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Product Description: Computer technology, pharmacology, genetics, and neurosciences promise people the possibility of making fundamental technical changes to themselves. According to post-humanist theory, from the modifications humans perform on the human organism a post-human being will result which is supposed to have a massively broader spectrum of bodily and cognitive capabilities compared to humans...read more

Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

Product Description: "First we shape things, then they shape us", was Churchill's view. What kind of architecture can be said to shape? Who does it shape? And by what means does it shape? The author's answers to these questions are a surprise in this diverting manifesto.

Product Description: First published in 1927, this brilliant satire of the Soviet system presents three comic characters, Nikolai Kavalerov and the Babichev brothers, bumbling their way through the bureaucracy. Translated by the renowned Robert Payne.

Product Description: This antiquarian volume contains 'Mao Tse-tung: Ruler of Red China', a book written by Robert Payne and published by in 1950 shortly after Mao came to power. Although devoid of many documents and pieces of information that were to become available after the original publication of this text, the book explores the party's history and foundation in considerable detail...read more

An expanded edition of the history of the Roman world explores the extraordinary legacy of ancient Rome in a richly illustrated, historical survey of the evolution of Roman civilization, politics, art, culture, and everyday life, from the Etruscan to the Byzantine Age, in a volume enhanced by three-dimensional reconstructions of Rome in its heyday. Reprint.

Product Description: This lavishly-illustrated tour through the film career of Greta Garbo (1905-1990) provides a biographical background of the star and an analysis of her very special mystique. Payne describes how Garbo's timeless beauty worked its magic in such films as Flesh and the Devil, Anna Christie, Mata Hari, Grand Hotel, Queen Christina, Camille, and Ninotchka...read more

Product Description: In this masterly work, Robert Payne brings to life the Crusade battalions that founded vast kingdoms nearly a thousand years ago. It is an exquisitely wrought saga of the medieval world that tells of the clash between East and West at a time when religious fervor was widespread and the possession of an ancient sepulchre mattered most in the lives of men...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

An in-depth study of the Crusades provides a comprehensive history of the medieval wars over control of the Holy Land and the resultant clash and mingling of East and West (view table of contents)

One of Russia's greatest poets, Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930) was a Futurist, early Bolshevik, and champion of the avant-garde. Despite his revolutionary youth, he became increasingly disillusioned with Soviet society, and three of his plays--all banned until after Stalin's death--reflect his changing assessments of the Revolution.Mayakovsky: Plays includes Mystery Bouffe, a mock medieval mystery written in 1918 to celebrate the first anniversary of the Revolution; The Bathhouse, a sharp attack on Soviet bureaucracy subtitled "a drama of circus and fireworks"; and The Bedbug, in which a worker with bourgeois pretensions is frozen and resurrected fifty years later, when the world has become a material paradise. The collection also includes Mayakovsky's more personal first play, Vladimir Mayakovsky: A Tragedy. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This is the heroic story of the man whose non-violent movement transformed India both spiritually and politically as it impelled the nation along the road to independence. With consummate skill, in a narration that never flags in vividness and drama, Robert Payne re-creates Mahatma Gandhi both as a spiritual and historical force and as a living personality...read more

The History of Islam

Selected stories from each period of Chekhov's career offer a humorous look at ordinary people in trying situations

Product Description: This book describes the lives and beliefs of major figures among early Church Fathers of the Western Church.

This book is more comprehensive than I thot it wd be...It goes from his early childhood until the end. 614 pp. The photos are also good. Very readable PAPERBACK from the 1970's.

Able Team, Blancanales, Lyons and Schwarz, are sent to Guatemala to investigate an illegal drugs and weapons deal and uncover a fascist assassination plot