 | Thin Blue Smoke
Publication Date: August 17, 2012LaVerne Williams is an ex-big league ballplayer with an attitude problem and a barbecue joint to run. Ferguson Glen is an Episcopal priest and fading literary star with a drinking problem. A.B. Clayton and Sammy Merzeti are two lost souls in need of love, understanding, and another cigarette.Thin Blue Smoke is an American redemption tale. It is a story of love and loss, hope and despair. Hilarious and heart-rending, sacred and profane, this book marks the emergence of a vital new voice in American fiction. ...
 |  | The Borderlands of Culture: Américo Paredes and the Transnational Imaginary (New Americanists)
Publication Date: April 4, 2006| Series: New Americanists Poet, novelist, journalist, and ethnographer, Américo Paredes (1915–1999) was a pioneering figure in Mexican American border studies and a founder of Chicano studies. Paredes taught literature and anthropology at the University of Texas, Austin for decades, and his ethnographic and literary critical work laid the groundwork for subsequent scholarship on the folktales, legends, and riddles of Mexican Americans. In this beautifully written literary history, the distinguished scholar Ramón Saldívar establishes ...
|  | Cymbeline (The Pelican Shakespeare)
Release Date: February 1, 2000| ISBN-10: 0140714723 | ISBN-13: 978-0140714722| Edition: Revised "I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespeare series. Here is an elegant and clear text for either the study or the rehearsal room, notes where you need them and the distinguished scholarship of the general editors, Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller who understand that these are plays for performance as well as great texts for contemplation." (Patrick Stewa...
|  | Enlightenment: Athenian Political Thought and the Dilemmas of Modernity (Classics and Contemporary Thought)
Publication Date: February 26, 1997| Series: Classics and Contemporary Thought Weaving together ancient Greek texts and postmodernist theory, Christopher Rocco addresses the debate between modernity and postmodernity that dominates contemporary theory. Interpreting Greek drama within a critical framework informed by contemporary theorists Foucault, Habermas, Horkheimer and Adorno, Tragedy and Enlightenment makes a sophisticated argument for the continuing relevance of the classical past, focusing on the subject of democracy.The starting point for Rocco's analysis is the impasse in contempora...
|  | Homeric Variations on Lament by Briseis
Publication Date: August 2002| ISBN-10: 0742522180 | ISBN-13: 978-0742522183Casey Dué examines the figure of Briseis, the concubine of Achilles in theIliad, as an example of the traditional artistry enabled by a complex and self-contained oral poetic system. Briseis' lament for Patroclus inIliad 19 hints at her role in the larger epic tradition. Dué argues that Briseis' role in theIliad is enormously compressed, both in relation to theIliad and the entire tradition of the epic cycle. Through a close reading of Homeric passages, Homeric Variations on a Lament by Briseis shows ho...
|  | There's a Wolf at the Door
Release Date: September 30, 2008| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up FIVE CLASSIC TALES ALL STARRING ONE PUT-UPON WOLF in an oversized gift-ready package Wolf, a rather fine dresser and intelligent creature, just can’t catch a break. All he wants to do is eat some pig, lamb, a gosling or two, a loud sheperd…or that little girl wearing a red hood, but for some reason none of them will cooperate. Five classic tales morph into one ongoing yarn as Wolf bumbles his way through each of them. Told in graphic novel style in an oversized picture book package, this is the gif...
|  | Pastoral: Poems
Publication Date: March 2, 2002In his newest book, National Book Award finalist Carl Phillips creates a shadowy inner landscape where the field is the heart, and the heart itself has a beautifully, often treacherously flawed darkness that each of us seeks to penetrate, believing in the possibility of light. Examining how to fill and fulfill the life granted us--how to realize the self entirely, and in time--these rhythmically sequenced meditations circle the predicaments of our longing against the backdrop of pastoral tradition. How do we balance control and abandonment when making poetry, a...
|  | The Architectural Treatise in the Italian Renaissance: Architectural Invention, Ornament and Literary Culture
Publication Date: April 14, 2011Vitruvius' Ten Books of Architecture was the fountainhead of architectural theory in the Italian Renaissance. Offering theoretical and practical solutions to a wide variety of architectural issues, this treatise did not, however, address all of the questions that were of concern to early modern architects. This study examines the Italian Renaissance architect's efforts to negotiate between imitation and reinvention of classicism.Through a close reading of Vitruvius and texts written during the period 1400-1600, Alina Payne identifies ornament as the central is...
|  | Sense and Sensibility (Giant Courage Classics)
Publication Date: September 1999| ISBN-10: 076240566X | ISBN-13: 978-0762405664More of literature's finest works -- completely unabridged. Irresistible prices make these books great for any classics library! ...
|  | Shakespeare and Genre: From Early Modern Inheritances to Postmodern Legacies
Release Date: January 3, 2012| ISBN-10: 0230108989 | ISBN-13: 978-0230108981This is the first comprehensive survey of approaches to genre in Shakespeare's work as represented in and accross a wide spectrum of media. The distinguished contributors from many disciplinary backgrounds probe deeply into genre theory and genre history by relating Renaissance conceptions of genre to contemporary ones, reading Shakespeare through genre and genre through Shakespeare. They include David Bevington, Samuel Crowl, David Crystal, Lawrence Danson, Peter Donaldson, Stephen Greenblatt, Andrew Gurr, Diana...
|  | The Culture of Classicism: Ancient Greece and Rome in American Intellectual Life, 1780-1910
Publication Date: March 5, 2004Debates continue to rage over whether American university students should be required to master a common core of knowledge. InThe Culture of Classicism: Ancient Greece and Rome in American Intellectual Life, 1780–1910, Caroline Winterer traces the emergence of the classical model that became standard in the American curriculum in the nineteenth century and now lies at the core of contemporary controversies. By closely examining university curricula and the writings of classical scholars, Winterer demonstrates how classics was transformed from a narrow, l...
|  | Rapture Alley / Winter Girl / Strictly for the Boys
Publication Date: February 13, 2012Three rare books by Harry Whittington. Rapture Alley was originally published in 1953 by Carnival Books under the name Whit Harrison. It is the story of a young woman trying to deal with drug addiction. Strictly for the Boys was published in 1959 by Stanley Books under the Whittington name and tells a story of young love corrupted by spousal abuse. And then there s Winter Girl. Corinth Publications printed this book as A Taste of Desire in 1966 under the house name Curt Colman. It is a poignant back country Romeo & Juliet story, newly edited by David Lauren...
|  | Read about Drew Brees (I Like Sports Stars!)
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|  | Flowers, Trees, and Fruits (Young Discoverers: Biology Facts and Experiments)
Publication Date: April 15, 2002| Age Level: 4 and up...
|  | Usborne Jigsaw World Atlas (Usborne Jigsaw Books)
Publication Date: September 26, 2003 ...
|  | Tuskegee Airmen Story, The
Release Date: September 30, 2002| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up A grandfather reminisces about his service as a Tuskegee Airman. ...
|  | Scripture Memory Songs:Verses About Sharing (Max Lucado's Hermie & Friends)
Publication Date: September 23, 2006| Age Level: 3 and up...
|  | Public Disputations of James Arminius
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|  | Absentee Ownership: Business Enterprise in Recent Times: The Case of America
Publication Date: January 1, 1997 Absentee Ownership is an inquiry into economic circumstances as they have taken shape in the twentieth century, particularly as exemplified in the case of America. According to Thorstein Veblen, absentee ownership is the main and immediate controlling interest in the life of civilized men. ...
|  | The Economics of Information Technology: An Introduction (Raffaele Mattioli Lectures)
Publication Date: January 31, 2005| ISBN-10: 0521605210 | ISBN-13: 978-0521605212The Economics of Information Technology is a concise and accessible review of important economic factors affecting information technology industries. These industries are characterized by high fixed costs and low marginal costs of production, large switching costs for users, and strong network effects. Hal Varian outlines the basic economics of these industries while Joseph Farrell and Carl Shapiro describe the impact of these factors on competition policy. The volume is an ideal introduction for undergradua...
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