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Breaking Away
Coleridge in Scotland
When Samuel Taylor Coleridge set out on a tour of Scotland with his friends William and Dorothy Wordsworth in the summer of 1803, his wits were as sharp as ever but his health, professional career, marriage, and...
The Kings and Their Hawks
Falconry in Medieval England
In medieval Europe, falconry was perhaps the most popular form of hunting among the aristocracy. Owning a falcon, and the necessary falconer to go with it, was a status symbol throughout the middle ages. This book is the...
Cyberliteracy
Navigating the Internet with Awareness
The Internet has changed our social spaces, our political and social realities, our use of language, and the way we communicate, all with breathtaking speed. Almost everyone who deals with the Internet and the new world...
Cloak and Dollar
A History of American Secret Intelligence
Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, a leading expert on the history of American espionage, here offers a lively and sweeping history of American secret intelligence from the founding of the nation through the present day. Jeffreys-Jones...
Theoretical Inquiry
Language, Linguistics, and Literature
In the aftermath of debate about the death of literary theory, Austin E. Quigley asks whether theory has failed us or we have failed literary theory. Theory can thrive, he argues, only if we understand how it can be...
Moral Questions in the Classroom
How to Get Kids to Think Deeply About Real Life and Their Schoolwork
What constitutes a just war? How does race matter in America? Are the interests of corporations the same as those of the public when it comes to the environment or public health? Middle and high school history, literature,...
Picking Up the Pieces
Two Accounts of a Psychoanalytic Journey
"The doctor says, You have to keep cutting yourself. Go on cutting yourself; you have to remain in touch with your body, with yourself, in whatever way you can."—Grace Jackson When Grace Jackson began analytic...
The Great South Sea
English Voyages and Encounters, 1570-1750
From the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, English buccaneers, privateers, and naval expeditions sought fame and fortune in the distant reaches of the South Sea. Beginning with the voyage of Francis Drake in the 1570s...
Speaking of Beauty
A foremost critic of the English language here reflects on beauty and the language that it inspires in authors from Kant to Keats, Hawthorne to Housman. “An excellent and eloquent book.”—James Wood, New York Times...
At the End of an Age
At the End of an Age isa deeply informed and rewarding reflection on the nature of historical and scientific knowledge. Of extraordinary philosophical, religious, and historical scope, it is the product of...