 | Your Brain on Latino Comics: From Gus Arriola to Los Bros Hernandez (Cognitive Approaches to Literature and Culture)
Publication Date: June 1, 2009| ISBN-10: 0292719736 | ISBN-13: 978-0292719736Though the field of comic book studies has burgeoned in recent years, Latino characters and creators have received little attention. Putting the spotlight on this vibrant segment, Your Brain on Latino Comics illuminates the world of superheroes Firebird, Vibe, and the new Blue Beetle while also examining the effects on readers who are challenged to envision such worlds. Exploring mainstream companies such as Marvel and DC as well as rising stars from other segments of the industry, Frederick Aldama provides a ne...
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 | Deadly Reigns III
Publication Date: March 15, 2012From the queen of urban books comes the third installment of the Deadly Reigns series ...
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 | Silver Threads and Golden Days
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 | Ragtime: A Novel
Release Date: May 8, 2007Published in 1975, Ragtime changed our very concept of what a novel could be. An extraordinary tapestry, Ragtime captures the spirit of America in the era between the turn of the century and the First World War.The story opens in 1906 in New Rochelle, New York, at the home of an affluent American family. One lazy Sunday afternoon, the famous escape artist Harry Houdini swerves his car into a telephone pole outside their house. And almost magically, the line between fantasy and historical fact, between real and imaginary characters, disappears. Henry Ford, Emma Goldma...
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 | HHhH: A Novel
Release Date: April 24, 2012HHhH: “Himmlers Hirn heisst Heydrich”, or “Himmler’s brain is called Heydrich”. The most dangerous man in Hitler’s cabinet, Reinhard Heydrich was known as the “Butcher of Prague.” He was feared by all and loathed by most. With his cold Aryan features and implacable cruelty, Heydrich seemed indestructible—until two men, a Slovak and a Czech recruited by the British secret service, killed him in broad daylight on a bustling street in Prague, and thus changed the course of History. Who were these men, arguab...
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 | The Sea-Hawk
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 | Humoristische Skizzen aus dem deutschen Handelsleben (German Edition)
Publication Date: August 10, 2011Dieses Werk ist Teil der Buchreihe TREDITION CLASSICS. Der Verlag tredition aus Hamburg veröffentlicht in der Buchreihe TREDITION CLASSICS Werke aus mehr als zwei Jahrtausenden. Diese waren zu einem Großteil vergriffen oder nur noch antiquarisch erhältlich. Mit der Buchreihe TREDITION CLASSICS verfolgt tredition das Ziel, tausende Klassiker der Weltliteratur verschiedener Sprachen wieder als gedruckte Bücher zu verlegen – und das weltweit! Die Buchreihe dient zur Bewahrung der Literatur und Förderung der Kultur. Sie trägt ...
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 | The Letters of Abelard and Heloise
Publication Date: January 19, 2012This collection of correspondence between medieval scholar Peter Abelard and Heloise, a French nun, chronicles one of the most tragic love affairs in all history. With their letters, the estranged lovers both mourn and reproach their romantic history as they address a variety of scholarly and professional topics common to the medieval period. ...
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 | The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
Publication Date: January 19, 2004| ISBN-10: 0521815568 | ISBN-13: 978-0521815567| Edition: 2 This revised edition is based on the first edition which has become a classic in Chaucer studies. Important material has been updated in the text, and its contributions cover recent trends in literary theory as well as in studies of Chaucer's works. The bibliography has been completely revised to provide an indispensable guide for today's student of Chaucer. First Edition Hb (1986): 0-521-30422-9 First Edition Pb (1986): 0-521-31689-8 ...
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 | Apollo: The Wind, the Spirit, and the God : Four Studies (Dunquin Series)
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 | Escanaba in da Moonlight - Acting Edition
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| The 'Eumenides' of Aeschylus
Publication Date: 1885This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfectionssuch 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 worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valua...
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 | Death And Dew (annada wal mawm): Poems in Arabic (Arabic Edition)
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 | Treasury of Love Poems by Adam Mickiewicz: In Polish and English
Publication Date: October 1998This beautiful bilingual gift edition contains 31 poems and longer excerpts, with 14 new translations by Stanislaw Baranczak, Clare Cavanagh and Michael J Mikos. ...
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 | Diario De Eleusis/ Diary of Eleusis (La Lengua) (Spanish Edition)
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 | Thou Shalt Not Speak My Language (Middle East Literature in Translation)
Publication Date: October 1, 2008| Series: Middle East Literature in Translation It has been said that the difference between a language and a dialect is that a language is a dialect with an army. Both the act of translation and bilingualism are steeped in a tension between surrender and conquest, yielding conscious and unconscious effects on language. First published in Arabic in 2002, Abdelfattah Kilito's Thou Shalt Not Speak My Language explores the tension between dynamics of literary influence and canon formation within the Arabic literary tradition. As one of the Arab world's most orig...
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| The Collected Critical Heritage I: Lord Alfred Tennyson: The Critical Heritage (The Collected Critical Heritage : Victorian Poets)
Publication Date: March 5, 1996| ISBN-10: 0415134501 | ISBN-13: 978-0415134507| Edition: New Ed The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves. ...
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 | Night Moves: A Shadow Force Novel
Release Date: October 4, 2011| Series: Shadow Force (Book 4) Anything can happen under the cover of darkness. Kell Roberts has walked the thin line between life and death for so long that it now feels like home. He is a soldier, a survivor, and a loner. Still, Kell cannot turn his back on the beautiful woman caught in his firefight against the drug lords of Mexico. She says her name is Teddie, but Kell senses there’s much more to her story—and it’s about to pull him into a mission he didn’t sign on for: keeping her alive.Teddie knows this lean, mean rescuer just ...
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 | Hawk's Way Brides: The Unforgiving Bride\The Headstrong Bride\The Disobedient Bride
Publication Date: February 1, 2006A true master of Western romance, Joan Johnston has lassoed readers with her delightful Hawk's Way series. Now three best-loved favorites from the popular family saga -- The Unforgiving Bride, The Headstrong Bride and The Disobedient Bride -- are available in this limited edition hardcover.She's unforgiving, headstrong and disobedient . . . she's a Whitelaw bride!These three ladies of Hawk's Way are about to come face-to-face with something as rare as a friendly armadillo: three Texan men who are their equals! Watch the sparks fly -- and love unite -- at the...
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 | Haunted Harbours: Ghost Stories from Old Nova Scotia
Publication Date: February 14, 2007Nova Scotia is rich with legends of strange happenings and scary sightings. In Haunted Harbours, Vernon combines chilling tales from the archives with word-of-mouth stories from across the province. ...
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