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  • Plays and Fragments

    by Menander ...
    Translated by Norma Miller ...
    Menander (c. 341-291 BC) was the foremost innovator of Greek New Comedy, a dramatic style that moved away from the fantastical to focus upon the problems of ordinary Athenians. This collection contains the full text of 'Old Cantankerous' (Dyskolos), the only surviving complete example of New Comedy, as well as fragments from works including 'The Girl from Samos' and 'The Rape of the Locks', all of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Classical Comedy

    by Aristophanes, Menander, Plautus, Terence ...
    From the fifth to the second century BC, innovative comedy drama flourished in Greece and Rome. This collection brings together the greatest works of Classical comedy, with two early Greek plays: Aristophanes' bold, imaginative Birds, and Menander's The Girl from Samos, which explores popular contemporary themes of mistaken identity and sexual misbehaviour; and two later Roman comic plays: Plautus ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • The New Yale Book of Quotations

    Edited by Fred R. Shapiro ...
    A revised, enlarged, and updated edition of this authoritative and entertaining reference book —named the #2 essential home library reference book by the Wall Street Journal“Shapiro does original research, earning [this] volume a place on the quotation shelf next to Bartlett's and Oxford's.”—William Safire, New York Times Magazine (on the original edition)“A quotations book with footnotes that are ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Metaphysical Club

    A Story of Ideas in America

    by Louis Menand ...
    The New Yorker staff writer Louis Menand's The Metaphysical Club is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History.A national bestseller and "hugely ambitious, unmistakably brilliant" (Janet Maslin, New York Times) book about the creation of modern American thought.The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • The Liberal Imagination

    by Lionel Trilling ...
    The Liberal Imagination is one of the most admired and influential works of criticism of the last century, a work that is not only a masterpiece of literary criticism but an important statement about politics and society. Published in 1950, one of the chillier moments of the Cold War, Trilling’s essays examine the promise —and limits—of liberalism, challenging the complacency of a naïve liberal ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Free World

    Art and Thought in the Cold War

    by Louis Menand ...
    "An engrossing and impossibly wide-ranging project . . . In The Free World, every seat is a good one." —Carlos Lozada, The Washington Post**"The Free World sparkles. Fully original, beautifully written . . . One hopes Menand has a sequel in mind. The bar is set very high." —David Oshinsky, The New York Times Book Review | Editors' ChoiceOne of The New York Times's 100 best books of 2021 | One of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Rise of the Research University

    A Sourcebook

    Edited by Louis Menand, Paul Reitter, Chad Wellmon ...
    The modern research university is a global institution with a rich history that stretches into an ivy-laden past, but for as much as we think we know about that past, most of the writings that have recorded it are scattered across many archives and, in many cases, have yet to be translated into English. With this book, Paul Reitter, Chad Wellmon, and Louis Menand bring a wealth of these important ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Free Love

    The Story of a Great American Scandal

    by Robert Shaplen ...
    A wry, instructive, and hugely entertaining account of “one of the most sensational trials in American history” (New York Times Book Review).On the night of July 3, 1870, Elizabeth Tilton confessed to her husband that she’d had an affair with their pastor, Henry Ward Beecher. This secret would soon transfix America, for Beecher was the most famous preacher of the day, founder of the most ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Marketplace of Ideas

    Reform and Resistance in the American University

    by Louis Menand ...
    Series series
    "Crisp and illuminating . . . well worth reading."—Wall Street JournalThe publication of The Marketplace of Ideas has precipitated a lively debate about the future of the American university system: what makes it so hard for colleges to decide which subjects are required? Why are so many academics against the concept of interdisciplinary studies? From his position at the heart of academe, Harvard ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Fed Unbound

    Central Banking in a Time of Crisis

    by Lev Menand ...
    Do the Fed’s efforts to stabilize the economy worsen inequality?The Federal Reserve, the U.S. central bank, was built for a monetary system composed primarily of investor-owned, government-chartered banks. But over the years, the erosion of banking law and the rise of alternative forms of money created outside of the banking system have pushed the Fed to take on more and more responsibilities to ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Masscult and Midcult

    Essays Against the American Grain

    by Dwight Macdonald ...
    A New York Review Books OriginalAn uncompromising contrarian, a passionate polemicist, a man of quick wit and wide learning, an anarchist, a pacifist, and a virtuoso of the slashing phrase, Dwight Macdonald was an indefatigable and indomitable critic of America’s susceptibility to well-meaning cultural fakery: all those estimable, eminent, prizewinning works of art that are said to be good and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • A Hard Lesson For Marcus

    Rutherford Inc., #1

    by Lucas Menander ...
    Series Book 1 - Rutherford Inc.
    Marcus Rutherford, the self-proclaimed king of Rutherford Industries and the meticulous ruler of his world, believes he's infallible. At 45, he's "well-preserved," undeniably handsome, and runs his empire with an iron, immaculately manicured fist. He's the reason Riverside isn't a ghost town, and he knows it. But his perfectly ordered domain shatters when a significant financial discrepancy ... Read more

    $0.99 USD