 | The St. Martin's Guide to Writing
Publication Date: January 26, 2010| ISBN-10: 0312536127 | ISBN-13: 978-0312536121| Edition: Ninth Edition The best-selling college rhetoric for nearly 25 years, The St. Martin’s Guide has achieved an unparalleled record of success by providing practical innovations for the ever-changing composition course. Comprehensive yet flexible, The Guide’s acclaimed step-by-step guides to each type of writing offer sure-fire invention strategies to get students started, combined with thorough advice on critical reading, working with sources, and careful revision. Axelrod and Cooper̵...
 |  | Above the River: The Complete Poems
Publication Date: April 1, 1992One of the most admired American poets of his generation, James Wright (1927-80) wrote contemplative, sturdy, and generous poems with an honesty, clarity, and stylistic range matched by very few--then or now. From his Deep Image-inspired lyrics to his Whtimanesque renderings of Neruda, Vallejo, and other Latin American poets, and from his heartfelt reflections on life, love, and loss in his native Ohio to the celebrated prose poems (set frequently in Italy) that marked the end of his important career, Above the River gathers the complete work of a modern master...
|  | Courage: The Backbone of Leadership
Publication Date: March 3, 2006In Courage, Gus Lee captures the essential component of leadership in measurable behaviors. Using actual stories from Whirlpool, Kaiser Permanente, IntegWare, WorldCom and other organizations, Lee shows how highly successful executives face and overcome their fears to develop moral intelligence. These real-world examples offer practical lessons for rooting out unethical practices and behaviors byAssessing them for rightness and integrityAddressing moral failuresFollowing through with dialogue and direct action ...
|  | House of Leaves
Release Date: March 7, 2000Years ago, when House of Leaves was first being passed around, it was nothing more than a badly bundled heap of paper, parts of which would occasionally surface on the Internet. No one could have anticipated the small but devoted following this terrifying story would soon command. Starting with an odd assortment of marginalized youth -- musicians, tattoo artists, programmers, strippers, environmentalists, and adrenaline junkies -- the book eventually made its way into the hands of older generations, who not only found themselves in those strangely arranged pages bu...
|  | The Best Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Poetry of 1992 (The 1993 Rhysling Anthology)
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|  | Candide (A CSA Word Classic)
Publication Date: January 1, 2010| Series: A CSA Word Classic Francois-Marie Arouet, known better as Voltaire, was hailed as a genius of the Enlightenment, a man dissatisfied with the religious and superstitious attitudes of his time, and a champion of sharp irony and logical reasoning. His most famous book follows Candide and his tutor, Pangloss, as they travel the Earth following the philosophy that "all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds." This adage, however, is disproved at many turns as the characters encounter many obstacles. The initially naïve Candide realizes s...
|  | The Wreck of the Titan: Futility
Publication Date: January 1, 1898Fictional novella originally written in 1898 about an unsinkable passenger ship called the Titan. Close parallels to the Titanic -- both were unsinkable, both struck icebergs, both were on their maiden voyages, only one-third of the passengers on each ship survived, the elite of the time were on board both ships, and both ships were encouraged to break speed records. ...
|  | Oroonoko (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: May 25, 2004| ISBN-10: 0140439889 | ISBN-13: 978-0140439885When Prince Oroonoko’s passion for the virtuous Imoinda arouses the jealousy of his grandfather, the lovers are cast into slavery and transported from Africa to the colony of Surinam. Oroonoko’s noble bearing soon wins the respect of his English captors, but his struggle for freedom brings about his destruction. Inspired by Aphra Behn’s visit to Surinam, Oroonoko reflects the author’s romantic views of native peoples as being in “the first state of innocence, before man knew how to sin....
|  | He Is Born...Child Divine: A Dramatic Musical for Christmas (Lillenas)
Publication Date: March 15, 1993| Series: Lillenas Telling the traditional Christmas story with a few nontraditional characters, particularly Mary and Joseph’s parents. ...
|  | Beowulf (MCI) (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)
Publication Date: December 1987| ISBN-10: 0877549044 | ISBN-13: 978-0877549048The most important poem in Old English, Beowulf is also the only surviving Anglo-Saxon epic. Though the origins of the piece remain a mystery, it has long been acclaimed for its grand tone and brilliant style.The title, ’s Beowulf, part of Chelsea House Publishers’ Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on ’s Beowulf through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics.This collection of criticism also features a short biography on...
|  | Antologia poetica / Poetic Anthology (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: June 17, 2009La presente Antología propicia y hace posible ese encuentro del lector con una poesía fundamental, que conjuga muy bien lo cósmico, lo mítico, lo existencial y lo social, y que le dará claves reveladoras sobre su paso por el mundo. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Los POETAS del Amor (Spanish Edition)
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|  | The "Roman de la Rose": A Study in Allegory and Iconography
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|  | Erotic Tales of Medieval Germany (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies)
Publication Date: May 30, 2007| Series: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies New Paperback(as shown)"Erotic Tales of Medieval Germany (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies)"clean pages,minor shelf wear,Fast shipping......MOVED(B-5) ...
|  | The Photobook: From Talbot to Ruscha and Beyond
Release Date: May 8, 2012| ISBN-10: 1848856156 | ISBN-13: 978-1848856158The photograph found a home in the book before it won for itself a place on the gallery wall. Only a few years after the birth of photography, the publication of Henry Fox Talbot's The Pencil of Nature heralded a new genre in the history of the book, one in which the photograph was the primary vehicle of expression and communication, or stood in equal, if sometimes conflicted partnership, with the written word. In this book, practicing photographers and writers across several fields of scholarship share a r...
|  | Lords of Passion
Release Date: November 30, 2010It's been three years since Lady Sarah Caversham set eyes on arrogant Charles Lennox - the husband her father chose for her to settle a gambling debt. Now Charles has returned, unaware that the innocent ingenue he wed is determined to turn their marriage of convenience into a blissfully passionate affair...Louisa March's new husband, Nicholas, is a perfect gentleman in bed - much to her disappointment. She longs for the kind of fevered passion found in her beloved romance novels. But when she dares him to seduce her properly, she discovers that Nicholas is more...
|  | Something About Emmaline
Release Date: January 25, 2005Alexander Denford, Baron Sedgwick, is a gentleman to be envied. He lives a rakish life of well-celebrated ease and contentment and has one person to thank for his perfectly ordered existence—his dearest wife, Emmaline. She never complains about his mistresses or his penchant for late nights out. His friends are envious, but they don't know the truth—Emmaline doesn't exist. But when he starts receiving bills from London for clothes, shoes, hats and a staggering amount of other female accoutrements, he realises something is decidedly amiss. Posing as...
|  | Windmills of the Gods
Publication Date: February 1, 1988She's on the glinting edge of East-West confrontation, a beautiful and accomplished scholar who has suddenly become our newest ambassador to an Iron Curtain country, a woman who is about to dramatically change the course of world events -- if she lives. For Mary Ashley has been marked for death by the world's most proficient and mysterious assassin, and plunged into a nightmare of espionage, kidnapping, and terror. Here, only two people -- both powerfully attractive and ultimately enigmatic men -- can offer her help. And one of them wants to kill her. ...
|  | The Indian Sign (Milan Jacovich Mysteries)
Publication Date: March 1, 2006| Series: Milan Jacovich Mysteries Need a private eye? None better than Milan Jacovich. Milan Jacovich, Roberts's likable Cleveland sleuth, has investigated college campuses and labor unions, middle-European rivalries and small-town elections. Two of the very most affecting, however, are in Roberts's new book, where Jacovich contends with the murder of an old Native American, a tribal historian, and the subsequent kidnapping of the man's infant great grandaughter. Does this tie in with Milan's paid assignment -- to see if a toy manufacturer's accountant is sell...
|  | Love in the Temperate Zone
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