The Last Amateur Hassan AzzazyThe authoritative biography of a nineteenth century polymath. Finalist for the 2014 ForeWord IndieFab Book of the Year Award in the Biography Category This fascinating biography tells the story of William J. Stillman (18281901), a nineteenth century polymath. Born and raised in Schenectady, New York, Stillman attended Union College and began his career as a Hudson River School painter after an apprenticeship with Frederic Edwin Church. In the 1850s,
this edition of The Well at the World’s End is both modern and readable
he knows what it is to be loved
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in their form and content
Cosmopolitan Belongingness and War connects contemporary concerns with political violence
Case studies show how adaptations can't be divorced from the historical and cultural moment in which they are produced
This book explores the intimate relationship between literature and class in England (and later Britain) from the Peasants’ Revolt at the end of the fourteenth century to the impact of the French Revolution at the end of the eighteenth century and beginning of the nineteenth
The portrait of Kant that emerges is one of a humane teacher who cared about his students and their acquisition of prudence and wisdom
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Cases of influence include New York's efforts to secure loan guarantees for New York City in 1975 and 1978
but instead would have held that we should revise our view of what it means to call a statement true
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