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Product Description: This book argues that we should regard walking and talking in a single rhythmic vision. In doing so, it contributes to the theory of prosody, our understanding of respiration and looking, and, in sum, to the particular links, across the board, between the human characteristics of bipedal walking and meaningful talk...read more

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9780823256822, titled "Talking the Walk & Walking the Talk: A Rhetoric of Rhythm" | Fordham Univ Pr, September 1, 2015, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: This book argues that we should regard walking and talking in a single rhythmic vision.

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9780823256839, titled "Talking the Walk & Walking the Talk: A Rhetoric of Rhythm" | 1 edition (Fordham Univ Pr, September 1, 2015), cover price $26.00 | About this edition: This book argues that we should regard walking and talking in a single rhythmic vision.

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9780773543188, titled "The Last Class: Coming of Age in the Quiet Revolution" | McGill Queens Univ Pr, December 1, 2016, cover price $29.95

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Product Description:   Wampum has become a synonym for money, and it is widely assumed that it served the same purposes as money among the Native Algonquians even after coming into contact with European colonists' money. But to equate wampum with money only matches one slippery term with another, as money itself was quite ill-defined in North America for decades during its colonization...read more

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9780252033667 | Univ of Illinois Pr, October 2, 2013, cover price $35.00 | About this edition:   Wampum has become a synonym for money, and it is widely assumed that it served the same purposes as money among the Native Algonquians even after coming into contact with European colonists' money.

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9780674019379 | Harvard Univ Pr, January 30, 2006, cover price $27.95

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Product Description: The question of what it means to be human is at the core of Western philosophical and scientific inquiry. As conceptualized in the Western tradition, “humanity” has been understood and defined in opposition to the animal, which is said to lack the rationality and language that we adduce as the clearest evidence of our difference from beasts...read more
By R. Howard Bloch (editor), Judith L. Goldstein (editor), Harriet Ritvo (editor), Marc Shell (editor) and Ben J. Smith (editor)

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9780822365686 | Duke Univ Pr, May 1, 2004, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: The question of what it means to be human is at the core of Western philosophical and scientific inquiry.

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Product Description: If ever there was a polyglot place on the globe (other than the Tower of Babel), America between 1750 and 1850 was it. Here three continents—North America, Africa, and Europe—met and spoke not as one, but in Amerindian and African languages, in German and English, Spanish, French, and Dutch...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Marc Shell (editor)

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9780674006447 | Harvard Univ Pr, September 23, 2002, cover price $65.50 | About this edition: If ever there was a polyglot place on the globe (other than the Tower of Babel), America between 1750 and 1850 was it.

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9780674006614 | Harvard Univ Pr, September 23, 2002, cover price $35.50 | About this edition: If ever there was a polyglot place on the globe (other than the Tower of Babel), America between 1750 and 1850 was it.

Examines the connections among national self-determination, kinship, politics, literature, and society

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9780735103528 | Replica Books, February 1, 2001, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: Examines the connections among national self-determination, kinship, politics, literature, and society
9780195068641 | Oxford Univ Pr, May 1, 1993, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: An exploration of the link between kinship, race, and national identity reassesses the ways in which humans define themselves, looking to literature from the sixteenth to the twentieth century for examples.

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Describes literature in languages other than English in the United States, and recommends knowing English plus other languages (view table of contents)

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9780814797525 | New York Univ Pr, October 1, 2000, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: Describes literature in languages other than English in the United States, and recommends knowing English plus other languages

Product Description: In this provocative commentary on Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, Marc Shell focuses on the play's basic themes of sexual extremism, exchange, and political order. At the crux of the play, he notes, the novice nun Isabella accuses her brother Claudio: "Is't not a kind of incest, to take life/From thine own sister's shame?" Shell's analysis shows exactly how Claudio's request is a kind of incest in a virtuoso analysis that extends his earlier work on philosophical and literary economies...read more

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9780801852671, titled "The End of Kinship: "Measure for Measure," Incest, and the Ideal of Universal Siblinghood" | December 1, 1995, cover price N/A
| About this edition: In this provocative commentary on Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, Marc Shell focuses on the play's basic themes of sexual extremism, exchange, and political order.
9780804712644, titled "The End of Kinship: Measure for Measure, Incest, and the Ideal of Universal Siblinghood" | Stanford Univ Pr, March 1, 1988, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: In this provocative commentary on Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, Marc Shell focuses on the play's basic themes of sexual extremism, exchange, and political order.

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9780801852428, titled "The End of Kinship: 'Measure for Measure,' Incest and the Ideal of Universal Siblinghood" | Reprint edition (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, October 1, 1995), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: In this provocative commentary on Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, Marc Shell focuses on the play's basic themes of sexual extremism, exchange, and political order.

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Examines the many material, social, and symbolic connections among art, money, and religion throughout Western history, and investigates current matters of art collection, counterfeiting, and crises in the financial world, with the help of many illustrations. UP.

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9780226752136 | Univ of Chicago Pr, June 1, 1995, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Examines the many material, social, and symbolic connections among art, money, and religion throughout Western history, and investigates current matters of art collection, counterfeiting, and crises in the financial world

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Product Description: In Money, Language, and Thought, Marc Shell explores the interactions between linguistic and economic production as they inform discourse from Chretien de Troyes to Heidegger. Close readings of works such as the medieval grail legends, The Merchant of Venice, Goethe's Faust, and Poe's "The Gold Bug" reveal how discourse has responded to the dissociation of symbol from thing characteristic of money, and how the development of increasingly symbolic currencies has involved changes in the meaning of meaning...read more

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9780520043794 | Univ of California Pr, October 1, 1982, cover price $5.98 | About this edition: In Money, Language, and Thought, Marc Shell explores the interactions between linguistic and economic production as they inform discourse from Chretien de Troyes to Heidegger.

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9780801846939 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, October 1, 1993, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: In Money, Language, and Thought, Marc Shell explores the interactions between linguistic and economic production as they inform discourse from Chretien de Troyes to Heidegger.

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Product Description: Why did coinage, tyranny, and philosophy develop in the same time and place? Marc Shell explores how both money and language give "worth" by providing a medium of exchange, how the development of money led to a revolution in philosophical thought and language, and how words transform mere commodities into symbols at once aesthetic and practical...read more

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9780801820304 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, June 1, 1978, cover price $22.50

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9780801846946 | Reprint edition (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, October 1, 1993), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Why did coinage, tyranny, and philosophy develop in the same time and place?

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Product Description: As a girl of eleven, Elizabeth I translated into English a poem by Marguerite of Navarre on incest, spiritual and physical. Four years later her translation, tided "The Glass of the Sinful Soul," was published by the Protestant reformer John Bale...read more

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9780803242166 | Univ of Nebraska Pr, April 1, 1993, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: As a girl of eleven, Elizabeth I translated into English a poem by Marguerite of Navarre on incest, spiritual and physical.

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