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Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Michael Suk-Young Chwe is professor of political science at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the author of Rational Ritual: Culture, Coordination, and Common Knowledge (Princeton).
How the works of Jane Austen show that game theory is present in all human behavior
Game theory-the study of how people make choices while interacting with others-is one of the most popular technical approaches in social science today. But as Michael Chwe...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
"A luminous, wise, and joyful insight into what really matters at the end of a long life, from the beloved author of the award-winning Somewhere Towards the End. What will you remember if you live to be 100? Diana Athill charmed readers with her prize-winning memoir Somewhere Towards the End, which transformed her into an unexpected literary star. Now, on the eve of her ninety-eighth birthday, Athill has written a sequel every bit as unsentimental,...
Author
Series
Very short introductions volume 591
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
This book introduces the reader to the vast variety of C. S. Lewis' published work, including his books and many essays, as well as poems, letters, and sermons. It draws out connections between Lewis's life and his work. This book also discusses major themes of Lewis' works, and analyzes their lasting appeals.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Acclaimed travel writer Rick Antonson sets his adventurous compass on Mount Ararat, exploring the region's long history, religious mysteries, and complex politics. Mount Ararat is the most fabled mountain in the world. For millennia this massif in eastern Turkey has been rumored as the resting place of Noah's Ark following the Great Flood. But it also plays a significant role in the longstanding conflict between Turkey and Armenia. Author Rick Antonson...
7707) BTTM FDRS
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
[Fantagraphics edition].
Language
English
Description
"Once a thriving working class neighborhood on Chicago's south side, the "Bottomyards" is now the definition of urban blight. When an aspiring fashion designer named Darla and her image-obsessed friend, Cynthia, descend upon the neighborhood in search of cheap rent, they soon discover something far more seductive and sinister lurking behind the walls of their new home. Like a cross between Jordan Peele's Get Out and John Carpenter's The Thing, Daniels...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Noon and Riopelle explore the artist's influence on modern art in the late-18th and early-20th centuries. An analysis and comparison with works by various artists whom he influenced include Edouard Manet, John Singer Sargent, Henri Fantin-Latour, Paul Cézanne, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Odilon Redon, Paul Gauguin, Eugène Fromentin, Théodore Chassériau, Narcisse-Virgile Diaz de la Peña, Frédéric Bazille, Ary Scheffer, Gustave Moreau, Alexandre-Gabriel...
7709) New animal
Author
Pub. Date
©2022.
Language
English
Description
"Amelia's meeting a lot of men but once she gets the sex she wants from them, that's it for her; she can't connect further. A terrible thing happened to Daniel last year and it's stuck inside Amelia ever since, making her stuck too. Maybe being a cosmetician at her family's mortuary business isn't the best job for a young woman. It's not helping her social life. She loves her job, but she's not great at much else. Especially emotion. And then something...
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Winner of the 2014 Robert Lowry Patten Award, SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900" "Honorable Mention for the 2012 James Russell Lowell Prize, Modern Language Association" Leah Price is professor of English at Harvard University. She is the author of The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel.
How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain asks how our culture came to frown on using books for any purpose other than reading. When did the...
7711) Black river
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"A group of women, one man, and two dogs are making their way through a post-apocalyptic world in search of a city that supposedly still has electricity and some sort of civilization. Along the way, they go to a comedy club, take a drug called Gumdrop, and encounter gangs of men who are fools, lunatics, or murderous sadists. In other words, all manner of terrors" --
Author
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
In The End of the Novel of Love, an acclaimed and provocative collection of criticism, Gornick applies the same intelligence, honesty, and insight that define her memoirs to an analysis of love and marriage as literary themes in the twentieth century. She examines the work and lives of several authors she admires-including Grace Paley, Willa Cather, Jean Rhys, George Meredith, Jane Smiley, Richard Ford, and Andre Dubus-to ultimately posit that love,...
7713) Kwame Alexander
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Author Kwame Alexander writes books for children of all ages. His book The Crossover won the Newbery Medal in 2015. Learn more about his writing success!
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Stern looks back at his life and forward to how his story will play out. Wrestling with his identity in Judaism, he explores how his name was uprooted from its origins, as so much of his life was willfully disrupted the norms of a predictable path"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Mary Helen Washington recovers the vital role of 1950s leftist politics in the works and lives of modern African American writers and artists. While most histories of McCarthyism focus on the devastation of the blacklist and the intersection of leftist politics and American culture, few include the activities of radical writers and artists from the Black Popular Front. Washington's work incorporates these black intellectuals back into our understanding...
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In honor of the 20th anniversary of the Pura Belpr Award, celebrated in June 2016, Rosen Publishing released an anthology of essays written by the past and present recipients of the medal. Featuring an introduction by Oralia Garza de Cort s and Sandra R os Balderrama, cofounders of the award, and essays detailing the significance of the award for each winner, this collection is a beautiful, fitting tribute to the history of Latino children's literature...
Series
Criterion collection volume 177
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Blu-ray special edition.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Set in 1975. When a young woman spends the night with an alleged terrorist, her quiet, ordered life falls into ruins. The film shows an anxious era in West Germany amid a crumbling postwar political consensus. Katharina, though innocent, suddenly becomes a suspect, falling prey to a vicious smear campaign by the police and a ruthless tabloid journalist that tests the limits of her dignity and her sanity.
7719) The heavy bright
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A queer young woman aims to dispel the greed and cruel masculine energy that has consumed the world"--
7720) New school
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"The story of a boy moving to an exotic country and his infatuation with an unfamiliar culture that quickly shifts to disillusionment. A sense of 'being different' grows to alienation, until he angrily blames this once-enchanting land for his feelings of isolation. All of this is told through the fantastical eyes of young Danny, a boy growing up in the '90s fed on dramatic adventure stories like Jurassic Park and X-Men. Danny's older brother, Luke,...
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