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All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
Category: Fiction | Series: Harvest Book Ser.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this classic book is generally regarded as the finest novel ever written on american politics. It describes the career of Willie Stark, a back-country lawyer whose idealism is overcome by his lust for power. New Foreword by Joseph Blotner for this fiftieth anniversary editi ...Show more
Letters to a Young Doctor by Richard Selzer (Preface by)
Category: Biography | Series: Harvest Book Ser.
Highly candid, insightful, and unexpectedly humorous essays on both the brutality and the beauty of the profession in which saving and losing lives is all in a day's work. A timeless collection by the "best of the writing surgeons" (Chicago Tribune). With a Preface written by the Author especially for t ...Show more
On Aggression by Konrad Lorenz; Konrad Lorenz
Category: Nature | Series: Harvest Book Ser.
This work has had significant impact on the social and biological sciences and is now a classic point of reference for investigations of behavioral patterns. Lorenz presents his findings on the mechanism of aggression and how animals control destructive drives in the interest of the species. Translated ...Show more
On Violence by Hannah Arendt
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Harvest Book Ser.
Presents an analysis of the nature, causes, and significance of violence in the second half of the twentieth century. This title also re-examines the relationship between war, politics, violence, and power.
The Four Loves by C. S. Lewis
Category: No Category | Series: Harvest Book Ser.
C.S. Lewis's famous work on the nature of love divides love into four categories: Affection, Friendship, Eros and Charity. The first three are loves which come naturally to the human race. Charity, however, the Gift-love of God, is divine in its source and expression, and without the sweetening grace of ...Show more
The World of Venice - Revised Edition by James Morris; Jan Morris
Category: Travel | Series: Harvest Book Ser.
A fascinating exploration of the history, sights, seasons, arts, food, and people of an incomparable city. "A highly intelligent portrait of an eccentric city, written in powerful prose and enlivened by many curious mosaics of information...a beautiful book to read and to possess" (The Observer). New Fo ...Show more
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