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Memory's Library
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In Jennifer Summit's account, libraries are more than inert storehouses of written tradition; they are volatile spaces that actively shape the meanings and uses of books, reading, and the past. Considering the two-hundred-year period between 1431, which saw the foundation of Duke Humfrey's famous library, and 1631, when the great antiquarian Sir Robert Cotton died, Memory's Library revises the history of the modern library by focusing on its origins in medieval and early modern England.Summit argues that the medieval sources that survive in English collections are the product of a Reformation and post-Reformation struggle to redefine the past by redefining the cultural place, function, and identity of libraries. By establishing the intellectual dynamism of English libraries during this crucial period of their development, Memory's Library demonstrates how much current discussions about the future of libraries can gain by reexamining their past.
Selected Poetry and Prose
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Chiara Matraini (1515-1604?) was a member of the great flowering of poetic imitators and innovators in the Italian literary heritage begun by Petrarch, cultivated later by the lyric poet Pietro Bembo, and supplanted by the epic poet Torquato Tasso. Though without formal training, Matraini excelled in a number of literary genres popular at the time-poetry, religious meditation, discourse, and dialogue. In her midlife, she published a collection of erotic love poetry, but later in life her work shifted toward a search for spiritual salvation. Near the end of her life, she published a new poetry retrospective.Mostly available in only a handful of rare book collections, her writings are now adeptly translated here for an English-speaking audience and situated historically in an introduction by noted Matraini expert Giovanna Rabitti. Selected Poetry and Prose allows the poet to finally take her place as one of the seminal authors of the Renaissance, next to her contemporaries Vittoria Colonna and Laura Battiferra, also published in the Other Voice series.
Cube and the Face
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Alberto Giacometti's 1934 Cube stands apart for many as atypical of the Swiss artist, the only abstract sculptural work in a wide oeuvre that otherwise had as its objective the exploration of reality. With The Cube and the Face, renowned French art historian and philosopher Georges Didi-Huberman has conducted a careful analysis of Cube, consulting the artist's sketches, etchings, texts, and other sculptural works in the years just before and after Cube was created. Cube, he finds, is indeed exceptional-a work without clear stylistic kinship to the works that came before or after it. At the same time, Didi-Huberman shows, Cube marks the transition between the artist's surrealist and realist phases and contains many elements of Giacometti's aesthetic consciousness, including his interest in dimensionality, the relation of the body to geometry, and the portrait-or what Didi-Huberman terms "abstract anthropomorphism." Drawing on Freud, Bataille, Leiris, and others Giacometti counted as influence, Didi-Huberman presents fans and collectors of Giacometti's art with a new approach to transitional work.
Reforming Philosophy
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The Victorian period in Britain was an "age of reform." It is therefore not surprising that two of the era's most eminent intellects described themselves as reformers. Both William Whewell and John Stuart Mill believed that by reforming philosophy-including the philosophy of science-they could effect social and political change. But their divergent visions of this societal transformation led to a sustained and spirited controversy that covered morality, politics, science, and economics. Situating their debate within the larger context of Victorian society and its concerns, Reforming Philosophy shows how two very different men captured the intellectual spirit of the day and engaged the attention of other scientists and philosophers, including the young Charles Darwin. Mill-philosopher, political economist, and Parliamentarian-remains a canonical author of Anglo-American philosophy, while Whewell-Anglican cleric, scientist, and educator-is now often overlooked, though in his day he was renowned as an authority on science. Placing their teachings in their proper intellectual, cultural, and argumentative spheres, Laura Snyder revises the standard views of these two important Victorian figures, showing that both men's concerns remain relevant today. A philosophically and historically sensitive account of the engagement of the major protagonists of Victorian British philosophy, Reforming Philosophy is the first book-length examination of the dispute between Mill and Whewell in its entirety. A rich and nuanced understanding of the intellectual spirit of Victorian Britain, it will be welcomed by philosophers and historians of science, scholars of Victorian studies, and students of the history of philosophy and political economy.
Light Club
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Paul Scheerbart (1863-1915) was a visionary German novelist, theorist, poet, and artist who made a lasting impression on such icons of modernism as Walter Benjamin, Bruno Taut, and Walter Gropius. Fascinated with the potential of glass architecture, Scheerbart's satirical fantasies envisioned an electrified future, a world composed entirely of crystalline, colored glass.In 1912, Scheerbart published The Light Club of Batavia, a Novelle about the formation of a club dedicated to building a spa for bathing-not in water, but in light-at the bottom of an abandoned mineshaft. Translated here into English for the first time, this rare story serves as a point of departure for Josiah McElheny, who, with an esteemed group of collaborators, offers a fascinating array of responses to this enigmatic work.The Light Club makes clear that the themes of utopian hope, desire, and madness in Scheerbart's tale represent a part of modernism's lost project: a world based on political and spiritual ideals rather than efficiency and logic. In his compelling introduction, McElheny describes Scheerbart's life as well as his own enchantment with the writer, and he explains the ways in which The Light Club of Batavia inspired him to produce art of uncommon breadth. The Light Club also features inspired writings from Gregg Bordowitz and Ulrike Mller, Andrea Geyer, and Branden W. Joseph, as well as translations of original texts by and about Scheerbart. A unique response by one visionary artist to another, The Light Club is an unforgettable examination of what it might mean to see radical potential in absolute illumination.
Goethe and the Ginkgo
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In 1815, Goethe gave symbolic expression to his intense relationship with Marianne Willemer, a recently married woman thirty-five years his junior. He gave her a leaf from the ginkgo tree, explaining that, like its deeply cleft yet still whole leaf, he was "single yet twofold." Although it is not known if their relationship was ever consummated, they did exchange love poetry, and Goethe published several of Marianne's poems in his West-East Divan without crediting her authorship.In this beautiful little book, renowned Goethe scholar Siegfried Unseld considers what this episode means to our estimation of a writer many consider nearly godlike in stature. Unseld begins by exploring the botanical and medical lore of the ginkgo, including the use of its nut as an aphrodisiac and anti-aging serum. He then delves into Goethe's writings for the light they shed on his relationship with Marianne. Unseld reveals Goethe as a great yet human being, subject, as any other man, to the vagaries of passion.
Catholic Social Imagination
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The reach of the Catholic Church is arguably greater than that of any other religion, extending across diverse political, ethnic, class, and cultural boundaries. But what is it about Catholicism that resonates so profoundly with followers who live under disparate conditionsWhat is it, for instance, that binds parishioners in America with those in MexicoFor Joseph M. Palacios, what unites Catholics is a sense of being Catholic-a social imagination that motivates them to promote justice and build a better world.In The Catholic Social Imagination, Palacios gives readers a feeling for what it means to be Catholic and put one's faith into action. Tracing the practices of a group of parishioners in Oakland, California, and another in Guadalajara, Mexico, Palacios reveals parallels-and contrasts-in the ways these ordinary Catholics receive and act on a church doctrine that emphasizes social justice. Whether they are building a supermarket for the low-income elderly or waging protests to promote school reform, these parishioners provide important insights into the construction of the Catholic social imagination. Throughout, Palacios also offers important new cultural and sociological interpretations of Catholic doctrine on issues such as poverty, civil and human rights, political participation, and the natural law.
Community Built on Words
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H. Jefferson Powell offers a powerful new approach to one of the central issues in American constitutional thinking today: the problem of constitutional law's historicity, or the many ways in which constitutional arguments and outcomes are shaped both by historical circumstances and by the political goals and commitments of various actors, including judges. The presence of such influences is often considered highly problematic: if constitutional law is political and historical through and through, then what differentiates it from politics per se, and what gives it integrity and coherencePowell argues that constitutional theory has as its (sometimes hidden) agenda the ambition of showing how constitutional law can escape from history and politics, while much constitutional history seeks to identify an historically true meaning of the constitutional text that, once uncovered, can serve as a corrective to subsequent deviations from that truth.Combining history and theory, Powell analyzes a series of constitutional controversies from 1790 to 1944 to demonstrate that constitutional law from its very beginning has involved politically charged and ideologically divisive arguments. Nowhere in our past can one find the golden age of apolitical constitutional thinking that a great deal of contemporary scholarship seeks or presupposes. Viewed over time, American constitutional law is a history of political dispute couched in constitutional terms.Powell then takes his conclusions one step further, claiming that it is precisely this historical tradition of argument that has given American constitutional law a remarkable coherence and integrity over time. No matter what the particular political disputes of the day might be, constitutional argument has provided a shared language through which our political community has been able to fight out its battles without ultimately fracturing.A Community Built on Words will be must reading for any student of constitutional history, theory, or law.
Punitive Damages
￥282.53
Over the past two decades, the United States has seen a dramatic increase in the number and magnitude of punitive damages verdicts rendered by juries in civil trials. Probably the most extraordinary example is the July 2000 award of $144.8 billion in the Florida class action lawsuit brought against cigarette manufacturers. Or consider two recent verdicts against the auto manufacturer BMW in Alabama. In identical cases, argued in the same court before the same judge, one jury awarded $4 million in punitive damages, while the other awarded no punitive damages at all. In cases involving accidents, civil rights, and the environment, multimillion-dollar punitive awards have been a subject of intense controversy.But how do juries actually make decisions about punitive damagesTo find out, the authors-experts in psychology, economics, and the law-present the results of controlled experiments with more than 600 mock juries involving the responses of more than 8,000 jury-eligible citizens. Although juries tended to agree in their moral judgments about the defendant's conduct, they rendered erratic and unpredictable dollar awards. The experiments also showed that instead of moderating juror verdicts, the process of jury deliberation produced a striking "severity shift" toward ever-higher awards. Jurors also tended to ignore instructions from the judges; were influenced by whatever amount the plaintiff happened to request; showed "hindsight bias," believing that what happened should have been foreseen; and penalized corporations that had based their decisions on careful cost-benefit analyses. While judges made many of the same errors, they performed better in some areas, suggesting that judges (or other specialists) may be better equipped than juries to decide punitive damages.Using a wealth of new experimental data, and offering a host of provocative findings, this book documents a wide range of systematic biases in jury behavior. It will be indispensable for anyone interested not only in punitive damages, but also jury behavior, psychology, and how people think about punishment.
We'll Always Have Paris
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For much of the twentieth century, Americans had a love/hate relationship with France. While many admired its beauty, culture, refinement, and famed joie de vivre, others thought of it as a dilapidated country populated by foul-smelling, mean-spirited anti-Americans driven by a keen desire to part tourists from their money. We'll Always Have Paris explores how both images came to flourish in the United States, often in the minds of the same people.Harvey Levenstein takes us back to the 1930s, when, despite the Great Depression, France continued to be the stomping ground of the social elite of the eastern seaboard. After World War II, wealthy and famous Americans returned to the country in droves, helping to revive its old image as a wellspring of sophisticated and sybaritic pleasures. At the same time, though, thanks in large part to Communist and Gaullist campaigns against U.S. power, a growing sensitivity to French anti-Americanism began to color tourists' experiences there, strengthening the negative images of the French that were already embedded in American culture. But as the century drew on, the traditional positive images were revived, as many Americans again developed an appreciation for France's cuisine, art, and urban and rustic charms.Levenstein, in his colorful, anecdotal style, digs into personal correspondence, journalism, and popular culture to shape a story of one nation's relationship to another, giving vivid play to Americans' changing response to such things as France's reputation for sexual freedom, haute cuisine, high fashion, and racial tolerance. He puts this tumultuous coupling of France and the United States in historical perspective, arguing that while some in Congress say we may no longer have french fries, others, like Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca, know they will always have Paris, and France, to enjoy and remember.
Chicago Gardens
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Once maligned as a swampy outpost, the fledgling city of Chicago brazenly adopted the motto Urbs in Horto or City in a Garden, in 1837. Chicago Gardens shows how this upstart town earned its sobriquet over the next century, from the first vegetable plots at Fort Dearborn to innovative garden designs at the 1933 World's Fair. Cathy Jean Maloney has spent decades researching the city's horticultural heritage, and here she reveals the unusual history of Chicago's first gardens. Challenged by the region's clay soil, harsh winters, and fierce winds, Chicago's pioneering horticulturalists, Maloney demonstrates, found imaginative uses for hardy prairie plants. This same creative spirit thrived in the city's local fruit and vegetable markets, encouraging the growth of what would become the nation's produce hub. The vast plains that surrounded Chicago, meanwhile, inspired early landscape architects, such as Frederick Law Olmsted, Jens Jensen, and O.C. Simonds, to new heights of grandeur. Maloney does not forget the backyard gardeners: immigrants who cultivated treasured seeds and pioneers who planted native wildflowers. Maloney's vibrant depictions of Chicagoans like "Bouquet Mary," a flower peddler who built a greenhouse empire, add charming anecdotal evidence to her argument-that Chicago's garden history rivals that of New York or London and ensures its status as a world-class capital of horticultural innovation. With exquisite archival photographs, prints, and postcards, as well as field guide de*ions of living legacy gardens for today's visitors, Chicago Gardens will delight green-thumbs from all parts of the world.
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
￥40.79
The final unfinished novel by Charles Dickens leaving the identity of the murderer unresolved. The story is set in Cloisterham, a disguised Rochester. Drood's uncle, John Jasper is in love with Rosa Bud. Miss Bud, Drood's fiancée, has also caught the eye of the high-spirited and hot-tempered Neville Landless, who comes from Ceylon with his twin sister, Helena. Landless and Drood take an instant dislike to one another. Drood later disappears under mysterious circumstances.
Mosses from an Old Manse and Other Stories
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A collection of stories typical of Hawthorne, many are allegories and focus on the dark side of human nature. The book was named in honor of The Old Manse where Hawthorne and his wife lived for the first three years of their marriage.
The Moonstone: A Romance
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Rachel Verinder, a young English woman, inherits a large Indian diamond on her eighteenth birthday. It is a legacy from her uncle, a corrupt British army officer who served in India. The diamond is of great religious significance as well as being extremely valuable, and three Hindu priests have dedicated their lives to recovering it.
Mitul viului
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C?nd omul tr?ie?te ra?ional, iar visele?i vin de la ra?iune ?i respectiv creeaz? imaginile de viitor conform prerogativelor ra?iunii. Cele mai importante lucruri din visele ra?ionale sunt: cifrele, sumele pe care omul dore?te s? le ob?in? ?n viitor. ?i doar odat? cu dob?ndirea banilor, crede el, va sosi ?i momentul delect?rii. Peste tot, la fiecare pas vedem un astfel de mod de via??. Ace?tia sunt oameni activi, de succes care??i pun ?n fa?? o sarcin? foarte clar? – s? c??tige mai mult ?i cel mai important e c? se ?ndreapt? sigur c?tre realizarea acestui scop. Aceast? cale le aduce satisfac?ie ?i mul?umire adev?rat?, ?ns? fericirea nu o pot vedea a?a cum nu??i pot vedea urechile proprii. Pentru a dob?ndi fericirea, iubirea, bog??ia ?i s?n?tatea mai ?nt?i trebuie s? ?nv??a?i s? visa?i din suflet, iar dup? aceast? s? ?mplini?i aceste vise. Sufletul viseaz? la averea, imaginea sentimentelor. Imaginile de viitor corespunz?toare sufletului sunt vii, pulsative, motrice, vibratoare.
Arta de a ?ofa. Secrete ?i dezv?luiri
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Feng-shui reprezint? o art? str?veche chinezeasc? a st?p?nirii energiilor, iar Vladimir Lermontov reprezint? marele maestru al transform?rii realit??ii, cel care red? oamenilor posibilitatea de a tr?i divin, adic? din suflet. Metoda lui de transformare a persoanelor ?i a realit??ii cu ajutorul imaginilor v? readuce fericirea, bucuria, s?n?tatea ?i ?mplinirea ?n via?a dumneavoastr?. Acum ave?i acces la un curs unic – ?Feng-shui-ul imaginilor sufletului. Teritoriul fericirii“. Atr?g?nd ?n spa?iul vie?ii dumneavoastr? talismanele feng-shui, ve?i dob?ndi aceast? fericire. Nu trebuie dec?t s? v? imagina?i sunetul v?ntului care sclipe?te ?n b?taia soarelui, c? ?n camera dumneavoastr? va r?suna melodia lin? care va alunga tot negativul. Imaginea l?nii de aur care se va na?te ?n voi v? va aduce bog??ie ?i prosperitate. Iar imaginea lanternei ro?ii chineze?ti v? va lumina calea spre noi sentimente ?i v? va ?nt?ri rela?iile. Fie ca vechiul feng-shui ?i magia contemporan? s? v? aduc? noroc! Vladimir I. Lermontov, 2007
Magia haosului. Secrete ?i oportunit??i fantastice
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Acesta este un curs special pentru cei a c?ror minte este at?t de puternic? ?nc?t nu poate fi ?nl?turat? de la man?a soartei lor cu metode simple. ?n aceast? carte?trening, v? propun o manevr? magic? – metoda ?diploma?iei suflete?ti“, care, ?n cel mai r?u caz, v? va permite s? nu face?i din minte un adversar, ori ?n cel mai bun caz un observator neutru sau un aliat ?i un ajutor ?n toate problemele sufletului. Problema este c? ?n decursul vie?ii noastre noi am primit multe lec?ii negative. Tocmai atunci c?nd noi puteam s? ?nv???m ?i s? ?n?elegem, noi eram ?nv??a?i c? via?a este dificil? ?i pe parcursul ei va trebui s? transpir?m din greu ca s? ob?inem ceva. Dac? ?n copil?rie aveam impresia c? noi suntem capabili de orice, maturiz?ndu?ne am ?n?eles principalul lucru – noi nu suntem capabili de nimic. ?n aceast? lume, suntem ni?te fiin?e jalnice ?i tremur?toare. ?ns? nu este adev?rat.
C?ntice ?ig?ne?ti ?i alte poeme
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ntmplri reale despre o experien unicCu toii avem de nfruntat adversiti din cnd n cnd. Cu toii suntem uneori triti. Cu toii suntem cteodat prea ocupai, prea mulumii de noi nine sau prea apsai de povara propriilor probleme ca s mai apreciem lucrurile pozitive din vieile noastre. Colecia Poveti adevrate“ i aduce cazuri reale, ntmplri din viaa unor oameni obinuii, ce ne vorbesc despre curaj i buntate, despre binecuvntrile i miracolele vieii, amintindu-ne c nu suntem singuri, c putem rzbate chiar i n cele mai ntunecate zile, c nc exist buntate n lume.Venirea pe lume a celui de-al doilea copil nu nseamn neaprat naterea unei rivaliti ntre frai, dac tii cum s l pregteti pe friorul mai mare pentru eveniment. S gseti haine de gravid, drgue i la un pre accesibil, se poate dovedi la fel de probabil ca i ctigul la loto… Cum te pregteti pentru naterea unor triplei Sarcina, naterea i primele ore i zile ca mmic a unui nou-nscut te pot coplei sau umple de team – n special dac ai fost bombardat cu poveti de speriat i informaii distorsionate, dac temerile sau ngrijorrile nu i au fost ascultate cu atenie ori dac lucrurile nu decurg aa cum i ai propus sau ai sperat. 34 de ntmplri adevrate despre bucuriile i dificultile sarcinii i ale naterii, despre clipele magice legate de minunea care crete nuntrul tu.
Dic?ionar de literatur? universal?
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Femeile ?i b?rba?ii tr?iesc ?n lumi diferite… create de cuvinte diferite. Cartea Ce spun eu ?i ce ?n?elegi tu. De ce b?rba?ii ?i femeile vorbesc limbi diferite este un adev?rat fenomen cultural ?i intelectual care s-a aflat aproape patru ani pe lista de bestselleruri New York Times, din care opt luni pe primul loc. Este cartea ce a adus ?n aten?ia publicului diferen?ele de gen din modurile de vorbire. Cu o combina?ie rar? de perspicacitate ?tiin?ific? ?i scriere ?nc?nt?toare ?i amuzant?, Tannen arat? cum de este posibil ca b?rba?ii ?i femeile s? aib? o impresie total diferit? despre ce s-a spus ?n cadrul unei conversa?ii.
Cum s? interac?ionezi cu persoanele dificile
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Bun venit ?n lumea program?rii neurolingvistice (neuro-linguistic programming – NLP)! Cartea de fa?? ??i va prezenta principalele teme ?i idei ce constituie NLP. ??i va oferi cuno?tin?e de ansamblu ?i ?n?elegerea conceptelor?cheie, pe l?ng? exerci?ii practice menite a??i pune mintea la contribu?ie. NLP are propriul sistem de limbaj ?i organizare, explicat pe larg cu exemple din problemele profesionale ?i personale. Teoriile ?i practica NLP te vor ajuta s? descoperi ce ?i face pe unii oameni s? exceleze ?n toate aspectele vie?ii lor, stimul?ndu?te s? faci acela?i lucru.
Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Chatterton
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Sacrificing any chance of his own fame, the eighteenth century teenage poet Thomas Chatterton attributed his poems to a fictitious fifteenth century poet, under the name Sir Thomas Rowley. The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature's finest poets, with superior formatting. This volume presents the complete works of Thomas Chatterton, with beautiful illustrations and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Chatterton's life and works * Concise introduction to the life and poetry of Chatterton * Excellent formatting of the poems * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry * Easily locate the poems you want to read * The poetry texts are taken from the celebrated Walter Skeat edition of Chatterton – available in no other digital collection * Rare Rowley poems available nowhere else * Includes Chatterton's prose works - explore the poet's personal letters * Features two biographies - discover Chatterton's literary life * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Poetry of Thomas Chatterton BRIEF INTRODUCTION: THOMAS CHATTERTON The Poems LIST OF POEMS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER LIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER The Prose LIST OF LETTERS AND OTHER PROSE WORKS The Biographies THE LIFE OF THOMAS CHATTERTON by Edward Bell CHATTERTON’S LIFE AND DEATH AND THE GENESIS OF THE ROWLEY POEMS by Maurice Evan Hare Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles
