarship focuses on the philosophy of science, with a particular interest in the implications of Jacob Klein’s account of the origin of algebra to modern mathematical physics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Andrew Romiti and Daniel Maher","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46245948555504,"sku":"","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/files\/ToTurntheSoul_FINALCOVER.jpg?v=1719418043"},{"product_id":"dark-land-memoir-of-a-secret-childhood-copy","title":"Dark-Land: Memoir of a Secret Childhood","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e241-page paperback \/ 5.5\" x 8.5\" \/ ISBN 9781589881891 \u003cbr\u003ePublication Date: 6\/11\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"A granular, meditative, and beautiful portrait of a fascinating life.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Booklist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Put this beautiful book on your shelf between Frank Conroy's \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStop-Time \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eand Tobias Wolff's\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis Boy's\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e Life\u003c\/em\u003e.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—William Giraldi, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Hero's Body\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed BOOK OF THE YEAR by John Wilson in\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eFirst Things\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cb\u003emagazine\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis powerful memoir from poet Kevin Hart traces his difficult childhood as a \"backward boy\" in a poor part of London, a disorienting move to tropical Australia, and the secrets he and his family kept from one another.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDark-Land \u003c\/em\u003eis Kevin Hart’s searing, yet at times hilarious, narrative of his first thirteen years. It is a story of survival and transformation, of deception and recovery, and it passes from a frightening childhood in the East-End of London to a new and bewildering life in sub-tropical Australia. Throughout, Hart draws on John Bunyan’s evocation of “Dark-Land” in \u003cem\u003ePilgrim’s Progress\u003c\/em\u003e, the place Valiant-for-Truth leaves in order to seek the Celestial City. But \u003cem\u003eDark-Land\u003c\/em\u003e is no allegory. We see Hart’s hidden inner life, his family’s penchant for keeping secrets, and their illusions about the nature of their shared past. We see Hart grow from being the despair of his teachers in a rough primary school to experiencing a “conversion” in a math class in Brisbane, Australia, which turned him into a Christian, a poet, and an academic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWritten in elegant, lucid prose, without a trace of sentimentality, \u003cem\u003eDark-Land\u003c\/em\u003e is a memoir of a working-class childhood, a narrative of a migrant, and the story of a convert to Christianity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Hart explores a world in which he is emotionally adrift, struggling for recognition, and part of a family concentrating above all on staying afloat. At its best when Hart describes the colorful cast of characters that populated his childhood, this is a granular, meditative, and beautiful portrait of a fascinating life.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Booklist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An athletics test, high school, suddenly enjoyable algebra, ticks, fruit bats, religion, poetry, family secrets—Hart is excellent at capturing his misty inner life and his many experiences and adventures adapting to a new environment . . . in this poignant memoir.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e—Kirkus Reviews\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\"Of all the memoirs and autobiographies I’ve ever read—literary or otherwise—\u003ci\u003eDark-Land\u003c\/i\u003e is among the very best . . . [A] genuinely astonishing achievement.\"\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—John Wilson,\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eThe Washington Examiner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In \u003cem\u003eDark-Land\u003c\/em\u003e, Kevin Hart has crafted a personal narrative of searing beauty, a portrait of an extinct place and time and one boy's roiling development within it. This is not only a poet's Proustian grasping after memory, but a melodic assertion of selfhood and how that selfhood is forged within the contradictions of family and the pronouncements of faith. Put this beautiful book on your shelf between Frank Conroy's \u003cem\u003eStop-Time\u003c\/em\u003e and Tobias Wolff's \u003cem\u003eThis Boy's Life\u003c\/em\u003e.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—William Giraldi, author of\u003cem\u003e The Hero's Body\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\"This is a profoundly meditative book, philosophical in its sweep and magnificent in its phrasing, which encompasses rape and religion, Jewishness and Catholicism, and the darkness of those places where we grope for what truth the self may fumble towards.”\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—\u003c\/em\u003ePeter Craven, Australian cultural critic\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Well-written and amusing.\"\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e—Australian Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\"[Hart] grew up in the working class of London's East End before moving with his parents to Brisbane when he was twelve. \u003cem\u003eDark-Land\u003c\/em\u003e is a powerful account of those origins and the beginnings of the transition to poet and scholar.\"\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e—Sydney Morning Herald\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The memories that make their way into words here, emerging with startling clarity from the fog of forgetting, trace a highly unusual life journey from childhood into adolescence and beyond, and from working-class post-War London to steamy Brisbane in the sizzling ‘60s and ultimately to the USA. More than a memoir, Hart’s \u003cem\u003eDark-Land\u003c\/em\u003e is also a sustained meditation on the enduring mysteries of mind and a compelling evocation of particular social milieux during a time of escalating if patchy geohistorical change. Lyrical, brooding, and at times hilariously funny, this is an utterly riveting read.”\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—Kate Rigby, Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Environmental Humanities, University of Cologne, author of \u003cem\u003eMeditations on Creation in an Era of Extinction\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Luminously detailed and lovingly told, \u003cem\u003eDark-Land\u003c\/em\u003e is a memoir I will not soon forget. From the ‘divided life’ of his working-class childhood in London’s East End to his family’s immigration to sweltering Queensland, Kevin Hart tells of a boy who sees everything through a fog of unknowing, until a series of epiphanies opens the world to him. A major philosopher and theologian, Hart is also one of the finest poets now at work in English. In this remarkable coming-of-age, he writes, ‘Childhood ends, and then it ends again, and then it ends yet again.’ But as the story proves, it never does.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—David Mason, author of \u003cem\u003eIncarnation and Metamorphosis: Can Literature Change Us?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eListen to an interview with the author on the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/podcasters.spotify.com\/pod\/show\/hermitix\/episodes\/Dark-Land-Memoir-of-a-Secret-Childhood-with-Kevin-Hart-e2nnjve\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eHermitix podcast\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlso available as an e-book:\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Dark-Land-Memoir-Childhood-Kevin-Hart-ebook\/dp\/B0CW1FL5C7\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2CKPD0521VAB\u0026amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.btvo51NuM1ZUzU097zsxaQWoxSo1uEJCwZ8Ygfdfq9IJiGw4S9pmH6LxLvdrCUb5NcZtlF9V26A9Y84-alStErxJ6WhPaYFPQcieG3thuBAHWxhsURnsV_eOhoca7uvhUXbRX6nkQw0VVhcSFM5ZIA.8JsUyDgiIfESZ7GQS4hcT71jiHdfBqfry8QI5fwWvVs\u0026amp;dib_tag=se\u0026amp;keywords=dark-land+kevin+hart\u0026amp;qid=1718211998\u0026amp;sprefix=dark-land+%2Caps%2C65\u0026amp;sr=8-1\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAmazon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/books.apple.com\/us\/book\/dark-land-memoir-of-a-secret-childhood\/id6480524363\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eApple iTunes Bookstore\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/dark-land-kevin-hart\/1143957004?ean=2940185957981\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBarnes \u0026amp; Noble\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details\/Kevin_Hart_Dark_Land_Memoir_of_a_Secret_Childhood?id=8XL-EAAAQBAJ\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGoogle Play\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/us\/en\/ebook\/dark-land-memoir-of-a-secret-childhood\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eKobo\u003c\/a\u003e (See IndieBound's \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/ebooks\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003elist of independent booksellers selling e-books\u003c\/a\u003e.)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKevin Hart\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of eleven poetry collections including \u003cem\u003eWild Track: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eBarefoot\u003c\/em\u003e. His most recent books are \u003cem\u003eLands of Likeness: For a Poetics of Contemplation\u003c\/em\u003e, which represents his Gifford Lectures for 2019-2023, and \u003cem\u003eContemplation: The Movements of the Soul\u003c\/em\u003e. He is the Jo Rae Wright University Professor in the School of Divinity, at Duke University, and lives with his wife and son in Durham, NC.\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kevin Hart","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46389087633648,"sku":null,"price":15.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/files\/DarkLandcover_FINAL.jpg?v=1703003718"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.pauldrybooks.com\/en-au\/collections\/apsa-2024.oembed?page=2","provider":"Paul Dry Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}