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AN NPR BOOK-OF-THE-DAY • A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY STAFF PICK • A NYLON MUST-READ • A FORTUNE NEW BOOK TO READ IN AUGUST“And, at the center of it all, am I actually nice or am I just performing a role I think I’m expected to play?” Mia Mercado is a razor-sharp...

This book was the first sign of the gorgeous Indian summer which was to diffuse its golden splendours over the remainder of Alfred Tennyson's career, and to end only with his life.Book InformationISBN 9781138563674Author Macneile W DixonFormat...

"A satirist in the tradition of Mark Twain and H.L. Mencken, John Leo has been long entertaining his readers by pillorying the worst excesses of the Political Correctness movement while lifting high the standard of common sense. This collection of...

This collection of essays discusses some of the important books, authors, and literary trends of a volatile era in American and world literature whose cultural repercussions are still being felt. Peter S. Prescott was one of the most penetrating,...

This volume contains nearly all the criticism that Alexander Coleman wrote for The New Criterion between 1994 and 2003. A specialist in Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American literature, Coleman was also a superb essayist on music, and his wide...

Cicero is best known for his political speeches. His Catilinarian orations are regularly studied in third or fourth year Latin; his self-proclaimed role as savior of the Republic is much discussed in courses on Roman history. But, however fascinating...

George Yeo: Musings (In 3 Volumes) available as a set hereOver sessions which lasted two to three hours each time, every week for half a year, George Yeo met and mused over a wide range of topics with writer Woon Tai Ho and research assistant Keith Yap...

George Yeo: Musings (In 3 Volumes) available as a set hereOver sessions which lasted two to three hours each time, every week for half a year, George Yeo met and mused over a wide range of topics with writer Woon Tai Ho and research assistant Keith Yap...

""Wide-ranging yet consistently affecting, these pieces offer a crucial and inspired survey of the immigrant experience in America."" –Publishers Weekly"[These contributions] touch on so many different facets of the immigrant experience that readers will...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781589880382Author Gabriel ZaidFormat HardbackPage Count 182Imprint Paul Dry Books, IncPublisher Paul Dry Books, IncWeight(grams) 244g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772124576Author Michael CrummeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint University of Alberta PressPublisher University of Alberta PressWeight(grams)...

"The Francis Effect was about proposing something completely absurd, as absurd as borders are. If Immigrant Movement was for the thousands of people who went there, The The Francis Effect was just for one person, the pope. But the more people that...

During the last few decades suburbia has grown enormously and become a phenomenon attracting the attention of scholars as well as practitioners by whom it is seen as an increasingly significant and complex area of modern life. The essays in this volume...

"It might be the best book on animals I've ever read. It's also the only one that's made me laugh out loud." -Helen MacDonald for The New York Times Book Review Beginning with Yuka, a 39,000 year old mummified woolly mammoth recently found in...

Vade Mecum brings together Richard Skinner's best essays, reviews and interviews from 1992-2014. There are close critical engagements with writers (Kazuo Ishiguro, Italo Calvino, Shakespeare's The Tempest) and composers (Erik Satie, Iannis Xenakis, Luc...

"A little while ago I came by chance upon a slightly different way of looking at the world which I called 'STA'. I had to call it something. The essays collected here were written from that perspective, and so I hope they may serve as a casual...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632461582Author Kim McLarinFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Ig PublishingPublisher Ig Publishing

A collection of new and startlingly original essays from an acclaimed poet, essayist, and playwrightJay Wright is widely recognized as one of the most important American poets of the past half century. But in recent years, he has also written a series of...

A collection of insightful and personal essays on the role of food in our lives In an age of mass factory farming, processed and pre-packaged meals, and unprecedented food waste, how does one eat ethically? Featuring a highly diverse ensemble of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598535594Author Norman MailerFormat HardbackPage Count 525Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of America

Madame Germaine de Stael is often regarded as the "mistress to an age", or (like England and Russia) one of the three great European "powers" of the 19th century. She was in some sense both, but she was also an important and influential writer whose...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398439764Author Asif AliFormat HardbackPage Count 178Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

First published in 1916 and one of South Africa's great political books, Native Life in South Africa was first and foremost a response to the Native's Land Act of 1913, and was written by one of the most gifted and influential writers and journalists of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809595600Author Sir Winston S ChurchillFormat HardbackPage Count 276Imprint Wildside PressPublisher Wildside PressWeight(grams) 562g

Brief Encounters expands the vibrant field of shorts-as these sharply focused pieces have come to be known-with nearly eighty new selections: representing an impressive range of voices, perspectives, sensibilities and forms. From the rant to the rave,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143330110Author Zai WhitakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Penguin Books IndiaPublisher Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd

The verb esperar means to wait. It also means to hope.-"The Past Was a Small Notebook, Much Scribbled-Upon", Cora Sire Waiting, that most human of experiences, saturates all of our lives. We spend part of each day waiting-for birth, death,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140145786Author William BoydFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Granta BooksPublisher Granta BooksWeight(grams) 351gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 146mm * 15mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312426712Author Susan SontagFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USA

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781897126455Author Erin MoureFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint NeWest PressPublisher NeWest PressWeight(grams) 508g

Arranged in three parts, Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write opens with Claire's most personal essays - reflections on a childhood divided between cultures, and between dueling models of womanhood. It is here, in these early years,...

Music, race, politics, and conscience - in these eight essays written over the span of a decade and a half, T. R. Hummer explains how, for him, such abiding concerns revolve around the practice of poetry and the evolution of a culturally responsible...

The Maine Woods, vast and largely unsettled, are often described as unchanged since Henry David Thoreau's 1847 journey across the backcountry, in spite of the realities of Indian dispossession and the visible signs of logging, settlement, tourism, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060847326Author Aaron HicklinFormat PaperbackPage Count 215Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 181g

Introduction by Dairmid Gunn Neil M Gunn (1892 - 1973), one of Scotland's most distinguished and highly regarded novelists of the 20th century, was a prolific writer. While he is best known for his fictional work Gunn was also a perceptive and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780848746391Author Mr Rick BraggFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Oxmoor House, IncorporatedPublisher Oxmoor House, Incorporated

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681377261Author Brian DillonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,...

"Be with me always-take any form-drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!" Thus does Heathcliff beg his dead Cathy in Wuthering Heights. He wants to be haunted-he insists on it. Randon Billings Noble does too. Instead of...

Companion Spider is the accumulated work of a poet and translator who goes more deeply into the art and its process and demands than anyone since Robert Duncan. Clayton Eshleman is one of our most admired and controversial poets, the translator of such...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312422547Author Mario Vargas LlosaFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USA