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    Never Say You’ve Had a Lucky Life

    Joseph Epstein

    A rich and comic portrait of the radical changes in American life and the literary world over the last eighty years.

    An autobiography usually requires a justification. The great autobiographies-those…

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    Familiarity Breeds Content

    Joseph Epstein

    A collection of personal essays from America's most revered essay writer, Joseph Epstein.

    America's greatest living essayist writes about life and aging and being all too nicely out of it…

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    Frozen in Time: Twenty Stories

    Joseph Epstein

    The estimable Joseph Epstein-essayist, past editor of The American Scholar, and recipient of the 2003 National Humanities Medal along with Hal Holbrook and John Updike-brings together twenty short stories in…

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    Wind Sprints: Shorter Essays

    Joseph Epstein

    Features 142 short essays on a wide variety of subjects.

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    The Ideal of Culture: Essays

    Joseph Epstein

    Who is the greatest living essayist writing in English? Joseph Epstein would surely be at the top of anybody’s list. Epstein is penetrating. He is witty. He has a magic…

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    Essays in Biography

    Joseph Epstein

    Who is the greatest living essayist writing in English? Unquestionably Joseph Epstein. Epstein is penetrating. He is witty. He has a magic touch with words, that hard to define but…

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    A Literary Education and Other Essays

    Joseph Epstein

    Who invented the personal essay? That is hard to say. The ancient Roman philosopher and cynical power broker, Seneca? The 16th century French philosopher Montaigne certainly brought it to a…

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    Charm: The Elusive Enchantment

    Joseph Epstein

    Joseph Epstein takes on that most enchanting (and, alas, increasingly rare) of human gifts, charm. Almost everyone will recognize when he or she is in the presence of charm, he…

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    Gallimaufry: A Collection of Essays, Reviews, Bits

    Joseph Epstein

    Who is the greatest living essayist writing in English? Joseph Epstein would surely be at the top of anybody’s list. Epstein is penetrating. He is witty. He has a magic…

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    Ambition: The Secret Passion

    Joseph Epstein

    Sketches of eminent Americans and a pointed reconsideration of the ingredients of the American Dream form a fascinating social history. Should be must reading in executive suites as well as…

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    Friendship: An Expose

    Joseph Epstein

    The author sketches a witty and incisive anatomy of the modern friendship: its duties and requirements, the various kinds of friendships, the differences between male and female friendships, the complications…

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    The Novel, Who Needs It?

    Joseph Epstein

    In this brief but highly engaging book Joseph Epstein argues for the primacy of fiction, and specifically of the novel, among all intellectual endeavors that seek to describe the behavior…

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    Envy: The Seven Deadly Sins

    Joseph Epstein

    Part of a series of books on the history of sinning. This work considers what the experts have written about envy, schadenfreude, and resentment, and how it operates under different…

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    Life Sentences: Literary Essays

    Joseph Epstein

    Further literary writings by the foremost practitioner of the informal essay in our time.

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    Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy’s Guide

    Joseph Epstein

    A distinguished literary historian and author of the bestseller Snobbery: The American Version examines the legacy of the celebrated 19th century social observer, Alexis de Tocqueville.

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    A Line Out for a Walk

    Joseph Epstein

    Paul Klee’s words on his art, I take a line out for a walk , describe precisely what the author of these essays does - he takes out such lines…

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    Scalable VoIP Mobility: Integration and Deployment

    Joseph Epstein

    Offers practical advice on breaking down the implementation and deployment of voice mobility networks within the office, across the campus, and on the road. This title includes methods of integrating…

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    Masters of the Games

    Joseph Epstein

    In this collection, his twenty-fifth book, Joseph Epstein departs from writing about literature and culture to indulge his fondness for the world of sport in all its forms. In these…

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    Epstein: Partial Payments : Essays on Writers & T Heirlives (Paper): Essays on Writers and Their Lives

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    Joseph Epstein may well be the only first-rate American literary critic who can be said to have–and deserve–fans. His essays have captivated readers with their wit, learning, and unabashed love…

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    Gossip: The Untrivial Pursuit

    MR Joseph Epstein

    A juicy, incisive exploration of gossip in all its forms–from celebrity rumors to literary romans a clef, from personal sniping to political slander–by one our great essayists (David Brooks)

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    Snobbery: The American Version

    MR Joseph Epstein

    Snobbery is Epstein’s deliciously readable ( Harper’s Bazaar ) collection of essays skewering all manner of elitism. Filled with dishy detail, Snobbery takes up its subject in contemporary America, examining…

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    Narcissus Leaves the Pool

    MR Joseph Epstein

    Epstein’s sixth collection of personal pieces winningly and brilliantly rounds off his 23-year tenure as editor of The American Scholar . Among the topics covered are naps, Gershwin aging, name-dropping…

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    In a Cardboard Belt!: Essays Personal, Literary, and Savage

    MR Joseph Epstein

    Writing as a memoirist, polemicist, literary critic, and amused observer of contemporary culture, the author of Snobbery and Friendship presents this engaging collection of essays that captures his witty, entertaining…

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    Fabulous Small Jews

    MR Joseph Epstein

    In Fabulous Small Jews, the best-selling author Joseph Epstein has produced eighteen charming, magical, and finely detailed stories. They are populated by lawyers, professors, scrap-iron dealers, dry cleaners, all men…

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    Securing Commercial Nucleic Acid Synthesis

    Forrest W Crawford, Kyle Webster, Gerald L Epstein, Derek Roberts, Joseph Fair, Sella Nevo

    The increasing availability and decreasing cost of custom synthetic nucleic acids presents risk of misuse. The authors provide recommendations to implement comprehensive screening and secure commercial nucleic acid synthesis services…

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    Portraits: A Gallery of Intellectuals

    Edward Shils,Joseph Epstein

    Ranging widely across many disciplines, this collection of essays includes an affectionate treatment of Leo Szilard, an analysis of the educational philosophy of Robert Maynard Hutchins, an account of the…

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    Where Were We? - The Conversation Continues

    Frederic Raphael,Joseph Epstein

    Frederic Raphael, the English novelist, screenwriter, and man of letters, and Joseph Epstein, the American essayist, short-story writer, and literary critic, exchanged e-mails sporadically over the years, usually commenting on…

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    Portraits: A Gallery of Intellectuals

    Edward Shils

    Ranging widely across many disciplines, this collection of essays includes an affectionate treatment of Leo Szilard, an analysis of the educational philosophy of Robert Maynard Hutchins, an account of the…

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    Perfect Behavior: A Guide for Ladies and Gentlemen in All Social Crises

    Donald Ogden Stewart

    First published in 1922, this parody of etiquette and social mores makes fun of the pitfalls of courtship, engagement, and marriage, as well as such social settings as dinner parties…

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    The Dimwit’s Dictionary: More Than 5,000 Overused Words and Phrases and Alternatives to Them

    Robert Hartwell Fiske

    A compilation of thousands of overused words and phrases, and alternatives to them. This work is a tool for the writer who seeks to weed out common, tired, language and…

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    Love Song of A. Jerome Minkoff: And Other Stories

    MR Joseph Epstein,Georges Borchardt

    A collection of short stories in the manner of FABULOUS SMALL JEWS.

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    Mythic Worlds, Modern Words: Joseph Campbell on the Art of James Joyce : the Collected Works of Joseph Campbell

    Joseph Campbell

    Originally published: First edition. New York, N.Y.: HarperCollins, c1993.

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    Democracy in America

    Alexis de Tocqueville

    In 1831, Tocqueville set out from post-revolutionary France on a journey across America that would take him nine months and cover 7000 miles. The result was ‘Democracy in America’, a…

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    Die Logischen Principien Der Zeitmessung

    Joseph Hermann Leopold Epstein

    This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either…

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    Nostromo

    Joseph Conrad

    The newest addition to the widely-acclaimed Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad, this edition offers scholars for the first time an authoritative text of Nostromo, free from the…

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    The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale

    Joseph Conrad

    A story of espionage and counter-espionage, and anarchists and embassies.

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    Public Interest Law: An Annotated Bibliography and Research Guide

    Lee Epstein,Tracey E. George,Joseph F. Kobylka

    First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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    Ritual Abuse and Mind Control: The Manipulation of Attachment Needs

    The book combines clinical presentations, survivors’ voices, and research material to help address the ways in which we can work clinically with mind control and cult programming from the perspective…

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    Ritual Abuse and Mind Control: The Manipulation of Attachment Needs

    Intends to promote understanding and recovery from organized and ritual abuse, mind control and programming. This book combines clinical presentations, survivors’ voices, and research material to help address the ways…

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    Public Intellectuals: An Endangered Species?

    Investigates the definition, role, and decline of public intellectuals in American society. Drawing from a range of commentaries and studies, this volume demonstrates the importance of public intellectuals, and probes…

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    Public Intellectuals: An Endangered Species?

    Investigates the definition, role, and decline of public intellectuals in American society. Drawing from a range of commentaries and studies, this volume demonstrates the importance of public intellectuals, and probes…

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