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By: Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

ISBN: 9780691129099
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2009
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Hugo von Hofmannsthal is one of the modern era's important writers, but his fame as Richard Strauss' collaborator on such operas as "Der Rosenkavalier" and "Die Frau ohne Schatten" has obscured his other remarkable writings. This title is an introduction to the enormous range of this artist. It is a collection of his writings in English.


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By: Leo A. Loubre

ISBN: 9780691630687
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Leo A. Loubre

ISBN: 9780691600871
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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During the past eight decades French vineyards, wineries, and wine marketing efforts have undergone such profound changes--from technological, scientific, economic, and commercial standpoints--that the transformation is revolutionary for an industry dating back thousands of years. Here Leo Loubre examines how the modernization of Western society ha


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By: Gregg Herken

ISBN: 9780691607344
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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This book makes clear how, and why, after World War II American diplomats tried to make the atom bomb a winning weapon," an absolute advantage in negotiations with the Soviet Union. But this policy failed utterly in the 1948 Berlin crisis, and at home the State Department opposed those scientists who advocated international cooperation on nuclear m


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By: Gregg Herken

ISBN: 9780691635934
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Joseph Lewis Henderson

ISBN: 9780691020648
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 1990
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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The Myths of Death, Rebirth, and Resurrection: The tribal initiation of the shaman, the archetype of the serpent, exemplifies the death of the self and rebirth into transcendent, 'unknowable' life.


(Hardback)

By: Kecia Ali

ISBN: 9780691183596
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2025
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Hardback)

By: Professor Susannah Heschel

ISBN: 9780691215433
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2025
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Professor Susannah Heschel

ISBN: 9780691215440
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2025
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Richard Stites

ISBN: 9780691100586
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 1978
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Giuseppe Mazzotta

ISBN: 9780691638928
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Giuseppe Mazzotta

ISBN: 9780691610870
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Giuseppe Mazzotta provides both a powerful framework for reading the Decameron and an important contribution to medieval and contemporary debates in esthetics Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist o


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By: Elias Muhanna

ISBN: 9780691175560
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2018
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Based on the author's dissertation (doctoral)-- Harvard University, 2012.


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By: Elias Muhanna

ISBN: 9780691191454
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2019
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Based on the author's dissertation (doctoral)-- Harvard University, 2012.


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By: Danielle S. Allen

ISBN: 9780691094892
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2003
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Shows that punishment gave the community an opportunity to establish a shining myth of harmony and cleanliness: that the city of Athens could be purified of anger and social struggle, and perfect order achieved. This book shows that anger, honor, reciprocity, spectacle, and social memory constantly prevailed in Athenian law and politics.


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By: Mechal Sobel

ISBN: 9780691006086
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 1990
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Describes how blacks, Africans, and Afro-Americans, deeply influenced white's perceptions, values, and identity, and that although two world views existed, there was a deep symbiotic relatedness that must be explored if we are to understand either or both of them.


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By: Robert Ignatius Burns

ISBN: 9780691611327
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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The thirteenth-century monarch Alfonso the Learned of Castile and his contemporary rival James the Conqueror, of Aragon-Catalonia, are key figures who made enduring contributions to Western civilization--although neither is well known to American students. This book explores the contrasts and convergences not only of the kings but of the scholarly-


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By: Robert Ignatius Burns

ISBN: 9780691639338
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Stephen Mulhall

ISBN: 9780691137377
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2009
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Examines JM Coetzee's writings about Elizabeth Costello, and the ways in which philosophers have responded to them. This book considers the relations among reason, language, and the imagination, as well as more specific ethical issues concerning the moral status of animals, the meaning of mortality, the nature of evil, and the demands of religion.


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By: Francis-Nol Thomas

ISBN: 9780691609195
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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In an age of authorless, contextless, deconstructed texts, Francis-Noel Thomas argues that it is time to re-examine a fundamental but neglected concept of literature: writing is an action whose agent is an individual. Addressing both general readers and scholars, Thomas offers two cases, Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan and Marcel Proust's A la recherche


(Hardback)

By: Francis-Nol Thomas

ISBN: 9780691637518
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Henry David Thoreau

ISBN: 9780691063768
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Aug 1980
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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In the late summer of 1839 Thoreau and his elder brother John made a two-week boat-and-hiking trip from Concord, Massachusetts, to the White Mountains of New Hampshire. After John's sudden death in 1842, Henry began to prepare a memorial account of their excursion.


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By: David Gordon White

ISBN: 9780691197074
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2019
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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White retraces the strange and circuitous journey of Patanjali's Yoga Sutra from its ancient origins to today, bringing to life the improbable cast of characters whose interpretations and misappropriations led to its revered place in contemporary popular culture.


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By: Clifford A. Pickover

ISBN: 9780691115979
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2004
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Humanity's love affair with mathematics and mysticism reached a critical juncture, legend has it, on the back of a turtle in ancient China. This book explains why Chinese emperors, Babylonian astrologer-priests, prehistoric cave people in France, and ancient Mayans of the Yucatan were convinced that magic squares held the secret of the universe.

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