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  • Feverish Bodies, Enlightened Minds

    Science and the Yellow Fever Controversy in the Early American Republic

    by Thomas Apel ...
    From 1793 to 1805, yellow fever devastated U.S. port cities in a series of terrifying epidemics. The search for the cause and prevention of the disease involved many prominent American intellectuals, including Noah Webster and Benjamin Rush. This investigation produced one of the most substantial and innovative outpourings of scientific thought in early American history. But it also led to a ... Read more

    $82.99 CAD

  • Advanced Finite Element Methods with Applications

    Selected Papers from the 30th Chemnitz Finite Element Symposium 2017

    Edited by Thomas Apel, Ulrich Langer, Arnd Meyer, Olaf Steinbach ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    Finite element methods are the most popular methods for solving partial differential equations numerically, and despite having a history of more than 50 years, there is still active research on their analysis, application and extension. This book features overview papers and original research articles from participants of the 30th Chemnitz Finite Element Symposium, which itself has a 40-year ... Read more

    $140.99 CAD

  • Fantasmagoriana - Selected Tales of the Dead

    Ghost Stories Which Inspired Mary Shelley, Percy Shelley, Lord Byron and John Polidori

    by Johann Karl August Musäus, Johann August Apel, Friedrich August Schulze ...
    Translated by Thomas Carlyle, Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès, Sarah Elizabeth Utterson ...
    Fantasmagoriana - Selected Tales of the Dead presents a riveting exploration of gothic and supernatural literature that defined a significant moment of cultural exchange during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. This anthology offers a mosaic of chilling narratives centered around eerie tales that traverse the shadowy realms of the unknown. Through a blend of terse and intricately woven ... Read more

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  • Fantasmagoriana - The Tales of the Dead

    by Johann Karl August Musäus, Johann August Apel, Friedrich August Schulze ...
    Translated by Thomas Carlyle, Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès, Sarah Elizabeth Utterson ...
    In the evocative anthology 'Fantasmagoriana - The Tales of the Dead,' readers are transported to a realm where the boundaries between the living and the spectral are blurred. Encompassing an array of eerie tales, this collection adeptly captures the Gothic spirit prevalent in early 19th-century literary movements across Europe. Through a fusion of suspenseful narratives, mystifying characters, and ... Read more

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    by Daniel J. Boorstin ...
    Series Book 1 - Americans Series
    Winner of the Bancroft PrizeIn this brilliantly original book, written for the general reader, the American past becomes richly meaningful to the present. ... Read more

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  • Thomas Paine's Rights of Man

    by Christopher Hitchens ...
    Series series Books That Changed the World
    A "brief but potent" appreciation of one of the most influential and revolutionary works of political thought "mixing biography, criticism and philosophy" ( Los Angeles Times).Christopher Hitchens, the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of God Is Not Great, has been called a Tom Paine for our times. In this addition to the Books that Changed the World Series, Hitchens vividly introduces Paine ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Nature's God

    The Heretical Origins of the American Republic

    by Matthew Stewart ...
    Longlisted for the National Book Award. Where did the ideas come from that became the cornerstone of American democracy?America’s founders intended to liberate us not just from one king but from the ghostly tyranny of supernatural religion. Drawing deeply on the study of European philosophy, Matthew Stewart brilliantly tracks the ancient, pagan, and continental ideas from which America’s ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Conservative Mind

    From Burke to Eliot

    by Russell Kirk ...
    "It is inconceivable even to imagine, let alone hope for, a dominant conservative movement in America without Kirk's labor." — WILLIAM F BUCKLEY"A profound critique of contemporary mass society, and a vivid and poetic image - not a program, an image - of how that society might better itself. [ The Conservative Mind ] is, in important respects, the twentieth century's own version of the Reflections ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • Slavery and the Culture of Taste

    by Simon Gikandi ...
    It would be easy to assume that, in the eighteenth century, slavery and the culture of taste--the world of politeness, manners, and aesthetics--existed as separate and unequal domains, unrelated in the spheres of social life. But to the contrary, Slavery and the Culture of Taste demonstrates that these two areas of modernity were surprisingly entwined. Ranging across Britain, the antebellum South, ... Read more

    $45.09 CAD

  • Faces of Revolution

    Personalities & Themes in the Struggle for American Independence

    by Bernard Bailyn ...
    Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Bernard Bailyn brings us a book that combines portraits of American revolutionaries with a deft exploration of the ideas that moved them and still shape our society today. ... Read more

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  • Social Darwinism in American Thought

    by Richard Hofstadter ...
    Social Darwinism in American Thought portrays the overall influence of Darwin on American social theory and the notable battle waged among thinkers over the implications of evolutionary theory for social thought and political action. Theorists such as Herbert Spencer and William Graham Sumner adopted the idea of the struggle for existence as justification for the evils as well as the benefits of ... Read more

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  • Long Before Stonewall

    Histories of Same-Sex Sexuality in Early America

    Edited by Thomas A. Foster ...
    2007 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleAlthough the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York City symbolically mark the start of the gay rights movement, individuals came together long before the modern era to express their same-sex romantic and sexual attraction toward one another, and in a myriad of ways. Some reflected on their desires in quiet solitude, while others endured verbal, physical, and legal ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD