Reflections: The Life and Writings of a Young Blind Woman in Post-Revolutionary France 0814747469, 9780814747469

Reflections: The Life and Writings of a Young Blind Woman in Post-Revolutionary France 9780814790984

Since his conversion from Judaism, Charles Rich has sought to lead a contemplative life while still in world. He has sha

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The Story of a Life: Memoirs of a Young Jewish Woman in the Russian Empire 9781501757945

Anna Pavlovna Vygodskaia's autobiography, originally published in 1938, is a rare and fascinating historical accoun

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Enlightenment, Romanticism, and the blind in France 9780691067100, 9781400858583

Paulson examines literary, philosophical, and pedagogical writing on blindness in France from the Enlightenment, when ph

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Paul Brunton - Notebook 8 Reflections on my Life and Writings

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Reflections in a Glass Door: Memory and Melancholy in the Personal Writings of Natsume Soseki 9780824864095

Much has been written about Natsume Soseki (1867–1916), one of Japan’s most celebrated writers. Known primarily for his

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The Afterlives of the Terror: Facing the Legacies of Mass Violence in Postrevolutionary France 9781501739255

The Afterlives of the Terror explores how those who experienced the mass violence of the French Revolution struggled to

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Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman 9780674043596

This is the story of the life of Nisa, a member of the !Kung tribe of hunter-gatherers from southern Africa's Kalah

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Reflections on the Revolution in France 9780300134865

The most enduring work of its time, Reflections on the Revolution in France was written in 1790 and has remained in prin

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Reflections on the Revolution in France 9780141907888

Burke's seminal work was written during the early months of the French Revolution, and it predicted with uncanny ac

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Morbid Undercurrents: Medical Subcultures in Postrevolutionary France 1501758330, 9781501758331

In Morbid Undercurrents, Sean M. Quinlan follows how medical ideas, stemming from the so-called birth of the clinic, zig

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