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Book Beat Post 111

Browser Book Beat Issue 111

126 volumes in this batch of new arrivals. We’re adding art including comic, some biography, history, photography, children’s but a majority covers a wide-range of philosophy and religion as we continue to upload books from the philosophy library we acquired. Below a sampling. See all 126 New Arrivals. Availability subject to prior sale.
Ficino's Platonic Theology is a key to understanding the art, thought, culture, and spirituality of the Renaissance.
Platonic Theology, Volume 1 Books I-IV

Ficino was committed to reconciling Platonism with Christianity and was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. Read More


$25.00

A group of boys journey through time to learn the meaning of Halloween.
The Halloween Tree

Bradbury on Halloween. A group of trick or treaters meets Mr. Moundshroud who takes them on a trip through time to learn the meaning of today’s Halloween. Read More


$100.00

In the beginning, Venus, a space goddess from the planet Venus, arrives on Earth to experience love as a human would.
The Atlas Comics Library 2: Venus; Strange Stories of the Supernatural

In the beginning, Venus, space goddess from the planet Venus, arrives on Earth to experience love as a human would. Read More


$80.00

In the 1890s, almost any American city had a red-light district, tolerated by the police in exchange for graft.
Working Girls: An American Brothel, Circa 1892 – The Private Photographs of William Goldman

In the 1890s, almost any American city had a red-light district, tolerated by the police in exchange for graft. Read More


$60.00

A look through the sexualized underworld of Paris between world wars. Some of the images are extremely explicit.
Horizontal Collaboration: The Erotic World of Paris, 1920-1946

Naughty Paris between World Wars. Lurid details about prostitution, erotic night clubs, gay life, and so on. Read More


$50.00

Deadly Beloved contains 21 stories with art (and sometimes writing) by Johnny Craig plus ten stories by other artists and writers.
Craig, Johnny/Feldstein, Al (Collins, Max Allan – Intro.)

Deadly Beloved contains 21 stories with art (and sometimes writing) by Johnny Craig plus ten stories by other artists and writers. Read More


$50.00

Roz Chast illustrates her own dream world, a place that is sometimes creepy but always hilarious.
I Must Be Dreaming

Includes illustrated tour thru “Dream-Theory Land” guided by insights from poets, philosophers, and psychoanalysts alike. Read More


$20.00

Intent on becoming a knight-errant, Don Quixote with his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, sets off to follow his dream.
Don Quijote de La Mancha Spanish Text.

Intent on becoming a knight-errant, Don Quixote with his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, sets off to follow his dream. Read More


$100.00

Recommended to anyone who is interested in Heidegger's early works and wants a 'fuller' account of the foundational notions in Being and Time.
Ontology: The Hermeneutics of Facticity

These accessible lecture notes serve as a fantastic introduction to many of the main ontological concepts in Heidegger’s Being and Time. Read More


$20.00

The third edition expanded into Observationes Medicae (1676) which became a standard textbook of medicine for two centuries.
Methodus Curandi Febres Propriis Observationibus Superstructura

Sydenham’s first book on the treatment of fevers. The third edition, retitled Observationes Medicae became a standard textbook of medicine for two centuries. Read More


$18.00

Aristotle addresses here fundamental questions of his theory of substance, his idea of causes and principles, and his concept of motions.
Aristotle’s Metaphysics Lambda: Symposium Aristotelicum

Aristotle addresses fundamental questions of his theory of substance, his idea of causes and principles, and his concept of motions. Read More


$80.00

Hobbes is famous for his early and elaborate development of what has come to be known as “social contract theory”.
De Cive: The Latin Version (Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes)

Hobbes is famous for his development of the “social contract theory.” An excellent book for anyone interested in constitutionalism and social contract theory. Read More


$120.00

Walrath explores the changing image of fictional ministers as he surveys a variety American fiction from 1800s to 2000s.
Displacing the Divine: The Minister in the Mirror of American Fiction

Walrath considers a variety of fictional ministers and identifies a range of types from harsh Puritans to incorrigible scoundrels. Read More


$20.00

Lost until its rediscovery in 1417, Lucretius’s cosmological poem portrays the universe as being made up of atoms moving in the void.
Lucretius on Atomic Motion: A Commentary on de Rerum Natura Book Two Lines 1-332

The first commentary to take into account the remarkable discoveries and re-evaluations in the field of Hellenistic philosophy over the past thirty years. Read More


$80.00

Graham argues that scientific astronomy actually originates in the fifth century with Parmenides and Anaxagoras.
Science before Socrates: Parmenides, Anaxagoras, and the New Astronomy

Graham argues that scientific astronomy actually originated in the fifth century with Parmenides and Anaxagoras. Read More


$50.00

Heartfelt story starts when the author encounters a solitary goose on her local pond. Leads to musings about natural world and ourselves.
Solitary Goose (INSCRIBED COPY)

Heartfelt story starts when the author encounters a solitary goose on her local pond. Leads to musings about natural world and ourselves. Read More


$12.00

Provides a detailed analysis of the many utopias that have been achieved and sustained in the western world.
Utopian Thought in the Western World

The Manuels provide a detailed analysis of the many utopias that have been achieved and sustained in the western world. Read More


$30.00

An important contribution to the history of ideas, it employs a political analysis of contemporary society — and of the French Revolution, in particular.
Freidrich Schiller on the Aesthetic Education of Man in a Series of Letters

Schiller’s treatise on the role of art in society ranks among German philosophy’s most profound works. Read More


$40.00

Tiepolo’s greatest works are the frescoed ceilings. The high point the ceilings in Würzburg, Germany.
Heaven on Earth: Tiepolo Masterpieces of the Wurzburg Years

Perhaps the greatest painter of eighteenth-century Europe, Tiepolo’s greatest works are the frescoed ceilings. The high point the ceilings in Würzburg, Germany. Read More


$40.00

Largely unrecognised during his life, Blake has become a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual art of the Romantic Age.
William Blake: The Complete Illuminated Books

Blake was considered mad by contemporaries for his idiosyncratic views, but he came to be highly regarded by later critics. Read More


$60.00

Book Beat 110

Browser Book Beat Issue 110

139 volumes in this batch of new arrivals. Includes WW II, children’s illustrated, some Mark Twain, regional history, biography, and a range of philosophy books covering all five branches and thoughts from ancient to contemporary thinkers. Also some odds and ends. Here’s a sampling. See all 139 New Arrivals. Availability subject to prior sale.
The story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter out of wedlock and then struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity.
The Scarlet Letter

The story of Hester Prynne, who conceived a daughter out of wedlock and then struggled to create a new life. Set in seventeenth-century Boston. Considered a classic work of American literature. Read More


$200.00

Barnum was showman, businessman and politician remembered for promoting celebrated hoaxes. Some rather gruesome.
Struggles and Triumphs: Or, Forty Years’ Recollections of P.T. Barnum. Written by Himself.

Barnum was showman, businessman and politician remembered for promoting celebrated hoaxes. Some rather gruesome. His ideas were incredible and endless. Read More


$35.00

Each colony had their own opinions and laws, and they were sometimes in complete contradiction with the laws of another colony.
Men, Women & Manners in Colonial Times (2 Volumes)

Each colony had opinions and laws of their own that were sometimes in complete contradiction with the laws of another. At least one prominent person from each colony is discussed. Read More


$40.00

Both authors speak and argue with force and ingenuity; each has a knack for making his own position seem attractive and the other’s not.
Hobbes and Bramhall on Liberty and Necessity

Both authors argue with force and ingenuity. The subject of their dispute is of central importance, not only for our understanding of ourselves but for the conduct of our lives. Read More


$18.00

Examines the concept of afterlife as conceived by ancient scientific poet Lucretius.
The Lucretian Renaissance: Philology and the Afterlife of Tradition

Examines how the physics of atoms and the void shaped the imaginations of Lucretius and his contemporary scholars. Read More


$30.00

Introduces students to Roman culture as well as Latin in an engaging, accessible, and enjoyable way.
Learn Latin from the Romans: A Complete Introductory Course Using Textbooks from the Roman Empire

Introduces students to Roman culture as well as Latin in an engaging, accessible, and enjoyable way. Includes clear explanations of grammatical concepts. Read More


$28.00

Toxophilus, a book about longbow archery. Also important as a model for how books of instruction could be written in English (rather than Latin).
Toxophilus, the schole, or Partitions, of Shooting. Contayned in II Bookes. to Which is Added, a Dedication and Preface

Toxophilus, a book about longbow archery, first published in London 1545 and dedicated to King Henry VIII.The first book on archery written in English. Read More


$250.00

Plish and Plum are two naughty puppies about to be drowned instead taken home by two equally unruly boys.
Plish and Plum

Plish and Plum are two naughty puppies. Wilhelm Busch was a German humorist, poet, illustrator and painter, publishing comic illustrated cautionary tales. Read More


$40.00

It is a must-read for anyone interested in history, travel, or the works of Mark Twain.
Travels in History

A collection of essays and articles written by Twain about his travels to various historical locations around the world. Read More


$200.00

Churchill's speeches throughout 1942, a year full of setbacks and disappointments across the globe for the British war effort.
The End of the Beginning: War Speeches

Churchill’s speeches throughout 1942. They convey sober, resolve, and defiance with an occasional sparkle of Churchillian wit. Read More


$18.00

When England's Defence of the Realm Act passed 1914 it was used to intern visiting Cohen-Portheim. His experience.
Time Stood Still: My Internment in England: 1914-1918

When England’s Defence of the Realm Act passed 1914 Cohen-Portheim’s 2-week visit became a 2 year internment. His experience. Read More


$28.00

The idea of universal history has persisted in Western political thought since the middle of the eighteenth century.
Discourse on Universal History

The idea of universal history emerged in Western political thought in the middle of the eighteenth century. Bossuet is for many one of the most brilliant orators of all time. Read More


$80.00

Witt takes a broad view of humanism, tracing it back to the 13th century. He suggests that the 'founder' of humanism in Italy was Lovati di Lovato and Padua.
In the Footsteps of the Ancients: The Origins of Humanism from Lovato to Bruni

Witt takes a broad view of humanism. Starting back in the 13th century, he traces the meaning of “humanism” as it shifted through several centuries.. Read More


$80.00

Gould explores the relationship between embryonic development and biological evolution.
Ontogeny and Phylogeny

Gould’s first technical book. It was influential in stimulating research into heterochrony (changes in the timing of embryonic development). Read More


$18.00

First comprehensive study of Gangraena, an intemperate anti-sectarian polemic written by Thomas Edwards and published in 1646.
Gangraena and the Struggle for the English Revolution

First comprehensive study of Gangraena, a lively work of propaganda, crucial to Presbyterian campaigning in the mid-1640s. Read More


$200.00

From 1595, the University of Padua, Palazzo Bo is where medicine finally received the systematic approach it needed to grow into a modern science.
The School of Padua and the Emergence of Modern Science

From 1595, Padua’s famous anatomical theatre has drawn artists and scientists studying the human body during public dissections. Read More


$70.00

Starts with the prehistory of the Andover area, then moves on to the arrival of the early settlers colonial times and continues to late 1800s.
Historical Sketches of Andover Massachusetts

Starts with the prehistory of the Andover area, then moves on to the arrival of the early settlers colonial times and continues to late 1800s. Read More


$50.00

Mannerism was a stylistic movement during the 1600s. It started in reaction to the High Renaissance and ended as the Baroque period started.
Mannerism: The Crisis of the Renaissance and the Origin of Modern Art

Mannerists artists rejected realistic proportions and instead rendered figures with impossibly elongated limbs and oddly positioned bodies. Read More


$30.00

Formatted in an easy to understand way with loads of detailed information.
Photography: The Whole Story

The contributors cover roughly every photographic movement, except for micro-genres. ßhows some important concepts and sheds light over historical references. Read More


$35.00

Generals, Louis de Montcalm (French) and James Wolfe (British) lead their country's forces in the French Indian War.
Montcalm and Wolfe (2 Volume Set )

Generals Montcalm (French) and Wolfe (British) lead their country’s forces in the French Indian War as England and France struggled for dominance over the New World. Read More


$80.00