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Chelsea House Pub, January 1986. Hardcover. A collection of essays about the works of the Italian poet. More
Chelsea House Pub, January 1986. Hardcover. A collection of essays about the works of the Italian poet. More
Bison Books, February 2001. Paper Back. On May 7, 1877, less than a year after his overwhelming victory at Little Big Horn, Crazy Horse, the charismatic Oglala Sioux whose name had become the epitome of Indian resistance to white encroachment, surrendered at Camp Robinson, Nebraska Territory. A young man of..... More
Music Sales America, September 2003. Oversize Softcover. (Music Sales America). For the first time in one volume, over 325 songs drawn from every period in the unique career of the master songwriter. Each song includes melody, guitar chords, and complete lyrics all in a small format edition (7 x 10..... More
Harvest/HBJ Book, April 1980. Trade Paperback. The author's experiences in Greenwich Village, where she defends young writers against the Establishment, and her trip across the country in an old Ford to California and Mexico. "[Nin is] one of the most extraordinary and unconventional writers of this century" (New York Times..... More
Penguin Books, March 1988. Paper Back. From Woody Allen to P.G. Wodehouse, the last hundred years offer a rich banquet of humor. Just about any topic under the sun can inspire witty remarks. Fred Metcalf's clearly cross-referenced anthology provides countless gems--ideal for after-dinner speakers, would-be wags, and anyone in search..... More
Signet, May 1990. Mass Market PaperBack. Previous owner's name. Minimal creasing. More
Ice Plant, November 2012. Hardcover. A poetic artist's book of found photographs from the early to mid-20th century, sequenced thematicallyPhotographer and bookseller Melissa Catanese has been editing the vast photography collection of Peter J. Cohen, a celebrated trove of more than 20,000 vernacular and found anonymous photographs from the early..... More
New York Review Books, January 2005. Trade Paperback. Tom Stoppard considers ways of controlling how an audience gets information while watching a play and Charles Rosen reflects on the very physical relationship between the musician and the instrument. More
State University of New York Press, August 2015. Trade Paperback. This book introduces the powerful and provocative new fiction and poetry of Israel's women writers to an English-speaking audience. Read together, the stories and poems in this book will help to create a more sophisticated understanding of Middle Eastern passions..... More
Berghahn Books, January 2007. Trade Paperback. Published in Association with the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C. Hitler's autobahn was more than just the pet project of an infrastructure-friendly dictator. It was supposed to revolutionize the transportation sector in Germany, connect the metropoles with the countryside, and encourage motorization. The propaganda..... More
Paulist Press, January 1986. Paper Back. "Blessed and exalted is God, glorious in power. He is one, united in all His powers as the flame is united in its colors. The powers which emanate from his unicity are like the light of the eye which springs forth from the pupil."..... More
Potomac Books Inc, May 2001. Hardcover. A multi-disciplinary group of distinguished scholars explores the rich diversity of the early republic's seafaring heritage. This unique volume constitutes a powerful statement about the current strength and potential of early American naval and maritime studies. More
University Of Iowa Press, March 2018. Soft Cover. Ecopoetics: Essays in the Field makes a formidable intervention into the emerging field of ecopoetics. The volume's essays model new and provocative methods for reading twentieth and twenty-first century ecological poetry and poetics, drawing on the insights of ecocriticism, contemporary philosophy, gender..... More
Princeton University Press, October 1997. Trade Paperback. Edmund Wilson helped shape American letters from the early 1920s through the mid-'60s. He remains a presence in our literary culture, and his accounts of art and society have influenced a younger generation of readers and thinkers. This vibrant collection emerges from symposiums..... More
New York University Press, January 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Tight binding; Clean, sturdy gray cloth boards w/ immaculate gilt at spine; Previous owner initials present at front free end-page; Text free of markings; Dust jacket mildly worn, slightly frayed at jacket spine top; An excellent copy. More
Terra Foundation for the Arts, March 2009. Oversized Hardcover. Frustrated by the art world's elitism and the snobbish exclusivity of the academy's juries, eight American painters united in 1908 to upend the establish norms and stage their own exhibition of modernist art. Led by the charismatic Robert Henri, they came..... More
Bloomsbury Visual Arts, February 2019. Hardcover. While the connected, international character of today's art world is well known, the eighteenth century too had a global art world. Eighteenth-Century Art Worlds is the first book to attempt a map of the global art world of the eighteenth century. Fourteen essays from..... More
Editora Politica, January 1986. Soft Cover. More
The MIT Press, July 2003. Hardcover. The emergence of new media has stimulated debate about the power of the visual to dethrone the cultural prominence of textuality and print. Some scholars celebrate the proliferation of digital images, arguing that it suggests a return to a pictorial age when knowledge was..... More
Skylight Paths Publishing, October 2014. Trade Paperback. More than ancient erotic love poetry, this celebration of the human relationship with Wisdom can be a companion for your own spiritual journey. The Song of Songs is the Hebrew Bible's deeply erotic poem of love, sexual yearning and consummation. Holding it sacred..... More
Indiana University Press, January 2010. Trade Paperback. This lively volume explores the theme of friendship in the lives and works of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. Written from diverse perspectives, the essays offer close readings of selected texts and draw on letters and journals to offer a comprehensive..... More
Cambridge University Press, April 2017. Trade Paperback. The taking of private property for development projects has caused controversy in many nations, where it has often been used to benefit powerful interests at the expense of the general public. This edited collection is the first to use a common framework to..... More
N/A, August 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. From a writer "of near-miraculous perfection" ("The New York Times Book Review") and "a literary intelligence far surpassing most other writers of her generation" ("San Francisco Chronicle"), "The Emperor's Children" is a dazzling, masterful novel about the intersections in the lives of three friends..... More
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Yale University Press, December 2010. Oversized Hardcover. A newly updated, expanded edition of the most comprehensive one-volume reference work on New York City ever compiled Covering an exhaustive range of information about Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island, the first edition of The Encyclopedia of New York City..... More