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  • The Rollercoaster of Gambling: 12 Books

    Tales of Chance, Deception, Fortune, and Ruin from Victorian, Russian, and American Classics

    by Edward Moore, G. Frank Lydston, Bret Harte, William Le Queux, Clarence Louis Cullen, Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, Ralph Nevill, James Harold Romain, Charles Dickens, Harry Harrison, Burt L. Standish ...
    The Rollercoaster of Gambling: 12 Books gathers twelve works in which wagering becomes a lens for chance, desire, deception, and social aspiration. Moving among tales, sketches, sensation fiction, adventure, satire, and moral reflection, the volume ranges from card tables shadowed by obsession to racetracks, confidence games, and speculative schemes. Its strongest effects arise from this formal ... Read more

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  • A Comprehensive Compendium of 42 Books on Social Pathology

    Classic Investigations of Poverty, Crime, Slums, Vagrancy, Vice, and Social Reform

    by Harry Best, Jacob A. Riis, W. T. Stead, Eugene S. Talbot, Lillian William Betts, John E. Gunckel, Mrs. Sophie Van Elkan Lyons Burke, Guy Thorne, Bernard Mandeville, Samuel Merwin, Arthur Lawrence Hayward, James Harold Romain, Clifton R. Wooldridge, William Booth, L. O. Curon, Mary Higgs, George M. White, Sigmund Engel, Margaret Wynne Nevinson, John Josiah Munro, Caroline H. Woods, Nels Anderson, Charles Kingston, Josiah Flynt, Charles Gustavus Mutzenberg, V. M. Masten, Hans Kurella, R. M. Algie, A-No. 1, Louis Albert Banks, Samuel Paynter Wilson, W. A. Chapple, Roland Burnham Molineux, Carlo de Fornaro, John Thomas Smith, Roy K. Anderson, Jacobus X, Wellington Scott ...
    A Comprehensive Compendium of 42 Books on Social Pathology gathers a far-reaching body of writing on poverty, homelessness, crime, vice, institutional life, urban reform, and the social consequences of industrial modernity. Its materials span investigative reportage, sociological observation, reformist argument, case study, memoir, moral commentary, and popular exposé. The collection's breadth is ... Read more

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  • Istanbul

    Living with Difference in a Global City

    by Nora Fisher-Onar, Susan C. Pearce, Çaglar Keyder, Sami Zubaida, Feyzi Baban, Charles King, Ilay Romain Örs0, Amy Mills1, Anna Bigelow2, Kristen Sarah Biehl3, Hande Paker4 ...
    Series series New Directions in International Studies
    Istanbul explores how to live with difference through the prism of an age-old, cutting-edge city whose people have long confronted the challenge of sharing space with the Other. Located at the intersection of trade networks connecting Europe, Asia, and Africa, Istanbul is western and eastern, northern and southern, religious and secular. Heir of ancient empires, Istanbul is the premier city of a ... Read more

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  • History Makers: 50 Iconic Figures That Shaped the World As We Know It

    Biographical Portraits of Leaders, Reformers, and Cultural Innovators

    by Arthur E. P. Brome Weigall, Jacob Abbott, A. H. Beesly, Edward Spencer Beesly, Evelyn S. Shuckburgh, John Charles Tarver, Philo, Stephen Phillips, George Lang, Alice Stopford Green, G. K. Chesterton, Alfred von Reumont, Miss Pardoe, John S. C. Abbott, Alfred John Church, Edward Everett Hale, Woodrow Wilson, William Milligan Sloane, Madame de Rémusat, Joseph Moyle Sherer, Sarah H. Bradford, Sarah Ellen Blackwell, John Torrey Morse, William E. Barton, George Hesekiel, Kenneth Robert Henderson Mackenzie, Edward Tyas Cook, Romain Rolland ...
    History Makers: 50 Iconic Figures That Shaped the World As We Know It assembles biographical portraits into a capacious study of leadership, reform, conquest, artistic influence, and intellectual change. Ranging from documentary-inflected history and political biography to moral essay, cultural criticism, and vividly narrated life-writing, the volume situates famous individuals within the forces ... Read more

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  • Legends and Legacies: The 50 Most Influential Figures in History

    Biographical Essays on Power, Faith, Reform, and the Legacies That Shaped Civilization

    by G. K. Chesterton, Romain Rolland, Sarah Ellen Blackwell, Arthur E. P. Brome Weigall, Jacob Abbott, A. H. Beesly, Edward Spencer Beesly, Evelyn S. Shuckburgh, John Charles Tarver, Philo, Stephen Phillips, George Lang, Alice Stopford Green, Alfred von Reumont, Miss Pardoe, John S. C. Abbott, Alfred John Church, Edward Everett Hale, Woodrow Wilson, William Milligan Sloane, Madame de Rémusat, Joseph Moyle Sherer, Sarah H. Bradford, John Torrey Morse, William E. Barton, George Hesekiel, Kenneth Robert Henderson Mackenzie, Edward Tyas Cook ...
    Legends and Legacies: The 50 Most Influential Figures in History gathers a capacious range of historical portraits into an inquiry about how reputation, power, achievement, and memory are made. Its selections move among biography, moral essay, political commentary, travel-inflected history, and literary appreciation, bringing markedly different rhetorical temperaments to the representation of ... Read more

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  • Pierre & Luce

    by Romain Rolland ...
    Translated by Charles De Kay ...
    In "Pierre & Luce," Romain Rolland crafts a poignant narrative set against the backdrop of World War I, exploring the intersection of love and war through the lives of two young Parisian artists. Rolland employs a lyrical prose style, blending realism with impressionistic elements that capture the fleeting nature of their hopes and dreams amidst the chaos. The novel is steeped in the existential ... Read more

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  • Pierre and Luce (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Historical Romance Novel

    by Romain Rolland, Faye Roswell ...
    Translated by Charles De Kay ...
    Romain Rolland's Pierre and Luce is a lyrical antiwar novella set in Paris during the final phase of the First World War. Centered on the brief, fragile love between Pierre, a young bourgeois student awaiting conscription, and Luce, an artist's daughter earning her living by painting copies, the work opposes private tenderness to public catastrophe. Its style is intimate, symbolic, and musical, ... Read more

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  • Pierre and Luce

    A Tale of Love, Sacrifice, and War: An Intimate Portrait of the Human Experience

    by Romain Rolland ...
    Translated by Charles De Kay ...
    In "Pierre and Luce," Romain Rolland crafts a poignant narrative set against the tumultuous backdrop of World War I, exploring the themes of love, sacrifice, and the transformative power of art. The prose exhibits Rolland's signature lyrical style, intertwining philosophical reflections with the harrowing realities of war. The novel captures the struggles of two young lovers in Paris, revealing ... Read more

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  • The Collected Works of Romain Rolland. Illustrated

    Jean-Christophe, Colas Breugnon, Pierre and Luce and others

    by Romain Rolland ...
    Translated by Gilbert Cannan, Ben Ray Redman, Eleanor Stimson, Wyck Brooks, Katherine Miller, Charles de Kay, Barrett H. Clark, Clementina Black ...
    Romain Rolland was a French dramatist, novelist, essayist, art historian and mystic who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915 "as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production and to the sympathy and love of truth with which he has described different types of human beings".He was a leading supporter of Josef Stalin in France and is also noted for his correspondence with ... Read more

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  • THE AGE OF LOUIS XIV (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. A Cultural History of the Sun King Era, French Classicism, and Seventeenth-Century European Civilization

    by Voltaire, Owen Fenlow ...
    Translated by William F. Fleming ...
    Voltaire's The Age of Louis XIV is less a conventional royal biography than a sweeping cultural history of seventeenth-century Europe, centered on France's political ascendancy and artistic brilliance under the Sun King. Written in lucid, elegant Enlightenment prose, it treats wars, diplomacy, administration, literature, philosophy, religion, and manners as interlocking expressions of civilization ... Read more

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