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S. T. Joshi has written 126 work(s)
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9780984480258 | Hippocampus Pr, August 31, 2010, cover price $15.00
Product Description: In this little-known work by Voltaire (1694-1778)ânow available in English for the first timeâ the famous French philosophe and satirist presents a wide-ranging and acerbic survey of religion throughout the world. Written toward the end of his life in 1769, the work was penned in the same decade as some of his more famous worksâthe Philosophical Dictionary, Questions on Miracles, and Lord Bolingbrokeâs Important Examinationâall of which questioned the basic tenets of Christianity...read more
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9781616141783, titled "God & Human Beings: First English Translation" | Prometheus Books, May 25, 2010, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: In this little-known work by Voltaire (1694-1778)ânow available in English for the first timeâ the famous French philosophe and satirist presents a wide-ranging and acerbic survey of religion throughout the world.
Product Description: "Mencken weighs 172 pounds, is 5 feet 10 inches in height and not beautiful. His chief amusement, after reading, is piano-playing, this he does very crudely. He takes no exercise except walking and is a moderate eater and drinker...read more
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9780807135921 | Louisiana State Univ Pr, March 1, 2010, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: "Mencken weighs 172 pounds, is 5 feet 10 inches in height and not beautiful.
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9780810869349 | Scarecrow Pr, August 28, 2009, cover price $94.00
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9780981488837 | Hippocampus Pr, June 30, 2009, cover price $20.00
Product Description: Mark Twain is sometimes envisioned as a kind of 19th-century American offshoot of Voltaire. Like his French counterpart, he expressed a deeply felt indignation at religious hypocrisy and obscurantism, and peppered his satirical writings, especially in his later years, with stinging wit and iconoclastic fervor...read more
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9781591026853 | Prometheus Books, January 30, 2009, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Mark Twain is sometimes envisioned as a kind of 19th-century American offshoot of Voltaire.
Product Description: Discusses the ideas and impact of 27 atheists, agnostics, and secularists whose ideas have shaped society over the last 200 years.Included are alphabetically arranged entries on 27 iconic figures of unbelief, such as:Charles BradlaughRichard DawkinsDaniel C...read more
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9780313347597 | Greenwood Pub Group, October 30, 2008, cover price $83.00 | About this edition: Discusses the ideas and impact of 27 atheists, agnostics, and secularists whose ideas have shaped society over the last 200 years.
Product Description: Table of Contents: Dispatches from the Providence Observatory: Astronomical Motifs and Sources in the Writings of H. P. Lovecraft......T. R. Livesey The Sickness unto Death in H. P. Lovecraft's "The Hound"......James Goho Queer Tales? Sexuality, Race, and Architecture in "The Thing on the Doorstep"...read more
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9780981488868 | Hippocampus Pr, August 30, 2008, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Table of Contents: Dispatches from the Providence Observatory: Astronomical Motifs and Sources in the Writings of H.
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9780977173495 | Hippocampus Pr, February 28, 2008, cover price $15.00
Product Description: Agnosticism â the philosophical argument that it is impossible to know whether God exists or not â has been the point of view of many distinguished thinkers from the 19th century to the present. In contrast to atheism, which asserts that God does not exist, agnosticism holds that reason and the best scientific evidence do not allow one to reach a decisive conclusion regarding the existence of God...read more
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9781591025337 | Prometheus Books, August 1, 2007, cover price $21.99 | About this edition: Agnosticism â the philosophical argument that it is impossible to know whether God exists or not â has been the point of view of many distinguished thinkers from the 19th century to the present.
Product Description: Since the publication of his first novel in 1946, Gore Vidal has been one of America's most successful writers, as well as one of its most outspoken public figures. The author of more than twenty novelsâincluding The City and the Pillar, Myra Breckinridge, Burr, and Lincolnâas well as several books of nonfiction, plays, and screenplays, Gore Vidal has been a leading man of American letters for more than half a century...read more
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9780810860018 | Scarecrow Pr, July 30, 2007, cover price $83.00 | About this edition: Since the publication of his first novel in 1946, Gore Vidal has been one of America's most successful writers, as well as one of its most outspoken public figures.
Product Description: Clark Ashton Smith was one of the most remarkable and distinctive American poets of the twentieth century. His tremendous output of poetry, totaling nearly 1000 original poems written over a span of more than fifty years, is of the highest craftsmanship and runs the gamut of subject matter from breathtaking cosmic verse about the stars and galaxies to plangent love poetry to pungent satire to delicate imitations of Japanese haiku...read more
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9780977173426 | Hippocampus Pr, May 30, 2007, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Clark Ashton Smith was one of the most remarkable and distinctive American poets of the twentieth century.
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9780313337802 | Greenwood Pub Group, December 30, 2006, cover price $191.00 | About this edition: Each entry discusses a type of monster or villian in horror, science fiction, or supernatural literature or films, providing a history of when it first appeared in the genre, criticism of its incarnations since, and what makes it so frightening.
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9780143039921 | Penguin Classics, September 26, 2006, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A second chilling collection of landmark ghost stories and tales of the supernatural includes all the works from the author's final two volumes of fiction, A Thin Ghost and Others and A Warning to the Curious.
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9781572335370 | Com edition (Univ of Tennessee Pr, September 15, 2006), cover price $55.00
9781572335363 | Com edition (Univ of Tennessee Pr, September 15, 2006), cover price $55.00
9780080425535, titled "Water Quality International 94 Part 5: Water Quality Management in Central and Eastern Europe : Integrated Catchment Managment : Pollution Preventio" | Pergamon Pr, January 1, 1995, cover price $138.50 | also contains Water Quality International 94 Part 5: Water Quality Management in Central and Eastern Europe : Integrated Catchment Managment : Pollution Preventio
9780120777808, titled "Liposome Letters" | Academic Pr, December 1, 1983, cover price $41.00 | also contains Liposome Letters
9780120775507, titled "The Fears of Adolescents" | Academic Pr, August 1, 1979, cover price $99.00 | also contains The Fears of Adolescents
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Product Description: Since 1968, Republican presidents have occupied the White House far longer than Democratic presidents, and recently Republicans have controlled both houses of Congress as well. In spite of these electoral triumphs, leading spokespersons on the right continue to depict conservatives as an embattled minority...read more
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9781591024637 | Prometheus Books, September 5, 2006, cover price $26.99 | About this edition: Since 1968, Republican presidents have occupied the White House far longer than Democratic presidents, and recently Republicans have controlled both houses of Congress as well.
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9781568821900 | Chaosium, June 30, 2006, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Lord Dunsany's Tales of the Fabulous Realm of Pegana.
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9780976159292 | 1 edition (Hippocampus Pr, June 27, 2006), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Book by
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9780974878973 | Hippocampus Pr, March 30, 2006, cover price $40.00
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9780974878980 | Hippocampus Pr, December 30, 2005, cover price $20.00
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9781591023807 | Prometheus Books, February 6, 2006, cover price $29.99 | About this edition: Collects source documents from American writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that demonstrate prejudice against women in sex, marriage, education, the workplace, arts and sciences, and political engagement.
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9780974878935 | Hippocampus Pr, December 30, 2005, cover price $20.00
A chilling collection of landmark ghost stories and tales of the supernatural includes all the works from the author's first two volumes of fiction, Ghost Stories of an Antiquary and More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, featuring such works as 'Count Magnus,' 'Number 13,' 'Casting the Runes,' and others. Original.
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9780143039396 | Penguin Classics, October 1, 2005, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Collects ghost stories and tales of the supernatural, featuring such works as 'Count Magnus,' 'Number 13,' and 'Casting the Runes.
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9780313327742 | Greenwood Pub Group, September 30, 2005, cover price $306.00 | About this edition: Approximately one thousand alphabetically arranged entries cover authors, themes, and works of the nineteenth through twenty-first centuries, including Alexander Dumas, Charles Baudelaire, Daphne du Maurier, Katherine Dunn, Shirley Jackson, and A.
Product Description: Lord Dunsany, Irish master of fantasy, was the author of more than a dozen novels, hundreds of short stories, poems, and essays, and dozens of plays. And yet, his last major work, The Pleasures of a Futuroscope, has remained unpublished until this edition...read more
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9780972164481 | Hippocampus Pr, November 1, 2003, cover price $32.95
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9780976159285 | Hippocampus Pr, August 30, 2005, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Lord Dunsany, Irish master of fantasy, was the author of more than a dozen novels, hundreds of short stories, poems, and essays, and dozens of plays.
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9780821416327 | Ohio Univ Pr, August 1, 2005, cover price $49.95
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