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Walden, Or, Life in the Woods - Paperback

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by Henry David Thoreau (Author)Nature was a form of religion for naturalist, essayist, and early environmentalist Henry David Thoreau (1817-62). In communing with the natural world, he wished to "live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and ... learn what it had to teach." Toward that end Thoreau built a cabin in the spring of 1845 on the shores of Walden Pond -- on land owned by Ralph Waldo Emerson -- outside Concord, Massachusetts. There he observed nature, farmed, buil...

Moomin: Volume 2: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip - Hardcover

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by Tove Jansson (Author)In the second volume of Tove Jansson's humorous yet melancholic Moomin comic strip, we get four new stories about jealousy, competition, child rearing, and self-reinvention. The Moomins try to hibernate in the fashion of their ancestors but insomnia places them smack-dab into a winter carnival with the winter-sports-loving Mr. Brisk. The fickle and eternally lovestruck Mymble and Snorkmaiden find themselves in competition over a thrilling new man. Moominmamma meets her...

The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays - Paperback

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by Esmé Weijun Wang (Author)Powerful, affecting essays on mental illness, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and a Whiting Award An intimate, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with the effects of mental and chronic illness, The Collected Schizophrenias cuts right to the core. Schizophrenia is not a single unifying diagnosis, and Esm Weijun Wang writes not just to her fellow members of the "collected schizophrenias" but to those who wi...

I Used to Be Charming: The Rest of Eve Babitz - Paperback

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by Eve Babitz (Author), Molly Lambert (Introduction by), Sara Kramer (Editor)Previously uncollected nonfiction pieces by Hollywood's ultimate It Girl about everything from fashion to tango to Jim Morrison and Nicholas Cage. With Eve's Hollywood Eve Babitz lit up the scene in 1974. The books that followed, among them Slow Days, Fast Company and Sex and Rage, have seduced generations of readers with their unfailing wit and impossible glamour. What is less well known is that Babitz was a workin...

Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair - Paperback

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by Pablo Neruda (Author), W. S. Merwin (Translator), Cristina Garc?a (Introduction by)Brilliant English translation of beloved poems by Pablo Neruda, who is the subject of the film Neruda starring Gael Garc a Bernal and directed by Pablo Larra n A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, with French flapsFirst published in 1924, Veinte poemas de amor y una canci n desesperada remains among Pablo Neruda's most popular work. Daringly metaphorical and sensuous, this collection juxtaposes youthful passio...

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by Tacitus (Author), D. S. Levene (Editor), W. H. Fyfe (Author)In The Histories Cornelius Tacitus, widely regarded as the greatest of all Roman historians, describes with cynical power the murderous year of the Four Emperors'--AD 69--when in just a few months the whole of the Roman Empire was torn apart by civil war. W.H. Fyfe's classic translation has been substantially revised and supplied with extensive historical and literary notes. The Introduction examines the subtleties of Tacitus's w...

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by David Sedaris (Author)Author BiographyDavid Sedaris is the author of ten previous books, including, most recently, Calypso and Theft by Finding. He is a regular contributor to The New Yorker and BBC Radio 4. He lives in England and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Number of Pages: 400 Dimensions: 1.1 x 8.1 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: September 07, 2021

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by Charles Perrault (Author), Christopher Betts (Author)"Oh grandmama, what great big teeth you have!" Charles Perrault's versions gave classic status to the humble fairy tale, and it is in his telling that the stories of Little Red Riding-Hood, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella and the rest have been passed down from the seventeenth century to the present day. Perrault's tales were enjoyed in the salons of Louis XIV as much as they were loved in the nursery, and it is their wit, humor, and lively ...

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by Kapka Kassabova (Author)In Anima, Kapka Kassabova introduces us to the "pastiri" people--the shepherds struggling to hold on to an ancient way of life in which humans and animals exist in profound interdependence. Following her three previous books set in the Balkans, and with an increasinging interest in the degraded state of our planet and culture, Kassabova reaches further into the spirit of place than she ever has before. In this extraordinary portrayal of pastoral life, she investigat...

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by Leslie Jamison (Author)From personal loss to phantom diseases, The Empathy Exams is a bold and brilliant collection, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize A Publishers Weekly Top Ten Essay Collection of Spring 2014 Beginning with her experience as a medical actor who was paid to act out symptoms for medical students to diagnose, Leslie Jamison's visceral and revealing essays ask essential questions about our basic understanding of others: How should we care about each other? How ca...

Culpeper's Complete Herbal: Illustrated and Annotated Edition - Paperback

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by Nicholas Culpeper (Author), Steven Foster (Author)A revised and refreshed edition of Culpeper's classic book on herbal remedies. "[An] updated and beautifully designed guide . . . " --Booklist For more than 360 years, Nicholas Culpeper's historic guide to herbal remedies has been THE definitive book on the subject. Culpeper, an English herbalist, is the author of the bestselling herbal guide of all time. He offered valuable and sometimes unusual advice on using, gathering, and preparing ...

The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet - Hardcover

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by John Green (Author)Goodreads Choice winner for Nonfiction 2021 and instant #1 bestseller! A deeply moving collection of personal essays from John Green, the author of The Fault in Our Stars and Turtles All the Way Down. "The perfect book for right now." -People"The Anthropocene Reviewed is essential to the human conversation." -Library Journal, starred review The Anthropocene is the current geologic age, in which humans have profoundly reshaped the planet and its biodiversity. In this rema...

Tales of the Elders of Ireland - Paperback

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by Ann Dooley (Editor), Ann Dooley (Translator), Harry Roe (Editor)Tales of the Elders of Ireland is the first complete translation of the late Middle-Irish Acallam na Senórach, the largest literary text surviving from twelfth-century Ireland. It contains the earliest and most comprehensive collection of Fenian stories and poetry, intermingling the contemporary Christian world of Saint Patrick with his scribes; clerics; occasional angels and souls rescued from Hell; the earlier pagan world of...

Storytelling: Ideas and Insights from Modern Tales - Paperback

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by Roemer McPhee (Author)Storytelling is a book of ideas. It is a large collection of short essays that identify and analyze timeless ideas and universal insights; insights into humanity and life. Wisdom and truth of all kinds are found in modern stories, of all kinds. It is an amazing resource-available to everybody. Storytelling goes where the artists go, examining most all of the major themes and issues and concerns that people have always faced.From "Aliens" to "Cabaret" to "Lolita" to "M...

Storytelling: Ideas and Insights from Modern Tales - Hardcover

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Another City: Writing from Los Angeles - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby David L. Ulin (Editor)Thirty-seven LA writers map the scattered, diverse, and extremely fertile literary landscape of contemporary Los Angeles.Author BiographyDavid Ulin has lived in Los Angeles since 1991. From 1993-96 he was the book editor of the LA Weekly. He is a former Los Angeles Times critic and is an Assistant English Professor at the University of Southern California. Number of Pages: 240 Dimensions: 0.88 x 8 x 6.08 IN ...

Self-Reliance, and Other Essays - Paperback

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by Ralph Waldo Emerson (Author)Six essays and one address outline Emerson's moral idealism and hint at later scepticism. In addition to title essay, this volume includes "History," "Friendship," "The Over-Soul," "The Poet" and "Experience," plus the Harvard Divinity School Address.Back JacketEssayist, poet, and philosopher, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) propounded a transcendental idealism emphasizing self-reliance, self-culture, and individual expression. The six essays and one address inc...

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Report copyright infringementby John Long (Compiled by)Join prolific climbers such as Alex Honnald, John Long, Lynn Hill, and many others as they recount their experiences in Yosemite's towering walls."Untold stories from Yosemite" was the theme for the 2024 American Alpine Club's Benefit Gala, and the legendary climbers from the region gathered together to create a compilation of their best works for the prompt. This anthology "is going to be a little like sitting around the fire in Camp 4 -...

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Report copyright infringementby Noël Coward (Author), Barry Day (Editor)Lavishly illustrated and annotated, this first and definitive collection of letters to and from the great English playwright provides a divine portrait of an age, from the Blitz to the Ritz and beyond. "Superb.... The portrait of a complex, charming, driven, serious and, frankly, courageous artist." --The Wall Street Journal The incomparable Noël Coward loved to correspond with friends, enemies, the famous and infamous, ...

Titanic Legacy: The Captain, His Daughter and the Spy - Hardcover

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by Dan Parkes (Author)On 3 July 1930, a maid discovered the dead body of her employer on the floor of the sitting room in an upmarket apartment in Temple, London. The victim was 37-year-old Sidney Russell Cooke, mysteriously shot through the stomach by a hunting rifle. He was the husband of Titanic Captain Edward Smith's only daughter, Helen, known to friends as 'Mel'. Unknown to many, he was also an MI5 spy, described as a 'prototype James Bond' - and the esteemed Cambridge economist John Ma...

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by Anne Waldman (Author)A fascinating new work from an internationally renowned poetAcclaimed for her visionary, incantatory verse and her experimental ethos, Anne Waldman's newest book-length poem is an allegory of a radical spirit in lockdown, dominated by "Deciders" and "Imposters" who threaten the future of poetry and its archive. A doppelganger nightmare ensues: the imposter "Anne" is a succubus, and the original Anne has to break free from a metaphorical castle of torture and psychologi...

Charles Lamb'S Works. the Essays of Elia; A New Edition. - Paperback

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by Charles Lamb (Author) Number of Pages: 380 Dimensions: 0.78 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN Publication Date: September 13, 2006

The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing His Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. - Paperback

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by Robert Burns (Author) Number of Pages: 560 Dimensions: 1.14 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN Publication Date: September 13, 2006

The Military Services and Public Life of Major-General John Sullivan of the American Revolutionary Army. by Thomas C. Amory. - Paperback

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by Thomas C. (Thomas Coffin) Amory (Author) Number of Pages: 328 Dimensions: 0.69 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN Publication Date: September 13, 2006

South and West: From a Notebook - Paperback

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by Joan Didion (Author), Nathaniel Rich (Foreword by)NATIONAL BESTSELLER - "One of contemporary literature's most revered essayists revives her raw records from a 1970s road trip across the American southwest ... her acute observations of the country's culture and history feel particularly resonant today." --Harper's Bazaar Joan Didion, the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Let Me Tell You What I Mean, has always kept notebooks--of overheard dialogue, inte...

Theatrical Management in the West and South for Thirty Years. Interspersed with Anecdotical Sketches Autobiographically Given by Sol. Smith... with Fi - Paperback

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by Sol Smith (Author) Number of Pages: 282 Dimensions: 0.59 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: August 19, 2011

The life and death of Abraham Lincoln. A sermon preached at the Church of the Holy Trinity, Philadelphia, Sunday morning, April 23, 1865, by the Rev. - Paperback

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by Phillips Brooks (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it avail...

Meditations: The Philosophy Classic - Hardcover

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by Marcus Aurelius (Author), Tom Butler-Bowdon (Editor), Donald Robertson (Introduction by)A deluxe special edition of the ancient classic written by the Roman Emperor known as "The Philosopher" Meditations is a series of personal journals written by Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome from 169 to 180 AD. The last of the "Five Good Emperors," he was the most powerful and influential man in the Western world at the time. Marcus was one of the leaders of Stoicism, a philosophy of personal ethics w...

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by Maya Angelou (Author)The beauty and spirit of Maya Angelou's words live on in this complete collection of poetry, including her inaugural poem "On the Pulse of Morning" Throughout her illustrious career in letters, Maya Angelou gifted, healed, and inspired the world with her words. Now the beauty and spirit of those words live on in this new and complete collection of poetry that reflects and honors the writer's remarkable life. Every poetic phrase, every poignant verse can be found withi...

The Iliad & the Odyssey (Deluxe Hardbound Edition) - Hardcover

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by Homer (Author) Embark on a literary odyssey through ancient Greece with Homer's timeless epics, The Iliad and The Odyssey. In The Iliad, witness the ravages of the Trojan War as gods and mortals clash in a tale of honor, heroism, and the consequences of unchecked pride. Then, journey alongside Odysseus in The Odyssey as he battles mythical creatures, evades vengeful gods, ad strives to return home, navigating treacherous seas and testing the limits of human resilience. These masterpieces o...

Create Dangerously: The Power and Responsibility of the Artist - Paperback

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by Albert Camus (Author), Sandra Smith (Translator)A call to arms for artists, in particular those who came from an immigrant background, like he did. - "To create today means to create dangerously. Every publication is a deliberate act, and that act makes us vulnerable to the passions of a century that forgives nothing." In 1957, Nobel Prize-winning philosopher Albert Camus gave a speech entitled "Create Dangerously." Camus understood the necessity of those making art as a part of civil soci...

Tagalog Stories for Language Learners: Folktales and Stories in Filipino and English (Free Online Audio) - Paperback

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by Joi Barrios (Author)The most enjoyable way to learn about an unfamiliar culture is through its stories--especially when they're told in two languages This book introduces 40 stories from the Philippines through bilingual Tagalog and English texts presented on facing pages. Paired with cultural notes, vocabulary lists, exercises, comprehension questions and free online audio recordings, Tagalog Stories for Language Learners is an excellent resource for intermediate language learners. This ...