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    Why Argument Matters

    Lee Siegel

    An impassioned case for argument's central role in human life, by one of America's most distinguished cultural critics

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    The Draw: A Memoir

    Lee Siegel

    -A memoir about dwelling in a world of debt—

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    Against the Machine: How the Web Is Reshaping Culture and Commerce – and Why It Matters

    Lee Siegel

    Originially published in 2008 as a hardback ed.

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    Falling Upward: Essays in Defense of the Imagination

    Lee Siegel

    Brings together the best writing of one of America’s pre-eminent cultural critics. The author uses the occasion of a particular book, or film, or painting, or television show to make…

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    Lee Siegel

    An impassioned case for argument’s central role in human life, by one of America’s most distinguished cultural critics

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    Trance-Migrations: Stories of India, Tales of Hypnosis

    Lee Siegel

    Intends to demonstrate that hynotism is an essential aspect of our most significant relationships, an inherent dimension of love, religion, medicine, politics, and literature, a fundamental dynamic between lover and…

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    Lee Siegel

    Intends to demonstrate that hynotism is an essential aspect of our most significant relationships, an inherent dimension of love, religion, medicine, politics, and literature, a fundamental dynamic between lover and…

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    Net of Magic: Wonders and Deceptions in India

    Lee Siegel

    Scholar and magician, Siegel uncovers the age-old practices of magic in sacred rites and rituals and unveils the contemporary world of Indian magic of street and stage entertainers. Siegel’s journeys…

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    City of Dreadful Night: A Tale of Horror and the Macabre in India

    Lee Siegel

    This is a a tangle of tales that transports the reader from the medieval India of magicians, witches, and vampires, through to the chaos and political terror of contemporary India.

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    Love in a Dead Language

    Lee Siegel

    A love story, a translation of an Indian sex manual, an erotic farce and a murder mystery. The hero of the comedy, Leopold Roth, complains that he has never made…

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    Love in a Dead Language

    Lee Siegel

    A love story, a translation of an Indian sex manual, an erotic farce and a murder mystery. The hero of the comedy, Leopold Roth, complains that he has never made…

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    Who Wrote the Book of Love?

    Lee Siegel

    Vignettes from the author’s childhood provide the material for this comic fiction. The author recounts both the cheer and the paranoia of the 1950s and the ways in which those…

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    Love and the Incredibly Old Man: A Novel

    Lee Siegel

    Based on the life of Juan Ponce de Leon - inventor of rum, cigars, Coca-Cola, and popcorn, this novel contains Native Americans, philandering cantors, passionate nuns, actresses, artists, and, small…

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    Groucho Marx: The Comedy of Existence

    Lee Siegel

    A trenchant examination of an iconic American figure that explores the cultural and psychological roots of his comic genius

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    Groucho Marx: The Comedy of Existence

    Lee Siegel

    A trenchant examination of an iconic American figure that explores the cultural and psychological roots of his comic genius

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    City of Dreadful Night: A Tale of Horror and the Macabre in India

    Lee Siegel

    This is a a tangle of tales that transports the reader from the medieval India of magicians, witches, and vampires, through to the chaos and political terror of contemporary India.

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    Laughing Matters: Comic Tradition in India

    Lee Siegel

    How can anyone laugh who knows of old age, disease, and death? –Buddhacarita
    This question, so solemnly posed by the young Buddha, first led Lee Siegel to examine the hitherto…

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    Gita Govinda: Love Songs of Radha and Krishna

    Jayadeva

    A lyrical account of the illicit springtime love affair of god and goddess Krishna and Radha. It celebrates the vicissitudes of carnal love and the transports of religious devotion, merging…

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    Why Argument Matters

    Lee Siegel

    An impassioned case for argument's central role in human life, by one of America's most distinguished cultural critics From Eve's crafty exchange with the serpent, to Martin Luther King's soaring…

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    Why Argument Matters

    Lee Siegel

    An impassioned case for argument's central role in human life, by one of America's most distinguished cultural critics From Eve's crafty exchange with the serpent, to Martin Luther King's soaring…

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    Groucho Marx: The Comedy of Existence

    Lee Siegel

    Born Julius Marx in 1890, the brilliant comic actor who would later be known as Groucho was the most verbal of the famed comedy team, the Marx Brothers, his broad…

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    Groucho Marx: The Comedy of Existence

    Lee Siegel

    Born Julius Marx in 1890, the brilliant comic actor who would later be known as Groucho was the most verbal of the famed comedy team, the Marx Brothers, his broad…

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    Groucho Marx: The Comedy of Existence

    Lee Siegel

    Born Julius Marx in 1890, the brilliant comic actor who would later be known as Groucho was the most verbal of the famed comedy team, the Marx Brothers, his broad…

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    Walkabout

    James Vance Marshall

    The story of an adolescent girl and her eight year-old brother, sole survivors of an air crash in the Australian desert. They meet an Aborigine boy who cannot speak any…

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    The Lost Girl

    D. H. Lawrence

    Facing impending spinsterhood, educated Englishwoman Alvina Houghton, the daughter of a Midlands Drape-maker, discovers her own passion and sensuality in the fertile landscape of Italy when she meets Cicio, a…

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    Images from the World Between: The Circus in Twentieth-century American Art

    Offers a survey of circus imagery in 20th-century American art. Through a discussion of a range of paintings, sculptures, prints, and photographs, this title examines how the circus has been…

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    First-Generation College Students: Understanding and Improving the Experience from Recruitment to Commencement

    Lee Ward,Michael J. Siegel,Zebulun Davenport

    As more and more of the college-going population is made up of those who are the first in their families to attend college, institutions need to find ways to help…

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    The Seed Garden: The Art and Practice of Seed Saving

    Winner of the American Horticultural Society Award for Excellence In Garden Book Publishing

    Winner of the Silver Medal for Best Reference from the Garden Writer’s Association

    Filled with advice for…

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    Windows into the Earth: The Geologic Story of Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks

    Robert B. Smith (Professor, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Professor, Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah),Lee J. Siegel (Science writer for The Salt Lake City Tribune)

    This book is the story of how the landscape of the two great national parks was shaped by earthquakes, volcanoes, geysers and, in the uplifted Rocky Mountains, mountain glaciers. The…

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    A Political Companion to Saul Bellow

    Saul Bellow is one of the twentieth century’s most influential, respected, and honored writers.

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    A Political Companion to Saul Bellow

    A Political Companion to Saul Bellow examines the author’s novels, essays, short stories, and letters in order to illuminate his evolution from liberal to neoconservative.

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