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Concluding the story begun in The Hobbit, this is the final part of Tolkien's epic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings. Featuring a striking black cover based on Tolkien's own design, the...

Continuing the story begun in The Hobbit, this is the first part of Tolkien's epic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, featuring a striking black cover based on Tolkien's own design, the...

Interweaving personal observation, scientific theory, and history, this beautifully written book takes the reader on a globe-spanning tour of wild places and ideas. "An epic adventure of the...

Ever since he can remember, Robin, son of Sir John de Bureford, has been told what is expected of him as the son of a nobleman. He must learn the ways of knighthood. But Robin's destiny is...

In the first trade paperback edition of his national bestseller, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Studs Terkel presents "the real American experience" ("Chicago Daily News")--"a...

This collection of forty 'hadith' aby one of the most famous compilers of 'hadith' is generally regarded as the most popular anthology and the best introduction to the study of the...

Haunting reflections on exile and memory from five award-winning authors.

Emilio Sandoz, a brilliant Jesuit priest, seems like the perfect leader for the first expedition to an extraterrestrial culture. However, when Sandoz returns to Earth 20 years later as the...

"Beyond the wonderful insights... There is a portrait of the world in the eye of the storm between two world wars. It is a novel of awakening -- awakening to sex, yes... But also an awakening...

Mitch McDeere made it to the top of his class at Harvard Law and had his choice of any firm in the country. But when he signed on with Bendini, Lambert & Locke of Memphis, he made a deadly...

The Prophet represents the acme of Kahlil Gibran's achievement. Writing in English, Gibran adopted the tone and cadence of King James I's Bible, fusing his personalised Christian philosophy...

Set during the tumultuous years of the Napoleonic Wars, "The Passion" intertwines the destinies of two remarkable people: Henri, a simple French soldier, and Villanelle, the daughter of...

Historical Novel, a true story about the aboriginal people of the Aleutian Islands in Alaska. Fictional characters but the story is based on the accounts given to the author aby the old Aleut...

Few scenes capture the American experience so eloquently as that of a lonely train chugging across the vastness of the Great Plains, or snaking through tortuous high mountain passes. Although this...

In this text leading monetary economists discuss applied aspects of monetary policy and offer practical research on the timing, magnitude, and channels of central banking actions. The contributors...

This book describes the process of erecting the great cathedrals in the Gothic era. Since there are no contemporary accounts of the techniques used żeby medieval builders, this study explains the...

Before the Renaissance and Reformation, holy images were treated not as "art" but as objects of veneration which possessed the tangible presence of the Holy. In this book, Hans Belting...

In this volume Leonard Meyer proposes a theory of style and style change that relates the choices made żeby composers to the constraints of psychology, cultural context, and musical traditions. He...

The Abbot of a Taoist Monastery is dead after delivering an ecstatic sermon. The monks call it a supernatural experience, but the judge calls it murder. Recalling the allegedly accidental deaths of...

A completely revised and updated edition of this standard anthology of medieval Latin, this work has been provided with 14 new selections, doubling the coverage of women writers, expanding a...

A major work by this prominent Caribbean author and philosopher, available for the first time in English

A collection of essays on the core values of liberalism which challenges assumptions about liberal theory. Żeby placing it into its original historical context, this text presents an interconnected...

Steinberg argues in this work that the artists regarded the deliberate exposure of Christ's genitalia as an affirmation of kinship with the human condition. Christ's lifelong virginity,...