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Cabinet 22: Insecurity by Sina Najafi 9781932698183
$9.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781932698183Author Sina NajafiFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint CabinetPublisher Cabinet -
The Book of Marvels: A Compendium of Everyday Things by Lorna Crozier 9781926812755
RRP: $15.47$14.96In a series of playful and startling prose meditations, celebrated writer Lorna Crozier brings her rapt attention to the small matter of household objects: everything from doorknobs, washing machines, rakes, and zippers to the kitchen sink. Operating as... -
The First XV: A Selection of the Best Rugby Writing by Gareth Williams 9781906998028
RRP: $12.89$10.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906998028Author Gareth WilliamsFormat HardbackPage Count 100Imprint Parthian BooksPublisher Parthian Books -
Psalm to Whom(e) by Diane Glancy 9781885983343
RRP: $16.76$11.13In Psalm to Whom(e), the restless and astonishing Diane Glancy continues to break new ground with a hybrid collection of personal writings that considers the relationship between place and faith; the need for movement, stability, and inner exploration;... -
The Death of the Artist: A 24-Hour Book by Sina Najafi 9781932698893
RRP: $12.90$9.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781932698893Author Sina NajafiFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint CabinetPublisher Cabinet -
Essentially: Essays by Richard Terrill 9781737405139
RRP: $25.74$16.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781737405139Author Richard TerrillFormat PaperbackImprint Holy Cow PressPublisher Holy Cow Press -
Imagining Selves: Essays in Honor of Patricia Meyer Spacks by Rivka Swenson 9781611493412
$154.14The thirteen essays in Imagining Selves survey diverse cultural artifacts that include memoirs, histories, plays, poems, courtesy manuals, children's tales, novels, paintings, and even resin from the early seventeenth century to the threshold of the... -
Taut Lines: Extraordinary True Fishing Stories by Cameron Pierce 9781567926132
RRP: $18.05$16.73A collection of great fishing stories by classic and contemporary authors—Zane Gray, Rudyard Kipling, Izaak Walton, James Prosek—broad in their reach and sweep.Ranging in location from the Sierras to Afghanistan, and there is as much meditative... -
Little Boxes by Caroline Casey 9781566894722
RRP: $16.76$16.65What happens when television is part of your cultural DNA? Twelve writers talk about their influences, and they're more Magnum PI that Marcel Proust. This is cultural criticism from an enthusiast's point of view taking sitcoms and dramedies and very... -
Cross Worlds: Transcultural Poetics: An Anthology by Anne Waldman 9781566893589
RRP: $18.05$16.95Cross Words refers to cultural hybrids, trans-cultural alliances, and associations. This fascinating compendium documents--in essays, conversations, and socratic raps--the vital work poets perform when they write across borders. Anne Waldman is the... -
Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue: Essays, A Play, Two Poems and a Prayer by Tony Kushner 9781559361064
$30.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Lambda Literary Awards (Drama/Theater) 1995.Book InformationISBN 9781559361064Author Tony KushnerFormat HardbackPage Count 276Imprint Theatre Communications Group... -
In Time's Shadow: Stories About Impermanence by Marilyn Sewell 9781558968431
RRP: $16.76$14.47Minister, author and activist, Marilyn Sewell, reflects on the everyday, the places we live and work, the thoughts we all have but hardly ever share, though they may carry the most profound of our human concerns. Using a variety of short literary forms -... -
Up Up, Down Down: Essays by Cheston Knapp 9781501161032
RRP: $20.64$12.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501161032Author Cheston KnappFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm)... -
The End of the End of the Earth: Essays by Jonathan Franzen 9781250234896
RRP: $21.93$18.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250234896Author Jonathan FranzenFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USA -
What the Poets Are Doing by Rob Taylor 9780889713437
$19.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889713437Author Rob TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Nightwood EditionsPublisher Nightwood Editions -
A Yankee in Canada by Henry David Thoreau 9780882409221
RRP: $12.89$11.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780882409221Author Henry David ThoreauFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint West Winds PressPublisher Graphic Arts Center Publishing Co -
The Mechanics Of Solids: History and Evolution: A Festschrift in Honor of Arnold D. Kerr by Michael Chajes 9780874139914
$147.90This book is an outgrowth of a 2004 symposium held at the University of Delaware in honor of Dr. Kerr's retirement after a thirty-year career at the university. It includes a biography and publications list of Arnold D. Kerr, as well as twelve papers on... -
187 Reasons Mexicanos Can't Cross the Border: Undocuments 1971-2007 by Juan Felipe Herrera 9780872864627
RRP: $19.34$17.65A hybrid collection of texts written and performed on the road, from Mexico City to San Francisco, from Central America to central California, illustrated throughout with photos and artwork. Rants, manifestos, newspaper cutups, street theater,... -
Available Means: An Anthology Of Women's Rhetoric(s) by Joy S. Ritchie 9780822957539
$56.06"I say that even later someone will remember us."-Sappho, Fragment 147, sixth century, BC Sappho's prediction came true; fragments of work by the earliest woman writer in Western literate history have in fact survived into the twenty-first century... -
Kingdoms in the Air: Dispatches from the Far Away by Bob Shacochis 9780802126801
RRP: $16.76$15.40"Whether he's in Cuba, Mozambique, or attempting to climb Mount Ararat, [Shacochis] vividly places you in both the past and present of his destinations . . . [his] restlessness and recklessness, all couched in a headlong maximalist prose, are impossible... -
Emerson's Romantic Style by Julie K. Ellison 9780691639987
$131.13Professor Ellison demonstrates that the characteristic difficulties of Emerson's prose--its repetitiveness, discontinuity, and tonal peculiarities--are motivated by his use of interpretation to free himself from recurringly intimidating aspects of... -
The Early Essays and Romances of Sir William Temple Bt. with The Life and Character of Sir William Temple by his sister Lady Giffard by Sir William Temple 9780199679720
$70.20A scholarly edition of essays by Sir William Temple and his sister Lady Giffard. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.Book InformationISBN 9780199679720Author Sir William... -
Ruskin and the Dawn of the Modern by Dinah Birch 9780198184546
$88.24This interdisciplinary collection of original essays reconsiders John Ruskin's legacy, suggesting that the vigour and vitality of his late work played an important role in shaping the twentieth-century mind. The contributors have focused on such diverse... -
On The Sublime by Editor 9780198141624
$86.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780198141624Author EditorFormat HardbackPage Count 226Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 310g -
The Literary Genres of Edmund Burke: The Political Uses of Literary Form by Frans De Bruyn 9780198121824
$81.31The Literary Genres of Edmund Burke brings a literary perspective to bear upon Edmund Burke's political writings. Burke understood himself to be a `literary' writer, a claim that held a much greater cultural and political significance in his time than it... -
On Democracy by E. B White 9780062905451
RRP: $16.76$15.08A New York Times Book Review New & Noteworthy Title "For democracy's weary champions, White's time-tested prose is a shot of adrenaline" (Madeleine Albright). "I am a member of a party of one, and I live in an age of fear." ... -
Spheres of Action: Speech and Performance in Romantic Culture by Alexander Dick 9781487526115
RRP: $36.11$31.14With contributions from leading Romanticist scholars who draw on literary history, performance studies, philosophy, linguistics, and anthropology, Spheres of Action examines the significant intersections between language and performance during the... -
When the Kissing Had to Stop: Cult Studs, Khmer Newts, Langley Spooks, Techno-Geeks, Video Drones, Author Gods, Serial Killers, Vampire Media, Alien Sperm-Suckers, Satanic therapis by John Leonard 9781565846432
RRP: $15.47$14.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781565846432Author John LeonardFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint The New PressPublisher The New PressWeight(grams) 439g -
The World Is on Fire: Scrap, Treasure, and Songs of Apocalypse by Joni Tevis 9781571313478
RRP: $15.47$14.56The sermons of Joni Tevis' youth filled her with dread, a sense "that an even worse story--one you hadn't read yet--could likewise come true." In this revelatory collection, she reckons with her childhood fears by exploring the uniquely American... -
Teenage Hipster in the Modern World: From the Birth of Punk to the Land of Bush: Thirty Years of Apocalyptic Journalism by Mark Jacobson 9780802170088
$14.49In the pages of The Village Voice, Rolling Stone, Esquire, New York, Maxim, and GQ, Mark Jacobson has carried on in the tradition of such titans as Joe Mitchell, A. J. Liebling, Jimmy Breslin, and Pete Hamill as one of New York City's finest journalistic... -
Alternating Current by Octavio Paz 9781628725315
RRP: $15.47$11.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628725315Author Octavio PazFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Arcade PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 208mm *... -
If History Has Taught Us Anything by Farhat Nasreen 9789353334789
RRP: $9.03$6.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789353334789Author Farhat NasreenFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Rupa & CoPublisher Rupa & Co -
The Only Sounds We Make by Lee Zacharias 9781938235009
RRP: $16.76$14.58These twelve deeply metaphorical essays are both intensely personal and vitally concerned with the larger world, including the kingdom beyond our ken. Exploring subjects as diverse as her father's suicide, the great migration that changed the racial... -
Small Fires: Essays by Julie Marie Wade 9781936747023
RRP: $15.47$12.81Wade was the 2009 choice for the Linda Bruckheimer Series in Kentucky Literature Author has an extensive publication record, and we can expect Small Fires to find reviews in her target audience -- journals and literary magazines Wade's essays confront... -
Pensativities: Selected Essays by Mia Couto 9781771960076
RRP: $18.05$15.71BY THE FINALIST FOR THE 2015 MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE THE WINNER OF THE 2014 NEUSTADT PRIZE AND THE WINNER OF THE 2013 CAMOES PRIZE "One of the greatest living writers in the Portuguese language."--Philip Graham, The Millions "Subtle and elegant... -
Only Love Can Break Your Heart by David Samuels 9781595581877
RRP: $25.79$22.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781595581877Author David SamuelsFormat HardbackPage Count 372Imprint The New PressPublisher The New PressWeight(grams) 553g -
Views from the Loft: A Portable Writer's Workshop by Daniel Slager 9781571313232
RRP: $19.34$17.45Teachers, exercises, mentors, critiques, humor, and inspiration: these form the fuel all writers need when they get down to work every day. For decades the Loft Literary Center has provided this fuel to an enormous community of writers. Views from the... -
Food and Culture in the Works of Ford Madox Ford, Gertrude Stein, and Virginia Woolf: Culinary Civilizations by Nanette OʼBrien 9780198871729
RRP: $90.30$82.22Writing about food has long been a part of autobiographical expression that combines culinary record-keeping and histories, drawing on the personal and the cultural. Concentrating on the transatlantic work of Ford Madox Ford, Gertrude Stein, and Virginia... -
From the Elephant's Back: Collected Essays & Travel Writings by Lawrence Durrell
RRP: $43.85$36.56"...the proverb says that whoever sees the world from the back of an elephant learns the secrets of the jungle and becomes a seer. I had to be content to become a poet." -Lawrence Durrell Best known for his novels and travel writing, Lawrence... -
Italoamericana: The Literature of the Great Migration, 1880-1943 by Francesco Durante 9780823260621
$60.13To appreciate the life of the Italian immigrant enclave from the great heart of the Italian migration to its settlement in America requires that one come to know how these immigrants saw their communities as colonies of the mother country. Edited with...