 | Mariners, Renegades and Castaways: The Story of Herman Melville and the World We Live In (Reencounters with Colonialism: New Perspectives on the Americas)
Publication Date: May 1, 2001| ISBN-10: 158465094X | ISBN-13: 978-1584650942| Edition: 1st Political theorist and cultural critic, novelist and cricket enthusiast, C. L. R. James (1901 - 1989) was a brilliant polymath who has been described by Edward Said as "a centrally important 20th-century figure." Through such landmark works as The Black Jacobins, Beyond a Boundary, and American Civilization, James's thought continues to influence and inspire scholars in a wide variety of fields. "There is little doubt," wrote novelist Caryl Phillips in The New Republic, "that James will come to be ...
 |  | Magic Words: The Tale of a Jewish Boy-Interpreter, the World's Most Estimable Magician, a Murderous Harlot, and America's Greatest Indian Chief
Publication Date: May 1, 2012In a riveting novel of love and adventure, young Julius Meyer comes to the New World to find himself acting as translator for the famed Indian chief Standing Bear.Young Jewish immigrant Julius comes of age surrounded by the wild world of 1867 Nebraska. He befriends the mysterious Prophet John, who saves his life when the two are captured by the Ponca Indian tribe. Living as a slave, Julius meets the noble chief Standing Bear and his young daughter,Prairie Flower, with whom he falls in love. Becoming the tribe’s interpreter—its “speaker”...
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|  | Petropolis
Release Date: February 15, 2007 Sasha Goldberg is the ultimate outsider: she’s a chubby, biracial Jewish girl from the Siberiantown of Asbestos 2. Her father takes off for the United States, and leaves Sasha to navigateadolescence in a bleak apartment bloc with her overbearing mother. Sasha falls in love with anart school drop-out who lives inside a concrete pipe in the town dump. Following her heart getsher into trouble at home, so she flees Russia as a mail-order bride and lands in suburban Arizona.Sasha manages to escape her Red Lobster-loving fiancé and embarks on a misadventur...
|  | The Last Days of Krypton
Release Date: August 26, 2008 Everyone knows how Kal-El—Superman—was sent to Earth just before his planet exploded. But what led to such a disaster? Now, in The Last Days of Krypton, Kevin J. Anderson presents a sweeping tale of the pomp and grandeur, the intrigue and passion, and the politics and betrayals of a doomed world filled with brave heroes and cruel traitors. Against the spectacular backdrop of Krypton's waning halcyon days, there is the courtship and marriage of Kal-El's parents, the brilliant scientist Jor-El and his historian wife, Lara. Together they fight to conv...
|  | Batmania
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|  | The Devil's Own Luck (The Privateersman Mysteries) (Volume 1)
Publication Date: October 1, 2001| Series: The Privateersman Mysteries (Book 1) Harry Ludlow, forced out of the Royal Navy, becomes a privateer in partnership with his younger brother James. But for the Ludlows, murder and intrigue take more of their time than hunting fat trading vessels. Harry and James find themselves aboard the Navy's 74-gun Magnanime. In command is a captain with whom Harry has crossed swords in the past. When James is found standing over the body of a dead officer, Harry's feud shifts into the background. ...
|  | Sick Heart River
Publication Date: July 1, 2007Sick Heart River is John Buchan's most powerful novel and his last, completed days before his death. It was published posthumously in 1941. Buchan's rich descriptions of the rugged Canadian Northwest Territories are influenced by his real-life voyage down the Mackenzie River in 1937. At that time, Buchan was Governor-General of Canada. The main character, the lawyer and politician Sir Edward Leithen—perhaps the most autobiographical of Buchan's characters—has been diagnosed with advanced tuberculosis and has been given a year to live. A former collea...
|  | Song of the Universe
Publication Date: February 5, 2007The story of the millennium. A New Age thriller which answers the most ancient spiritual riddles-and exposes a coverup that goes far beyond the DaVinci Code. When Adam Zakar, securities broker at a multinational brokerage house, enters into a strangely-profitable real estate transaction, he doesn’t know that his new property is part of a drug cartel’s ambitious development plans—or that the property contains a mysterious treasure of incalculable value.But the building is already occupied—by a group of spiritual seekers who display strange...
|  | The Little Book of Haiku
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|  | The Tao of Pooh
Release Date: July 28, 1983| Age Level: 18 and up | Grade Level: 12 and up For Taoists everywhere, the New York Times bestseller from the author of The Te of Piglet The how of Pooh? The Tao of who? The Tao of Pooh!?! In which it is revealed that one of the world's great Taoist masters isn't Chinese--or a venerable philosopher--but is in fact none other than that effortlessly calm, still, reflective bear. A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh! While Eeyore frets, and Piglet hesitates, and Rabbit calculates, and Owl pontificates, Pooh just is.And that's a clue to the secret wisdom of the Taoists. ...
|  | Antonin Artaud : Collected Works (Volume 4)
Publication Date: 1999| ISBN-10: 0714506230 | ISBN-13: 978-0714506234Drama. This important volume of COLLECTED WORKS includes one of Artaud's most seminal texts, THE THEATRE AND ITS DOUBLE, and his play THE CENCI. Also included are appendices, copious notes and his essay SERAPHIM'S THEATRE. THE THEATRE AND ITS DOUBLE, published here in its entirety, remains the most radical text on perfromance in print today. The lesser known SERAPHIN'S THEATRE outlines an actor's application of the Taoist principles of fullness and emptiness, and has provided inspiration to actors and directors in exper...
|  | Whitman's Wild Children: Portraits of Thirteen Poets
Publication Date: July 1999In Whitman's Wild Children, Neelie Cherkovski looks at eleven contemporary beat poets - Michael McClure, Charles Bukowski, John Wieners, James Broughton, Philip Lamantia, Bob Kaufman, Allen Ginsberg, William Everson, Gregory Corso, Harold Norse, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- chosen because each, like Whitman, has taken "his own road" and had little to do with what was thought acceptable in mainstream American culture during the 1940's and 1950's. As in his highly acclaimed biography Bukowski: A Life, Cherkovski draws on personal encounters and his own reactions to i...
|  | The Rhetoric of Empire: Colonial Discourse in Journalism, Travel Writing, and Imperial Administration (Post-Contemporary Interventions)
Publication Date: March 12, 1993| ISBN-10: 0822313170 | ISBN-13: 978-0822313175The white man's burden, darkest Africa, the seduction of the primitive:such phrases were widespread in the language Western empires used to talk about their colonial enterprises. How this language itself served imperial purposes--and how it survives today in writing about the Third World--are the subject of David Spurr's book, a revealing account of the rhetorical strategies that have defined Western thinking about the non-Western world. Despite historical differences among British, French, and American ver...
|  | El marques y la gitana (Saga Malory) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: March 1, 2012| Series: Saga Malory La familia Malory esta reunida en Haverston para pasar las navidades y una manana aparece un regalo para la familia pero no se sabe quien lo envia. La familia al completo esta intrigadisima por saber que es, pero hasta Navidad no se puede abrir. Una noche casi todos los miembros de la familia tienen la misma idea, abrir el regalo y desvelar el misterio. Es Amy la encargada de abrirlo y resulta ser un diario de una antepasada suya, Anastasia Malory, en el que cuenta como conocio a su marido y se caso con el./As the entire Malory family gath...
|  | Love So Tender: Taking Care Of Business\Play It Again, Elvis\Good Luck Charm (Signature Select)
Publication Date: August 1, 2005| Series: Signature Select hree Vegas-inspired romances follow Gracie, who falls for an "Elvis" impersonator; Alyssa, who, while attempting to conjure up The King, meets the man of her dreams; and Ellie, who finally succumbs to the amorous advances of a comedy writer who takes direction from Elvis himself. Original. ...
|  | Hard To Handle: Hunter\Man in Control
Publication Date: January 1, 2010HUNTERThe desert was no place for a female. But as chief of security for a top secret operation, Hunter had his orders, and Jennifer Marist needed his protection. He thought he could handle spending a week on the rugged Arizona plains with the one woman he was determined never to touch....But he hadn't planned on the lure of Jenny's wild, sweet passion— or on discovering a love he'd never dreamed possible.MAN IN CONTROLEver since DEA agent Alexander Cobb had given Jodie Clayburn a Texas-size brush-off, they'd been sworn enemies. But eight years later, th...
|  | Disney Princess Music Player Storybook (Disney Princess (Random House Hardcover))
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|  | World Series (DK Eyewitness Books)
Publication Date: September 6, 2004| Age Level: 1 and up...
|  | Dale Earhardt, Jr. (Discover the Life of a Sports Star)
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