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Excellent examples of American fiction of the 19th and 20th centuries, these stories have been chosen for their timeless relevance and enduring popularity. Arranged in chronological order, they include Herman...

Great 1593 work codified and developed symbolism of baroque and rococo periods. This royalty-free volume reprints 200 plates from rare 18th-century edition, Hertel s Historiae et Allegoriae, with English translations...

The Inspiration Behind The Golden Globe --Winning Film "An engrossing and memorable tale."Jewish Book World "The sheer emotion of telling the tale is palpable. The whole is moving, and strange...

Geographic Information Analyses presents the spatial analytical foundation of geographic information systems which are instrumental to the emergent study of GIScience. This book covers spatial concepts such as points, lines,...

The book titled Women's Ways of Knowing: The Development of Self, Voice and Mind by the author Mary Field Belenky. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...

A leading Renaissance scholar examines what brought one of history's most fascinating eras to its end and gave rise to the modern era There is little debate that the Renaissance...

MY ANTONIA(1918) is the wistful tale of an immigrant girl from Bohemia,who has settled in Nebraska.Narrated by Antonia's childhood friend Jim Burden,the novel draws heavily upon Willa Cather's own formative...

A soaring love story set in Napoleonic France This irresistible literary debut novel was inspired by the life of Sophie Blanchard, one of the first women to fly. In Paris,...

The book titled Poltergeist by the author Colin Wilson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Lord Peter Wimsey could imagine the artist stepping back, the stagger, the fall, down to where the pointed rocks grinned like teeth. But was it an accident - or murder...

Beginning in 1627, Princess Jahanara, first daughter of Shah Jahan of India's Mogul Dynasty, writes in her diary about political intrigues, weddings, battles, and other experiences of her life. Includes...

Southern China, A.D. 531. The Royal Diaries proudly presents two-time Newbery Honor author Laurence Yep, whose stunning diary of sixteen-year-old Lady of Ch'iao Kuo takes readers on a remarkable adventure...

In her first book for The Royal Diaries, Patricia Clark Smith introduces the teenage Weetamoo, who will succeed her father to become chief of the Pocassets in seventeenth-century New England....

The book titled The Gift of Stones by the author Jim Crace. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

FLASH! Illuminated by lightning, a lifeless human hand seems to reach from a barrel of asphalt beside the Charlotte racetrack. Even for forensic anthropologist Dr Tempe Brennan it is a...

Acclaimed cultural historian Peter Gay traces and explores the rise of artistic Modernism, the cultural movement that heralded and shaped the modern world, dominating western high culture for over a...

The book titled Polly by the author Freya North. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Robert Frost is one of the most popular American poets of the twentieth century. Born in 1874, he came to England in 1912, where he met Rupert Brooke, Lascelles Abercrombie,...

In this volume, several leading foreign policy and international relations experts consider the long term prospects and implications of US foreign policy as it has been shaped and practiced during...

Beginning with the bold claim, "There can be no culture without the transvestite," Marjorie Garber explores the nature and significance of cross-dressing and of the West's recurring fascination with it....

Gayatri Spivak, one of our best known cultural and literary theorists, addresses a vast range of political questions with both pen and voice. The Post-Colonial Critic brings together a selection...

We listen to a cacophony of voices instructing us how to think and feel about nature, including our own bodies. The news media, wildlife documentaries, science magazines, and environmental NGOs...

What is knowledge? What are the sources of knowledge? What is the value of knowledge? What can we know? Arguing About Knowledge offers a fresh and engaging perspective on the...

In this major new book, leading cultural thinker Ien Ang engages with urgent questions of identity in an age of globalisation and diaspora. The starting point for Ang's discussion is...

'All goes well with me - everybody treats me kindly, from the Governor downwards. I hope soon to have writing materials: then I shall write first a book called Introduction...

How have women artists taken possession of the female body? What is the relationship between looking and embodiment in art made by women? In a series of original readings of...

The impact of women artists on the contemporary art movement has allowed a powerful and innovative feminist reworking of traditional approaches to the theory and history of art. Feminism and...

Explores the position of women in the classical Hollywood narrative, the construction of the spectator's desire in pornography and the implicit male bias in psychoanalysis oriented film theory. This book...

A classic study which, by synthesizing the approaches of psychoanalysis and group dynamics, has added a new dimension to the understanding of group phenomena.

Long waves are cycles of some fifty years duration in which a period of rapid expansion is followed by one of slow growth of stagnation. This book provides a critical...

The book titled Change by the author Maureen Duffy. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A quirky, clever guide for everyone who loves to look up. Where do clouds come from? Why do they look the way they do? And why have they captured the...

Choose to be the best version of yourself-and keep on choosing it! For the first time, the world's leading mentor David C.M. Carter shares his most effective "breakthrough" secrets in...

The book titled Haldeman Diaries: Inside the Nixon White House by the author H.R. Haldeman. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The inspiration for the beloved film Field of Dreams , Shoeless Joe by W. P. Kinsella is the story about the beauty and history of baseball, and the power and...

The book titled A Woman Mannd Two Kingdoms: The Story of Madame D'Epinay and the ABBE by the author Francis Steegmuller. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for...

The book titled Pleasures of a Tangled Life by the author Jan Morris. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled The Assignment, or, on the Observing of the Observer of the Observers by the author Friedrich D?urrenmatt. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...

"Michener is America's best writer, and he proves it once again in CENTENNIAL." THE PITTSBURGH PRESS A stunning panorama of the West, CENTENNIAL is an enthralling celebration of our country,...

Edited by scholars and teachers whose interests range from the history of poetics to postmodernism, from classical rhetoric to eriture feminine, and from the social construction of gender to the...

Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) was a man of many talents-a sculptor, painter, architect, writer, and scholar-but he is best known for Lives of the Artists , which singlehandedly established the canon...

In this groundbreaking work, Kwame Anthony Appiah, hailed as "one of the most relevant philosophers today" ( New York Times Book Review ), changes the way we understand human behavior...

"An extraordinary book on sex and civilization.... An important contribution to contemporary morality." - Newsweek The heart of man's dilemma, according to Rollo May, is the failure to understand the...

The book titled STEVIE SMITH A BIOGRAPHY CL by the author Frances Spalding. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Invented Reality: How Do We Know What We Believe We Know? by the author Paul Watzlawick. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

This book is unique in that it covers the philosophy of model-based data analysis and a strategy for the analysis of empirical data. The book introduces information theoretic approaches and...

Jack, the gritty narrator of this dark, gripping novel by Elwood Reid, is a journeyman carpenter in his late twenties whose travels have led him to Alaska. When his pink...

Founded in the mid-17th century, Rationalism wasphilosophy's first step into the modern era. Thisvolume contains the essential statements ofRationalism's three greatest figures: Descartes, whobegan it; Spinoza, who epitomized it; and...