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The Trial of the Cannibal Dog
The Remarkable Story of Captain Cook’s Encounters in the South Seas
A masterful retelling of three voyages that changed the world This vivid book retells the story of Captain Cook’s great voyages in the South Seas, focusing on the encounters between the explorers and the...
Governing Through Markets
Forest Certification and the Emergence of Non-State Authority
In recent years a startling policy innovation has emerged within global and domestic environmental governance: certification systems that promote socially responsible business practices by turning to the market, rather than the state,...
Voting with Dollars
A New Paradigm for Campaign Finance
In this provocative book, two leading law professors challenge the existing campaign reform agenda and present a new initiative that avoids the mistakes of the past.Bruce Ackerman and Ian Ayres build on the...
The Patient as Person
Explorations in Medical Ethics, Second Edition
As physicians are faced with new and wonderful options for saving lives, transplanting organs, and furthering research, they also must wrestle with new and troubling choices—who should receive scarce and vital treatment, how...
Eugene O`Neill
Beyond Mourning and Tragedy
Within little more than three years of the opening of his first successful play on Broadway, Eugene O'Neill endured the deaths of his father, mother, and brother. These devastating losses plunged the young playwright into a...
A Century of Recorded Music
Listening to Musical History
A century of recording has fundamentally changed our experience of music—the way we listen to it and the way it is performed. This highly engaging book is the first thorough exploration of the impact of recording...
Emerson's Antislavery Writings
This book presents the first comprehensive and authoritative collection of Emerson’s writings against slavery and the subjugation of American Indians—writings that reveal Emerson’s deep commitment to social reform. Included...
The Waning of the Renaissance, 1550-1640
Historians have conventionally viewed intellectual and artistic achievement as a seamless progression in a single direction, with the Renaissance, as identified by Jacob Burckhardt, as the root and foundation of modern...
Marginalia
Readers Writing in Books
From Pierre de Fermat to Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Graham Greene, readers have related to books through the notes they write in the margins. In this pioneering book—the first to examine the phenomenon of marginalia—H.J....
Grammars of Creation
“We have no more beginnings,” George Steiner begins in this, his most radical book to date. A far-reaching exploration of the idea of creation in Western thought, literature, religion, and history, this volume can fairly...