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Waiting for Foucault, Still
by Marshall David Sahlins  Publisher Comments First devised as after-dinner entertainment at a decennial meeting of the Association of Social Anthropologists in Great Britain, and first published by Prickly Pear Press in 1993, this expanded edition of Waiting for Foucault represents some of the...
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Ou Es-tu?
by Marc Levy Publisher Comments Mit dem Optimismus ihrer Jugend glauben Heranwachsende noch fest an den Schwur der ewigen Liebe. Und auch Philip hat Susan versprochen, immer für sie da zu sein. Er konnte nicht ahnen, dass dieses Versprechen sein Leben zutiefst umstürzen...
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The Little Guide to Your Well-Read Life
by Steve Leveen Publisher Comments Do not set out to live a well-read life but rather your well-read life. No one can be well-read using someone else's reading list. Unless a book is good for you, you won't connect with it and gain from it. Just as no one can tell you how to lead your...
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Visionary Company: A Reading of English Romantic Poetry
by Harold Bloom 
Publisher Comments This is a revised and enlarged edition of the most extensive and detailed critical reading of English Romantic poetry ever attempted in a single volume....
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City of God (Modern Library Classics)
by Saint Augustine Of Hippo Publisher Comments One of the great cornerstones in the history of Christian philosophy, The City of God provides an insightful interpretation of the development of modern Western society and the origin of most Western thought. Contrasting earthly and heavenly cities...
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A Coherent Splendor: The American Poetic Renaissance, 1910-1950
by Albert Gelpi Synopsis In this book Professor Gelpi traces the emergence of American Modernist poetry as a reaction to, and outgrowth of, the Romantic ideology of the nineteenth century. He focuses on the remarkable generation of poets who came to maturity in the years of the...
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The House by the Sea
by May Sarton Publisher Comments In 1973, May Sarton moved to a house on the seacoast of Maine. It was a place that was alone in all but a few months in the summer, with the sea and the woods, and a wide sky ever present. She discovered that what she has to give does not depend on...
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On Native Grounds : an Interpretation of Modern American Prose Literature ((3RD)95 Edition)
by Alfred Kazin Publisher Comments On its debut, this brilliant, innovative, and influential study established Alfred Kazin's reputation as a leading literary critic. Now, in its fiftieth year of publication, Kazin's work is as relevant as on the day it was first written, a classic that...
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Merchant of Venice: Notes (Cliffs Notes) - Study Notes - Study Notes
by Waldo F. Mcneir Publisher Comments The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. In "CliffsNotes on The Merchant of Venice, you follow along as a young merchant cannot repay his debt to a...
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Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men ((2ND)95 Edition)
by Eric Foner Publisher Comments Since its publication twenty-five years ago, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men has been recognized as a classic, an indispensable contribution to our understanding of the causes of the American Civil War. A key work in establishing political ideology as a...
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Looking for God in Harry Potter (06 Edition)
by Granger Publisher Comments John Granger, a Christian, a teacher of classic literature, and a father of seven children, explores the surprising reasons J. K. Rowling's books are so popular and examines what the author believes are strong Christian themes throughout the Harry Potter...
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The River Why
by David James Duncan Publisher Comments Since its publication by Sierra Club Books more than two decades ago, The River Why has become a classic, standing with Norman Maclean’s A River Runs Through It as our era’s most widely read fiction about fly-fishing. This captivating and...
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The Modern Element: Essays on Contemporary Poetry
by Adam Kirsch Publisher Comments A collection of bold, insightful, and controversial essays by "a poetry critic of the very first order" (New York Times). Over the last ten years, through essays in The New Republic, The New Yorker, and other magazines, Adam Kirsch—"one of the most...
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The Prison-House of Language: A Critical Account of Structuralism and Russian Formalism (Princeton Essays in Literature)
by Frederic Jameson Review A densely but lucidly written critique of modern linguistic theory and its application in and implications for formalism and structuralism. . . . ought to be purchased by every library and read by everyone interested in modern thought....
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Conned Again, Watson! Cautionary Tales of Logic, Math, and Probability
by Colin Bruce Publisher Comments In Conned Again, Watson!, Colin Bruce re-creates the atmosphere of the original Sherlock Holmes stories to shed light on an enduring truth: Our reliance on common sense -- and ignorance of mathematics -- often gets us into trouble. In these cautionary...
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Jane Austen for Dummies (For Dummies)
by Joan Elizabeth Klingel, Ph.d. Ray Publisher Comments Jane Austen (1775-1817) is among the most beloved authors in the English language. Her six novels have been made and remade into films (a new version of Pride and Prejudice, starring Keira Knightly, was just released). Her work inspired the surprise 2004...
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Pleasure of the Text (75 Edition)
by Roland Barthes Publisher Comments What is it that we do when we enjoy a text? What is the pleasure of reading? The French critic and theorist Roland Barthes's answers to these questions constitute "perhaps for the first time in the history of criticism . . . not only a poetics of reading...
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De Vere As Shakespeare
by William Farina Publisher Comments The question may be met with chagrin by traditionalists, but the identity of the Bard is not definitely decided. During the 20th century, Edward de Vere, the most flamboyant of the courtier poets, a man of the theater and literary patron, became the...
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A Theory of Parody: The Teachings of Twentieth-Century Art Forms
by Linda Hutcheon Publisher Comments In this major study of a flexible and multifaceted mode of expression, Linda Hutcheon looks at works of modern literature, visual art, music, film, theater, and architecture to arrive at a comprehensive assessment of what parody is and what it does.<P&...
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On Leadership
by James G. March Publisher Comments In this series of lectures, previously unpublished in English, and here translated from a French reconstruction and interpretation by noted scholar Thierry Weil, leading organizational scholar James March uses great works of literature to explore the...
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