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Report copyright infringementby Virginia Woolf (Author), Claudia Tobin (Introduction by)The twentieth volume in the renowned ekphrasis series, this collection of Virginia Woolf's writings on the visual arts offers a whole new perspective on the revolutionary author. Despite wide interest in Woolf's writings, and in the artists and art critics in her Bloomsbury circle, there is no accessible edition or selection of essays dedicated to her writings on art. This volume collects her longest essay...

The Fragile Earth: Writing from the New Yorker on Climate Change

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Report copyright infringementby David Remnick (Author), Henry Finder (Author)A New York Times New & Noteworthy BookA collection of the New Yorker's groundbreaking reporting from the front lines of climate change--including writing from Bill McKibben, Elizabeth Kolbert, Ian Frazier, Kathryn Schulz, and moreJust one year after climatologist James Hansen first came before a Senate committee and testified that the Earth was now warmer than it had ever been in recorded history, thanks to human...

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Report copyright infringementby Dodie Bellamy (Author)A new collection of essays from Dodie Bellamy on disenfranchisement, vulgarity, American working-class life, aesthetic values, and profound embarrassment. So. Much. Information. When does one expand? Cut back? Stop researching? When is enough enough? Like Colette's aging courtesan Lea in the Chéri books, I straddle two centuries that are drifting further and further apart.--Dodie Bellamy, "Hoarding as Ecriture" This new collection of essay...

Ganbare!: Workshops on Dying: Workshops on Dying

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Report copyright infringementby Katarzyna Boni (Author), Mark Ordon (Translator)The March 11, 2011, earthquake and subsequent tsunami that ravaged Japan lasted a mere six minutes. But the fallout--the aftershocks, the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the country-wide devastation--from this catastrophic event and the trauma experienced by those who survived it is ongoing, if not permanent. In Ganbare! Workshops on Dying, Polish writer and reporter Katarzyna Boni takes us on a journey through the ex...

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Report copyright infringementby Kei Miller (Author)By acclaimed Forward Prize winner, novelist, and poet, Kei Miller's linked collection of essays blends memoir and literary commentary to explore the silences that exist in our conversations about race, sex, and gender. In a deeply moving, critical and lyrical collection of interconnected essays, award-winning writer Kei Miller explores the silences in which so many important things are kept. Miller examines the experience of discrimination th...

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Report copyright infringementby André Butzer (Artist), Philipp Schwalb (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Daniel Mendel-Black (Contribution by)German painter André Butzer (born 1973) is known for his roughly executed figure paintings in a style he once labeled "sci-fi expressionism." This book highlights his recent black-and-white color-field paintings that explore two anti-geometrical rectangles and their balancing act between motion and stasis. Number of Pages: 64 Dimens...

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Report copyright infringementby Alan Stewart (Editor)The most comprehensive anthology of its kind, edited by one of the world's leading authorities on the literature of Tudor and Stuart England Back JacketEnglish drama between the late fifteenth and the late sixteenth centuries is as diverse as it is engaging; this anthology brings together eighteen of the most interesting and important dramatic works from the period. Designed for undergraduate use, the anthology includes extensive explanator...

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Report copyright infringementby Phillip Lopate (Author)A dazzling anthology of essays by some of the best writers of the past quarter century--from Barry Lopez and Margo Jefferson to David Sedaris and Samantha Irby--selected by acclaimed essayist Phillip Lopate. The first decades of the twenty-first century have witnessed a blossoming of creative nonfiction. In this extraordinary collection, Phillip Lopate gathers essays by forty-seven of America's best contemporary writers, mingling long-est...

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Report copyright infringementby Audre Lorde (Author)"Sister Outsider, a collection of essays and speeches by the pioneering feminist Audre Lorde, is one of my all-time-favorite books. It's always great to have an intersectional tome on hand." --Amanda Gorman "Sister Outsider's teachings, by one of our most revered elder stateswomen, should be read by everyone." --Essence Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider celebrates an infl...

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Report copyright infringementby Charles Lamb (Author)It is one of the representative works of Charles Lamb. The essays of Charles Lamb are featured with delicate writing, sincere feeling and are interesting and charming. The book collects 28 essays, they are: 01. The South-Sea House 02. Oxford In The Vacation 03. Christ's Hospital Five-And-Thirty Years Ago 04. The Two Races Of Men 05. New Year's Eve 06. Mrs Battle's Opinions On Whist 07. A Chapter On Ears 08. All Fools' Day 09. A Quakers' Mee...

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Report copyright infringementby Charles Lamb (Author)The book collects 25 essays written by Charles Lamb. They are: 01. Blakesmoor In H ---Shire 02. Poor Relations 03. Stage Illusion 04. To the Shade of Elliston 06. Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading 07. The Old Margate Hoy08. The Convalescent09. Sanity Of True Genius10. Captain Jackson11. The Superannuated Man12. The Genteel Style In Writing13. Barbara S-----14. The Tombs In The Abbey, In a letter to R. H. Esq.15. Amicus Redivivus16. Son...

Out on a Limb: Selected Writing, 1989-2021

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Report copyright infringementby Andrew Sullivan (Author)Andrew Sullivan, "one of the most influential journalists of the last three decades" (The New York Times) and founding editor of The Daily Dish presents a collection of 60 his most iconic and powerful essays of social and political commentary from The New Republic, The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, New York magazine, and more. Over the course of his career, Andrew Sullivan has never shied away from staking out bold positions on ...

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Report copyright infringementby Franz Kafka (Author), Ross Benjamin (Translator)A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - An essential new translation of the author's complete, uncensored diaries--a revelation of the idiosyncrasies and rough edges of one of the twentieth century's most influential writers. "An invaluable addition to Kafka's oeuvre."--The New York Times An essential new translation of Franz Kafka's complete, uncensored diaries--a revelation of the idiosyncrasies and rough edges...

Dostoyevsky Reads Hegel in Siberia and Bursts Into Tears

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Report copyright infringementby Laszlo F. Foldenyi (Author), Ottilie Mulzet (Translator)An exemplary collection of work from one of the world's leading scholars of intellectual history "Földényi . . . stage[s] a broad metaphysical melodrama between opposites that he pursues throughout this fierce, provoking collection (expertly translated by Ottilie Mulzet). . . . He proves himself a brilliant interpreter of the dark underside of Enlightenment ambition."--James Wood, New Yorker László Földén...

The Lines That Make Us: Stories from Nathan's Bus

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Report copyright infringementby Nathan Vass (Author), Paul Constant (Foreword by)Nathan Vass has been driving a Seattle city bus at night for the last decade. He began writing a popular blog, The View from Nathan's Bus, about his encounters with the riders of the No. 7 bus, which cuts through the heart of the city's Rainier Valley, one of the most racially and ethnically diverse zip codes in the US. Nathan's blog entries grew into this book. His stories and photography illuminate an overlooke...

The Golden Age of the American Essay: 1945-1970

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Report copyright infringementby Phillip Lopate (Author)A one-of-a-kind anthology of American essays on a wide range of subjects by a dazzling array of mid-century writers at the top of their form--from Normal Mailer to James Baldwin to Joan Didion--selected by acclaimed essayist Phillip Lopate The three decades that followed World War II were an exceptionally fertile period for American essays. The explosion of journals and magazines, the rise of public intellectuals, and breakthroughs in the...

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Report copyright infringementby Isaac Fitzgerald (Author)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERUSA TODAY BESTSELLERWinner of the New England Book Award for Nonfiction"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 the Season * A Buzzfeed Book Pick * A Goodreads Readers' Most Ant...

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Report copyright infringementby Eric E. Poehler (Author)The Traffic Systems of Pompeii is the first sustained examination of the development of road infrastructure in Pompeii--from the archaic age to the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 CE--and its implications for urbanism in the Roman empire. Eric E. Poehler, an authority on Pompeii's uniquely preserved urban structure, distills over five hundred instances of street-level "wear and tear" to reveal for the first time the rules of the ancient r...

A Nation of Women: An Early Feminist Speaks Out

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Report copyright infringementby Luisa Capetillo (Author), Félix V. Matos Rodríguez (Editor), Félix V. Matos Rodríguez (Introduction by)The groundbreaking feminist and socialist writings of Puerto Rican author and activist Luisa Capetillo A Penguin Classic In 1915, Puerto Rican activist Luisa Capetillo was arrested and acquitted for being the first woman to wear men's trousers publicly. While this act of gender-nonconforming rebellion elevated her to feminist icon status in modern pop culture,...

The Dark Empty Cave: Short Fiction, Poetry, and Sermons

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Report copyright infringementby Helen Hardt (Editor), William C. Betcher (Author)One man's search for God...He stood near the exit of the dark empty cave, but he never walked through.Though this volume contains sermons, it's not a book about religion. It's about a journey one man never completed because he got in his own way. The message is timeless and particularly applicable today. Number of Pages: 278 Dimensions: 0.63 x 7.99 x 5.24 IN Publication Date...

Kjv, Sovereign Collection Bible, Personal Size, Leathersoft, Brown, 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...

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

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Report copyright infringementby Curt D. Meine (Editor), Keefe Keeley (Editor)Ancient glaciers passed by the Driftless Area and waterways vein its interior, forming an enchanting, enigmatic landscape of sharp ridgetops and deep valleys. Across time, this rugged topography has been home to an astonishing variety of people: Sauk, Dakota, and Ho-Chunk villagers, Norwegian farmers and Mexican mercado owners, Dominican nuns and Buddhist monks, river raftsmen and Shakespearean actors, Cornish miners...

Millay: Poems: Edited by Diana Secker Tesdell

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Report copyright infringementby Edna St Vincent Millay (Author), Diana Secker Tesdell (Editor)One of America's most beloved poets, Edna St. Vincent Millay burst onto the literary scene at a very young age and won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923. Her passionate lyrics and superbly crafted sonnets have thrilled generations of readers long after the notoriously bohemian lifestyle she led in Greenwich Village in the 1920s ceased to shock them. Millay's refreshing frankness and cynicism and ...

The Scandal of the Century: And Other Writings

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Report copyright infringementby Gabriel García Márquez (Author)Collected here for the first time: a selection of the great writer's journalism, which he considered more important to his legacy than his acclaimed novels. Late in his life, Gabriel García Márquez declared: "I don't want to be remembered for One Hundred Years of Solitude, nor for the Nobel Prize, but rather for the newspaper. I was born a journalist. . . . It's in my blood." Now available for the first time in English, this selec...

Coming Out Stories: Personal Experiences of Coming Out from Across the LGBTQ+ Spectrum

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Report copyright infringementby Emma Goswell (Editor), Sam Walker (Editor), Tim Sigsworth Mbe (Foreword by)'Uplifting and triumphant' JUNO DAWSON'This book is vital' RUSSELL T DAVIES'A brilliant resource' LADY PHYLL'A must-read for anyone grappling with coming out' RIYADH KHALAF'Inspirational' PETER TATCHELL "He told me being gay was nothing to be ashamed of." - Bill"I put my hands over my eyes as I told her, as I couldn't bear to see her reaction." - Olivia Based on the hugely popular Coming...

The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry

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Report copyright infringementby Wendell Berry (Author), Norman Wirzba (Editor)Gathering twenty essays that offer an agrarian alternative to our dominant urban culture, The Art of the Commonplace is Wendell Berry "speaking with calm and sanity out of the wilderness" (The Washington Post Book World) Grouped around five themes--an agrarian critique of culture, agrarian fundamentals, agrarian economics, agrarian religion, and geobiography--the essays collected here in The Art of the Commonplace p...

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Report copyright infringementby Gary Paul Nabhan (Editor)In this refreshing collection, one of our best writers on desert places, Gary Paul Nabhan, challenges traditional notions of the desert. Beautiful, reflective, and at times humorous, Nabhan's extended essay also called "The Nature of Desert Nature" reveals the complexity of what a desert is and can be. He passionately writes about what it is like to visit a desert and what living in a desert looks like when viewed through a new frame, t...

What Cartooning Really Is: The Major Interviews with Charles M. Schulz

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Report copyright infringementby Gary Groth (Author), Leonard Maltin (Author), Laurie Colwin (Author)Everybody knows the iconic characters of Peanuts, but few are privy to the character of the man who created this beloved cast and the world they inhabit--Charles M. Schulz. To illuminate the life story and rich inner life of the renowned cartoonist, Fantagraphics presents four of the most comprehen-sive interviews ever conducted with Schulz, by film critic Leonard Maltin, novelist Laurie Colwin...

Anakú Iwachá: Yakama Legends and Stories

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Report copyright infringementby Virginia R. Beavert (Editor), Michelle M. Jacob (Editor), Joana W. Jansen (Editor) An expanded collection of foundational Yakama storiesCentral to the Yakama oral tradition, storytelling enables Tribal Elders to share lessons, values, and customs with younger generations across the Columbia River plateau and the Pacific Northwest. Drawn from a time before the coming of human beings when animals were like people, the stories present characters and motifs that pa...

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Report copyright infringementby Eliot Weinberger (Author), Mary Wellesley (Notes by)Angels have soared through Western culture and consciousness from Biblical to contemporary times. But what do we really know about these celestial beings? Where do they come from, what are they made of, how do they communicate and perceive? The celebrated essayist Eliot Weinberger has mined and deconstructed, resurrected and distilled centuries of theology into an awe-inspiring exploration of the heavenly host...

Storm Beat: A Journalist Reports from the Oregon Coast

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Report copyright infringementby Lori Tobias (Author)Journalist Lori Tobias arrived on the Oregon coast in 2000. After freelancing from Newport for several years, she signed on with the Oregonian as a stringer covering the coast from Florence to Astoria; later she would be hired as a staff writer responsible for the entire coast--one person for more than three hundred miles. The job meant long hours, being called out for storms in the middle of the night in dangerous conditions, and driving hu...