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by Teju Cole (Author), Siri Hustvedt (Foreword by)In this innovative synthesis of words and images, the award-winning author of Open City and photography critic for The New York Times Magazine combines two of his great passions. One of Time's Top 10 Non-Fiction Books of the Year - One of Smithsonian.com's Ten Best Photography Books of the Year When it comes to Teju Cole, the unexpected is not unfamiliar: He's an acclaimed novelist, an influential essayist, and an internationally exhibited ph...

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by Various (Author), Garrison Keillor (Editor)A selection of meaningful and enjoyable poems to inspire and be enjoyed by everyone Here is an anthology of poems, chosen by Garrison Keillor for their wit, their frankness, their passion, their "utter clarity in the face of everything else a person has to deal with at 7 a.m." Good Poems includes verse organized by theme about lovers, children, failure, everyday life, death, and transcendance. It features the work of classic poets, such as Emily ...

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by Albert Einstein (Author)A collection of insightful and thought provoking essays from one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century A new edition of the most definitive collection of Albert Einstein's popular writings, gathered under the supervision of Einstein himself. The selections range from his earliest days as a theoretical physicist to his death in 1955; from such subjects as relativity, nuclear war or peace, and religion and science, to human rights, economics, and governmen...

The Collected Works of Jim Morrison: Poetry, Journals, Transcripts, and Lyrics - Hardcover

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by Jim Morrison (Author), Tom Robbins (Foreword by)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe definitive anthology of Jim Morrison's writings with rare photographs and numerous handwritten excerpts of unpublished and published poetry and lyrics from his 28 privately held notebooks.You can also hear Jim Morrison's final poetry recording, now available for the first time, on the CD or digital audio edition of this book, at the Village Recorder in West Los Angeles on his twenty-seventh birthday, December 8, 1...

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by Allen Ginsberg (Author)Featuring the legendary and groundbreaking poem "Howl," this remarkable volume showcases a selection of Allen Ginsberg's poems, songs, essays, letters, journals, and interviews and contains sixteen pages of his personal photographs.One of the Beat Generation's most renowned poets and writers, Allen Ginsberg became internationally famous not only for his published works but for his actions as a human rights activist who championed the sexual revolution, human rights, ...

Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now - Paperback

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by Maya Angelou (Author)Maya Angelou, one of the best-loved authors of our time shares the wisdom of a remarkable life in this bestselling spiritual classic. This is Maya Angelou talking from the heart, down to earth and real, but also inspiring. This is a book to be treasured, a book about being in all ways a woman, about living well, about the power of the word, and about the power of spirituality to move and shape your life. Passionate, lively, and lyrical, Maya Angelou's latest unforgetta...

Voice of the Fish: A Lyric Essay - Paperback

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by Lars Horn (Author)Lars Horn's Voice of the Fish, the latest Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize winner, is an interwoven essay collection that explores the trans experience through themes of water, fish, and mythology, set against the backdrop of travels in Russia and a debilitating back injury that left Horn temporarily unable to speak. In Horn's adept hands, the collection takes shape as a unified book: short vignettes about fish, reliquaries, and antiquities serve as interludes between long...

The Iliad and the Odyssey Boxed Set - Hardcover

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by Homer (Author), Peter Green (Translator)A stunning set of Homer's epics, brilliantly translated by a leading ancient world scholar. Hailed by reviewers and readers alike, Peter Green's landmark translations of Homer's timeless epics are now available for the first time in this striking and sleekly designed collector-worthy set. With the verve and pathos of the original oral tradition, Green captures the beauty and complexity, the surging thunder and quiet lyricism, of the Iliad and the Od...

Arabic Folktales for Language Learners: Traditional Stories in Arabic and English (Free Bilingual Online Audio)

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Report copyright infringementby Sarah Risha (Author)Learn about Arabic culture while improving your language skills! This fascinating book presents 28 traditional Arabic tales in parallel English and Arabic versions on facing pages. The stories all have charming black & white illustrations, and include: The Blue-Eyed Yamamah: The story of a legendary blue-eyed woman who has the amazing ability to see far into the distance Layla and the Wolf: The story of a little girl who faces grav...

Racebook: A Personal History of the Internet

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Report copyright infringementby Tochi Onyebuchi (Author)From the author of Hugo and NAACP Image Award finalist Riot Baby, an original memoir in essays that interrogates how identities are shaped and informed in online spaces and how the relationship between race and the Internet has changed in his three decades onlineWhen Tochi Onyebuchi realized that his acclaimed science fiction and fantasy storytelling career had been centrally preoccupied with race, it prompted him to consider his respons...

Easy Lessons in the Art of Practical Wood Carving: Suited to the Wants of Carpenters, Joiners, Amateurs and Professional Wood Carvers

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Report copyright infringementby Fred T. Hodgson (Author)This Is A New Release Of The Original 1905 Edition. Number of Pages: 284 Dimensions: 0.6 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN Publication Date: March 30, 2014

A Description Of Edwin Austin Abbey's Quest Of The Holy Grail: A Frieze In The Boston Public Library

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Report copyright infringementby Boston Public Library (Author)This book provides a detailed description of the famous frieze ""The Quest of the Holy Grail"" by artist Edwin Austin Abbey, which is located in the Boston Public Library. The frieze, completed in 1902, depicts scenes from the legend of King Arthur and the search for the Holy Grail. The book includes a thorough analysis of the symbolism and imagery used in the frieze, as well as the historical and cultural context in which it was c...

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

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by 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 James Sovereign Collection edit...

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by Anton Chekhov (Author), Richard Pevear (Translator), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)From the celebrated, award-winning translators of Anna Karenina and The Brothers Karamazov a lavish volume of stories by one of the most influential short fiction writers of all time. Anton Chekhov left an indelible impact on every literary form in which he wrote, but none more so than short fiction. Now, renowned translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky give us their renderings of fifty-two Che...

Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional - Paperback

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by Isaac Fitzgerald (Author)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERUSA TODAY BESTSELLERWinner of the New England Book Award for NonfictionWinner of the New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association Nonfiction Book of the Year "The best of what memoir can accomplish... pulling no punches on the path to truth, but it always finds the capacity for grace and joy." -Esquire, "Best Memoirs of the Year" A TIME Must-Read Book of the Year * A Rolling Stone Top Culture Pick * A Publishers Weekly Best Memoir of th...

The Selected Works of Edward Said, 1966 - 2006 - Paperback

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by Edward W. Said (Author), Moustafa Bayoumi (Editor), Andrew Rubin (Editor)The renowned literary and cultural critic Edward Said was one of our era's most provocative and important thinkers. This comprehensive collection of his work, expanded from the earlier Edward Said Reader, now draws from across his entire four-decade career, including his posthumously published books, making it a definitive one-volume source. The Selected Works includes key sections from all of Said's books, includin...

A Room of One's Own: Introduction by Merve Emre - Hardcover

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by Virginia Woolf (Author), Merve Emre (Introduction by)A Contemporary Classics hardcover edition of Virginia Woolf's classic plea for a world in which women are free to use their gifts. In this influential extended essay, Woolf outlines what women need in order to fully make use of their innate abilities. Using provocative images and memorable thought experiments--including the fictional Judith Shakespeare, who is as talented as her brother William but limited in ways he was not--Woolf decri...

With Every Great Breath: New and Selected Essays, 1995-2023 - Paperback

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by Rick Bass (Author)"Master craftsman" (Los Angeles Times) and beloved author Rick Bass explores ecological, social, and personal landscapes through this collection that brings together his best-loved essays and brand-new pieces For acclaimed writer and environmental activist Rick Bass, it can be wearying to dwell relentlessly upon the broken, the fragmented, the dead and dying and doomed to extinction. Activism is a necessary part of the environmental movement, but so is the time-honored ce...

The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations - Hardcover

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by Toni Morrison (Author)NATIONAL BESTSELLER - Here is the Nobel Prize winner in her own words: a rich gathering of her most important essays and speeches, spanning four decades that "speaks to today's social and political moment as directly as this morning's headlines" (NPR). These pages give us her searing prayer for the dead of 9/11, her Nobel lecture on the power of language, her searching meditation on Martin Luther King Jr., her heart-wrenching eulogy for James Baldwin. She looks deeply...

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by Ralph Waldo Emerson (Author), Larzer Ziff (Editor), Larzer Ziff (Introduction by)An indispensible look at Emerson's influential life philosophy Through his writing and his own personal philosophy, Ralph Waldo Emerson unburdened his young country of Europe's traditional sense of history and showed Americans how to be creators of their own circumstances. His mandate, which called for harmony with, rather than domestication of, nature, and for a reliance on individual integrity, rather than o...

Emerson Essays and Lectures: Nature; Addresses, and Lectures/Essays: First and Second Series/Representative Men/English Traits/The Conduct of Life - Hardcover

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by Ralph Waldo Emerson (Author)Our most eloquent champion of individualism, Emerson acknowledges at the same time the countervailing pressures of society in American life. Even as he extols what he called "the great and crescive self," he dramatizes and records its vicissitudes. Here are all the indispensable and most renowned works, including "The American Scholar" ("our intellectual Declaration of Independence," as Oliver Wendell Holmes called it), "The Divinity School Address," considered...

All Consuming: Why We Eat the Way We Eat Now

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Report copyright infringementby Ruby Tandoh (Author)Food dominates our every waking minute: Hype restaurants. Allrecipes. The Great British Bake Off. In this dazzling cultural history, bestselling food writer Ruby Tandoh (author of Cook As You Are) traces how--and why--we've all become foodies. "Ruby Tandoh is a genius and All Consuming is everything." --Bryan Washington, author of Family Meal "A fascinating, sometimes shocking, eye-opener that is also brilliantly funny." --Claudia Roden How,...

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Report copyright infringementby Jessica Mitford (Author), Peter Y. Sussman (Editor)Born into the British aristocracy as one of the famous (and sometimes infamous), larger-than-life Mitford sisters, Jessica "Decca" Mitford ran away first to Spain during the Spanish Civil War, and then to America. She became a tireless political activist and a member of the Communist Party, then embarked on a brilliant career as a memoirist and muckraking journalist. She was a celebrated wit, a charmer, and thr...

Margaret Fuller: Collected Writings (Loa #388) - Hardcover

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by Margaret Fuller (Author), Noelle A. Baker (Editor), Megan Marshall (Editor)"Humanity can be divided into three classes: men, women, and Margaret Fuller."--Edgar Allan Poe A true American original--radical transcendentalist, intrepid journalist, and pioneering feminist--joins Library of America with the most authoritative single-volume collection of her writings ever, including many rare and previously unpublished works, newly transcribed from original notebooks and journals Transcendentali...

The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination - Paperback

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by Ursula K. Le Guin (Author)Join Ursula K. Le Guin as she explores a broad array of subjects, ranging from Tolstoy, Twain, and Tolkien to women's shoes, beauty, and family life. With her customary wit, intelligence, and literary craftsmanship, she offers a diverse and highly engaging set of readings. The Wave in the Mind includes some of Le Guin's finest literary criticism, rare autobiographical writings, performance art pieces, and, most centrally, her reflections on the arts of writing an...

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by Rainer Maria Rilke (Author), Stephen Mitchell (Translator)Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet are arguably the most famous and beloved letters of the twentieth century. Written when the poet was himself still a young man, with most of his greatest work before him, they were addressed to a student who had sent Rilke some of his own writing, asking for advice on becoming a writer. The two never met, but over a period of several years Rilke wrote him these ten letters, which have been cherished b...

Complete Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe - Paperback

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by Edgar Allan Poe (Author)One of the most original American writers, Edgar Allan Poe shaped the development of both the detectvie story and the science-fiction story. Some of his poems--"The Raven," "The Bells," "Annabel Lee"--remain among the most popular in American literature. Poe's tales of the macabre still thrill readers of all ages. Here are familiar favorites like "The Purloined Letter," "The Fall of the House of Usher," and "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," together with less-known m...

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Report copyright infringementby Yogi Publication Society (Author)""The Hebrew Alphabet And Its Hieroglyphical Significance"" is a book published by the Yogi Publication Society that explores the Hebrew alphabet and its symbolic significance. The book delves into the origins and history of the Hebrew alphabet, tracing its evolution from ancient hieroglyphs to the modern script used today. It also examines the mystical and spiritual meanings associated with each letter of the Hebrew alphabet, e...

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Report copyright infringementby Charles F. Horne (Editor)The Old Testament Apocrypha Story Of Ahikar is a book written by Charles F. Horne. It is a collection of ancient stories that were not included in the traditional Old Testament canon, but were still considered important by early Jewish and Christian communities. The book tells the story of Ahikar, a wise and wealthy court official in ancient Assyria who was falsely accused of treason and banished from the kingdom. Despite his misfortune...

Genji Monogatari Or Narrative Of Genji: The Foremost Japanese Novel

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Report copyright infringementby Charles F. Horne (Editor)Genji Monogatari, also known as The Tale of Genji, is a classic work of Japanese literature written by Murasaki Shikibu in the 11th century. This book, translated by Charles F. Horne, is a comprehensive English version of the novel. The story revolves around the life of Genji, the son of an emperor, who is a charming and handsome man with a talent for poetry and music. He falls in love with several women throughout the novel, but his re...

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Report copyright infringementby Maria Francesca Rossetti (Author)Dante's Pilgrimage Through Hell is a book written by Maria Francesca Rossetti that provides a complete description of Dante Alighieri's journey through the nine circles of Hell in his epic poem, The Divine Comedy. The book offers a detailed analysis of each circle and the punishments that are inflicted upon the sinners found there. It also delves into Dante's political and religious beliefs and how they influenced his depiction ...

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Report copyright infringementby Reverend Augustus Jessopp (Author)The Black Death In East Anglia is a historical book written by Reverend Augustus Jessopp. The book explores the impact of the Black Death, also known as the bubonic plague, on the East Anglian region of England during the 14th century. The author provides a detailed account of the outbreak of the disease, its spread, and the devastating effects it had on the population. The book covers the social, economic, and religious conseq...