Author: Stephen Bett
Publisher: Ekstasis Editions
Keywords: bene, nota
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2005-03-03
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 1894800656
ISBN-13: 9781894800655

Nota Bene: A Journey follows, in a set of 71 “suites,” an intense relationship between its author and an astonishing woman artist, a union increasingly identified in this long serial poem with the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. The work is a major shift in direction for Stephen Bett, a poet known mainly for his sassy, satiric irreverence about political correctness and pop culture. Here we see, to put it mildly, a far more nakedly personal voice, one frequently seared with anguish and despair, while surely attempting to retain the poet’s customary edginess to charge and propel his languag

Author: Tim Jeal
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: bene, nota, livingstone
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2001-08-11
List price: $23.00
ISBN-10: 0300091028
ISBN-13: 9780300091021

David Livingstone (1813-1873) has been revered as one of the world’s greatest explorers and missionaries, the first European to cross Africa and the first to find Victoria Falls and the source of the Congo. Tim Jeal’s masterful biography reveals the man behind the myth, one capable of ruthless cruelty as well as self-sacrifice and bravery, one dogged all his life by failure as well as success. Served as the basis for documentaries about Livingstone on the Discovery Channel and on BBC TV. Selected as one of the best books of the year by the New York Times Book Review and the Washing

Author: Maurice Kee
Publisher: Yale University Pre
Keywords: bene, nota, yale, chivalry
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2005-02-11
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0300107676
ISBN-13: 9780300107678

Chivalry—with its pageants, heraldry, and knights in shining armor—was a social ideal that had a profound influence on the history of early modern Europe. In this eloquent and richly detailed book, a leading medieval historian discusses the complex reality of chivalry: its secular foundations, the effects of the Crusades, the literature of knighthood, and its ethos of the social and moral obligations of nobility.“This is a rich book, making effective use of all sorts of documents and illustrations. Keen moves easily across Europe in search of the international spirit of chivalry. . . . T

Author: Michael Walzer
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: bene, nota, yale, war, arguing
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2006-01-12
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0300109784
ISBN-13: 9780300109788

Michael Walzer is one of the world’s most eminent philosophers on the subject of war and ethics. Now, for the first time since his classic Just and Unjust Wars was published almost three decades ago, this volume brings together his most provocative arguments about contemporary military conflicts and the ethical issues they raise. The essays in the book are divided into three sections. The first deals with issues such as humanitarian intervention, emergency ethics, and terrorism. The second consists of Walzer’s responses to particular wars, including the first Gulf War, Kosovo, Afghanistan,

Author: Mr. Martin Wolf
Publisher: Yale University Pre
Keywords: bene, nota, yale, works, globalization
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2005-06-10
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0300107773
ISBN-13: 9780300107777

A distinguished international economist here offers a powerful defense of the global market economy. Martin Wolf explains how globalization works, critiques the charges against it, argues that the biggest obstacle to global economic progress has been the failure not of the market but of governments, and offers a realistic scenario for economic internationalism in the post-9/11 age. For this paperback edition, Wolf provides a new introduction to update the debate.“Splendid. . . . The definitive treatment of the subject, and an absorbing read.”—Economist“Accessible and clearly argued. .

Author: Edmund S. Morgan
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: bene, nota, yale, franklin, benjamin
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2003-09-24
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0300101627
ISBN-13: 9780300101621

The greatest statesman of his age, Benjamin Franklin was also a pioneering scientist, a successful author, the first American postmaster general, a printer, a bon vivant. In addition, he was a man of vast contradictions. This best-selling biography by one of our greatest historians offers a compact and provocative new portrait of America’s most extraordinary patriot.

Author: Martin Heidegger
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: bene, nota, yale, metaphysics, introduction
Number of Pages: 294
Published: 2000-08-11
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0300083289
ISBN-13: 9780300083286

Heidegger’s "Introduction to Metaphysics" is one of the most important works written by this figure of 20th-century philosophy. The new translation aims to make this work more accessible including provision of conventional translations of Greek passages that Heidegger translated unconventionally.