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The Book of Merlyn: The Unpublished Conclusion to The Once and Future King
". . . a personal as well as historical story that crisscrosses the centuries on the question of war and peace." --New York Times This magical account of King Arthur's last night on earth spent weeks on the New York Times best-seller list following its publication in 1977. Even in addressing the profound issues of war and peace, The Book of Merlyn retains the life and sparkle for which White is known. The tale brings Arthur full circle, an ending, White wrote, that "will turn my completed epic into a perfect fruit, 'rounded off and bright and done.'".
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Hitler's Second Book: The Unpublished Sequel to Mein Kampf
"Provides a valuable insight into the development of ideas that were to shape Hitler's foreign policy after 1933."-Jeremy Noakes, The Times Literary Supplement
"The text bears all of Hitler's hallmarks, along with a terrifying, sustained belief in war and violence as a means to ensure that Germany would flourish."-Publishers Weekly
"He envisaged the German people becoming involved in a series of wars for Lebens-raum culminating in an epic battle against America."-Michael Smith, Daily Telegraph
"The Second Book is in many ways more important than Mein Kampf."-Guardian
"I have never known anyone to say this is a forged document."-Volker Berghahn, The New York Times
"Hitler admires the young, racially select' American people and the nation's restrictive immigration policies at the time."-The New York Times
"Far more than Mein Kampf, the Second Book establishes the grandiose scale of Hitler's ambitions."-Dennis Showalter, Colorado College
"More clearly than ever, Hitler sketched out the worldwide struggle against the Jews which he and his party had to lead."-Richard Overy, Guardian
Hitler's Second Book is the first complete and annotated edition of the manuscript Hitler dictated shortly before his rise to power four year after publishing Mein Kampf. It contains a catalog of shocking policy statements and previously undisclosed plans of world conquest at the core of Nazi ideology that Hitler concluded were too provoca-tive for publication.
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Eloquent Silence: Nyogen Senzaki's Gateless Gate and Other Previously Unpublished Teachings and Letters
The most comprehensive collection available of Nyogen Senzaki’s brilliant teachings, Eloquent Silence brings new depth and breadth to our knowledge and appreciation of this historic figure. It makes available for the first time his complete commentaries on the Gateless Gate, one of the most important and beloved of all Zen texts, as well as on koans from the Blue Rock Annals and the Book of Equanimity. Amazingly, some of these commentaries were written while Senzaki was detained at an internment camp during WWII. Also included are rare photographs, poems reproduced in Senzaki’s beautiful calligraphy and accompanied by his own translations, and transcriptions of his talks on Zen, esoteric Buddhism, the Lotus Sutra, what it means to be a Buddhist monk, and other subjects. Roko Sherry Chayat has edited Nyogen Senzaki’s words with sensitivity and grace, retaining his wry, probing style yet bringing clarity and accessibility to these remarkably contemporary teachings. .
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Unseen Mendieta: The Unpublished Works of Ana Mendieta
Among the most compelling and iconic images of art in the 1970s are the pioneering investigations of performance and experimental media by Ana Mendieta An American artist born in Cuba, she explored in her work her Caribbean roots through the lens of exile. She meticulously documented her ephemeral site-specific artworks, on beaches and in rivers, across flowery fields, and against walls of rock. Here for the first time, Olga Viso, the leading authority on the artist, presents a beautifully curated representative selection of photographs and drawings from the artist s archive, only a small selection of which has been previously published. The volume traces Mendieta s early studies as an art student in Iowa; the genesis of her signature works, the archetypal female forms known as siluetas; and public art projects, including ones being developed at the time of her tragic death in 1985. Interspersed throughout are revealing pages from Mendieta s notebooks: sketches, shopping lists for materials, recipes for gunpowder mixtures, and photographic source materials. Viso s accompanying essay reveals the artist s experimental approach and rigorous working methods, provides insights into the forces that inspired and shaped her work, and shows how the genius of Mendieta s vision has survived its physical manifestations..
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The Private Mary Chesnut: The Unpublished Civil War Diaries (A Galaxy Book)
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian C. Vann Woodward and Chesnut's biographer Elisabeth Muhlenfeld present here the previously unpublished Civil War diaries of Mary Boykin Chesnut. The ideal diarist, Mary Chesnut was at the right place at the right time with the right connections. Daughter of one senator from South Carolina and wife of another, she had kin and friends all over the Confederacy and knew intimately its political and military leaders. At Montgomery when the new nation was founded, at Charleston when the war started, and at Richmond during many crises, she traveled extensively during the war. She watched a world "literally kicked to pieces" and left the most vivid account we have of the death throes of a society. The diaries, filled with personal revelations and indiscretions, are indispensable to an appreciation of our most famous Southern literary insight into the Civil War experience..
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The Early Ayn Rand: Revised Edition: A Selection From Her Unpublished Fiction
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For the Health of the Land: Previously Unpublished Essays And Other Writings
A collection of previously unavailable essays by environmentalist Aldo Leopold, building on the tradition of ethical land use and developing the concept of "land health" and the practical measures landowners can take to sustain it. Containing over 40 short pieces arranged in a seasonal "almanac" form along with longer essays arranged chronologically, each piece is introduced and set in context by the editors..
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The Route of Parmenides: A New Revised Edition with a New Introduction, Three Additional Essays and a Previously Unpublished Paper by Gregory Vlastos.
This study of the fragments of Parmenides' poem, "On Nature" (early 5th century b.c.e.), combines traditional philological reconstruction with the approaches of literary criticism and philosophical analysis to reveal the thought structure and expressive unity of the best preserved and most important, influential, and coherent text of Greek philosophy before Plato. Originally published in 1970 and widely cited and discussed since then in the literature on Parmenides and on the pre-Socratics, "The Route of Parmenides" has been out of print for nearly three decades. This new edition - the first in paperback - includes a new introduction, and it reprints three essays by the author that significantly enhance and extend the argument of the original edition. Also included is a previously unpublished essay by Gregory Vlastos, "Names of Being in Parmenides," which serves both as a complement and as a foil to the corresponding argument in Route. Combining the approaches of philosophical, philological, and literary analysis, Alexander Mourelatos examines the morphology of images and metaphors in the fragments of Parmenides' poem "On Nature" with the aim of articulating and interpreting the poem's key concepts and component arguments. Relevant antecedents and parallels from the tradition of epic poetry, especially of Homer's Odyssey, are explored in depth. Apart from the contribution the book makes toward understanding Parmenides' thought, it offers philosophically substantial analyses of the Greek concept of aletheia, "truth, reality," and of the thematically important cluster of Greek terms that center, respectively, on the concepts of "persuasion" (peithein, pistis, peitho) and "seeming/belief" (dokein, doxa)..
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Wilderness: A Journal of Quiet Adventure in Alaska--Including Extensive Hitherto Unpublished Passages from the Original Journal
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A Tranquil Star: Unpublished Stories of Primo Levi
The first English publication of seventeen classic Primo Levi stories marks the twentieth anniversary of his death."In Levi's writing, nothing is superfluous and everything is essential."—Saul Bellow A Tranquil Star, the first new American collection of Primo Levi previously untranslated fiction to appear since 1990, affirms his position as one of the twentieth century's most enduring writers. These seventeen stories, first published in Italian between 1949 and 1986, demonstrate Levi's extraordinary range, taking the reader from the primal resistance of a captured partisan fighter to a middle-aged chemist experimenting with a new paint that wards off evil, to the lustful thoughts of an older man obsessed with a mysterious woman in a seaside villa. In the title story, Levi demonstrates his unerringly tragic understanding of the fragility of the universe through the tale of a pensive astronomer, terrified by the possibility that a long-dormant star might explode and reduce the entire planet to vapor. This remarkable new collection affirms Italo Calvino's conviction that Levi was "one of the most important and gifted writers of our time.".
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