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Teacher in America by Jacques Barzun 9780913966792
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Simple & Direct by Jacques Barzun 9780060937232
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060937232Author Jacques BarzunFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint -
The House of Intellect by Jacques Barzun 9780313200717
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From Dawn to Decadence by Jacques Barzun 9780060928834
RRP: $36.17Booksplease Price: $24.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060928834Author Jacques BarzunFormat PaperbackPage Count 912Imprint -
Rameau's Nephew, and Other Works by Denis Diderot 9780872204867
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $11.99This anthology features unabridged translations of Diderot's best work as a literary artist, including those writings that embody his most original and influential ideas.About the AuthorJacques... -
Rameau's Nephew, and Other Works: and Other Works by Denis Diderot 9780872204874
RRP: $52.25Booksplease Price: $38.03This anthology features unabridged translations of Diderot's best work as a literary artist, including those writings that embody his most original and influential ideas.About the AuthorJacques... -
Knowledge and Power in Public Bureaucracies: From Pyramid to Circle by David G. Carnevale 9780367210793
RRP: $64.31Booksplease Price: $60.02Ever since Max Weber and Frederick Taylor, public organizations have been told that effective practice lies in maximizing rationality through science. Yet science-based management reforms have had... -
How to Grow a Novel by Sol Stein 9780312267490
Booksplease Price: $18.80Sol Stein is one of the most popular writing instructors in the world, teaching through well-attended workshops, featured appearances at writers' conferences, software for writers, on-line columns,... -
The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes by Jonathan Rose 9780300257847
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $21.24This is a landmark intellectual history of Britain's working classes from the preindustrial era to the twentieth century. Drawing on workers' memoirs, social surveys, library registers, and more,... -
Evenings with the Orchestra by Hector Berlioz 9780226043746
RRP: $44.22Booksplease Price: $24.96During the performances of fashionable operas in an unidentified but "civilized" town in northern Europe, the musicians (with the exception of the conscientious bass drummer) tell tales, read... -
Concepts of Culture: Art, Politics, and Society by Adam Muller 9781552381670
Booksplease Price: $64.51How do we define culture? To what uses should our concept of culture be put? What costs and benefits do these uses entail?Adam Muller brings together a diverse group of emerging and established... -
A Short History of the World by Geoffrey Blainey 9781566635073
Booksplease Price: $42.02A superb history of the world's people during the last four million years, beginning before the human race moved out of Africa to explore and settle the other continents. Mr. Blainey explores the... -
How to Read a Book by Charles Van Doren
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75With half a million copies in print, How to Read a Book is the best and most successful guide to reading comprehension for the general reader, completely rewritten and updated with new material. ... -
The Christmas Murders by Jonathan Goodman 9781606350829
Booksplease Price: $21.59A seasonal gift for connoisseurs of true crime Here are ten murder cases of "the old-fashioned sort"-evoking a nostalgia more obviously associated with fiction-that all took place during the festive... -
Red Secularism: Socialism and Secularist Culture in Germany 1890 to 1933 by Todd H. Weir 9781107583436
Booksplease Price: $42.24Red Secularism is the first substantive investigation into one of the key sources of radicalism in modern German, the subculture that arose at the intersection of secularism and socialism in the late... -
Words On Music: From Addison To Barzun by Jack Sullivan 9780821409596
RRP: $33.49Booksplease Price: $29.43For centuries, distinguished writers have taken on the challenge of describing great music and its significance in their lives. From Joseph Addison to Virgil Thomson, writers in and out of the music... -
The Floating Admiral by The Detection Club
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.10Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, G.K. Chesterton and nine other writers from the legendary Detection Club collaborate in this fiendishly clever but forgotten crime novel first published 80 years... -
Authorship and Publicity Before Print: Jean Gerson and the Transformation of Late Medieval Learning by Daniel Hobbins 9780812222746
RRP: $36.17Booksplease Price: $35.27Widely recognized by contemporaries as the most powerful theologian of his generation, Jean Gerson (1363-1429) dominated the stage of western Europe during a time of plague, fratricidal war, and... -
American Jews and America's Game: Voices of a Growing Legacy in Baseball by Larry Ruttman 9780803264755
RRP: $48.24Booksplease Price: $41.38Most fans don't know how far the Jewish presence in baseball extends beyond a few famous players such as Greenberg, Rosen, Koufax, Holtzman, Green, Ausmus, Youkilis, Braun, and Kinsler. In fact, that... -
Why Trilling Matters by Adam Kirsch 9780300187823
Booksplease Price: $33.85The distinguished poet and critic argues for the abiding relevance of a great literary mind of the twentieth century Lionel Trilling, regarded at the time of his death in 1975 as America's preeminent... -
Defending the Faith: Global Histories of Apologetics and Politics in the Twentieth Century by Todd Weir 9780197266915
Booksplease Price: $117.38This volume explores the many ways in which conflicts between secular worldviews and religions shaped the history of the twentieth century. It introduces the notion of 'apologetics' to highlight a... -
A Short History of the Twentieth Century by Geoffrey Blainey 9781566637930
Booksplease Price: $38.51Geoffrey Blainey's Short History of the World, published by Ivan R. Dee in 2002, rapidly became a book of choice on the subject. Jacques Barzun called it "a unique achievement," and William L... -
The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue by W. H. Auden
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $22.70When it was first published in 1947, The Age of Anxiety--W. H. Auden's last, longest, and most ambitious book-length poem--immediately struck a powerful chord, capturing the imagination of the... -
Enchantment: On Charisma and the Sublime in the Arts of the West by C. Stephen Jaeger 9780812223354
RRP: $46.90Booksplease Price: $42.95What is the force in art, C. Stephen Jaeger asks, that can enter our consciousness, inspire admiration or imitation, and carry a reader or viewer from the world as it is to a world more sublime? We... -
The Promise and Peril of Credit: What a Forgotten Legend about Jews and Finance Tells Us about the Making of European Commercial Society by Francesca Trivellato 9780691217383
RRP: $42.88Booksplease Price: $39.29How an antisemitic legend gave voice to widespread fears surrounding the expansion of private credit in Western capitalismThe Promise and Peril of Credit takes an incisive look at pivotal episodes in... -
Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD by Peter Brown 9780691161778
RRP: $37.52Booksplease Price: $34.85Jesus taught his followers that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven. Yet by the fall of Rome, the church was becoming rich beyond measure... -
The Promise and Peril of Credit: What a Forgotten Legend about Jews and Finance Tells Us about the Making of European Commercial Society by Francesca Trivellato 9780691178592
RRP: $60.30Booksplease Price: $49.08How an antisemitic legend gave voice to widespread fears surrounding the expansion of private credit in Western capitalismThe Promise and Peril of Credit takes an incisive look at pivotal episodes in... -
Continental Divide: Heidegger, Cassirer, Davos by Peter E. Gordon
RRP: $32.09Booksplease Price: $28.07In the spring of 1929, Martin Heidegger and Ernst Cassirer met for a public conversation in Davos, Switzerland. They were arguably the most important thinkers in Europe, and their exchange touched... -
Common Sense: A Political History by Sophia Rosenfeld
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $31.20Common sense has always been a cornerstone of American politics. In 1776, Tom Paine's vital pamphlet with that title sparked the American Revolution. And today, common sense-the wisdom of ordinary... -
The Nazi Conscience by Claudia Koonz
RRP: $34.77Booksplease Price: $28.74The Nazi conscience is not an oxymoron. In fact, the perpetrators of genocide had a powerful sense of right and wrong, based on civic values that exalted the moral righteousness of the ethnic... -
Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory by David W. Blight
RRP: $25.39Booksplease Price: $22.53Winner of the Bancroft PrizeWinner of the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln PrizeWinner of the Merle Curti awardWinner of the Frederick Douglass PrizeNo historical event has left as deep an imprint on America's... -
The Secret Life of Puppets by Victoria Nelson
RRP: $38.79Booksplease Price: $33.66In one of those rare books that allows us to see the world not as we've never seen it before, but as we see it daily without knowing, Victoria Nelson illuminates the deep but hidden attraction the...