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Thomas Jefferson's Paris

By: Howard C. Rice

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This handsomely illustrated picture book provides a remarkable glimpse of the Paris Jefferson knew—Paris on the eve of the French Revolution. The houses, gardens, bookshops, and landmarks of the time are brought to life through commentary and drawings, paintings, and maps. Originally published in 1976. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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1400870844

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The Healer's Power

By: Howard Brody

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The Healer's Power

By: Howard Brody

Although the physician's use and misuse of power have been discussed in the social sciences and in literature, they have never been explored in medical ethics until now. In this book, Dr. Howard Brody argues that the central task is not to reduce the physician's power, as others have suggested, but to develop guidelines for its use, so that the doctor shares with the patient both information and the responsibility for deciding on appropriate treatment." "Dr. Brody first reviews literary works dealing with medical power, from Dostoevsky's "The Grand Inquisitor" to stories by William Carlos Williams, Vonda McIntyre, and Richard Selzer. These works, he shows, reveal the healers' ambivalence over their own power and patients' fears of the abuse of power. Dr. Brody then points out important but neglected ethical issues that emerge from an analysis of power, such as the tension between care of individual patients and the pressures of the doctor's workload; the rescue fantasy that impels some physicians to extraordinary lengths to save a life; and the economic system, which rewards surgeons and other specialists more than it does physicians who spend time talking with patients about their problems. He also shows how the perspective of shared power can shed new light on standard topics in medical ethics--from informed consent and confidentiality to resource allocation and cost containment."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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Yale University Press

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0300051743

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9780300051742

On Luxury

A Cautionary Tale, A Short History of the Perils of Excess from Ancient Times to the Beginning of the Modern Era

By: William Howard Adams

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On Luxury

A Cautionary Tale, A Short History of the Perils of Excess from Ancient Times to the Beginning of the Modern Era

By: William Howard Adams

Diamond-encrusted, alligator-skin handbags. Eighteen-course feasts. Yachts the length of city blocks. In the twenty-first century, many point to such conspicuous consumption as reflecting the moral failings of a rampant capitalism that sacrifices community values on an altar of greed. Television shows such as Keeping Up with the Kardashians illustrate the folly of wealth without responsibility even as they elevate their subjects on pedestals of desire. Our discomfort with extravagance is not new. The ancient Greeks and Romans fretted over the ideal relationship between morality and luxury. Politics, religion, and economics influenced the debate, with the concept of luxury as a moral question becoming a core issue in Christian theology and even a cornerstone of the founding of America. People have long feared luxury's evil influence. Society has publicly and privately extolled the virtues of moderation and restraint, and condemned luxury as a breeding ground for vice and sin. After capitalism and the consumer revolution removed its stigma, the concept of luxury underwent a radical transformation, from a vice to be feared to a marketing tool of the new capitalist era. In this lively and thought-provoking narrative, William Howard Adams shows how this simultaneous distrust and embrace of luxury has pervaded Western thought for three millennia, leading us to the question, what price the soul?

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Potomac Books, Inc.

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1612344178

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9781612344171

Practice Reports in the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals of the State of New-York

Vol. XXI

By: Nathan Howard

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Practice Reports in the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals of the State of New-York

Vol. XXI

By: Nathan Howard

Reprint of the original, first published in 1861.

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3375066244

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9783375066246

The Painter's Chair

George Washington and the Making of American Art

By: Hugh Howard

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The Painter's Chair

George Washington and the Making of American Art

By: Hugh Howard

I am so hackneyed to the touches of the painters pencil, that I am now altogether at their beck ... no dray moves more readily to the Thill, than I do to the Painters Chair." - George Washington, 16, 1785 When George Washington was born, the New World had virtually no artists. Over the course of his life, a cultural transformation would occur. Virtually everyone regarded Washington as America's indispensable man, and the early painters and sculptors were no exception. Hugh Howard surveys the founding fathers of American painting through their portraits of Washington. Charles Willson Peale was the comrade-in-arms, John Trumbull the aristocrat, Benjamin West the mentor, and Gilbert Stuart the brilliant wastrel. Their images of Washington fed an immense popular appetite that has never faded, Stuart's image endures today on the $1 bill. The Painter's Chair is an eloquent narrative of how America's first painters toiled to create an art worthy of the new republic, and the hero whom they turned into an icon.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1608191915

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9781608191918

Dr. Kimball and Mr. Jefferson

Rediscovering the Founding Fathers of American Architecture

By: Hugh Howard

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Dr. Kimball and Mr. Jefferson

Rediscovering the Founding Fathers of American Architecture

By: Hugh Howard

Yes, they make rather an odd couple-but, truly, Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) and Fiske Kimball (1888-1955) are the Johnson and Boswell of the story of American architecture. If not for Dr. Fiske Kimball, we might never have known that Thomas Jefferson was an architect. Though he was hailed as a brilliant statesman, Jefferson was all but unknown as an artist and an architect for nearly a century. But Kimball, an industrious scholar with a keen eye, made a series of critical discoveries that changed not just the image of Jefferson, but also rewrote the story of American architecture, introducing its first real practitioner. Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Charles Bulfinch, William Thornton, Robert Mills-Kimball identified the key figures who together with Jefferson transformed the craft of building into the art of architecture, at the same time setting the aesthetic tone for a young country still struggling to define itself. Part detective story, part narrative history, Dr. Kimball and Mr. Jefferson recreates the stories of these visionary men through the lens of the amazing Fiske Kimball, who, in resurrecting their legacy, helped found the twin disciplines of historic preservation and architectural history. Hugh Howard's books include the definitive Thomas Jefferson, Architect; his memoir House-Dreams; the essay collection The Preservationist's Progress; and an introduction to the architecture of Williamsburg, Colonial Houses. He lives in upstate New York with his wife and their two teenage daughters.

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1608196607

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9781608196609

War for Independence

A Military History

By: Howard H. Peckham

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War for Independence

A Military History

By: Howard H. Peckham

The American victory in the Revolutionary War came as a surprise to people all over the world. Believing that successful wars were fought by professionals and aristocrats, they could not understand how ragged and hungry troops of ill-assorted civilians were able to defeat one of the world's strongest professional armies. This book is an effort to explain how and why that upset was accomplished. Alternating with scene and summary, the narrative has pace and proportion. Battles fall into campaigns, and campaigns interpret strategy. Commanders are deftly characterized, and flashes of insight illuminate victories and defeats. There emerges a picture of American soldiers as tougher and more deeply motivated fighters than the uncommitted British and German professionals. The book also demonstrates how highly prized were the rights that the revolutionists sought to confirm or establish, and serves as a reminder today that some ideas are worth risking life for. "What is most amazing about this excellent history is Prof. Peckham's ability to retell these . . . legendary events . . . in a way which enriches and absorbs the reader."—Robert Kirsch, Los Angeles Times

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University of Chicago Press

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022622581X

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9780226225814

Byzantium

Economy, Society, Institutions 600-1100

By: James Howard-Johnston

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Byzantium

Economy, Society, Institutions 600-1100

By: James Howard-Johnston

Byzantium was a strange entity--a relic of classical antiquity which survived deep into the Middle Ages. Drawing on a lifetime's work in the field of Byzantine studies, James Howard-Johnston aims to explain Byzantium's longevity, first as a state geared to fighting a two-centuries long guerrilla war of defence, then as an increasingly confident regional power. It is only by analysing its economic, social, and institutional structures that this strange medieval afterlife of the rump of the Roman empire can be understood. This collection of linked essays outlines the fundamental features of Byzantium, with a focus on the seventh to eleventh centuries. The essays delve below the agitated surface of political, religious, and intellectual history to home in on (1) alterations in economic conditions; and (2) structural change in the social order and apparatus of government. The economic foundations of society and state are examined over the long term, with emphasis placed on mercantile enterprise throughout. Howard-Johnston identifies warfare as the prime driver of social and institutional change in a first phase (seventh to eighth centuries), when the peasant villager rose to a dominant position in the collective mindset and the administration was centralised and militarised as never before. A second phase of change is then highlighted, after the mid-ninth century when Byzantium's security was assured. Military and administrative arrangements were adapted as the empire expanded. The service aristocracy which had developed in the dark centuries began to assert itself to the detriment of the peasantry, but was, Howard-Johnston argues, countered reasonably effectively by new legislation. There was a renaissance in cultural life, most marked in the intellectual sphere in the eleventh century. Finally, the sharp decline in Byzantium's military fortunes from the mid-eleventh century is attributed to external factors rather than internal weakness.

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Oxford University Press

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0198897936

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9780198897934

The Management of Infancy and Childhood

By: Howard Barrett

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The Management of Infancy and Childhood

By: Howard Barrett

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

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3385210801

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9783385210806

It Ain't Over 'til the Fat Lady Sings

The 100 Greatest Sports Finishes of All Time

By: Howard G. Peretz,Phil Berger

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It Ain't Over 'til the Fat Lady Sings

The 100 Greatest Sports Finishes of All Time

By: Howard G. Peretz,Phil Berger

The 100 greatest sports finishes of all time in a large volume filled with great photographs including the Miracle on Ice, Rumble in the Jungle, Mary Lou Retton, etc."--Amazon.com

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0760717079

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Houses of the Founding Fathers

The Men Who Made America and the Way They Lived

By: Hugh Howard

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Houses of the Founding Fathers

The Men Who Made America and the Way They Lived

By: Hugh Howard

Presents a tour of the houses belonging to some of America's early leaders, sharing an inside look at the domestic world of the Founding Fathers to chronicle their private lives, families, culture, interests, and aspirations.

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1579655106

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The First Great Awakening

Redefining Religion in British America, 1725–1775

By: John Howard Smith

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The First Great Awakening

Redefining Religion in British America, 1725–1775

By: John Howard Smith

The First Great Awakening, an unprecedented surge in Protestant Christian revivalism in the Eighteenth Century, sparked enormous of controversy at the time and has been a source of scholarly debate ever since. Few historians have sought to write a synthetic history of the First Great Awakening, and in recent decades it has been challenged as having happened at all, being either an exaggeration or an “invention.” The First Great Awakening expands the movement’s geographical, theological, and sociopolitical scope. Rather than focus exclusively on the clerical elites, as earlier studies have done, it deals with them alongside ordinary people, and includes the experiences of women, African Americans, and Indians as the observers and participants they were. It challenges prevailing scholarly opinion concerning what the revivals were and what they meant to the formation of American religious identity and culture. Cover image: NPG 131, George Whitefield by John Wollaston, oil on canvas, circa 1742. © National Portrait Gallery, London

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1611477158

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9781611477153

The Paris Years of Thomas Jefferson

By: William Howard Adams

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The Paris Years of Thomas Jefferson

By: William Howard Adams

An illustrated study brings to life the atmosphere and personalities of pre-revolutionary Paris, traces their influence on the American envoy, and recounts his participation in the life of the city and its intrigues at court. UP.

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Book's by Howard C. Rice

Thomas Jefferson's Paris

Thomas Jefferson's Paris

The Healer's Power

The Healer's Power

On Luxury

On Luxury

Practice Reports in the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals of the State of New-York

Practice Reports in the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals of the State of New-York

The Painter's Chair

The Painter's Chair

Dr. Kimball and Mr. Jefferson

Dr. Kimball and Mr. Jefferson

War for Independence

War for Independence

Byzantium

Byzantium

The Management of Infancy and Childhood

The Management of Infancy and Childhood

It Ain't Over 'til the Fat Lady Sings

It Ain't Over 'til the Fat Lady Sings

Houses of the Founding Fathers

Houses of the Founding Fathers

The First Great Awakening

The First Great Awakening

The Paris Years of Thomas Jefferson

The Paris Years of Thomas Jefferson

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