 | Revolution Plus Love: Literary History, Women's Bodies, and Thematic Repetition in Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction
Publication Date: October 2003In the aftermath of the May Fourth movement, a growing expectation of revolution raised important intellectual issues about the position of the individual within a society in turmoil and the shifting boundaries of political and sexual identities. The theme of "revolution plus love," a literary response to the widespread insurrections and upheaval, was first popularized in the late 1920s. In her examination of this popular but understudied literary formula, Liu Jianmei argues that revolution and love are culturally variable entities, their interplay a complex and...
 |  | Loose Connections: A Collection of Short Stories (Author of Our Times)
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|  | Fourth Millennium
Publication Date: April 19, 1996In this fascinating, action-filled sequel to their bestselling "The Third Millennium", the authors portray the wonder of life during Christ's millennial reign and the triumph of the ultimate confrontation between Satan and Jesus Christ. ...
|  | Cell: A Novel
Release Date: November 21, 2006WHERE WERE YOU ON OCTOBER 1ST AT 3:03 P.M.? Graphic artist Clay Riddell was in the heart of Boston on that brilliant autumn afternoon when hell was unleashed before his eyes. Without warning, carnage and chaos reigned. Ordinary people fell victim to the basest, most animalistic destruction. And the apocalypse began with the ring of a cell phone.......
|  | Deep As The Marrow
Release Date: December 30, 2008When the president of the United States decides to back the legalization of marijuana, organized crime decides he must die. But for them to succeed, he must die without blame on them. So they are going to make his best friend—his personal physician—kill him.First, they kidnap the doctor’s daughter. ...
|  | Marine Sniper: 93 Confirmed Kills
Release Date: January 1, 1988Tells the exciting true story of Sergeant Carlos Hathcock, a legendary Marine sniper in the Vietnam War. ...
|  | The Mole and the Owl
Publication Date: March 1998Because he has been transformed by the love of an owl who mysteriously disappears, a mole overcomes his timid nature and goes in search of his lost love. ...
|  | Poetic Rhythm: An Introduction
Publication Date: January 26, 1996| ISBN-10: 0521423694 | ISBN-13: 978-0521423694| Edition: 1ST This is the first introduction to rhythm and meter that begins where students are: as speakers of English familiar with the rhythms of the spoken word, nursery rhymes, song and rap. Poetic Rhythm builds on this knowledge and experience, moving from basic questions about the rhythms of spoken English to the elaborate achievements of past and present poets. Terminology is straightforward and there are frequent practical exercises. Poetic Rhythm will help readers of English poetry experience and ...
|  | The Poetical Works of Byron. (Cambridge Editions)
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|  | Machine Man (Vintage Contemporaries Original)
Release Date: August 9, 2011| Series: Vintage Contemporaries Original Scientist Charles Neumann loses a leg in an industrial accident. It's not a tragedy. It's an opportunity. Charlie always thought his body could be better. He begins to explore a few ideas. To build parts. Better parts.Prosthetist Lola Shanks loves a good artificial limb. In Charlie, she sees a man on his way to becoming artificial everything. But others see a madman. Or a product. Or a weapon.A story for the age of pervasive technology, Machine Man is a gruesomely funny unraveling of one man's quest for ultimate self-impro...
|  | Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces: The Western Tradition, Vol. 1: Literature of Western Culture Through the Renaissance
Publication Date: January 1999| ISBN-10: 0393972895 | ISBN-13: 978-0393972894| Edition: 7th Offering a splendid collection of literary masterpieces in the best available translations, The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces is a literal library of Western literature in two portable volumes. Most major works, from Homer's Odyssey to Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, are offered complete or in substantial, readable excerpts. New authors and works abound, including pieces by Plautus, Lucian, Ariosto, de Vega, Shakespeare, Joyce, O'Connor, Munro, and Silko, and new sections of Medieval l...
|  | Shakespearean Representation: Mimesis and Modernity in Elizabethan Tragedy
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|  | Silk Pajamas & Tombstone Eyes: My Stories Told... (Revised)
Publication Date: August 23, 2011In 1968, Thom Rock started living a double life in South Vietnam. Army fatigues and Military Intelligence by day, AWOL in silk pajamas answering to Papasan Thom by night. His stories involve the suspense and intrigue of living in Ben xe Muoi, the "Sin City" of Can Tho, Vietnam. Illegal, dangerous, bizarre, stupid, funny, embarrassing and regretful all play out as elements of the experience. However, there is a balance to it all; love, compassion, friendships, and raw honesty find their place of purpose. Rock lived with Muoi, a woman of forty years, twice his ...
| | Chekhov: Three Farces (Russian Texts)
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| | Tinglin shi kao suo (Cang hai cong kan) (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
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|  | Teen Genreflecting 3: A Guide to Reading Interests (Genreflecting Advisory Series)
Publication Date: November 11, 2010| ISBN-10: 1591587298 | ISBN-13: 978-1591587293| Edition: 3 Motivate teens to read and boost your circulation with some 1,300 popular titles, organized by subgenre and theme to help you identify read-alikes and pinpoint books for readers who range from reluctant to rabid. This highly anticipated third edition of the best-selling Teen Genreflecting covers over 1,300 popular titles in a wide variety of genres. Most of the titles (approximately 1,100) are new to this edition and have been published in the last five years. Brimming with practical tips and i...
|  | Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science
Publication Date: October 29, 1999In 1996, Alan Sokal published an essay in the hip intellectual magazine Social Text parodying the scientific but impenetrable lingo of contemporary theorists. Here,Sokal teams up with Jean Bricmont to expose the abuse of scientific concepts in the writings of today's most fashionable postmodern thinkers. From Jacques Lacan and Julia Kristeva to Luce Irigaray and Jean Baudrillard, the authors document the errors made by some postmodernists using science to bolster their arguments and theories. Witty and closely reasoned, Fashionable Nonsense dispels the notio...
|  | Into the Storm (Troubleshooters, Book 10)
Release Date: July 31, 2007Bestselling author Suzanne Brockmann blends high adventure, harrowing drama, and heart-racing passion into thrilling novels of suspense. Whether tackling danger or wrestling with desire, her elite heroes and heroines never fail to give their all, in stories that soar above and beyond expectations. Now, in her electrifying new novel, Brockmann takes us INTO THE STORM.In a remote, frozen corner of New Hampshire, a Navy SEAL team and the elite security experts of Troubleshooters, Incorporated are going head-to-head as fierce but friendly rivals in a raid-and-rescue tr...
|  | Christmas Weddings: His Christmas Eve Proposal\Snowbound Bride\Their Christmas Vows
Publication Date: October 14, 2008His Christmas Eve Proposal by Carole MortimerA quiet holiday in the mountains is all that Hollywood movie star Joshua Hawkley desires. Yet when irresistible redhead Rosie Harrison drops into his life and disrupts his peace, Joshua's desires begin to change. Can he convince her to hang around long enough to meet him under the mistletoe?Snowbound Bride by Shirley JumpA Christmas Eve blizzard leaves Marietta stranded in an airport with Reed Hartstone, the only man to ever break her heart. Perhaps rekindling the past may actually be their perfect Christmas prese...
|  | Amours de Rhodanthe et Dosiclès, par Théodore Prodrome. L'Eubéenne, par Dion Chrysostome (French Edition)
Release Date: June 22, 2001This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1823 edition by J.S. Merlin, Paris. ...
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