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"The freshness of the authors' approaches . . . is salutary. . . . The collection is stimulating and valuable."—Joan Shelley Rubin, Journal of American History

Randolph Trumbach. Based On The Author's Thesis, Johns Hopkins University, 1972. Bibliography: P. 299-313.

A hilarious and surprisingly moving cozy fantasy novel from the best-selling author of Once Upon a Tome.

AUTHOR HAS INSCRIBED THIS COPY! Otherwise, no other pen markings in the book. Pages are clean and in great condition.

Out of the core of experience, these essays began as obsessions. Whether founded in some strongly lived moment, deeply held conviction, long-term interest, or persistent and unanswered question,...

Don DeLillo, Paul Auster, Cormac McCarthy, Rolando Hinojosa, E. Annie Proulx, Bret Easton Ellis, Douglas Coupland, and Thomas Pynchon: An Introduction to Contemporary American Fiction introduces the...

Taking 1970 as his starting point, Leopold Damrosch, Jr. has assembled in one volume the finest and most useful essays on eighteenth-century literature. Covering all the major authors of the period...

Focusing on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the author examines the factors and institutions that have shaped the American character and culture

The story of the group of extraordinary eighteenth-century writers, artists, and thinkers who gathered weekly at a London tavern Selected by New York Times Book Review as a Best Book Since 2000 ...

Compiled by an unknown scribe in Iceland around 1270, and based on sources dating back centuries earlier, these mythological and heroic poems tell of gods and mortals from an ancient era: the...

From Pulitzer Prize–winning author and esteemed presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, an invaluable guide to the development and exercise of leadership from Abraham Lincoln, Theodore...

First published in 1974. Despite the tendency of contemporary analytic philosophy to put logic and mathematics at a central position, the author argues it failed to appreciate or account for their...

In this revolutionary new study, G.R. Ledger applies the statistical methods of stylometry to a number of ancient authors. By taking as the set of variables the occurrence of particular letters of...

A bold call to action and guide for building an inclusive and intersectional reproductive justice movement.   Overturning Roe unleashed a wave of urgent threats to abortion and bodily autonomy,...

The author describes his experiences as a student in Japan and offers an inside look at the nightclubs and geisha bars of Tokyo

Activist, teacher, author and icon of the Black Power movement Angela Davis talks Ferguson, Palestine, and prison abolition.

The author profiles the storied Great Plains of the American Midwest, relating the history, the lore, and the stories of the current inhabitants of the area

The author recounts his experiences living in the village of Dulaba in Gambia, and shares his impressions of the local customs and rituals

The author discusses the tools used in the field of historical analysis and explores the principles and problems involved in studying the human being

In this exceptional study, the author goes beyond the sphere of party politics to explore the industrial aspects of French wartime history.