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The Best of Peter Finney, Legendary New Orleans Sportswriter

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Report copyright infringementby Peter Finney (Author), Peter Jr. Finney (Introduction by)Five times each week over the past several decades, sports fans in New Orleans began their mornings by reading local sportswriter Peter Finney. Finney's newspaper columns -- entertaining, informative, and inspiring -- connected New Orleans readers to the world of sports, for nearly 70 years. From a career total of 15,000 articles, this book offers a prime selection of the very best of Finney's writing as ...

Golden Lotus: A Saga of Ambition, Murder and Lust in Medieval China (Unabridged Edition)

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Report copyright infringementby Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng (Author), Clement Egerton (Translator)**Named One of the Best Chinese Romance Novels by Lifestyle Asia** "The greatest novel of physical love which China has produced." --Pearl S. Buck A saga of ruthless ambition, murder, and lust, The Golden Lotus (Jin Ping Mei) has been called the fifth Great Classical Novel in Chinese literature, joining the Four Great Classics: Journey to the West, The Water Margin, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and...

Rock Concert: An Oral History as Told by the Artists, Backstage Insiders, and Fans Who Were There

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Report copyright infringementby Marc Myers (Author)A lively, entertaining, wide-ranging oral history of the golden age of the rock concert based on over ninety interviews with musicians, promoters, stagehands, and others who contributed to the huge cultural phenomenon that is live rock Decades after the rise of rock music in the 1950s, the rock concert retains its allure and its power as a unifying experience--and as an influential multi-billion-dollar industry. In Rock Concert, acclaimed in...

The Lede: Dispatches from a Life in the Press

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Report copyright infringementby Calvin Trillin (Author)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A fascinating portrait of journalism and the people who make it, told through pieces collected from the incomparable six-decade career of bestselling author and longtime New Yorker writer Calvin Trillin "The Lede contains profiles . . . that are acknowledged classics of the form and will be studied until A.I. makes hash out of all of us."--Dwight Garner, The New York Times LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPI...

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Report copyright infringementby Kimberly Drew (Author), Jenna Wortham (Author)"A literary experience unlike any I've had in recent memory . . . a blueprint for this moment and the next, for where Black folks have been and where they might be going."--The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice) What does it mean to be Black and alive right now? Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham have brought together this collection of work--images, photos, essays, memes, dialogues, recipes, tweets, poetry, ...

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Report copyright infringementby Ishion Hutchinson (Author)Ishion Hutchinson turns his poetic sensibility to questions of home, displacement, and memory in his beautiful and searingly brilliant prose debut. In Fugitive Tilts, the poet Ishion Hutchinson turns to prose to create an incomplete biography of love: love of poetry, discovered in childhood; love of home, with its continual disconnections and returns; and love of the works and artists--from Treasure Island, to John Coltrane, to the Jam...

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Report copyright infringementby Victoria Lomasko (Author)"Powerful... Her focus on the daily lives of regular people offers a respite from the international fixation on Vladimir Putin"--Sophie Pinkham, The New YorkerOther Russias is the brilliant first collection of graphic journalism by artist and activist Victoria Lomasko. A fixture at Moscow's protests and political trials, Lomasko illuminates the inequality and injustice at the heart of contemporary Russian society and gives voice to Russ...

On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint

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Report copyright infringementby Maggie Nelson (Author)Named a Most Anticipated/Best Book of the Month by: NPR * USA Today * Time * Washington Post * Vulture * Women's Wear Daily * Bustle * LitHub * The Millions * Vogue * Nylon * Shondaland * Chicago Review of Books * The Guardian * Los Angeles Times * Kirkus * Publishers Weekly So often deployed as a jingoistic, even menacing rallying cry, or limited by a focus on passing moments of liberation, the rhetoric of freedom both rouses and repels. ...

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Report copyright infringementby Henry Flagg French (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 impor...

Copies of Original Letters From the Army of General Bonaparte in Egypt

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Report copyright infringementby John Wright (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 en...

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Report copyright infringementby Laura Marris (Author)In this debut essay collection, Laura Marris reframes environmental degradation by setting aside the conventional, catastrophic framework of the Anthropocene in favor of that of the Eremocene, the age of loneliness, marked by the dramatic thinning of wildlife populations and by isolation between and among species. She asks: how do we add to archives of ecological memory? How can we notice and document what's missing in the landscapes closes...

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Report copyright infringementby Émile Bernard (Author), Martin Bailey (Introduction by)An intimate testament to the power of friendship between two creative forces "I exaggerate, I sometimes make changes to the subject, but I still don't invent the whole of painting; on the contrary, I find it ready-made--but to be untangled--in the real world." --Vincent van Gogh to Émile Bernard The painter and poet Émile Bernard's firsthand account of the beloved painter Vincent van Gogh's life offers dee...

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Report copyright infringementby Eduardo Galeano (Author), Rory Smith (Introduction by)From one of Latin America's most acclaimed writers, a lyrical account of the world's most popular sport. Named one of the "Top 100 Sports Books of All Time" by Sports Illustrated "A winning celebration of the beautiful game."  -- New York Times Book Review In this witty and rebellious history of world soccer, award-winning writer Eduardo Galeano searches for the styles of play, players, and goals that exp...

Hobson-Jobson: The Definitive Glossary of British India

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Report copyright infringementby Henry Yule (Author), A. C. Burnell (Author), Kate Teltscher (Editor)"A glossary of colloquial Anglo-Indian words and phrases, and of kindred terms, etymological, historical, geographical and discursive." Hobson-Jobson is a unique work of maverick scholarship. Compiled in 1886 by two India enthusiasts, it documents the words and phrases that entered English from Arabic, Persian, Indian, and Chinese sources - and vice versa. Described by Salman Rushdie as "the le...

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Report copyright infringementby Sina Najafi (Editor)A zone of deprivation and emptiness but also a space for adventure and even divine revelation, the desert has historically resisted human domination, even as it has continued to tantalize the cultural imagination. Cabinet issue 63, with a special section on "The Desert," includes Maria Golia on the long history of tomb raiding in Egypt; Margaret Spelling on her recent visit to the town built in the Andalusian desert as a set for Italian spag...

The Front Porch: Stories from the Soul of San Antonio

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Report copyright infringementby Vincent T. Davis (Author), Cary Clack (Foreword by)Throughout his nearly thirty-year career at the San Antonio Express-News, Vincent T. Davis has perfected his craft of finding the extraordinary in ordinary lives. The Front Porch: Stories from the Soul of San Antonio presents a mosaic of the community composed of individual profiles of San Antonians. This luminous collection, which gathers some of Davis's finest work, takes readers through San Antonio's neighbo...

Ah Ah: Conscience Letters and Photographs from the Haleakala & Hawai'i Volcanoes National Parks

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Report copyright infringementby Ryan Thompson (Photographer)The sequel to Bad Luck, Hot Rocks includes more rueful letters from repentant tourists, this time on stealing lava rocks from Hawai'iFollowing a trail of regret from the Petrified Forest (the subject of his classic Bad Luck, Hot Rocks) to the islands of Maui and Hawai'i, artist and educator Ryan Thompson considers the implications of another trove of handwritten apologies, this time from the archives of the Haleakala and Hawai'i Volc...

Kjv, Sovereign Collection Bible, Personal Size, Leathersoft, Black, Red Letter Edition, Comfort Print: Holy Bible, King James Version

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Report copyright infringementby Thomas Nelson (Author)This beautiful Bible edition honors the legacy of the King James Version Bible in a convenient portable size with essential study tools and traditional red-letter text for the Words of Christ. This edition is published in large KJV Comfort Print type, which was designed exclusively for Thomas Nelson to be the most readable at any size.The Sovereign Collection continues Thomas Nelson's long history and stewardship publishing Bibles. King Ja...

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Report copyright infringementby Athena Dixon (Author)"An essential exploration of the isolation inherent in our era of virtual hyperconnection [that] also asks how we can find our way back to one another."--New York Times Book Review "I was blown away."--Hanif Abdurraqib, Tin House Editor-at-Large What does it mean to be a body behind a screen, lost in the hustle of an online world? In our age of digital hyper-connection, Athena Dixon invites us to consider this question with depth, heart, an...

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Report copyright infringementby Hazel V. Carby (Author)A powerful critique of the racial myths that shape our world Drawing on a rich tapestry of historical analysis, literary criticism, and cultural theory, Hazel V. Carby interrogates our racial fictions, which have been constructed, maintained, and weaponized across centuries to justify systems of domination and exploitation. Traversing temporalities and global boundaries, Racial Fictions reveals the inter-connectedness of America's domesti...

Strictly Anonymous Confessions: Secret Sex Lives of Total Strangers

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Report copyright infringementby Kathy Kay (Author)For fans of PostSecret comes a collection of tantalizing confessions featured on the Strictly Anonymous podcast! What are people really doing behind closed doors? Have you ever wondered if your neighbor, boss, or even that buttoned-up PTA member has a hidden, naughty lifestyle, kink, or fetish? For the past decade, complete strangers have been divulging their secret sex lives to the Strictly Anonymous Confessions podcast host, Kathy Kay. Afte...

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Report copyright infringementby Ella Finer (Author)The Cosmic Oval is an elliptical entrance into an exploration of feminist cosmologies, storytelling and the many ways of knowing and imagining the hot blue beginnings of time. By turn dreaming and waking, Ella Finer's essay enters history and imagination from the sleep side, taking its cue from Anne Carson. Finer attends to cultural memory as composition, gathering cosmic guides with whom to listen beyond what is given to hear. In west London...

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Report copyright infringementby Marguerite Duras (Author), Olivia Baes (Translator), Emma Ramadan (Translator)The English-language debut of a beautiful and beguiling cycle of experimental texts by the legendary Marguerite Duras. In the late 1970s, Marguerite Duras embarked on an experimental journey to expand the boundaries of writing and film. For Duras, writing need not be text on a page nor cinema merely images on a screen. Six Films is the result of her efforts to redefine the two arts in...

We Are Nature Defending Itself: An Anthology of Women on Bodies, Borders, and Place

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Report copyright infringementby Cordelia E. Barrera (Editor), Shelley Armitage (Contribution by), Kimberly Blaeser (Contribution by) In the words of series editor Steven L. Davis, We Are Nature Defending Itself: An Anthology of Women on Bodies, Borders, and Place is "a revelation, a multicultural blend of well-known and emerging writers who come together to give nature a voice in our literature and our lives." Not least of the many benefits to readers are its contributions from prominent Lati...

Coyotes and Culture: Essays from Old Malibu

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Report copyright infringementby Claire McEachern (Author)What do coyotes have to do with culture? This unique collection of essays offers a gripping exploration of the precarious beauty and peril of California's iconic coastline. Through essays blending personal narrative, cultural analysis, and history, author Claire McEachern takes us behind the scenes of surf and celebrities to paint a vivid portrait of life on the edge --both literally and metaphorically. From the rugged Santa Monica Mou...

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Report copyright infringementby Helen Vendler (Author)In 13 essays, the great poetry critic offers her final word on the poets who have meant the most to her, from Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson to Wallace Stevens and Sylvia Plath Helen Vendler was our greatest reader of poetry, a scholar who illuminiated its inner mechanisms and emotional roots for a wide audience. Always attentive to the stylistic and imaginative features of a poem, Vendler addresses the work of a wide range of American, ...

The Illustrated Letters of Virginia Woolf

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Report copyright infringementby Frances Spalding (Author)The moving story of the life and work of novelist Virginia Woolf, revealed through her own letters to those closest to her.The letters - at times witty and irreverent, at times melancholy and introspective - are possibly even more revealing for their insights into the complex personality of the novelist herself. "A true letter", she insisted, "should be like a film of wax pressed close to the graving of the mind". The book contains biog...

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Report copyright infringementby Ever Jones (Author)A debut essay collection that upends our notions of loneliness, wilderness, and liberation Transanything reveals a world in metamorphosis. A hermit crab retires its shell, lovers drift apart, and seasons churn, all amid Ever Jones's own narrative of midlife gender transition. Jones takes up a tradition of writing--about the American landscape, solitude, wilderness, and the West--long intertwined with colonialism and heteropatriarchy, and mak...

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Report copyright infringementby Thomas Jefferson (Author), John P. Kaminski (Editor)The most comprehensive book of quotations by the most quotable Founding Father More than any other Founding Father, Thomas Jefferson made his reputation on the brilliance of his writing. John Adams chose the 33-year-old Jefferson to draft the Declaration of Independence largely because of his "masterly Pen." The genius of the Declaration and Jefferson's later writings amply confirmed Adams's judgment. Few writ...

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Report copyright infringementby John Colley (Author)Humanism, English Literature, and the Translation of Greek, 1430-1560 is the first study to trace the influence of the Quattrocento rebirth of Greek scholarship on fifteenth- and sixteenth-century English literature. It begins with the first signs of humanist Greek in England in and around Duke Humfrey's circle, at a time when no English writer could claim significant Greek literacy. It ends on the cusp of Elizabethan literary culture, when ...

The Diary Keepers: World War II Written by the People Who Lived Through It

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Report copyright infringementby Nina Siegal (Author)A riveting look at the story of World War II and the Holocaust through the diaries of Dutch citizens, firsthand accounts of ordinary people living through extraordinary times Based on select writings from a collection of more than two thousand Dutch diaries written during World War II in order to record this unparalleled time, and maintained by devoted archivists, The Diary Keepers illuminates a part of history we haven't seen in quite this ...

Jewish Priorities: Sixty-Five Proposals for the Future of Our People

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Report copyright infringementby David Hazony (Editor)An unprecedented, large-scale collection of timely and provocative essays from a wide range of Jewish thought leaders that aims to start a global conversation among Jews about their future as a people. "...a mind-expanding look at how Judaism can survive and thrive in the 21st century." -Publishers Weekly Imagine having the entire Jewish people over for dinner--and hosting a raucous, creative, riveting debate about their collective future....