Brad Watson - The Heaven Of Mercury

In Mercury, Mississippi, in the first decades of the 20th century, Finus Bates is in love with Birdie Wells, and in the story of how he wins her, loses her, and almost wins her again, the strange and ...

Maurice Alexander Natanson - Edmund Husserl: Philosopher of Infintie Tasks

Life Studies: An Analytic Reader

Patrick Tierney - Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon

Examines the destructive impact of journalists, anthropologists, and scientists on the Yamomami Indians, one of the Amazon basin's oldest tribes, whose internecine warfare was triggered by repeated ...

Elaine H. Pagels - The Gnostic Gospels: A New Account of the Origins of Christianity

Pagels, a noted authority of religion, examines what impact Gnosticism could have had on Christianity had it not been labelled heretical by the early church fathers. THE GNOSTIC GOSPELS offers up ...

Orlando Patterson - Freedom: Freedom in the Making of Western Culture

Patterson links the birth of freedom in primitive societies with the institution of slavery and traces the evolution of three forms of freedom: personal, civic, and sovereign or organic (exercising ...

Robert Manson Myers - The Children of Pride: A True Story of Georgia and the Civil War

The remarkable Civil War letters of a Georgia plantation family, now available in a compact, illustrated volume for new readers and for all those who so greatly admired the original monumental ...

Wallace Stevens - The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

A celebrated collection of " the best and most representative American poet of our time " (Harold Bloom, Yale University)

William H. McNeill - The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community With a Retrospective Essay

This expansive survey of world history--completed in 1962--challenges the Oswald Spengler-Arnold Toynbee view of history as a series of separate cultures that evolved separately. McNeill proposes that ...

Ellen Gilchrist - Victory over Japan

Winner of the 1984 American Book Award, Gilchrist's second collection of stories is set, like virtually all her novels, in a deeply eccentric pocket of the American south.