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Intrigued by the romance of his own parents, who met in Washington Square Park, Ariel Sabar set off on a far-reaching search for other couples who married after first meeting in one of New York City's iconic public spaces. Sabar conjures their big-city love stories in novel like detail, drawing us into the hearts of strangers just as their lives are about to change forever.

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This commentary is intended as an introduction to "Herodotus Book Six". It is a new edition which replaces that of E.S. Schuckburgh's 1889 version. Shuckburgh's Greek text is reproduced, but the book also includes a new introduction and up-to-date bibliography.

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This work is a sampling of the Hippocratic Corpus, a collection of ancient Greek medical works. At the beginning, and interspersed throughout, there are discussions on the philosophy of being a physician.

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Although Hofmannsthal never completed his only novel Andreas, its theme--the quest for self through memory--haunted the Viennese writer and recurs again and again in his poems, libretti, and essays. Analyzing the fragment, David Miles discusses Hofmannsthal's understanding of memory and myth, Andreas' pivotal role in his work, and its place within

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This series of "Companions" is designed for readers with little or no knowledge of Latin or Greek, or of the classical world. This book provides a line-by-line commentary on Homer's "Odyssey", explaining the factual details, mythological allusions, and Homeric conventions.

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This edition provides the commentary and student aids lacking in larger volumes on Homer's work, containing a full Introduction designed to highlight the most important features of the text. The Greek text is printed with a facing literal English translation intended to help beginners to construe the Greek. There is also a full vocabulary list.

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In Hooking Up Tom Wolfe ranges from coast to coast, observing the 'lurid carnival actually taking place in the mightiest country on earth in the year 2000' - everything from teenage sexual manners to how genetics and neuroscience are changing the way we regard ourselves.

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From the bestselling author of I Cant Date Jesus, comes a wry and insightful essay collection that explores the financial and emotional cost of chasing your dreams.

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"In the tradition of David Sedaris and David Foster Wallace, New York Times contributor Tim Kreider's second essay collection focuses on love, relationships, and why they're so bafflingly hard to get right"--

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In a new collection from the editor of the "New York Times" bestseller "What I Know Now," women under 40 write letters to the girls they had once been, that are filled with the advice and insights they wish they'd had when they were younger. 15 b&w photographs.

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This rigorously researched study offers an in-depth analysis of the development of President Kennedy as a public speaker and a balanced view of his civil rights, foreign policy, presidential, and other types of speeches.

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Presents the author's travels with his wife Fanny and their family in the Marquesas, the Paumotus and the Gilbert Islands during 1888-9. This title describes the islands and islanders as well as the author's own personal experiences.

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Merlin Holland presents the original transcript of the famous Wilde vs Queensberry trial, containing previously unseen details and exchanges.

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Volume 19 of The Complete Works of George Orwell

Much of 1947 and 1948 was taken up with Orwell's struggle to complete Nineteen Eighty-Four and his fight against illness.

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An important reintroduction to this literature, this compilation of Thomas Crane's original translations of Italian folk stories includes new critical analysis.

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A collection of ten autobiographical essays

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A remarkable collection of farewell addresses by the thirteen U.S. senators who voluntarily retired in 1996-Bill Bradley, Hank Brown, William S. Cohen, J. James Exon, Mark O. Hatfield, Howell Heflin, J. Bennett Johnston, Nancy Landon Kassebaum, Sam Nunn, Claiborne Pell, David Pryor, Paul Simon, and Alan K. Simpson.

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The best-selling enfant terrible of the Reagan revolution offers advice to today's budding conservatives--the very people he sees as the true "radicals" of tomorrow

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Linus Pauling's views on a wide range of issues are brought together in this book. He was outspoken on a number of issues including the obligations of the scientist to society and he wrote about nuclear weapons and testing, and education. He wrote the introduction shortly before his death.

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Eliot wrote in his introduction: I hope that this volume will demonstrate that Pound's literary criticism is the most important contemporary criticism of its kind...perhaps the kind we can least afford to do without...the refreshment, the revitalization and `making new' of literature in our time.