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Feel Like Going Home: Portraits in Blues and Rock ‘n’ Roll

Peter Guralnick

Examines the cultural factors which have influenced the musical careers and styles of such individuals as Jerry Lee Lewis, Muddy Waters, and Johnny Shines.

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All the King’s Men

Robert Warren

Willie Stark’s obsession with political power leads to the ultimate corruption of his gubernatorial administration.

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Delta Wedding: A Novel

Eudora Welty

A vivid and charming portrait of a large southern family, the Fairchilds, who live on a plantation in the Mississippi delta. The story, set in 1923, is exquisitely woven from…

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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Jonathan Safran Foer

Oskar Schell, the nine-year-old son of a man killed in the World Trade Center attacks, searches the five boroughs of New York City for a lock that fits a black…

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White Ink: Interviews on Sex, Text, and Politics

Helene Cixous

These interviews with Hélène Cixous offer invaluable insight into her philosophy and criticism. Culled from newspapers, journals, and books, White Ink collects the best of these conversations, which address the…

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Redemption Songs: A Life of the Nineteenth-Century Maori Leader TE Kooti Arikirangi TE Turuki

Judith Binney

This book is a biography of a nineteenth-century Maori warrior, prophet, guerrilla fighter and leader. Published in New Zealand in 1996, the book won the prestigious Montana Book of the…

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One Magic Square: Grow Your Own Food on One Square Metre

Lolo Houbein

One Magic Square shows how, with a ten-minute effort, you can start your own productive food garden on a single square metre. By following these plot designs you can keep…

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The Landmark Xenophon’s Hellenika

Xenophon

From the editor of the widely praised Landmark Thucydides and Landmark Herodotus comes a new edition of the Hellenika, the primary source for the events of the final seven years…

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The Sounds of Poetry: a Brief Guide

Robert Pinsky

Citing the work of 50 different poets–from Shakespeare and Donne to Elizabeth Bishop and Frank Bidart–the Poet Laureate explains the principles of the sounds of what is called poetry.

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Death in the Andes

Mario Vargas Llosa

Originally published in Spanish as Lituma en los Andes.

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Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

Mario Vargas Llosa

Reality merges with fantasy in this hilarious comic novel about the world of radio soap operas and the pitfalls of forbidden passion by the bestselling author of The Storyteller. Sexy…

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Cuba: The Land Of Miracles: A Journey Through Modern Cuba

Stephen Smith

*The definitive book on modern Cuba.

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Best-Kept Secrets of Paris

Michael Kerrigan

Paris is celebrated for its effortless elegance, romance and style. Shown here in all its arresting beauty, from the magnificent Notre-Dame and the unmissable Louvre, to the artistic backstreets of…

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This Incredible Need to Believe

Julia Kristeva

Julia Kristeva uses both dialogue and essay to analyze our incredible need to believe –the inexorable push toward faith that, for Kristeva, lies at the heart of the psyche and…

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The Dark Rose

Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

The marriage of Eleanor Courteney and Robert Morland heralded the founding of the great Morland dynasty. Now Paul, their great grandson is caught up in the conflict of kings and…

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Politics and History: Montesquieu, Rousseau, Marx

Louis Althusser

Provides appraisals of major writers.

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Charles Latham’s Gardens of Italy

Helena Attlee

Presents a record of Italy’s greatest gardens at the beginning of the last century. This work relates the history of the gardens and the lives of the princes, popes and…

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Nietzsche and Levinas: After the Death of a Certain God

The essays that Jill Stauffer and Bettina Bergo collect in this volume locate multiple affinities between the philosophies of Nietzsche and Levinas. Both philosophers question the nature of subjectivity and…

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Breeding: A Partial History of the Eighteenth Century

Jenny Davidson

The Enlightenment commitment to reason naturally gave rise to a belief in the perfectibility of man. Influenced by John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, many eighteenth-century writers argued that the proper…

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Narrating Evil: A Postmetaphysical Theory of Reflective Judgment

Maria Pia Lara

Conceptions of evil have changed dramatically over time. This work explores what has changed in our understanding of evil, why the transformation matters, and how we can learn from this…

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Coparticipant Psychoanalysis: Toward a New Theory of Clinical Inquiry

John Fiscalini

Traditionally, two clinical models have been dominant in psychoanalysis: the classical paradigm, which views the analyst as an objective mirror, and the participant-observation paradigm, which views the analyst as an…

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The Sorrows of an American

Siri Hustvedt

When Erik Davidsen and his sister, Inga, find a disturbing note among their late father’s papers, they believe he may be implicated in a mysterious death. This masterful novel reveals…

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Sister Pelagia and the Red Cockerel: A Novel

Boris Akunin

The third installment of the Sister Pelagia series pleases lovers of mysteries, as well as fans of classic Russian literature ( USA Today ).

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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Ape: A Caprice

Michel Butor

Like James Joyce’s and Dylan Thomas’s similar titles, Butor’s novel is autobiographical in nature and explores the way a writer develops. Shortly after World War II a young man travels…

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Newton and the Counterfeiter: The Unknown Detective Career of the World’s Greatest Scientist

Thomas Levenson

In 1695, counterfeiter William Chaloner was rapidly rising in London’s underworld. Then he crossed paths with the formidable new Warden of His Majesty’s Mint–renowned scientist Isaac Newton–and the two played…

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Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son

Michael Chabon

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author–an immensely gifted writer and a magical prose stylist ( The New York Times )–offers his first major work of nonfiction with this autobiographical narrative that is…

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Last Days

Raymond Queneau,R Queneau

The Last Days is Raymond Queneau’s autobiographical novel of Parisian student life in the 1920s: Vincent Tuquedenne tries to reconcile his love for reading with the sterility of studying as…

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The Force of Reason

Oriana Fallaci

Throughout her career, Oriana Fallaci, one of Italy’s notorious recorders of history, has ignited passionate debate amongst politicians, intellectuals, and ordinary citizens both European and American. This book explores the…

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Due Considerations: Essays and Criticism

John Updike

Updikes sixth collection of essays and literary criticism opens with a skeptical overview of literary biographies, proceeds to five essays on topics ranging from China and small change to faith…

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Crome Yellow

Aldous Huxley

Denis Stone, a naive young poet, is invited to stay at Crome, a country house renowned for its gatherings of ‘bright young things’. His hosts, Henry Wimbush and his exotic…

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Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human

Richard W. Wrangham

A startling new theory that the invention of cooking led to the creation of the human species

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The Blue Moment: Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue and the Remaking of Modern Music

Richard Williams

A brilliant, wide-ranging book on how the seminal album revolutionized music and culture in the twentieth century.

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The Columbia Guide to the Literatures of Eastern Europe Since 1945

Harold B. Segel

This guide to the literatures of Eastern Europe since 1945 includes an overview of literary themes and trends in historical context; a chronology of major political events; an A-Z section…

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Looking at Dada

Sarah Blythe,Edward D. Powers

Features an introduction to Dada and its times. This work examines representative artworks from each of the principal cities, where the movement took hold: Zurich; Berlin; Cologne; Hanover; Paris; and…

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Literature at War, 1914-40: Representing the Time of Greatness in Germany

Wolfgang Natter

In this examination of German texts written about the First World War, Wolfgang Natter offers a new understanding of the relationship between culture and warfare.

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Daniel Martin

John Fowles

Set internationally and spanning three decades, Daniel Martin is, among other things, an exploration of what it is to be English. In a richly evoked narrative, Daniel travels home to…

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Consciousness and Mental Life

Daniel N. Robinson

Questions our approach to the study of consciousness and the way modern discoveries either mirror or contradict understandings reached in the centuries leading up to our own. Approaching the issue…

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French Fascism: The Second Wave, 1933-1939

Robert Soucy

This work takes argument with the notion that Fascism never took hold in France. By the author of French Fascism: The First Wave, 1924-1933 .

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Lord of Misrule

Jaimy Gordon

Lord of Misrule follows five characters - scarred and lonely dreamers - through a year and four races at Indian Mound Downs, downriver from Wheeling, West Virginia.

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Feel Like Going Home: Portraits in Blues and Rock ‘n’ Roll

All the King’s Men

Delta Wedding: A Novel

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

White Ink: Interviews on Sex, Text, and Politics

Redemption Songs: A Life of the Nineteenth-Century Maori Leader TE Kooti Arikirangi TE Turuki

One Magic Square: Grow Your Own Food on One Square Metre

The Landmark Xenophon’s Hellenika

The Sounds of Poetry: a Brief Guide

Death in the Andes

Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

Cuba: The Land Of Miracles: A Journey Through Modern Cuba

Best-Kept Secrets of Paris

This Incredible Need to Believe

The Dark Rose

Politics and History: Montesquieu, Rousseau, Marx

Charles Latham’s Gardens of Italy

Nietzsche and Levinas: After the Death of a Certain God

Breeding: A Partial History of the Eighteenth Century

Narrating Evil: A Postmetaphysical Theory of Reflective Judgment

Coparticipant Psychoanalysis: Toward a New Theory of Clinical Inquiry

The Sorrows of an American

Sister Pelagia and the Red Cockerel: A Novel

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Ape: A Caprice

Newton and the Counterfeiter: The Unknown Detective Career of the World’s Greatest Scientist

Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son

Last Days

The Force of Reason

Due Considerations: Essays and Criticism

Crome Yellow

Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human

The Blue Moment: Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue and the Remaking of Modern Music

The Columbia Guide to the Literatures of Eastern Europe Since 1945

Looking at Dada

Literature at War, 1914-40: Representing the Time of Greatness in Germany

Daniel Martin

Consciousness and Mental Life

French Fascism: The Second Wave, 1933-1939

Lord of Misrule