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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave
Written by Himself
The powerful story of slavery that has become a classic of American autobiography, in an authoritative edition“This edition is the most valuable teaching tool on slavery and abolition available...
The Unknown Lenin
From the Secret Archive
Was Lenin a visionary whose ideals were subverted by his followers? Or was he a cynical misanthrope, even crueler than Stalin? This book, which contains newly released documents from the Lenin archive in Russia, lays bare...
Libraries in the Ancient World
This delightful book tells the story of ancient libraries from their very beginnings, when “books” were clay tablets and writing was a new phenomenon. Renowned classicist Lionel Casson takes us on a lively tour, from the...
French in Action
A Beginning Course in Language and Culture: Study Guide, Part 1
Second Edition
The study guide, which is in English, integrates the video, audio, and print materials and includes a summary quiz for each lesson. Part 1 of the study guide contains exercises for lessons 1-26. This study guide is to be used...
The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Vol. 12
Volume 12: Ecclesiastical Writings
This volume includes four documents by Jonathan Edwards on the nature of the church, documents that reveal his views on ecclesiology, congregational autonomy, ordination, and admission to church membership and to the...
The Tale of Kieu
A Bilingual Edition of Nguyen Du's Truyen Kieu
Since its publication in the early nineteenth century, this long narrative poem has stood unchallenged as the supreme masterpiece of Vietnamese literature. Thông’s new and absorbingly readable translation (on pages facing the...
Learn to Read Greek
Workbook, Part 2
Learn to Read Greek is a text and workbook for students beginning the study of Ancient Greek. It is the companion volume to the authors’ Learn to Read Latin, published in 2004. Like its Latin...
Bob Dylan
Like a Complete Unknown
Bob Dylan is an iconic figure in American musical and cultural history, lauded by Time magazine as one of the hundred most important people of the twentieth century. For nearly fifty years the singer-songwriter has...
Robert Irwin
A Conditional Art
A comprehensive study of one of the most significant and prolific American postwar artists. Frequently associated with California Light and Space Art, Robert Irwin (b. 1928) began as an abstract painter in...
Collecting Food, Cultivating People
Subsistence and Society in Central Africa
A rich analysis of the complex dynamic between food collection and food production in the farming societies of precolonial south central Africa Engaging new linguistic evidence and reinterpreting published...