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The Academic Marketplace

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By Jacques Barzun (foreword by), Theodore Caplow and Reece J. McGee

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Paperback:

9780765806093 | Reprint edition (Transaction Pub, April 1, 2001), cover price $33.95

The American University: How It Runs, Where It Is Going

By Jacques Barzun

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9780226038452 | 2 edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, January 1, 1993), cover price $29.00

Begin Here: The Forgotten Conditions of Teaching and Learning

Criticizes the current educational system, and offers suggestions on curriculum, testing, grading, and teaching methods

By Jacques Barzun and Morris Philipson (editor)

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9780226038469 | Univ of Chicago Pr, March 1, 1991, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Criticizes the current educational system, and offers suggestions on curriculum, testing, grading, and teaching methods

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9780226038476 | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, May 1, 1992), cover price $21.00 | About this edition: Criticizes the current educational system, and offers suggestions on curriculum, testing, grading, and teaching methods

Berlioz and His Century: An Introduction to Age of Romanticism

The influential French composer is viewed as a man and an artist in this comprehensive study (view table of contents)

By Jacques Barzun

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9780226038612 | Univ of Chicago Pr, August 15, 1982, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: The influential French composer is viewed as a man and an artist in this comprehensive study

Berlioz and the Romantic Century

By Jacques Barzun

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9781406754537 | Read Books, March 30, 2007, cover price $33.45

Bibliophile of the Future: His Complaints About the Twentieth Century

Product Description: Limited to 1000 copies. Fourth Annual Maury A. Bromsen Lecture on Humanistic Bibliography, by a noted and highly respected scholar of European intellectual history and author of many works on that subject. Presents his view on the future of book collecting...read more

By Jacques Barzun

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9780890730485 | Boston Public Library, June 1, 1976, cover price $3.00 | About this edition: Limited to 1000 copies.

A Catalogue of Crime/Being a Reader's Guide to the Literature of Mystery, Detection, and Related Genres

An annotated list of more than five thousand books, including novels, short story collections, histories of the genre, true crime tales, and Sherlock Holmes studies

By Jacques Barzun and Wendell Hertig Taylor

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9780060157968 | Rev enl edition (Harpercollins, November 1, 1989), cover price $50.00 | About this edition: An annotated list of more than five thousand books, including novels, short story collections, histories of the genre, true crime tales, and Sherlock Holmes studies

Classic, Romantic and Modern

Drawing from the works of influential figures in art and literature, the author traces the development of romanticism from classicism and the emergence of the modern ego

By Jacques Barzun

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9780226038520 | Univ of Chicago Pr, September 1, 1975, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Drawing from the works of influential figures in art and literature, the author traces the development of romanticism from classicism and the emergence of the modern ego

Clio and the Doctors: Psycho-History Quanto-History and History

By Jacques Barzun

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9780226038513 | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, November 1, 1989), cover price $20.00

A Company of Readers: Uncollected Writings of W. H. Auden, Jacques Barzun, and Lionel Trilling from the Reader's Subscription and Mid-Century Book Clubs

An anthology of essays, criticism, and reviews, unpublished for fifty years, includes a selection of writings by W. H. Auden, Jacques Barzun, and Lionel Trilling from the publications of The Reader's Subscription Book Club and the The Mid-Century Book Society, including Trilling's thoughts on The Wind in the Willows, Auden on drugs and cooking, and Barzun on the work of Robert Lowell. 17,500 first printing. (view table of contents)

By W. H. Auden (editor), Jacques Barzun (foreword by) and Arthur Krystal (editor)

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9780743202626 | Free Pr, August 1, 2001, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: An anthology of essays, criticism, and reviews, unpublished for fifty years, includes Trilling's thoughts on 'The Wind in the Willows,' Auden on drugs and cooking, and Barzun on the the work of Robert Lowell.

Conversation with Jacques Barzun

By Jacques Barzun

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9780865975897 | Dvd edition (Liberty Fund, August 1, 2005), cover price $22.00

Critical Questions: On Music and Letters Culture and Biography 1940-1980

Essays discuss musical esthetics, biography, criticism, social commentary, and the relationship between art and our perception of reality

By Jacques Barzun

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9780226038636 | Univ of Chicago Pr, July 1, 1983, cover price $34.00 | About this edition: Essays discuss musical esthetics, biography, criticism, social commentary, and the relationship between art and our perception of reality

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9780226038643, titled "Critical Questions: On Music and Letters, Culture and Biography, 1940-1980" | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, April 1, 1984), cover price $28.00 | About this edition: Essays discuss musical esthetics, biography, criticism, social commentary, and the relationship between art and our perception of reality

The Culture We Deserve

By Jacques Barzun

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9780819562371 | Reprint edition (Wesleyan Univ Pr, May 1, 1989), cover price $17.95

The Culture We Deserve: A Critique of Disenlightenment

Product Description: Twelve essays exploring aspects of literacy and art criticism, retrospective sociology and the effects of relativism on moral behavior.

By Jacques Barzun

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9780819552006 | Wesleyan Univ Pr, June 1, 1989, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Twelve essays exploring aspects of literacy and art criticism, retrospective sociology and the effects of relativism on moral behavior.

Darwin, Marx, Wagner: Critique of a Heritage

Reassesses the stature and contributions of the three, points out their similarities, and attempts to explain why they have come to be so revered

By Jacques Barzun

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Hardcover:

9780844616032 | 2 edition (Peter Smith Pub Inc, July 1, 1979), cover price $6.50

Paperback:

9781406761788 | 2 edition (Lightning Source Inc, March 31, 2007), cover price $31.45

9780226038599 | 2 edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, June 1, 1981), cover price $22.50 | About this edition: Reassesses the stature and contributions of the three, points out their similarities, and attempts to explain why they have come to be so revered

Darwin - Marx - Wagner - Critique of a Heritage

By Jacques Barzun

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9781443729895 | Read Books, November 30, 2008, cover price $43.45

The Energies of Art: Studies of Authors, Classic and Modern

By Jacques Barzun

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Hardcover:

9780837168562 | Reprint edition (Greenwood Pub Group, June 1, 1956), cover price $76.50

An Essay on French Verse: For Readers of English Poetry

By Jacques Barzun

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Hardcover:

9780811211574 | New Directions, May 1, 1991, cover price $12.95

Paperback:

9780811211581, titled "Essay on French Verse: For Readers of English Poetry" | New Directions, April 30, 1991, cover price $15.95

From Dawn of Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life : 1500 to the Present

By Jacques Barzun

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Reinforced:

9780606286565 | Demco Media, July 1, 2003, cover price $30.15

From Dawn to Decadence

Showcases the triumphs and defeats of five hundred years of Western cultural history, highlighting the contributions of women and arguing that decadance is required in order to spark creativity in the next era.

By Jacques Barzun

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Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780786119516 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, August 1, 2002), cover price $99.95

9780694525485 | Abridged edition (Harperaudio, June 1, 2001), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Showcases the triumphs and defeats of five hundred years of Western cultural history, highlighting the contributions of women and arguing that decadance is required in order to spark creativity in the next era.

From Dawn To Decadence: 1500 To The Present

By Jacques Barzun

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9780613708500 | Turtleback Books, May 1, 2001, cover price $37.90 | About this edition: Showcases the triumphs and defeats of five hundred years of Western cultural history, highlighting the contributions of women and arguing that decadance is required in order to spark creativity in the next era.

From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life

One of the century's great intellectuals synthesizes his thinking on art, scholarship, manners, morals, and religion to offer his critique of Western culture today, which he sees in a period of decadence and serious decline. Reprint. 150,000 first printing.

By Jacques Barzun

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Paperback:

9780060928834 | 1 edition (Perennial, May 1, 2001), cover price $23.99 | About this edition: Showcases the triumphs and defeats of five hundred years of Western cultural history, highlighting the contributions of women and arguing that decadance is required in order to spark creativity in the next era.

From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life : 1500 to the Present

By Jacques Barzun

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Hardcover:

9780060175863 | Harpercollins, June 1, 2000, cover price $36.00 | About this edition: Showcases the triumphs and defeats of five hundred years of Western cultural history, highlighting the contributions of women and arguing that decadance is required in order to spark creativity in the next era.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780786120093 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, August 1, 2002), cover price $85.95

From Dawn to Decadence: Library Edition

By Jacques Barzun and Edward Lewis (narrator)

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CD/Spoken Word:

9780786190737 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, April 1, 2008), cover price $69.95

God's Country and Mine: A Declaration of Love Spiced With a Few Harsh Words

By Jacques Barzun

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Hardcover:

9780837168609 | Greenwood Pub Group, June 1, 1954, cover price $36.95

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