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The Greek philosopher Diogenes said that when he died his body should be tossed over the city walls for beasts to scavenge. Why should he or anyone else care what became of his corpse In The Work of the Dead, acclaimed cultural historian Thomas Laqueur examines why humanity has universally rejected Diogenes's argument. No culture has been indiffer

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Illustrates the most endangered birds in the world and provides the advanced information on the threats each species faces and the measures being taken to save them. This title features introductory chapters that explain the threats to birds, the ways threat categories are applied, and the distinction between threat and rarity.

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Two hundred sixty million years ago, life on Earth suffered wave after wave of cataclysmic extinctions, with the worst wiping out nearly every species on the planet. The Worst of Times delves into the mystery behind these extinctions and sheds light on the fateful role the primeval supercontinent, known as Pangea, might have played in causing these

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Covers the early years of Thoreau's intellectual and artistic growth. This title reflects his reading, travels, and contacts with Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and other Transcendentalists.

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Includes Thoreau's reminiscences of his 1839 excursion with his brother John along the Concord and Merrimack rivers and all his impressions and observations entered in journals during the famous Walden sojourn.

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From 1837 to 1861, Thoreau kept a Journal that began as a conventional record of ideas, grew into a writer's notebook, and became the principal imaginative work of his career. This volume spans a period of rapid change in Thoreau's life and literary career, including the publication of his first book and a crisis in his friendship with Emerson.

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From 1837 to 1861 Thoreau kept a Journal that began as a conventional record of ideas, grew into a writer's notebook, and eventually became the principal imaginative work of his career. This volume presents nearly eight hundred manuscript pages of this Journal.

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From 1837 to 1861 Thoreau kept a journal that began as a conventional record of ideas, grew into a writer's notebook, and eventually became the principal imaginative work of his career. This book finds Thoreau intensely concentrating on detailed observations of natural phenomena and on 'the mysterious relation between myself and these things.

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From 1837 to 1861, Thoreau kept a Journal that began as a conventional record of ideas, grew into a writer's notebook, and eventually became the principal imaginative work of his career. This work comprises a single manuscript notebook of nearly five hundred pages that Thoreau filled between March 9 and August 18, 1853.

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From 1837 to 1861, Thoreau kept a Journal that began as a conventional record of ideas, grew into a writer's notebook, and eventually became the principal imaginative work of his career. This work reveals him as an increasingly confident taxonomist creating lists that distill his observations about plant leafing and seasonal birds.

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Presents Henry David Thoreau's account of Cape Cod. This title focuses on his encounters with the ocean, from the fatal shipwreck of the opening episode to the late reflections on the Pilgrims' Cape Cod landing and reconnaissance. It relates the experiences of fishermen and oystermen, farmers and salvagers, lighthouse-keepers and ship-captains.

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A collection of fifty-three early pieces by Thoreau representing the full range of his youthful imagination. Collected, arranged, and edited, these writings date from 1828 to 1852 and cover a range of subjects, such as: learning, morals, literature, history, politics, and love.

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From 1837 to 1861, Henry D Thoreau kept a "Journal" that would become the principal imaginative work of his career. This book presents Thoreau's "Journal".

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Opening with "The Service," one of the best examples of Thoreau's early style and interests, this work contains ten other essays. It includes reform papers such as: "The Service Paradise (To Be) Regained"; "Herald of Freedom"; "Wendell Phillips Before Concord Lyceum"; "Resistance to Civil Government Slavery in Massachusetts"; and more.

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A personal account of exploration, of exterior and interior discovery in a natural setting, conveyed in taut, workmanlike prose.

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Presents a simple account of a year spent alone in a cabin by a pond in the woods.

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Introducing evidence from more than 600 secret Ottoman documents, this book demonstrates in unprecedented detail that the Armenian Genocide and the expulsion of Greeks from the late Ottoman Empire resulted from an official effort to rid the empire of its Christian subjects.

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The Dendera zodiac - an ancient bas-relief temple ceiling adorned with mysterious symbols of the stars and planets - was first discovered by the French during Napoleon's campaign in Egypt, and quickly provoked a controversy between scientists and theologians. This title tells the story of this incredible archeological find.

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This book provides an in-depth and self-contained treatment of the latest advances achieved in quantitative spectroscopic analyses of the observable outer layers of stars and similar objects. Written by two leading researchers in the field, it presents a comprehensive account of both the physical foundations and numerical methods of such analyses.