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  • An Introduction to Library Science

    by Pierce Butler ...
    The library has been created by actual necessities in modern civilization. It is now a necessary unit in the social fabric. Culture must transcend the individual for it is essentially a social cumulation of experience whereby the men of each generation possess potentially at least, all that their predecessors have ever learned. Books are one social mechanism for preserving the racial memory and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Women of Medieval France, Illustrated

    by Pierce Butler ...
    First published in 1907. According to the Preface: "From the mediaeval Ladies' Book, of a kind that will be referred to in the following pages, to the very latest volume of Social England, or more aptly, perhaps, to the most local and frivolous Woman's World edited by an Eve in your daily paper, all the little repositories of ebbing gossip help immensely in the composition of a picture of the life ... Read more

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  • Women of Mediæval France

    by Pierce Butler ...
    It is the customary privilege of the author to meet you at the threshold, as it were, bid you welcome, and in his own person explain more fully and freely than he may elsewhere the plan and intent of his book. After you have crossed this imaginary boundary you may judge for yourself, weigh and consider, and condemn even with scant regard for the author's feelings; for as a guest it is your ... Read more

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  • Women of Mediaeval France

    by Pierce Butler ...
    "Women of Mediaeval France" by Pierce Butler explores the multifaceted roles and experiences of women during the medieval period in France. The book delves into the social, economic, and cultural contexts that shaped women's lives, highlighting their contributions to society despite the constraints of a patriarchal system. Through a careful examination of historical records, literature, and art, ... Read more

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  • Women of Mediaeval France

    by Pierce Butler ...
    Women of Mediaeval France by Pierce Butler invites readers into a world shaped by gender, social expectations, identity, culture, relationships, and the changing understanding of human experience. First published in an earlier literary era, this enduring work offers more than a simple trip into the past. It preserves the language, assumptions, ambitions, and storytelling habits of its time while ... Read more

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  • Women of Medieval France

    by Pierce Butler ...
    First published in 1907. According to the Preface: "From the mediaeval Ladies' Book, of a kind that will be referred to in the following pages, to the very latest volume of Social England, or more aptly, perhaps, to the most local and frivolous Woman's World edited by an Eve in your daily paper, all the little repositories of ebbing gossip help immensely in the composition of a picture of the life ... Read more

    $1.15 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cultural Import of Typography - An Essay

    Including an Introductory Chapter by William Skeen

    by Pierce Butler, William Skeen ...
    An insightful essay on the profound impact typography has had on our visual and cultural landscapes, delving into the rich history of the art.First published in 1940, Pierce Butler explores the intricate relationship between letters, design, and sociohistorical context in the evolution of typography in this fascinating essay. Gain a deeper understanding of the significance of typography in our art ... Read more

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  • A Lack of Resistance

    by Terri Pierce-Butler ...
    When post graduate student Tim, with the help of his friend Emma, accidentally stumbles upon a major scientific he doesn't initially realise the wide reaching consequences. International criminals are soon on the case. Tim and Emma escape to Cornwall on Emma's trusty motorbike Gertie. On the way they meet up with some of Emma's biker friends. The criminals follow. Much derring do and wild chases ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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    “There are at least two kinds of games,” states James P. Carse as he begins this extraordinary book. “One could be called finite; the other infinite. A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play.”Finite games are the familiar contests of everyday life; they are played in order to be won, which is when they end. But infinite games are ... Read more

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  • How to Speak How to Listen

    by Mortimer J. Adler ...
    Series series A Guide to Effective Communication
    From the author of the bestselling How to Read a Book comes a comprehensive and practical guide for learning how to speak and listen more effectively.With over half a million copies in print of his “living classic” How to Read a Book in print, intellectual, philosopher, and academic Mortimer J. Adler set out to write an accompanying volume on speaking and listening, offering the impressive depth ... Read more

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  • COMPLETE HISTORY OF FRANCE FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES IN 6 VOLUMES

    by Francois Guizot ...
    Every history, and especially that of France, is one vast, long drama, in which events are linked together according to defined laws, and in which the actors play parts not ready made and learned by heart, parts depending, in fact, not only upon the accidents of their birth, but also upon their own ideas and their own will. There are, in the history of peoples, two sets of causes essentially ... Read more

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  • Elbow Room, new edition

    The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting

    by Daniel C. Dennett ...
    A landmark book in the debate over free will that makes the case for compatibilism.In this landmark 1984 work on free will, Daniel Dennett makes a case for compatibilism. His aim, as he writes in the preface to this new edition, was a cleanup job, “saving everything that mattered about the everyday concept of free will, while jettisoning the impediments.” In Elbow Room, Dennett argues that the ... Read more

    $21.99 USD