 | Religio Medici and Urne-Buriall (New York Review Books Classics)
Release Date: August 7, 2012| Series: New York Review Books Classics Sir Thomas Browne is one of the supreme stylists of the English language: a coiner of words and spinner of phrases to rival Shakespeare; the wielder of a weird and wonderful erudition; an inquiring spirit in the mold of Montaigne. Browne was an inspiration to the Romantics as well as to W.G. Sebald, and his work is quirky, sonorous, and enchanting. Here this baroque master’s two most enduring and admired works, Religio Medici and Urne-Buriall, appear in a new edition that has been annotated and introduced by the...
 |  | Prophecy Denied (The Seasons of Time)
Publication Date: May 31, 2002| Series: Seasons of Time (Book 1) Prophecy Denied is a fantasy novel based on faith and is the first book of The Seasons of Time trilogy. Lord Ladnor has no interest in becoming a national hero, yet ancient prophecy has named him as the key to his nation's survival, linking him with the country's High Priestess. Together they must quickly discover the secrets of the past to save their country's future. ...
|  | Small Towns, Dark Places
Publication Date: September 19, 2012A frightening migration fills a barn with unwanted guests. A young boy rings the doorbell of the neighborhood haunted house. Man's best friend fights off something that isn't human anymore.In thirteen darkly fascinating and deliciously grim tales, the residents of a cursed Midwest encounter the mysterious, terrifying, and deadly. ...
|  | Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile
Publication Date: February 22, 2010This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works wo...
|  | How I Caused the Credit Crunch: An Insider's Story of the Financial Meltdown
Publication Date: June 1, 2010"Anticipate brisk sales—this book succeeds as a lesson on the credit mess."—Bloomberg.comTaking in everything from subprime mortgages in the United States to international trading floors, How I Caused the Credit Crunch is a vivid and personal account of twenty-first century banking excess. Tracing seven years at the forefront of the credit markets, it is both a powerful tale of lost innocence and an explanation of how the collective folly, frailty, and greed at the heart of the banking crisis were able to happen.Tetsuya Ishikawa grew up in London and h...
|  | The Cupid Killer: A Baseball Mystery
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| | Helping Friends and Harming Enemies: A Study in Sophocles and Greek Ethics
Publication Date: March 31, 1989| ISBN-10: 0521351162 | ISBN-13: 978-0521351164| Edition: 1 This book is the first detailed study of the plays of Sophocles through examination of a single ethical principle--the traditional Greek popular moral code of "helping friends and harming enemies."Five of the extant plays are discussed in detail from both a dramatic and an ethical standpoint, and the author concludes that ethical themes are not only integral to each drama, but are subjected to an implicit critique through the tragic consequences to which they give rise. Greek scholars and students...
|  | The Depths of a Clam : Selected Poems of Kim Kwang-Kyu (Korean Voices)
Publication Date: October 1, 2005| Series: Korean Voices (Book 9) Kim Kwang-kyu was born in Seoul in 1941 and is a professor in the German language and literature department at Hanyang University. He has written poetry sharply critical of the abuses of human dignity caused by corrupt politics and the structural contradictions brought about by the industrialization of society. Brother Anthony teaches English literature at Sogang University in Seoul. He is the translator of several books of Korean poetry. ...
|  | Across the Darkness of the River (Green Integer)
Publication Date: April 1, 2002| Series: Green Integer (Book 38) A new collection of poetry by the noted Mongolian-Taiwanese poet Hsi Muren. Hsi presents in her poetry a diasporic nostalgia for a lost world from a perspective that is imaginary but insistently poignant. Collected here for the first time in English, Hsi's poems speak profoundly of an awkward poise between the anxiety of remembering and the need to forget. ...
|  | Rumi Ilustrado / The Illustrated Rumi: Un Tesoro De Sabiduria Del Poeta Del Alma / A Treasury of Wisdom from the Poet of the Soul (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Yesterday's Stories: Popular Women's Novels of the Twenties and Thirties (Contributions in American Studies)
Publication Date: August 9, 1994| ISBN-10: 0313292590 | ISBN-13: 978-0313292590While scholars have begun to study popular women's novels of the 19th century, there has been relatively little attention paid to popular women's fiction of the early 20th century. This is the first study to focus on popular fiction written by, for, and about women in the period between the two world wars. The author examines such well-known best sellers as Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind, Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca and Pearl S. Buck's The Good Earth, as well as dozens of other popular novels that have...
|  | The Future of Modernism
Publication Date: February 1, 1998The modernism of the future will not look like the modernism of the past. Over the past twenty years, W. B. Yeats, James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and other major figures of the modernist movement have been subject to postmodernist critiques that have seen them as reactionary upholders of oppressive class, gender, racial, or other hierarchies; these critiques have permanently altered conceptions of the program and the canon of modernism. Today, revolutions in editing and publishing seem likely to transform them still further.The contributors to The Fut...
|  | Spark Notes Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Publication Date: July 15, 2002| Series: SparkNotes Literature Guide Get your "A" in gear!They're today's most popular study guides-with everything you need to succeed in school. Written by Harvard students for students, since its inception SparkNotes™ has developed a loyal community of dedicated users and become a major education brand. Consumer demand has been so strong that the guides have expanded to over 150 titles.SparkNotes'™ motto is Smarter, Better, Faster because:· They feature the most current ideas and themes, written by experts.· They're easier to underst...
|  | His Perfect Submissive
Publication Date: March 3, 2008Kara was the victim of a brutal rape that occurred when she was seven. The event destroyed her family and left her fearful and distrustful of men.When Kara's brother embezzles $30,000 from Slade's company, Kara goes to Slade's office determined to talk him out of going to the police. Slade wants a peaceful, obedient, submissive with whom to share his life and in Kara he glimpses whathe wants. He siezes the opportunity and makes Kara an offer she can't afford to refuse. The only way she can save her brother from certain prison is to accept Slade's marriage propo...
|  | A Lot Like Love (Berkley Sensation)
Release Date: March 1, 2011| Series: Berkley SensationWatch a videoJordan Rhodes is invited to all of Chicago's best parties, but there's only one the FBI wants to crash. To get her brother out of jail, she agrees to take Agent McCall as her date. But when the mission gets botched, requiring their "relationship" to continue, it starts to feel less like an investigation-and a lot like something else. Julie James Chat ...
|  | The Face Thief: A Novel
Release Date: January 17, 2012 Eli Gottlieb’s previous novel, Now You See Him, was acclaimed by reviewers as “irresistible … moving” (New York Times Book Review), “a triumph…of literary suspense” (Los Angeles Times), and “gorgeous” (USA Today). With The Face Thief, he returns with a driving, compulsively readable novel that probes the wellsprings of human greed and loyalty beset by temptation. Gottlieb introduces the mystery of the charismatic Margot, a promising journalist who morphs—with stunning panache—from a high-achieving affluen...
|  | The Tomb (Repairman Jack Novels)
Release Date: March 15, 2011| Series: Repairman Jack Novels Much to the chagrin of his girlfriend, Gia, Repairman Jack doesn’t deal with appliances. He fixes situations—situations that too often land him in deadly danger. His latest fix is finding a stolen necklace which, unknown to him, is more than a simple piece of jewelry.Some might say it’s cursed, others might call it blessed. The quest leads Jack to a rusty freighter on Manhattan’s West Side docks. What he finds in its hold threatens his sanity and the city around him. But worst of all, it threatens Gia’s...
|  | Crime Through Time 3
Release Date: June 1, 2000| Series: Crime Through Time A never-before-published collection of historical mysteries from today's top writers.Bruce AlexanderMargaret CoelAndrew GreeleyH.R.F. KeatingPeter LoveseySharyn McCrumbMiriam Grace MonfredoPeter RobinsonHarry Turtledove and many others! ...
| | Those Who Love the Game
Publication Date: January 1995Glen "Doc" Rivers, point guard for the "New York Knicks", and Bruce Brooks talk about Rivers's love for basketball. ...
|  | How to Be an Ancient Greek Athlete
Release Date: May 13, 2008| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
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