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Report copyright infringementby Matthew Henry (Author)PRAYING GOD'S WRITTEN WORD 'Sitting at his feet with your door closed, your affection set on things above, pray to your Father who is in secret' In this modernized version of "A Method for Prayer," written by Matthew Henry in 1710, Steve Kindorf gives us an updated and readable spelling of the book, and includes all the cross references from the original. This book offers added devotional prayers and Bible study aids from the publisher/aut...

The Bright Side: The Book of Good Cheer - Hardcover

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Report copyright infringementby Charles Rufus Skinner (Author)Looking for a pick-me-up? Look no further than this delightful book of cheerful sayings and inspiring anecdotes. Skinner has collected some of the most uplifting and humorous stories from around the world and presents them in a charming and engaging style. Whether you are feeling down or simply need a boost of positivity, this book is sure to put a smile on your face and a spring in your step.This work has been selected by scholars...

Playboy, Mad Men, and Me-And Other Stories - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Julie Wosk (Author)In these wide-ranging stories, Julie Wosk captures the excitement of working as a promotion writer at Playboy in the days of Mad Men and the challenges of being a civil rights worker in Alabama soon after the march at Selma. Her stories conjure up America's fast-changing history, and are filled with vivid, contrasting images: a swinging party at Hugh Hefner's mansion, a sobering childhood visit to a cemetery, waiting in a church to hear Dr. M...

The Vintage Dog Scrapbook - The Clumber Spaniel - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Various (Author)The Dog Scrapbook: The Clumber Spaniel Edition is a collection of the best writings on the charming world of dogs and dog ownership, including everything from essays and anecdotes, to poems and literary excerpts. The book is illustrated throughout by a range of vintage photographs of the breed, drawn from our library of extremely scarce and sought-after breed books. The perfect gift for the canine-inclined. "With eye upraised his master's look t...

Grapefruit: A Book of Instructions and Drawings by Yoko Ono - Hardcover

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by Yoko Ono (Author), John Lennon (Introduction by)Back in print for the first time in nearly thirty years, here is Yoko Ono's whimsical, delightful, subversive, startling book of instructions for art and for life. "Burn this book after you've read it." -- Yoko "A dream you dream alone may be a dream, but a dream two people dream together is a reality." "This is the greatest book I've ever burned." -- John Number of Pages: 320 Dimensions: 1.2 x 5.6 x 5.5 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Da...

Love and Nature/Amor y Naturaleza - Hardcover

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by Abraham Garcia (Author)The book is a collection of poetry that was written either in nature or while observing nature. The book is inspired by strong feelings that may be elicited when we love someone or even how we feel when we are conscious of how we love ourselves. It is an inspiration of the beauty found in nature and also the thoughts, feelings, and emotions that are derived from being grounded in nature. The book includes some metaphors that explain how we experience feelings of love...

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Report copyright infringementby Edmund Wilson (Created by)A thought-provoking collection of literary and cultural essays by one of the most influential critics of the 20th century. Wilson's insights into the works of such writers as Hemingway, Faulkner, and Dickens, and his views on subjects ranging from art to politics, continue to captivate readers today.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.Thi...

The Trial And Death Of Socrates - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby F. J. Church (Created by)Experience the final days of Socrates, as he stands trial for corrupting the youth of Athens and impiety. Follow him through his trial, conviction, and ultimately, his execution. This classic text raises important questions about the nature of justice, knowledge, and the role of the philosopher in society.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know i...

Coming of Age Around the World: A Multicultural Anthology - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Faith Adiele (Editor), Mary Frosch (Editor)Following in the footsteps of the highly successful Coming of Age in America, this collection of twenty-four stories from around the world is a wonderful introduction to literature rarely available to American readers. Editors Faith Adiele and Mary Frosch magnificently chart the global quest for identity, and make a strong case for the personal and political importance of sharing our stories as they consider whether co...

Is There God After Prince?: Dispatches from an Age of Last Things - Paperback

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by Peter Coviello (Author)Essays considering what it means to love art, culture, and people in an age of accelerating disaster. This is a book about loving things--books, songs, people--in the shadow of a felt, looming disaster. Through lyrical, funny, heart-wrenching essays, Peter Coviello considers pieces of culture across a fantastic range, setting them inside the vivid scenes of friendship, dispute, romance, talk, and loss, where they enter our lives. Alongside him, we reencounter movies...

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by Kurt Vonnegut (Author)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "For all those who have lived with Vonnegut in their imaginations . . . this is what he is like in person."-USA Today In a volume that is penetrating, introspective, incisive, and laugh-out-loud funny, one of the great men of letters of this age-or any age-holds forth on life, art, sex, politics, and the state of America's soul. From his coming of age in America, to his formative war experiences, to his life as an artist, this is Vonnegut ...

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by Ernest Hemingway (Author)A Scribner Classics Edition The first and only collection of the Nobel Prize-winning author's writings on America's great passion--fishing--introduced and edited by Nick Lyons with a foreword by Jack Hemingway. From childhood on, Ernest Hemingway was a passionate fisherman. He fished the lakes and creeks near the family's summer home at Walloon Lake, Michigan, and his first stories and pieces of journalism were often about his favorite sport. Here, collected for t...

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Report copyright infringementby James Clarence Mangan (Author)This volume includes a selection of James Clarence Mangan's finest poetry, including his famous 'Dark Rosaleen'. The poems express a deep love of Ireland and its culture, as well as Mangan's struggle with poverty and addiction.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 p...

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Report copyright infringementby Devon Grasley (Author)Here I stand is a collection of poems that tell the story of failure, heartbreak and perseverance. Number of Pages: 26 Dimensions: 0.05 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: May 10, 2023

The Turkish Atrocities In Bulgaria: Letters Of The Special Commissioner Of The

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Report copyright infringementby Januarius Aloysius Macgahan (Author), Eugene Schuyler (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...

The Works of the Most Reverend Father in God, William Laud, D.D., Sometime Lord Archbishop of Canterbury: Sermons - Hardcover

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Report copyright infringementby William Laud (Author), William Scott (Author), James Bliss (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...

Runic and Heroic Poems of the old Teutonic Peoples - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Dickins Bruce (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 ...

Old Age, Its Cause and Prevention - Hardcover

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Report copyright infringementby Sanford Fillmore Bennett (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...

Walter Map: De Nugis Curialium; - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Walter Map (Author), M. R. 1862-1936 James (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,...

Literary Creations on the Road: Women's Travel Diaries in Early Modern Japan - Paperback

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by Keiko Shiba (Author), Motoko Ezaki (Commentaries by), Motoko Ezaki (Translator)In this book, originally published in Japanese, Shiba intersperses her narration with excerpts from the actual travel diaries and sheds new light on women's literary activities in early modern Japan, which are noticeably understudied compared to other genres of Japanese literary history. The translation includes notes for general English readers.Author BiographyKeiko Shiba is an historian and author specializing...

Our Osage Hills: Toward an Osage Ecology and Tribalography of the Early Twentieth Century - Paperback

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by Michael Snyder (Author), John Joseph Mathews (Author), Michael Snyder (Editor)Interweaving lost articles by the Osage author, naturalist, and historian, John Joseph Mathews with insightful commentaries and essays by his biographer, Michael Snyder, Our Osage Hills tells a fascinating story of the Whazhazhe people in the Great Depression period and beyond.Author BiographyMichael Snyder is assistant teaching professor in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Oklahoma. John Jos...

Teaching Nabokov's Lolita in the #MeToo Era - Hardcover

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by Elena Rakhimova-Sommers (Editor), Elena Sommers (Contribution by), Charles Byrd (Contribution by)Teaching Nabokov's Lolita in the #MeToo Era and Online seeks to answer: how do we balance analysis of Lolita's brilliant language and aesthetic complexity with due attention to its troubling content? Innovative assignments, creative-writing exercises, and new interpretations give readers an opportunity to engage with and reimagine the novel. Author BiographyEléna Rakhimova-Sommers is principal ...

An Anthology of Belizean Literature: English, Creole, Spanish, Garifuna - Paperback

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by Víctor Manuel Durán (Editor)This unique anthology utilizes the predominant themes of western literature to chronicle the prose and poetry of Belize. For this text, the editor has selected the original works of Belizean writers written in the four principle languages of the country: English, Creole, Spanish, and Garifuna. Via the many genres of Belizean literature, the work is able to recount in depth the history, struggles, colonial exploitation, and myths of the Belizeans as they strive f...

Mao Zedong as Poet and Revolutionary Leader: Social and Historical Perspectives - Hardcover

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by Chunhou Zhang (Author), Edwin C. Vaughan (Author)Mao Zedong was not only a great strategist and politician but also a poet, a philosopher, and calligrapher. As early as the 1940s Mao's poetry was earning critical and popular acclaim. Mao Zedong as Poet and Revolutionary Leader makes all of Mao's extant poems available here for the first time in English. This comprehensive collection offers a unique portrait of Mao's contribution to modern China and his later frustration as he witnessed the...

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by E. D. Blodgett (Author), Susan McCaslin (Editor), Sheila Martineau (Designed by)E.D. Blodgett's final volume of poems, Walking Into God, is the culmination of the poet's lifelong devotion to a poetry and poetics of the sacred. The poems in this volume present as a single long poem that explores the processes of walking, moving, changing, and evolving within a unified field.Author BiographyE.D. Blodgett (1935 - 2018), PhD, was a poet who published close to 30 books of poetry, for which he r...

Muse of Fire: Reflections on Theatre - Hardcover

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by Terrence McNally (Author), Raymond-Jean Frontain (Editor)Acclaimed playwright Terrence McNally's works are characterized by such diversity that critics have sometimes had difficulty identifying the pattern in his carpet. To redress this problem, in Muse of Fire, Raymond-Jean Frontain has collected McNally's most illuminating meditations on the need of the playwright to first change hearts in order to change minds and thereby foster a more compassionate community. When read together, these ...

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by Barrett Swanson (Author)Barrett Swanson embarks on a personal quest across the United States to uncover what it means to be an American amid the swirl of our post-truth climate in this collection of critically acclaimed essays and reportage. A trip with his brother to a New York psychic community becomes a rollicking tour through the world of American spiritualism. At a wilderness retreat in Ohio, men seek a cure for toxic masculinity, while in the hinterlands of Wisconsin, antiwar veteran...

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by Barbara Cantalupo (Editor)Complementing and extending a project begun by Lois Vines, this book includes essays on Poe's influence abroad from Japanese author, Edogawa Rampo, to Russian author, Nikolai Gogol, and takes a wider perspective on Poe's influence by including essays on Poe's impact on American authors from Harriet Jacobs to Joyce Carol Oates.Author BiographyBarbara Cantalupo is associate professor of English in the Department of English at The Pennsylvania State University and te...

Myths and Legends of All Nations - Paperback

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by Herbert Spencer Robinson (Author), Knox Wilson (Author)Myths and Legends of All Nations includes great stories of the Greeks, Romans, Orientals, Celts, Norse, Teutons, other Europeans, Polynesians, Africans, American Indians, and modern American folklore such as the fables about John Henry, Casey Jones, and Paul Bunyan.Author BiographyHerbert Spencer Robinson taught English at the College of the City of New York and Pace College. Knox Wilson was professor of English at Davis and Elkins Col...

Literature and the Conservative Ideal - Paperback

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by Mark Zunac (Editor), Mark Bauerlein (Contribution by), D. Marcel Decoste (Contribution by)Responding in part to the postmodernist turn in literary study, Literature and the Conservative Ideal examines the ways in which conservatism has been depicted in literature, as well as how its tendencies might restore literature's potential as an artistic reflection of the universal human condition.Author BiographyMark Zunac is associate professor in the Department of Languages and Literatures at the...

Becoming a Scholarly Journal Editor: Practical Advice for Editors and Tips for Authors - Hardcover

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by Wayne Journell (Author)Along with the infamous "Reviewer 2," journal editors are a leading cause of angst among scholars. When editors are bad at their jobs, careers are damaged, reputations of journals suffer, and the overall scholarship within a field is weakened. Yet, despite their importance to the practice of academia, most editors do not receive any formal training on the editing process. Even well-published authors face a steep learning curve when navigating all of the moving parts ...

Pearl of Great Price: A Literary Translation of the Middle English Pearl - Paperback

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by David Gould (Author)The Middle English poem Pearl is an elegy on the death of a child, written to provide consolation for the loss of a loved one through Christian theology. This translation is accompanied by a reproduction of the poem in its original orthography and instructions on reading the manuscript hand.Author BiographyDavid Gould has an A.B. in English and American literature from Brown University and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Connecticut. He is currently an associa...