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But God . . . is a synopsis of Jim Seigel's life, beginning with his experiences before grade school and continuing through college, romance, marriage, and parenting. He recollects memories of travel, work, and time spent with his family that reveal so many "But God" moments where God moved powerfully in his life, culminating in a spectacular spiritual transformation. Jim and his wife, Ann, pray that these true events will be an inspiration to those who read this book.

Marx's Fate is an intellectual biography of Marx that combines historical, textual and psychological analyses to provide major new insights into the philosopher's writings and development.

This text aims to expound all the basic Latin constructions in a clear and concise manner. Designed for the student with a year or two of Latin under their belt, and through the use of captivating readings, thoughtful examples and explanatory translation exercises, this text builds upon and reinforces students' past knowledge so that they may go on to master the language. Each chapter is carefully focussed and complete with vocabulary lists to effortlessly build upon past lessons. Great for the classroom or for independent study, this guide acts as a clear and instructive companion for the...

The combination of rhetoric and philosophy appeared in the ancient world through Cicero, and revived as an ideal in the Renaissance. By a careful and precise analysis of the views of four major humanists-Petrarch, Salutati, Bruni, and Valla--Professor Seigel seeks to establish that they were first of all professional rhetoricians, completely committed to the relation between philosophy and rhetoric. He then explores the broader problem of the "external history" of humanism, and reopens basic questions about Renaissance culture. He departs from the views held by such scholars as Hans Baron...

Exotic and yet familiar, rife with passion, immorality, hunger, and freedom, Bohemia was an object of both worry and fascination to workaday Parisians in the nineteenth century. No mere revolt against middle-class society, the Bohemia Seigel discovers was richer and more complex, the stage on which modern bourgeois acted out the conflicts of their social identities, testing the liberation promised by post-revolutionary society against the barriers set up to contain it. Turning life into art, Bohemia became a space where many innovative and original figures--some famous, some obscure--found...