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'A natural storyteller, David Meltzer gives us a vivid picture of both the colonizing bands of humans who moved into the Americas and the researchers who followed their footsteps from Alaska to Chile. This is an insider's account, told with a keen eye and sense of humor, as if Meltzer was there when discoveries were made and when disputes were aired - as, indeed, he often was.' -Ann Gibbons, author of The First Humans: the Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors.1.2kg before packing extra post may be required

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'As far as I'm concerned, Perelman is the supreme lunatic humorist in the language, British or American. He seems to know the vocabulary of every English writer from Macaulay to Woody Allen and uses the most unpredictable mixtures of them to produce mock-solemn commentaries on the absurdities of our time.' -The Good Book Guide

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Jane Margaux is a lonely little girl. Her mother, a powerful Broadway producter, makes time for her only once a week, for their Sunday trip to admire jewelry at Tiffany's. Jane has only one friend: a handsome, comforting, funny man named Michael. He's perfect. But only she can see him. Michael can't stay forever, though. On Jane's ninth birthday he leavers, promising her that she'll soon forget him. Years later, in her thirties, Jane is just as alone as she was as a child. And despite her own success as a playwright, she is even more trapped by he overbearing mother. Then she meets someone - a handsome, comforting, funny man. He's perfect. His name is Michael...

This portrays Stephen's Dublin childhood and youth and, in do so, provides an oblique self-portrait of the young James Joyce. At its center are questions of origin and source, authority and authorship, and the relationship of an artist to his family, culture, and race. Exuberantly inventive in its style, the novel subtly and beautifully orchestrates the patterns of quotation and repetition instrumental in its hero's quest to create hos own character, he own language, life, and art:'to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.'Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Seamus Deane.

Contents: Introduction by Hortense Calisher, The Turn of the Screw, In the Cage, Notes, Commentary, Reading Group Guide. 232 pages.

Jude Fawley is a rural stone mason with intellectual aspirations. Frustrated by poverty and the indifference of the academic institutions at the University of Christminster, his only chance of fulfilment seems to lie in his relationship with his unconventional, free-thinking cousin, Sue Bridehead. But life as social outcasts proves undermining, and when tragedy occurs, Sue has not resilience and Jude is left in despair.

The 'lady' in the title, Isabel Archer - a beautifulk, intelligent, and headstrong American newly endowed with wealth and embarked in Europe on a treacherours journey to self-knowledge - is delineated with a magnificence that is at once casual and tense with force and insight. The characters with whom she is entangled are each rendered with a virtuosity that suggests dazzling imaginative powers, and the scene painting - in England and Italy - provides a continuous visual pleasure while always remaining crucial to the larger drama.

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Condition; clean copy.Content: Facsimile of the 1753 edition.560 pages.

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Condition: clean copy.Content:8 scholarly articles which study Buddhism in 20th century China. The book examines lay and monastic Buddhism, cultural practices and intellectual debates, state and society. In addition to well-analyzed case studies, this book offers new insights on important conceptual theories and research methodologies.384 pages, bibliography, list of contributors, index.

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Condition: clean copy.Content: This book teaches you everything you never thought you needed to know about socks. With informative sections on the basics [like history, lengths, and the actual process of putting them on] and fun sidebars like 'Famous Socks' [think Tom Cruise in 'Risky Business,' Audrey Hepburn in 'Funny Face,' and the Wicked Witch of the West in "The Wizard of Oz'], you just might reach for this book as often as you reach for your favorite pair.128 pages.

Condition: clean copy.Content: A study of European scientific advances of the 17th and early 18th centuries, which demonstrates that the pursuit of knowledge occurs not in isolation, but rather in the interplay and frequent cutthroat competition between creative minds. The great thinkers of that extraordinary age, including Newton, Kepler, and Wren, are show in the context in which they lived and worked. We learn of the correspondences they kept with their equally passionate colleagues and come to understand the unique collaborate climate that fostered virtuoso discoveries in the areas of medicine, astronomy, mathematics, biology, chemistry botany, geography and engineering.444 pages, notes, further reading, index.

Condition: clean copy.Content: Why does sacrifice, more than any other major religious institution, depend on gender dichotomy? Why do so many societies oppose sacrifice to childbirth, and why are childbearing women so commonly excluded from sacrificial practices? In this feminist study of relations between sacrifice, gender, and social organization, the author reveals sacrifice as a remedy for having been born of woman, and hence uniquely suited to establishing certain and enduring paternity. Drawing on examples of ancient and modern societies, the author synthesizes sociology of religion, ethnography, biblical scholarship, church history, and classics to argue that sacrifice legitimates and maintains patriarchal structures that transend men's dependence on women's reproductive powers.194 pages, notes, bibliography, index.