Bringing together a series of ingeniously linked myths and legends, Ovid's deliciously witty and poignant Metamorphoses describes a magical world in which men and women are transformed - often by love - into flowers, trees, animals, stones and stars. First published in 1567, this landmark translation by Arthur Golding was the first major English edition of the epic, which includes such tales as the legend of Narcissus; the parable of Icarus; and the passion held by the witch-queen Circe for the great Aeneas. A compelling adaptation that used imagery familiar to English sixteenth-century society, it powerfully influenced Spenser, Shakespeare and the character of Elizabethan literature.

Metamorphoses

Literature & Fiction

Rolfe (translation) Ovid; Humphries

Poetry

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Chronicles the experiences of the crewmen of the torpedoed World War II cruiser as they struggled to survive in the Pacific Ocean for four days

Abandon Ship!: Death of the U.S.S. Indianapolis

History

NEWCOMB, Richard F.

Military

A survey of the art forms and styles that have evolved in modern Africa

African Art; the Years Since 1920

Arts & Photography

Mount, Marshall Ward

History & Criticism

After The Great Divide: Modernism, Mass Culture, Postmodernism (Theories of Representation and Difference)

Today's challenge to the divide between mass culture and modernism goes by the name of the postmodern. Huyssen argues that postmodernism itself cannot be regarded as a radical break with the past, as its artistic and political strategies are indebted to that other trend within the culture of modernity - the historical avant garde.

After the Great Divide: Modernism, Mass Culture, Postmodernism (Theories of Representation and Difference)

Huyssen, Andreas

The Angel and the Serpent is a book which combines scholarship and literary grace, and which recreates for us both the world of the Rappites and the Owenites." ―Henry Steele Commager, The New York Times Book ReviewHere is the story of George Rapp's German Harmonists and Robert Owen's Idealists―the two vastly different communities that shaped the history of New Harmony, Indiana Both the Rappites and the Owenites came to New Harmony to conduct communal living experiments―Rapp expecting the millennium; Owen believing he had brought the millennium with him.

The Angel and the Serpent: The Story of New Harmony

Wilson, William E.

Americas

Reviews the development, uses, and environmental and economic effects of the conventional piston engine, and surveys current research into and development of possible alternatives, assessing the probable marketability of each

Auto Engines of Tomorrow: Power Alternatives for Cars to Come

Science & Math

Dark, Harris Edward

Technology

The Best of James Whitcomb Riley

The best-loved poems by the "Hoosier Poet" are here collected to read and cherish time and time again. Included are some of Riley's most durable and endearing works -- poems about nature, home, and country as well as the dialect poems for which Riley is famous.

Separate essays view Audubon as an ornithologist, a woodsman, a writer, a storyteller, a person more fascinating than any of his achievements, and an artistic entrepreneur who made his dream come true

The Bicentennial of John James Audubon

Lindsey, Alton A.

Big Business in the Third Reich

Schweitzer, Arthur

Business & Money

Discusses old crafts and folk skills, from covered bridge building to quiltmaking, as well as the legends and lore of Indiana.

Indiana Folklore: A Reader

Politics & Social Sciences

Dégh, Linda

Social Sciences

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