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Proper Study of Mankind

By: Berlin, Isaiah

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Seller ID: 458267

ISBN: 0374237506

Binding: Hardcover

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A preeminent philosopher and historian of ideas, Isaiah Berlin is a fascinating figure who has known virtually everyone and influenced much of the intellectual development in this century. The Proper Study of Mankind is a fascinating selection of Berlin's works.
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Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community: Eight Essays

By: Berry, Wendell

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Publisher: May 2017

Seller ID: 450304

ISBN: 0679756515

Binding: Trade Paperback

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In this new collection of essays, Wendell Berry continues his work as one of America's most necessary social commentators. With wisdom and clear, ringing prose, he tackles head-on some of the most difficult problems which face us as we near the end of the twentieth century.

Berry begins the title essay with the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas hearings as an example of a "process that has been well established and well respected for at least two hundred years--the process . . . of community disintegration." Community, a "locally understood interdependence of local people, local culture, local ec...
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Best Creative Nonfiction

By: Best - Gutkind, Lee (EDT)

Price: $6.00

Publisher: November 2009

Seller ID: 483258

ISBN: 0393330036

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Lee Gutkind, proclaimed the "Godfather behind creative nonfiction" by Vanity Fair, along with the staff of his landmark journal Creative Nonfiction, has culled alternative publications, 'zines, blogs, podcasts, literary journals, and other often overlooked publications in search of new voices and innovative ideas essays and articles written with panache and power."The Truth About Cops and Dogs," by Rebecca Skloot, describes a vicious pack of wild dogs, preying on the domesticated pets of Manhattan. Monica Wojcik's "The w00t Files," for the chic geek crowd, comes directly from John McPhee's fam...
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The Best American Essays 2018 (The Best American Series )

By: Best American

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Publisher: Mariner Books: October 2018

Seller ID: 469726

ISBN: 0544817346

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The Pulitzer-Prize winning and Guggenheim-honored Hilton Als curates the best essays from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites, bringing "the fierce style of street reading and the formal tradition of critical inquiry, reads culture, race, and gender" (New York Times) to the task.

"The essay, like love, like life, is indefinable, but you know an essay when you see it, and you know a great one when you feel it, because it is concentrated life," writes Hilton Als in his introduction. Expertly guided by Als's instinct and intellect, The Best American Essays 2...
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Best American Essays 2016

By: Best American/Franzen, Jonatha

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Seller ID: 344290

ISBN: 0544812107

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A true essay is "something hazarded, not definitive, not authoritative; something ventured on the basis of the author's personal experience and subjectivity," writes guest editor Jonathan Franzen in his introduction. However, his main criterion for selecting The Best American Essays 2016 was, in a word, risk. Whether the risks involved championing an unpopular opinion, the possibility of ruining a professional career, or irrevocably offending family, for Franzen, "the writer has to be like the firefighter, whose job, while everyone else is fleeing the flames, is to run straight into the...
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My Sky Blue Trades: Growing Up Counter in a Contrary Time

By: Birkerts, Sven

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Seller ID: 358335

ISBN: 0142003093

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Author of the widely acclaimed New York Times Notable Book, The Gutenberg Elegies, distinguished critic and essayist Birkerts explores in this brilliantly written memoir what it means to be an American with roots in a distant culture.
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One Art: Letters of Elizabeth Bishop

By: Bishop, Elizabeth

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Seller ID: 389702

ISBN: 0374226407

Binding: Hardcover

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This collection is a magnificent confirmation of Lowell's prediction. From several thousand letters, written over fifty years - from 1928 when she was seventeen (and already a poet) to the day of her death, in Boston in 1979 - Robert Giroux, her editor during her lifetime, has selected over 500 and has written a detailed and informative introduction. In one sense, Elizabeth Bishop's letters constitute her autobiography, including the story of her love for Lota Soares in Brazil, which ended with Lota's tragic suicide fifteen years later. They also record her intense relationships with her early...
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Magic Hours: Essays on Creators and Creation

By: Bissell, Tom

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Publisher: Believer Magazine: April 2012

Seller ID: 469785

ISBN: 1936365766

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In Magic Hours, award-winning essayist Tom Bissell explores the highs and lows of the creative process. He takes us from the set of The Big Bang Theory to the first novel of Ernest Hemingway to the final work of David Foster Wallace; from the films of Werner Herzog to the film of Tommy Wiseau to the editorial meeting in which Paula Fox's work was relaunched into the world. Originally published in magazines such as The Believer, The New Yorker, and Harper's, these essays represent ten years of Bissell's best writing on every aspect of creation--be it Iraq War ...
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You Can't Win

By: Black, Jack

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Publisher: February 2016

Seller ID: 310463

ISBN: 1902593022

Binding: Trade Paperback

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The favorite book of William Burroughs. A journey into the hobo underworld, freight hopping around the still Wild West, becoming a highwayman and member of the yegg (criminal) brotherhood, getting hooked on opium, doing stints in jail or escaping, often with the assistance of crooked cops or judges. Our lost history revived.. With an introduction by Burroughs. A BookSense 77 selection.
In Oakland, California on March 24, 2015 a fire destroyed the AK Press warehouse along with several other businesses. Please consider visiting the AK Press website to learn more about the fundraiser to ...
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Heroine's Bookshelf: Life Lessons from Jane Austen to Laura Ingalls Wilder

By: Blakemore, Erin

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Publisher: February 2016

Seller ID: 452722

ISBN: 0061958778

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

A testament to inspirational women throughout literature, Erin Blakemore's exploration of classic heroines and their equally admirable authors shows today's women how to best tap into their inner strengths and live life with intelligence, grace, vitality and aplomb. This collection of unforgettable characters--including Anne Shirley, Jo March, Scarlett O'Hara, and Jane Eyre--and outstanding authors--like Jane Austen, Harper Lee, and Laura Ingalls Wilder--is an impassioned look at literature's most compelling heroines, both on the page and off. Readers who found inspiration in books by Toni Mor...
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Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?

By: Bloom, Harold

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Publisher: March 2014

Seller ID: 65535

ISBN: 1573222844

Binding: Hardcover

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In this inspiring book, Harold Bloom, our preeminent literary critic, takes us from the Bible to twentieth-century writing, searching for the ways in which literature can inform our lives. Through comparisons of the Book of Job and Ecclesiastes; Plato and Homer; Cervantes and Shakespeare; Montaigne and Bacon; Johnson and Goethe; Emerson and Nietzsche; Freud and Proust; and finally a discussion of the Gospel of Thomas and St. Augustine, "Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?" distills for us the various-and even contrary-forms of wisdom that have shaped our thinking.
For anyone who reads to find me...
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Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds

By: Bloom, Harold

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Publisher: August 2012

Seller ID: 88123

ISBN: 0446527173

Binding: Hardcover

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Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human

By: Bloom, Harold

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Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover: October 1998

Seller ID: 103551

ISBN: 1573221201

Binding: Hardcover

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Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human is the culmination of Harold Bloom's life's work in reading, writing about, and teaching Shakespeare. It is his passionate and convincing analysis of the way in which Shakespeare not merely represented human nature as we know it today, but actually created it: before Shakespeare, there was characterization; after Shakespeare, there was character, men and women with highly individual personalities -- Hamlet, Falstaff, Iago, Cleopatra, Macbeth, Rosalind, and Lear, among them. In making his argument, Bloom leads us through a brilliant and comprehensive read...
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Epic

By: Bloom, Harold

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Seller ID: 385728

ISBN: 1582882010

Binding: Hardcover

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Dramatist and Dramas

By: Bloom, Harold

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Seller ID: 385729

ISBN: 1582881995

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What's to Become of the Boy? Or, Something to Do With Books

By: Boll, Heinrich

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Publisher: May 2012

Seller ID: 190350

ISBN: 0394530160

Binding: Hardcover

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Evergreen Review: The German Scene, No. 21, Vol. 5

By: Boll, Heinrich; Celan Paul; Andersch Alfred; Bachmann Ingeborg; Kesting Marianne

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Publisher: Grove Press: January 1961

Seller ID: 448400

ISBN: B000FNLJM0

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Rhetoric of Irony

By: Booth, Wayne C.

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Publisher: September 2014

Seller ID: 281775

ISBN: 0226065537

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Perhaps no other critical label has been made to cover more ground than "irony," and in our time irony has come to have so many meanings that by itself it means almost nothing. In this work, Wayne C. Booth cuts through the resulting confusions by analyzing how we manage to share quite specific ironies--and why we often fail when we try to do so. How does a reader or listener recognize the kind of statement which requires him to reject its "clear" and "obvious" meaning? And how does any reader know where to stop, once he has embarked on the hazardous and exhilarating path of rejecting "what the...
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An Introduction to American Literature

By: Borges, Jorge Luis

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Publisher: Schocken Books: June 1971

Seller ID: 465094

ISBN: 0805204032

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Craft of Verse

By: Borges, Jorge Luis

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Seller ID: 458606

ISBN: 0674008200

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Available in cloth, paper, or audio CD
Through a twist of fate that the author of Labyrinths himself would have relished, these lost lectures given in English at Harvard in 1967-1968 by Jorge Luis Borges return to us now, a recovered tale of a life-long love affair with literature and the English language. Transcribed from tapes only recently discovered, This Craft of Verse captures the cadences, candor, wit, and remarkable erudition of one of the most extraordinary and enduring literary voices of the twentieth century. In its wide-ranging commentary and exquisite...
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Category: Essays/Writer Bios