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"This writing has to do with some things I saw, felt, and was part of": with quiet modesty, David Jones begins a work that is among the most powerful imaginative efforts to grapple with the carnage...

Beloved author-illustrator Liz Climo is back with a hilarious take on (reluctant) friendship that will appeal to fans of We Don't Eat Our Classmates and I Want My Hat Back!When a carefree bunny is...

" . . . acute look at the state of contemporary culture . . . A humorous . . . book, it yields rewarding advice for our perception of reality and fiction." ―Back Stage / Shoot"Mellencamp's ease of...

Children will love to press the soft, silicone buttons on the school bus to hear entertaining sounds, from the engine chugging to excited children cheering in this touch-and-feel board book from the...

A definitive, international guide to the thought of the most important twentieth-century Jewish philosopher. In his 1923 essay, I and Thou, the philosopher, theologian, and activist Martin Buber...

Nel suo laboratorio Petrarca celava epigrammi latini che, per il loro carattere spesso occasionale e leggero, non volle mai radunare in forma di libro. Francisco Rico, uno dei massimi studiosi del...

You’ll find everything you need to know about being Jewish in this indispensable, revised and updated guide to the religious traditions, everyday practices, philosophical beliefs, and historical...

Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I...

A stunning collection of essays and memoir from twice Booker Prize winner and international bestseller Hilary Mantel, author of The Mirror and the LightIn 1987, when Hilary Mantel was first published...

Examines how the Irish American community, the American public, and the American government played a crucial role in the making of a sovereign independent IrelandOn Easter Day 1916, more than a...

Now in paperback! With over 60,000 hardcover copies in print, the astonishing collection about interconnectedness--between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ourselves--from U.S. Poet Laureate and...

Start Exercising Your Brain Now: 201 Word and Number Exercises to Challenge Your Memory, Reasoning, Visual-Spatial Skills, Vocabulary, and More! Keep your brain active, even with MCI. For adults with...

“One of our most interesting and bold writers . . . [offers] a characteristically wild effort that defies genre distinctions, flits from the profound to the mundane with fierce intelligence and...

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"I don't like the dark," said Little Bear."What dark?" said Big Bear."The dark all around us," said Little Bear.In this tender account of a sleepless night in the bear cave, Big Bear sets out with...

Dopo la disfatta del 1940, la Francia si divide in due: a nord il territorio occupato dai tedeschi, a sud lo stato collaborazionista e reazionario creato dal maresciallo Pétain, che ha come capitale...

The poet and dramatist Friedrich Schiller was also a profound philosopher, who described his work On the Asethetic Education of Man as 'the best thing that I have done in my life'. This impassioned...

In the months following his wife's death, Mr. Preemby, a retired laundryman, becomes convinced that he is the incarnation of Sargon, the ancient king of Sumeria, returned to save a world upturned by...

From 1900 to 1914, Europe was a world adrift. In this short span of time—between the death of Queen Victoria and the outbreak of World War I—a new world order was emerging. InThe Vertigo Years,...

"Not many people can write splendid fiction about the inner workings of the American political state. In fact, Ward Just is the only one I can think of." ―Boston GlobeIn this novel of political...