Robert Burns and Transatlantic Culture

(Hardback)

Examines Robert Burns' reception and representation in the Americas. This title explores: transatlantic concerns in Burns' own work, Burns' early publication in North America, Burns' reception in the Americas, Burns' creation as a site of cultural memory, and extra-literary remediations of Burns, including contemporary digital representations.

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Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe

By Jane Wagner(Paperback / softback)

Kid Confidential: An Insider's Guide to Grown-Ups

(Hardback)

Let's face it: Being a kid isn't easy. Compared to adults, kids are inexperienced, powerless, and short. Just as it would be irresponsible to send travelers to a strange city without a map, it would be wrong to let defenseless kids navigate a world inhabited by parents, teachers, and other adults without an in-depth guide to how the older (although....

Kid Confidential: An Insider's Guide to Grown-Ups

(Paperback / softback)

Let's face it: Being a kid isn't easy. Compared to adults, kids are inexperienced, powerless, and short. Just as it would be irresponsible to send travelers to a strange city without a map, it would be wrong to let defenseless kids navigate a world inhabited by parents, teachers, and other adults without an in-depth guide to how the older (although....

Swan: Poems and Prose Poems

By Mary Oliver(Paperback / softback)

Widely regarded as the "rock star" of American poetry, Mary Oliver is a writer whose words have long had the power to move countless readers. Regularly topping the national poetry best-seller list and drawing thousands to her sold-out readings across the coutnry, Oliver is unparalleled in her impact. As noted in the "Los Angeles Times," so many "go to her....

Rust Fish: Poems

(Paperback / softback)

"Maya Zeller's American Northwest is a land of verdant sensuality, insistent yet fragile and intimate as it was in the eyes of Roethke, storied in mossy and weathered details, human ruin and hard won grace as it was in the heart of Kesey. With extraordinary veracity and empathy she inhabits the body and emerging consciousness of a girl and young....

Recesses of the Mind: On Aesthetics in Gubergur Bergsson's Work

By Birna Bjarnadottir(Hardback)

A detailed discussion of the aesthetics of Icelandic novelist and poet Guethbergur Bergsson

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Mountains of Light: Seasons of Reflection in Yosemite

(Paperback / softback)

The environment may surround us, but when that environment is a natural wonder like Yosemite National Park, it also reaches what's inside us. For Mark Liebenow, Yosemite did just that, and did so when he needed it most. In "Mountains of Light," winner of the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize, Liebenow takes us deep into the heart of this wilderness,....

Black Wings of Cthulhu: Tales of Lovecraftian Horror

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From the depths of R'lyeh come twenty-one brand-new, utterly terrifying, and thoroughly entertaining short stories of horror and the macabre! Taking their inspiration from works by Lovecraft himself, prominent writers such as Caitlin R. Kiernan, Brian Stableford, Ramsey Campbell, Michael Shea, Darrell Schweitzer, Donald R. Burleson, and David J. Schow delve deep into the psyche, expanding on concepts H.P. Lovecraft....

Saussure

By John E Joseph(Hardback)

In the first comprehensive biography of Ferdinand de Saussure, John E. Joseph restores the full character and history of a man who is considered the founder of modern linguistics and whose ideas have influenced literary theory, philosophy, cultural studies, and virtually every other branch of humanities and the social sciences.

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When I Was a Child I Read Books

By Marilynne Robinson(Hardback)

* From the author of the magnificent, award-winning novels GILEAD and HOME comes this, a collection of wonderful, heart-warming essays about reading

Holding Company: Poems

By Major Jackson(Paperback)

"A devastatingly beautiful collection of strange and wonderful poems." Poetry Daily

Teamwork Means You Can't Pick the Side That's Right

By Scott Adams(Paperback / softback)

He's the icon of millions of corporate workers, the most popular cubicle dweller on this planet. He spends his days in endless meetings with incompetent supervisors, performing perfunctory tasks mixed with the occasional team-building, brainstorming, or management fad-of-the-day session. He has entertained us for more than two decades: He's Dilbert.Created in 1989 by Adams, in his own cubicle as a....

The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Kolonos, and Antigone

By Sophocles & Robert Bagg (Translator)(Paperback / softback)

Horoscopes for the Dead: Poems

By Billy Collins(Paperback / softback)

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Billy Collins is widely acknowledged as a prominent player at the table of modern American poetry. And in this smart, lyrical, and mischievous collection of poetry, which covers the everlasting themes of love and loss, youth and aging, solitude and union, Collins's verbal gifts are on full display.....

Take Two!: A Celebration of Twins

By J Patrick Lewis & Jane Yolen(Hardback)

Know some twins, or expecting to? This twinspired collection pairs poems and pictures in a lighthearted salute to the many twins among us.

New Shoes on a Dead Horse

By SIERRA DEMULDER(Paperback / softback)

The Romans believed that an artist's inspiration came from a spirit, called a genius, that lived in the walls of the artist's home. In her second book, Sierra DeMulder examines her childhood in a small town, heartache, loss, and the possibility of transcending suffering, aided by the voice of her own genius. His character appears throughout the book, providing charming....

Western Literature in China and the Translation of a Nation

By Shouhua Qi(Hardback)

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John Thelwall in the Wordsworth Cir: The Silenced Partner

By Judith Thompson(Hardback)

"In this book, Judith Thompson restores a powerful but long-suppressed voice to our understanding of British Romanticism. Drawing on newly discovered archives, this book offers the first full-length study of the poetry of John Thelwall as well as his partnership with Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth"--

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Constructing Crime: Discourse and Cultural Representations of Crime and 'Deviance'

(Hardback)

Crime and criminals are a pervasive theme in all areas of our culture, including media, journalism, film and literature. This book explores how crime is constructed and culturally represented through a range of areas including Spanish, English Language and Literature, Music, Criminology, Gender, Law, Cultural and Criminal Justice Studies.

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