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Lost Illusions: Christine Haynes; Linking the study of business and politics, Christine Haynes reconstructs the passionate and protracted debate over the development of the book trade in nineteenth-century France. In tracing the contest over literary production in France, Haynes emphasizes the role of the Second Empire in enacting—but also in limiting—press freedom and literary property.; Hardcover January 2010

Am I Making Myself Clear?: Cornelia Dean; In 1468, on the final night of Carnival in Rome, Pope Paul II sat enthroned above the boisterous crowd, when a scuffle caught his eye. His guards had intercepted a mysterious stranger trying urgently to convey a warning—conspirators were lying in wait to slay the pontiff. Anthony D’Elia offers a compelling, surprising story that reveals a Renaissance world that witnessed the rebirth of interest in the classics, a thriving homoerotic culture, the clash of Christian and pagan values, the contest between republicanism and a papal monarchy, and tensions separating Christian Europeans and Muslim Turks.; Hardcover October 2009

Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 24/25, 2004 and 2005: Edited by Samuel Jones; Edited by Aled Jones; Edited by Jennifer Dukes Knight; Hardcover September 2009

From the Great Desire of Promoting Learning: William H. Bond; Introduction by Allen Reddick; Preface by William Stoneman; This checklist of Thomas Hollis’s gifts to Harvard College Library documents the generosity and the motives of one of the earliest and one of the greatest donors to Harvard University. Thomas Hollis and his books were the subject of William Bond’s 1982 Sandars Lectures in Bibliography at Cambridge University.; Hardcover July 2009

Voice and Vision: Stephen J. Pyne; It has become commonplace these days to speak of “unpacking” texts. Voice and Vision is a book about packing that prose in the first place. This book is for those who wish to understand the ways in which literary considerations can enhance nonfiction writing. Stephen Pyne, an experienced and skilled writer himself, explores the many ways to understand what makes good nonfiction, and explains how to achieve it. His counsel and guidance will be invaluable to experts as well as novices in the art of writing serious and scholarly nonfiction.; Hardcover May 2009

PHCC, 23, 2003: Edited by Bettina Kimpton; Edited by Matthew Knight; Amont other articles, this volume includes The Alans in the Iberian Peninsula and the Identification by Littleton and Malcor as the Milesians of the Lebor Gabála, Manuel Alberro; The ‘Gallic Disaster’: Did Dionysius I of Syracuse Order It?, Timothy Bridgman;.; Hardcover April 2009

The Languages of Paradise: Maurice Olender; Translated by Arthur Goldhammer; Maurice Olender shows that philology left an indelible mark on Western visions of history and contributed directly to some of the most horrifying ideologies of the twentieth century.; Paperback February 2009