Category: American

A Place Called Home: Writings on the Midwestern Small Town

By: Davies, Richard O. [Editor]; Amato, Joseph A. [Editor]; Pichaske, David R. [Editor];

Price: $6.19 USD

Publisher: Borealis Books : 2003-03-10

Seller ID: 0873514513-3-25020903

ISBN-13: 9780873514514

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Good

2004 Minnesota Book Award WinnerThe Midwestern small town has long held an iconic place in American culture--from the imaginings of Sinclair Lewis's Main Street and Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio to Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon. But the reality is much more complex, as the small town has been a study in transition from its very inception. In A Place Called Home, editors Richard O. Davies, Joseph A. Amato, and David R. Pichaske offer the first comprehensive examination of the Midwestern small town and its evolving nature from the 1800s to the present.This rich collection, gleaned from t...
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A Treasury of African-American Christmas Stories

By: Collier-Thomas, Bettye [Compiler]; Collier-Thomas, Bettye [Editor];

Price: $3.52 USD

Publisher: Henry Holt & Co : 1997-01-01

Seller ID: 0805051228-3-28887214

ISBN-13: 9780805051223

Binding: hardcover

Condition: Used: Good

Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose (Norton Critical Editions)

By: Adrienne Rich; Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi; Albert Gelpi [Editor]

Price: $3.55 USD

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company : 1993-05-17

Seller ID: 0393961478-4-26128376

ISBN-13: 9780393961478

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Acceptable

The editors have also taken into account the many essays on Rich and reviews of her work that have been published since 1975. Some earlier biographical selections have been replaced with works that focus on the quality of Rich's writing and her place in twentieth-century American literature--not just as a poet, but as a woman, a lesbian, and a mother. Criticism includes thirteen reviews and interpretations of Rich's work by W. H. Auden, John Ashbery, Margaret Atwood, Helen Vendler, Judith McDaniel, Adrian Oktenberg, Charles Altieri, and Joanna Feit Diehl, among others. A second recent study by...
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Adventures in American literature: Curriculum and writing (The Adventures in literature program)

By: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Price: $4.46 USD

Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich : 1985-01-01

Seller ID: 015335044X-4-29037700

ISBN-13: 9780153350443

Binding: hardcover

Condition: Used: Acceptable

Aequanimitas

By: Osler, William

Price: $23.37 USD

Publisher: McGraw Hill / Medical : 1904-01-01

Seller ID: 0070479151-4-28869412

ISBN-13: 9780070479159

Binding: hardcover

Condition: Used: Acceptable

Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.
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African American Literature (Penguin Academics)

By: Gilyard, Keith; Wardi, Anissa

Price: $4.51 USD

Publisher: Longman : 2004-01-31

Seller ID: 0321113411-3-24558931

ISBN-13: 9780321113412

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Good

African-American Literature is a thematically arranged, comprehensive survey of African-American Literature. The unique thematic organization of the anthology allows for a concise and coherent assessment of African-American literature. The thematic approach gives students a better sense of the intertextuality that binds a literary tradition together rather than a chronological approach that organizes material strictly on the basis of an author's birth date.
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An Anthropologist on Mars (Spanish Edition)

By: Sacks, Oliver

Price: $5.13 USD

Publisher: Picador USA : 2009-02-28

Seller ID: 0330343475-3-23424933

ISBN-13: 9780330343473

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Good

This collection of essays are mainly casebook studies. Neurological patients, Oliver Sacks once wrote, are travellers to unimaginable lands.
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Ansel Adams: Our National Parks

By: William A. Turnage [Editor]; Andrea G. Stillman [Editor];

Price: $3.53 USD

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company : 1992-05-21

Seller ID: 0821219103-3-20381025

ISBN-13: 9780821219102

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Good

In the century since the establishment of the world's first national park at Yellowstone, no individual has rivaled Ansel Adams in his unceasing effort--through both his photographs and writings--to support the philosophical essence and practical evolution of the national park idea. Here are his greatest images of more than 40 national parks and monuments. 78 duotones.
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Anthology of American Literature, Vol. 1

By: McMichael, George L. [Editor]

Price: $3.83 USD

Publisher: Prentice Hall (Sd) : 2004-01-01

Seller ID: 0131829548-4-27084417

ISBN-13: 9780131829541

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Acceptable

Autumn Rhythm: Musings On Time, Tide, Aging, Dying, And Such Biz

By: Meltzer, Richard

Price: $3.55 USD

Publisher: Da Capo Press : 2003-10-08

Seller ID: 0306812282-3-28304243

ISBN-13: 9780306812286

Binding: hardcover

Condition: Used: Good

As witness to and participant in the graying of the first generation of rock 'n' roll fans, Richard Meltzer is well equipped to confront the reality of our shared mortality. A sublime and moving collection of essays by a master of style, Autumn Rhythm is a clear-eyed gape into the Abyss that is equal parts candor, courage, humor, and desperation.From deconstructing the "geezer wardrobe" to the wacked-out notion of one's legacy to the inevitable loss of pets, parents, and lovers, Autumn Rhythm is an unflinching staring contest with the One Thing We All Have In Common from a writer whose work ha...
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Balls and Strikes: The Money Game in Professional Baseball

By: Jennings, Kenneth M.

Price: $4.33 USD

Publisher: Praeger : 1990-02-15

Seller ID: 0275934411-3-27891599

ISBN-13: 9780275934415

Binding: hardcover

Condition: Used: Good

Impressively researched and well written, this valuable study by a business professor at the Universiy of North Florida. . . traces the erosion of the reserve clause and the rise of arbitration in salary disputes, examining the participants in negotiations--players, owners, managers, agents, even commissoners--and showing the stake each has in the money game. Many striking points are made, i.e., there is no discrimination in salaries of minority players and there is little relationship between pay and performance. Publishers Weekly Jennings . . . gives a detailed account of collective bargaini...
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Bamboo Fly Rod Suite: Reflections on Fishing and the Geography of Grace

By: Soos, Frank; Woodward, Kesler [Illustrator]

Price: $9.39 USD

Publisher: University of Georgia Press : 2006-03-01

Seller ID: 0820328359-11-28914134

ISBN-13: 9780820328355

Binding: paperback

Condition: New

After he was handed an old broken-down bamboo fly rod, Frank Soos waited several years before he cautiously undertook its restoration. That painstaking enterprise becomes the central metaphor and the unifying theme for the captivating personal essays presented here. With sly wit and disarming candor, Soos recounts fly-fishing adventures that become points of departure for wide-ranging ruminations on the larger questions that haunt him. Coming to terms with his new rod in "On Wanting Everything," Soos casts a skeptical eye on the engines of consumerism and muses on the paradox of how a fishing ...
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Banks to Sandberg to Grace : Five Decades of Love and Frustration with the Chicago Cubs

By: Muskat, Carrie

Price: $12.44 USD

Publisher: McGraw-Hill : 2001-03-22

Seller ID: 0809297124-11-23209360

ISBN-13: 9780809297122

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

The chronological saga of the post-World War II Chicago Cubs as told by those who were on the field, in the front office, or on the fringes, recounting more than fifty years of few victories and many heartaches.
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Best American Mystery Stories of the Century

By: Tony Hillerman [Editor]

Price: $3.81 USD

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin : 2000-04-20

Seller ID: 0618012672-3-24435428

ISBN-13: 9780618012671

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Good

In THE BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY STORIES OF THE CENTURY, best-selling author Tony Hillerman and mystery expert Otto Penzler present an unparalleled treasury of American suspense fiction that every fan will cherish. Offering the finest examples from all reaches of the genre, this collection charts the mystery's eminent history from the turn-of-the-century puzzles of Futrelle, to the seminal pulp fiction of Hammett and Chandler, to the mystery story's rise to legitimacy in the popular mind, a trend that has benefited masterly writers like Westlake, Hunter, and Grafton. Nowhere else can readers find ...
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Bone Deep in Landscape: Writing, Reading, and Place (Volume 5) (Literature of the American West Series)

By: Blew, Mary Clearman

Price: $3.88 USD

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press : 2000-09-15

Seller ID: 0806132701-3-25805194

ISBN-13: 9780806132709

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Good

Great-granddaughter of homesteaders in north-central Montana, Mary Clearman Blew grew up in one of the last vestiges of the rural frontier. Her girlhood chores--hauling water and rounding up cattle--were remote even to her town-bred classmates in the forties and fifties. It was a girlhood she now recalls realistically, with affection but without nostalgia. Many others have written about this land, its people, and its history, and Blew examines portrayals of the West in some of their writing, including B. M. Bower's Chip of the Flying U and the novels of Dorothy M. Johnson and A. B. Guthrie, Jr...
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Christmas: Penhaligon's Scented Treasury of Verse and Prose

By: Sheila Pickles [Editor]

Price: $3.48 USD

Publisher: Harmony : 1989-10-07

Seller ID: 0517573679-4-28083897

ISBN-13: 9780517573679

Binding: hardcover

Condition: Used: Acceptable

Christmas: Penhaligon's Scented Treasury of Verse and Prose

By: Sheila Pickles [Editor]

Price: $3.48 USD

Publisher: Harmony : 1989-10-07

Seller ID: 0517573679-3-24028360

ISBN-13: 9780517573679

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Good

City Wilds: Essays and Stories about Urban Nature

By: Dixon, Terrell F. [Editor]; hooks, bell [Contributor]; Hilbert, Betsy [Contributor]; Marshall, Bob [Contributor]; Siebert, Charles [Contributor]; Raymo, Chet [Contributor]; Wicinas, David [Contributor]; Louie, David [Contributor]; Chávez, Denise [Contri

Price: $15.91 USD

Publisher: University of Georgia Press : 2002-02-28

Seller ID: 082032339X-11-25272941

ISBN-13: 9780820323398

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

The assumptions we make about nature writing too often lead us to see it only as a literature about wilderness or rural areas. This anthology broadens our awareness of American nature writing by featuring the flora, fauna, geology, and climate that enrich and shape urban life. Set in neither pristine nor exotic environs, these stories and essays take us to rivers, parks, vacant lots, lakes, gardens, and zoos as they convey nature's rich disregard of city limits signs. With writings by women and men from cities in all regions of the country and from different ethnic traditions, the anthology re...
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Civil War Poetry and Prose (Dover Thrift Editions)

By: Walt Whitman

Price: $3.47 USD

Publisher: Dover Publications : 1995-10-04

Seller ID: 0486285073-3-22436440

ISBN-13: 9780486285078

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Good

Walt Whitman experienced the agonies of the Civil War firsthand, working, in his forties, as a dedicated volunteer throughout the conflict in Washington's overcrowded, understaffed military hospitals. This superb selection of his poems, letters, and prose from the war years, filled with the sights and sounds of war and its ugly aftermath, express a vast and powerful range of emotions.Among the poems include here, first published in Drum-Taps (1865) and Sequel to Drum-Taps (1866), are a number of Whitman's most famous works: "O Captain My Captain " "The Wound-Dresser," "When Lilacs Last in the...
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Civil War Poetry and Prose (Dover Thrift Editions: Poetry)

By: Walt Whitman

Price: $3.85 USD

Publisher: Dover Publications : 1995-10-04

Seller ID: 0486285073-11-26526768

ISBN-13: 9780486285078

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

Walt Whitman experienced the agonies of the Civil War firsthand, working, in his forties, as a dedicated volunteer throughout the conflict in Washington's overcrowded, understaffed military hospitals. This superb selection of his poems, letters, and prose from the war years, filled with the sights and sounds of war and its ugly aftermath, express a vast and powerful range of emotions.Among the poems include here, first published in Drum-Taps (1865) and Sequel to Drum-Taps (1866), are a number of Whitman's most famous works: "O Captain My Captain " "The Wound-Dresser," "When Lilacs Last in the...
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Conversations with Claude Levi-Strauss

By: Lévi-Strauss, Claude; Eribon, Didier; Wissing, Paula [Translator]

Price: $16.32 USD

Publisher: University Of Chicago Press : 1991-04-23

Seller ID: 0226474755-11-28666148

ISBN-13: 9780226474755

Binding: hardcover

Condition: New

At the age of eighty, one of the most influential yet reclusive intellectuals of the twentieth century consented to his first interviews in nearly thirty years. Hailed by Le Figaro as "an event," the resulting conversations between Claude Levi-Strauss and Didier Eribon (a correspondent for Le Nouvel Observateur) reveal the great anthropologist speaking of his life and work with ease and humor. Now available in English, the conversations are rich in Levi-Strauss's candid appraisals of some of the best-known figures of the Parisian intelligentsia: surrealists Andre Breton and Max Ernst, with who...
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Crossing the Danger Water: Three Hundred Years of African-American Writing

By: Deirdre Mullane [Editor]

Price: $3.57 USD

Publisher: Anchor Books / Doubleday : 1993-09-01

Seller ID: 0385422431-4-25477956

ISBN-13: 9780385422437

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Acceptable

The most comprehensive collection of writing by and about African-Americans ever to appear in one volume Never before has such an impressive and far-reaching mix of writings by African-Americans been gathered together into a single anthology. Combining an extensive selection of poetry, prose, speeches, songs, documents, and letters dating from the pre-Colonial era through today's best and most well-known writers, this anthology offers a testament to the pervasive influence of African-Americans on the political, creative, and cultural development of the United States, even well before its incep...
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Daughters of the Moon, Sisters of the Sun: Young Women and Mentors on the Transition to Womanhood

By: Wolf, Linda; Wolf, Linda; Hughes, Wind K.

Price: $3.54 USD

Publisher: New Society Publishers : 1998-07-01

Seller ID: 0865713774-4-27105362

ISBN-13: 9780865713772

Binding: paperback

Condition: Used: Acceptable

Twenty-one young women share life lessons, coming-of-age stories, and interviews with the remarkable women who influenced their growth.
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Democracy in America (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature)

By: Alexis de Tocqueville; Francis Bowen

Price: $3.43 USD

Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd : 1999-12-05

Seller ID: 1853264806-3-28116028

ISBN-13: 9781853264801

Binding: paperback

Condition: Used: Good

Abridged, with an Introduction by Patrick Renshaw. Democracy in America is a classic of political philosophy. Hailed by John Stuart Mill and Horace Greely as the finest book ever written on the nature of democracy, it continues to be an influential text on both sides of the Atlantic, above all in the emerging democracies of Eastern Europe. De Tocqueville examines the structures, institutions and operation of democracy, and shows how Europe can learn from American success and failures. His central theme is the advancement of the rule of the people, but he also predicts that slavery will bring a...
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Embodied Selves: An Anthology of Psychological Texts 1830-1890

By: Bourne Taylor, Jenny [Editor]; Shuttleworth, Sally [Editor];

Price: $9.53 USD

Publisher: Clarendon Press : 1998-05-28

Seller ID: 0198710429-3-28962360

ISBN-13: 9780198710424

Binding: paperback

Condition: Used: Good

This anthology of primary materials will help redraw our understanding of the complexity and range of Victorian psychological thought. Areas covered include: phrenology and mesmerism; theories of dreams, memory, and the unconscious; female and masculine sexuality; insanity and nervous disorders; and theories of degeneration. Texts have been chosen from a wide variety of scientific, medical, and cultural sources to illustrate the social range of these debates. Embodied Selves will be of interest to both specialist and non-specialist audiences in the areas of cultural, literary, historical, and ...
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Esquire The Meaning of Life: Wit, Wisdom, and Wonder from 65 Extraordinary People

By: Esquire [Editor]

Price: $3.57 USD

Publisher: Hearst : 2004-10-01

Seller ID: 1588162613-4-27739153

ISBN-13: 9781588162618

Binding: hardcover

Condition: Used: Acceptable

Every month in Esquire, the captains of industry (Jack Welch) and the pop culture icons (Gene Simmons, Loretta Lynn), the leaders (Rudolph Giuliani) and the loudmouths (Don Rickles), reveal their philosophy of life in the What I've Learned column. Ten entertaining years' worth of their often-humorous, always thoughtful advice, along with stunning portrait photography, is gathered in this sharply designed compilation. The contributors include Muhammad Ali, Bill O'Reilly, Faye Dunaway, former Secretary of State Robert McNamara, Hugh Hefner, Elvis Costello, Lou Reed, Suge Knight, and Julia Child....
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Fiedler on the Roof: Essays on Literature and Jewish Identity

By: Fiedler, Leslie

Price: $4.31 USD

Publisher: David R. Godine, Publisher : 1994-10-06

Seller ID: 0879239492-4-24051219

ISBN-13: 9780879239497

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Acceptable

Twelve iconoclastic and eye-opening essays on life and culture.

Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

By: Twain, Mark

Price: $3.93 USD

Publisher: Dover Publications : 1989-09-01

Seller ID: 0486261131-4-28473515

ISBN-13: 9780486261133

Binding: paperback

Condition: Used: Acceptable

"We sai1ed for America, and there made certain preparations. This took but little time. Two members of my family elected to go with me. Also a carbuncle. The dictionary says a carbuncle is a kind of jewel. Humor is out of place in a dictionary." -- Following the EquatorSo begins this classic piece of travel writing, brimming with Twain's celebrated brand of ironic, tongue-in-cheek humor. Written just before the turn of the century, the book recounts a lecture tour in which he circumnavigated the globe via steamship, including stops at the Hawaiian Islands, Australia, Fiji Islands, New Zealand,...
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Four Great American Classics

By: Melville, Herman; Twain, Mark; Crane, Stephen

Price: $3.55 USD

Publisher: Bantam Classics : 1992-12-01

Seller ID: 0553213628-4-17180874

ISBN-13: 9780553213621

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used: Acceptable

These four landmark novels of nineteenth-century American literature have gained a permanent place in our culture as great classics. They are not only part of our national heritage, but masterpieces of world literature whose deep and lasting influence is felt to this day. The Scarlet Letter vividly records America's moral and historical roots in Puritan New England and masterfully re-creates a society's preoccupation with sin, guilt, and pride.The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn carries readers along on Huck's unforgettable journey down the Mississippi in America's foremost comic epic--the firs...
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Great Waters: An Atlantic Passage

By: Cramer, Deborah

Price: $3.83 USD

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company : 2002-07-17

Seller ID: 039332334X-3-27744207

ISBN-13: 9780393323344

Binding: paperback

Condition: Used: Good

"If you've ever walked the shores of this great ocean...wondering what lay beyond--this fine book will let you know."--Bill McKibben, author of Long Distance: A Year of Living Strenuously "Cramer...has written powerfully of the threats to its continuing productivity."--William K. Reilly, Chairman, World Wildlife Fund " A] vital and eloquent narrative, biblical in scope...an eye-opener."--Peter Davison, author of Breathing Room " H]ugely satisfying....Not since Rachel Carson has there been such an intimate portrait of a whole sea."--Jennifer Ackerman, author of Chance in the House of Fate: A Na...
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Category: American