 | The Melancholy of Race: Psychoanalysis, Assimilation, and Hidden Grief (Race and American Culture)
Publication Date: December 20, 2001| ISBN-10: 0195151623 | ISBN-13: 978-0195151626In this groundbreaking, interdisciplinary study Anne Anlin Cheng argues that we have to understand racial grief not only as the result of racism but also as a foundation for racial identity. The Melancholy of Race proposes that racial identification is itself already a melancholic act--a social category that is imaginatively supported through a dynamic of loss and compensation, by which the racial other is at once rejected and retained. Using psychoanalytic theories on mourning and melancholia as inroads in...
 |  | Couple of Blaguards, A
Publication Date: October 27, 2011Characters: 2 maleBare stageA Couple of Blaguards, a two-man show by literary greats Frank and Malachy McCourt, is a bubbling stew of their well-knownhumor with a dash of poignancy to sharpen the flavor. A comedic springboard for Angela's Ashes, 'Tis, and Malachy's A Monk Swimmin', this brilliantly structured comedy is a proven crowd-pleaser offering solid entertainment. Similar to Frank McCourt's best-selling novels, the story follows the trials of the young McCourts in poverty-stricken Limerick, Ireland, to their journey to the U.S. and Brooklyn, New York,...
|  | The Serpent's Grasp
Publication Date: January 30, 2012Dr. Evelyn Sims, a brilliant marine biologist, is being watched. Her husband's mysterious death at sea-with the only survivor of the Greenback telling a shocking, unbelievable tale-has thrown her personal life into chaos. Her scientific views are being scrutinized. Her husband's office and their home are investigated. Called in by the FBI to help solve the mystery, Evelyn is thrust into her toughest research project ever...and forced into a maze of deception and betrayal. Micah Gregson, presently serving as the Coast Guard captain who rescued the Greenback, ...
|  | The Road to Hell: The Book of Lucifer
Publication Date: August 9, 2011My name is Lucifer and I was first……and, yes, I am that Lucifer. Fall from Heaven, Prince of Darkness, ruler of Hell, Satan, the Devil, the Adversary, and a thousand other names.Your book leaves out some key elements.I think it’s time to tell my side of the story. From the very beginning.I should know: I was the beginning.Before me was the Father and before the Father there was nothing.Forget what you think you know. You’ve never heard this story before—not from me. Others have tried. None of them got it right. No one seems t...
|  | Carriers
Release Date: September 1, 1996hen a plague-like outbreak strikes Indonesia, and a team of American biological warfare experts are brought in to discover its source, they find only corpses--until Holly Becker arrives. She's come to the jungle to find her two young daughters and in her quest may lie the secret to the terror which threatens to engulf them all. 2 cassettes. ...
|  | Contrarreloj (Andanzas/ Adventures) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: July 1, 2009| Series: Andanzas/ Adventures (Book 688) En la cuarta etapa del Tour de Francia, Tobias Gros, el favorito e imbatible ganador de las cuatro ultimas ediciones de esta carrera, muere asesinado mientras descansa en el hotel tras una jornada agotadora. La conmocion es enorme y pronto corren los rumores. Uno de los primeros sospechosos es Santi Mieses, corredor del equipo rival que hablo con Gros poco antes de que este fuera asesinado. Para atajar las habladurias, Luis Carrion, el director del equipo donde pedalea Mieses, contrata al detective Ricardo Cupido, mero e...
|  | Songs of Spiritual Experience: Tibetan Buddhist Poems of Insight and Awakening
Release Date: December 19, 2000This is the first major anthology of Tibetan poetry to become available in the West. Translators Thupten Jinpa—one of the Dalai Lama's principal interpreters—and Jas' Elsner have created an accessible collection geared toward a general audience. In the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, poetry has long been one of the primary means of expressing spiritual experience. The splendid poems in this collection communicate spiritual insight with astonishing grace and precision.Songs of Spiritual Experienceincludes original translations of fifty-two poems, a l...
|  | Inferno (Vintage Classics)
Release Date: September 4, 2007| Series: Vintage Classics On the evening of Good Friday in the year 1300, Dante finds himself lost in a dark and menacing wood. The ghost of Virgil offers to lead him to safety but the path lies through the terrifying kingdom of Satan. On his journey deep into the underworld, Dante crosses paths with both old acquaintances and famous persons from history as he witnesses the strange and gruesome sufferings of the damned on the seven levels of hell. This is Dante’s infamously dramatic, frightening, and sardonic look at the nature of sin, Christianity, and ...
|  | Learn poems through paintings =: Kan tu xue shi
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|  | A Companion to Malory (Arthurian Studies)
Publication Date: October 2, 1997| Series: Arthurian Studies (Book 37) This collection of original essays by an international group of distinguished medievalists provides a comprehensive introduction to the great work of Sir Thomas Malory, which will be indispensable for both students and scholars. It is divided into three main sections, on Malory in context, the art of the Morte Darthur, and its reception in later years. As well as essays on the eight tales which make up the Morte Darthur, there are studies of the relationship between the Winchestermanuscript and Caxton's and later editions...
|  | Mayor of Casterbridge (Penguin Popular Classics)
Publication Date: February 24, 1994| Series: Penguin Popular Classics In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas at a country fair. Over the course of the following years, he manages to establish himself as a respected and prosperous pillar of the community of Casterbridge, but behind his success there always lurk the shameful secret of his past and a personality prone to self-destructive pride and temper. Subtitled 'A Story of a Man of Character', Hardy's powerful and sympathetic study of the heroic but deeply flawed Henchard is also an int...
|  | Night Visitor (Timeswept)
Publication Date: March 2001| Series: Timeswept All Scots know of the brave piper who gave his life so long ago. Malcolm "the piper" calls to Tafaline so insistently, across the winds of night and time…and looking into her heart, Taffy knows there is naught to do but go to him. --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition....
|  | In the Midnight Hour
Publication Date: July 1, 2009An accounting student finds more in her new bed than just a sound sleep; she finds the ghost of a famed New Orleans libertine looking to uncover his murderer—and to awaken Veronica’s own blooming sensuality. --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition....
|  | Don't Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late!
Release Date: February 28, 2006| Age Level: 2 and up...
|  | Sacramento Monarchs (Women's Pro Basketball Today)
Publication Date: January 1999| Age Level: 9 and up...
|  | Funny Animal Faces Sticker Activity Book (Dover Little Activity Books)
Publication Date: January 19, 2005| Age Level: 2 and up...
|  | When We Were Very Young (Pooh Original Edition)
Release Date: October 31, 1988| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | The Lion King Read-Along Storybook and CD
Release Date: June 28, 2011| Age Level: 3 and up With original character voices and movie sound effects from the award-winning film, The Lion King, this thrilling read-along brings all the action to life. Readers can turn the pages at the sound of the chime and follow along with the word-for-word narration on the CD!...
|  | My Very First Winnie the Pooh Growing Up Stories
Publication Date: June 20, 1999| Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Gunnar's Daughter (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
Release Date: April 1, 1998| Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics More than a decade before writing Kristin Lavransdatter, the trilogy about fourteenth-century Norway that won her the Nobel Prize, Sigrid Undset published Gunnar's Daughter, a brief, swiftly moving tale about a more violent period of her country's history, the Saga Age. Set in Norway and Iceland at the beginning of the eleventh century, Gunnar's Daughter is the story of the beautiful, spoiled Vigdis Gunnarsdatter, who is casually raped by the man she had wanted to love. A woman of courage and intelligence, Vigdis is toug...
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