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Arabian Nightsby Husain Haddawy, Muhsin Mahdi, Mahdi MushinISBN 0679413383 (0-679-41338-3)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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These stories (and stories within stories, and stories within stories within stories), told by the Princess Shahrazad under the threat of death if she ceases to amuse, first reached the West around 1700. They fired in the European imagination an appetite for the mysterious and exotic which has never left it. Collected over centuries from India, Persia, and Arabia, and ranging from vivacious erotica, animal fables, and adventure fantasies to pointed Sufi tales, the stories of The Arabian Nights provided the daily entertainment of the medieval Islamic world at the height of its glory.
The present new translation by Husain Haddawy is of the Mahdi edition, the definitive Arabic edition of a fourteenth-century Syrian manuscript in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, which is the oldest surviving version of the tales and is considered to be the most authentic. This early version is without the embellishments and additions that appear in later Indian and Egyptian manuscripts, on which all previous English translations were based. [via]More editions of Arabian Nights:
Arco Office Guide to Business Letters, Memos and Reportsby Leonard Rogoff, Grady BallengerISBN 0671896644 (0-671-89664-4)
Softcover, Petersons
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Back Talk: Teaching Lost Selves to Speakby Joan WeimerISBN 0679415467 (0-679-41546-7)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Better Business Writing : A Process Approachby Ken DavisISBN 0675200156 (0-675-20015-6)
Softcover, Maxwell Macmillan Canada, Incorporated
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Beyond the Great Story: History As Text and Discourseby Robert BerkhofferISBN 0674069080 (0-674-06908-0)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beyond the Great Story: History As Text and Discourse'Book summary:What legitimate form can history take when faced by the severe challenges issued in recent years by literary, rhetorical, multiculturalist, and feminist theories? That is the question considered in this long-awaited and pathbreaking book. Robert F. Berkhofer, Jr., addresses the essential practical concern of contemporary historians; he offers a way actually to go about reading and writing histories in light of the many contesting theories.
Berkhofer ranges through a vast archive of recent writings by a broad range of authors. He explicates the opposing paradigms and their corresponding dilemmas by presenting in dialogue form the positions of modernists and postmodernists, formalists and deconstructionists, textualists and contextualists. Poststructuralism, the New Historicism, the New Anthropology, the New Philosophy of History--these and many other approaches are illuminated in new ways in these comprehensive, interdisciplinary explorations.
From them, Berkhofer arrives at a clear vision of the forms historical discourse might take, advocates a new approach to historical criticism, and proposes new forms of historical representation that encompass multiculturalism, poetics, and reflexive (con)textualization. He elegantly blends traditional and new methodology; assesses what the "revival of the narrative" actually entails; considers the politics of disciplinary frameworks; and derives coherent new approaches to writing, teaching, reviewing, and reading histories.
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The Brief English Handbookby Charles W. Dawe, Edward A. DornanISBN 0673520021 (0-673-52002-1)
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Business Communicationby William V. Ruch, Maurice L. CrawfordISBN 0675213142 (0-675-21314-2)
Hardcover, Prentice Hall
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Cases for Compositionby John P. Field, Robert H. WeissISBN 0673392597 (0-673-39259-7)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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Ciceroby CiceroISBN 0674994442 (0-674-99444-2)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cicero'Book summary:Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 10643 BCE), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era which saw the rise, dictatorship, and death of Julius Caesar in a tottering republic. In his political speeches especially and in his correspondence we see the excitement, tension and intrigue of politics and the part he played in the turmoil of the time. Of about 106 speeches, delivered before the Roman people or the Senate if they were political, before jurors if judicial, 58 survive (a few of them incompletely). In the fourteenth century Petrarch and other Italian humanists discovered manuscripts containing more than 900 letters of which more than 800 were written by Cicero and nearly 100 by others to him. These afford a revelation of the man all the more striking because most were not written for publication. Six rhetorical works survive and another in fragments. Philosophical works include seven extant major compositions and a number of others; and some lost. There is also poetry, some original, some as translations from the Greek.
The Loeb Classical Library edition of Cicero is in twenty-nine volumes.
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Cicero: De Oratore, Book Three, Loeb 349by H. RackhamISBN 0674993845 (0-674-99384-5)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Cicero: De Oratore, Books I-IIby H. RackhamISBN 0674993837 (0-674-99383-7)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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A Civil Tongueby Edwin NewmanISBN 0672522675 (0-672-52267-5)
Hardcover, Bobbs-Merrill Co
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Classrooms That Work: They Can All Read and Writeby Richard L. Allington, Patricia Marr CunninghamISBN 0673469611 (0-673-46961-1)
Softcover, Pearson P T R
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Contemporary Writing: Process & Practiceby Jim W. CorderISBN 067315100X (0-673-15100-X)
Hardcover, Scott, Foresman
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Content Area Reading: Literacy and Learning Across the Curriculumby Richard T. Vacca, Jo Anne L. VaccaISBN 0673522156 (0-673-52215-6)
Hardcover, Addison-Wesley
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Content Connection: How to Integrate Thinking and Writing in the Content Areas, Grades 4-8by Hilarie N. StatonISBN 0673460835 (0-673-46083-5)
Softcover, ScottForesman
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The Conversations : Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Filmby Michael OndaatjeISBN 0676974740 (0-676-97474-0)
Softcover, Knopf Canada
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The Creative Writing Handbookby Jay Amberg, Mark LarsonISBN 067336013X (0-673-36013-X)
Softcover, Good Year Books
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Darkness Visibleby William StyronISBN 0679404023 (0-679-40402-3)
Hardcover, Random House Large Print
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Daughters Of The Union: Northern Women Fight The Civil Warby Nina SilberISBN 0674016777 (0-674-01677-7)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Decker's Patterns of Exposition 13by Robert A. Schwegler, Randall E. DeckerISBN 0673521184 (0-673-52118-4)
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Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earlist Times to the Sixth Century A.D.by Iravatham Mahadevan, Michael WitzelISBN 0674012275 (0-674-01227-5)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Eleanor Rigbyby Douglas CouplandISBN 0679313370 (0-679-31337-0)
Hardcover, Random House of Canada Ltd
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Emily Dickinson: A Poet's Grammarby Cristanne MillerISBN 0674250362 (0-674-25036-2)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Exploring Language: Review Copyby Gary GoshgarianISBN 0673523497 (0-673-52349-7)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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For Argument's Sake: A Guide to Writing Effective Argumentsby Katherine J. MayberryISBN 0673398269 (0-673-39826-9)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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The Girls: A Novelby Lori LansensISBN 0676977960 (0-676-97796-0)
Softcover, Random House of Canada Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Girls: A Novel'Book summary:In 29 years, Rose Darlen has never spent a moment apart from her twin sister, Ruby. She has never gone for a solitary walk or had a private conversation. Yet, in all that time, she has never once looked into Ruby's eyes. Joined at the head, "The Girls" (as they are known in their small Ontario town) are the world's oldest surviving craniopagus twins. In her astonishing second novel, Lori Lansens (author of Rush Home Road) ventures into the strange world of physical abnormality that Barbara Gowdy so chillingly explored in We So Seldom Look on Love. While some writers might be tempted to play up the grotesque aspects of life as a conjoined twin, Lansens treats her so-called freaks with sensitivity and respect. The result is an extraordinarily moving narrative about human connectedness that questions the very meaning of "normal."
The Girls is a fictional autobiography of the Darlen twins, mostly told by Rose but with occasional chapters by Ruby. The stronger and more frustrated of the two, Rose longs to become a published writer but tends to conceal or distort disturbing incidents from their shared past. Ruby, by contrast, tells it like it is, but is much more accepting of their intertwined fate. (Ruby is also the prettier twin, and one of the most poignant and shocking scenes in the novel is Rose's account of her--or rather their--first sexual experience.) As Rose and Ruby describe their relatively sheltered childhood, rocky adolescence, and tentative experiments with love, the interplay between these two distinct voices heightens the dramatic tension of what's to come. The saddest part is saying good-bye--to "The Girls" and to this compassionately written novel. --Lisa Alward [via]
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Great Expectationsby Charles DickensISBN 0679405798 (0-679-40579-8)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapterby Sherwin B. NulandISBN 0679414614 (0-679-41461-4)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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"It's impossible to read How We Die without realizing how earnestly we have avoided this most unavoidable of subjects, how we have protected ourselves by building a cultural wall of myths and lies. I don't know of any writer or scientist who has shown us the face of death as clearly, honestly and compassionately as Sherwin Nuland does here."--James Gleick
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The Hunger Artists: Starving, Writing, and Imprisonmentby Maud EllmannISBN 067442705X (0-674-42705-X)
Hardcover, Harvard University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hunger Artists: Starving, Writing, and Imprisonment'Book summary:The phenomenon of voluntary self-starvation - whether by political hunger strikers or lone anorectics - is a puzzle of engrossing power, suggesting a message more radical than any uttered aloud. In this fascinating phenomenology, Maud Ellmann teases out this message, its genesis, expression, and significance. How, she asks, has the act of eating become the metaphor for compliance, starvation the metaphor for protest? How does the rejection of food become the rejection of intolerable social constraints - or of actual imprisonment? What is achieved at the extremity of such a protest - at the moment of death? Ellmann brilliantly unravels the answers; they lie, she shows, in the inverse relationship between bodily hunger and verbal expression. Drawing her examples from Yeats and Kafka, Marx and Freud, Wole Soyinka and the suffragettes, Mahatma Ghandi and Jane Fonda, she explores the entangled meanings of writing and hunger in our culture of starvers. Central to her discussion is an arresting comparison between the Irish Hunger Strike of 1981 and the plot of Richardson's Clarissa, in which the heroine starves herself to death in penance for - or, perhaps, revenge against - her rape. Both cases show a strange excess of words in contrast to the savage reduction of the flesh, as if the bodies of the starvers were devoured by their own verbosity. The Hunger Artists examines this vampirical feeding of words on flesh, revealing uncanny affinities between the labor of starvation and the birth of letters, diaries, poems, books. In her lean and vibrant prose, Ellmann reaches beyond the fashionable preoccupation with the body to the terrifying logic of disembodiment. [via]
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Into the Looking-Glass Woodby Alberto ManguelISBN 067697242X (0-676-97242-X)
Softcover, Random House of Canada Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Into the Looking-Glass Wood'Book summary:Pondering the way tastes, prejudices, and experiences change over time the very meaning of the words we read, Alberto Manguel adapts a phrase from the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus about the deceptive permanence of flowing water: "You never dip into the same book twice," he says. The essays in his collection Into the Looking-Glass Wood are mostly about the pleasures and responsibilities of reading, and Manguel himself--critic, editor, and novelist--might be described as a reader's reader. A university dropout, born in Argentina and expatriated to Canada, Manguel has the erudition and insight of a scholar, but it is his almost childlike exuberance and curiosity that distinguish him from your average literary critic. In lieu of the "systematic reading" set forth in university courses and lists of recommended reading, Manguel insists that "the best guides are the reader's whim--trust in pleasure and faith in haphazardness." Looking-Glass Wood is whimsical in this sense, containing 22 essays, many previously published, on diverse subjects. Manguel celebrates erotic fiction ("I believe that, like the erotic act, the act of reading should ultimately be anonymous."); reflects upon "The Death of Che Guavara" ("Epic literature requires an iconography. Zorro and Robin Hood ... lent the live Che their features."); argues that the Old Testament prophet Jonah was an artist at heart ("Nadine Gordimer, of whom Jonah had never heard, said that there could be no worse fate for a writer than not being execrated in a corrupt society. Jonah did not wish to suffer that annihilating fate."); and angrily dismisses Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho as merely a "novel of pornographic horror." In "Borges in Love" Manguel paints a poignant portrait of the unhappy love life of his literary mentor, Jorges Luis Borges, drawing from his experience of having read books aloud to the blind storyteller as a teenager while growing up in Buenos Aires. The experience adds resonance to a claim Manguel makes in yet another essay: "Reading helps us maintain coherence in the chaos, not to eliminate it; not to enclose experience within verbal structures but to allow it to progress on its own vertiginous way; not to trust the glittering surface of words, but to burrow into the darkness." --Russell Prather [via]
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Introduction to Poetryby X. J. Kennedy, Dana GioiaISBN 0673522792 (0-673-52279-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins College Div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Introduction to Poetry/Instructor's Guide'Book summary:While embracing the canon, An Introduction to Poetry, Tenth Edition includes an impressive collection of contemporary poems for a culturally diverse representation of authorship and a richness in range of style. Writer's Perspectives sections give commentary on the craft of writing and revising from authors, which provide insight and a more human perspective on literature and the writing process. Writing Critically sections expand overage of composition with accessible and pragmatic suggestions on writing. Critical Approaches to Literature section provides three essays on every major school of criticism with sections on gender criticism and cultural studies. New poems have been added to the Tenth Edition, along with a new Glossary of Literary Terms and an expanded chapter on translations. Casebooks on Emily Dickinson and Langston Hughes present both poets in depth. For anyone interested in poetry. [via]
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Softcover, Addison-Wesley - Introduction to Poetry: ISBN 0673522784 (0-673-52278-4)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley - Introduction to Poetry: ISBN 0673525074 (0-673-52507-4)
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Jane Eyreby Charlotte BronteISBN 0679405828 (0-679-40582-8)
Hardcover, Everymans Library
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Language and Learning: The Debate Between Jean Piaget and Noam Chomskyby Jean PiagetISBN 0674509404 (0-674-50940-4)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Language Visible: Unraveling the Mystery of the Alphabet from A to Zby David SacksISBN 0676974872 (0-676-97487-2)
Hardcover, A.A. Knopf Canada
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Language Visible: Unraveling the Mystery of the Alphabet from A to Z'Book summary:Subtitled "Unraveling the Mystery of the Alphabet from A to Z," Language Visible is an intriguing and accessible study of the "particles" that come together to form language. The pictographic sources of the alphabet are a fascinating story, and Sacks delves into the history and archeology of that tale with a level of erudition that does not exclude the average intelligent reader. Sacks claims, quite justifiably, that the invention of the alphabet "judged on longevity and extent of modern daily use&compares with the wheel." In a long introductory chapter, the author discusses recent discoveries of the earliest alphabetic letters (1800 B.C.) in Egypt at the Wadi El Hol site. Scholars believe that the alphabet was invented there by humble soldiers "who were being excluded from the mysteries of Egyptian hieroglyphic writing." The remainder of the book is taken up with a chapter for each letter, discussing details of how the letter is used today and depicting the historical evolution of the letter shapes (A started out as an ox-head, S as an archer's bow). Numerous sidebars are included, exploring such subjects as the alphabet in the Middle Ages and the history of letters in type. While the historical material is well researched and always of interest, many of the details on the letters themselves are too obvious to justify their inclusion (A represents success in school, F shows failure). Altogether, however, the story of how all the words in all the books are made up of a combination of 26 letters is intellectually stimulating as well as entertaining. --Mark Frutkin [via]
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Literature for Adolescents: Teaching Poems, Stories, Novels, and Playsby Alan B. Howes, Stephen DunningISBN 0673058417 (0-673-05841-7)
Hardcover, Scott, Foresman
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Literature: Thinking, Reading, and Writing Criticallyby Sylvan Barnet, William Burto, William Cain, Morton BermanISBN 0673525236 (0-673-52523-6)
Hardcover, Addison-Wesley
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The Little Rhetoric and Handbookby E.P. CorbettISBN 0673157334 (0-673-15733-4)
Hardcover, Addison-Wesley
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Little Rhetoric and Handbook With Readingsby Edward P.J. CorbettISBN 0673158306 (0-673-15830-6)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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The Little, Brown Readerby Sylvan Barnet, Marcia StubbsISBN 0673396800 (0-673-39680-0)
Hardcover, Scott, Foresman
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Lost Classicsby Michael OndaatjeISBN 0676972993 (0-676-97299-3)
Hardcover, A.A. Knopf Canada
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Mad As Hell: The Life and Work of Paddy Chayefskyby Shaun ConsidineISBN 0679408924 (0-679-40892-4)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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May Sarton : A Biographyby Margot PetersISBN 0679415211 (0-679-41521-1)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Music of What Happens: Poems, Poets, Criticsby Helen VendlerISBN 0674591534 (0-674-59153-4)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Helen Vendler has become one of our most trusted companions in reading poetry. Among critics today she has an unrivaled ability to show--lucidly and invitingly--just what a poem does. Insight and wit distinguish these essays, in which Vendler elucidates the function of criticism as well as different critical methods and styles. Poets commented on range from Seamus Heaney and Czeslaw Milosz to Silvia Plath, James Merrill, and Amy Clampitt.
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My Life As Author and Editorby H. L. Mencken, Jonathan YardleyISBN 0679413154 (0-679-41315-4)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Life As Author and Editor'Book summary:Any best-of list dealing with American political satire has to include H.L. Mencken, who was the country's leading social critic between the world wars. This volume of new material was written at the end of his life, well after his epochal days at the Smart Set and the American Mercury were over and his pro-German sentiments had driven him from the national stage. My Life as Author and Editor is taken from the immense unfinished manuscript that was deposited in the Enoch Pratt Free Library upon Mencken's death; in accordance with his wishes, the packet was not read for 35 years. To modern readers, it is not scandalous as much as fiercely opinionated; Mencken pulls no punches regarding the people he met and the life he led from 1896 to 1923. Fitzgerald, Dreiser, Pound, Joyce, and many others all pass under Mencken's gimlet eye. Along the way, plenty of the author's criticism is heaped on "Life in These United States," the stupidity and lack of sophistication that Mencken raged against his entire career. Better examples of Mencken's satire can be found, but as an introduction to the author's gruff charm and bombast, My Life as Author and Editor is well-suited. And, of course, it is a necessity for the devoted Mencken fan. --Michael Gerber [via]
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A Natural History of Loveby Diane AckermanISBN 0679403477 (0-679-40347-7)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Notebooks of Robert Frostby Robert Frost, Robert FaggenISBN 0674023110 (0-674-02311-0)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Oedipus the King: Uses And Abusesby Sophocles, Bernard KnoxISBN 0671888048 (0-671-88804-8)
Softcover, Pocket Classics
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Opposite Attraction: The Lives of Erich Maria Remarque and Paulette Goddardby Julie GilbertISBN 0679415351 (0-679-41535-1)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Pale Fireby Vladimir NabokovISBN 0679410775 (0-679-41077-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pale Fire'Book summary:Like Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire is a masterpiece that imprisons us inside the mazelike head of a mad émigré. Yet Pale Fire is more outrageously hilarious, and its narrative convolutions make the earlier book seem as straightforward as a fairy tale. Here's the plot--listen carefully! John Shade is a homebody poet in New Wye, U.S.A. He writes a 999-line poem about his life, and what may lie beyond death. This novel (and seldom has the word seemed so woefully inadequate) consists of both that poem and an extensive commentary on it by the poet's crazy neighbor, Charles Kinbote.
According to this deranged annotator, he had urged Shade to write about his own homeland--the northern kingdom of Zembla. It soon becomes clear that this fabulous locale may well be a figment of Kinbote's colorfully cracked, prismatic imagination. Meanwhile, he manages to twist the poem into an account of Zembla's King Charles--whom he believes himself to be--and the monarch's eventual assassination by the revolutionary Jakob Gradus.
In the course of this dizzying narrative, shots are indeed fired. But it's Shade who takes the hit, enabling Kinbote to steal the dead poet's manuscript and set about annotating it. Is that perfectly clear? By now it should be obvious that Pale Fire is not only a whodunit but a who-wrote-it. There isn't, of course, a single solution. But Nabokov's best biographer, Brian Boyd, has come up with an ingenious suggestion: he argues that Shade is actually guiding Kinbote's mad hand from beyond the grave, nudging him into completing what he'd intended to be a 1,000-line poem. Read this magical, melancholic mystery and see if you agree. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Passions of the Mindby A. S. ByattISBN 0679405119 (0-679-40511-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Passions of the Mind'Book summary:Whether she is writing about George Eliot or Sylvia Plath; Victorian spiritual malaise or Toni Morrison; mythic strands in the novels of Iris Murdoch and Saul Bellow; politics behind the popularity of Barbara Pym or the ambitions that underlie her own fiction, Byatt manages to be challenging, entertaining, and unflinchingly committed to the alliance of literature and life.
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Phonics They Use: Words for Reading and Writingby Patricia M. CunninghamISBN 0673990877 (0-673-99087-7)
Softcover, Pearson P T R
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The Portrait of a Ladyby Henry JamesISBN 0679405623 (0-679-40562-3)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Portrait of a Lady is the most stunning achievement of Henry James's early period--in the 1860s and '70s when he was transforming himself from a talented young American into a resident of Europe, a citizen of the world, and one of the greatest novelists of modern times. A kind of delight at the success of this transformation informs every page of this masterpiece. Isabel Archer, a beautiful, intelligent, and headstrong American girl newly endowed with wealth and embarked in Europe on a treacherous journey to self-knowledge, is delineated with a magnificence that is at once casual and tense with force and insight. The characters with whom she is entangled--the good man and the evil one, between whom she wavers, and the mysterious witchlike woman with whom she must do battle--are each rendered with a virtuosity that suggests dazzling imaginative powers. And the scene painting--in England and Italy--provides a continuous visual pleasure while always remaining crucial to the larger drama. [via]More editions of The Portrait of a Lady:
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A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T. E. Lawrenceby John E. MacKISBN 0674704940 (0-674-70494-0)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T. E. Lawrence'Book summary:When this Pulitzer Prize-winning biography first appeared in 1976, it rescued T. E. Lawrence from the mythologizing that had seemed to be his fate. In it, John Mack humanely and objectively explores the relationship between Lawrence's inner life and his historically significant actions.
Extensive interviews, far-flung correspondence, access to War Office dispatches and unpublished letters provide the basis for Mack's sensitive investigation of the psychiatric dimensions of Lawrence's personality. In addition, Mack examines the pertinent history, politics, and sociology of the time in order to weigh the real forces with which Lawrence contended and which impinged upon him.
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The Rarest of the Rareby Diane AckermanISBN 0679403469 (0-679-40346-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rarest of the Rare'Book summary:Having written books on the natural history of the human senses and love, Ackerman turns her own exquisitely honed poetic sensibility to vanishing species. Although she travels to exotic locales such as the Amazon, the tropical Pacific, and remote Japanese islands, the powers of her craft are most evident in the chapter centering on Cornell, in Ithaca, New York, near her home. Many nature writers seem to seek out unusual terrains to find their voice. It is a tribute to Ackerman's craft -- and the extraordinary complexity of nature -- that she can turn a trip to the Entomology Department of a nearby university into a world as exotic as the Amazon. Highly Recommended. [via]
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Reading for the Plotby Peter BrooksISBN 0674748921 (0-674-74892-1)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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The Research Paper Handbookby James D. LesterISBN 0673360164 (0-673-36016-4)
Softcover, Good Year Books
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The Rhetoric of Reaction: Perversity, Futility, Jeopardyby Albert O. HirschmanISBN 067476868X (0-674-76868-X)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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The Road of Excess: A History of Writers on Drugsby Marcus BoonISBN 0674017560 (0-674-01756-0)
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Robinson Crusoeby Daniel Defoe, John Mullan, Everyman's Library StaffISBN 0679405852 (0-679-40585-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Robinson Crusoe'Book summary:Published in 1719, Robinson Crusoe has long been celebrated as the first great English novel. Based on the account of a shipwrecked sailor, it tells the story of one man rediscovering himself and the world in a solitude he thinks complete until his encounter with Man Friday.
Distinguished by its strong, pure style, and by a delight in factual precision, Robinson Crusoe is still the most compelling book we have from the Age of Exploration. The impact of Daniel Defoes prose on the development of English writing has often been compared to that of the King James Bible; and the power of this fable of human loneliness has been felt by readers of every age over the last three hundred years. [via]More editions of Robinson Crusoe:
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Sense And Sensibilityby Jane AustenISBN 0679409874 (0-679-40987-4)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sense and Sensibility'Book summary:Though not the first novel she wrote, Sense and Sensibility was the first Jane Austen published. Though she initially called it Elinor and Marianne, Austen jettisoned both the title and the epistolary mode in which it was originally written, but kept the essential theme: the necessity of finding a workable middle ground between passion and reason. The story revolves around the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne. Whereas the former is a sensible, rational creature, her younger sister is wildly romantic--a characteristic that offers Austen plenty of scope for both satire and compassion. Commenting on Edward Ferrars, a potential suitor for Elinor's hand, Marianne admits that while she "loves him tenderly," she finds him disappointing as a possible lover for her sister:
Oh! Mama, how spiritless, how tame was Edward's manner in reading to us last night! I felt for my sister most severely. Yet she bore it with so much composure, she seemed scarcely to notice it. I could hardly keep my seat. To hear those beautiful lines which have frequently almost driven me wild, pronounced with such impenetrable calmness, such dreadful indifference!
Soon however, Marianne meets a man who measures up to her ideal: Mr. Willoughby, a new neighbor. So swept away by passion is Marianne that her behavior begins to border on the scandalous. Then Willoughby abandons her; meanwhile, Elinor's growing affection for Edward suffers a check when he admits he is secretly engaged to a childhood sweetheart. How each of the sisters reacts to their romantic misfortunes, and the lessons they draw before coming finally to the requisite happy ending forms the heart of the novel. Though Marianne's disregard for social conventions and willingness to consider the world well-lost for love may appeal to modern readers, it is Elinor whom Austen herself most evidently admired; a truly happy marriage, she shows us, exists only where sense and sensibility meet and mix in proper measure. --Alix Wilber [via] 
Short English Handbookby Gerald J. Schiffhorst, David E. FearISBN 0673155455 (0-673-15545-5)
Hardcover, Scott, Foresman
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Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Worksby Erik Spiekermann, E. M. GingerISBN 0672485435 (0-672-48543-5)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works'Book summary:Frederic Goudy, American type designer, once said, "Anyone who would letterspace lower case would steal sheep." To most people, this comment only adds to the perception that type inhabits a mysterious world with intricate terminology and elaborate rules; added to this are thouasands of type faces out there that all seem to look alike. Until now, Spiekerman and Ginger shepherd their decades of typograhpic experience into a unique and lively guidebook which shows that type is easy to use, easy to understand, and in the hands of a savvy user, a powerful communications tool. You need no previous knowledge of typography to enjoy Stop Stealing Sheep. It makes no difference what kind of computer you work on, what type of software you use, or what you do for a living, because as the authors show- type, good type -reaches across all boundaries, computer platforms, and professional distinctions. [via]
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Storytellerby Ramon Royal RossISBN 0675091152 (0-675-09115-2)
Hardcover, C. E. Merrill Pub Co
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Teaching Students to Writeby Beth NemanISBN 0675081386 (0-675-08138-6)
Softcover, Sra
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Teaching Writing: Balancing Process and Productby Gail E. TompkinsISBN 0675209269 (0-675-20926-9)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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Technical Writingby John M. LannonISBN 0673520951 (0-673-52095-1)
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The Time Traveler's Wifeby Audrey NiffeneggerISBN 0676976336 (0-676-97633-6)
Softcover, Random House of Canada Ltd
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Understanding Reading Problems: Assessment and Instructionby Charles A. Temple, Jean Wallace GilletISBN 0673520196 (0-673-52019-6)
Hardcover, Scott Foresman/Little, Brown Higher Education
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United States: Essays, 1952-1992by Gore VidalISBN 0679414894 (0-679-41489-4)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'United States: Essays, 1952-1992'Book summary:From the age of Eisenhower to the dawning of the Clinton era, Gore Vidals United States offers an incomparably rich tapestry of American intellectual and political life in a tumultuous period. It also provides the best, most sustained exposure possible to the most wide-ranging, acute, and original literary intelligence of the postWorld War II years. United States is an essential book in the canon of twentieth-century American literature and an endlessly fascinating work.
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Webster's New World Dictionary of American English/College Editionby Victoria Neufeldt, David B. GuralnikISBN 0671882430 (0-671-88243-0)
Hardcover, Macmillan General Reference
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Who Owns Academic Work: Battling for Control of Intellectual Propertyby Corynne McSherryISBN 0674012437 (0-674-01243-7)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Witness of Poetryby Czeslaw MiloszISBN 0674953835 (0-674-95383-5)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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The Writer's Craft: A Process Readerby Sheena Gillespie, Robert Singleton, Robert BeckerISBN 0673466507 (0-673-46650-7)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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A Writer's Readerby Donald Hall, D. L. EmblenISBN 0673523322 (0-673-52332-2)
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Writingby Elizabeth Cowan NeeldISBN 0673383997 (0-673-38399-7)
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Writing and Learning in the Disciplinesby Ann Merle FeldmanISBN 0673460703 (0-673-46070-3)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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Writing Inside and Out: A Content-Centered Approach to Writingby Michael J. Quinn, Dewayne Rail, Judy RyanISBN 0673469883 (0-673-46988-3)
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Writing: Invention, Form, and Styleby Joanne M. Podis, Leonard A. PodisISBN 0673155250 (0-673-15525-0)
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Writing Research Papers: A Complete Guide, Tabbedby LesterISBN 0673994503 (0-673-99450-3)
Hardcover, Addison-Wesley
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Writing Skillsby Merriellyn Kett, Underwood, Virginia and Kett, MerriellynISBN 0675084849 (0-675-08484-9)
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Writing With a Voice: A Rhetoric and Handbookby Diana Hacker, Betty RenshawISBN 0673396703 (0-673-39670-3)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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