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Hardcover. Condición: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: New. 1st Edition. SUPERB REFERENCE: NEW 1st Edition w full no. line showing 1st printing, handsome new mylar-protected jacket w/ sharp new edges & corners, new cover w/ British-green paper wrapping spine & extending 1.48" onto ocher-gold-paper covered front & back panels, excellent smooth-cut text-block exterior, new sewn binding w/ tight signatures & green-yellow-checked cloth bands at spine-caps, impeccable bright white end-papers on heavy stock, pristine interior handsomely printed on excellent unblemished archival paper * 9.50" x 6.62" x 2.04", 1.46 kg, 916 pp. * W/ more than 1,100 entries written by some 500 distinguished contributors, "The Oxford Companion to American Military History" is "the most comprehensive treatment of American military history ever compiled" (Parameters: U.S. Army War College Quarterly) and an "easy-to-browse, well-organized work" (Washington Post). Here is a gold mine of information on American military history, exploring battles & soldiers, ships & weapons, services & doctrines (as well as the social & cultural impact of the U.S. military at home & around the world. "The Oxford Companion to American Military History" boasts over 1,100 entries written by some 500 distinguished contributors. Readers will find Stephen E. Ambrose writing on the D-Day landing, James M. McPherson on the battle of Antietam, John Keegan on the changing experience of combat, Jean Bethke Elshtain on Jane Addams, Mark A. Noll on religion and war, and Robert M. Utley on Sitting Bull. Ranging from brief factual pieces to extensive essays, the entries examine every major war from the Revolution to the Persian Gulf; important battles from Bunker Hill, to the Alamo, Gettysburg, Little Bighorn, Normandy & Khe Sanh; & military leaders from Washington to Grant, Lee, Eisenhower, MacArthur, Westmoreland & Schwarzkopf. Moreover, the "Companion" goes well beyond the usual "drum & trumpet" coverage to examine a wide range of subjects you might not expect to find. There are entries on relevant acts of Congress & on diplomatic policies such as the Monroe Doctrine & the Marshall Plan; on peace & antiwar movements; on war in film, literature, music & photography; & on war viewed through the disciplinary lenses of anthropology, economics, gender studies & psychology. The result is the widest ranging account compiled in one volume of war, peace & the U.S. military. * With more than 1,000 authoritative & vividly written entries, maps of several major wars, extensive cross-referencing, lists of further readings, & an index, this volume is the first place to turn for information on American military history. * "Belongs on the bookshelf of all serious military historians. Thorough, fair & readable, it is a treasure-house of information [that] can also be read for pleasure." - John S.D. Eisenhower * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this excellent book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or via USPS PRIORITY MAIL (for a nominal additional fee) & to all international destinations at our posted rates via efficient USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. AUTHORITATIVE: ENGAGING: LEARNED: LUCID: ELEGANT: WITTY: INDISPENSABLE: RELIABLE: CLEAR; ENLIGHTENING: NEW First Edition hardcover (orig. 1995) Fifth Printing (c. 2002), NEW unclipped mylar-protected jacket showing orig. $35.00 price at bottom right inside front flyleaf, NEW library-durable black linen-over-boards cover w/ NEW edges & corners & titles & Oxford crest elegantly gold-stamped on spine, EXCELLENT smooth-cut text-block exterior w/ slightest traces of shelf-dust soiling, IMMACULATE snow-white end-papers on heavy stock, NEW sewn binding w/ tight signatures & olive & yellow-checked cloth bands at spine-caps, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed on EXCELLENT unblemished archival paper * 6.36" x 9.50 x 2.18", 1.66 kg, xx+1009 (1029) pp. * ABOUT THE BOOK: The most AUTHORITATIVE & ENGAGING philosophical reference book in English, "The Oxford Companion to Philosophy" gives CLEAR & RELIABLE guidance to all areas of philosophy & to the ideas of all notable philosophers from antiquity to the present day. The scope of the volume is not limited to English-language philosophy; it surveys the foremost philosophy from all parts of the world. Combining learning, lucidity, elegance & wit, 249 distinguished international contributors provide almost 2,000 alphabetically arranged entries which are not only instructive but also entertaining, w/ more than 50 extended entries of 3,000 words on the main areas of philosophy & the great philosophers, including essays by Paul Feyerabend on the history of the philosophy of science, Alasdair Macintyre on histories of moral philosophy, Jaegwon Kim on problems of the philosophy of mind, Ernest Sosa on problems of metaphysics, Anthony Quinton on philosophy itself, Anthony Kenny on Frege, Peter Singer on Hegel, John Cottingham on Descartes & Richard Schacht on Nietzsche. Shorter entries deal w key concepts (e.g. personal identity, time), theories (utilitarianism, holism), problems (the mind-body problem, the meaning of life) , schools of thought (Marxist philosophy, the Vienna Circle) & practical issues (abortion, vegetarianism). Individual thinkers past (including Pythagoras, Confucius, Galileo, Goethe, Burke, Santayana, de Beauvoir, Radhakrishnan, Popper) & present (over 150 contemporary figures, such as Chomsky, Derrida & Berlin) are profiled, & 80 of them are depicted in b-w portraits. Interspersed throughout are short explanations of particular philosophical terms (qualia, supervenience, itl), puzzles (the Achilles paradox, the prisoner's dilemma) & curiosities (the philosopher's stone, slime). A chronological chart of the history of philosophy is located at the end of the book, together w/ 15 diagrams showing the structure of philosophy & the relations between its subjects & theories. A comprehensive index & list of entries provides a helpful overall scheme of the book. This book will be an INDISPENSABLE guide & a constant source of stimulation & enlightenment for anyone interested in abstract thought, the eternal questions, & the foundations of human understanding. Including entries on the following topics & by the following contributors: the absurd, animals, anarchy, art, Isaiah Berlin, chaos, Chinese room, computers, Davidson, Dummett & Dworkin, euthanasia, eternity, evil, evolution, Feyerabend & Foot, ghost in the machine, God is dead, Jaakko Hintikka, Indian, Irish, Islamic & Italian philosophy, jaundice, judgment, justice, Kim Kymlicka & Kenny, language, laughter, life, love, loyalty, Alasdair MacIntyre, Thomas Nagel, oar in water, Ockham's razor, pain, paradoxes, paternalism, pineal gland, W. V.Quine, resentment, revenge & revolution, Searle & Singer, tarot, tar-water, time travel, twin earth unconscious & subconscious mind vagueness, value, vegetarianism, &c. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost fee & to international destinations via USPS FIRST CLASS MAIL.

Hardcover. Condición: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: New. 1st Edition. BRILLIANT: INNOVATIVE: ANIMATED: PERCEPTIVE: REVEALING: NEW First Edition hardcover (Orig. 1988) w/ no. line showing Fifth Printing, NEW unpriced handsomely-illustrated mylar-protected color-jacket w/ NEW edges & corners, SUPERB NEW cover w/ library-durable British-green linen wrapping spine & extending 1.36" onto front & back panels handsomely covered in rich-brown paper, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, NEW sewn binding w/ tight signatures & green-white-checked cloth bands at spine-caps, IMPECCABLE cream-white card-stock end-papers, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed on EXCELLENT unblemished archival paper * 9.50" x 6.36" x1.22", 0.70 kg, x+310 (320) pp. * Acknowledgments (v), Introduction: The Quest for the Historical Calvin (1), Conclusion (230), Notes (235), Bibliography (295), Index (303) * ABOUT THE BOOK: Calvinism has been widely credited (or blamed) for much that is thought to characterize the modern world: for capitalism & modern science, for secularization & democracy, for individualism & utilitarianism. But John Calvin the man has been largely ignored by historians; most of us, if we think of him at all, tend to view him as little more than the joyless tyrant of Geneva & the source of an abstract theology as forbidding as its author. This book, by an eminent historian whose career has been devoted to understanding the larger patterns of early modern European history, aims to make Calvin come alive by putting him back in his own time & understanding how he dealt with its problems. A Frenchman, an exile, & a humanist in the tradition of Erasmus, Calvin was unusually sensitive to the complexities & contradictions of later Renaissance culture. The Calvin who emerges from this eloquent study is a surprisingly human, more plausible, more ecumenical & often sympathetic figure, whose achievement was both more & less than (& at the same time quite different from) the way it has commonly been portrayed. The result is a brilliant interpretation not only of Calvin but also of the Reformation & its relationship to the movements of the Renaissance. * HIGHEST PRAISE: "This book merits a doxology. At last someone has rescued the great reformer of Geneva from the stony grayness to which he has been so wrongly consigned & has drawn an animated picture of a passionate & complex man. Bouwsma knows there is no better way to grasp the spirit of an age than to see it in the life of someone who was deeply immersed in its fiercest currents. This book is not just about Calvin or about his age, but about the intermeshing of the two. It now stands as the best biography of Calvin available." -Harvey Cox, Harvard Divinity School -- "This is a great book. It is difficult for an author to write innovatively, freshly, & creatively about a subject whose life & thought have been so thoroughly studied. Yet Bouwsma has done so. In Calvin's own writings he has discovered themes & continuities & contradictions & tensions which have never been exposed before. Future students of Calvin will be hard pressed either to ignore or refute Bouwsma's theses." -M. Howard Rienstra (deceased) Former Director, H.H. Meeter Center for Calvin Studies, Calvin College & Seminary * ABOUT THE AUTHOR: WILLIAM J. BOUWSMA is Sather Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. One of the foremost American scholars of the Renaissance & Reformation, he is also the author of "Venice & the Defense of Republican Liberty: Renaissance Values in the Age of the Counter-Reformation", acclaimed by 'Renaissance Quarterly' as "among the handful of the most significant studies of the history of ideas produced in the 1960s." * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE custom wraps, labels & packages this fine book w/ our greatest care for secure prompt FREE shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL within the United States (or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a nominal additional $12.00 fee) & via USPS FIRST CLASS MAIL to all international destinations at our posted below-cost rates.

Hardcover. Condición: As New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: As New. 2nd Edition, Revised & Expanded. SUPERB: From the ACCLAIMED Oxford-Hachette Language Program: AS-NEW hardcover of the LANDMARK French-English / English-French dictionary of French as it is really spoken & written: AS-NEW hardcover, AS-NEW Second Revised & Expanded Edition (Orig. 1997): AS-NEW unclipped mylar-protected jacket w/ excellent AS-NEW edges & corners showing orig. £22.99 price at lower right front end-paper, AS-NEW midnight-blue durability-coated fabric-over-boards cover w/ sharp AS-NEW edges & corners, IMPECCABLE front & back end-papers displaying informative full-color maps of England (front left) & France (front right) & of North America (back left) & Europe (back right) on heavy stock, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, AS-NEW sewn binding w/ tight signatures & blue & white-checked cloth spine-cap bands, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed w/ remarkable clarity in 3-column format on EXCELLENT unblemished archival paper * 7.74" x 10.24" x 2.72", 2.66 kg, lx+1943+vi (2009) pp. * ABOUT THE BOOK: Widely acclaimed to be the best one-volume reference guide to the French language for English-language-speakers, "The Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary" is the first bilingual dictionary to be compiled from electronic databases of current language & is the most comprehensive, reliable & up-to-date dictionary available. This new edition includes the most recent vocabulary to have entered the French & English languages, as well as informative new supplementary materials. Real French: 1000s of example sentences, taken from real speech & written sources, guide the user to the most accurate translation. More than 355,000 words & phrases provide the most comprehensive & up-to-date coverage of the general, scientific, literary & technical vocabulary of contemporary French & English. Historical, idiomatic, colloquial & regional French are also generously covered w/ more than 540,000 translations. Brand new encyclopedic supplement: An A-Z cultural reference of France provides a wealth of invaluable information. Effective communication guide: Over 90 pp. of practical guidance on self-expression in French include a guide to writing letters w/ over 100 model letters & postcards, job applications & CVs, small ads & minutes of a meeting, as well as a completely new guide to using the telephone in France plus help on essay-writing w/ useful phrases & a sample essay. Accessible & clear: The typography & page layout of the dictionary have been specially designed for optimum clarity & accessibility. Over 7,000 cross-references at entry-level take the user to boxed notes for immediate help & further information. Even more up-to-date: 100s of new words & expressions from a wide range of different subjects from the Internet, commerce & multimedia. Subject boxes: Give immediate help & guidance needed on the use of vocabulary in areas such as games & sports, colors, the human body & quantities. Extra help on grammar: Large boxed notes provide extended treatment of complex grammatical words while smaller in-text boxes offer additional help on problematic points of grammar & on the correct usage of particular words. Literary French: The dictionary provides excellent coverage of vocabulary used in French literature. The electronic databases used as a resource in the compilation of the dictionary contain French novels & poetry by major authors such as Zola, Dumas, Flaubert, Proust, Verne, Maupassant & Hugo * HIGHEST PRAISE: "Without doubt the best bilingual dictionary I have come across. I have particularly appreciated the boxed grammatical information & the wide range of examples for each entry. In spite of the detail, however, the dictionary is well organized & easy to use." - D.C. Hornsby, University of Kent.

Hardcover. Condición: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: New. Book Club Edition. SPLENDID: MONUMENTAL: COMPELLING: HISTORY IN THE GRAND MANNER: POWERFUL: DRAMATIC: FASCINATING: VIVID: ASTUTE: MEMORABLE: NEW: BOOK CLUB EDITION (Off-printed from the First printing of the OUP First Edition) hardcover: NEW handsomely-designed color-illustrated jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, NEW chocolate paper-over-boards cover w sharp NEW edges & corners, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, IMPECCABLE cream-white card-stock end-papers, NEW perfect binding w/ tightly-gathered sheets & chocolate cloth banding at spine-caps, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed on EXCELLENT unblemished archival paper * 6.30" x 9.50" x 1.76, 0.96 kg, xviii+606 (624) pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: It is one of the great questions of American history--Why did the southern states bolt from the Union and help precipitate the Civil War? In final volume of his MONUMENTAL work--"The Road to Disunion"--acclaimed historian William W. Freehling offers a COMPELLING new answer. Here is history in the grand manner, a POWERFUL narrative peopled with dozens of MEMORABLE portraits, telling this important story with skill and relish. Freehling highlights all the key moments on the road to war, including the violence in Bleeding Kansas, Preston Brooks's beating of Charles Sumner in the Senate chambers, the Dred Scott Decision, John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry, & much more. As Freehling shows, the election of Abraham Lincoln sparked a political crisis, but at first most Southerners took a cautious approach, willing to wait & see what Lincoln would do--especially, whether he would take any antagonistic measures against the South. But at this moment, the extreme fringe in the South took charge, first in South Carolina & Mississippi, but then throughout the lower South, sounding the drum roll for secession. Indeed, "The Road to Disunion" is the first book to fully document how this decided minority of Southern hotspurs took hold of the secessionist issue &, aided by a series of fortuitous events, drove the South out of the Union. Freehling provides compelling profiles of the leaders of this movement--many of them members of the South Carolina elite. Throughout the narrative, he evokes a world of FASCINATING characters & places as he captures the drama of one of America's most important--& least understood--stories. The long-awaited sequel to the award-winning "Secessionists at Bay", which was hailed as "the most important history of the Old South ever published," this volume concludes a major contribution to our understanding of the Civil War. A COMPELLING, VIVID portrait of the final years of the antebellum South, "The Road to Disunion" will stand as an important history of its subject. * HIGHEST PRAISE: "This sure-to-be-lasting work--studded with pen portraits and consistently ASTUTE in its appraisal of the subtle cultural and geographic variations in the region--adds crucial layers to scholarship on the origins of America's bloodiest conflict." -The Atlantic Monthly "SPLENDID, painstaking account . & so a work of history reaches into the past to illuminate the present. It is light we need, & we owe Freehling a debt for shedding it." -Washington Post " A masterful, dramatic, breathtakingly detailed narrative." -The Baltimore Sun * ABOUT THE AUTHOR: WILLIAM W. FREEHLING is one of the most distinguished American historians of the Civil War era. He is Singletary Professor of the Humanities Emeritus at the University of Kentucky & Senior Fellow at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. He is the author of "Prelude to Civil War", which won a Bancroft Prize, "The Road to Disunion, Volume I: Secessionists at Bay & Volume II: Secessionists Triumphant", & "The South vs. the South: How Anti-Confederate Southerners Shaped the Course of the Civil War." * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee.

Hardcover. Condición: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: New. 1st Edition. EXTRAORDINARY: SPLENDID: INDISPENSABLE: NEW Stated First Edition hardcover w/ full no. line showing First Printing, handsome NEW mylar-protected gloss-laminated illus. jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, Excellent NEW blue paper-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & w/ titles gilt-stamped on spine, NEW sewn binding w/ tight signatures & blue-white-checked cloth bands at spine-caps, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, IMPECCABLE cream-white card-stock end-papers, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed in 2-column format on SUPERB semi-gloss laminated paper * Richly illustrated throughout in color & b-w * 7.76" x 10.0" x 1.78", 2.03 kg, xvi+794+xii (822) pp * A remarkable survey of classical civilization that has itself become a classic: Comprised of more than 700 scrupulously selected entries that examine a breathtaking range of topics, including: Roman & Greek prehistory, history & politics; Historical individuals; Ancient law; Economic history; Women's studies; War studies; Literature, education & scholarship; Linguistics; Philosophy, mythology & religion, Science, technology & medicine, Material culture, art & architecture * Unrivaled in scope & scholarship, "The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization" is an indispensable guide to the richly textured history of ancient Greece & Rome. Filled w/ both essay-length articles & short quick-reference entries, this meticulously detailed volume breathes life into the people, places, & events that shaped the development of classical civilization. Readers will learn that the grand army of Alexander the Great consisted of 48,500 soldiers & was the largest ever to leave Greek soil, that the white facades of refined Ionic & Doric structures in Greece were once washed in vibrant reds & blues, & that the Theodosian Code, a collection of Roman law published in AD 438, still survives today. Here are examinations of the lives & works of great philosophers & literary figures, such as Aristotle, Plato, Socrates, Sophocles, Seneca, Aeschylus & the poets Ovid & Sappho. Mythology & religion were integral parts of classical civilization, & from Aphrodite & Hermes to funerary rites & sacrifice, they are integral parts of this volume as well. Whether searching for the birth date of Julius Caesar or the location of Cyprus, the ancient Roman method of navigation or the ancient Greek method of glass production, readers will find that this extraordinarily thorough yet accessibly written book is a treasury of information on classical civilization. Arranged alphabetically, fully cross-referenced & graced w/ a beautiful selection of full-color plates, "The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization" has become an essential resource for anyone interested in learning more about the cradle of western civilization. * ABOUT THE EDITORS: Professor of Classics & Ancient History at University College, London, Simon Hornblower is the author (among other works) of "The Greek World" & is co-editor of "The Oxford Classical Dictionary". Antony Spawforth is Senior Lecturer in Ancient History & Greek Archaeology at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne & is also curator of the Shefton Museum there. His publications include "Hellenistic & Roman Sparta, A Tale of Two Cities". He is also co-editor of "The Oxford Classical Dictionary". * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & packages this splendid book w/ our greatest elegance & care for FREE shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL within the United States & its territories or via USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below cost fee of $14.00 w/ shipping to all international destinations (due to its weight & larger format) via Mandatory USPS INTERNATIONAL PRIORITY AIRMAIL for a below-cost fee available on request.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. COMPREHENSIVE: AUTHORITATIVE: REVISED: UPDATED: INDISPENSABLE: ENRICHING: FINE: First Edition hardcover (Orig. 2002) First Printing * 7.50" x 9.50" x 2.50", 2.14 kg, xiv+1434 (1448) * ABOUT THE BOOK: First published in 1938, The Oxford Companion to Music has been the first choice for authoritative information on all aspects of music. Now, 17 years since the last edition, the Companion is here to serve a new generation of students, teachers, performers, concert goers, record collectors, & music lovers. Completely revised and updated by a distinguished team of contributors, the Oxford Companion to Music features more than 1,000 new entries than the previous edition; more than 70 percent of the entire text is either new or entirely rewritten. Here, in articles that range from clear, concise definitions of musical ideas & terms to extended surveys of musical forms & styles, is authoritative coverage of virtually every musical subject. Embracing the world of music in all its variety--including jazz, popular music, & dance--the Companion offers a concentrated focus on the Western classic tradition, from the Middle Ages to the present day. More than 8,000 articles sweep across an extraordinary range of subjects: composers, performers, conductors, individual works, instruments & notation, forms & genres. From the study of music--theory, aesthetics, scholarship--to the way it is performed & disseminated, the Companion provides comprehensive, accessible coverage of music in all its artistic, historical, cultural, & social dimensions. Comprehensive, authoritative, up-to-date, and designed throughout for clarity & accessibility, the new Oxford Companion to Music, like every edition before it, will immediately become an indispensable resource for all who wish to enrich their love and knowledge of music. * ABOUT THE EDITOR: Alison Latham is a well-known editor of music reference works. She has edited The Musical Times and for over ten years was publications editor at the Royal Opera House, Convent Garden. She was assistant editor of The Grove Concise Dictionary of Music and the co-editor of The Cambridge Guide to Music and Verdi in Performance. * SHIPPING: Mnemosyne carefully wraps, labels & packages this unrivaled reference work w/ our greatest care for FREE shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL within the United States & its territories w/ expedited delivery available via USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below cost fee & international service (due to its hefty weight) via Mandatory USPS INTERNATIONAL PRIORTY MAIL w/ our below-cost rates available on request.

Hardcover. Condición: As New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: As New. 1st Edition. COMPREHENSIVE: AUTHORITATIVE: AS-NEW First Edition (Orig. 2001) First Printing, AS-NEW jacket * 8.76" x 11.12" x 1.50", 2.14 kg, xxx+546 (576) pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: From the conjectured identity of the Dark Lady of the Sonnets to misprints in the First Folio, from Shakespeare's favorite figures of speech to the staging of Othello in South Africa, The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare offers the most comprehensive coverage available on all aspects of Shakespeare's life and works. Illustrated with more than 100 photographs & boasting contributions from a team of internationally renowned scholars (including such noted Shakespeare authorities as Helen Vendler, Park Honan, & Jonathan Bate), the Companion has more than 3,000 entries that offer succinct, stimulating, & authoritative commentary on Shakespeare's life & times, his plays & poems, & their interpretation around the world over the last four centuries. All Shakespeare's plays--from As You Like It & All's Well that Ends Well to King Lear & Hamlet--are covered in major articles. There are concise descriptions of allusions in Shakespeare (Ajax, Agamemnon), well-known critics (Samuel Johnson, John Dryden), great Shakespearian actors (Richard Burbage, Lawrence Olivier, Kenneth Branagh), characters in the plays (Mercutio, Ophelia), figures of speech (metaphor, metonymy, oxymoron), & much more. Longer articles explore topics such as Shakespeare's birthplace, censorship, the Chamberlain's Men, film, & Shakespeare's reception in such countries as China, Italy, & the United States. Bringing its readers up to date not only w/ the latest in Shakespearian scholarship & controversy but w/ the plays' most recent incarnations on stage, film, & in international popular culture, this is the perfect companion to Shakespeare's works, covering everything from Aaron to Zeffirelli, & from Shakespeare in schools to Shakespeare in Love. * ABOUT THE EDITORS: Michael Dobson is Professor of Renaissance Drama at the University of Surrey Roehampton. He has also taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Harvard University, & Oxford. Stanley Wells is Chairman of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, & Professor of Shakespeare Studies Emeritus, & Director of the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham. He has been the general editor of the Oxford Shakespeare since 1978.* SHIPPING: Mnemosyne carefully wraps, labels & packages this unrivaled reference work w/ our greatest care for FREE shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL within the United States & its territories w/ expedited delivery available via USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below cost fee & international service (due to its hefty weight) via Mandatory USPS INTERNATIONAL PRIORTY MAIL w/ our below-cost rates available on request.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 3rd Edition. UNRIVALED: AUTHORITATIVE: FINE virtually AS-NEW Third Edition hardcover (Orig. 1997) Printing Unstated (Probable First) *10.0" x 7.76" x 2.74", 2.56 kg, xxxviii+1786 (1824) pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: The third edition of this unrivaled book focuses on the important changes in academic opinion and church organization within the past few years. Extensively revised and updated, it contains increased coverage on Eastern churches, issues in moral theology, and developments stemming from the Second Vatican Council. New entries have been added on a diverse array of subjects including the ordination of women, the quest of the historical Jesus, and bibliographies. * ABOUT THE EDITORS: E.A. Livingstone was involved in the first edition & assumed the editorship of the second on the death of F.L. Cross. She has been responsible for the organization of the International Conferences on Patristic Studies from 1971 to 1995 & has edited the proceedings. The late F.L. Cross was the Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford from 1944 to 1968. * SHIPPING: Mnemosyne carefully wraps, labels & packages this unrivaled reference work w/ our greatest care for FREE shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL within the United States & its territories w/ expedited delivery available via USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below cost fee & international service (due to its hefty weight) via Mandatory USPS INTERNATIONAL PRIORTY MAIL w/ our below-cost rates available on request.

Hardcover. Condición: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: New. ILLUSTRATED w/ 65 SUPERBLY chosen & reproduced b-w line-drawings & photographs presented in two inserts on EXCELLENT gloss-laminated paper Ilustrador. 1st Edition. DEFINITVE: INDISPENSABLE: The ILLUMINATING PRODUCT of FOUR DECADES of DEVOTED RESEARCH & SCHOLARSHIP: NEW First Edition hardcover (Orig. 2000) First Printing: NEW handsomely-designed gloss-laminated mylar-protected jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners (Orig. pub. price not shown), SUPERB NEW black buckram over boards cover w/ titles & lines handsomely gilt-stamped on spine, IMMACULATE unblemished text-block exterior, NEW perfect binding w/ tightly gathered sheets, IMPECCABLE pure-white card-sock end-papers, PRISTINE interior densely presented w/ impressive CLARITY & ELEGANCE on EXCELLENT unblemished archival paper w/ SUPERB presented of extensive footnotes throughout * List of Abbreviations, pp xii-xv * ILLUSTRATED w/ 65 SUPERBLY chosen & reproduced b-w line-drawings & photographs presented in two inserts on EXCELLENT gloss-laminated paper: the first (29 photographs & 1 portrait pencil-sketch, #s 1-30, between pp 336 & 337), the second (photographs & line-drawings, #s 31-65, between pp 688 & 689) * 6.26" x 9.50" x 2.36", 1.62 kg, xvi+1000 (1016) pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: When the 2nd volume of de La Grange's monumental study of Mahler appeared, it was hailed in The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, & many other publications as an indispensable portrait of the great composer. Here is the 3rd volume of this magisterial work: Ranging from 1904 to 1907, it explores Mahler's final years as administrator, producer & conductor of the Vienna Opera. It was a time of intense inner struggle, w/ Mahler's energy & creative powers drained by the competing demands of running the Hofoper & struggling for recognition as a composer. And they were tragic years as well, especially 1907, Mahler's last year in Vienna, when the death of his daughter & the diagnosis of heart disease forced him to leave the Opera. Throughout the book, de La Grange offers true-to-life portraits of Mahler the human being, the family man, & the composer, & he weaves in innumerable testimonies & anecdotes that throw ILLUMINATING new light on the great composer's complex personality. The product of 40 years of research, this is the DEFINITIVE study of a musical giant. It is, as The Wall Street Journal said of volume two, "a work of the first importance, one that nobody seriously interested in Mahler can possibly afford to skip." * ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Henry-Louis de La Grange is President of the Gustav Mahler Musical Library, Paris. He is also a chevalier of the Order of the Legion d'honneur, & an officer of the Ordre du Merite. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for our posted below-cost additional fee of $12.00 & to all international destinations via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL at our posted rates.

xxxii, 986, [1] pages. Hardcover: H 19.25cm x L 13.25cm. Full tree calf leather binding; boards lightly rubbed with some scuffing to gilt tooled edges particularly at corners; boards also decorated with gilt border near edges; shallow losses at scuffed spine ends with slight splitting at lower front joint; spine decorated with five slightly raised bands with gilt tooling to compartments plus bright lettering to maroon title label. All edges marbled; marbled endpapers. Remnant stub evidence of removed front flyleaf (i.e. half-title immediately follows ffep); a few pencil markings presumably from past bookseller on ffep verso and rfep recto; interior pages are otherwise clean. Double-column text. With b/w frontispiece portrait. Binding is firm. Still a very handsome book. No bindery ticket or binder mark present but likely bound contemporary to publication by a better London shop. Please note that this book has an approximate shipping weight of 3 pounds (1.36 kg) and may require additional postage for any postal class other than domestic Media Mail.