1370 results for '"Wise, Susan'

From Giller Prize and O. Henry Award winner Souvankham Thammavongsa comes a revelatory novel about loneliness, love, labor, and class, an intimate and sharply written book following a nail salon...

"'Shopping is consumerist rape, '" says Mummy, "'but I really like these shoes.'" The latest in the Dung Beetle Learning series, Mummy, John and Susan are taken on a thrilling Christmas adventure...

The Disability Studies Reader collects, for the first time, representative texts from the newly emerging field of disability studies. This volume represents a major advance in presenting the most...

An anthology of fiction, memoir, biography, and journalism culled from the pages of Granta magazine explores the meaning of the family and includes the contributions of Saul Bellow, Raymond Carver,...

Prize-winning essayist Roger Rosenblatt offers readers a survival manual comprised of 54 gems of funny, brilliant, wise, and indispensable advice.

A vibrant debut and powerful meditation on family, motherhood, and the cost of holding on to your dreams, reminiscent of Ann Napolitano.In New England, Susan Bliss is a young mother married to a...

A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • From the best-selling author of Three Strong Women comes a thrilling novel about a triple homicide...

In this satire of Soviet life, an insecure but much-published novelist, Yefim Rakhlin, learns that the Writers' Union is giving fur hats to its members based on their importance, and that he rates...

A wise tale of a little princess who wanted the moon and got it. “Grown-ups themselves will find the book hilariously funny. . . . The lovely, squiggly illustrations in color are exactly right.”--The...

Participants du colloque : Bernier, Christine, 1955-; Burgin, Victor, 1941-; Cubitt, Sean, 1953-; Douglas, Susan, 1956-; Dubreuil-Blondin, Nicole, 1939-; Greenberg, Reesa; Jay, Martin, 1944-; Kelly,...

Gathers poetry by Diane Ackerman, Judith Baumel, Amy Clampitt, Tom Disch, Mark Doty, Alice Fulton, Debora Greger, Richard Howard, Karl Kirchwey, Susan Mitchell, Carol Muske, Ron Padgett, Jason...

"A volume of Adorno is equivalent to a whole shelf of books on literature." —Susan SontagA reflection on everyday existence in the ‘sphere of consumption of late Capitalism’, this work is Adorno’s...

Is there anything Pete won't eat? Poppy Wise's sweet but unruly dog starts with Nico's accordion and works his way through the alphabet, making a nuisance of himself by leaving nothing untouched, not...

In this volume of critical essays, Seamus Heaney scrutinizes the poetry of many masterful poets. Throughout the collection, Heaney's gifts as a wise and genial reader are exercised with...

Offers selected excerpts from the works of English, American, and Canadian authors such as Frances Browne, Hesba Stretton, Jean Webster, Susan Coolidge, James DeMille, W.A. Fraser, and others. The...

The first volume in the OPA subseries on ancient portraits presents a detailed examination and analysis by Sheldon Nodelman of a portrait of Brutus, a review by Flemming Johansen of marble busts of...

With this book, Jacques Barzun pays what he describes as an "intellectual debt" to William James—psychologist, philosopher, and, for Barzun, guide and mentor. Commenting on James's life, thought, and...

The Lord God Made Them All is the bestselling sequel to All Things Wise and Wonderful and the fourth volume in James Herriot's classic collections of animal stories--the basis for the PBS Masterpiece...

Classics. 'It is the saddest night, for I am leaving and not coming back'. Jay is leaving his partner and their two sons. As the long night before his departure unfolds he remembers the ups and downs...

Seven ways third world debt affects us all. This classic book is now available from Pluto Press for the first time in the US, where it has been out of print for over 18 months. Susan George provides...