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A Life with Mary ShelleyIn 1980, deconstructive and psychoanalytic literary theorist Barbara Johnson wrote an essay on Mary Shelley for a colloquium on the writings of Jacques Derrida. The essay marked the beginning of Johnson's lifelong interest in Shelley as well as her first foray into the field...
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Six Stories from the End of Representation: Images in Painting, Photography, Astronomy, Microscopy, Particle Physics, and Quantum Mechanics, 1980-2000James Elkins has shaped the discussion about how we--as artists, as art historians, or as outsiders--view art. He has not only revolutionized our thinking about the purpose of teaching art, but has also blazed trails in creating a means of communication between scientists, artists,...
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The Daily Life of the Greek GodsDespite the rousing stories of male heroism in battles, the Trojan War transcended the activities of its human participants. For Homer, it was the gods who conducted and accounted for what happened. In the first part of this book, the authors find in Homer's...
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Opera Through Other EyesA Stanford University Press classic.Author: David J. LevinPublisher: Stanford University PressPublished: 04/01/1994Pages: 288Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.82lbsSize: 7.96h x 6.49w x 0.66dISBN: 9780804722407
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HarderNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY LIBRARY JOURNAL In Robin York's provocative new novel, two young ex-lovers find themselves together again in the shadow of tragedy--and an intense, undeniable attraction. Caroline still dreams about West. His warm skin, his taut...
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The Twilight of the SiouxThe second volume of A Cycle of the West, dealing with the tragic defeat of the Plains Indians, includes The Song of the Indian Wars (1925) and The Song of the Messiah (1935). The former tells of the period of migration and the last...
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Ogimaag: Anishinaabeg Leadership, 1760-1845Cary Miller's Ogimaag: Anishinaabeg Leadership, 1760-1845 reexamines Ojibwe leadership practices and processes in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. At the end of the nineteenth century, anthropologists who had studied Ojibwe leadership practices developed theories about human societies and cultures derived from the...
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Dare We Speak of Hope?: Searching for a Language of Life in Faith and PoliticsThe phrase "hopeful politics" has dominated our public discourse in connection with the inspiring rise of Nelson Mandela in South Africa and the remarkable election of Barack Obama as president of the United States. But what happens when that hope disappoints? Can it be...
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New Testament on SexualityThis is the fifth and final installment of William Loader's authoritative, acclaimed series on attitudes toward sexuality in the ancient world. Sexual themes are never far beneath the surface where there are human beings. This was certainly the case for Christians in the first-century...
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Batgirls Vol. 3: Girls to the FrontTwo Batgirls are better than one! Batgirls Cassandra Cain and Stephanie Brown have been masked vigilantes in the scary, gritty city of Gotham for a while now, so what happens when you move them to a whole new sunny neighborhood and make them roomies...
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Christ on Trial: How the Gospel Unsettles Our JudgementThe trial, conviction, and death of an innocent man 2,000 years ago have particular resonance today. Atrocities from around the world shake us nearly every day, and we all experience trials in our own lives too. In this book the former Archbishop of Canterbury...
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The Clutter-Busting Handbook: Clean It Up, Clear It Out, and Keep Your Life Clutter-FreeTHE CLUTTER-BUSTING HANDBOOK is a streamlined guide to uncluttering your life from the best-selling author of THE PROCRASTINATOR'S HANDBOOK. We are the clutter generation, inundated by a seemingly daily or weekly influx of clothes, accessories, gadgets, catalogs, mail, and e-mail. Clutter crowds our lives,...
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Jesus Christ Our LordThe apostle John said of the life and work of Jesus, "Even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written" (John 21:25). Acknowledging the size of the task, as well as its importance, Dr. John F. Walvoord has written this...
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James- Teach Yourself the Bible Series: Belief in ActionJames was opposed to a lifeless, intellectual Christianity. This striking epistle emphasizes works as the fruit of faith and evidence of justification, based entirely on the new birth and a living salvation through Jesus Christ. James wrote with Jews especially in mind, but his...
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Tiger Woods: A Kid's Book About Overcoming Personal Challenges and a Speech DisorderIn this Mini Movers and Shakers book, we meet Tiger Woods, the icon who helped shaped the sport of golf.The greatest thing about tomorrow is, I will be better than I am today. And that's how I look at my life. I will be...
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30 Days in the Land of the Psalms: A Holy Land DevotionalRead Psalms in full color. The psalms are among the church's finest treasures, a collection of writings where many find solace, comfort, and hope. Yet some psalms remain "locked" in a sense, containing references to places and objects modern readers have never seen and...
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The Good of Giving Up: Discovering the Freedom of Lent"Like many evangelicals who love the gospel, I had my doubts about Lent."It's true, Lent can often seem like an empty ritual. But what Aaron Damiani came to find, and what he describes inside, is something else entirely. Something exceedingly good. In The Good...
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The Modern Period: Menstruation in Twentieth-Century AmericaWinner, 2010 Emily Toth Award for Best Book in Women's Studies, Popular Culture Association/American Culture AssociationThe Modern Period examines how and why Americans adopted radically new methods of managing and thinking about menstruation during the twentieth century. In the early twentieth century women typically...
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Growing Up Muslim"While 9/11 and its aftermath created a traumatic turning point for most of the writers in this book, it is telling that none of their essays begin with that moment. These young people were living, probing, and shifting their Muslim identities long before 9/11.......
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Enlightening the World: The Creation of the Statue of LibertyConceived in the aftermath of the American Civil War and the grief that swept France over the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the Statue of Liberty has been a potent symbol of the nation's highest ideals since it was unveiled in 1886. Dramatically situated on...
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