 | Not Without Laughter (Dover Thrift Editions)
Publication Date: April 4, 2008| Series: Dover Thrift Editions A leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance, poet Hughes wrote only one novel — but it is an incredibly powerful and moving work. This 1930s coming-of-age tale, which unfolds amid an African-American family in rural Kansas, explores the dilemmas of life in a racially divided society. ...
 |  | Uncle Yah Yah: 21st Century Man of Wisdom
Publication Date: February 26, 2010Read this book and you will agree that if there ever was any One Who Flew Over the Cuckoo s Nest, it had to be Al Dickens the author of this book. Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. Even nature produces the uncommon or the unique at one time o r another, like the duckbill platypus. So it is with this book; it is a genuine paradox. It is strange, but true, that this book is filled with sane and sober truths that are presented in a most compassionate manner-though at times it may tug at the hemline of our old a...
|  | Young Voices
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|  | Amerika: The Man Who Disappeared (New Restored Text Translation)
Publication Date: May 2004Newly restored to the original text: for this new translation, Hofmann returned to Kafka’s manuscripts, restoring matters of substance and detail, and even the book’s original ending.Michael Hofmann's startlingly visceral and immediate translation revives Kafka's great comedy, and captures a new Kafka, free from Prague and loose in the new world, a Kafka shot through with light in this highly charged and enormously nuanced translation. Kafka began the first of his three novels in 1911, but like the others, Amerika remained unfinished, and perhaps, as K...
|  | An Instrument of Your Peace with CD (Audio)
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|  | Tandia
Publication Date: September 27, 2007Tandia sat waiting anxiously for the fight to begin between the man she loved the most and the man she hated the most in the world. Tandia is a child of Africa: half Indian, half African, beautiful and intelligent, she is only sixteen when she is first brutalised by the police. Her fear of the white man leads her to join the black resistance movement, where she trains as a terrorist.With her in the fight for justice is the one white man Tandia can trust, the welterweight champion of the world, Peekay. Now he must fight their common enemy in order to save b...
|  | Barnyard to Wrigley
Publication Date: April 19, 2004A MUST READ, for those that play baseball or softball. Puts the game into perspective! Would make a great movie! A rediscovery of baseball! FINALLY. . . .THE REAL STORY OF BASEBALL! ...
|  | Dark Canyon
Release Date: April 1, 1985When Gaylord Riley walked away from the Coburn gang, he had money and a dream. He worked hard and built a cabin, gathered a herd of cattle, and fell in love with Marie Shattuck.But when he is confronted with false accusations of rustling and murder, Riley is forced to defend his new law-abiding way of life. Outnumbered and facing a lynching party, Riley is surprised when his old friends return to lend him a hand. But how can they help him and keep themselves out of jail? With the local marshal already suspicious of Riley, the Coburn gang will have to plan well and ...
|  | John Milton: The Self and the World (Studies in the English Renaissance)
Publication Date: December 1992| Series: Studies in the English Renaissance "Winner of the James Holly Hanford Prize given by the Milton Society of America An exporation into the mind of John Milton that probes deeper than previous biographical studies, John Shawcross's award-winning text examines the psychological underpinnings of Milton's decision to become a poet, the homoerotic dimensions of his personality, and his relationships with his father and mother. John T. Shawcross is professor emeritus of English at the University of Kentucky and the author and editor of many books. See other ...
|  | The Comedy of Errors (Bloom's Shakespeare Through the Ages)
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|  | Drafting for the Theatre
Publication Date: January 30, 1992| ISBN-10: 0809315084 | ISBN-13: 978-0809315086| Edition: 1st This process-oriented text—supplemented by 280 illustrations—is structured to provide students with a proper and practical approach to the development of drafting and related skills for the theatre.Dennis Dorn and Mark Shanda emphasize the standard drafting and designing practices of the theatre industry through a series of projects and exercises that help the student in the development of research skills. The early sessions focus on the basics of lettering, tool introduction, geom...
|  | Radio Tooth (Award Series)
Publication Date: April 1, 1997| Series: Award Series These are bold poems, rugged and good, hard the way diamonds should be, but the way coconuts are as well.These works both sustain and delight, but what I am sayings most is they crack open, and constantly.Past the tired cemetery where the three year oldAsks what's that little city made of teethThese poems surprise and push, line by line. -- Alberto Rios, judgeThe Four Way Books Award Series ...
|  | Disfiguring: Art, Architecture, Religion (Religion and Postmodernism Series)
Publication Date: January 15, 1994| Series: Religion and Postmodernism Series Disfiguring is the first sustained interpretation of the deep but often hidden links among twentieth-century art, architecture, and religion. While many of the greatest modern painters and architects have insisted on the spiritual significance of their work, historians of modern art and architecture have largely avoided questions of religion. Likewise, contemporary philosophers and theologians have, for the most part, ignored visual arts. Taylor presents a carefully structured and subtly nuanced analysis of the rel...
|  | On Zen Practice: Body, Breath, and Mind
Publication Date: October 2002For the first time in decades, the teachings formative to American Zen teachers and students are now available in one comprehensive volume. Conceived as an overarching primer on the practice of Zen, this landmark volume address's every aspect of practice: beginning practice, shikantaza, chanting, sesshin, working with Mu, and the nature of koans. Retaining the lively, immediate quality of the previous edition, On Zen Practice is an essential tool for the new generation of Zen practitioners. ...
|  | El Arte Del Engano: El Arte Del Engano\La Imagen Del Amor (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: September 1, 2010La imagen del amorA pesar de su sofisticada belleza, el corazón de la modelo Hillary Baxter seguía estando en el pequeño pueblo de Kansas en el que nació. ¿Cómo iba a ser capaz de resistir el arrollador encanto de su nuevo jefe, el fascinante magnate de las revistas de moda Bret Bardoff? Bret conocía muy bien lo que debía hacer y decir para destruir las defensas de una mujer. Sin embargo, a medida que fue descubriendo la encantadora inocencia que había detrás del rostro mundialmente famoso de Hillary, fue Br...
|  | Epictetus: Discourses, Books 3-4. The Encheiridion. (Loeb Classical Library No. 218)
Publication Date: January 1, 1928| ISBN-10: 0674992407 | ISBN-13: 978-0674992405Epictetus was a crippled Greek slave of Phrygia during Nero's reign (54–68 CE) who heard lectures by the Stoic Musonius before he was freed. Expelled with other philosophers by the emperor Domitian in 89 or 92 he settled permanently in Nicopolis in Epirus. There, in a school which he called 'healing place for sick souls', he taught a practical philosophy, details of which were recorded by Arrian, a student of his, and survive in four books of Discourses and a smaller Encheiridion, a handbook which gives ...
|  | Monk's Hood: The Third Chronicle of Brother Cadfael
Publication Date: November 1, 1992| Series: Brother Cadfael Mysteries When a visitor to the abbey dies, Brother Cadfael faces a personal drama. For not only was the man poisoned by monk's hood oil, made in Cadfael's own laboratory, the dead man's widow is also the woman to whom Cadfael was betrothed before he took his vows. ...
|  | The Man Who Knew Too Much
Publication Date: June 17, 2010This is a book containing eight detective stories by G. K. Chesterton initially published in 1922. ...
|  | Mafalda 1 (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: August 2002| Age Level: 7 and up Latin-Americas best selling cartoon ever! Originally published between 1964-1973, these strips show very sharp criticism of a fast changing world by a very adult six-year old. Laughter and reason go hand in hand, in this series thats been translated to over 15 languages, and most of its message and humor remains as accurate and entertaining as it was thirty years ago. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition....
|  | A Coat for the Moon and Other Jewish Tales
Publication Date: May 15, 1999| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up In this collection of fifteen classic Jewish folktales, the authors share some of the richest stories of Jewish tradition from countries the world over, including France, Turkey, Israel, Yemen, Egypt, and Iraq, thus opening up new worlds for young readers. Each tale, magnificently illustrated with a pen-and-ink drawing, reveals a specific Jewish value handed down from one generation to the next. ...
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