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Rush Of Blood
Vendor: Deepdiscount.com Price: 2.71 $Attempting to designate a musical category for Watkins is not without its challenges, but the perspicacious Nick Lowe once observed that he could be filed as "the missing link between Paulo Conte and Howlin Wolf". Another beacon of taste - Bob Dylan - proclaimed himself a fan by playing two solo cuts on his Theme Time Radio Hour saying (without a hint of irony) that "Geraint Watkins is my favourite English piano player." There you have it...high praise indeed. For so many years a keystone of the
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Stendhal: Fiction and the Themes of Freedom
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 31.45 $Victor Brombert is a lion in the study of French literature, and in this classic of literary criticism, he turns his clear and perspicacious gaze on the works of one of its greatest authors—Stendhal. Best remembered for his novels The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma, Stendhal is a writer of extraordinary insight into psychology and the many shades of individual and political liberty. Brombert has spent a lifetime reading and teaching Stendhal and here, by focusing on the seemingly contradictory themes of inner freedom and outer constraint within Stendhal’s writings, he offers a revealing analysis of both his work and his life. For Brombert, Stendhal’s work is deeply personal; elsewhere, he has written about the myriad connections between Stendhal’s ironic inquiries into identity and his own boyhood in France on the brink of World War II. Proceeding via careful and nuanced readings of passages from Stendhal’s fiction and autobiography, Brombert pays particular attention to style, tone, and meaning. Paradoxically, Stendhal’s heroes often feel most free when in prison, and in a statement of stunning relevance for our contemporary world, Brombert contends that Stendhal is far clearer than any writer before him on the “crisis and contradictions of modern humanism that . . . render political freedom illusory.” Featuring a new introduction in which Brombert explores his earliest encounters with Stendhal—the beginnings of his “affair” during a year spent as a Fulbright scholar in Rome—Stendhal remains a spirited, elegant, and resonant account.
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Lives of Girls and Women (Chinese Edition)
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 212.93 $The story occurred in a small rural town in Ontario in the 1940s. It depicts a woman's growing process from an innocent girl to a sagacious and perspicacious observer of life. While witnessing erotic lust and life and death, Munro experienced all the brightness and darkness that a woman can face. This book is autobiographic to a large extent. We can profoundly understand Munro's life and creation background.
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American Journey: Traveling With Tocqueville in Search of Democracy in America
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 50.86 $Taking Tocqueville's "Democracy in America" as his model, a perspicacious political writer travels across America, talking with the ordinary and the noteworthy about democracy, the country, and themselves
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The lives of girls and women selected works of Monroe(Chinese Edition)
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 60.33 $The story occurred in a small rural town in Ontario in the 1940s. It depicts a woman's growing process from an innocent girl to a sagacious and perspicacious observer of life. While witnessing erotic lust and life and death, Munro experienced all the brightness and darkness that a woman can face. This book is autobiographic to a large extent. We can profoundly understand Munro's life and creation background.
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The SAT Word Slam: Rhyme Your Way to a Better Vocabulary And Higher SAT and ACT Scores
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 123.75 $The number one way to improve your score on the SAT is by improving your vocabulary. Nothing is more important? Princeton Review Perspicacious. Ubiquitous. Garrulous. Improvident. Solvent. Benevolent. These are the sorts of words that may befuddle you when you take the SAT. What you need is a book that makes these words fun to learn and easy to remember and this one does just that. This clever, cogent little volume uses funny, edgy, and even rude rhymes to help you learn and remember! more than 500 vocabulary words most commonly found on SAT exams. Acquiesce (verb) 'ACK-wee-ess' Do you always give in? Then you acquiesce. You never say no; It's just yes 'yes' 'yes' yes. Careful with that? Don't become a doormat. Acquiescing is fine. But not all the time. Remember this: To acquiesce is to say yes. From abase to zenith, this book is all students need to make the grade!
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Disraeli (Reputations)
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 82.99 $An adventurer and charlatan? A clever rogue? Or perspicacious politician, founder of the modern British Conservative party? These different characterizations have all had their supporters: Disraeli rarely inspired indifference from his contemporaries, and later commentators have often mirrored these divergent evaluations. By the time he at last became Prime Minister, in 1874, he was no longer the exotic, dandified figure who nearly forty years earlier had obtained protection from his creditors by the simple expedient of election to a seat in the House of Commons. But he was still a one-of-a-kind figure in Westminster politics, favorite of his monarch but distrusted or disliked by most of the members of his party. Disraeli was a novelist as well as a politician, and he showed in his political life a novelist's command of the potent image and pregnant phrase. His speeches and writings remain memorable and influential. But any icon is open to manipulation and selective understanding, and Disraeli in particular has been claimed as a spiritual ancestor by an exceptionally diverse group of conservatives. Edgar Feuchtwanger's lively new study does justice to Disraeli's controversial life and ambiguous political legacy, providing a portrait of one of the great personalities of the age as well as shedding light on key political developments of Victorian Britain.
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After the Ball
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 150.57 $"Brash, learned, funny and perspicacious.... The author of this free-wheeling diverting history was a student at Trinity College, Dublin, when he created a rock hit 'You Turn Me On,' and experienced a brief, bewildering season as a touring rock celebrity. This book is his effort to explain that experience to himself, and, well-educated man that he is, he goes all the way back to the first pop bestseller, `After The Ball,' and all the way forward to the 1960s." (The New Yorker) "One of the best books on popular music to come along in the last few years.... Whitcomb's own involvement with music constantly surfaces to make the book both revealing and highly enjoyable." (The Seattle Times)
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East Goes West: The Making of an Oriental Yankee
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 50.88 $Fiction. Asian-American Studies. "EAST GOES WEST is a stunning testament to Younghill Kang's indomitable spirit, his perspicacious eye, and his special mirth. The book provides us with a rare view of how urban American life was experienced-and critiqued-by Korean immigrants in the 1920s"-Elaine Kim. Having fled Japanese-occupied Korea for the gleaming promise of the United States, Han lands in New York with only four dollars and a suitcase full of Shakespeare to his name. Struggling to support his studies, Han becomes by turns traveling salesman, domestic worker, and farmer. In the process, he observes the idealism, greed, and shifting values of the industrializing twentieth century. In its beautifully nuanced portrayal of Han's spiritual evolution and revolutions, its richly detailed examination of a cosmopolitan immigrant subculture, and its biting portraits of racism, alienation, and hypocrisy at every level of society, EAST GOES WEST is a unique American classic.
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Daniel Webster
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 21.05 $“A good, wise, perspicacious work, written in graceful English, free of jargon, offering intelligent conclusions.” ―Mark Harris, New York Times Book Review For forty years, until his death in 1852, Daniel Webster played a dominant national role as a lawyer, orator, congressman, senator, secretary of state, leader of two major parties, and perennial presidential candidate. This new biography, drawing on the recently collected Webster papers, explains the Webster phenomenon in terms of the powerful positive and negative images he projected for nineteenth-century Americans.
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