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Verses by Alexander John Ellis

By: Alexander John Ellis

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Verses by Alexander John Ellis

By: Alexander John Ellis

Reprint of the original, first published in 1836.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3368780158

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The Law Practice of Alexander Hamilton

Documents and Commentary

By: Alexander Hamilton,Alastair Hamilton

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The Law Practice of Alexander Hamilton

Documents and Commentary

By: Alexander Hamilton,Alastair Hamilton

Although deconstruction has become a popular catchword, as an intellectual movement it has never entirely caught on within the university. For some in the academy, deconstruction, and Jacques Derrida in particular, are responsible for the demise of accountability in the study of literature. Countering these facile dismissals of Derrida and deconstruction, Herman Rapaport explores the incoherence that has plagued critical theory since the 1960s and the resulting legitimacy crisis in the humanities. Against the backdrop of a rich, informed discussion of Derrida's writings -- and how they have been misconstrued by critics and admirers alike -- The Theory Mess investigates the vicissitudes of Anglo-American criticism over the past thirty years and proposes some possibilities for reform.

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790

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Columbia University Press

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0231089295

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9780231089296

Life of William Blake

By: Alexander Gilchrist

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Life of William Blake

By: Alexander Gilchrist

This vintage book contains a detailed biography of William Blake. William Blake (1757–1827) was an English painter and poet. As with many of his ilk, Blake's artistic endeavours were unrecognised during his lifetime, but he is considered today to be one of the most seminal figures in the history of poetry. This volume is highly recommended for those with an interest in poetry, and would make for a worthy addition to any bookshelf. Contents include: “Childhood”, “Engraver's Apprentice”, “A Boy's Poems”, “Student and Lover”, “Introduction To The Polite World”, “Struggle and Sorrow”, “Mediation: Notes on Lavater”, “Poems of Manhood”, “Books of Prophecy”, “Bookseller Johnson's”, “The Gates of Paradise, America, Etc.”, “The Songs of Experience”, “Productive Years”, “At Work For The Publishers”, “A New Life”, “Poet Hayley and Felpham”, etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction. This book was first published in 1863.

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499

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Read Books Ltd

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144748651X

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9781447486510

Nantucket Genealogies

By: Alexander Starbuck

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Nantucket Genealogies

By: Alexander Starbuck

The island of Nantucket was settled in the 1640s by English Puritans who had grown discontented with the rule of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay. This work consists of detailed genealogies of the majority of the First Purchasers of Nantucket (the original owners of the island, as they were called). It is excerpted from Alexander Starbuck's much longer "History of Nantucket County, Island, and Town," constituting the final 200 pages of that opus. The volume begins with biographical sketches of the First Purchasers.

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202

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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0806351063

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Proof!

How the World Became Geometrical

By: Amir Alexander

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How the World Became Geometrical

By: Amir Alexander

A “lucid and convincingly argued” narrative of how ancient geometric principles continue to shape the contemporary world (Publishers Weekly). On a cloudy day in 1413, a balding young man stood at the entrance to the Cathedral of Florence, facing the ancient Baptistery across the piazza. As puzzled passers-by looked on, he raised a small painting to his face, then held a mirror in front of the painting. Few at the time understood what he was up to; even he barely had an inkling of what was at stake. But on that day, the master craftsman and engineer Filippo Brunelleschi would prove that the world and everything within it was governed by the ancient science of geometry. In Proof!, the award-winning historian Amir Alexander traces the path of the geometrical vision of the world as it coursed its way from the Renaissance to the present, shaping our societies, our politics, and our ideals. Geometry came to stand for a fixed and unchallengeable universal order, and kings, empire-builders, and even republican revolutionaries would rush to cast their rule as the apex of the geometrical universe. For who could doubt the right of a ruler or the legitimacy of a government that drew its power from the immutable principles of Euclidean geometry? From the elegant terraces of Versailles to the broad avenues of Washington, DC, and on to the boulevards of New Delhi and Manila, the geometrical vision was carved into the landscape of modernity. Euclid, Alexander shows, made the world as we know it possible.

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209

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Macmillan + ORM

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0374714126

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9780374714123

Express Office Hand-Book and Directory,

Being the History of the Express Business and the Earlier Rail-Road Enterprises in the United States, Together with Some Reminiscences of the Old Mail Coaches and Baggage Wagons

By: Alexander Stimson

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Express Office Hand-Book and Directory,

Being the History of the Express Business and the Earlier Rail-Road Enterprises in the United States, Together with Some Reminiscences of the Old Mail Coaches and Baggage Wagons

By: Alexander Stimson

This fascinating history of the U.S. Express business, prior to the advent of the Pony Express and focused largely on the eastern half of the country, was originally published in 1860. The book is packed with advertisements throughout, for everything imaginable: architects, bankers, revolvers, foreign wines, books, clothing, insurance companies, fireworks, tin cans, produce, washing machines, stoves, accountants, and much more.

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454

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Applewood Books

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1429020059

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9781429020053

Alexander Aphrodisiensis, "De anima libri mantissa"

A new edition of the Greek text with introduction and commentary

By: Alexander Aphrodisiensis

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Alexander Aphrodisiensis, "De anima libri mantissa"

A new edition of the Greek text with introduction and commentary

By: Alexander Aphrodisiensis

R. W. Sharples provides a new edition, with introduction and commentary in English, of the Greek text. The Mantissa is a collection of short discussions, transmitted as a supplement to the treatise On the Soul by the Aristotelian commentator Alexander of Aphrodisias (c.200 AD). The collection includes discussion of a range of topics, among them the nature of soul and intellect, theories of how seeing takes place, issues in ethics, and the nature of fate. The text is based upon a new collation of the principal manuscript, the ninth century Venetus Marcianus graecus 258, and the apparatus corrects Bruns' misreportings of the principal manuscript and of the others that he used. Account has also been taken of the medieval Arabic and Latin versions of some of the sections which circulated independently, notably On Intellect which had a substantial influence on medieval philosophy. The introduction is chiefly concerned with the manuscripts and the relation between them. The commentary is based on the notes to the editor's English translation of the work (London: Duckworth and Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004); however, the commentary also takes into account more recent work on the collection by various scholars.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110978997

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9783110978995

Alexander of Aphrodisias: Supplement to On the Soul

By: Alexander Of Aphrodisias

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Alexander of Aphrodisias: Supplement to On the Soul

By: Alexander Of Aphrodisias

The Supplement transmitted as the second book of On the Soul by Alexander of Aphrodisias (fl. c. 200 AD) is a collection of short texts on a wide range of topics from psychology, including the general hylomorphic account of soul and its faculties, and the theory of vision; questions in ethics (natural instincts, the unity of the virtues, the naturalness of justice and the insufficiency of virtue for happiness); and issues relating to responsibility, chance and fate. One of the texts in the collection, On Intellect, had a major influence on medieval Arabic and Western thought, greater than that of Alexander's On the Soul itself. The treatises may all be by Alexander himself; certainly the majority of them are closely connected with his other works. Many of them, however, consist of collections of arguments on particular issues, collections which probably incorporate material from earlier in the history of the Peripatetic school. This translation is from a new edition of the Greek text based on a collation of all known manuscripts and comparison with medieval Arabic and Latin translations.

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320

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1472501098

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9781472501097

A Principled Constitution?

Four Skeptical Views

By: Steven D. Smith,Larry Alexander,James Allan,Maimon Schwarzschild

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A Principled Constitution?

Four Skeptical Views

By: Steven D. Smith,Larry Alexander,James Allan,Maimon Schwarzschild

Is the United States Constitution the embodiment of certain principles? The four authors of this book for a variety of reasons, and with somewhat different emphases, believe the answer is no. Those who authored the Constitution no doubt all believed in liberty, equality, and, with caveats, republican self-government values, or if you will, principles. But they had different conceptions of those principles and what those principles entailed for constituting a government. Although the Constitution they created reflected, in some sense, their principles, the Constitution itself was a specific list of do’s and don’ts that its creators hoped would gain the allegiance of the newly independent and sovereign states. And, for somewhat different reasons, the authors of this book believe that was a good thing.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1666911488

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9781666911480

The Oxford Handbook of Timbre

By: Emily I. Dolan,Alexander Rehding

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The Oxford Handbook of Timbre

By: Emily I. Dolan,Alexander Rehding

Despite its importance as a central feature of musical sounds, timbre has rarely stood in the limelight. First defined in the eighteenth century, denigrated during the nineteenth, the concept of timbre came into its own during the twentieth century and its fascination with synthesizers and electronic music-or so the story goes. But in fact, timbre cuts across all the boundaries that make up musical thought-combining scientific and artistic approaches to music, material and philosophical aspects, and historical and theoretical perspectives. Timbre challenges us to fundamentally reorganize the way we think about music. The twenty-five essays that make up this collection offer a variety of engagements with music from the perspective of timbre. The boundaries are set as broad as possible: from ancient Homeric sounds to contemporary sound installations, from birdsong to cochlear implants, from Tuvan overtone singing to the tv show The Voice, from violin mutes to Moog synthesizers. What unifies the essays across this vast diversity is the material starting point of the sounding object. This focus on the listening experience is radical departure from the musical work that has traditionally dominated musical discourse since its academic inception in late-nineteenth-century Europe. Timbre remains a slippery concept that has continuously demanded more, be it more precise vocabulary, a more systematic theory, or more rigorous analysis. Rooted in the psychology of listening, timbre consistently resists pinning complete down. This collection of essays provides an invitation for further engagement with the range of fascinating questions that timbre opens up.

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Oxford University Press

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0190637250

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9780190637255

Book's by Alexander John Ellis

Verses by Alexander John Ellis

Verses by Alexander John Ellis

The Law Practice of Alexander Hamilton

The Law Practice of Alexander Hamilton

Life of William Blake

Life of William Blake

Nantucket Genealogies

Nantucket Genealogies

Proof!

Proof!

Express Office Hand-Book and Directory,

Express Office Hand-Book and Directory,

Alexander Aphrodisiensis, "De anima libri mantissa"

Alexander Aphrodisiensis, "De anima libri mantissa"

Alexander of Aphrodisias: Supplement to On the Soul

Alexander of Aphrodisias: Supplement to On the Soul

A Principled Constitution?

A Principled Constitution?

The Oxford Handbook of Timbre

The Oxford Handbook of Timbre

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