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The Dogma of Christ & Other Essays on Religion, Psychology & Culture
Erich Fromm

Foundation Trilogy

Foundation Trilogy - Isaac Asimov, Michael Dirda Introduction
Bibliographical Note
Select Bibliography
Chronology


--Foundation

--Foundation and Empire

--Second Foundation

Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid - Douglas R. Hofstadter Preface to GEB's Twentieth-anniversary Edition
Overview
List of Illustrations
Words of Thanks


--Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

Notes
Bibliography
Credits
Index

An Inquiry into the Nature & Causes of the Wealth of Nations

An Inquiry into the Nature & Causes of the Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith Acknowledgements
Introduction
Note on the Text
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A Chronology of Adam Smith and His Times


--An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations [Abridged]

Explanatory Notes and Commentary
Index

Capital: An Abridged Edition (World's Classics)

Capital: An Abridged Edition (World's Classics) - David McLellan, Karl Marx Introduction
Note on the Text
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A Chronology of Karl Marx

Preface to the First German Edition
Afterword to the Second German Edition


--Capital [Abridged]

Marx's Selected Footnotes
Explanatory Notes
Subject Index
Name Index

Imperial

Imperial - William T. Vollmann Maps
Brief Glossary


--Imperial

Concerning the Maps
Bibliography
Credits
Acknowledgments

(To reduce the price and bulk of this paperback edition, the author agreed to omit most of the endmatter that appeared in the hardcover edition. Readers curious about those sections---"A Chronology of Imperial," "Sources," and "Persons Interviewed"---should visit www.penguin.com/imperial)

Poor People

Poor People - William T. Vollmann Introduction
Income Table
Dictionary


--Poor People

Sources
Acknowledgments
Photographs

The Complete Poetry

The Complete Poetry - George Orwell, Dione Venables, Peter Davison Foreword, by Dione Venables
Preface: Orwell and poetry, by Peter Davison


--'Awake! Young Men of England'
--Kitchener
--Song 1. Come Up, Come Up, Ye Kindly Waves
--Song 2. Three Beggars Begged by Noon & Night
--The Pagan
--Our Minds are Married
--To A.R.H.B.
--Wall Game
--After Twelve
--Ode to Field Days
--The Photographer
--The Wounded Cricketer
--The Youthful Mariner
--Friendship and Love
--Jacintha's Reply
--Dear Friend: Allow Me For a Little While
--Romance. Burma
--When the Franks Have Lost Their Sway
--Brush Your Teeth
--The Lesser Evil
--My Love and I Walked in The Dark
--John Flory: Epitaph
--King Charles II: song by Sir John Digby
--Sometimes in the Middle Autumn Days
--Summer For an Instant
--A Dressed Man and a Naked Man
--from Burmese Days: J. Flory couplet
--On a Ruined Farm Near His Master's Voice Gramophone Factory
--St Andrew's Day, November 1935
--Advertisement: Why Should You be Thin and White? (Keep the Aspidistra Flying)
--A Happy Vicar I Might Have Been
--Limericks
--Scraps of Nonsense Poetry
--The Italian Soldier
--As One Combatant to Another; Letter to 'Obadiah Hornbooke'
--Memories of the Blitz
--Beasts of England (Animal Farm)
--Animal Farm couplet
--Comrade Napoleon (Animal Farm)
--Were There Always These Vistas (Nineteen Eighty-Four)
--Song: Under the Spreading Chestnut Tree (Nineteen Eighty-Four)
--Epitaph to Joseph Higgs

Abbreviations
Textual Notes
Index of First Lines
Acknowledgements

QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter

QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter - Richard P. Feynman Foreword, by Leonard Mautner
Preface, by Ralph Leighton
Acknowledgment


--QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter

Index

Earth

Earth - Émile Zola, Brian Nelson, Julie Rose Introduction
Translators' Note
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A Chronology of Émile Zola


--Earth

Explanatory Notes

Illness as Metaphor & Aids and Its Metaphors

Illness as Metaphor & Aids and Its Metaphors - Susan Sontag --Illness as Metaphor

--AIDS and Its Metaphors

A Picasso Portfolio: Prints from the Museum of Modern Art

A Picasso Portfolio: Prints from the Museum of Modern Art - Museum of Modern Art (New York), Pablo Picasso Foreword, by Glenn D. Lowry
Acknowledgments


--Introduction: Picasso's Printmaking: A Catalyst for Creativity, by Deborah Wye

Text and Plates
--1. Saltimbanques
--2. The Cubist Spirit
--3. Sculptor's Studio
--4. The Minotaur
--5. Reenacting the Bullfight
--6. Abstracting the Bull
--7. Fauns and Satyrs
--8. Animals Real and Imagined
--9. Text and Image
--10. Portraits: Vollard, Kahnweiler, Balzac
--11. Portraits: Lovers and Wives
--a. Marie-Thérèse Walter
--b. Dora Maar
--c. Françoise Gilot
--d. Jacqueline Roque
--12. After the Masters
--13. Late Work

Notes
Checklist
Chronology
Selected Bibliography
Index

Modern Art in America 1908-68

Modern Art in America 1908-68 - William C Agee Introduction: On Art in America

--Modern Art in America 1908-68

Notes
Bibliography
Index
Credits
Acknowledgements

Silent Theater: The Art of Edward Hopper

Silent Theater: The Art of Edward Hopper - Walter Wells, John Morgan --Silent Theater: The Art of Edward Hopper

Notes
Picture Credits & Text Acknowledgements
Ledger Book Figures
Selected Bibliography
Index

The Philosophy of Money (Routledge Classics)

The Philosophy of Money (Routledge Classics) - Georg Simmel, David Frisby Acknowledgements
Foreword to the Routledge Classics Edition: Money? Really!
Preface to the Third Edition & Notes
Introduction to the Translation & Notes


--The Philosophy of Money

Afterword: The Constitution of the Text & Notes
Name Index

The Member of the Wedding

The Member of the Wedding - Carson McCullers Chronology
Introduction, by Ali Smith


--The Member of the Wedding

Modern Architecture A-Z

Modern Architecture A-Z - Peter Gossel Modern Architecture A-Z

What is modern architecture?

--Modern Architecture Volume 1: A-L

--Modern Architecture Volume 2: M-Z

Index
Photo Credits
Imprint