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Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea

by Mark Blyth

Published: 2013-04-25

Hardcover: 304 pages

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Selected as a Financial Times Best Book of 2013Governments today in both Europe and the United States have succeeded in casting government spending as reckless wastefulness that has made the economy worse. In contrast, they have advanced a policy of draconian budget cuts--austerity--to sol...

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Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000

by Stephen Kotkin

Published: 2008-12-23

Paperback: 280 pages

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Featuring extensive revisions to the text as well as a new introduction and epilogue--bringing the book completely up to date on the tumultuous politics of the previous decade and the long-term implications of the Soviet collapse--this compact, original, and engaging book offers the defini...

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Collected Poems of Audre Lorde

by Audre Lorde

Published: 2000-02-17

Paperback: 512 pages

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A complete collection?over 300 poems?from one of this country's most influential poets. "These are poems which blaze and pulse on the page."?Adrienne Rich "The first declaration of a black, lesbian feminist identity took place in these poems, and set the terms?beautifully, forcefully?for c...

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Later Poems Selected and New: 1971-2012

by Adrienne Rich

Published: 2012-11-05

Hardcover: 544 pages

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The final volume of poems assembled by America’s most powerful and distinctive poetic voice.In Later Poems: Selected and New 1971–2012, the strong trajectory of the work of one of the most important artists of American letters is on display. This volume brings together a remarkable bod...

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The Safety of Objects: Stories

by A. M. Homes

Published: 2013-01-29

Paperback: 208 pages

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The breakthrough story collection that established A. M. Homes as one of the most daring writers of her generation Originally published in 1990 to wide critical acclaim, this extraordinary first collection of stories by A. M. Homes confronts the real and the surreal on even terms to creat...

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The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories

by Robert B. Strassler, Herodotus

Published: 2009-06-02

Paperback: 953 pages

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From the editor of the widely praised The Landmark Thucydides, a new Landmark Edition of The Histories by Herodotus.Cicero called Herodotus "the father of history," and his only work, The Histories, is considered the first true piece of historical writing in Western literature. With lucid ...

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The New York Review Abroad: Fifty Years of International Reportage

Published: 2013-06-04

Hardcover: 544 pages

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For the past fifty years, The New York Review of Books has covered virtually every international revolution and movement of consequence by dispatching the world’s most brilliant writers to write eyewitness accounts. The New York Review Abroad not only brings together twenty-eight of the ...

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Plato's Symposium: A Translation by Seth Benardete with Commentaries by Allan Bloom and Seth Benardete

by Plato

Published: 2001-02-01

Paperback: 199 pages

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Plato, Allan Bloom wrote, is "the most erotic of philosophers," and his Symposium is one of the greatest works on the nature of love ever written. This new edition brings together the English translation of the renowned Plato scholar and translator, Seth Benardete, with two illuminating co...

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Why Mahler?: How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed Our World

by Norman Lebrecht

Published: 2011-11-01

Paperback: 336 pages

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Why Mahler? Why does his music affect us in the way it does? Norman Lebrecht, one of the world’s most widely read cultural commentators, has been wrestling obsessively with Mahler for half his life. Following Mahler’s every footstep from birthplace to grave, scrutinizing his manuscrip...

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Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker

by Stanley Crouch

Published: 2013-09-24

Hardcover: 384 pages

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Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker is the first installment in the long-awaited portrait of one of the most talented and influential musicians of the twentieth century, from Stanley Crouch, one of the foremost authorities on jazz and culture in America.Throughout h...