Oxford University Press, June 1979. Trade Paperback. As the first international anthology to cover the entire scope of fantastic narrative, Fantastic Worlds presents over fifty tales, myths, and stories, ranging from Genesis to Ovid, Hans Christian Andersen to J.R.R. Tolkien, Edgar Allan Poe to James Thurber, and Franz Kafka to..... More
Indiana Univ Pr, February 1986. Trade Paperback. . . . less about film than about the psychology of the viewing experience. --American Film Employing Freudian psychoanalysis, Christian Metz explores the nature of cinematic spectatorship and looks at the operations of meaning in the film text. More
William Morrow & Company, September 2003. Hardcover. Rich in detail, filled with fascinating characters, and panoramic in its sweep, this magnificent, comprehensive work tells for the first time the complete story of the American woman from the Pilgrims to the 21st-century In this sweeping cultural history, Gail Collins explores the..... More
Ugly Duckling Presse, December 2012. Trade Paperback. Poetry. CHRISTIAN NAME culls poems begun in 2005, when the poet Eric Baus introduced Giffin to linguistic studies on the feral-child Susan Wiley, better known by her medical pseudonym Genie. Wiley was kept in isolation by her family until the age of thirteen..... More
Ugly Duckling Presse, November 2009. Trade Paperback. Poetry. Numbers slide promiscuously around in these poems, emboldening the fundamental ways in which we have relations with counting (accounting for): bodies, monies, words, selves. Kalleberg's work embodies a science of many, and the indivisible hangs out in it, too, as fabulous, energetic..... More
Action Books, December 2009. Trade Paperback. Poetry. East Asian Studies. Translated from the Japanese by Jeffrey Angles. I want to get rid of Kanoko/I want to get rid of filthy little Kanoko/I want to get rid of or kill Kanoko who bites off my nipples. KILLING KANOKO is a powerful..... More
Vintage Books USA, March 1999. Trade Paperback. Marie Winn is our guide into a secret world, a true wilderness in the heart of a city. The scene is New York's Central Park, but the rich natural history that emerges here--the loons, raccoons, woodpeckers, owls, and hundreds of visiting songbirds--will appeal..... More
Penguin Books, October 1988. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Vintage, November 1990. Trade Paperback. Willa Cather's lyrical and bittersweet novel of a middle-aged man losing control of his life is a brilliant study in emotional dislocation and renewal. Professor Godfrey St. Peter is a man in his fifties who has devoted his life to his work, his wife, his..... More
Harper Perennial, September 2011. Trade Paperback. "Stasiland demonstrates that great, originalreporting is still possible. . . . A heartbreaking, beautifully written book. Aclassic." --Claire Tomalin, Guardian "Books ofthe Year" AnnaFunder delivers a prize-winning and powerfully rendered account of theresistance against East Germany's communist dictatorship in these harrowing, personal tales of..... More
University of Georgia Press, January 1999. Hardcover. After spending most of her life in the city, Linda Underhill moved to rural Allegany County, New York, in 1989 and observed a successful citizens' protest against a low-level nuclear waste dump near her home. Having always thought the environmental movement applied mainly..... More
Penguin Books, May 1999. Trade Paperback. A brilliant . . . perfectly nuanced translation (The Boston Globe) of Thomas Mann's greatest short works A Penguin Classic Featuring his world-famous masterpiece, Death in Venice, this collection of Nobel laureate Thomas Mann's stories and novellas reveals his artistic evolution. In a widely..... More
HarperCollins, Toronto, January 2000. Trade Paperback. More
The MIT Press, August 2017. Hardcover. How culture evolves through algorithms rather than knowledge inherited from ancestors. From our hunter-gatherer days, we humans evolved to be excellent throwers, chewers, and long-distance runners. We are highly social, crave Paleolithic snacks, and display some gendered difference resulting from mate selection. But we..... More
Wave Books, January 2004. Hardcover. The 44 stories of Dreams of a Robot Dancing Bee--long-awaited by fans of Tate's poetry--will come as a welcome surprise to readers unfamiliar with his previous work. Tate seems both awed and bemused by small town life, with its legends, flights of fancy, heightened emotions..... More
Penguin Books, October 1994. Trade Paperback. From the Nobel Prize-winning author of "One Hundred Years of Solitude" comes a masterly evocation of an unrequited passion so strong that it binds three people's lives together for more than fifty years. In the story of Florentino Ariza, who waits more than half..... More
Chelsea House Pub, October 1988. Trade Paperback. Traces the life of the black American poet who was born in Africa, brought over to New England as a slave, and published her first poem while still a teenager. More
Simon & Schuster, October 1990. Trade Paperback. More
Penguin Books, April 2016. Trade Paperback. From the New York Times bestselling author of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and The Night Manager, now a television series starring Tom Hiddleston. John le Carr''s new novel, A Legacy of Spies, is now available. In this exquisitely told novel, John le Carr' shows..... More
Penguin Group USA Inc, March 1987. Trade Paperback. Nominated for an Edgar award for best mystery of the year, "City of Glass" inaugurates an intriguing "New York Trilogy" of novels that "The Washington Post Book World" has classified as "post-existentialist private eye... It's as if Kafka has gotten hooked on..... More
Proteus Books, January 1984. Trade Paperback. More
Vintage, March 1991. Trade Paperback. In this nightmarish and exhilirating novel, Jim Thompson brings us into fearful intimacy with psychopathic evil. More
Bantam, July 1983. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Barrons Educational Series, June 1978. Mass Market PaperBack. More
