Canto Classics
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The New Knighthood (Canto Classics)
$25.99 Add to cartThe Order of the Temple, founded in 1119 to protect pilgrims around Jerusalem, developed into one of the most influential corporations in the medieval world. It has retained its hold on the modern ima… [more below]
- Series: Canto Classics
- Author: Barber, Malcolm
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 26 2012
- ISBN10: 1107604737
- Language: English
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Making a New Deal
$29.99 Add to cartThis book examines how it was possible and what it meant for ordinary factory workers to become effective unionists and national political participants by the mid-1930s. We follow Chicago workers as t… [more below]
- Series: Canto Classics
- Author: Cohen, Lizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 566
- Publish Date: November 06 2014
- ISBN10: 1107431794
- Language: English
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The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe
$25.99 Add to cartIn 1979 Elizabeth Eisenstein provided the first full-scale treatment of the fifteenth-century printing revolution in the West in her monumental two-volume work, The Printing Press as an Agent of Chang… [more below]
- Series: Canto Classics
- Author: Eisenstein, Elizabeth L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 401
- Publish Date: March 29 2012
- ISBN10: 1107632757
- Language: English
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English as a Global Language
$19.99 Add to cartDavid Crystal’s classic English as a Global Language considers the history, present status and future of the English language, focusing on its role as the leading international language. English has b… [more below]
- Series: Canto Classics
- Author: Crystal, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 29 2012
- ISBN10: 1107611806
- Language: English
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Liberty Before Liberalism
$19.99 Add to cartThis extended essay by one of the world’s leading historians seeks, in its first part, to excavate, and to vindicate, the neo-Roman theory of free citizens and free states as it developed in early-mod… [more below]
- Series: Canto Classics
- Author: Skinner, Quentin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: March 26 2012
- ISBN10: 1107689538
- Language: English
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Nations and Nationalism Since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality
$19.99 Add to cartNations and Nationalism since 1780 is Eric Hobsbawm’s widely acclaimed and highly readable inquiry into the question of nationalism. Events in the late twentieth century in Eastern Europe and the Sovi… [more below]
- Series: Canto Classics
- Author: Hobsbawm, E. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: March 26 2012
- ISBN10: 1107604621
- Language: English
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States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China
$22.99 Add to cartState structures, international forces, and class relations: Theda Skocpol shows how all three combine to explain the origins and accomplishments of social-revolutionary transformations. Social revolu… [more below]
- Series: Canto Classics
- Author: Skocpol, Theda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 421
- Publish Date: September 29 2015
- ISBN10: 1107569842
- Language: English
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The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition
$31.99 Add to cartThe Allegory of Love is a landmark study of a powerful and influential medieval conception. C. S. Lewis explores the sentiment called ‘courtly love’ and the allegorical method within which it develope… [more below]
- Series: Canto Classics
- Author: Lewis, C. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: November 07 2013
- ISBN10: 1107659434
- Language: English
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The Invention of Tradition
$24.99 Add to cartMany of the traditions which we think of as very ancient in their origins were not in fact sanctioned by long usage over the centuries, but were invented comparatively recently. This book explores exa… [more below]
- Series: Canto Classics
- Author: Hobsbawm, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: March 26 2012
- ISBN10: 1107604672
- Language: English
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On Growth and Form
$24.99 Add to cartWhy do living things and physical phenomena take the form they do? D’Arcy Thompson’s classic On Growth and Form looks at the way things grow and the shapes they take. Analysing biological processes in… [more below]
- Series: Canto Classics
- Author: Thompson, D’Arcy Wentworth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 366
- Publish Date: May 15 2014
- ISBN10: 1107672562
- Language: English
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Ecological Imperialism
$24.99 Add to cartPeople of European descent form the bulk of the population in most of the temperate zones of the world – North America, Australia and New Zealand. The military successes of European imperialism are ea… [more below]
- Series: Canto Classics
- Author: Crosby, Alfred W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 388
- Publish Date: October 06 2015
- ISBN10: 1107569877
- Language: English
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Selected Literary Essays
$22.99 Add to cartThis volume includes over twenty of C. S. Lewis’s most important literary essays, written between 1932 and 1962. The topics discussed range from Chaucer to Kipling, from ‘The Literary Impact of the Au… [more below]
- Series: Canto Classics
- Author: Lewis, C. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 07 2013
- ISBN10: 1107685389
- Language: English
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Studies in Words
$22.99 Add to cartLanguage – in its communicative and playful functions, its literary formations and its shifting meanings – is a perennially fascinating topic. C. S. Lewis’s Studies in Words explores this fascination … [more below]
- Series: Canto Classics
- Author: Lewis, C. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 07 2013
- ISBN10: 1107688655
- Language: English
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Mortal Questions (Canto Classics)
$19.99 Add to cartThomas Nagel’s Mortal Questions explores some fundamental issues concerning the meaning, nature and value of human life. Questions about our attitudes to death, sexual behaviour, social inequality, wa… [more below]
- Series: Canto Classics
- Author: Nagel, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 226
- Publish Date: March 26 2012
- ISBN10: 1107604710
- Language: English
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An Experiment in Criticism (Canto Classics)
$19.99 Add to cartC. S. Lewis’s wisdom is valuably down-to-earth, refreshing and stimulating in the questions it raises about the experience of reading.
- Series: Canto Classics
- Author: Lewis, C. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: March 26 2012
- ISBN10: 1107604729
- Language: English
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Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action
$24.99 Add to cartThe governance of natural resources used by many individuals in common is an issue of increasing concern to policy analysts. Both state control and privatization of resources have been advocated, but … [more below]
- Series: Canto Classics
- Author: Ostrom, Elinor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: September 23 2015
- ISBN10: 1107569788
- Language: English
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The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature
$19.99 Add to cartThe Discarded Image paints a lucid picture of the medieval world view, providing the historical and cultural background to the literature of the middle ages and renaissance. It describes the ‘image’ d
- Series: Canto Classics
- Author: Lewis, C. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: March 30, 2012
- ISBN10: 1107604702
- Language: English
