 | Five Creepy Creatures
Publication Date: April 1999A collection of five easy-to-read stories about creepy creatures. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
 |  | Crash Dive (First to Fight)
Release Date: June 24, 2003| Series: First to Fight Silent and unseen, they glide beneath the surface of the sea-and change the tides of war. From the earliest submarines and U-boats to the latest nuclear-powered marvels, they are a perfect merging of new technology and timeless war tactics.Now today's top masters of military fiction give readers a periscope view of submarines-and the men who dare to man them in times of war...Includes stories by: James H. Cobb Jim DeFelice Brendan DuBois R.J. Pineiro William H. Keith, Jr. John Helfers Tom Geraghty Jean Rabe ...
| | The Strange Illness: A Commedia Dell 'Arte
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| | Parabasis and Animal Choruses
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|  | The Women of Troy (Methuen Drama)
Publication Date: November 28, 2007| ISBN-10: 1408103869 | ISBN-13: 978-1408103869An industrial port of a war-torn city. Women survivors wait to be shipped abroad. Officials come and go. A grandmother, once Queen, watches as her remaining family are taken from her one by one. The city burns around them. Euripides' great anti-war tragedy is published in Don Taylor's translation to coincide with the National Theatre's production directed by Katie Mitchell in the Lyttelton auditorium. This edition of the play features an introduction by the translator setting the play in its historical and ...
|  | Imagist Poetry (Penguin Modern Classics)
Publication Date: August 2002| ISBN-10: 0141185708 | ISBN-13: 978-0141185705Imagism was a brief, complex yet influential poetic movement of the early 1900s, a time of reaction against late nineteenth-century poetry which Ezra Pound, one of the key imagist poets, described as 'a doughy mess of third-hand Keats, Wordsworth ...half-melted, lumpy'. In contrast, imagist poetry, although riddled with conflicting definitions, was broadly characterized by brevity, precision, purity of texture and concentration of meaning: as Pound stated, it should 'use no superfluous word, no adjective, which d...
| | The Profession of Bookselling, a Handbook of Practical Hints for the Apprentice and Bookseller (Thoemmes Press- Thoemmes Library of Printing and the Book Trade)
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|  | Romanticism and Contemporary Criticism: The Gauss Seminar and Other Papers
Publication Date: May 9, 1996This volume assembles for the first time material written by Paul de Man between 1954 and 1981, including his previously unpublished Gauss Seminar lectures delivered at Princeton in 1967, three papers on romantic and postromantic issues, a commissioned essay on Roland Barthes, and two substantial responses to papers by Frank Kermode and Murray Krieger. Romanticism and Contemporary Criticism represents de Man's reflections on some of the major texts of English, German, and French Romanticism and their reception in twentieth-century literary criticism and theory. T...
|  | Can the Subaltern Speak?: Reflections on the History of an Idea
Publication Date: March 11, 2010| ISBN-10: 0231143850 | ISBN-13: 978-0231143851Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's original essay "Can the Subaltern Speak?" transformed the analysis of colonialism through an eloquent and uncompromising argument that affirmed the contemporary relevance of Marxism while using deconstructionist methods to explore the international division of labor and capitalism's "worlding" of the world. Spivak's essay hones in on the historical and ideological factors that obstruct the possibility of being heard for those who inhabit the periphery. It is a probing interrogation...
|  | Riffs and Reciprocities: Prose Pairs
Publication Date: December 1, 1999"This Astaire-like glide through our not-so-idle talk is a pleasure."—Publishers WeeklyStephen Dunn experiments with short, relatedpieces that play off each other in the manner of jazz improvisations. The resulting pairs coversuch subjects as "Scruples/Saints,""Hypocrisy/Precision," and"Anger/Generosity." The wisdom andstartling turns we've come to expect from Dunnare everywhere in the ninety miniatures(forty-five pairs) that comprise this volume. ...
|  | Blanca Sol (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: August 1, 2007A bestseller in its time with four published editions, Blanca Sol (1889) was a highly controversial novel when it first appeared. Thought by many to be a roman à clef about a well-known woman of Lima's high society, Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera (1842-1909) distanced herself from this criticism by making substantial changes for the second edition and by including a prologue stating her intentions of writing a realist novel, a social novel, inspired in reality, but not a copy.With a well earned reputation as an outspoken feminist writer and contributor to ...
|  | The York Plays: VoIume 1 The Text (Early English Text Society Supplementary Series)
Publication Date: December 13, 2009| ISBN-10: 0199578478 | ISBN-13: 978-0199578474| Edition: Revised The definitive scholarly edition of The York Plays, first published in 1982, and now reissued with significant additional material, revised and updated in two volumes. Volume 1 contains the Introduction and Text, with an appendix containing the musical; Volume 2 (to be published in 2010) will contain the Explanatory Notes and Glossary. The cycle of the York Mystery Plays: the cycle of religious dramas on biblical subjects, ranging from the creation through the life and passion of Jesus Ch...
|  | Maid for Love: McCarthys of Gansett Island (Volume 1)
Publication Date: March 23, 2012Maddie Chester is determined to leave her hometown of Gansett Island, a place that has brought her only bad memories and ugly rumors. Then she’s knocked off her bike on the way to her housekeeping job at McCarthy’s Resort Hotel by Gansett’s “favorite son,” Mac McCarthy. He’s back in town to help his father with preparations to sell the family resort and has no intention of staying long. When Mac accidentally sends Maddie flying over the handlebars, badly injuring her, he moves in to nurse her back to health and help ca...
|  | Fire And Ice (Arabesque)
Publication Date: March 1, 2001| Series: Arabesque Tired of living her life in the spotlight, especially after her movie star fiance abandons her for a supermodel, Holly Aimes, the daughter of a Georgia politician, buries herself in her career, until she encounters sexy Michael Williams, the host of a late-night talk show. Original. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Fudge Cupcake Murder (Hannah Swensen)
Release Date: June 1, 2011| Series: Hannah Swensen Bakery owner Hannah Swensen just can't keep her hands out of the batter when murder stirs things up in Lake Eden, Minnesota, leaving the sheriff dead, a deputy accused, and a killer on the loose...For Hannah, life seems to be lacking a certain flavour lately. Maybe it's the local sheriff's election that's got her down. For years, Sheriff Grant's been the iron hand in town. But now, Hannah's brother-in-law Bill is giving the old blowhard the fight of his long, dubious career - and Grant's not taking it well, especially once the polls show Bil...
|  | Room with a Clue (Pennyfoot Hotel Mystery)
Release Date: October 1, 1993| Series: Pennyfoot Hotel Mystery Beginning a new series set in a seaside hotel in Edwardian England, Room with a Clue shows that murder never needs a reservation at the Pennyfoot Hotel. Owner Cecily Sinclair runs a smooth hotel, but the death of an offensive snob could kill her business. ...
|  | Three Clever Mice: Folktales
Publication Date: March 1993| Age Level: 5 and up These delightful folktales have their origins in three different cultures--Turkey, Japan, and Nepal. But in all of them the main protagonists are very unusual mice. In true folktale tradition, the unbelievable is made totally convincing, and witty, enchanting illustrations perfectly portray a storyteller's magic world. Full color. ...
|  | WNBA Superstars: Leslie, Lobo & Swoopes
Publication Date: February 1, 1998| Age Level: 8 and up...
|  | Tennessee Titans (Inside the NFL)
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|  | This Dog Team Lives in the House
Publication Date: January 1, 2005| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up This is a tender story of an adopted dog, "spirit", who must learn how to belong in her new very friendly family. The author's life is captured in the illustrations. ...
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