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  • The Age of A.I.: The Threat of Machines

    by John E. Keller ...
    In a world increasingly dependent on artificial intelligence, “The Age of A.I.: The Threat of Machines” offers an in-depth and critical analysis of how machines are transforming society. This book explores the ethical, moral, and social implications of AI, unraveling the challenges and opportunities it presents for the future of humanity.Through a series of meticulously researched chapters, the ... Read more

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  • The Literary Mind of Medieval and Renaissance Spain

    by Otis H. Green ...
    Series Book 1 - Studies in Romance Languages
    The twelve essays in this fiorilegio of the work of Otis H. Green afford a representative view of the thought and scholarship of one of the world's foremost Hispanists. In each of them is developed some important facet of the intellectual milieu of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, reflecting Otis Green's life-long and wide-ranging quest for evidence that would broaden our understanding of those ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Aesop's Fables

    With a Life of Aesop

    by John E. Keller, L. Clark Keating ...
    Series series Studies in Romance Languages
    In 1489 Johan Hurus printed the first collection of fables in Spain, Lavida del Ysopetconsusfabulas hystoriadas. Illustrated with nearly 200 woodcuts, this work quickly became the most-read book in Spain, beloved of both children and adults. Reprinted many times in the next three centuries and carried to the New World, it brought to Spanish letters a cornucopia of Aesopic fables, oriental ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Daily Life Depicted in the Cantigas de Santa Maria

    by John E. Keller, Annette Grant Cash ...
    Series series Studies in Romance Languages
    The hundreds of illuminated miniatures found in the Cantigas de Santa Maria, sponsored by King Alfonso X (1252–84), reveal many vistas of daily life in thirteenth century Spain.No other source provides such an encyclopedic view of all classes of medieval European society, from kings and popes to the lowest peasants. Men and women are seen farming, hunting, on pilgrimage, watching bullfights, in ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Iconography in Medieval Spanish Literature

    by John E. Keller, Richard P. Kinkade ...
    The masterpieces of medieval Spanish literature have come to be known and loved by Hispanists, and more recently by others throughout the world. But the brilliant illuminations with which the original manuscripts were illustrated have remained almost totally unknown on the shelves of the great European libraries. To redress this woeful neglect, two noted scholars here present a generous selection ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Amadis of Gaul, Books I and II

    by Garci R. de Montalvo ...
    Translated by Edwin Place, Herbert Behm ...
    Series series Studies in Romance Languages
    In the long history of European prose fiction, few works have been more influential and more popular than the romance of chivalry Amadis of Gaul. Although its original author is unknown, it was probably written during the early fourteenth century. The first great bestseller of the age of printing, Amadis of Gaul was translated into dozens of languages and spawned sequels and imitators over the ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Pious Brief Narrative in Medieval Castilian and Galician Verse

    From Berceo to Alfonso X

    by John E. Keller ...
    Series Book 21 - Studies in Romance Languages
    "Brief narratives," or medieval precursors to the modern short story, are compositions couched in the form of a tale of reasonable short length. They began with writings in Latin and, eventually, made their way into the vernacular languages of Europe. They include the fable, the apologue, the exemplum, the saint's life, the miracle, the biography, the adventure tale, the romance, the jest, and the ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • The Book of Count Lucanor and Patronio

    A Translation of Don Juan Manuel's El Conde Lucanor

    by Juan Manuel ...
    Translated by John E. Keller, L. Clark Keating ...
    Series Book 16 - Studies in Romance Languages
    Don Juan Manuel, nephew of King Alfonso X, The Wise, knew well the appeal of exempla (moralized tales), which he believed should entertain if they were to provide ways and means for solving life's problems. His fourteenth-century book, known as El Conde lucanor, is considered by many to be the purest Spanish prose before the immortal Don Quixote of Cervantes written two centuries later. He found ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

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    How Cervantes Ushered in the Modern World

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    In the early seventeenth century, a crippled, graying, almost toothless veteran of Spain's wars against the Ottoman Empire published a book. It was the story of a poor nobleman, his brain addled from reading too many books of chivalry, who deludes himself that he is a knight errant and sets off on hilarious adventures. That book, Don Quixote, went on to sell more copies than any other book beside ... Read more

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  • Fuenteovejuna

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  • Iberia

    by James A. Michener ...
    Spain is an immemorial land like no other, one that James A. Michener, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author and celebrated citizen of the world, came to love as his own. Iberia is Michener’s enduring nonfiction tribute to his cherished second home. In the fresh and vivid prose that is his trademark, he not only reveals the celebrated history of bullfighters and warrior kings, painters and processions ... Read more

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  • Heavens on Earth

    by Carmen Boullosa ...
    Translated by Shelby Vincent ...
    • Lives in New York, teaches at City College of New York, very active in the New York literary scene•Won the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize, the most prestigious prize given for a single novel in Mexico, for Before, which Deep Vellum will publish in the Spring of 2016• Boullosa has been awarded numerous prizes around the world, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Liberaturpreis of Frankfurt, the ... Read more

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