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Leonard Michaels
Michaels was a master of the short story, and his collections are among the most admired, influential, and exciting of the last half century. This collection brings them back into…
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Michaels was a writer of unfailing emotional honesty. This work is the definitive collection of his nonfiction and reveals a sensibility and style that is unmatched in American letters.
A compelling portrait of the mad intensity, exquisite pain and destructive power of young love.
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Michael Zavros has captivated art audiences and collectors with his extraordinary technical prowess and exacting, yet delicately stylised, realism for more than 20 years. This major publication - produced to…
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First published in 1981, Leonard Michaels’s The Men’s Club is a scathing, pitying, absurdly dark and funny novel about manhood in the age of therapy. The climax is fitting, horrific…
First acclaimed as a story-length memoir, then expanded into a novel, Sylvia draws us into the lives of a young couple whose struggle to survive Manhattan in the early 1960s…
'Leonard Michaels writes prose of exquisite clarity.' Ian McEwan
A collection of linked stories that follow Raphael Nachman, an aging mathematician at UCLA.
This work brings together the short stories of Leonard Michaels, an acclaimed practitioner of the art. Newer stories are gathered alongside his award-winning early works, presenting Michaels’ insights into the…
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Leonard Michael Koff
This title is part of UC Press’s Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach…
Patrick Bade
Patrick Bade’s intimate yet comprehensive study of all the stages of Michael Leonard’s career reveals his artistic development in all its variety. Lavishly illustrated with paintings, drawings and photographs, this…
Sprawling, uncoordinated, uneven, noisy, and appealing, wrote one reviewer of the first edition of this book, published on 1 January 1980. The language is in rude health, wrote another. Exactly…
While the mystery of the cat can never ultimately be defined, Michaels comes as close as possible to revealing its essence.
Leonard A Hendershott
Descendants of Michael Hendershott 1811-1900 - seven generations citing census household compositions whenever found. The most complete compiliation to date .
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Mel Leonard
Mike Dearfield is the Sales Manager of Canada for Arkland Kitchens, a large Canadian company that counts its sales in the hundreds of millions. Arkland specializes in sales to site…
Joe R. Lansdale
A SundanceTV series starring Michael K. Williams (The Wire), James Purefoy (Rome), and Christina Hendricks (Mad Men).
Hap and Leonard have never fit the profile. Hap Collins looks like a…
Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
Ukulele Instruction
(Guitar Method). Learn to play rhythm and lead rock guitar with the step-by-step lessons and 70 great rock songs in this book with online audio! The Hal Leonard Rock Guitar…
Michael Leonard
The mission of Intermediate Organic Chemistry is to bridge the gap between introductory Organic Chemistry coursework and advanced/graduate-level coursework but to do so in a way that extends the student-centered…
To master Organic Chemistry, it is essential to master mechanism. This book uses a novel approach to help you better understand the mechanisms of 80 common organic reactions. Each one…
Described by Deleuze as ‘one of the greatest modern auteurs’, Philippe Garrel is perhaps the most significant filmmaker to emerge in France after the New Wave. This study offers an…
Michael Posner
The extraordinary life of one of the world’s greatest music and literary icons, in the words of those who knew him best.
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27 songs [that] include lyrics, chord symbols & guitar chord diagrams –Cover.
Mobs are complex, often an enigma. The topic of Mobs presented here serves as a means to address not only an important historical as well as present consideration, but to…
Essays discuss chronicles, clarify ideas of creation temporally understood, the meaning of simultaneous times, or simultaneity, and the concept of no-time. Essays also examine time in social and political contexts…
Conceived as a novelistic journey through the worlds of California, this book represents the experience of California both physical and metaphysical, in fiction, poetry, essays, travel writing, confessions, reportage, and…
Michael Bremer
(Banjo). The Hal Leonard Folk Banjo Method is designed for anyone just learning to play folk-style 5-string banjo. This easy-to-use beginner’s guide takes you through the basics with a focus…
The definitive collection of Leonard Freed s celebrated photographs of the New York police department during the turbulent 1970s.
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The second volume of the extraordinary life of the great music and literary icon Leonard Cohen, in the words of those who knew him best.
Michael M. Leonard
This book unveils the secrets of gangs, their language, hand signs and graffiti. It explores techniques to combat gang recruitment in schools, churches, and communities from a Christian perspective.
Poet, novelist, singer-songwriter, artist, prophet, icon-there has never…
Michael Leonard Jewell
News of the brutal slaying of a well-respected Montana citizen has come to the ears of the territorial governor. Moved by a pleading letter from his grieving widow, he appoints…
Michael J. Leonard
Michael S Leonard
Mechanisms in this book use color to highlight changes that take place during reactions. Electrons in a bond or lone pair are color coded. Mechanistic arrows originating from those electrons…
This manual does not merely give you the answers to the questions in the accompanying textbook, Organic Chemistry. There is a written explanation of each question, and when reaction mechanism…
THE NEW BADGE is the sequel to MYSTERY IN THE BEAR PAW MOUNTAINS. Deputy Pete Randers is now the marshal of the small border town of Cantana, Montana. His efforts…
For the Bridges family, September’s legacy is one of change. This year is no exception. As Brenda embraces the hard life of a poor farmer’s wife, Amberley’s storybook romance is…
Michael E Leonard
From women of the Bible, to Bible numbers, animals and insects, to Old Testament prophets, and to New Testament miracles, Search the Scriptures, by author Michael E. Leonard, offers a…
Poets write primarily for their own benefit and pleasure–to themselves and for themselves. When a poet, therefore, allows you to peer over his or her shoulder, they are permitting you…
The contributors to this volume have found the language and concepts by which to interpret Leonard Howell and the origins of the Rastafari movement in the 1930s. This volume is…
Michael Mueller
Beginner Guitar Instruction
Leonard Cohen
Previously unseen journals, letters, sketches and more from the vast personal archive of Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen is renowned the world over for his meditations on beauty, death, loss and…
Richard Michael
(Piano Method). Here is a fun, easy course that teaches children how to improvise and play jazz piano faster than ever before. Kids will stay motivated as they improvise on…
Amberley and Brenda Bridges are in their junior year of high school, and life’s challenges are just getting started. Whether it’s working a summer job for the rich and eccentric…
