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Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer
In the form of warm, relaxed letters to a close friend, Lewis meditates on many puzzling questions concerning the intimate dialogue between man and God. Lewis also considers practical and metaphysical aspects of private prayer, petitionary prayer, the Lord’s Prayer, and other forms of prayer. “A beautifully executed and deeply moving book” (Saturday Review). .
Price: $7.20
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Everybody's Shakespeare: Reflections Chiefly on Tragedies
Everybody’s Shakespeare brings the insights and wisdom of one of the finest Shakespearean scholars of our century to the task of surveying why the Bard continues to flourish in modern times. Mack treats individually seven plays—Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Cesar, and Antony and Cleopatra—and demonstrates in each case how the play has retained its vitality, complexity, and appeal. .
Price: $15.98
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How the other half lives; studies among the tenements of New York, by Jacob A. Riis; with illustrations chiefly from photographs taken by the author.
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Luath Kilmarnock Edition: Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect
"Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect", was the first collection of poetry produced by Robert Burns. Published in Kilmarnock in July 1786 it has become known as the "Kilmarnock Edition". The contents include 44 of Burns' best known poems including "To a Louse", "The Cotter's Saturday Night", "To a Mouse", "The Twa Dogs" and "To a Mountain Daisy". "The Luath Kilmarnock Edition", brings this classic of Scottish literature back into print, after being unavailable for many years. This deluxe collectors edition is perfect for the commemoration of the 250th anniversary of Burns' birth, which will be celebrated in 2009. New material includes an introduction by 'the man who played Burns' - author, actor and Burns expert - John Cairney, exploring Burns' life and work, especially the origins of the "Kilmarnock Edition".Looking to the future of Burns in Scotland and the rest of the world, Clark McGinn, world-renowned Burns Supper speaker, will provide an afterword that speaks to Burns' continuing legacy. Illustrated throughout by original line drawings by top political satirist Bob Dewar, the "Luath Kilmarnock Edition" will make a beautiful gift or collectors item..
Price: $21.95
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Late Babylonian Letters: Transliterations and Translations of a Series of Letters Written in Babylonian Cuneiform, Chiefly during the Reigns of Nabonidus, Cyrus, Cambyses, and Darius
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A Shoemaker's Story: Being Chiefly about French Canadian Immigrants, Enterprising Photographers, Rascal Yankees, and Chinese Cobblers in a Nineteenth-Century Factory Town
On a June morning in 1870, seventy-five Chinese immigrants stepped off a train in the New England factory town of North Adams, Massachusetts, imported as strikebreakers by the local shoe manufacturer. They threaded their way through a hostile mob and then--remarkably--their new employer lined them up along the south wall of his factory and had them photographed as the mob fell silent. So begins A Shoemaker's Story. Anthony Lee seeks to understand the social forces that brought this now-famous photograph into being, and the events and images it subsequently spawned. He traces the rise of photography as a profession and the hopes and experiences of immigrants trying to find their place in the years following the Civil War. He describes the industrialization of the once-traditional craft of shoemaking, and the often violent debates about race, labor, class, and citizenship that industrialization caused. Generously illustrated with many extraordinary photographs, A Shoemaker's Story brings 1870s America to vivid life. Lee's spellbinding narrative interweaves the perspectives of people from very different walks of life--the wealthy factory owner who dared to bring the strikebreakers to New England, the Chinese workers, the local shoemakers' union that did not want them there, the photographers themselves, and the ordinary men and women who viewed and interpreted their images. Combining painstaking research with world-class storytelling, Lee illuminates an important episode in the social history of the United States, and reveals the extent to which photographs can be sites of intense historical struggle. .
Price: $22.50
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The Yangtze Valley and Beyond: An Account of Journeys in China, Chiefly in the Province of Sze Chuan and among the Man-tze of the Somo Territory
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The Story of the Diamond Necklace Told in Detail for the First Time: Chiefly by the Aid of Original Letters, Official and Other Documents, and Contemporary Memoirs Recently Made Public; etc.. Volume 1
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