The Lonely Polygamist

Literature & Fiction

Udall, Bradu

Literary

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UNCOMMON THERAPY : The Psychiatric Techniques Of Milton H. Erickson, M.D.

Biographies & Memoirs

Haley, Jay

Community & Culture

These essays, deceptively simple in phrasing, address current and historic issues. They speak to anyone who has been baffled by the old conflict between personal freedom and causal order. More widely, they examine the role of action in the projection of any general order, including the physical. They find history as the career and evolution of self-criticizing and self-correcting action. They reject all "theories" of history, whether as a chaos or an episode in an ahistoric totality. They propose a common source of science and the humanities, of laboratory and the Muses. Key words here are act and action. They contrast with passivity and with the convention that requires us to keep out of our own thought in order to avoid illusion and egotistical pretentiousness.

The Paradox of Cause and Other Essays

Miller, John W.

History & Criticism

Scientific knowledge, technique, and society are the topics treated by the distinguished philosopher

The Scientific Outlook

Politics & Social Sciences

RUSSELL, BERTRAND

Philosophy

A scholarly study of two major themes in English poetry -- the poet's instinctive mingling of the antique, the medieval, and the Italianate, and their steadily growing consciousness of disharmony between Christianity and pagan ideals. These arguments are developed through thoughtful analyses of the work of Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Milton and a host of minor figures.

Mythology & the Renaissance Tradition in English Poetry

Reference

Douglas, Bush

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

Mary Barton [hardcover] Gaskell, Mrs. [Jan 01, 1958] ...

Mary Barton

Mrs. Gaskell

An ominous sense of inevitability hovered over Canton in the last days of 1839; war between the Chinese and the British was expected, for both sides had long felt the tensions arising from increased contact between an ever-expanding commercial system and a stagnant culture. The Opium War of 1840-1842 inaugurated China's modern century of humiliation. This book places it in historical perspective and also details the day-to-day crises that led up to the hostilities.
The Canton trade for almost a century had been the sole regulated channel between China and the Western world; as such, it had become the focus of many conflicts. Mr. Chang examines the development of this trading system and the British trade in China--a trade so valuable to the British that it was worth a war. He shows us the motives and tactics behind events in the crucial days of 1839, through Chinese and English eye-witness accounts, newspaper reports, official correspondence, private papers, British and American company records, and many newly available documents. He throws light on factors contributing to the conflict, such as the controversy over extra-territoriality, Britain's struggle for diplomatic equality in China, life in the foreign community confined at Canton, and the surrender and destruction of some 20,000 chests of British opium.
Mr. Chang is especially interested in assessing the role of Imperial Commissioner Lin Tse-hsu, giving a clear, fresh look into the character, motives, and actions of this brilliant man who was sent by the emperor to stamp out the opium trade, and then callously made a scapegoat for all of China's woes with Britain.

Commissioner Lin and the Opium War (Norton Library (Paperback))

Hsin-pao Chang

Historical

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After Slavery: The Negro in South Carolina During Reconstruction, 1861-1877

History

Joel Williamson

Americas

On Lies Secrets and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978 (Paperback) by Adrienne Rich (Author)

On Lies Secrets and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978

Adrienne Rich

Poetry

Improving your memory

Cermak, Laird S.

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