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Giacomo Leopardi's Search for a Common Life Through Poetry

A Different Nobility, a Different Love

By: Frank Rosengarten

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Giacomo Leopardi's Search for a Common Life Through Poetry

A Different Nobility, a Different Love

By: Frank Rosengarten

This book traces the life of Giacomo Leopardi by examining four different yet interrelated aspects: his social origins and class in relation to his evolving conception of nobility; the mixture of idealism and misogynism in his attitude toward women and in his conception of love; his poems and prose on the theme of Italian independence; and his philosophical materialism as expressed in his poetry, intellectual diary, and essays. Frank Rosengarten pays particular attention to the ways in which the thought of Arthur Schopenhauer and Friedrich Nietzsche illuminates Leopardi's world view. He also devotes a section of the book to the different personal, moral, and philological components of Leopardi's humanism. Throughout, he maintains a sharp focus on the connections between Leopardi's life and the historical period in which he lived. The major themes and human concerns expressed in Leopardi's writings relate to his life experiences and to the historical period in which he lived. Of central interest are nobility and love, since Leopardi's perception of these two themes evolved and changed as he acquired a more general and universal conception of life. This fascinating combination of classical and modern perspectives on life and literature is highlighted throughout the book.

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Lexington Books

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1611475058

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The Revolutionary Marxism of Antonio Gramsci

By: Frank Rosengarten

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The Revolutionary Marxism of Antonio Gramsci

By: Frank Rosengarten

Antonio Gramsci was not only one of the most original and significant communist leaders of his time but also a creative thinker whose contributions to the renewal of Marxism remain pertinent today. In The Revolutionary Marxism of Antonio Gramsci, Frank Rosengarten explores Gramsci's writings in areas as diverse as Marxist theory, the responsibilities of political leadership, and the theory and practice of literary criticism. He also discusses Gramsci's influence on the post-colonial world. Through close readings of texts ranging from Gramsci's socialist journalism in the Turin years to his prison letters and Notebooks, Rosengarten captures the full vitality of the Sardinian communist's thought and outlook on life.

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212

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BRILL

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9004265759

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9789004265752

Urbane Revolutionary

C. L. R. James and the Struggle for a New Society

By: Frank Rosengarten

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Urbane Revolutionary

C. L. R. James and the Struggle for a New Society

By: Frank Rosengarten

In Urbane Revolutionary: C. L. R. James and the Struggle for a New Society, Frank Rosengarten traces the intellectual and political development of C. L. R. James (1901-1989), one of the most significant Caribbean intellectuals of the twentieth century. In his political and philo-sophical commentary, his histories, drama, letters, memoir, and fiction, James broke new ground dealing with the fundamental issues of his age-colonialism and postcolo-nialism, Soviet socialism and wes-tern neo-liberal capitalism, and the uses of race, class, and gender as tools for analysis. The author examines in depth three facets of James\'s work: his interpretation and use of Marxist, Trotskyist, and Leninist concepts; his approach to Caribbean and African struggles for independence in the 1950s and 1960s; and his branching into prose fiction, dra-ma, and literary criticism. Rosen-garten analyzes James\'s previously underexplored relationships with women and with the women\'s liberation movement. The study also scrutinizes James\'s methods of research and writing. Rosengarten explores James\'s provocative and influential concepts regarding black liberation in the Caribbean, Africa, the United States, and Great Britain and James\'s varying responses to revolutionary movements. With its extensive use of unpublished letters, private correspondence, papers, books, and other documents, Urbane Revolutionary provides fresh insights into the work of one of the twentieth century\'s most important intellectuals and activists. Frank Rosengarten is professor emeritus of Italian and compa-rative literature at the City University of New York. He is the author of The Writings of the Young Marcel Proust (1885-1900): An Ideological Critique and The Italian Anti-Fascist Press, 1919-1945.

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1604733063

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Urbane Revolutionary

C. L. R. James and the Struggle for a New Society

By: Frank Rosengarten

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Urbane Revolutionary

C. L. R. James and the Struggle for a New Society

By: Frank Rosengarten

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The Secret History of the Jersey Devil

How Quakers, Hucksters, and Benjamin Franklin Created a Monster

By: Brian Regal,Frank J. Esposito

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The Secret History of the Jersey Devil

How Quakers, Hucksters, and Benjamin Franklin Created a Monster

By: Brian Regal,Frank J. Esposito

A provocative look at the mystery surrounding the Jersey Devil, a beast born of colonial times that haunts the corners of the Pine Barrens—and the American imagination—to this day. Legend has it that in 1735, a witch named Mother Leeds gave birth to a horrifying monster—a deformed flying horse with glowing red eyes—that flew up the chimney of her New Jersey home and disappeared into the Pine Barrens. Ever since, this nightmarish beast has haunted those woods, presaging catastrophe and frightening innocent passersby—or so the story goes. In The Secret History of the Jersey Devil, Brian Regal and Frank J. Esposito examine the genesis of this popular myth, which is one of the oldest monster legends in the United States. According to Regal and Esposito, everything you think you know about the Jersey Devil is wrong. The real story of the Jersey Devil's birth is far more interesting, complex, and important than most people—believers and skeptics alike—realize. Leaving the Pine Barrens, Regal and Esposito turn instead to the varied political and cultural roots of the Devil's creation. Fascinating and lively, this book finds the origins of New Jersey's favorite monster not in witchcraft or an unnatural liaison between woman and devil but in the bare-knuckled political fights and religious upheavals of colonial America. A product of innuendo and rumor, as well as scandal and media hype, the Jersey Devil enjoys a rich history involving land grabs, astrological predictions, mermaids and dinosaur bones, sideshows, Napoleon Bonaparte's brother, a cross-dressing royal governor, and Founding Father Benjamin Franklin.

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JHU Press

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1421424916

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9781421424910

Research Directions of Black Psychologists

By: Wade Boykin,Anderson Franklin,Frank J. Yates

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Research Directions of Black Psychologists

By: Wade Boykin,Anderson Franklin,Frank J. Yates

Focusing on issues of particular importance to black people, and confronting the rich variety and the complexity of the black experience, the many contributors demonstrate the broad diversity of research interests and strategies among black psychologists, from the traditional to the innovative. Topics covered include studies of motivation, cognitive development, life-span development, and cultural difference versus deficit theories. Many of the studies directly refute previous conceptions of the psychological functioning of blacks and offer alternative models and formulations. This book is the first to present soundly designed and executed research that is emphatically linked to the perspectives and the psychological concerns of black Americans. In designing these studies, the authors aimed to ameliorate the pressing educational and social problems of blacks through a better understanding of their life conditions.

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Russell Sage Foundation

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1610440773

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9781610440776

Out of the Darkness

The Germans, 1942-2022

By: Frank Trentmann

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Out of the Darkness

The Germans, 1942-2022

By: Frank Trentmann

One of The Telegraph’s 50 Best Books of 2023 A gripping and nuanced history of the German people from the Second World War to the present day, including hugely revealing new primary source material on every aspect of its transformation. In 1945, Germany lay ruined. Its citizens stood condemned by history, responsible for a horrifying genocide and war of extermination. But by the end of Angela Merkel’s tenure in 2021, Germany looked like the moral voice of Europe, welcoming over one million refugees, holding together the tenuous threads of the European Union, and making military restraint the center of its foreign policy. At the same time, its rigid fiscal discipline and energy deals with Russian leader Vladimir Putin have cast a shadow over the present. Innumerable scholars have asked how Germany could have degenerated from a nation of scientists, poets, and philosophers into one responsible for genocide. And yet, until now, a similarly vital question has been ignored. That is, how did a nation whose past has been marked by mass murder, a people who cheered Adolf Hitler, reinvent themselves? Trentmann tells this dramatic story from the middle of the Second World War, through the Cold War and the division of East and West, to the fall of the Berlin Wall and Germany’s struggle to find its place in the world today. This journey includes a series of internal, moral conflicts: admissions of guilt and shame vying with immediate economic concerns, restitution for some but not others, tolerance versus racism, compassion versus complicity. Through a range of voices—German soldiers and German Jews; displaced persons in limbo; East German women and shopkeepers angry about energy shortages; opponents and supporters of nuclear power; volunteers helping migrants and refugees, and right-wing populists attacking them—Trentmann paints a remarkable and surprising portrait of the German people over eighty years, showing how they became who they are today.

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847

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Signal

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0771070799

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9780771070792

Ever Against the Stream

The Politics of Karl Barth, 1906-1968

By: Frank Jehle

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Ever Against the Stream

The Politics of Karl Barth, 1906-1968

By: Frank Jehle

While there are numerous studies of Karl Barth's theology, this isthe first book to explore the political side of Barth's work throughoutall the phases of his long life. As Frank Jehle shows, Barth's political views are not onlyfound in his formal writings but were also made clear in his activelife. Jehle here portrays Barth as a courageous man who was deeplyconcerned about world conditions and cared about people whowere suffering. It was the question, What will happen to humanity?that led Barth at a young age to support the working class of hiscongregation, to work as a resistance fighter against National Socialism, and to openly oppose Switzerland's tendency to accommodateHilter's policy. He also supported Jews and other refugees aposition that quickly made him political enemies. Jehle looks athow Barth continued to draw ethical consequences out of Christianbelief and shows how, in today's political context, Barth's perspectivesstill provide astounding clarity. Deliberately written for a broad audience, this book is a valuablecontribution to the literature on Barth.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1620320940

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Gold Mine in the Sky

A Personal History of the Log Cabin Mine

By: Frank Cassidy Jr. DVM

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Gold Mine in the Sky

A Personal History of the Log Cabin Mine

By: Frank Cassidy Jr. DVM

The Log Cabin Mine was once the largest gold-producing mine in California. It was state-of-the-art and could both extract and process the gold from the quartz ore far beneath the surface. Now, all that remains of the once bountiful mine are decaying buildings, equipment ravaged by time and vandals, and memories. Gold Mine in the Sky chronicles the colorful history of the Log Cabin Mine, from its humble beginning in 1890, to its preWorld War II heyday, to the modern efforts to restore the mine and preserve its rich legacy. However, Gold Mine in the Sky offers more than simply a collection of names and dates; it tells the story of a man, his family, and the people of the small town of Lee Vining, whose lives were once, and will always be, inextricably linked to the Log Cabin Mine.

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iUniverse

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1450246923

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9781450246927

Napoleon's navigation system

By: Frank Edgar Melvin

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Napoleon's navigation system

By: Frank Edgar Melvin

Napoleon's navigation system. A study of trade control during the continental blockade (1919).

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Рипол Классик

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1275470408

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9781275470408

The Wines of Germany

By: Frank Schoonmaker

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The Wines of Germany

By: Frank Schoonmaker

The wines of the Mosel and the Rhine have achieved a well-deserved popularity over the years; yet to the average consumer their confusing multiplicity of names and the elaborate gradations of their classification and quality present a problem. It is not always easy to tell the commonplace from the good or the good from the remarkable. In Wines of Germany, which was first published in 1956 and became recognized as a classic, Frank Schoonmaker’s friendly, impartial and comprehensive style provides all the information that the wine-lover needs. District by district, village by village, he leads the reader through “this most beautiful of all wine countries...rich in history and anecdote, in legend and salty proverbs, in tradition and, most important to the connoisseur—in good wine.” This is an expert’s book, but written in layman’s language: it is readable, authoritative, concise and complete.

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256

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Pickle Partners Publishing

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1789122279

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9781789122275

German S-Boats in Action in the Second World War

By: Hans Frank

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German S-Boats in Action in the Second World War

By: Hans Frank

A detailed narrative of S-boat, or schnellboot, actions during World War II in all the theatres where they were deployed. The author, describes, with the help of a multitude of maps and photographs, all the incidents that these 45-knot fast attack craft were involved in. The German motor torpedo boat (German: S-boot, English: E-boat) was a controversial subject in the pre-war period of German naval rearmament. As late as 1938, the Fleet Commander recommended that S-boot building be terminated on the grounds that the craft was merely a 'weapon of opportunity' without a defined role. This outlook changed dramatically after the first wartime successes. Soon the S-boot was required on all fronts, and the area of operations. In this volume the operational deployment of the S-Boot in these theatres is given comprehensive treatment for the first time, and not purely from the isolated viewpoint of S-Boot warfare, but as an integral part of the overall military objectives of the time. This study of the effectiveness of the S-Boot, its successes and failures, is based on war diary entries and previously unseen original sources. It is a first-class account of this German naval arm in which survived to be the last class of German surface warship still carrying the offensive to the enemy.

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342

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Pen and Sword

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1783830298

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9781783830299

Fifty State Construction Lien and Bond Law

By: Robert Frank Cushman,Stephen D. Butler

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Fifty State Construction Lien and Bond Law

By: Robert Frank Cushman,Stephen D. Butler

Many experienced construction lien and bond attorneys have learned the hard way that a failure to comply with a seemingly minor requirement of a particular statute may threaten to void contractor’s or supplier’s rights under that statute. Fifty State Construction Lien and Bond Law, Second Edition is the first and only in-depth state by-state guide To The law and business of construction liens and bonds. This valuable reference covers not only the legal issues but also essential instructions and unique procedures for proper filing and follow through steps. Fifty State Construction Lien and Bond Law, Second Edition guides you through similar and contrasting requirements, both between public and private projects, within the same state and among the different states. You’ll get complete coverage of: Bid bonds Payment bonds Performance bonds Mechanics’ liens Forms for preserving both lien and bond rights in each of the 50 states This indispensable three-volume reference is written by leading construction lien and bond experts from each of the fifty states - as well as District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam and American Samoa. it provides authoritative coverage of mechanics' liens, payment bonds, performance bonds and bid bonds, along with comprehensive coverage of the statutes and analysis of the key cases in each state. There's even a chapter on federal payment bond law. You also get an entire volume with the necessary forms for preserving liens and related payment remedies in all fifty states.

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Wolters Kluwer

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0735510636

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9780735510630

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Giacomo Leopardi's Search for a Common Life Through Poetry

Giacomo Leopardi's Search for a Common Life Through Poetry

The Revolutionary Marxism of Antonio Gramsci

The Revolutionary Marxism of Antonio Gramsci

Urbane Revolutionary

Urbane Revolutionary

Urbane Revolutionary

Urbane Revolutionary

The Secret History of the Jersey Devil

The Secret History of the Jersey Devil

Research Directions of Black Psychologists

Research Directions of Black Psychologists

Out of the Darkness

Out of the Darkness

Ever Against the Stream

Ever Against the Stream

Gold Mine in the Sky

Gold Mine in the Sky

Napoleon's navigation system

Napoleon's navigation system

The Wines of Germany

The Wines of Germany

German S-Boats in Action in the Second World War

German S-Boats in Action in the Second World War

Fifty State Construction Lien and Bond Law

Fifty State Construction Lien and Bond Law

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