 | The Norton Field Guide to Writing with Readings, 2nd Edition
Publication Date: December 14, 2009| ISBN-10: 0393933814 | ISBN-13: 978-0393933819| Edition: Second Edition The most successful new rhetoric in a generation, plus an anthology of 60 readings. Designed as 2 books in one, so that teachers can center their courses on the rhetoric or the readings—and draw from the other part as needed.Easy to use, flexible, and a great value. With just enough detail – and color-coded links that send students to more detail if they need it – this is the rhetoric that tells students what they need to know and resists the temptation to tell...
 |  | Rebellion Is the Circle of a Lovers Hands/Rebelio (Spanish and English Edition)
Publication Date: July 1, 1995Poems in English and Spanish that discuss what it means to be Puerto Rican in the United States today. ...
|  | Compression & Purity (City Lights Spotlight)
Publication Date: April 19, 2011| Series: City Lights Spotlight (Book 5) The fifth volume of our Spotlight poetry series, Compression & Purity is a new collection of poetry by Los Angeles–based African American surrealist Will Alexander.Known for densely textured visionary epics influenced by poets like Aimé Césaire and César Vallejo, Alexander here returns to shorter forms to address his ecological, cosmological, and historical concerns.Highlights include a monologue from the perspective of "The Blood Penguin," a song by the "New Water on Mars," and Alexander's autobiogr...
|  | Literature Of The Cherokees: Also, Bibliography And The Story Of Their Genesis
Publication Date: June 1, 2007This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. ...
|  | Popular Hits of the Showa Era: A Novel
Publication Date: January 31, 2011From the author of Audition, a wickedly satirical and wildly funny tale of an intergenerational battle of the sexes.In his most irreverent novel yet, Ryu Murakami creates a rivalry of epic proportions between six aimless youths and six tough-as-nails women who battle for control of a Tokyo neighborhood. At the outset, the young men seem louche but harmless, their activities limited to drinking, snacking, peering at a naked neighbor through a window, and performing karaoke. The six "aunties" are fiercely independent career women. When one of the boys executes...
|  | 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...
|  | Kingdom's Reign (Kingdom, Book 6)
Release Date: May 15, 2007An evil army masses against the Knights of the Prince, and they are outnumbered.Only the King can save them…While the Knights of the Prince train in the Kingdom Across the Sea, the Dark Knight, Lucius, reigns in Arrethtrae with complete authority. But when a small group of loyalists swears allegiance to the King, the Prince returns, and in a mighty battle, Lucius and the Shadow Warriors are vanquished and imprisoned in the Wasteland.Peace and prosperity renew the land, and the Prince rules from the royal city of Chessington. While the heroic Cedric travels as ...
|  | Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Prison Poems
Release Date: August 29, 2005Night and silence.Only footsteps and shouts of the guards.Do you not hear it in this silenced house,shaking, breaking, and collapsing,as hundreds kindle the glowing emberof their hearts?'When I was in prison, no writings encouraged me more than Bonhoeffer's.'---Chuck ColsonHere in one volume are all ten of the dramatic poems that Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote during his confinement in Prison on charges of conspiring to assassinate Adolf Hitler. Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Prison Poems is the stirring, deeply personal manifesto of one of the twentieth century's best-known C...
|  | The Tale of the Body Thief (Vampire Chronicles)
Release Date: September 1, 1993| Series: Vampire Chronicles (Book 4) "A wonderfully mesmerizing adventure, delving into the convoluted mind of one of modern fiction's most famous anti-heroes, the vampire Lestat. Rice's writing is elegant and thought-provoking and her story is a gem."THE SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNEFor centuries Lestat has been a courted prince in the universe of the dead. Now he is alone and everything he once believed in seems false. So he embarks on a dangerous journey to destroy his doubts and loneliness forever.... ...
|  | Marina (Best Seller (Edebe)) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: October 1, 2008| Series: Best Seller (Edebe) En la Barcelona de 1980 Óscar Drai sueña despierto, deslumbrado por los palacetes modernistas cercanos al internado en el que estudia. En una de sus escapadas conoce a Marina, una chica audaz que comparte con Óscar la aventura de adentrarse en un enigma doloroso del pasado de la ciudad. Un misterioso personaje de la posguerra se propuso el mayor desafío imaginable, pero su ambición lo arrastró por sendas siniestras cuyas consecuencias debe pagar alguien todavía hoy. --This text refers to the Kin...
|  | The Annunciations of Hank Meyerson, Mama's Boy and Scholar
Publication Date: February 3, 2009Hank Meyerson isn't the whiny sort of mama's boy. He's more the wry, shaggy, chubby sort an over-thinker, a ranter, and sometimes a crier. He adores Emily Dickinson. He kibitzes. He has the audacity to fall in love with his brother's wife. Repercussions of a tryst kick-start a story of love, loss, and, ultimately, redemption. Traversing from Minneapolis to Montana to the fateful shallows of the St. Croix River, Hank's story waltzes toward tragedy with dazzling wit, affecting insight, and raw ruminations on everything from duck jokes and the toy industry to a...
|  | Transformers: Exiles
Release Date: October 4, 2011The epic battles between Optimus Prime and Megatron have long thrilled Transformers fans. But these two giants weren’t always great leaders and bitter foes. This new novel continues the electrifying saga that started with Transformers: Exodus, unveiling the origins of the conflict—the explosive events that unfolded before Optimus and Megatron arrived Earthside, forever altering the destiny of their kind. Once allies, Optimus and Megatron are now enemies in a civil war. To prevent Cybertron from falling into Megatron’s hands, Optimus jett...
|  | The Excursion Train (Inspector Robert Colbeck)
Publication Date: June 26, 2006| Series: Railway London, 1852. On the shocking discovery of a passenger’s body on the Great Western Railway excursion train, Detective Inspector Robert Colbeck and his assistant, Sergeant Victor Leeming, are dispatched to the scene. Faced with what initially appears to be a motiveless murder, Colbeck is intrigued by the murder weapon - a noose. When it emerges that the victim had worked as a public executioner, Colbeck realizes that this must be intrinsically linked to the killer's choice of weapon. However, the further he delves into the case, the more...
|  | As You Like It (Illustrated Classics Shakespeare)
Publication Date: October 1, 2007| Age Level: 11 and up | Grade Level: 6 and up...
|  | Apollonius of Rhodes: Argonautica Book III (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics)
Publication Date: June 30, 1989| ISBN-10: 0521312361 | ISBN-13: 978-0521312363Composed in the third century B.C., the Argonautica is the only extant Greek epic between Homer and the later Roman Empire. It tells of Jason's successful expedition with the Argonauts to recover the Golden Fleece from Colchis on the Black Sea. Medea, a young Colchian princess, falls in love with Jason and helps him survive the ordeals imposed by her father. The description of Medea's emotional suffering exercised a profound influence on subsequent writers and especially on Virgil in his account of Dido and Aen...
|  | The Poems of Catullus (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: April 24, 1980| Series: Penguin Classics Catullus, best remembered for his tempestuous relationship with the notorious Clodia Metelli, was one of the most influential, original and enigmatic of all the Roman poets. This text presents a collection of his work. ...
|  | Syncretism in the West : Pico's 900 Theses (1486) : The Evolution of Traditional Religious and Philosophical Systems : With a Revised Text, English Translation, and Commentary
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|  | Psychology and Postmodernism (Inquiries in Social Construction series)
Publication Date: December 9, 1992| Series: Inquiries in Social Construction series (Book 9) This groundbreaking book is the first to explore the implications of postmodernist ideas for psychology. It examines central themes of postmodernism as they relate to psychology - for example, the nature of the self, locally situated rather than universal knowledge and the pivotal role of language in social life.The contributors outline the new possibilities for psychology, setting theoretical reformulations alongside implications for psychological practice and method. The book presents critique as w...
|  | Julia Augusta Webster: Victorian Aesthetisim and the Woman Writer
Publication Date: October 1, 2009This book treats the literary work of Julia Augusta Webster within the context of Websters participation in nineteenth century British aestheticism. Websters personal life, her experience as a member of the Suffrage Society and her tenure on the London School Board, as well as her position as poetry reviewer for the Athenaeum and participation in the salon society of the 1880s, inform her later work, but her earliest poetry and fiction also reflect the beginnings of the aestheticist perspective on the transience and impermanence of life. This book makes use o...
|  | And It Is Still That Way: Legends
Publication Date: October 1976American Indian children retell forty-one tribal legends in contemporary language. ...
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