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Books 21 - 30 of 30 by Umberto Eco
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Eco displays in these essays the same wit, learning, and lively intelligence that delighted readers of The Name of the Rose and Foucaults Pendulum. His range is wide, and his insights are acute, frequently ironic, and often downright funny. Translated by... (read more) Used - Trade Paper 
by Greil Marcus
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This is a secret history of modern times, told by way of what conventional history tries to exclude. Lipstick Traces tells a story as disruptive and compelling as the century itself. "Hip, metaphorical and allusive"...--Gail Caldwell, Boston Sunday Globe.... (read more) Used - Trade Paper
by Thomas Laqueur
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This is a book about the making and unmaking of sex over the centuries. It tells the astonishing story of sex in the West from the ancients to the moderns in a precise account of developments in reproductive anatomy and physiology. We cannot fail to... (read more) Used - Trade Paper
by Vincent B Leitch
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The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticismpresents a staggeringly varied collection of the most influential critical statements from the classical era to the present day. Edited by scholars and teachers whose interests range from the history of poetics... (read more) Used - Hardcover
by Karal Ann Marling
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artful everyday objects that stood for American life in the 1950s, as seen on TV.... (read more) Your Price $22.00 Used - Trade Paper
by Diane Purkiss
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The victims of tuberculosis (usually known as consumption) included not only Keats, The Bront's, Chopin and Chekhov, but members of almost every family. It was a killer on a huge scale. The White Death is an outstanding history of tuberculosis. Thomas... (read more) New - Trade Paper
by Ric Davenport Hines
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Beginning with the eruption of Vesuvius in 1631, an event so powerful it created a new landscape and inspired the desolate and savage paintings of Salvator Rosa, Richard Davenport-Hines traces the evolution of the gothic imagination. This revelatory... (read more) Used - Trade Paper
by Terry Castle
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The work of leading scholar Terry Castle, called by the New York Times "always engaging...consistently fascinating," has helped to revolutionize eighteenth-century studies. The Female Thermometer brings together Castle's essays on the phantasmagoric side... (read more) Your Price $45.50 Used - Trade Paper
by Alice Domurat Dreger
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Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex takes us inside the doctors' chambers to see how and why medical and scientific men construed sex, gender, and sexuality as they did, and especially how the material conformation of hermaphroditic bodies... (read more) New - Trade Paper
by Angela Bourke
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In 1895, Bridget Cleary, a strong-minded and independent young woman, disappeared from her house in rural Tipperary. At first her family claimed she had been taken by fairies-but then her badly burned body was found in a shallow grave. Bridget's husband,... (read more) Used - Trade Paper
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