Devil Take The Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation

Edward Chancellor

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Papermac

The Dictionary of Diseased English (Papermac)

Reference

Hudson, Kenneth

Dictionaries & Thesauruses

This text provides the basic elements necessary for a grasp of the range and complexity of Marx's ideas. The first half of the book is a chronological account of Marx's ideas with a miniumum of biographical and historical detail. The second half is thematic and provides a concise summary of Marx's position, and extracts from his key texts on alienation, historical materialism, labour, class, the party, the state, revolution and future Communist society. David McLellan is the author of "The Young Hegelians and Karl Marx", "Karl Marx: The Early Texts", and "Marx Before Marxism".

The Thought of Karl Marx

Politics & Social Sciences

David McLellan

Politics & Government

Le Mot Juste: Dictionary of Foreign and Classical Words and Phrases (Papermacs)

John Buchanan-Brown~et al

Foreign Language Study & Reference

"The diplomatic origins, so-called, of the War are only the fever chart of the patient; they do not tell us what caused the fever. To probe for underlying causes and deeper forces one must operate within the framework of a whole society and try to discover what moved the people in it."--Barbara W. TuchmanThe fateful quarter-century leading up to the World War I was a time when the world of Privilege still existed in Olympian luxury and the world of Protest was heaving in its pain, its power, and its hate. The age was the climax of a century of the most accelerated rate of change in history, a cataclysmic shaping of destiny.In The Proud Tower, Barbara Tuchman concentrates on society rather than the state. With an artist's selectivity, Tuchman bings to vivid life the people, places, and events that shaped the years leading up to the Great War: the Edwardian aristocracy and the end of their reign; the Anarchists of Europe and America, who voiced the protest of the oppressed; Germany, as portrayed through the figure of the self-depicted Hero, Richard Strauss; the sudden gorgeous blaze of Diaghilev's Russian Ballet and Stravinsky's music; the Dreyfus Affair; the two Peace Conferences at the Hague; and, finally, the youth, ideals, enthusiasm, and tragedy of Socialism, epitomized in the moment when the heroic Jean Jaurès was shot to death on the night the War began and an epoch ended."Tuchman [was] a distinguished historian who [wrote] her books with a rare combination of impeccable scholarship and literary polish. . . . It would be impossible to read The Proud Tower without pleasure and admiration."--The New York Times"Tuchman proved in The Guns of August that she could write better military history than most men. In this sequel, she tells her story with cool wit and warm understanding, eschewing both the sweeping generalizations of a Toynbee and the minute-by-minute simplicisms of a Walter Lord."--Time

THE PROUD TOWER: A PORTRAIT OF THE WORLD BEFORE THE WAR, 1890-1914 (PAPERMACS)

History

BARBARA W. TUCHMAN

World

In this highly readable critical biography, Colin Wilson discusses Bernard Shaw's life and works.

Bernard Shaw: A Reassessment

COLIN WILSON

E. H. Carr's classic work on international relations, published in 1939, was immediately recognized by friend and foe alike as a defining work. The author was one of the most influential and controversial intellectuals of the 20th century. The issues and themes he developed continue to have relevance to modern day concerns with power and its distribution in the international system. Michael Cox's critical introduction provides the reader with background information about the author, the context for the book, and its main themes and contemporary relevance.

'THE TWENTY YEARS' CRISIS, 1919-39'

Edward Hallett Carr

The Making of Jazz - a Comprehensive History

Arts & Photography

James, Lincoln, Collier

Music

This is a great cookbook but it is the same text and pictures as Roger Verge's Cuisine of the South of France. If you do not have that copy this will make a great addition to your cooking arsenal!

Cuisine of the Sun

Roger Vergé

Great Operatic Disasters (Papermacs S.)

Hugh Vickers

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