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  • Twilight on the Range
    William Timmons
    Billie Timmons was fourteen when he met Charles Goodnight-over a wagonload of manure that had been jammed on a gatepost-and he went to work on the Goodnight Cross J Ranch shortly thereafter. The spirit of helpfulness that led Mr. Goodnight to strip off his coat and lift the wagon free for a lad in need sets the tone of this book, in which the author unwinds a spool of recollect...
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    33,60 €

  • Antonio Caso
    John H. Haddox / John HHaddox
    Few men have had as much cultural and educational influence on their own countries as the philosopher and educator Antonio Caso (1883-1946). He was above all a patriot of his beloved Mexico, and he sought to deliver his humanitarian message to his countrymen.In his youth, after the revolt against Díaz, he was a member of the Ateneo de la Juventud, a group that sought to bring M...
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    27,07 €

  • Son of the Alhambra
    Erika Spivakovsky
    Last of the Spanish Renaissance men, Diego Hurtado de Mendoza (1504-1575) was a master of the humanist disciplines as well as an active diplomat whose correspondence provides insight into the workings of power politics in the first post-Machiavellian decades.This account of Mendoza’s diplomatic career is a living commentary on the mid-sixteenth century, the time of the Spanish ...
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    60,29 €

  • The Drama’s Patrons
    Leo Hughes
    The drama’s laws,the drama’s patrons give,For we that live to please,must please to live.-Samuel Johnson, 1747Democratic ferment, responsible for political explosions in the seventeenth century and expanded power in the eighteenth, affected all phases of English life. The theatre reflected these forces in the content of the plays of the period and in an increased awareness amon...
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    33,74 €

  • The Lord’s Woods
    Robert Arbib
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    16,62 €

  • Vibrations and Waves
    A. P. French / APFrench
    After careful analysis of objectives and the problems involved, preliminary versions of textbooks were prepared, tested through classroom use at M.I.T. and other institutions, re-evaluated, rewritten, and tried again. Only then were the final manuscripts undertaken. ...
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    46,61 €

  • The Relevance of Education
    Jerome S. Bruner / Jerome SBruner
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    16,72 €

  • Fragments of My Fleece
    Dean Acheson
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    17,53 €

  • The Idea of Principle in Leibnitz and the Evolution of Deductive Theory
    Jose Ortega y. Gasset / Jose Ortega yGasset / Mildred Adams
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    20,57 €

  • The Authority of the Old Testament
    John Bright
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    23,43 €

  • Molière
    Laurence Romero
    An attempt to trace the development of Moliere criticism organized around three categories: biographical, academic (both historical and formalistic), and commentaries by 'theater professionals.' ...
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    38,52 €

  • Charles Nodier
    Sarah Fore Bell
    This is a critical bibliography of the Nodier studies and editions of his works that appeared between 1923 and 1967. Part I presents a chronological bibliography of studies on Nodier and annotates each entry. Part II comprises a tentative list of the republications of works by Nodier, indicating those of special interest. ...
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    38,48 €

  • Racine and Seneca
    Ronald W. Tobin
    This study brings to light the significant and long-obscured influence of the Roman dramatist and philosopher, Seneca, on the works of Racine. After describing the positive characteristics of Senecan tragedy and the crucial role it played in French drama from Jodelle through Corneille, Ronald W. Tobin analyzes Racine’s unique adoption and absorption of Senecan material into his...
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    38,54 €

  • Critical Reactions and the Christian Element in the Poetry of Pierre de Ronsard
    Mark S. Whitney
    Scholarly opinion on the philosophical and aesthetic significance of Ronsard’s Christianity is sharply divided. This monograph makes a thorough review of the most important and representative writings on the question. The foreword by W. L. Wiley describes the broad cultural and literary framework within which Ronsard’s Christianity may be examined. 3 ...
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    37,93 €

  • The Rev. John Bowle
    Ralph Merritt Cox
    John Bowle was the first scholar to consider Don Quixote a masterpiece. His edition, published in six volumes in 1781, 'the first truly learned edition,' established a foundation for future study and editing of Cervantes’s great work. Here, Cox explores the life and works of John Bowle, and considers his lasting legacy. ...
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    38,74 €

  • The Four Interpolated Stories in the Roman Comique
    Frederick Alfred de Armas
    Seventeenth-century French author Paul Scarron’s Roman comique has often been dismissed by critics as episodic and disorganized. This, in part, stems from four interpolated stories which Scarron included and which, according to many critics, have no relation to the novel’s plot. Here, after studying the original Spanish versions of these nouvelles, Frederick Alfred de Armas arg...
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    38,65 €

  • Objective Methods for Testing Authenticity and the Study of Ten Doubtful Comedias Attributed to Lope de Vega
    Fred M. Clark
    Utilizing the various methods already established by recognized authorities in the field, Fred Clark studies ten doubtful plays long attributed to Lope. Contrasting the subjective impressions of literary historians with the results of the objective tests applied to the comedias, the author discounts Lope’s authorship of each of the ten works. 3 ...
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    38,49 €

  • The Italian Verb
    Frede Jensen
    This morphological study is designed to show the transformation from Latin verbs into the Old and Modern Italian verbal system. The work is inspired by the methods of traditional, historical philology, and its intent is largely pedagogical. 3 ...
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    38,66 €

  • A Critical Edition of the Old Provençal Epic Daurel et Beton
    Editing this work in the context of modern scholarship has involved many literary and linguistic problems left untouched by the Meyer edition of 1880. The present edition provides a new, accurate reading of the sole manuscript, supported by copious textual notes and chapters on versification, dating, and language of author and scribe. ...
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    44,81 €

  • Francisco Rodrigues Lobo
    Richard A. Preto-Rodas / Richard APreto-Rodas
    This work examines the dialogue tradition as it shaped the structure and themes of Lobo’s seventeenth-century classic. Lobo’s departure from earlier views of courtly lore is shown in his preference for social eloquence and literary cultivation over nobility of character and physical prowess. ...
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    38,49 €

  • Raimon Vidal, Poetry and Prose
    The importance of the troubadour Raimon Vidal as poet and grammarian has been recognized since the thirteenth century. This volume presents Vidal’s long poem on the decline of the jongleur’s art, along with a prose translation, notes, and an index of names mentioned in the poem. ...
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    38,45 €

  • Religious Elements in the Secular Lyrics of the Troubadours
    Raymond Gay-Crosier
    This philological study examines the possible influence exerted by religious traditions on the origin and development of the secular lyrics of the troubadours. It includes an historical outline, a survey of theories concerning the origins, and an analysis of the troubadours’ conception of love. ...
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    38,82 €

  • The Significance of Diderot’s Essai sur le mérite et la vertu
    Gordon B. Walters Jr. / Gordon BWalters Jr.
    Walters provides commentary on Diderot’s translation of Shaftesbury’s An Inquiry Concerning Virtue or Merit. By comparing the translation and notes, he demonstrates the evolution of Diderot’s thought and artistic skill, discusses the difference between theism and deism, the question of universal order, and compares atheism with free thought. After an analysis of religious fanat...
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    38,78 €

  • Proper Names in the Lyrics of the Troubadours
    Frank M. Chambers / Frank MChambers
    After a preface describing the purpose and content of this work, the author presents a lengthy bibliography of sources. The proper names in the lyrics of the troubadours follows. ...
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    44,68 €

  • Ayub Khan Era; Politics in Pakistan
    Lawrence Ziring
    This is the study of a decade when the Army under General Mohammad Ayub Khan took control of Pakistan amidst turmoil until Ayub was pressured into passing his authority to General Yahya Khan. It is an examination of the character of Ayub Khan’s rule, of his dreams of a new Pakistan and of the reasons for his failure to bring it about. This book is divided into two parts. Part I...
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    56,01 €

  • Causality and Chance in Modern Physics
    DAVID BOHM
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    25,38 €

  • Backwoods Utopias
    Arthur Bestor
    The new society that the world awaited might yet be born in the humble guise of a backwoods village. This was the belief shared by the many groups which moved into the American frontier to create experimental communities--communities which they hoped would be models for revolutionary changes in religion, politics, economics, and education in American society. For, as James Madi...
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    23,41 €

  • The Great Legal Philosophers
    Clarence Morris
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    32,32 €

  • Anti-Story
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    23,95 €

  • The Absoluteness of Christianity and the History of Religions
    Ernst Troeltsch / David Reid
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    27,36 €


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