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The History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote (Hardcover, New edition)
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra; Illustrated by Francis Hayman; Introduction by Martin C. Battestin (William R. Kenan Jr. Professor Emeritus of English, The University of Virginia, USA); Edited by O.M. Brack (Professor of English, Arizona State University, USA); Translated by Tobias Smollett
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This authoritative textual edition presents Tobias Smollett's
translation of Cervantes's Don Quixote in the form most faithful to
Smollett's own intentions. It includes Francis Hayman's
twenty-eight illustrations engraved for the original edition,
Smollett's explanatory notes, and his prefatory "Life of
Cervantes."
Smollett's Don Quixote first appeared in 1755 and was for many
years the most popular English-language version of Cervantes's
masterpiece. However, soon after the start of the nineteenth
century, its reputation began to suffer. Rival translators,
literary hucksters, and careless scholars initiated or fed a
variety of charges against Smollett -- even plagiarism. For almost
130 years no publisher risked reprinting it.
Redemption began in 1986, when the distinguished Mexican
novelist Carlos Fuentes, in his foreword to a new (albeit flawed)
edition of Smollett's translation, declared it to be "the authentic
vernacular version" of Don Quixote in English. Fuentes's opinion
was in accord with that of the preeminent Cervantist, Francisco
Rodriguez Marin, who decades earlier had declared Smollett's Don
Quixote to be his preferred English version.
Martin C. Battestin's introduction discusses the composition,
publication, and controversial reception of Smollett's Don Quixote.
Battestin's notes identify Smollett's sources in his "Life of
Cervantes" and in his commentary, provide cross-references to his
other works, and illustrate Smollett's originality or dependence on
previous translations. Also included is a complete textual
apparatus, a glossary of unfamiliar terms, and an appendix
comparing a selection of Francis Hayman's original illustrations
with the engraved renderings usedin the book.
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Patients and Doctors - Life-changing Stories from Primary Care (Hardcover, New)
Jeffrey M. Borkan, Etc, Shmuel Reis (Chair, Department of Family Medicine, Technion Faculty of Medicine, Haifa, Israel), Jack H. Medalie (Professor Emeritus, Department of Family Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, USA), Dov Steinmetz (Lecturer, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University, Negev, Israel)
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R566
Discovery Miles 5 660
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How patients heal doctors In Patients and Doctors, physicians from
around the world share stories of the patients they'll never
forget, patients who have changed the way they practice medicine.
Their thoughtful reflections on a variety of themes--from suffering
to humor to death--help us to understand the experience of
doctoring, in all its ordinary and extraordinary aspects. In
settings as diverse as Slovenia and Sweden, Cambodia and New
Jersey, we learn what makes the healer feel graced with insight or
scarred with misadventure. In Washington State, we anguish with
patient and doctor alike when a young resident removes a screw from
a little boy's foot; on the Israeli-Jordanian border, a woman goes
into labor just as the air-raid sirens signal the beginning of the
Gulf War. These compelling accounts remind us what is at stake in
doctoring, reinforcing the value of stories in the teaching and
practice of medicine: to calm, to validate, and to illuminate the
human experience. "These stories illustrate humane physicians at
their best."--Sharon Kaufman, author of The Healer's Tale
Readers of detective stories are turning more toward historical
crime fiction to learn both what everyday life was like in past
societies and how society coped with those who broke the laws and
restrictions of the times. The crime fiction treated here ranges
from ancient Egypt through classical Greece and Rome; from medieval
and renaissance China and Europe through nineteenth-century England
and America.
Topics include: Ellis Peter's "Brother Cadfael"; Umberto Eco's
"Name of the Rose"; Susanna Gregory's "Doctor Matthew Bartholomew";
Peter Heck's Mark Twain as detective; Anne Perry and her
Victorian-era world; Caleb Carr's works; and Elizabeth Peter's
Egyptologist-adventurer tales.
Bringing some of the insights of modern critical theory to bear on
a great deal of information about Pound's activities as a literary
critic (some of it made available only recently), K.K. Ruthven
provides a provocative re-reading of a major modernist writer who
dominated the discourse of modernism.
The concerns of philosophy and of religion overlap to a
considerable extent-each seeks, among other things, to develop an
account of mankind's place in the universe. But their relationship
has never been an easy one. Faith gives rise to philosophical
puzzlement just as secular beliefs do, but it also generates
special philosophical questions that secular beliefs do not. This
engaging text encourages students and other readers to grapple with
these special questions of faith, to look at how they relate to
other issues in philosophy and in the empirical study of religion.
Equally accurate and insightful in its treatment of historical
authors such as Aquinas and Pascal as it is in treatment of such
contemporaries as Plantinga and Alston, Reason and Religious Faith
is the most up-to-date and balanced introduction to these issues
available. It marks an advance over earlier surveys in its
recognition of religious pluralism and the relevance of
non-Christian religious views. It is an ideal introduction to the
issues of religious epistemology for students of both religious
studies and philosophy.
This edited collection is the first to gather in one volume the
most relevant addresses, speeches, and homilies of His Holiness,
Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI to seminarians and consecrated men and
women into a single volume for the English-speaking world. Called
to Holiness is divided into three sections. The first section
focuses on the mystery of vocation. The second section collects
Benedict's writings around the crucial experience of Love. Finally,
the third section covers Benedict's description of what a seminary
should look like. Pope Benedict XVI's words remind us of the
fundamental meaning of a life of total consecration to God in a
time of history where God is very much rejected. Moreover, in times
where young people seek words of wisdom and certainty, Benedict
XVI's words give a fundamental aid to such direction not only for
people already pondering a vocation to consecration but for all men
and women open to God's voice.
Most analyses of interpersonal communication ignore the
relationship between communication and culture. When intercultural
communication takes place, the interlocutors may have very
different conceptions of what is being discussed, since meaning in
any culture results from lifelong learning within that culture.
Such concepts as worldviews, cultural beliefs, and decision-making
processes are unique to each culture, and affect each culture's
interpretation of meaning. To illustrate problems with
communication and culture, Dahl focuses on the cultures of
Madagascar and the Western World. He suggests many ways in which
the Malagasy's worldview and values are different from the
Westerner's, and how these differences affect communication. A
"meaning matrix" is included to assist in interpretations of
everyday cases.
What literary historians describe as the modernist movement in
literature - in which Ezra Pound doubled as a major poet and
principal publicist - is currently being revalued by practitioners
of various symptomatic styles of criticism who find modernism
Fascist in its politics and masculinist in its sexual politics.
"Ezra Pound as Literary Critic" contributes to some of those
debates by which Pound came to dominate the discourse of modernism.
Indeed, so successfully did he dominate that his version of it was
reproduced by academic critics as an official literary history of
the period beginning in 1910 with the publication of Pound's "The
Spirit of Romance", and culminating in 1922 with the appearance of
"Ulysses" and "The Wasteland".
This book reveals the disturbing truth about how the escalation of
the War on Drugs over the past 30 years has eroded the human and
property rights of Americans—while doing little to stop drug
trafficking or use. Unique in its perspective, this eye-opening
book looks at the drug war as a rights issue and concludes that
Americans' civil liberties are clearly being violated. The volume
proceeds from two premises: that over the past 30 years, America's
War on Drugs has done more harm than good; and that if the United
States is going to reform the criminal justice system, the public
must understand that this "war" is empowered by the profits it
provides to law enforcement and other groups. A central factor
causing the upsurge in the drug war, the author explains, is the
fact that laws were passed in the 1980s that allowed law
enforcement to profit from seizing property based on scanty
evidence and without criminal charges. His meticulous research has
revealed that this "policing for profit" is responsible for a
variety of assaults on civil liberties, including mass
incarceration, SWAT teams, and random drug sweeps. A second factor
that infects every aspect of the War on Drugs is racism—the
widespread stereotyping of drug traffickers as African Americans
and Latinos. These issues and more are explored in this book that
lays bare what the media largely ignores.
" An updated edition of this concise yet comprehensive history
of the Civil War, written by a distinguished historian of the
conflict. Charles Roland skillfully interweaves the story of
battles and campaigns with accounts of the major political,
diplomatic, social, and cultural events of the epoch and insightful
sketches of the leading actors. Of prime interest are the contrasts
he draws between the opposing presidents and generals. What traits,
he asks, made Lincoln superior to Davis as a war leader? How were
Union military leaders able to forge a more effective fighting
force, a more comprehensive strategy than their opponents? Roland's
thoughtful anwers and his recognition of the contadictions of human
nature and the interpaly of intention and chance raise this book
above a mere recounting of military events. The story of the Civil
War is the epic of the American people. Never has it been told more
movingly.
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Justyna's Narrative (Paperback)
Gusta Davidson Draenger; Volume editing by Eli Pfefferkorn; Introduction by Eli Pfefferkorn, David H. (Professor Emeritus of English and Judaic Studies Hirsch; Edited by David H. Hirsch; Translated by …
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Written during World War II, Justyna's Narrative is a compelling
account of the Krakow Jewish resistance. From February through
April 1943, Gusta Davidson Draenger (aka "Justyna"?) composed the
narrative on scraps of paper smuggled into her prison cell. Between
sessions of torture and interrogation at the hands of the Gestapo,
she recorded the activities and spiritual aspirations of the
clandestine group of young Jewish idealists who forged documents,
acquired weapons, and committed acts of defiance against the Nazis.
What is forgiveness? Are some acts unforgivable? Can forgiveness
take the place of revenge? Powerful real-life stories from
survivors and perpetrators of crime and violence reveal the true
impact of forgiveness on ordinary people worldwide. Exploring
forgiveness as an alternative to resentment or retaliation, the
storytellers give an honest, moving account of their experiences
and what part forgiveness has played in their lives. Despite
extreme circumstances, their stories open the door to a society
without revenge. All royalties from the sale of this book go to The
Forgiveness Project charity.
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