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ArrowsmithArrowsmith has been inspirational for several generations of med students. Martin Arrowsmith agonizes over his career and life decisions never sure if he's making the correct descisions. While the book details Arrowsmith's pursuit of the noble ideals of medical research for the benefit of...
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Dreams of Archives Unfolded: Absence and Caribbean Life WritingThe first book on pan-Caribbean life writing, Dreams of Archives Unfolded reveals the innovative formal practices used to write about historical absences within contemporary personal narratives. Although the premier genres of writing postcoloniality in the Caribbean have been understood to be fiction and poetry,...
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Genius and Ink: Virginia Woolf on How to ReadFOREWORD BY ALI SMITH WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY FRANCESCA WADE Who better to serve as a guide to great books and their authors than Virginia Woolf? In the early years of its existence, the Times Literary Supplement published some of the finest writers in...
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Renaissance Drama: An Anthology of Plays and EntertainmentsRENAISSANCE DRAMA Experience the best and most noteworthy works of Renaissance dramaThis Third Edition of Renaissance Drama: An Anthology of Plays and Entertainments is the latest installment of a groundbreaking collection of non-Shakespearean Renaissance drama. Covering not only the popular drama of the period,...
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Emily Post's EtiquetteAuthor: Emily PostPublisher: Empire BooksPublished: 01/21/2012Pages: 390Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.70lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.99w x 0.80dISBN: 9781619492394This title is not returnable
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Moby-DickA sumptuous edition of Melville's epic tale of hubris and obsession, gorgeously illustrated by Alex KatzIn 1948, while enrolled in an illustration course at Cooper Union, Alex Katz (born 1927) created 27 pen and ink drawings inspired by Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick; or,...
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African-American Classic Three Book Set - The Souls of Black Folk, Up From Slavery, and Narrative of the Life of Frederick DouglassComplete African-American Classic Three Book Set, includes The Souls of Black Folk, Up From Slavery, and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. The foundational civil rights works on race relations in America, the slave narratives, in their own voices. This is their story...
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Are They Women?: A Novel Concerning the Third SexAuthor: Aimée DucPublisher: Broadview Press IncPublished: 09/25/2020Pages: 150Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.40dISBN: 9781554814800About the AuthorMargaret Sönser Breen is Professor of English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Connecticut, Storrs. Nisha Kommattam is Associate Instructional Professor of...
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The Divine PymanderIn this Book, though so very old, is contained more true knowledge of God and Nature, than in all the Books in the World besides, except only Sacred Writ; And they that shall judiciously read it, and rightly understand it, may well be excused...
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The Good Research Guide, 6th EditionThis bestselling introductory book offers practical and straightforward guidance on the basics of social research, ideal for anyone who needs to conduct small-scale research projects as part of their undergraduate, postgraduate or professional studies. The book provides: - A clear, straightforward introduction to data...
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Power: Vintage Minis'Why, what is pomp, rule, reign, but earth and dust?And, live we how we can, yet die we must' What is the true meaning of power? Are some simply born to it or can it be acquired like a skill? Does it always breed...
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Charles Dickens: David CopperfieldAn illustrated adaptation of Charles Dickens's Victorian classic - at an easy-to-read level for readers of all ages!David's life isn't easy. His father is dead and his mother is getting married to the meanest man in the country. And when he is sent off...
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Dostoevsky's Incarnational RealismIn this book Paul Contino offers a theological study of Dostoevsky's final novel, The Brothers Karamazov. He argues that incarnational realism animates the vision of the novel, and the decisions and actions of its hero, Alyosha Fyodorovich Karamazov. The book takes a close look...
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Letters to Family and Family Friends, Volume 2: 1926-⁠1936As this volume opens, we see H. P. Lovecraft in desperate straits, stuck in New York City, a city he had come to loathe, and in a marriage that was failing by the day. His aunt Lillian D. Clark extended a lifeline to him...
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Shakespeare and Lost Plays: Reimagining Drama in Early Modern EnglandShakespeare and Lost Plays returns Shakespeare's dramatic work to its most immediate and (arguably) pivotal context; by situating it alongside the hundreds of plays known to Shakespeare's original audiences, but lost to us. David McInnis reassesses the value of lost plays in relation to...
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We Are No Longer BabaylanLiterary Nonfiction. California Interest. Asian & Asian American Studies. Women's Studies. Every word of WE ARE NO LONGER BABAYLAN brilliantly hooks with and hinges on magic, and the magic of possibility. Valmidiano frames the ancient, persistent pain that hammers and chisels Filipina American knowledge...
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North by Shakespeare: A Rogue Scholar's Quest for the Truth Behind the Bard's WorkThe true story of a self-taught sleuth's quest to prove his eye-opening theory about the source of the world's most famous plays, taking readers inside the vibrant era of Elizabethan England as well as the contemporary scene of Shakespeare scholars and obsessives.What if Shakespeare...
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Books to Die for: The World's Greatest Mystery Writers on the World's Greatest Mystery NovelsThe world's most beloved mystery writers celebrate their favorite mystery novels in this gorgeously wrought collection, featuring essays by Michael Connelly, Kathy Reichs, Ian Rankin, and more. In the most ambitious anthology of its kind, the world's leading mystery writers come together to champion...
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The Scandal of the Century: And Other WritingsCollected here for the first time: a selection of the great writer's journalism, which he considered more important to his legacy than his acclaimed novels. Late in his life, Gabriel Garc a M rquez declared: "I don't want to be remembered for One Hundred...
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The Grand Inquisitor: A Graphic Novel Based on the Story from Fyodor Dostoyevsky's the Brothers KaramazovOne of the most famous passages in modern literature reimagined in a graphic novel adaptation. Two acclaimed Russian artists have collaborated to create an original graphic novel adaptation of the most famous chapters of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov: "Rebellion" and "The Grand Inquisitor."...
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