 | By Any Means Necessary Malcolm X: Real, Not Reinvented
Publication Date: January 1, 2012 Compiled as a response to Manning Marable’s controversial new biography of Malcolm X, more than 30 noted scholars from the African American community offer their opinions on Marable’s portrayal of the man whose short life still inspires speculation of what might have been. Contributors include: Imam Al-Hajj Talib Abdur-Rashid, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Abdul Alkalimat, Molefi Kete Asante, Rick Ayers, Bryonn Bain, Amiri Baraka, Aslaku Berhanu, Amir Bey, Todd Steven Burroughs, Ta-Nehisi Coates, William Jelani Cobb, Karl Evanzz, Iyaluua and Herman ...
 |  | The Memory of Water
Release Date: March 4, 2008On the night their mother drowns, sisters Marnie and Diana Maitland discover there is more than one kind of death. There is the death of innocence, of love, and of hope. Each sister harbors a secret about that night-secrets that will erode their lives as they grow into adulthood. After ten years of silence between the sisters, Marnie is called back to the South Carolina Lowcountry by Diana's ex-husband, Quinn. His young son has returned from a sailing trip with his emotionally unstable mother, and he is refusing to speak. In order to help the traumatized boy, Marni...
|  | Kathleen O'Donald: A Novel
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|  | Pollita chiquita
Publication Date: February 1, 1992| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up Cause and effect are humorously apparent in this new edition of an old tale. When the acorn falls on Henny Penny's head, readers will know just where it's come from--two industrious squirrels busily gathering nuts in the trees overhead. (The same two squirrels are seen burying their wealth at the scene of Foxy Loxy's feast on the book's final page.) In similar fashion, Zimmermann extends and lightens this tersely told tale in page after page of colorful watercolor cartoons. Henny Penny and friends appear appropri...
|  | Sarah Kane: Complete Plays
Publication Date: May 1, 2001| Series: Contemporary Dramatists When Sarah Kane's first play Blasted was staged at the Royal Court Theatre in 1995 it was hailed both as a "masterpiece" and as a "disgusting piece of filth" (Daily Mail). That play, and the others that followed, have been produced all over the world. This anthology includes Kane's never-before-published Channel 4 screenplay, Skin.Plays include: Blasted, Phaedra's Love, Cleansed, Crave, 4.48 Psychosis, and Skin. ...
|  | La Ronde
Publication Date: March 7, 2011Arthur Schnitzler, Translated by Eric Bentley Full Length, ComedyCharacters: 5 male, 5 femaleBy the author of the classic romantic romp The Loves of Anatol, Schnitzler's popular roundelay of love in old Vienna is told in ten interwoven scenes: two characters appear in each and one of these moves into the next. The soldier of the first scene leaves a prostitute to appear in the next scene with a parlor maid. The maid then departs to be with her wealthy employer. He, in turn, receives his mistress, a certain married lady. The next scene is reveals the married lad...
|  | Fires: Essays, Poems, Stories
Release Date: June 18, 1989"You should read Fires now. These stories and poems...show the enormous talent of Raymond Carver beginning to take hold."-- San Francisco Chronicle"Seminal in Carver studies...A disparate collection of work bound by a unity of vision and obsession."-- Los Angeles Herald Examiner"Carver's most revealing book...This collection confirms the worth of Raymond Carver's work...Like bright birds in distant trees, Carver's stories appear in flashes, glimpses; Fires reveals the arc of his purposeful flight."-- Boston Globe ...
|  | Second Sight (New poetry in India)
Publication Date: December 18, 1986| Series: New poetry in India In this new collection of poems by a leading Indian poet, now living in the U.S., Ramanujan writes about his existence and experiences in this country.Although the poems are about his life in the U.S. They continue to reflect the influence of India and Indian relatives on his perspective on his experiences. ...
|  | PPPPPP: Poems Performances Pieces Proses Plays Poetics
Publication Date: February 2, 2004Kurt Schwitters' stated goal was to "erase the boundaries between the arts." This collection, culled from the five-volume German edition of Schwitters' writings, introduces the total work of art that is Merz through Schwitters' words. Included is the complete text for the "Ursonate," Schwitters' legendary and lengthy epic of sound poetry, which, as poets, editors and translators Jerome Rothenberg and Pierre Joris comment, "is to sound poetry what Joyce's Ulysses is to the twentieth-century novel." ...
|  | Selected Haiku
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|  | Oppositions in Chaucer
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|  | The Return of the Blue Cat
Release Date: April 17, 2005Who's Who in America lists the order of catsin hunting, fishing, bird-watching, farming,domestic service--the dictionary order of catswho have made it. So begins "Identity Crisis," one of the delightful poems in F. D. Reeve's witty, musical, biting book of verse. In the award-winning poet's seventh volume, the Blue Cat returns saucier and sassier than ever, "a courteous, outspoken, well-read, somewhat randy anarchist ready again to lay down one of his lives for what he believes." The poems that tell the story of the Cat's seemingly immortal existence set a standar...
|  | Once upon a Heroine: 450 Books for Girls to Love
Publication Date: April 1, 1998In this indispensable guide to 400 books that nurture every girl's spirit of independence, competence, and self-esteem, the authors suggest special books that provide role models for girls and allow them to imagine themselves as heroines of their own lives. ...
|  | Women According to Men: The World of Tudor-Stuart Women
Release Date: March 26, 1996| ISBN-10: 0761991204 | ISBN-13: 978-0761991205What was it like to be a woman when England was ruled by a queen, but women had almost no legal power? When marriage cost women their property rights? When the ideal woman was rarely seen and never heard in public? In other words, what was it like to be a woman in England between 1525 and 1675? Suzanne Hull, in Women According to Men answers these questions and more, taking fascinating look at how women were described, and prescribed to act, by men during that time. Hull, the first woman ever appointed as a Princi...
|  | Romantic Antiquity: Rome in the British Imagination, 1789-1832 (Classical Presences)
Publication Date: December 21, 2009| ISBN-10: 0195376129 | ISBN-13: 978-0195376128| Edition: 1ST While scholars have long noted the fascination with Roman literature and history expressed by many preeminent British cultural figures of the early and middle-eighteenth century, they have only sparingly commented on the increasingly vexed role Rome played during the subsequent Romantic period. This critical oversight has skewed our understanding of British Romanticism as being either a full-scale rejection of classical precedents or an embrace of Greece at the expense of Rome. In contrast, R...
| | Fictions of Resolution in Three Victorian Novels.
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|  | Merlin and Wales: A Magician's Landscape
Publication Date: September 2002Who was Merlin? Did he ever exist? Michael Dames shows us the many aspects of this elusive and mercurial figure - seer and enchanter, sage and madman, poet and god - in the royal court and in the wilderness, on land and in water. With illustrations of the art and artefacts that relate to the Merlin legend as well as the author's own evocative photographs of the mythic sites, this book guides us through the many versions of the story of Merlin and his sister/lover, Gwyndydd. ...
|  | The Lioness in Bloom: Modern Thai Fiction about Women (Voices from Asia)
Publication Date: July 31, 1996| Series: Voices from Asia (Book 9) Kepner's selection shows the many ways fiction has mirrored the lives of Thai women over the twentieth century. The spectrum is broad, encompassing the young and the old, the rural and the cosmopolitan, the privileged and the poor. Some writers address previously unacceptable themes: female sexuality, spousal abuse, gender oppression. Others display a scintillating sense of humor. They touch on many themes--injustice, the heartlessness of society, loneliness, the difficult choices that life presents. Susan Kepner's lyrical, f...
|  | The Roman Vergil and the Origins of Medieval Book Design
Publication Date: February 23, 2002The Roman Vergil (or 'Codex Romanus', so named by Valeriano in 1521) is one of the most precious manuscripts in the Vatican Library.Produced in Rome before the end of the 5th century AD, it is a finely designed and beautifully illuminated copy of the works of Vergil.Its influence on the development of medieval manuscript art is important in many ways; for example, the first page of the text of the Aeneid is the earliest known decorated 'incipit' page.All twenty illuminated pages will be reproduced in sequence, with explanatory text.In the accompanying comme...
|  | Changeling (Sisters of the Moon, Book 2)
Release Date: June 5, 2007"The first in an engrossing new series, [Witchling was] a whimsical reminder of fantasy's importance in life" (Publishers Weekly). Now comes Changeling-again featuring Camille, the good witch, Menolly, the vampire, and Delilah, a feline shapeshifter. They're the D'Artigo sisters, half-human, half-Faerie supernatural agents who are now enlisted to find the fiends responsible for slaughtering the weres of Rainier Puma Pride. ...
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