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Report copyright infringementby Ross McMullin (Author)Hundreds of Australian first-person narratives of World War I have been published, but none more riveting than this one. The wartime letters and diaries of Pompey Elliott, Australia's most famous fighting general, are exceptionally forthright. They are also remarkably illuminating about his volatile emotions. Pompey not only wrote frankly about what happened to him and the men he was commanding; he was also frank about what he felt about b...

Paperback L.A. Book 2: A Casual Anthology: Studios, Salesmen, Shrines, Surfspots

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Report copyright infringementby Susan Latempa (Editor), Ray D. Bradbury (Contribution by), Naomi Hirahara (Contribution by)Paperback L.A. Book 2 continues the engaging "Casual Anthology" series with genre-crossing writing gems, vibrant photo essays, and more. Memoirs, magazine articles, and magic realism all make an appearance. Contributors include Baby Peggy on Holly wood, Ray Bradbury on Venice Beach, Karen Tei Yamashita on freeways, Preston Lerner on auto racing, Naomi Hirahara on Terminal...

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Report copyright infringementby Kimiko Hahn (Author)In Brood, Kimiko Hahn trains her eye on the commonplace--clothespins, bees, papaya, perfume, poached eggs, a sponge, fire, sand dollars--and reveals their very essence in concise evocative language. Underlying these little gems is a sense of loss, a mother's death or a longing for childhood. "Brood" connotes the bundling of family or beasts, but also dark thinking, and both are at play here where the less said, the better. Kimiko Hahn is th...

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Report copyright infringementby Ross Binehacker (Author)Fat Butter Sun is a piece of avant-garde non-fiction. Written in a nine-day creative outburst, Binehacker riffs on most of the taboo topics of our times. Things like: How to solve the gun problem with only the use of guns; The way out of the Middle East crisis; Why men live (on average) seven years shorter than women; How we can turn abortion into a moot subject; Why age is a horrible criteria for slicing people; How God relates t...

A One Thousand Dollar Web Challenge!!!: Short Papers on the Use of Technology in Education

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Report copyright infringementby M. O. Thirunarayanan (Author)The World Wide Web enables us to do many things faster and easier--but has it really changed what we as human beings can accomplish in our lives? An intriguing collection of essays, A One Thousand Dollar Web Challenge!!! Short Papers on the Use of Technology in Education explores the impact and uses of the Web, particularly in educational settings. In a section entitled, "The Impending McMorphosis of the Global Professor," author M....

Salmon, Cedar, Rock & Rain: Washington's Olympic Peninsula - Hardcover

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by Tim McNulty (Author), David Guterson (Introduction by), Fawn Sharp (Foreword by)A visually mesmerizing and environmentally conscious profile of the Olympic Peninsula. -- Kirkus Reviews Contributors include Wendy Sampson, Loni Greninger, Gary Morishima, Maria Pascua, Jamie Valadez, Lynda V. Mapes, and others Includes 150 stunning full-color photographs of the region In the Pacific Northwest, many of us delight in Olympic National Park, a unique and magical UNESCO natural World Heritage S...

What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government

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Report copyright infringementby P. J. Proudhon (Author)This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them. Number of Pages: 204 Dimensions: 0.43 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: July 22, 2014

The pit; The Epic of the Wheat. A Deal in Wheat, and Other Stories of the New and Old West

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Report copyright infringementby Frank Norris (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important e...

The Life and Adventures of Michael Armstrong: The Factory Boy

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Report copyright infringementby Frances Milton Trollope (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is ...

The Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution, 1763-1776

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Report copyright infringementby Arthur Meier Schlesinger (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is...

The Fevers of Reason: New and Selected Essays

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Report copyright infringementby Gerald Weissmann (Author)"America's most interesting and important essayist." --Eric Kandel, Nobel Prize-winning author of The Age of Insight"[Gerald Weissmann] bridges the space between science and the humanities, and particularly between medicine and the muses, with wit, erudition, and, most important, wisdom." --Adam GopnikIn this diverting collection of essays, Gerald Weissmann looks back on decades of a career spent working at the intersection of the arts ...

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Report copyright infringementby Facundo Bernal (Author), Anthony Seidman (Translator), Yxta Maya Murray (Foreword by)Facundo Bernal's A Stab in the Dark (Palos de ciego) is a poetic chronicle of the struggles and joys of the Spanish-speaking community in Los Angeles and in the burgeoning border town of Mexicali during the early 1920s. Sharply satirical yet deeply empathetic, Bernal's poems are both a landmark of Chicano literature and a captivating read. Anthony Seidman's energetic translatio...

A Best of Fence, the First Nine Years, Volumes I & II

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Report copyright infringementby Rebecca Wolff (Editor)Fence evades the tedium of the decade with this anthology, co-edited by eleven editors, past and present. A stunningly eclectic compendium of poetry, short fiction, criticism, and creative nonfiction, this volume serves as an indispensable record of the inception and continuation of one of the most influential literary journals of its time. Number of Pages: 960 Dimensions: 2.4 x 8 x 6 IN Publication D...

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Report copyright infringementby Jennifer Joseph (Editor), R. Zamora Linmark (Contribution by), Michelle Tea (Contribution by)Notable literary figures pay tribute to poet/writer Justin Chin with personal commentaries on works selected from his seven books.Justin Chin's fearless and fierce voice was resolute in relating his worldview, whether directly or through metaphorical language. As a queer Asian American, born and raised in Southeast Asia within a devoutly Christian, ethnically Chinese fa...

He Never Came Home: Interviews, Stories, and Essays from Daughters on Life Without Their Fathers

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Report copyright infringementby Regina R. Robertson (Editor), Joy-Ann Reid (Foreword by)He Never Came Home is a collection of 22 personal essays written by girls and women who have been separated from their fathers by way of divorce, abandonment, or death. The contributors to this collection come from a wide range of different backgrounds in terms of race, socioeconomic status, religion, and geographic location. Their essays offer deep insights into the emotions related to losing one's father...

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Report copyright infringementby Mary Cappello (Author)Los Angeles Times Bestseller "Mary Cappello['s] inventive, associative taxonomy of discomfort . . . [is] revelatory indeed." --MARK DOTY, author of Dog Years: A Memoir and Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems "A wonderful, multi-layered piece of writing, with all the insight of great cultural criticism and all the emotional pull of memoir. A fascinating book." --SARAH WATERS, author of The Night Watch and The Little Stranger Without awkwar...

A Solemn Pleasure: To Imagine, Witness, and Write

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Report copyright infringementby Melissa Pritchard (Author), Bret Anthony Johnston (Foreword by)"A writer at the height of her powers" (Oprah.com) reflects on a literary life pulled in two directions: from war zone journalism to the writing and teaching of fictionIn an essay entitled "Spirit and Vision" Melissa Pritchard poses the question: "Why write?" Her answer reverberates throughout A Solemn Pleasure, presenting an undeniable case for both the power of language and the nurturing constancy...

Am I Alone Here?: Notes on Living to Read and Reading to Live

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Report copyright infringementby Peter Orner (Author)This National Book Critics Circle Award is "an entrancing attempt to catch what falls between: the irreducibly personal, messy, even embarrassing ways reading and living bleed into each other, which neither literary criticism nor autobiography ever quite acknowledges" (The New York Times). "Stories, both my own and those I've taken to heart, make up whoever it is that I've become," Peter Orner writes in this collection of essays about readi...

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Report copyright infringementby John Muir (Author), Laurie Battle (Editor), Tom Killion (Illustrator)"The tendency nowadays to wander in wilderness is delightful to see. Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life." The words could have been written yes...

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Report copyright infringementby Lee Maracle (Author) Winner of the Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award at the 2016 Alberta Book Publishing Awards! Memory Serves gathers together the oratories award-winning author Lee Maracle has delivered and performed over a twenty-year period. Revised for publication, the lectures hold the features and style of oratory intrinsic to the Salish people in general and the Sto: lo in particular. From her Coast Salish perspective and with great eloquence, Maracl...

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Report copyright infringementby Sina Najafi (Editor)Dreams are some of the most private experiences humans know, and yet humans have long felt a need to share them. Across history, protocols have been developed to make this possible, and though Western culture is poor in such techniques, in this it is the exception. Elsewhere, there continue to be dream-circles and dream recitations, dream predictions and dream journeys. Cabinet 67, with a special section on "Dreams" and coedited by Matthew S...

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Report copyright infringementby Sina Najafi (Editor)Skin is both surface and container. It marks the absolute limits of organisms, but also functions as an interface--acting as a plane of contact with what surrounds it while protecting what lies beneath it. Skin has lent itself to artistic and literary symbolism, and its variegated associations provide generative vectors for philosophical inquiry. Cabinet 66, with a special section on "Skin," includes an interview with Richard Dyer on the his...

Granta 135: New Irish Writing: New Irish Writing

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Report copyright infringementby Sigrid Rausing (Editor)Granta 135 is a snapshot of contemporary Ireland, which shows where one of the world's most distinguished and independent literary traditions is today. Here international stars rub shoulders with a new generation of talent from a country which keeps producing exceptional writers. This issue features Kevin Barry on Cork, "as intimate and homicidal as a little Marseille"; Lucy Caldwell imagining forbidden first love in Belfast; an exclusive...

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Report copyright infringementby Anne-Marie Drosso (Author)Anne-Marie Drosso's collection of fourteen short stories guides us through the turbulence of Egyptian modern history - from Gamal Abdel Nasser's early days of glory, to Abdel Fatah el-Sisi's recent assumption of power. Each story weaves a tapestry of hope, crisis and despair, illustrated through an array of characters trying to make sense of their lives in the face of social change and political turmoil. Drosso fictionalises potent seg...

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Report copyright infringementby Tom Duddy (Author)Tom Duddy's poems have been published in Irish and British magazines and in several anthologies, including Best of Irish Poetry 2007. The Hiding Place is his debut collection. Number of Pages: 64 Dimensions: 0.4 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN Publication Date: February 16, 2011

The Tourist's Gaze: Travellers to Ireland, 1800 - 2000

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Report copyright infringementby Glenn Hooper (Author)Travel literature has been described by Jonathan Raban as "literature's red-light district". It defies peoples' beliefs, confuses expectations, crosses disciplinary boundaries and is linked to ethnography, journalism and biography. Yet for all that has managed to remain not only a visible but also an increasingly popular literary genre. This anthology makes an entertaining and insightful contribution to this engaging field. It includes extr...

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Report copyright infringementby Jaqueline Mitchell (Editor), Eric Fitch Daglish (Author)Thomas Hardy notes the thrush's 'full-hearted evensong of joy illimited', Gilbert White observes how swallows sweep through the air but swifts 'dash round in circles' and Rachel Carson watches sanderlings at the ocean's edge, scurrying 'across the beach like little ghosts'. From early times, we have been entranced by the bird life around us. This anthology brings together poetry and prose in celebration of...

Making Ireland Roman: Irish Neo-Latin Writers and the Republic of Letters

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Report copyright infringementby Jason Harris (Editor)This collection of articles by leading scholars focuses on Irish writing in Latin in the Renaissance and aims to rewrite Irish cultural history through recovery and analysis of Latin sources. This book renders accessible for the first time the vastly important Irish contribution to the counter-reformation, to European Renaissance and baroque literature in Latin and to the intellectual culture of European Latinity. The ethnic, cultural and r...

J.G. Farrell in His Own Words: Selected Letters and Diaries

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Report copyright infringementby Lavinia Greacen (Author)The Siege of Krishnapur, the second of Farrell's Empire Trilogy, won the Booker Prize in 1973, and it was selected as one of only six previous winners to compete in the 2008 international Best of Booker competition. The strength of American interest in Farrell's books is underlined by the inclusion of all three Trilogy novels in the Classics imprint of the New York Review of Books. Troubles won the Lost Man Booker Prize in 2010.Many of t...

The Pushcart Prize XLLV: Best of the Small Presses 2020 Edition

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Report copyright infringementby Bill Henderson (Author)As Booklist's Donna Seaman commented on edition #43, "a harvesting of the year's finest stories, poems and essays...a deeply provocative and artistically resplendent anthology." This current edition is further proof that important and exciting writing is found in small presses scattered around the country and the world.As the variety of selections in Pushcart Prize XLIV indicates, it is an eclectic and constantly changing community. Over ...

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Report copyright infringementby Marcus Aurelius (Author)One of the world's most famous and influential books, Meditations, by the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius (A.D. 121-180), incorporates the stoic precepts he used to cope with his life as a warrior and administrator of an empire. Ascending to the imperial throne in A.D. 161, Aurelius found his reign beset by natural disasters and war. In the wake of these challenges, he set down a series of private reflections, outlining a philosophy of co...

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Report copyright infringementby Gertrude Bell (Author)Extracts from two of Bell's most compelling works of travel writing, Persian Pictures and Syria: The Desert and the Sown, as well as some of her most fascinating lettersA woman far ahead of her time, Gertrude gained a first from Oxford at a time when very few subjects were even open to women. She went on to take an active interest in politics before embarking on her one-woman travels across the Middle East. She chronicled her journeys thro...