 | Love Letters Of Great Men - Vol. 2
Publication Date: January 31, 2010Love Letters of Great Men (Volume 2) is a collection of romantic love poems written by leading male historical figures. ***Volume 1 plays a key role in the plot of the US movie Sex and the City. ***This Volume 2 includes love poems written by Matthew Arnold, Alfred Austin, Samuel Alfred Beadle, William Blake, Christopher Brennan, Lord Byron, Robert Burns, John Clare, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Constable, William Cowper, Michael Drayton, George Eliot, Thomas Ford, Stephen Foster, Robert Frost, Thomas Frost, Norman Rowland Gale, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,...
 |  | Learn Then Burn: A Modern Poetry Anthology for the Classroom
Publication Date: May 1, 2010Hello teachers! We know you work hard. Besides ninjas, you have the hardest job in the world. Between the teaching, the testing, the grading, and the nurturing it's difficult to seek out new materials for your classroom. We are here to help. As poets and teachers, we know the power of the spoken word in the classroom. All you have to do is attend a youth slam or find a clip of one online and you will see the positive impact modern poetry has on our young people. It is able to engage students from any background in a way that classical poetry simply cannot touch. ...
|  | The Other Side of the Game
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|  | Little Boys Come from the Stars
Release Date: March 12, 2002Sardonic, subtle, and sweetly scathing, Little Boys Come from the Stars is satire at its best. Set in an unnamed country in equatorial Africa, it tells the story of Michel, a precocious teen dubbed Matapari (“trouble”) because of his extraordinary birth. Though his father is a reclusive scholar, his mother a pious though confused Catholic, and his uncle a shameless opportunist determined to gain power in the shifting politics of their post-colonial nation, Matapari remains an unsullied child who wears Reeboks, drinks Coke, reads Japanese comics, and ...
|  | The Scandal of the Season: A Novel
Publication Date: July 19, 2007Jane Austen meets Philip Roth in a sexy, sparkling debut novel reconstructing the real-life scandal that inspired Alexander Pope's famous poem "The Rape of the Lock." London, 1711. The rich young offspring of the city's fashionable families fill their days with masquerade balls, opera engagements, and clandestine courtships. Leading the pursuit of pleasure are the beautiful Arabella Fermor, with her circle of beaus, and Robert Petre, seventh Baron of Ingatestone, a man-about-town with his choice of mistresses. Small, sickly, and almost penniless, Alex...
|  | Reflections of the Self
Publication Date: January 1, 1993Swami Muktananda's aphoristic poetry reflects on fundamental truths and speaks of yoga in his uncompromisingly pure way. A mixture of meditative wisdom, fervent and reverent prayer, and instruction, this book is infused with Muktananda's energy and love. ...
|  | On the Nature of the Universe (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: February 15, 2009| ISBN-10: 0199555141 | ISBN-13: 978-0199555147| Edition: Reissue This is a new verse translation of Lucretius's only known work, a didactic poem written in six books of hexameters. Melville's particularly literal translation of the use of metaphor is especially helpful to those looking at the text from a scientific or philosophical point of view.About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, pro...
|  | Human Shrapnel
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|  | Message to Aztlan: Selected Writings of Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales (Hispanic Civil Rights)
Publication Date: January 1, 2001| Series: Hispanic Civil Rights One of the most famous leaders of the Chicano civil rights movement, Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales was a multifaceted and charismatic, bigger-than-life hero who inspired his followers not only by taking direct political action but also by making eloquent speeches, writing incisive essays, and creating the kind of socially engaged poetry and drama that could be communicated easily through the barrios of Aztlán, populated by Chicanos in the United States.Gonzales is the author of I Am Joaquín, an epic poem of the Chicano mov...
|  | Struny rokotakhu--: Ocherki o russkom folklore (Russian Edition)
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|  | the possibility of flight
Publication Date: November 30, 2008| ISBN-10: 1921479078 | ISBN-13: 978-1921479076Winner of the 2008 IP Picks Best Poetry Award. Poetry at the cutting edge of contemporary writing with works from artesian memories of the Australian desert to the shifting territory of the gods in rural Pakistan. ...
|  | Difficult Gifts
Publication Date: May 30, 2011Forty-two poems by Dawn Garisch, a doctor who writes, a poet who walks, a researcher who dances. She lives in Cape Town near the mountain and the sea and has two grown sons. Her last novel, Trespass, was nominated for the Commonwealth Prize in Africa. ...
|  | The colporteur handbook
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|  | Commerce with the Classics: Ancient Books and Renaissance Readers (Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures)
Publication Date: December 15, 1997| Series: Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures (Book 20) The style of reading in Renaissance Europe, as seen in the margins of books and in the texts of Renaissance intellectuals themselves, is deftly charted in this welcome volume from Anthony Grafton. Growing out of the Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures that Anthony Grafton gave at the University of Michigan in 1992, this book describes the interaction between books and readers in the Renaissance, as seen in four major case studies.Humanists Alberti, Pico, Budé, and Kepler, all major figures of their time and...
|  | Clayton's Galveston: The Architecture of Nicholas J. Clayton and His Contemporaries (Sara and John Lindsey Series in the Arts and Humanities)
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|  | Are You Afraid Of The Dark?
Release Date: September 14, 2004All around the globe, people are being reported dead or missing. At first these seem to be random incidents, but the police soon discover that all four of the victims are connected to Kingsley International Group, the largest think tank in the world. Now someone is intent on murdering Kelly Harris and Diane Stevens, young widows of two of the victims. Forced together for protection, the two women embark on a terrifying game of cat and mouse against the unknown forces out to destroy them. Taut with suspense and vivid characterization, the long-awaited Are You A...
|  | The Complete Illustrated Sherlock Holmes
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|  | Among The Brave (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) (Shadow Children Books (Prebound))
Publication Date: October 1, 2005| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Philadelphia 76Ers (NBA Today (Mankato, Minn.).)
Publication Date: September 1997| Age Level: 8 and up...
|  | Hanukkah Sweets and Treats (Holiday Cooking for Kids!)
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