 | The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures (New Accents)
Publication Date: July 2002| ISBN-10: 0415280206 | ISBN-13: 978-0415280204| Edition: 2 The experience of colonization and the challenges of a post-colonial world have produced an explosion of new writing in English. This diverse and powerful body of literature has established a specific practice of post-colonial writing in cultures as various as India, Australia, the West Indies and Canada, and has challenged both the traditional canon and dominant ideas of literature and culture.The Empire Writes Back was the first major theoretical account of a wide range of post-colonial texts and the...
 |  | The Jungle (Bedford Series in History and Culture)
Publication Date: February 3, 2005| ISBN-10: 0312400373 | ISBN-13: 978-0312400378| Edition: 1st Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle, which inspired passage in 1906 of the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act, stands as a classic of twentieth-century American literature and social protest. In this accessible and thorough edition by Christopher Phelps, a critical introduction addresses the wide range of issues raised by the text, including early twentieth-century working conditions, immigrant community, race and gender, political reform, and the continuing relevance of Si...
|  | Talisman
Publication Date: June 27, 1996In a terrifying trip across America young Jack Sawyer is searching for the Talisman, the only thing that can save his dying mother. His quest takes him into the menacing Territories where violence, surprise and the titanic struggle between good and evil reach across a mythic landscape. ...
|  | Unfinished Desires: A Novel (Random House Reader's Circle)
Release Date: July 27, 2010| Series: Random House Reader's Circle From Gail Godwin, three-time National Book Award finalist and acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Evensong and The Finishing School, comes a sweeping new novel of friendship, loyalty, rivalries, redemption, and memory.It is the fall of 1951 at Mount St. Gabriel’s, an all-girls school tucked away in the mountains of North Carolina. Tildy Stratton, the undisputed queen bee of her class, befriends Chloe Starnes, a new student recently orphaned by the untimely and mysterious death of her mother. Their friendship f...
|  | The Honest Look
Publication Date: November 19, 2010| ISBN-10: 1936113112 | ISBN-13: 978-1936113118| Edition: 1 In becoming a scientist, Claire Cyrus hopes to escape the fate of her dead father, a brilliant but critically unsuccessful poet whose poverty and bitterness derailed her own strong talent for verse. Soon after moving from England to take up her first job in a start-up biotech company in the Netherlands, she finds herself an outcast in her strange new environment, shunned by her jealous colleagues and moving only on the fringes of the expatriate community. But when she makes an accidental discov...
|  | The Schoolboy
Publication Date: March 18, 2008Golf was for old people. At least that's what I thought Fourteen-year-old Sam Parma plays more baseball than golf, so when his mother urges him to play in a junior golf tournament, he protests but reluctantly agrees. Learning that his uncle was a two-time winner of the Schoolboy Championship, Sam feels a pressure to perform as well as an added excitement for potential success. Dropped off at the municipal golf course with a hodgepodge set of clubs, limited skills, and the added responsibility to look after his younger brother, Sam ventures to the sign-up table...
|  | British Literature: 1780 - 1830
Publication Date: December 15, 1995| ISBN-10: 0155002600 | ISBN-13: 978-0155002609| Edition: 1 This new comprehensive, and revisionist anthology of what is traditionally categorized as English Romanticism utilizes the most recent historical, feminist, textual, and cultural methods and scholarship. ...
|  | Antigone
Publication Date: January 1, 2005The second story in the Oedipus Trilogy, "Antigone", examines the conflict between public duty and personal loyalty. Following the banishment of Oedipus, Eteocles and Polyneices kill each other over a dispute of succession to the thrown of Thebes. Creon, Antigone's uncle, succeeds to the thrown and declares that no one may bury Polyneices under penalty of death. Antigone, disregards this order and buries Polyneices and is willing to face the consequence for doing so. As a result, Creon must choose between what he believes to be his civic duty and his personal...
|  | The Romantic Manifesto (American University Studies, Series III Comparative Literature, Vol 23)
...
|  | Immortal Sins
Release Date: September 29, 2009Three centuries ago, vampire Jason Rourke succumbed to temptation with a wizard's lovely daughter - and that brief taste of pleasure earned him a powerful curse. Trapped within a painting, unable to quench the hellish thirst that torments him, Jason has given up hope of escape until Karinna Adams purchases the painting and unwittingly frees him. At first, Jason plans only to enlist Kari's help in navigating this strange new world so he can find and punish the wizard who entrapped him. But Kari's enticing sensuality and innocence incite a growing need in Jason ...
|  | Lehrter Station
...
|  | Thor vs. Hercules
...
|  | Cooking with Mickey & Friends
...
|  | Harry & Hopper
Release Date: January 18, 2011| Age Level: 2 and up When Harry’s beloved dog Hopper dies, he has a hard time letting go, as Harry sees Hopper still in his life. Are Hopper’s visits to Harry the boy’s imagination, or is the dog truly leaving Harry gradually, once he makes sure his boy will be all right? Eyes will not stay dry as readers experience this beautifully written, gently illustrated story about losing a dear pet. ...
|  | Away from Home (Grandma's Attic)
Publication Date: March 1, 2000| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Teeth (Looking After Me)
Publication Date: October 1, 2008| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
|  | Massive Monsters and Other Huge Megastructures (Megastructures (Amicus))
Publication Date: July 1, 2011| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Geography Focus 2
...
|  | Basic Russian Book 1, Student Edition (Bk. 1)
Publication Date: January 1, 1985| ISBN-10: 0844242004 | ISBN-13: 978-0844242002| Edition: 1 Basic Russian: Book One (Fayer) provides beginning students with the basic tools for constructing a solid foundation of the Russian language. This twenty-eight-unit text is organized into five sections. The text provides a balance of oral and written activities to allow you to emphasize either mode of communication. The appendix includes everyday expressions, short reading selections, proverbs, songs, and riddles. ...
|  | The Silly Rubber Band Handbook: The Ultimate Guide to Collecting and Trading Shaped Bandz
Publication Date: October 7, 2010| ISBN-10: 1933174900 | ISBN-13: 978-1933174907| Edition: 1 How to have the most fun, make the best trades, and even maybe make big money . . . with your silly rubber bands.Here's what you'll discover inside:*Who invented shaped rubber bands and where they come from*The secret way these bands are made, including special photographs*How to get more of what you want when you trade them*Which shaped bands are worth the most money*Cool silly rubber band tricks to impress your friendsPlus, find out about the best silly rubber band websites, keep track of your ...
|
Data Source by Amazon.com |
留言列表
留言列表
