 | Specters of the Atlantic: Finance Capital, Slavery, and the Philosophy of History
Publication Date: December 16, 2005In September 1781, the captain of the British slave ship Zong ordered 133 slaves thrown overboard, enabling the ship’s owners to file an insurance claim for their lost “cargo.” Accounts of this horrific event quickly became a staple of abolitionist discourse on both sides of the Atlantic. Ian Baucom revisits, in unprecedented detail, the Zong atrocity, the ensuing court cases, reactions to the event and trials, and the business and social dealings of the Liverpool merchants who owned the ship. Drawing on the work of an astonishing array of...
 |  | My name is Jacinto!: A young man's struggle for self and cultural identity, fiction novel
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|  | Finding Marie (Frasier Island, Book 2)
Publication Date: September 1, 2007Author Susan Page Davis (Frasier Island) takes readers on an adventure across theUnited States in this exciting contemporary suspense novel.Marie Belanger, a naval lieutenant’s wife, unexpectedly finds a computer flash drivein her carry–on luggage at the airport. Moments later the woman she had been sitting with on the plane fromTokyo is murdered. Suddenly her journey from San Francisco to her home in Maine becomes a nightmare as Marie isforced to run for her life. Her husband, Lt. Pierre Belanger, contacts his best friend, George Hudson, and ...
|  | China Mountain Zhang
Publication Date: April 15, 1997Winner of the James Tiptree, Jr. Memorial Award, the Lambda Literary Award, the Locus Award for Best First Novel, and a Hugo and Nebula Award nominee.With this groundbreaking novel, Maureen F. McHugh established herself as one of the decade's best science fiction writers. In its pages, we enter a postrevolution America, moving from the hyperurbanized eastern seaboard to the Arctic bleakness of Baffin Island; from the new Imperial City to an agricultural commune on Mars. The overlapping lives of cyberkite fliers, lonely colonists, illicit neural-pressball playe...
|  | Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?
Release Date: April 19, 2011For more than two hundred years after William Shakespeare's death, no one doubted that he had written his plays. Since then, however, dozens of candidates have been proposed for the authorship of what is generally agreed to be the finest body of work by a writer in the English language. In this remarkable book, Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro explains when and why so many people began to question whether Shakespeare wrote his plays. Among the doubters have been such writers and thinkers as Sigmund Freud, Henry James, Mark Twain, and Helen Keller. It is a fa...
|  | Three Sisters (van Itallie) - Acting Edition
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|  | The Odes of Horace: A Critical Study
Publication Date: April 15, 1995| ISBN-10: 0806127295 | ISBN-13: 978-0806127293In The Odes of Horace, Steele Commager examines the odes with particular attention both to their language and structure and to the effect a poem is intended to, or does, produce.Horace’s conciseness and apparent clarity phrase by phrase tempt us into believing that there is an equally concise and clear meaning to be assigned to a poem, or even to his thought as a whole.Yet Horace has no systematic philosophy to impart; his poems record only an imaginative apprehension of the world.Each ode is a calculat...
|  | The Gazer's Spirit: Poems Speaking to Silent Works of Art
Publication Date: November 15, 1995| ISBN-10: 0226349497 | ISBN-13: 978-0226349497| Edition: 1 This magnificent book is a gallery of words and images that celebrates the sister arts of poetry and painting. John Hollander, the eminent poet and critic, has selected more than fifty works of art—paintings, prints, drawings, photographs, and sculptures from antiquity to the present—and matched them to poems that address the same images in their verses. The result is an illuminating and ingeniously organized chronicle of words and images in conversation, as well as a powerful intro...
| | Apollinaire and the Faceless Man: The Creation and Evolution of a Modern Motif
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| | Troilus and Cressida
Publication Date: 1932"Readers of this tale who may be interested in sources will look in vain for the story of Troilus and Cressida in Homer, Vergil or any other classic authority. Homer mentions Troilus but briefly, in allusion to his death. It was the early and unhappy end of this youth that stirred chiefly the interest of the ancients. This was probably the subject of a lost tragedy by Sophocles, and the few lines that Vergil devotes to Troilus are to be found in a description of the manner of his death." Taken from the introduction. ...
|  | Leselust: Wie unterhaltsam ist die neue deutsche Literatur? : ein Essay (German Edition)
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|  | Dissecting Stephen King: From the Gothic to Literary Naturalism (Ray and Pat Browne Book)
Publication Date: March 15, 2006| Series: Ray and Pat Browne Book In a thoughtful, well-informed study exploring fiction from throughout Stephen King's immense oeuvre, Heidi Strengell shows how this popular writer enriches his unique brand of horror by building on the traditions of his literary heritage. Tapping into the wellsprings of the gothic to reveal contemporary phobias, King invokes the abnormal and repressed sexuality of the vampire, the hubris of Frankenstein, the split identity of the werewolf, the domestic melodrama of the ghost tale. Drawing on myths and ...
|  | Disenchanted Modernity in Robert Kroetsch's The Studhorse Man
Publication Date: April 16, 2010This book undertakes a detailed reading of Robert Kroetschs The Studhorse Man [1969], examining this Canadian novel in its transnational historical and socio-cultural context. Key subject headings are biology and culture, sex and gender, eugenics and contraception, writing and reading. The overarching theme is disenchanted modernity in the twentieth-century, the systematic displacement of the divine and natural order by a humanly ordained social regime, and by forms of social engineering that brought to bear the full force of modern science, invasively to alte...
|  | Finding Beauty in a Broken World (Vintage)
Release Date: October 6, 2009| Series: Vintage "Shards of glass can cut and wound or magnify a vision," Terry Tempest Williams tells us. "Mosaic celebrates brokenness and the beauty of being brought together." Ranging from Ravenna, Italy, where she learns the ancient art of mosaic, to the American Southwest, where she observes prairie dogs on the brink of extinction, to a small village in Rwanda where she joins genocide survivors to build a memorial from the rubble of war, Williams searches for meaning and community in an era of physical and spiritual fragmentation. In he...
|  | El principe de la niebla (Trilogia de La Niebla) (Spanish Edition)
Release Date: August 26, 2008| Series: Trilogia de La Niebla El nuevo hogar de los Carver está rodeado de misterio. En él aún se respira el espíritu de Jacob, el hijo de los antiguos propietarios, que murió ahogado. Las extrañas circunstancias de esa muerte sólo se empiezan a aclarar con la aparición de un diabólico personaje: el Príncipe de la Niebla, capaz de conceder cualquier deseo a una persona a un alto precio... --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition....
|  | Fatal Burn
Release Date: February 28, 2006He's been waiting for this moment. With every kill, he can feel her getting closer. Very soon - just a few more victims to go. All he needed was the girl, Dani, and now that he has her, his plan is in motion, and no one can stop it. The police don't believe Shannon Flannery when she says someone is out there, watching her, trying to kill her. The only person on her side is Travis Settler. The former Special Forces agent is convinced Shannon's dark past has something to do with the disappearance of his daughter, Dani - a child whose connection to Shannon is just...
|  | Vampires in America: The Vignettes - Volume 1
Publication Date: February 9, 2012| Series: The Vignettes From award-winning author D. B. Reynolds, nine stories of seduction and intrigue set in her Vampires in America universe. Note: this is a collection of short stories, not a complete novel. For the first time in print … The Vampire Vignettes From New Year’s Eve on the beaches of Malibu, to love in a penthouse over Manhattan, and a challenge fought on a snowy night in Montreal, Reynolds takes us behind the scenes with seven steamy Vignettes featuring her ultimate alpha Vampire Lords and their beautiful and independent mate...
|  | Kiss of the Vampire
Release Date: March 1, 1992After his vampire brother Simon betrays him, leaving him for dead to pursue a human love, Franz Drake the Bloodmaster vows to turn the Florida beaches into his eternal kingdom of darkness and to teach him the true meaning of passion. Original. ...
|  | Batmobile Owner's Manual
Publication Date: May 19, 2008| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up This incredible new format puts Batman fans behind the wheel and under the hood of the coolest car ever imagined! Fabulous photos, illustrations, and diagrams of Jim Lee's Batmobile fill the pages of this super-guide to every Batman fan-and grease monkey-out there.BATMAN and all related characters and elements are trademarks of DC Comics (c) 2008 ...
|  | The Legend of the Laughing Gecko: A Hawaiian Fantasy
Publication Date: July 1989Moki the Geckos outrageous laugh lands him in trouble,then rescues him from a tight spot with the Black Bufo.This storyalso tells how the gecko came to be considered good luck in Hawaii. ...
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