Harper, June 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. "At his shattering best. . . Banks offers answers that are tough, honest, and inevitable without being simple. . . . A book that is not to be missed." --New York Times With The Angel on the Roof, acclaimed author Russell Banks offers readers..... More
Harper, February 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. This brilliant recounting of the events surrounding John Brown's legendary raid on the armory at Harpers Ferry is a masterpiece of modern American storytelling that will be remembered as the crowning achievement of Russell Banks' celebrated career. Russell Banks' gift for creating compelling stories..... More
Seven Stories Press, June 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. With America ever under global scrutiny, Russell Banks contemplates the questions of our origins, values, heroes, conflicts, and contradictions. He writes with conversational ease and emotional insight, drawing on contemporary politics, literature, film, and his knowledge of American history. Drawing on politics..... More
Harper Perennial, April 1996. Trade Paperback. In Family Life, Russell Banks's first novel, he transforms the dramas of domesticity into the story of a royal family in a mythical contemporary kingdom. Life inside this kingdom includes the king (dubbed "the Hearty" or "the Bluff"), who squeals angrily as is his..... More
Ecco, September 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. "Like our living literary giants Toni Morrison and Thomas Pynchon, Russell Banks is a great writer wrestling with the hidden secrets and explosive realities of this country."--Cornel West "Of the many writers working in the great tradition today, one of the best is Russell..... More
Ecco, November 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Suffused with Russell Banks's trademark lyricism and reckless humor, the twelve stories in A Permanent Member of the Family examine the myriad ways we try--and sometimes fail--to connect with one another, as we seek a home in the world. In the title story, a...... More
Ecco Press, March 1996. Paper Back. "The Relation of My Imprisonment" is a work of fiction utilizing a form invented in the seventeenth century by imprisoned Puritan devines. Designed to be exemplary, works of this type were aimed at brethren outside the prison walls and functioned primarily as figurative dramatizations..... More
Harper Perennial, September 1992. Trade Paperback. Exploring the spectrum of responses felt by the inhabitants of a small Adirondack town in the wake of a tragic school bus accident, "The Sweet Hereafter" is a compelling morality tale that wrestles with the timeless questions of life, responsibility and human hope. Russell..... More
International Wizard of Oz Club / Opium Books, May 1969. First Edition. Paper Back. First/first. Limited printing of 1000.Octavo with sun lightened spine. Army green end papers with a few light streaks. Dust stains/foxing top textblock edge. Less heavily darkened textblock fore-edge. [151 pages]. More
Applause Books, April 2000. Trade Paperback. John Russell Brown demonstrates just how much is in Shakespeare's texts; how the language is awakened, colored, emphasized, sensualized and extended in performance. Shakespeare's intended readers were his collaborators, not his commentators. Brown invites all Shakespeare lovers to seek their insights in Shakespeare's natural..... More
Let's Dance Corp, January 1984. First Edition. Cloth. Folio in jacket. Black cloth with gold lettering on spine. There is a short note from Let's Dance publishing regarding the index on pink paper laid in. Clean, solid & without notes or markings or stains. More
RCR Creative Press, June 2009. Hardcover. Previous owner's name inscribed on free endpaper. More
Oxmoor House. Oversized Hardcover. More
Ace Books, 1958. Mass Market PaperBack. Very slight wear along spine. More
Sterling, December 1996. Trade Paperback. Our unconscious world has the power to reveal our innermost secrets. Look up over 2,000 topics from A to Z, including people, events, places, and objects, and find out their actual meanings. Did you know that dreaming of ice cream means you'll soon enjoy major..... More
Valancourt Books, June 2015. Paper Back. After Pilgermann, a German Jew in the year 1096, ravishes the tax collector's wife, an angry Christian mob retaliates by brutally castrating him. Bleeding and left for dead, Pilgermann experiences a vision of Jesus Christ and resolves to set out on a journey to..... More
University of California Press, September 2013. Paper Back. In this new collection of thirteen essays, Arlie Russell Hochschild--author of the groundbreaking exploration of emotional labor, The Managed Heart and The Outsourced Self--focuses squarely on the impact of social forces on the emotional side of intimate life.From the "work" it takes..... More
New Press, September 2024. Hardcover. In her first book since the widely acclaimed Strangers in Their Own Land, National Book Award finalist and bestselling author Arlie Russell Hochschild now ventures to Appalachia, uncovering the "pride paradox" that has given the right's appeals such resonance. A 2024 New York Times Book..... More
MIT Press (MA), November 2007. Hardcover. Can conscious experience be described accurately? Can we give reliable accounts of our sensory experiences and pains, our inner speech and imagery, our felt emotions? The question is central not only to our humanistic understanding of who we are but also to the burgeoning..... More
Olympic Marketing Corp, April 1986. Paper Back. More
Routledge, September 2001. Paper Back. Ask a dozen people to name a genius and the odds are that 'Einstein' will spring to their lips. Ask them the meaning of 'relativity' and few of them will be able to tell you what it is. The basic principles of relativity have not..... More
NuVision Publications, April 2008. Paper Back. This book has grown out of an attempt to harmonize two different tendencies, one in psychology, the other in physics, with both of which I find myself in sympathy, although at first sight they might seem inconsistent. On the one hand, many psychologists, especially..... More
Prometheus, June 1986. Trade Paperback. "I think all the great religions of the world - Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity, Islam, and Communism - both untrue and harmful. It is evident as a matter of logic that, since they disagree, not more than one of them can be true."Bertrand Russell wrote these..... More
Touchstone, July 1945. Trade Paperback. Hailed as "lucid and magisterial" by The Observer, this book is universally acclaimed as the outstanding one-volume work on the subject of Western philosophy. Considered to be one of the most important philosophical works of all time, the History of Western Philosophy is a dazzlingly..... More
Routledge, February 2009. Paper Back. Insightful and highly accessible, this selection of seven essays displays Russell's signature brilliance of exposition in the examination of ethical subjects and the nature of truth, and marks an important period in the evolution of thought of one of the world's most influential thinkers. Last..... More
