 | The Book of the American Indian
Publication Date: September 1, 2005A Hopi child is torn from his parents and sent off to boarding school; white settlers encroach on the Cheyenne reservation, and the Cheyenne vow to fight to the death rather than give up their land; Howling Wolf witnesses the brutal murder of his brother and, when he protests, is in turn brutalized; after Sitting Bull’s triumph over Custer’s forces, he vows to fight to the death rather than submit to the white invaders. In these and other stories written from 1890–1905, Hamlin Garland sought to capture his vision of the spirit of the ...
 |  | The Holy Land in Transit: Colonialism And the Quest for Canaan (Middle East Studies Beyond Dominant Paradigms)
Publication Date: November 30, 2006| Series: Middle East Studies Beyond Dominant Paradigms A pioneering comparative analysis of colonialism in the New World and Holy Land, exploring the ways in which settler societies transform theological narratives into national histories to justify their occupation of foreign land. Steven Salaita’s ambitious and thought-provoking work compares the dynamics of settler colonialism in the United States related to Native Americans with the circumstances in Israel related to the Palestinians, revealing the way in which politics influences literary product...
|  | Flashman: A Novel
Release Date: August 1, 1984| Series: Flashman The story of what happened to Flashman, the caddish bully of "Tom Brown's Schooldays", after he was expelled in drunken disgrace from Rugby school in the late 1830s. The author has written several books about Flashman, and books of short stories, including "The General Danced at Dawn". ...
|  | Reign of Terror : The 1st Corgi Book of Great Victorian Horror Stories
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|  | Charlie St. Cloud (Movie Tie-in Edition/Spanish) (Vintage Espanol) (Spanish Edition)
Release Date: July 20, 2010| Series: Vintage Espanol Uno de esos excepcionales libros que revelan los misterios invisibles del mundo que nos rodea “Charlie St. Cloud no era el mejor ni el más brillante muchacho del condado de Essex, pero sí, sin duda, el más prometedor” comienza este extraordinario libro. Pero cuando Charlie y su hermano pequeño Sam toman “prestado” el auto de un vecino para ir a un partido de los Red Sox en Boston, la noche acaba en tragedia. Al principio, se cree que los dos hermanos han muerto, pero la insistencia d...
|  | Under the Frog: A Novel
Publication Date: November 3, 2001Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Under the Frog follows the adventures of two young Hungarian basketball players through the turbulent years between the end of World War II and the anti-Soviet uprising of 1956. In this spirited indictment of totalitarianism, the two improbable heroes, Pataki and Gyuri, travel the length and breadth of Hungary in an epic quest for food, lodging, and female companionship. ...
|  | Anglo Saxon Minor Poems
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|  | The Early Unpublished Poems of Edith Sitwell (American University Studies Series IV, English Language and Literature)
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|  | The Book of Songs: The Ancient Chinese Classic of Poetry
Publication Date: September 13, 1996| ISBN-10: 0802134777 | ISBN-13: 978-0802134776| Edition: Subsequent One of the five Confucian classics, The Book of Songs (Shijing) is the oldest collection of poetry in world literature and the finest treasure of traditional songs left from antiquity. Where the other Confucian classics treat “outward things: deeds, moral precepts, the way the world works,” as Stephen Owen tells us in his foreword, The Book of Songs is “the classic of the human heart and the human mind.” ...
|  | Imagination and Technique in Bridge (Batsford Bridge Books)
Publication Date: June 30, 2003| Series: Batsford Bridge Books Using 100 declarer plays and defensive problems, Jourdain and Koffman show you how to succeed that extra 10% of the time. ...
|  | Half a Century of Japanese Theater, 1960's
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|  | The Poetry of Kabbalah: Mystical Verse from the Jewish Tradition (The Margellos World Republic of Letters)
Publication Date: April 10, 2012| Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters This groundbreaking collection presents for the first time in English a substantial body of poetry that emerges directly from the sublime and often startling world of Jewish mysticism. Taking up Gershom Scholem’s call to plumb the “tremendous poetic potential” concealed in the Kabbalistic tradition, Peter Cole provides dazzling renderings of work composed on three continents over a period of some fifteen hundred years.In addition to the translations and the texts in their original languages, C...
| | Klondike Saga, the Chronicle of a Minnesota Gold Mining Company
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|  | El Haiku de las palabras perdidas / Haiku of the missing words (Spanish Edition)
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|  | The Solitary Vice: Against Reading (Counterpoint)
Publication Date: April 15, 2008| Series: Counterpoint Mikita Brottman wonders, just why is reading so great? It’s a solitary practice, one that takes away from time that could be spent developing important social networking skills. Reading’s not required for health, happiness, or a loving family. And, if reading is so important, why are catchy slogans like "Reading Changes Lives" and "Champions Read" needed to hammer the point home? Fearlessly tackling the notion that nonreaders are doomed to lives of despair and mental decay, Brottman makes the case that the value of reading li...
|  | The Civil War Bookshelf
Release Date: May 31, 2005A guide to the best books on the Civil War offers entertaining, enlightening, and often contentious essays on a wide range of excellent studies on the subject. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | The Well-Tempered Self: Citizenship, Culture, and the Postmodern Subject (Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society)
Publication Date: November 1, 1993| Series: Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society "This is a major work on the connection of theoretical to political practice under postmodernity. At once rigorous and readable, its academic concerns will be both accessible and useful to readers asking-as contemporary readers indomitably do-what these debates in cultural theory have to do with the conduct of theirsocial lives."-Meaghan Morris, author of The Pirate's Fiancée: Feminism, Reading, Postmodernism. "Miller's work is extremely engaging, original, and successful in producing a set of innova...
| | Bibliographies of Studies in Victorian Literature, for the Ten Years, 1965-1974
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|  | The African American Roots of Modernism: From Reconstruction to the Harlem Renaissance (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)
Release Date: May 23, 2011| Series: The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture The period between 1880 and 1918, at the end of which Jim Crow was firmly established and the Great Migration of African Americans was well under way, was not the nadir for black culture, James Smethurst reveals, but instead a time of profound response from African American intellectuals. The African American Roots of Modernism explores how the Jim Crow system triggered significant artistic and intellectual responses from African American writers, deeply marking the beginnings of literar...
|  | The Periodic Table
Release Date: April 4, 1995(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)The Periodic Table is largely a memoir of the years before and after Primo Levi’s transportation from his native Italy to Auschwitz as an anti-Facist partisan and a Jew.It recounts, in clear, precise, unfailingly beautiful prose, the story of the Piedmontese Jewish community from which Levi came, of his years as a student and young chemist at the inception of the Second World War, and of his investigations into the nature of the material world. As such, it provides crucial links and backgrounds, both personal and intellectual, in...
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