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Published by Brand: Liveright, 1996
ISBN 10: 0871401622ISBN 13: 9780871401625
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Reissue. "My purpose is to suggest a cure for the ordinary day-to-day unhappiness from which most people in civilized countries suffer, and which is all the more unbearable because, having no obvious external cause, appears inescapable." Russell held progressive, often controversial views on social issues, including sexuality. Vigorously opposed to conventional or religious morality, he sets forth here a rationalist approach to achieving a happy life.
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Published by Brand: Liveright, 2014
ISBN 10: 0871403269ISBN 13: 9780871403261
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. A landmark biography that reveals the secret past of one of the most influential academics of the twentieth century. Over thirty years after his death in 1983, Paul de Man, a hugely charismatic intellectual who created with deconstruction an ideology so pervasive that it threatened to topple the very foundations of literature, remains a haunting and still largely unexamined figure. Deeply influential, de Man and his theory-driven philosophy were so dominant that his passing received front-page coverage, suggesting that a cult hero, if not intellectual rock star, had met an untimely end.Yet in 1988, de Man's reputation was ruined when it was discovered that he had written an anti-Semitic article and worked for a collaborating Belgium newspaper during World War II. Who was he, really, and who had he been? No one knew. Still in shock, few of his followers wanted to find out. Once an admirer, although never a theorist, the biographer Evelyn Barish began her own investigation. Relying on years of original archival work and interviews with over two hundred of de Man's circle of friends and family, most of them now dead, Barish vividly re-creates this collaborationist world of occupied Belgian and France.Born in 1919 to a rich but tragically unstable family, Paul de Man, a golden boy, was influenced by his uncle Henri de Man, a socialist turned Nazi collaborator who became the de facto Belgian prime minister. By the early 1940s, Paul, while seemingly only a reviewer for Nazi newspapers, was secretly rising in far more important jobs in Belgium's and Frances collaborationist regimes.Postwar, barred from the university, de Man created a publishing house, but stole all its assets; then, facing jail, he fled to New York, abandoning his family (his opportunistic, anti-Semitic writing seemed the least of his crimes). Arriving penniless, he quickly rose again, befriending an entire generation of American writers in New York, including Dwight Macdonald, Elizabeth Hardwick, and Mary McCarthy. Barish sketches de Man's renowned careers at Bard and Yale, as well as the circumstances surrounding his loving-but bigamous-second marriage to former Bard student Patricia Kelley, who created the tranquillity he so lacked.Juxtaposing this personal story to his meteoric rise through American academia, Barish traces the origins of the philosophical deconstructionism that he later created with Jacques Derrida, showing how de Man attracted followers with his attack on the hypocrisy of society that attempts to cover up the "essential alienation" of art from "the system." While focusing on the biographical facts, this commanding and psychologically probing biography reveals as much about human behavior and the cross-currents of twentieth-century intellectual thought as it does about the man who held an entire generation in his thrall. 8 pages of photographs.
Published by Brand: Liveright, 2013
ISBN 10: 0871404508ISBN 13: 9780871404503
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2013Fear Itself deeply reconceptualizes the New Deal and raises countless provocative questions.-David Kennedy, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Freedom from Fear Redefining our traditional understanding of the New Deal, Fear Itself finally examines this pivotal American era through a sweeping international lens that juxtaposes a struggling democracy with enticing ideologies like Fascism and Communism. Ira Katznelson, a towering figure in the study of American and European history (Cornel West), boldly asserts that, during the 1930s and 1940s, American democracy was rescued yet distorted by a unified band of southern lawmakers who safeguarded racial segregation as they built a new national state to manage capitalism and assert global power. This original study brings to vivid life the politicians and pundits of the time, including Walter Lippmann, who argued that America needed a dose of dictatorship; Mississippis five-foot-two Senator Theodore Bilbo, who advocated the legal separation of races; and Robert Oppenheimer, who built the atomic bomb yet was tragically undone by the nations hysteria. Fear Itself is a necessary work, vital to understanding our world-a world the New Deal first made. 24 illustrations.
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Published by Brand: Liveright, 1984
ISBN 10: 0871406438ISBN 13: 9780871406439
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Provides complete directions for producing a variety of floral designs in needlepoint and discusses the basics of needlepoint.
Published by Brand: Liveright, 1970
ISBN 10: 0871402149ISBN 13: 9780871402141
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. M. Kuwata (illustrator). This collection features a brilliant new translation of the Japanese master's stories, from the source for the movie <i>Rashomon</i> to his later, more autobiographical writings.
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Published by Brand: Liveright Publishing Corporation,U.S., 1971
ISBN 10: 0871400480ISBN 13: 9780871400482
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Book by Ida Riley Duncan.
Published by Brand: Liveright, 1970
ISBN 10: 0871400405ISBN 13: 9780871400406
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. 0. Book by Hart Crane.
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Published by Brand: Liveright, 1994
ISBN 10: 0871401525ISBN 13: 9780871401526
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Revised, Corrected, and Expanded. This centennial edition of E. E. Cumming's Complete Poems, published in celebration of his birth on October 14, 1894, contains all of the poems published or designated for publication by the poet in his lifetime.At the time of his death in 1962, E. E. Cummings was, next to Robert Frost, the most widely read poet in America. Combining Thoreau's controlled belligerence with the brash abandon of an uninhibited bohemian, Cummings, together with Pound, Eliot, and William Carlos Williams, helped bring about the twentieth-century revolution in literary expression. He is recognized on the one hand as the author of some of the most beautiful lyric poems written in the English language, and on the other as one of the most inventive American poets of his time-in the worlds of Richard Kostelanetz, "the major American poet of the middle-twentieth-century."
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Published by Brand: Liveright, 1998
ISBN 10: 0871401711ISBN 13: 9780871401717
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 4th. Beginning with the origins of human life and progressing to include all of history, a new version of Van Loon's Newbery Medal-winning classic has been updated to include the last three decades of the twentieth century--from the Vietnam War to the astounding advances made in science and medicine.
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Published by Brand: Liveright, 1986
ISBN 10: 0871401150ISBN 13: 9780871401151
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Replaces lines and entire poems omitted from the original 1927 edition, and offers an examination of Jeffers' doctrine of Inhumanism, the negative reception of the original edition, and the full import of the title poem.
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Published by Brand: Liveright, 1978
ISBN 10: 0871406314ISBN 13: 9780871406316
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Presents Cumming's sixth book of poems as it appeared in 1935, no thanks to the fourteen well-known publishers who rejected his manuscript.
Published by Brand: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1995
ISBN 10: 0871406519ISBN 13: 9780871406514
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Robert Hayden (1913-1980) was an important 20th-century African-American poet, whose work included "American Journal" (nominated for a National Book Award). An introduction to this collection provides a biographical portrait of Hayden and a critical context in which to explore his poetry.
Published by Brand: Liveright, 1993
ISBN 10: 0871401517ISBN 13: 9780871401519
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Condition: new.
Published by Brand: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1973
ISBN 10: 0871405695ISBN 13: 9780871405692
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Condition: new. B/w Illustrations (illustrator).
Published by Brand: Liveright, 1975
ISBN 10: 0871405962ISBN 13: 9780871405968
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. The classic Italian cookbook includes traditional and gourmet recipes for soups, pasta, meats, poultry, fish, vegetables, desserts, preserves, and liqueurs.
Published by Brand: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1980
ISBN 10: 0871406381ISBN 13: 9780871406385
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Condition: new.
Published by Brand: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1975
ISBN 10: 087140592XISBN 13: 9780871405920
Seller: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, U.S.A.
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Condition: very good. Gently used book with ongoing seller support until you're fully satisfied with your purchase.
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Published by Brand: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1977
ISBN 10: 087140625XISBN 13: 9780871406255
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Condition: new.
Published by Brand: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1975
ISBN 10: 0871406047ISBN 13: 9780871406040
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Condition: new.
Published by Brand: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1985
ISBN 10: 0871406497ISBN 13: 9780871406491
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Condition: new.