69 results for 'mortis gifford'

A world of poems as populous and diverse as it is ephemeral and evanescent, born of the world and of books and art in equal measure, yielding granite truths and feather truths of people's...

Get ready for a record-breaking road trip across the USA! From the world's biggest bubblegum bubble in Alabama to the planet's tallest volcanic columns in Wyoming, journey from state to state to...

Bad girl Perdita Durango and her dealer boyfriend Romeo Dolorosa get their kicks on a journey from Louisiana to Los Angeles that involves santeria rituals and kidnapping.

The author of Wild at Heart and The Wild Life of Sailor and Lula writes of what Tennessee Williams called "something wild in the country/that only the night people know." He draws his characters from...

A work of extraordinary erudition and clarity, The Farther Shore shows how technology has transformed civilization, and how it has profoundly altered the ways we perceive virtually everything. A...

Everything you need to know about the world's biggest game, The Soccer Encyclopedia is the perfect gift book for the FIFA World Cup 2026 and beyond-with free fill-in tournament chart.With a fill-in...

WHAT'S THAT STIRRING AND WHIRRING? Robots have left the lab and are on the move, discovering sunken treasure, traveling deep into space, and venturing inside raging infernos. Read about the...

At the end of a century whose catastrophic violence has damaged irreparably the human capacity for hope, the advance of scientific knowledge has so deepened our understanding of the origins of life...

Haunting and darkly humorous poems by the internationally acclaimed Austrian novelist, playwright, and memoirist Thomas Bernhard (1931–1989) has been compared to Kafka and Beckett, and critics have...

Treating such issues as animal sex, species politics, environmental justice, lesbian space and "gay" ghettos, AIDS literatures, and queer nationalities, this lively collection asks important...

2,360 numbered entries pertaining to Tudor England, arranged by form or subject "catalogues, guides and handbooks," "politics," "social history," etc. , the latter having form subdivisions. Many...

The comic, courageous, and corpulent Horace Rumpole reenters the fray in these seven fresh and funny stories in which the "great defender of muddled and sinful humanity" triumphs over the forces of...