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REASON WOUNDED
$ 0.23The best ‘Indian’ book of the year” Morning Echo Magazine.
“One of the Ten Best Books Of The Year – Illustrated Weekly of India.
“What is remarkable about REASON WOUNDED is the glimpse it gives of the plight of those on the wrong side of the ruling establishment and the light it sheds on the feudal attitudes of leading members of the elite…. – “Indian Express”
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LINDA GOODMAN’S LOVE SIGNS
$ 2.08A guide to love and compatability based on sun signs, Linda Goodman’s Love Signs explores in depth all the possible combinations of the 12 sun signs. It covers how compatible you are with lovers, friends or colleagues.
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THE BIRTH OF THE CLINIC
$ 8.47In the eighteenth century, medicine underwent a mutation. For the first time, medical knowledge took on a precision that had formerly belonged only to mathematics. The body became something that could be mapped. Disease became subject to new rules of classification. And doctors begin to describe phenomena that for centuries had remained below the threshold of the visible and expressible.
In The Birth of the Clinic the philosopher and intellectual historian who may be the true heir to Nietzsche charts this dramatic transformation of medical knowledge. As in his classic Madness and Civilization, Michel Foucault shows how much what we think of as pure science owes to social and cultural attitude–in this case, to the climate of the French Revolution. Brilliant, provocative, and omnivorously learned, his book sheds new light on the origins of our current notions of health and sickness, life and death.
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HEAVEN’S COMMAND
$ 3.04The opening volume of Morris’s “Pax Britannica Trilogy,” this richly detailed work traces the rise of the British Empire, from the accession of Queen Victoria to the throne in 1837 to the celebration of her Diamond Jubilee in 1897.
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OTHERWISE KNOWN AS SHEILA THE GREAT
$ 4.48Celebrate 45 years of Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great!
Part of the classic Fudge series from Judy Blume, bestselling author of Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing.
Who is Sheila Tubman? Even Sheila isn’t sure. Sometimesshe feels like confident Sheila the Great, and other timesshe’s secret Sheila, who’s afraid of spiders, swimming, and, most of all, dogs. When her family decides to leavethe city for a summer in the country, Sheila will haveto suffer everything from long-eared dogs to swimminglessons to creepy spiders. That’s enough to drive a city girlnuts! If she survives at all, Sheila may be forced to admitthat she’s no supergirl.
“As a kid, Judy Blume was my favorite author, and Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing was my favorite book.”–Jeff Kinney, author of the bestselling Wimpy Kid series
Love Fudge, Peter, and Sheila? Read all these books featuring your favorite characters:
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
Superfudge
Fudge-a-Mania
Double Fudge
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ISLAM OBSERVED
$ 15.13“In four brief chapters,” writes Clifford Geertz in his preface, “I have attempted both to lay out a general framework for the comparative analysis of religion and to apply it to a study of the development of a supposedly single creed, Islam, in two quite contrasting civilizations, the Indonesian and the Moroccan.”
Mr. Geertz begins his argument by outlining the problem conceptually and providing an overview of the two countries. He then traces the evolution of their classical religious styles which, with disparate settings and unique histories, produced strikingly different spiritual climates. So in Morocco, the Islamic conception of life came to mean activism, moralism, and intense individuality, while in Indonesia the same concept emphasized aestheticism, inwardness, and the radical dissolution of personality. In order to assess the significance of these interesting developments, Mr. Geertz sets forth a series of theoretical observations concerning the social role of religion.
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TWENTY DECISIVE BATTLES OF THE WORLD
$ 6.93The shape of history, as historians themselves admit, has often been decided, not by ‘movements’ or economics or assemblies, but by the individual actions of man on the battlefield. Throughout the ages, the course of events and the very fiber of men’s minds have been the products of the clash of arms.For more than a century, Sir Edward Creasy’s classic study of Fifteen Decisive Battles has been the popular authority on the historical decisiveness of military action – from the thrill of Greek democracy’s victory on the plain of Marathon 2,500 years ago to the stand of the stubborn red-coated British at Waterloo that consigned the Napoleonic dream to exile and death.Now, in this authoritative and lavish refurbishing of Sir Edward’s masterpiece. Lieutenant Colonel Joseph B. Mitchell has completed the march of military events to the present day with the inclusion of five decision-compelling battles of the last one hundred years. For this work, Colonel Mitchell has corroborated and, where necessary, corrected the facts and descriptions of Sir Edward’s original text, as well as modernized his language. To complete this task and to make the volume truly useful as a work of permanent reference, the descriptions of each battle are accompanied by detailed, newly drawn, two-color maps and diagrams designed to make the tactics and strategy of the struggles readily comprehensible. The resulting Twenty Decisive Battles of the World stands as a monument of modern historical writing, indispensable to the shelves of experts as well as general readers.
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