 | The Price of Politics
Release Date: September 11, 2012Based on 18 months of reporting, Woodward's 17th book The Price of Politics is an intimate, documented examination of how President Obama and the highest profile Republican and Democratic leaders in the United States Congress attempted to restore the American economy and improve the federal government’s fiscal condition over three and one half years.Drawn from memos, contemporaneous meeting notes, emails and in-depth interviews with the central players, The Price of Politics addresses the key issue of the presidential and congressional campaigns: the co...
 |  | Innocent Forever
Publication Date: November 27, 2010Tamara Jenkins, a federal prison guard, finds herself desperately racing against time and a corrupt prison adminstration as she tries to free her baby's daddy, I.C.Miller, a death row inmate who is about to be executed by lethal injection for a hideous crime he didn't commit. She is torn between two arch rival thugs: the Haitian Kingpin Bleu Baptise and Atlanta's dopeboy Pharaoh Green, in a deadly, deceptive, lustful love triangle in which neither will stop to possess her, even if it means murder.--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition....
|  | The Andersonville Trial
Publication Date: October 1, 1961Play Based On 1865 Court Trial Of Commandant Of A Confederate Prison Camp At Andersonville, Georgia. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition....
|  | Flash Fiction: 72 Very Short Stories
Publication Date: July 17, 1992"These stories are not merely flashes in the pan; there's pay dirt here!" —DeWitt Henry, editor of Ploughshares ...
|  | Reel Terror: The Stories That Inspired the Great Horror Movies
Publication Date: April 1992An exciting collection of the stories that inspired great horror movies, from Tod Browning's Freaks in 1932 to David Cronenberg's 1986 Total Recall. The many horror stories covered here--by such writers as Stephen King, Ray Bradbury, John Cheever, and Philip K. Dick--all became legendary horror films. Illustrated. ...
|  | The Canopus Revelation: The Stargate of the Gods and the Ark of Osiris
Publication Date: April 1, 2004A radical reinterpretation of the myth of Osiris and Isis. Humankind has misidentified the constellation Orion with the Egyptian god Osiris in Egyptian mythology. Rather, it is the star Canopus that is linked with Osiris, as identified by both ancient writers and early 20th century scholars.Canopus, for Egypt the South polar star, is the second-brightest star and interplays with Sirius in such a way that ancient accounts surmised that the two stars controlled time. It was the navigators star, allowing access to the afterlife û the domain of Osiris. Canopus...
|  | Liberating Voices: Oral Tradition in African American Literature
Publication Date: May 1, 1991| ISBN-10: 0674530241 | ISBN-13: 978-0674530249| Edition: First Edition The powerful novelist here turns penetrating critic, giving us—in lively style—both trenchant literary analysis and fresh insight on the art of writing.“When African American writers began to trust the literary possibilities of their own verbal and musical creations,” writes Gayl Jones, they began to transform the European and European American models, and to gain greater artistic sovereignty.” The vitality of African American literature derives from its inco...
|  | The Melodramatic Public: Film Form and Spectatorship in Indian Cinema
Release Date: January 15, 2011| ISBN-10: 0230247644 | ISBN-13: 978-0230247642| Edition: Reprint What does it mean to say Indian movies are melodramatic? How do film audiences engage with socio-political issues? What role has cinema played in the emergence of new economic forms, consumer cultures, and digital technologies in a globalizing India? The Melodramatic Public analyzes melodrama as a narrative architecture and expressive form which connects the public and the private, the personal and the political, in ways that draw film audiences into complex passages of historic...
|  | Roland : Days of Wrath
Publication Date: July 1999| Series: Days of Wrath High in the treacherous passes between France and Spainin 778 A.D., Roland, captain of Charlemagne's conquering army,catapults his outnumbered flank of loyal vassals into a struggle sodesperate and bloody that its dead --and their deeds-- would beexalted for a thousand years in the most famous French medieval epic,the Song of Roland.Roland's bitter sacrifice, the apocalyptic battle-storm andCharlemagne's legendary grief, comes to life, as never before, in agraphic retelling that blends the beauty of oral poetry with the powerof narrative art...
|  | Catch a Haiku
Publication Date: September 9, 2011This collection of poetic observations is written in the style of 17th century Japanese haiku, each poem having seventeen syllables in three lines. They relate to nature and human nature, as well as special times and places, and they reflect the particular pleasures and beauties of each season of the year. There are favorite trees, incredible snow days, splendid sunsets, familiar flowers, bluest skies and even tiramisu ice cream! Of course, there are also droughts and storms and power outages and mothballs, but these are just temporary. Fair weather is the ...
|  | Eko Ree - The Many faces of Lagos
Publication Date: August 30, 2010The collection is a candid but graphic reflection on the many faces of Lagos. The city is portrayed as a medley of experiences and the reader is taken through the hustle and bustle of a city, which in a way, manages to reveal its own magic. The experiences captured in this book are those of the ordinary Lagos dwellers hacking their way through seemingly impossible passages to make a living. Eko ree is distinctly impressive. It is very rare to find a poetry book that is entirely devoted to the urban. This is where the author's strength lies. The collection is ...
|  | Virgil's Aeneid: Cosmos and Imperium
Publication Date: June 29, 1989| ISBN-10: 0198146914 | ISBN-13: 978-0198146919The Romans saw an analogy between the ordered workings of the natural universe and the proper functioning of their own expanding empire, between orbis and urbs.Philip Hardie's new work explores Virgil's poetic and mythic transformation of this imperialist ideology with reference to such traditions as the poet/cosmologer, the use of allegory to extract natural-philosophical truths from mythology and poetry, poetic hyperbole, and the "universal expression." ...
|  | Schubert in the European Imagination, Volume 1: The Romantic and Victorian Eras (Eastman Studies in Music)
Publication Date: August 15, 2008| Series: Eastman Studies in Music In Schubert in the European Imagination, Volume 1: The Romantic and Victorian Eras, Scott Messing examines the historical reception of Franz Schubert as conveyed through the gendered imagery and language of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century European culture.The concept of Schubert as a feminine type vaulted into prominence in 1838 when Robert Schumann described the composer's Mädchencharakter ("girlish" character), by contrast to the purportedly more masculine, more heroic Beethoven. What attracted Schumann to Sch...
|  | Arthur the Greatest King (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)
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|  | Anglo-Saxon Psychologies in the Vernacular and Latin Traditions (Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series)
Publication Date: May 1, 2011| Series: Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series Old English verse and prose depict the human mind as a corporeal entity located in the chest cavity, susceptible to spatial and thermal changes corresponding to the psychological states: it was thought that emotions such as rage, grief, and yearning could cause the contents of the chest to grow warm, boil, or be constricted by pressure. While readers usually assume the metaphorical nature of such literary images, Leslie Lockett, in Anglo-Saxon Psychologies in the Vernacular and Latin Traditions, argues that these depictions ar...
|  | Highland Wolf
Release Date: January 1, 2008In this all-new novel, "New York Times" bestselling author Howell returns to the breathtaking Scottish Highlands with the unforgettable Murray clan and the stunning Annora MacKay, who cannot resist the desire awakened in her by an alluring stranger. Original. ...
|  | Now You See Me
Release Date: April 10, 2012Late one night after interviewing a witness, Lacey Flint, a young detective constable, stumbles onto a woman brutally stabbed just moments before. Within twenty-four hours, a reporter receives an anonymous letter pointing out alarming similarities between the murder and Jack the Ripper’s first murder—a letter that calls out Lacey by name. If it’s real, and they have a killer bent on re-creating London’s bloody past, history shows they have just five days until the next attempt.No one believes the connections are anything more than a sadisti...
|  | Kissed a Sad Goodbye (Duncan Kincaid/Gemma James Novels)
Release Date: January 2, 2001| Series: Duncan Kincaid/Gemma James Novels Scotland Yard's Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James face their most haunting case yet when the past devastatingly intersects with the present....The call from Scotland Yard couldn't have come at a worse time for Detective Superintendent Duncan Kincaid. He has promised the weekend to Kit, the eleven-year-old son of his ex-wife. The son he never knew he fathered -- who doesn't yet know Kincaid's true identity. But Duncan's best intentions are shattered by an investigation that draws him in and swiftly consumes him. It seems to...
|  | The Complete Sherlock Holmes Two Volumes
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|  | Romani Prince Penga (A Romani folktale)
Publication Date: March 16, 2009A beautifully illustrated Romani folktale about the evil deeds of the Romani Prince Penga and his adoptive brother Beng, from Magoria Books' Romani Folktales collection. Hedina Sijercic, internationally published Romani Poet and Author, brings us the stories from her childhood with the vivid watercolour painted illustrations of Doris Greven. This special bilingual edition contains both the English version and the Romani original of the story. Look for other books from this series by searching for "Romani Folktales", or visit us at www.RomaniFolktales.com to se...
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