 | Poems, Poets, Poetry: An Introduction and Anthology
Publication Date: October 23, 2009| ISBN-10: 0312463197 | ISBN-13: 978-0312463199| Edition: Third Edition Many students today are puzzled by the meaning and purpose of poetry. Poems, Poets, Poetry demystifies the form and introduces students to its artistry and pleasures, using methods that Helen Vendler has successfully used herself over her long, celebrated career. Guided by Vendler’s erudite yet down-to-earth approach, students at all levels can benefit from her authoritative instruction. Her blend of new and canonical poets includes the broadest selection of new and multi-raci...
 |  | Haiku: The Last Poems of an American Icon
Publication Date: February 1, 2012| ISBN-10: 1611453496 | ISBN-13: 978-1611453492| Edition: 1 The haiku of acclaimed novelist Richard Wright, written at the end of his life.Richard Wright, one of the early forceful and eloquent spokesmen for black Americans, author of the acclaimed Native Son and Black Boy, discovered the haiku in the last eighteen months of life. He attempted to capture, through his sensibility as an African-American, the elusive Zen discipline and beauty in depicting man’s relationship, not only to his fellow man as he had in the raw and forceful prose of his fi...
|  | The Restitution (The Legacy of the Kings' Pirates)
Publication Date: December 15, 2011| Series: The Legacy of the Kings' Pirates (Book 3) Lady Isabel Ashton, scorned by society after the birth of her illegitimate child, longs to regain wealth and position-despite Christ's call on her heart. But when her son is kidnapped, she's forced to seek the aid of the man who pirated her purity. How far will Isabel go to save her child and redeem her honor? Captain Kent Carlton, desperate to win the heart of the woman he once ravished, finds himself battling jealousy as well as the sea. Can a penniless pirate capture the love he so urgently desires, or ...
|  | The Island of Dr Moreau (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: June 28, 2005| ISBN-10: 014144102X | ISBN-13: 978-0141441023Adrift in a dinghy, Edward Prendick, the single survivor from the good ship Lady Vain, is rescued by a vessel carrying an unusual cargo—a menagerie of savage animals. Nursed to recovery by their keeper Montgomery, who gives him dark medicine that tastes of blood, Prendick soon finds himself stranded upon an uncharted island in the Pacific with his rescuer and the beasts. There, he meets the sinister Dr. Moreau—a brilliant scientist whose notorious experiments in vivisection have caused him to abandon th...
|  | Midnight Rain
Publication Date: August 1, 2005On a dark October night in the San Antonio College parking lot, Bridget McBee is confronted by a man who sends fear and terror tumbling deep into the pit of her stomach.Suddenly out of nowhere, a car pulls to a screeching halt and the man threatening Bridget finds himself staring into the barrel of a gun – a gun in the hands of a woman who is now towering over the both of them.Within moments, the woman with the gun has subdued the man and is ensuring that Bridget is unharmed. After dropping a business card in Bridget’s lap, the mysterious woman disap...
|  | Totem and Taboo
Publication Date: January 19, 2012This volume collects four of Freud s most stimulating essays: "The Horror of Incest", "Taboo and Emotional Ambivalence", "Animism, Magic and the Omnipotence of Thoughts", and "The Return of Totemism in Childhood". With these essays, Freud applies his psychoanalytic method to various objects of study, including the incest taboo and ancient art. With several implications for the fields of anthropology and religious studies, this Freud collection remains a diverse and fascinating read. ...
|  | Chinese Link: Beginning Chinese, Traditional Character Version, Level 1/Part 1 (2nd Edition)
Publication Date: January 3, 2010| ISBN-10: 0205691986 | ISBN-13: 978-0205691982| Edition: 2Chinese Link, 2e provides a practical, learner-centered and enjoyable language and cultural learning experience for beginning students of Chinese, as well as an efficient and comprehensive teaching resource for instructors. This best-selling text takes care to introduce and explain grammar points clearly and systematically, yet not in a fashion that would be overwhelming to beginners. In keeping with the communicative focus of the text, grammar points are related to communicative...
|  | The Sanford Meisner Approach: Workbook Three, Tackling the Text (Career Development Series)
Publication Date: July 1, 1998| ISBN-10: 1575251302 | ISBN-13: 978-1575251301| Edition: 1st Larry Silverberg, author of the revolutionary four book series The Sanford Meisner Approach: An Actor's Workbook now brings to you Workbook Three: Tackling the Text. In this exciting next step of the Meisner technique, Silverberg guides you through a specific and step-by-step method of bringing a vivid authenticity to the roles you play. As you work through the lessons in script-work, you will have the experience of easily avoiding the traps and cliches of performing preconceived notions of the ch...
|  | Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
Release Date: February 3, 2004Chosen by John Updike as a Today Show Book Club Pick. Already an award-winning writer, ZZ Packer now shares with us her debut, Drinking Coffee Elsewhere. Her impressive range and talent are abundantly evident: Packer dazzles with her command of language, surprising and delighting us with unexpected turns and indelible images, as she takes us into the lives of characters on the periphery, unsure of where they belong. We meet a Brownie troop of black girls who are confronted with a troop of white girls; a young man who goes with his father to the Million Man March...
|  | Pesar todo. Antolog
Publication Date: January 2001El escritor uruguayo Eduardo Milán presenta esta antología de la obra completa del poeta Juan Gelman (1930). A partir de un ordenamiento cronológico, Milán seleccionó de entre los libros del poeta argentino, siempre apoyado en los 25 años que tiene de ser lector asiduo de una obra que es un "concentrado de memoria, experimentación y conciencia". ...
|  | Coloured Stars: Versions of Fifty Asiatic Love Poems
Publication Date: April 8, 2012The poems in this first of its kind collection range from short meditations on erotic moments to heady songs of love, written by poets from India, Arabia, Persia, and Japan, among other romantic lands. These 50 stirring love poems were personally collected and translated by the legendary Edward Powys Mathers.Mathers gained widespread fame in the early 20th century as a translator of numerous works from both the near and far east. Mathers, inventor of the modern crossword puzzle, spent years selecting these poems, and carefully translated them taking pains to ...
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|  | A Chime of Windbells A Year of Japanese Haiku in English Verse
Publication Date: 19691973 Charles E Tuttle slipcased HB., fifth printing. 236 doubled pages with 33 color illustrations. An beautiful seasonal booktranslating Japanese Haiku into English of approx. 20 syllables and 3 phrases. ...
|  | The Thorn Birds (Modern Classics)
Release Date: September 1, 1998| Series: Modern Classics With over 10 million copies sold worldwide, here is the towering epic about three generations of a remarkable family in the Australian outback that was the basis for one of the most beloved television miniseries of all time. The Boston Globe called it "the kind of book the word 'blockbuster' was made for."The inaugural edition of our Modern Classics series, this is the only hardcover edition of The Thorn Birds currently in print. ...
|  | Terpsichore in Sneakers: Post-Modern Dance (Wesleyan Paperback)
Publication Date: June 15, 1987| Series: Wesleyan Paperback Drawing on the postmodern perspective and concerns that informed her groundbreaking Terpischore in Sneakers, Sally Bane's Writing Dancing documents the background and development of avant-garde and popular dance, analyzing individual artists, performances, and entire dance movements. With a sure grasp of shifting cultural dynamics, Banes shows how postmodern dance is integrally connected to other oppositional, often marginalized strands of dance culture, and considers how certain kinds of dance move from the margins to the mainstrea...
|  | Fantasy in Death
Release Date: July 27, 2010| Series: In DeathThe game started with a murder. Now, it's Eve Dallas's move. It is the most puzzling case Eve Dallas has ever faced: the founder of the computer gaming giant U-Play is found decapitated in his locked, private playroom. And now Eve and her team are about to enter the next level of police work, in a world where fantasy is the ultimate seduction-and the price of defeat is death......
|  | Fluviais (Portuguese Edition)
Publication Date: March 13, 2012As vidas são como rios que nascem na montanha, percorrem o espaço e o tempo entre duas margens e terminam no grande mar que tudo dissolve em água salgada. Cada personagem deste livro traz em si um rio. As águas do seu caudal transportam o amor irrecuperável da adolescência, a recordação do paraíso perdido, a loucura, a solidão e o abandono, a doença e a morte, o ódio e a vingança, a violência, a mentira, a alegria, o perdão e a bondade. Gente simples, são rios de pouca água, e...
|  | Chapelgate
Publication Date: May 12, 2006Is Chapelgate haunted by the former residents of the mansion?Veronica Luft, captivated by a passionate narrative of lost love, uncovers through it an enchanting link to her own happiness. ...
|  | The Ghost and Mrs. Jeffries (Victorian Mystery)
Release Date: October 1, 1993| Series: Victorian Mystery After a seance, during which her death is predicted, Mrs. Hodgesdies mysteriously, and it is up to Mrs. Jeffries, the housekeeper forInspector Witherspoon, to solve the crime....
|  | Sherlock Holmes: Selected Stories (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: August 15, 2008| Series: Oxford World's Classics No characters in English literature since those in the Great Dickens gallery have taken so firm a hold upon the British and American imagination as Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. This selection draws the best stories from the several Sherlock Holmes volumes, and shows how the famous detective and his assistant are elevated above the level of fiction and into the realm of mythology, where the learned and the simple meet on equal footing.About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broades...
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