Author: George Walter
Publisher: Penguin Classic
Keywords: penguin, poetry, classics, war, world, book, first
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2007-05-11
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 0141181907
ISBN-13: 9780141181905

Unrivaled in its range and intensity, the poetry of World War I continues to have a powerful effect on readers. This newly edited anthology reflects the diverse experiences of those who lived through the war, bringing together the words of poets, soldiers, and civilians affected by the conflict. Here are famous verses by Rupert Brooke, Siegfried Sassoon, and Wilfred Owen; poetry by women writing from the home front; and the anonymous lyrics of soldiers’ songs. Arranged thematically, the selections take the reader through the war’s stages, from conscription to its aftermath, and offer a blend

Author: George Walter Thornbury
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: volume, trumpeter, own, man
Number of Pages: 324
Published: 2009-07-18
List price: $29.75
ISBN-10: 1113119608
ISBN-13: 9781113119605

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.

Authors:George A. De Vos,  Walter H. Slote,
Publisher: State University of New York Pre
Keywords: philosophy, culture, chinese, series, family, suny, confucianism
Number of Pages: 391
Published: 1998-07-01
List price: $58.50
ISBN-10: 0791437353
ISBN-13: 9780791437353

The family is central to societies that have been profoundly influenced by the Confucian, and later Neo-Confucian, mandate. This book examines the nature of family continuities and the internal family social and psychological dynamics in societies that comprise the Confucian core of Asia, namely China (including Taiwan), Korea, Japan, Vietnam, and Singapore. Confucian ideas are discussed from diverse perspectives: religion, philosophy, and history; anthropology and sociology; psychology, psychoanalysis, and psychiatry. Both abiding psychological and social similarities as well as cultural diff

Authors:George M. Gould, Walter L. Pyle,
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Keywords: part, medicine, curiosities, anomalies
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2003-02-01
List price: $36.95
ISBN-10: 0766139026
ISBN-13: 9780766139022

1896. Other volumes in this set include ISBN number(s): 0766132110. Volume 2 of 2. Being an encyclopedic collection of rare and extraordinary cases, and of the most striking instances of abnormality in all branches of medicine and surgery, derived from an exhaustive research of medical literature from its origin to the present day, abstracted, classified, annotated and indexed. With 296 illustrations in the text and 12 half tone plates.

Authors:Walter Benjamin, George Steiner,
Publisher: Verso
Keywords: drama, tragic, german, origin
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2003-08-14
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 1859844138
ISBN-13: 9781859844137

The Origin of German Tragic Drama is generally acknowledged as Benjamin’s most sustained and original work and as one of the main sources of literary modernism in the twentieth century. It begins with a general theoretical introductions on the nature of the baroque art of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, concentrating on the peculiar stage-form of royal martyr dramas called Trauerspiel. Later, Benjamin discusses the engravings of Dürer, and the theatre of Shakespeare and Calderón. Baroque tragedy, he argues was distinguished from classical tragedy by its shift from myth into hi

Author: George Gruhn and Walter Carter
Publisher: Backbeat
Keywords: revised, third, book, updated, guitars, guide, vintage, gruhn
Number of Pages: 500
Published: 2010-04-15
List price: $32.99
ISBN-10: 087930944X
ISBN-13: 9780879309442

Gruhn’s Guide to Vintage Guitars is the most extensive and detailed list of specifications ever published for identifying, dating, and establishing the authenticity of an instrument. This new edition is enlarged and updated, making it once again the essential guide enabling collectors, dealers, players, and fans to determine the authenticity, rarity, and relative value of vintage acoustic and electric guitars, basses, mandolins, banjos, and amps. Gruhn’s Guide’s thoroughness, detail, and clear organization have made it without peer, the must-have tool for discerning an instru

Authors:George M. Gould, Walter L. Pyle,
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Keywords: part, medicine, curiosities, anomalies
Number of Pages: 536
Published: 2003-01-18
List price: $40.95
ISBN-10: 0766132110
ISBN-13: 9780766132115

1896. Other volumes in this set include ISBN number(s): 0766139026. Volume 1 of 2. Being an encyclopedic collection of rare and extraordinary cases, and of the most striking instances of abnormality in all branches of medicine and surgery, derived from an exhaustive research of medical literature from its origin to the present day, abstracted, classified, annotated and indexed. With 296 illustrations in the text and 12 half tone plates.