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Report copyright infringementby J. Kent Borgaard (Author) Number of Pages: 100 Dimensions: 0.26 x 11 x 8.5 IN Publication Date: January 20, 2009

Dreadful Sorry: Essays on an American Nostalgia

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Report copyright infringementby Jennifer Niesslein (Author)Candid essays on personal and cultural American nostalgia, focusing on the author's working-class, Rust Belt family history. What does it mean to be nostalgic for the American past? The feeling has been co-opted by the far right ("Make America Great Again," after all, is a plea for the past), and associated with violent periods of our country's history when white supremacy was even more dominant than today. Can a liberal white woman s...

Ovid, Ars Amatoria Book 3: Commentary by Christopher M. Brunelle

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Report copyright infringementby Christopher M. Brunelle (Author)In all of ancient literature there is nothing quite like the Ars Amatoria, Ovid's guide to seduction. He devotes Book 3 to teaching the women of Augustan Rome how to find, catch, and keep a male lover. Along with generous portions of wit and absurdity, his text contains a wealth of cultural references, highlighting Rome's architecture, theatres, gladiatorial spectacles, temples, baths, men's and women's clothing, hairstyles, cos...

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Report copyright infringementby Hollybook (Editor), Robert Louis Stevenson (Author)Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850 - 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Number of Pages: 232 Dimensions: 0.49 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: December 14, 2015

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Report copyright infringementby Phil Christman (Author)Phil Christman is one of the best cultural critics working today. Or, as a reviewer of his previous book, Midwest Futures, put it, one of the most underappreciated writers of [his] generation.You may also know Phil from his columns in Commonweal and Plough, or his viral essay What Is It Like To Be A Man?, the latter adapted in his new book, How to Be Normal. Christman's second book includes essays on How To Be White, How to Be Religious, ...

word scramble Memorial Day: Word scramble game is one of the fun word search games for kids to play at your next cool kids party

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Report copyright infringementby Woopsnotes Publishing (Author)Word scramble game is one of the fun word search games for kids to play at your next cool kids party. So grab a pen and paper and get your mind in gear for some engaging party fun today. Number of Pages: 82 Dimensions: 0.2 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN Publication Date: December 29, 2019

The Crossing of Innumerable Paths: Essays on Art

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Report copyright infringementby Guy Brett (Artist)Essays on art and participation from Guy Brett, veteran champion of kinetic and Latin American art Since the 1960s, the celebrated London-based art critic and curator Guy Brett (born 1942) has championed influential and experimental artists across the world through key exhibitions and publications, including In Motion (1966), Force Fields: Phases of the Kinetic (2001) and exhibitions on artists such as Li Yuan-chia, David Medalla, Hélio Oitici...

Life Of David From The Throne To The Grave (1857)

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Report copyright infringementby Anonymous (Author)The book ""Life Of David From The Throne To The Grave"" is a biography of King David, the second king of Israel. The author of the book is anonymous and it was first published in 1857. The book follows the life of David from his ascent to the throne, his reign as king, his victories in battles, his sins and failures, and ultimately his death.The book provides a detailed account of David's life and his impact on the history of Israel. It covers...

Not Lost, But Gone Before: Voices Of The Departed (1869)

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Report copyright infringementby Anonymous (Author)""Not Lost, But Gone Before: Voices Of The Departed"" is a book published in 1869 by an anonymous author. The book is a collection of stories, poems, and essays written in memory of loved ones who have passed away. The title of the book is a reference to the belief that those who have died are not truly lost, but have simply gone before us to another place. The book is divided into several sections, each dedicated to a different theme related ...

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Report copyright infringementby George Canning Hill (Author)Benedict Arnold is one of America's most notorious traitors, but his story is more complicated than the simple narrative of treachery that dominates popular accounts. George Canning Hill's biography offers a nuanced and compelling portrait of Arnold, exploring his early heroism in the American Revolution, his growing disillusionment with the new nation, and ultimately his decision to join the British. Hill's work is a masterful retel...

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Report copyright infringementby Albert Gallatin Riddle (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 i...

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Report copyright infringementby Henry Mozley and Sons and F. Rivington (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, tha...

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Report copyright infringementby Alfred Tennyson (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 importan...

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Report copyright infringementby Maggie Nelson (Author)A career-spanning collection of inspiring, revelrous essays about art and artistsLike Love is a momentous, raucous collection of essays drawn from twenty years of Maggie Nelson's brilliant work. These profiles, reviews, remembrances, tributes, and critical essays, as well as several conversations with friends and idols, bring to life Nelson's passion for dialogue and dissent. The range of subjects is wide--from Prince to Carolee Schneemann...

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Report copyright infringementby Nona Fernández (Author), Natasha Wimmer (Translator)A startling book-length essay, at once grand and intimate, from National Book Award finalist Nona Fernández. Voyager begins with Nona Fernández accompanying her elderly mother to the doctor to seek an explanation for her frequent falls and inability to remember what preceded them. As the author stares at the image of her mother's brain scan, it occurs to her that the electrical signals shown on the screen rese...

The Earth Dies Streaming: Film Writing, 2002-2018

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Report copyright infringementby 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 fi...

Bookstore Clerks & Significant Others: Tsunami Press 1

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Report copyright infringementby Scott Landfield (Editor in Chief), S. G. Ellerhoff , D. S. Rhodes (Author)The first in a series of anthologies from Tsunami Press. Fiction, poetry, prose, and illustration by fourteen Tsunami Books clerks and fourteen significant others. A retrospective, a showcase, and a thank you to the people who, for twenty-seven years, have helped build an independent bookstore and community events center in Eugene, Oregon--and now, also, a new press in a new era. After a ...

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Report copyright infringementby Bertrand Russell (Author), Daniel C. Dennett (Introduction by)In The Conquest of Happiness, first published by Liveright in 1930, iconoclastic philosopher Bertrand Russell attempted to diagnose the myriad causes of unhappiness in modern life and chart a path out of the seemingly inescapable malaise so prevalent even in safe and prosperous Western societies. More than eighty years later, Russell's wisdom remains as true as it was on its initial release. Eschewin...

What Wars Leave Behind: The Faceless and the Forgotten

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Report copyright infringementby J. Malcolm Garcia (Author)They bear labels instead of names--noncombatant, unintended victim, collateral damage. Theirs are the blurred faces and forms seen in news footage shot from a moving vehicle. And when soldiers, media, and profiteers move on to the next conflict, they stay behind to cope amid the wreckage. They have stories to tell to anyone who will pause long enough to hear them.In What Wars Leave Behind, J. Malcolm Garcia reveals the people and pain...

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Report copyright infringementby Marius Vachon (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 ...

Hand in Hand with Love: An Anthology of Queer Classic Poetry

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Report copyright infringementby Simon Avery (Editor)Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. This edition is edited by Dr Simon Avery, a specialist in queer history and culture at the University of Westminster.Hand in...

Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book

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Report copyright infringementby Walker Percy (Author)Walker Percy's mordantly funny and wholly original contribution to the self-help book craze deals with the Western mind's tendency toward heavy abstraction. This favorite of Percy fans continues to charm and beguile readers of all tastes and backgrounds. Lost in the Cosmos invites us to think about how we communicate with our world.Author BiographyWalker Percy wrote several books, many of them bestsellers, and is considered one of the great...

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Report copyright infringementby Ann Patchett (Author)The beloved New York Times bestselling author reflects on home, family, friendships and writing in this deeply personal collection of essays. "The elegance of Patchett's prose is seductive and inviting: with Patchett as a guide, readers will really get to grips with the power of struggles, failures, and triumphs alike." --Publisher's Weekly"Any story that starts will also end." As a writer, Ann Patchett knows what the outcome of her fiction...

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Report copyright infringementby James Baldwin (Author), Toni Morrison (Editor), Darryl Pinckney (Editor)For the first time in a collector's boxed set, the definitive three-volume Library of America James Baldwin edition gathering all his essential writings, including the collected essays and complete fiction. With the novel Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953), a distillation of his own experiences as a preacher's son in 1930s Harlem, and the essay collection Notes of a Native Son (1955), James ...

The Land Without Death: The Amazonas Trilogy

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Report copyright infringementby Alfred Doblin (Author), Chris Godwin (Translator)Alfred Döblin (1878-1957) composed his epic trilogy of South America under difficult circumstances of exile. It was accessible on first publication in 1937-38 only outside Germany, and for only a couple of years before war broke out. The first postwar edition, like others of Döblin's works apart from Berlin Alexanderplatz, was little noticed in a Germany traumatised by Nazism and defeat. Neither the pre-war not t...

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Report copyright infringementby Salman Rushdie (Author)Newly collected, revised, and expanded nonfiction from the first two decades of the twenty-first century--including many texts never previously in print--by the Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling authorLonglisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay Salman Rushdie is celebrated as "a master of perpetual storytelling" (The New Yorker), illuminating truths about our society and culture through his...

The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos

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Report copyright infringementby Jaime Green (Author)An LA Times Book Prize FinalistA Washington Post Best Book of the YearA TODAY Show Summer Book An NPR Science Friday Book Club PickA "Next Big Idea Book Club" Must ReadOne of the Chicago Tribune's 52 Books for Summer 2023An Esquire Best Book of 2023A Gizmodo New Release Pick for AprilA BookRiot Science Book to Add to Your TBRA Wired Book to Read for Spring"A dazzling feat of imagination and synthesis."--Ed Yong, Pulitzer Prize winner and aut...

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Report copyright infringementby Colm Toibin (Author)Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by LitHub and The Millions! From one of the most engaging and brilliant writers of our time comes a "not to be missed" (LitHub) collection of eleven essays about growing up in Ireland during radical change; about cancer, priests, popes, homosexuality, and literature. "IT ALL STARTED WITH MY BALLS." So begins Colm Tóibín's fabulously compelling essay, laced with humor, about his diagnosis and treatment fo...

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Report copyright infringementby Teju Cole (Author)A profound book of essays from a celebrated master of the form. "Darkness is not empty," writes Teju Cole in Black Paper, a book that meditates on what it means to sustain our humanity--and witness the humanity of others--in a time of darkness. One of the most celebrated essayists of his generation, Cole here plays variations on the essay form, modeling ways to attend to experience--not just to take in but to think critically about what we se...

To Be a Trans Man: Our Stories of Transition, Acceptance and Joy

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Report copyright infringementby Ezra Woodger (Editor), Fox Fisher (Contribution by), Caspar Baldwin (Contribution by)Men in all stages of transition have come and gone from my life, and each one has been entirely different. It's difficult to feel as if you fail at being a man when you know there isn't a singular 'right' way to be one. In this illuminating and radically honest book, Ezra Woodger interviews trans men and transmasculine people to interrogate what masculinity is and what it means...

Is It Hot in Here (or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth)?

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Report copyright infringementby Zach Zimmerman (Author)In this debut collection of essays, lists, musings, and quips, New York-based comedian Zach Zimmerman delicately walks the fine line between tear-jerking and knee-slapping, and does so with aplomb. In this laugh-and-cry-out-loud, memoir-esque exploration of selfhood, Zimmerman dives into the pros and cons of retiring a Bible-Belt-dwelling, meat-eating, God-fearing identity in exchange for a new, metropolitan lease on life--one of vegetar...

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Report copyright infringementby Sohla El-Waylly (Author), Silvia Killingsworth (Author)A collection of the year's top food writing, selected by guest editor Sohla El-Waylly and series editor Silvia Killingsworth. Culinary creator, writer and community advocate, Sohla El-Waylly selects the best twenty articles published in 2021 that celebrate the many innovative, comforting, mouthwatering, and culturally rich culinary offerings of our country. Number of Pages: 256 Dim...