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Benjamin Franklin at the CockpitThe Making of a Patriot is the story of the American Revolution, its causes and consequences, told through one critical moment in history. When Benjamin Franklin was publicly humiliated by his countrymen at the Cockpit in 1774, his view on the relationship between colony and Empire shifted. Sheila Skemp, author of...

Affirmative action strikes at the heart of deeply held beliefs about employment and education, about the concepts of justice and fairness, and about the troubled history of race relations in America. This is the only book available that gives readers a balanced, non-polemical, and lucid account of this highly contentious issue....

Volume II: Iphigenia in Tauris and Other PlaysThe volume collects Euripides' Electra, an exciting story of vengence that counterposes suspense and horror with comic realism; Orestes, the tragedy of a young man who kills his mother to avenge her murder of his father; Iphigenia in Tauris, a delicately written and beautifully contrived Euripidean...

A Very Short IntroductionHow did Darwin use fossils to support his theory of evolution? What are 'living fossils'? What fossils will today's generation leave behind? Building on the scientific aspects, Keith Thomson places fossils in a very human context, highlighting their impact on philosophy, mythology, our concept of time, and popular...

A young man, in despair over gambling debts, buys a magical animal skin that grants his every wish but hastens its owner's death in the process. Balzac's compelling tale is here presented in an exuberant new translation, with an illuminating introduction and notes....

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