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LEGARE STREET PR El Príncipe De Maquiavelo
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LEGARE STREET PR The Ghostdance Religion And The Sioux Outbreak Of 1890
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St Martin's Press Screams from the Dark
Book SynopsisA bone-chilling anthology from legendary horror editor, Ellen Datlow, Screams from the Dark contains twenty-nine all-original tales about monsters.WINNER of the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in an Anthology!A Shirley Jackson and Locus Award Finalist! A World Fantasy Award Nominee! From werewolves and vampires, to demons and aliens, the monster is one of the most recognizable figures in horror. But what makes something, or someone, monstrous?Award-winning and up-and-coming authors like Richard Kadrey, Cassandra Khaw, Indrapramit Das, Priya Sharma, and more attempt to answer this question. These all-new stories range from traditional to modern, from mainstream to literary, from familiar monsters to the unknown and unimaginable.This chilling collection has something to pleaseand terrifyeveryone, so lock your doors, hide under your covers, and try not to scream.Contributors include: Ian Rogers, Fran Wi
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Legare Street Press Oriental Literature the Dabistán or School of Manners the Religious Beliefs Observances Philosophic Opinions and Social Customs of the Nations of the East tr. From the Original Persian by David Shea and Anthony Troyer... With a Special Intr
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Legare Street Press The European Slave Trade in English Girls
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LEGARE STREET PR The Mystic Tie
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LEGARE STREET PR The Burgess Nonsense Book Being a Complete Collection of the Humorous Masterpieces of Gelett Burgess ..
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LEGARE STREET PR Crossriggs
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LEGARE STREET PR Flowers From Persian Gardens
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LEGARE STREET PR A Life of Robert Cecil First Earl of Salisbur
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LEGARE STREET PR La Vida Y La Obra De Pedro De Mena Y Medrano
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LEGARE STREET PR The Incarnation of the Son of God
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LEGARE STREET PR The Science of Psychic Healing.
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LEGARE STREET PR Beside the Fire
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LEGARE STREET PR Selected Poems Of Robert Browning
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LEGARE STREET PR De Lallemagne...
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LEGARE STREET PR A Handbook of Figure Skating Arranged for Use on the Ice With Over Six Hundred Diagrams and Illustrations
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LEGARE STREET PR Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan
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LEGARE STREET PR Ann Radcliffe in Relation to her Time
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The History Press Ltd A Wartime Christmas
Book SynopsisFor those who lived through wartime Christmases, the celebrations during those years had an especially poignant flavour. This unique anthology recreates those times of heartache and brief moments of pleasurable escape and happiness.Share with wartime veterans and their families memories of Christmas under fire; read about the gift of a pig for POWs’ dinner from the Japanese emperor and how Glenn Miller’s disappearance almost ruined the AEF Christmas show; enjoy ENSA veterans’ anecdotes of Christmas concerts in the most awkward situations.From Christmas on the Russian Front, on board ship in heaving seas and a soldier’s experiences in Egypt, ‘It ain’t arf hot’ pantomimes and the Archbishop of York’s Christmas message in 1940, to an account of life in the Warsaw ghetto, here is a collection of what made Christmas special during the years of the Second World War. Illustrated throughout, A Wartime Christmas showcases the hope, warmth and colour that the occasion inspired during those bleak times.
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HarperCollins India The Book of Dog
Book SynopsisThis book is a must-read for everyone who cherishes dogs and the perfect gift for a dog-lover friend. It will engross and delight readers of all ages as they go through one memorable story after another.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc How We Do It
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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc Black Protagonists of Early Modern Spain: Three
Book SynopsisRemarkable products of a nation deeply implicated in the Atlantic slave trade, the seventeenth-century Spanish plays Juan Latino, The Brave Black Soldier, and Virtues Overcome Appearances appear together in English for the first time in this volume. The three protagonists not only defy the period’s color-based prejudices but smash through its ultimate social barrier: marriage into the white nobility. Michael Kidd’s fluid translations and extensive critical introduction, bibliography, and glossary are enhanced by Hackett’s title support webpage. Black Protagonists of Early Modern Spain is essential reading for students of theater history, Spanish literature, and the African diaspora.Trade Review"Kidd’s book on Black protagonists in early 17th century Spain is a remarkable introduction to a little-known world of drama that explores the racial realities of a society of Christians, Muslims, and Africans. His three specimen plays include the slave Juan Latino, a Black scholar, whose learning earns him a noble white wife and a university chair. Juan de Merida is The Brave Black Soldier who captures Prince William of Orange, thus ending the war in Flanders. He is a free man and wins his woman. Filipo, the accidental prince of Virtues Overcome Appearances, is an aberration, the result of coitus during which his father, Lisandro, imagines the Ethiopian Queen Saba. Filipo, the Black prince, is immured until he frees himself and proves his worth by his virtue. The play ends with his becoming the king and acting like an absolute monarch. Kidd’s scholarly commentary is illuminating and his analyses are a great aid in understanding the complexities of the racial content of the plays. I found this an extraordinary eye-opening read that will be exciting to use in a classroom." —Lee A. Jacobus, Professor Emeritus of English, University of Connecticut
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LEGARE STREET PR Haida Texts and Myths
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LEGARE STREET PR Book Collecting
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LEGARE STREET PR The Skaters Companion. A Comprehensive Instruction Book Full Of Useful Hints For Roller Skating
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LEGARE STREET PR The Poems of Max Ehrmann
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LEGARE STREET PR Poezii Populare Ale Romanilor
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Legare Street Press Deutschland ein Wintermärchen
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LEGARE STREET PR The Brassbounder
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LEGARE STREET PR Eight or Nine Wise Words About Letterwriting
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Dixie W Publishing Corporation 24 Stories of Filial Piety in Ancient China
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Legare Street Press Geschichte des Landes Anhalt und Seiner Fürsten.
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Legare Street Press Geschichte der Stadt und Herrschaft Schmalkalden nebst einer kurzen Uebersicht der Geschichte der ehemaligen gefürsteten Grafschaft Henneberg.
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New York University Press The Doctors Dinner Party
Book SynopsisA witty satire of the medical professionThe Doctors' Dinner Party is an eleventh-century satire in the form of a novella, set in a medical milieu. A young doctor from out of town is invited to dinner with a group of older medical men, whose conversation reveals their incompetence. Written by the accomplished physician Ibn Bu?lan, the work satirizes the hypocrisy of quack doctors while displaying Ibn Bu?lan's own deep technical knowledge of medical practice, including surgery, blood-letting, and medicines. He also makes reference to the great thinkers and physicians of the ancient world, including Hippocrates, Galen, and Socrates.Combining literary parody with social satire, the book is richly textured and carefully organized: in addition to the use of the question-and-answer format associated with technical literature, it is replete with verse and subtexts that hint at the infatuation of the elderly practitioners with their young guest. The Doctors' DinnTrade Review"[Doctors’ Dinner Party] will undoubtedly fill out what otherwise might have been a severely incomplete picture of Abbasid society." * Ahram Online *
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LEGARE STREET PR Relation Historique Des Affaires De Syrie Depuis 1840 Jusquen 1842
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LEGARE STREET PR Legends of Our Lady Mary the Perpetual Virgin and Her Mother Hannâ
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LEGARE STREET PR The Osage Tribe
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Legare Street Press Altdeutsches Liederbuch
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LEGARE STREET PR Relaxation Methods for Pure and Mixed Integer Programming Problems
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Writers and Their Teachers
Book SynopsisBy turns reflective, entertaining and moving, this book reveals how some of the most influential and best loved writers of our time were shaped by their inspirational teachers. Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee, Margaret Drabble, Stephen Greenblatt, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Andrew Motion, Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina and Paul Theroux are among the twenty contributors of original essays to this landmark volume celebrating masters of the teaching profession.What makes a good teacher? What lights the writer's creative fire? How can the teacher shape the writer? This book answers these questions and more, describing the powerful influence of mentors at an impressionable time of life, portraying the heart-warming transition from pupil to friend, and exploring the lasting impact that truly great teachers can have on their students.To have teachers who care, and to have such notable writers capture their spirit, is ample reason to read Dale Salwak''s elegant celebration of the noble profession' and Trade ReviewAll the essays deserve high praise. Seldom does one encounter such a wealth of good prose within the covers of a single volume. The book is itself inspirational, teaching much about writing and teaching, thinking and living. -- Éilís Ní Dhuibhne * The Irish Times *The best are excellent, memorializing through striking detail teachers – some exceptionally charismatic – who understood their pupils as well as they did the importance of all they were passing on to them. -- Catharine Morris * Times Literary Supplement *I found myself pleasurably immersed in the recollections of a network of individuals for whom writing became not only the centre of their universe but a necessary condition for living. ... [A] delightfully entertaining collection. * Bennett Arnold Society Newsletter *Celebrates how some of the leading writers of our time have been shaped by inspirational teachers. * Choice *Dale Salwak has created a collection that should be required reading for all prospective teachers. Elegant praise for their teachers comes from Jay Parini, Margaret Drabble, Dana Gioia, and many others. -- Linda Wagner-Martin, Hanes Professor, University of North Carolina, USAThere is no model, no formula. Chance encounters, dusty school teachers, maverick professors, illiterate grandfathers. Twenty authors ruminate on the relationships that lit the first steps of their careers. Nothing could be more fascinating. -- Tim Parks, author of 'Where I'm Reading From, the Changing World of Books'Writers and their Teachers offers a thought-provoking read to anyone interested in understanding the myriad ways a young writer's wish to write can be massaged from dormancy, their capacities strengthened, by encountering the "right" teacher in their youth. The best among the 20 essays describe the enhanced mastery of writing made possible when two people pay careful attention to each other. -- Janna Malamud Smith, author of 'An Absorbing Errand: How Artists and Craftsmen Make Their Way to Mastery'The gifts are different — legitimacy, confidence, the value of hard work, skepticism, provocation — but the gratitude is the same. A collection of moving tributes to the often mysterious figures who have, firmly, gently, and at times unconsciously made literature seem possible. -- Stacy Schiff, author of 'The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams'Table of ContentsPreface Notes on Contributors Part I School 1 Teachers We Remember: Gerrit Gouws J. M. Coetzee 2 Mabel Morrill Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina 3 Learning Curve Catherine Aird 4 A Way with Words Michael Scammell 5 Peter Way Andrew Motion 6 My Grandfather and My Other Teachers Ngugi wa Thiong’o 7 Il Miglior Fabbro George Howe Colt Part II College 8 The Perilous Balance of Marvin Eisenberg Jeffrey Meyers 9 W. Edward Brown: Many Years of Mentoring Jay Parini 10 David Milch and the Strategies of Indirection in Fiction William Logan Part III Graduate School and After 11 My Doktorvater Stephen Greenblatt 12 A Far Cry from Oxbridge Margaret Drabble 13 The Right Words Carl Rollyson 14 Remembering Allen Mandelbaum Paul Mariani 15 Sketch of a Professor: Roger Gilliatt Michael J. Aminoff 16 How Lucky I Was . . . Ann Thwaite 17 J. P. Stern: The Professor from Prague Daniel Johnson 18 George Steiner: Enchantment and Dissent Robert Boyers 19 Class Struggle: Donald Davie at Stanford Dana Gioia 20 V. S. Naipaul, the Drill Sergeant Paul Theroux
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Legare Street Press The Middle English Penitential Lyric
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Book Tree Witchcraft Today
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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc Lucian: Three Menippean Fantasies
Book SynopsisA handful of fragments is all that remains of the writings of Menippus, the third-century BCE provocateur of the Greek Cynic movement. The Western literary tradition knows him through Lucian, the Greek satirist who lived and worked four hundred years later. Included in this book are Joel Relihan’s lively English translations of Lucian’s three reanimations of Menippus—fantastic narratives and comic dialogues set in heaven and hell: Menippus; or, The Consultation of the Corpses Icaromenippus; or, A Man above the Clouds The Colloquies of the Corpses (Dialogues of the Dead) For the first time in over fifty years, these works are assembled in a unified format to tell a particular story: Lucian’s evolving understanding of the philosophical and literary potential of the person, productions, and purposes of Menippus. Not only is it time to give Lucian’s Menippus a fresh look and a thorough reevaluation, but also to consider how Lucian’s imitations and innovations adumbrate, illuminate, and complicate the history of that enigmatic genre, Menippean satire.Trade Review“Professor Relihan’s translations of Lucian’s Menippus works are the best I know of in English. The notes, Introduction, and Afterword are models of concision and clarity. This volume will be enormously useful to anyone interested in Lucian, Menippus, or ‘Menippean satire’.” —R. Bracht Branham, Emory University
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Fremantle Press Try Not to Think of a Pink Elephant: Stories
Book SynopsisTry Not to Think of a Pink Elephantis a collection of real-life stories about living with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Contributors are Martin Ingle on OCD and sexual intimacy; Dani Leever on contamination-based OCD; Patrick Marlborough on living with OCD in NYC; Katharine Pollock on over-achievement and control of food and body; and Sienna Rose Scully on the untimely death of her mother, an event that actualised her most persistent OCD obsession.
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Argyll Productions Jackalope Wives and Other Stories
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Picador USA Journal 18871910
Book SynopsisA wry, observant masterpieceone of the singular treasures of the French fin de siècleWritten between the age of twenty-three and his death at age forty-six, Jules Renard's Journal 18871910 is a triumph of introspection and wit. One of the most celebrated figures of Belle Époque Paris, Renard was also a prolific diarist whose private musings were first published in five volumes some fifteen years after his death. Acclaimed by everyone from Somerset Maugham to Samuel Beckett to Susan Sontag, the Journal has had a decisive influence on contemporary letters and was named one of the 100 Books of the Century by Le Monde. It is also a singularly funny work, full of aphorisms, jokes, and sly observations on some of literature's most indelible characters.These selections, brought together by Julian Barnes and translated by Theo Cuffe, offer unparalleled and unfailingly entertaining glimpses of a bygone world. Moving from modish Parisian salons to t
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