 | Social Psychology (7th Edition)
Publication Date: October 2, 2009| ISBN-10: 0138144788 | ISBN-13: 978-0138144784| Edition: 7For an undergraduate introductory level course in social psychology. Research made relevant through a storytelling approach. This renowned text maintains its acclaimed storytelling approach to convey the science of social psychology while making research relevant to students. The authors bring the material under study to life through real-world examples that capture students' attention and motivate further exploration. Paying particular attention to the classic research tha...
 |  | Asshole: How I Got Rich & Happy by Not Giving a Damn About Anyone & How You Can, Too
Release Date: April 8, 2008Nice guys, pushovers, soft-touches and suckers:Tired of being walked all over? When the waiter brings you something you didn’t order, do you assume he knows best?Are you ready to demand the respect you deserve? Martin Kihn doesn’t care what your answers are, because of course you need this book. Watch and learn as this one-time softy transforms himself into a lean, mean a-hole machine. ...
|  | A Raisin in the Sun: The Unfilmed Original Screenplay
Release Date: April 1, 1995The Unfilmed Original Screenplay of an American classic.This is a landmark volume of the epic, original film script written by Lorraine Hansberry, adapted from her stage play. But movie audiences did not know that nearly a third of her powerful screenplay had been cut. This edition restores all of these deletions and delivers the screenplay that is true to Hansberry's vision. ...
|  | The Lightning Within: An Anthology of Contemporary American Indian Fiction
Publication Date: October 1, 1993American Indian stories have fascinated the world for all the right reasons: vigor, depth, subtlety, brightness. In the 1960s a brilliant renaissance began. Out of it came such gifted writers of fiction as N. Scott Momaday, James Welch, Leslie Marmon Silko, Gerald Vizenor, Simon Ortiz, Louise Erdrich, and Michael Dorris. In bringing them together, The Lightning Within celebrates some of the best work being done today in the novel and short story. ...
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|  | Jedi Search (Star Wars: The Jedi Academy Trilogy, Vol. 1)
Release Date: February 1, 1994 ...
|  | Washington Square (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: November 5, 2010| Series: Oxford World's Classics One of the most instantly appealing of James's early masterpieces, Washington Square is a tale of a trapped daughter and domineering father, a quiet tragedy of money and love and innocence betrayed. Catherine Sloper, heiress to a fortune, attracts the attention of a good-looking but penniless young man, Morris Townsend, but her father is convinced that his motives are merely mercenary. He will not consent to the marriage, regardless of the cost to his daughter. Out of this classic confrontation Henry James fashioned one of h...
|  | Kim
Publication Date: November 23, 2011| ISBN-10: 1613821905 | ISBN-13: 978-1613821909Born in Bombay, India, but raised in England from the age of five, Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) is today best known as the author of such classics of literature as The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1902) and Just So Stories (1902). He returnedto India in 1882 to become a journalist and local newspaper editor and began writing supernatural stories set in his native continent. Kipling was the first British writer to be award the Nobel Prize for Literature, in 1907. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailab...
|  | The Tragedy of Man: Dramatic Poem (Classic Reprint)
Publication Date: June 17, 2012English of a work like the present, it is necessary to understand that a broad gulf separates the Hungarian Magyar language from theE nglish and all other European languages. Not even of A ryan origin, its construction can not be explained according to the principles of A ryan languages and its conciseness and strength cannot be transferred. This is not an apology, it is the statement of a fact. To produce, even approximately, the sense of an expression, it is frequently necessary to render one Hungarian word into five or six of any other European language; hen...
|  | The Seagull Reader: Plays (Second Edition) (Seagull Readers)
Publication Date: December 3, 2008| ISBN-10: 0393933245 | ISBN-13: 978-0393933246| Edition: Second Edition Compact, portable, and inexpensive, TheSeagull Reader: Plays, Second Edition,offers 8 classic (and contemporary classic)plays, 2 of them--Death of a Salesmanand A Raisin in the Sun--new to thisedition.Like all Norton anthologies, TheSeagull Reader: Plays is responsibly edited and has helpful editorial apparatus, offeringNorton quality at less than a third of the price of full-length drama anthologies. ...
|  | The Canterbury Tales
Publication Date: June 16, 2012| ISBN-10: 1477674047 | ISBN-13: 978-1477674048The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer at the end of the 14th century. The tales (mostly in verse, leastly in prose) are told as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together on a journey from Southwark to the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. The prize for this contest is a free meal at the Tabard Inn at Southwark on their return. The Canterbury Tales was Chaucer's magnum opus. He uses the tales and the...
|  | Exploring Literature Writing and Arguing about Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and the Essay (5th Edition)
Publication Date: June 30, 2011| ISBN-10: 0205184790 | ISBN-13: 978-0205184798| Edition: 5Featuring culturally rich and diverse literature, this anthology weaves critical thinking into every facet of its writing apparatus and guides students through the process of crafting their personal responses into persuasive arguments. With engaging selections, provocative themes, and comprehensive coverage of the writing process, Madden's anthology is sure to capture the reader's imagination. Exploring Literature opens with five chapters dedicated to writing and arguing abo...
|  | The Way of All Flesh: The Romance of Ruins
Publication Date: October 25, 2000A wonderfully witty, erudite, and insightful book about the way "things fall apart" -- about the inevitable ruin of everything from bodies and works of art to ideals and whole societies In The Way of All Flesh Midas Dekkers argues that things are at their most beautiful when they decay, provided they are given the chance. Old buildings are usually pulled down or restored. Aging people desperately try to act and look young, becuase novelty, youth and beauty are equated in our minds with what is desirable. Only mankind is bothered by the realization that "life...
|  | Improving language: Victorian literature and the civilizing process.
Publication Date: October 1, 2011Whereas "civilization" has often been dismissed in nineteenth-century studies as a rallying cry for empire, this dissertation offers a critical re-evaluation of how the Victorians understood this concept and its implications for literature's educational possibilities. Integrating Norbert Elias's theory of the civilizing process into a critical framework that draws on literary linguistics and rhetorical studies, my first chapter studies nineteenth-century writings from a range of disciplines -- including economics, sociology, and linguistics -- to show that "c...
|  | Anglo-Irish Modernism and the Maternal: From Yeats to Joyce
Publication Date: December 1, 2000| ISBN-10: 0333760263 | ISBN-13: 978-0333760260Anglo-Irish Modernism and the Maternal argues that a focus on the construction of mother-figures in Irish culture illuminates the extraordinary achievement of the Irish modernists. Essentially, the seminal Irish modernists—Moore, Joyce, Synge, Yeats, and O'Casey—resisted those mother-figures sanctioned by cultural discourses, re-writing her in order to elude her. In this, they not only re-constituted language and representation, they accessed and re-figured and their own creative sleves. ...
|  | The Lost Classics
Publication Date: April 29, 1997A collection of magazine stories that Ruark wrote in the 1950s and 1960s, but were never published in book form. ...
|  | And Their Children After Them: The Legacy of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: James Agee, Walker Evans, and the Rise and Fall of Cotton in the South
Release Date: November 4, 2008In And Their Children After Them, the writer/photographer team Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson return to the land and families captured in James Agee and Walker Evans’s inimitable Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, extending the project of conscience and chronicling the traumatic decline of King Cotton. With this continuation of Agee and Evans’s project, Maharidge and Williamson not only uncover some surprising historical secrets relating to the families and to Agee himself, but also effectively lay to rest Agee’s fear that his work, from l...
|  | A Land Of Romance - The Border: Its History And Legend
Publication Date: March 15, 2007Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ...
|  | The Jamie and Angus Stories
Release Date: May 22, 2007| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up "Sentimental in only the right ways. . . .A perfectly charming collection." — THE HORN BOOK (starred review)The moment Jamie sets eyes on Angus in the toy shop, with his silky coat and forlorn gaze, he knows they belong together. On Christmas morning, the two are united at last, and the coveted Highland bull becomes Jamie’s constant companion — through an ill-fated run-in with the washing machine, Uncle Edward’s jump-training sessions, a stay at the hospital, and three more amusing adven...
|  | Jackhammer Sam
Release Date: November 8, 2011| Age Level: 4 and up Atta-RATTA-batta-blam!Jackhammer Sam isn't just any old construction worker—he's the sidewalk blasting man. He stops traffic, splits the sidewalk, and digs right down to the subway, all the while singing his song: Atta-RATTA-binga-bong. Atta-RATTA-pinga-pong.Lively illustrations by David Catrow portray a larger-than-life construction worker (and the bystanders who become caught up in his destruction) in hilarious detail as he choppa-chops his way through the city streets, outer space, and beyond in this fun and frenetic tribute ...
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