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Topics For The Study Of Greek Mythology: Based On Bulfinch's Age Of Fable (1894) - Paperback

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by Anna Gooding Dodge (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of Pages: 24 Dimensions: 0.06 x 11 x 8....

Meskwakia And The Meskwaki People, Tama County, Iowa (1906) - Paperback

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by Duren James Henderson Ward (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of Pages: 48 Dimensions: 0.12 x...

Legends And Lyrics Of The Gulf Coast (1896) - Paperback

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by Laura Fenling Hinsdale (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of Pages: 48 Dimensions: 0.12 x 11 ...

Frog Opera, With Pollywog Chorus: A Musical Extravaganza Founded Upon The Upon The Nursery Tale And Old Song Of A Frog He Would A Wooing Go (1880) - Paperback

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by Charles Thurber Miller (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of Pages: 28 Dimensions: 0.07 x 11 ...

Norwich: Early Homes And History, A Paper (1906) - Paperback

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by Sarah Lester Tyler (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of Pages: 24 Dimensions: 0.06 x 11 x 8....

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

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by Jintana Rattanakhemakorn (Author), Dylan Southard (Author), Patcharee Meeshukon (Illustrator)The most enjoyable way to learn about an unfamiliar culture is through its stories--especially when they're told in two languages! Thai Stories for Language Learners introduces 28 entertaining Thai stories with bilingual Thai and English versions presented on facing pages. The stories are adapted from traditional folktales with roots in the Thai oral tradition, classic Thai literature, and Thai v...

Weight of the Earth: The Tape Journals of David Wojnarowicz - Paperback

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by David Wojnarowicz (Author), Lisa Darms (Editor), David O'Neill (Editor)Audio journals that document Wojnarowicz's turbulent attempts to understand his anxieties and passions, and tracking his thoughts as they develop in real time.In these moments I hate language. I hate what words are like, I hate the idea of putting these preformed gestures on the tip of my tongue, or through my lips, or through the inside of my mouth, forming sounds to approximate something that's like a cyclone, or some...

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by Beth Piatote (Author)Beth Piatote's luminous debut collection opens with a feast, grounding its stories in the landscapes and lifeworlds of the Native Northwest, exploring the inventive and unforgettable pattern of Native American life in the contemporary world Told with humor, subtlety, and spareness, the mixed-genre works of Beth Piatote's first collection find unifying themes in the strength of kinship, the pulse of longing, and the language of return. A woman teaches her niece to make ...

This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us - Paperback

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by Cole Arthur Riley (Author)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - In her stunning debut, the creator of Black Liturgies weaves stories from three generations of her family alongside contemplative reflections to discover the "necessary rituals" that connect us with our belonging, dignity, and liberation."This is the kind of book that makes you different when you're done."--Ashley C. Ford, New York Times bestselling author of Somebody's Daughter "Reaches deep beneath the surface of words unspoken, wound...

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by E. B. White (Author), Roger Angell (Introduction by)Perceptive, funny, and nostalgic, E.B. White's stroll around Manhattan remains the quintessential love letter to the city, written by one of America's foremost literary figures. The New York Times has named Here is New York one of the ten best books ever written about the metropolis, and The New Yorker calls it "the wittiest essay, and one of the most perceptive, ever done on the city.Author BiographyThoroughly American and utterly beauti...

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by Doireann Ní Ghríofa (Author)An Post Irish Book Awards Nonfiction Book of the Year - A Guardian Best Book of 2020 - Shortlisted for the 2021 Rathbones Folio Prize - Longlisted for the 2021 Republic of Consciousness Prize When we first met, I was a child, and she had been dead for centuries. I am eleven, a dark-haired child given to staring out window ... Her voice makes it 1773, a fine day in May, and puts English soldiers crouching in ambush; I add ditch-water to drench their knees. Their ...

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by A. S. Hamrah (Author)"The Earth Dies Streaming solidifies Hamrah's place as our age's most irreplaceable critic."--Kyle Paoletta, GuernicaThe Earth Dies Streaming collects the best of A. S. Hamrah's film writing for n+1, The Baffler, Bookforum, Harper's, and other publications. Acerbic, insightful, hilarious, and damning, Hamrah's aphoristic capsule reviews and lucid career retrospectives of filmmakers and critics have taken up the mantle of serious American film criticism--pioneered by Ja...

NIV, Journal the Word Bible, Hardcover, Black, Red Letter Edition, Comfort Print: Reflect, Take Notes, or Create Art Next to Your Favorite Verses - Hardcover

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by Zondervan (Author)Share your thoughts next to treasured ScriptureThe NIV Journal the WordTM Bible allows you to creatively express yourself every day with plenty of room for notes or verse art next to your favorite verses. Made with unique and beautiful covers, this single-column journaling Bible features thick cream-colored paper with lightly ruled lines in the extra-wide margins, perfect to reflect on God's Word and enhance your study.Expertly designed for the New International Version (...

Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone? - Paperback

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by Mahmoud Darwish (Author), Jeffrey Sacks (Translator)Mahmoud Darwish is one of the greatest poets of our time. In his poetry Palestine becomes the map of the human soul. -- Elias Khoury The book tugs at the reader's heart page after page, poem after poem, line after line, you cannot remain apathetic for a moment... --Haaretz At once an intimate autobiography and a collective memory of the Palestinian people, Darwish's intertwined poems are collective cries, songs, and glimpses of the hu...

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by Ralph Waldo Emerson (Author)Ralph Waldo Emerson's essays and poems on the transcendental movement in the United States became some of the most important literary pieces in American History. In this culmination of essays, Emerson takes the reader through different forms of philosophies that attempt to explain the world and man's purpose within it.Heavily vested in the philosophy of transcendentalism, though not one to label himself a true follower of the movement, Emerson believed that spir...

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by Jack London (Author), Mint Editions (Contribution by)During the catastrophic economic depression of the 1890s, young Jack London found himself in the same situation as many others-homeless and unemployed. After a failed American investment and crop failure, the nation found itself in a panic. As London recounts these times, he tells stories of hopping on freight trains, consequently being forcefully removed. While living as a hobo, London often had to beg for food and money, and frequently...

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by Jack London (Author), Mint Editions (Contribution by)The People of the Abyss (1903) is a work of nonfiction by American writer Jack London. Written after the author spent three months living in London's poverty-stricken East End, The People of the Abyss bears witness to the difficulties faced by hundreds and thousands of people every day in one of the wealthiest nations on earth. Inspired by Friedrich Engels's The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845) and Jacob Riis's How the Ot...

No Exit and Three Other Plays - Paperback

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by Jean-Paul Sartre (Author)NOBEL PRIZE WINNER - Four seminal plays by one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century. An existential portrayal of Hell in Sartre's best-known play, as well as three other brilliant, thought-provoking works: the reworking of the Electra-Orestes story, the conflict of a young intellectual torn between theory and conflict, and an arresting attack on American racism.Front Jacket4 plays about an existential portrayal of Hell, the reworking of the Electr...

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by Friedrich Nietzsche (Author), R. Kevin Hill (Translator), Michael A. Scarpitti (Translator)New to Penguin Classics, The Will to Power contains some of Nietzsche's most fascinating and combative writings on nihilism, metaphysics and the future of Europe. Assembled by Nietzsche's sister after his death, The Will to Power is a collection of the philosopher's reflections and theories taken from his unpublished notebooks. Covering topics such as nihilism, Christianity, morality, and the famous...

William Blake: Selected Poems - Paperback

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by William Blake (Author), Nicholas Shrimpton (Editor)"To see a World in a Grain of SandAnd a Heaven in a Wild FlowerHold Infinity in the palm of your handAnd Eternity in an hour" William Blake wrote some of the most moving and memorable verse in the English language. Deeply committed to visionary and imaginative experience, yet also fiercely engaged with the turbulent politics of his era, he is now recognised as a major contributor to the Romantic Movement. This edition presents Blake's poem...

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by E. B. White (Author)"Some of the finest examples of contemporary, genuinely American prose. White's style incorporates eloquence without affection, profundity without pomposity, and wit without frivolity or hostility. Like his predecessors Thoreau and Twain, White's creative, humane, and graceful perceptions are an education for the sensibilities." -- Washington PostThe classic collection by one of the greatest essayists of our time.Selected by E.B. White himself, the essays in this volume...

Irish Writing: An Anthology of Irish Literature in English 1789-1939 - Paperback

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by Stephen Regan (Editor)This anthology traces the history of modern Irish literature from the revolutionary era of the late eighteenth century to the early years of political independence. It covers 150 years, from the writings of Charlotte Brooke and Edmund Burke to those of Elizabeth Bowen and Louis MacNeice, and it shows how these writings continually challenge and renew the ways in which Ireland is imagined and defined. The anthology includes a wide-ranging and generous selection of fict...

Words to Sing the World Alive: Celebrating First Nations Languages - Hardcover

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by Jasmin McGaughey (Editor)Words to Sing the World Alive celebrates First Nations languages from across the continent. Forty First Nation writers and thinkers, journalists and lawyers, artists and astronomers come together to reveal their favourite and significant words. Words that evoke the power of childhood and the wonder of Country; that explore the essence of mother, of fire, of time. Words that are imbued with family and belonging, and that surprise with their connections. Join contrib...

The Odyssey: A Norton Critical Edition - Paperback

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by Homer (Author), Emily Wilson (Translator)This Norton Critical Edition includes: Emily Wilson's authoritative translation of Homer's masterpiece, accompanied by her informative introduction, explanatory footnotes, and book-by-book summaries. Four maps, created especially for this translation. Contextual materials including sources and analogues by Homer, Sappho, Pindar, and others. Also included are carefully chosen passages from (mainly) ancient texts that provide insight into The Odyssey...

NIV, Journal the Word Bible for Women, Cloth Over Board, Navy, Red Letter Edition, Comfort Print: 500+ Prompts to Encourage Journaling and Reflection - Hardcover

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by Zondervan (Author)Take a reflective journey through the Bible Do you seek stillness and inspiration in your quiet time? The NIV Journal the Word(TM) Bible for Women guides you through God's precious Word with reflections and thought-provoking questions placed beside Scripture. Explore God's Word for you and express your heart in the wide margins of this journaling Bible with room for responses, journaling, and artistic expression.Expertly designed specifically to be used for the New Intern...

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by Michael Chabon (Author)"Magical prose stylist" Michael Chabon (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times) delivers a collection of essays--heartfelt, humorous, insightful, wise--on the meaning of fatherhood.For the September 2016 issue of GQ, Michael Chabon wrote a piece about accompanying his son Abraham Chabon, then thirteen, to Paris Men's Fashion Week. Possessed with a precocious sense of style, Abe was in his element chatting with designers he idolized and turning a critical eye to the freshe...

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by Jamieson Webster (Author)Never does the patient seem more ill than when they try to order associations into a logical tale. Classical analysis sees this in terms of a repudiation of sexuality: an attempt to avoid speaking from a place of desire. But why should psychoanalysis reduce everything to sex? If sex only ever achieves partial satisfactions, fragments of pleasure, its pursuit creates our subjectivity and our world. Disorganisation & Sex argues that the sexuality of psychoanalysi...

Extraordinary Canadians: Stories from the Heart of Our Nation - Paperback

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by Peter Mansbridge (Author), Mark Bulgutch (With)The instant #1 bestselling book of personal stories about remarkable Canadians who embody the values of our great nation and inspire us to do the same, from Peter Mansbridge, the beloved former anchor of CBC's The National, and Mark Bulgutch, former CBC producer. In this heartwarming volume of first-person stories, Peter Mansbridge and Mark Bulgutch bring together inspiring Canadians from all walks of life--advocates, politicians, doctors, vet...

Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief - Hardcover

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by Victoria Chang (Author)A Kirkus Best Book of October 2021From poet Victoria Chang, a collection of literary letters and mementos on the art of remembering across generations.For Victoria Chang, memory "isn't something that blooms, but something that bleeds internally." It is willed, summoned, and dragged to the surface. The remembrances in this collection of letters are founded in the fragments of stories her mother shared reluctantly, and the silences of her father, who first would not an...

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by Pliny the Younger (Author), P. G. Walsh (Translator)In these letters to his friends and relations, Pliny the Younger, lawyer, author, and natural philosopher, provides a fascinating insight into Roman life in the period 97 to 112 AD. Part autobiography, part social history, they document the career and interests of a senator and leading imperial official whose friends include the historians Tacitus and Suetonius. Pliny's letters cover a wide range of topics, from the contemporary political...

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by Patrick Olivelle (Translator)The Law Code of Manu is the most authoritative and the best-known legal text of ancient India. Famous for fifteen centuries it still generates controversy, with Manu's verses being cited in support of the oppression of women and members of the lower castes. A seminal Hindu text, the Law Code is important for its classic description of so many social institutions that have come to be identified with Indian society. It deals with the relationships between social ...

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by Sun Tzu (Author)"There's not a dated maxim or vague prescription in it." -- Newsweek Regarded as the world's oldest military treatise, this compact volume has instructed officers and tacticians for more than 2,000 years. From its origins in China, The Art of War traveled the world to inform the strategies of Napoleon and World War II generals. More recently, it has taken on a new life as a guide to competing successfully in business, law, and sports.All of The Art of War's concepts retain ...