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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785279744Author Charles L. CrowFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 153g

Praise for Michael McClure: "Michael McClure shares a place with the great William Blake, with the visionary Shelley, with the passionate D.H. Lawrence."--Robert Creeley "McClure's poetry is a blob of protoplasmic energy."--Allen Ginsberg "Without...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486819266Author Theodore WeldFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780547241609Author Dave EggersFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 417gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 142mm * 26mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Lambda Literary Awards (Lesbian Small Press) 1990.Book InformationISBN 9781879960107Author Gloria AnzalduaFormat PaperbackPage Count 446Imprint Aunt Lute...

California is still the world's biggest hideout. The only thing more western is the Pacific Ocean, where, if the Big One happens, California might find a home at the bottom. One of those hiding out is Peter Bowman, a former army brat, and lecturer at...

The raucous, exuberant, often wildly funny account of a journey through America and Mexico, Jack Kerouac's On the Road instantly defined a generation on its publication in 1957: it was, in the words of a New York Times reviewer, "the clearest and most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905881932Author Sigrid RausingFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Granta MagazinePublisher Granta MagazineWeight(grams) 312gDimensions(mm) 209mm *...

"A dark, troubling vision of life in the desert, defined broadly; of mountain lions and drug kingpins, Mexican hopes and Indian feuds."-Los Angeles Times"In these powerful epic tales of the Sonora Desert, Bowden peoples the harsh land on both sides of...

Until now, the study of American Indian literature has tended to concentrate on contemporary writing. Although the field has grown rapidly, early works-especially poetry-remain mostly unknown and inaccessible. Changing Is Not Vanishing simultaneously...

A look at Malcolm X's life and times from his Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer, Manning MarableManning Marable's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, has reshaped perceptions of one of America's great revolutionary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781328465818Author Sheila HetiFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 140mm *...

Noni the Pony stands under one tree, and watches her two friends dance by the sea. She gives three speckled hens a ride up the hill... Come on another adventure with Noni in this delightful rhyming story. Alison Lester's books are favourites with...

Following the assassination of a British Colonel in a guerrilla ambush by communist terrorists during the Malayan Emergency in 1954, Jason Rance, an English company commander in a Gurkha battalion and jungle expert, is tasked with tracking down the...

Oxford Studies in Private Law Theory is a biennial forum for some of the best new work in private law theory by scholars from around the world. The essays range widely over issues in general private law theory as well as specific fields, including the...

"Philip was a visionary like Blake, and he really saw the whole world in a grain of sand." -Lawrence Ferlinghetti"An inspired consciousness set at full tilt in raging protest, kisses, prayers, blessings, and outraged demands. All from the deepest silence...

In 1829 David Walker, a free black born in Wilmington, North Carolina, wrote one of America's most provocative political documents of the nineteenth century, Walker's Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World. Decrying the savage and unchristian...

A charmed collection of some of the best essays from the widely-known "City" section of the New York Times "There are eight million stories in the Naked City." This famous line from the 1948 film The Naked City has become an emblem of New York City...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781931082419Author Ezra PoundFormat HardbackPage Count 1363Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of AmericaWeight(grams) 865gDimensions(mm)...

Classic African American Women's Narratives offers teachers, students, and general readers a one-volume collection of the most memorable and important writing in prose by African American women before 1865. The book reproduces in one volume the canon of...

Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882) has been widely recognized since his own time as one of the most influential writers in the history of Western thought. His books were widely read by specialists and the general public, and his influence had been...

The fourth volume in PAJ's Performance Ideas series, The Sun on the Tongue unfolds in an expanding universe of philosophical reflections on love, art, war, nature, and human existence. Etel Adnan, the internationally renowned Arab American writer and...

From New York Times bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde comes an unforgettable story of courage and finding forgiveness in an unforgiving wilderness. Seventeen-year-old Ethan Underwood is totally unprepared to search for his father in the Blythe...

The first and only anthology dedicated to Douglass's three journeys to Britain, covering oratory, print and visual culture The only monograph and anthology to focus on Frederick Douglass's relationship with Britain through unexplored oratory and print...

Beautiful Aliens: A Steve Abbott Reader is a landmark collection representing the visionary life's work of beloved Bay Area luminary Steve Abbott. It brings together a broad cross-section of literary and artistic work spanning three decades of poetry,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Literary Award (Open Book) 2013. Commended for National Book Critics Circle Award (Criticism) 2012.Book InformationISBN 9781555976071Author Kevin YoungFormat...

The Tenth Edition introduces diverse, compelling, relevant texts-from Civil War songs and stories to The Turn of the Screw to The Great Gatsby to poems by Juan Felipe Herrera and Claudia Rankine to a science fiction cluster featuring Octavia Butler and N...

Proving himself yet again a master of every form, Barth conquers in his latest the ruminative short essay-" jeux d'esprits," as Barth describes them. These mostly one-page tidbits pay homage to Barth's literary influences while retaining his trademark...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385424011Author Marita GoldenFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060959487Author John FanteFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 445g

An uplifting collection of speeches by African American women, curated by the civil and human rights activist, scholar, and author When Mary Ann Shadd Cary-the first Black woman publisher in North America-declared, "break every yoke . . . let the...

In North America, the Indigenous literature we know today reaches back thousands of years to when the continent's original inhabitants first circled fires and shared tales of emergence and creation, journey and quest, heroism and trickery. Sean Teuton...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994726216Author Brian HassettFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Gets Things Done PublishingPublisher Gets Things Done PublishingWeight(grams) 259g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789387883178Author Duane VorheesFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Hawakal PublishersPublisher Hawakal PublishersWeight(grams) 97gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

This important book argues that Henry James reveals in his fiction a sophisticated theory of moral understanding and moral motivation. The claim is that in his novels and short stories James is engaged in a distinctive kind of original thinking and...

"An invaluable resource to students, scholars, and general readers alike."-Amazon.comThis colleciton assembles more than forty speeches, lectures, and essays critical to the abolitionist crusade, featuring writing by William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439183441Author Walter IsaacsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 285Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 395g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629635187Author Iain McIntyreFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062334732Author Gregg HecimovichFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm) 231mm...