3258 results for '"Douglas E. Appelt'

When Christen Civiletto Sold Tour Tickets In Niagara Falls In The 1980s, She Got A Frequent Question From Visitors: What Happened To This City? Next To The World-famous Natural Wonder, Smokestacks...

These notes contain the first complete treatment of cobordism, a topic that has become increasingly important in the past ten years. The subject is fully developed and the latest theories are treated...

Traces the history of specific Jewish beliefs and concepts, including belief in one God, man, providence, written law, the Commandments, and redemption

In the mid-summer of 1989 the German Democratic Republic-- known as the GDR or East Germany--was an autocratic state led by an entrenched Communist Party. A loyal member of the Warsaw Pact, it was a...

"The companion to Fernandez's successful Calculus Simplified, completing a full year of accessible, personalized support for college calculus Calculus is both beautiful and useful. Its usefulness has...

A Seminary Co-op Notable Book "A big picture perspective on the mind, decision-making, and consciousness...Provocative and stimulating." --Philosophical Psychology "LeDoux's aim is to provide a new...

A perfect introduction for new readers and a must-have for avid fans, this New York Times Notable Book includes "Bloodchild," winner of both the Hugo and the Nebula awards and "Speech Sounds," winner...

A splendid ironic portrayal of literary Paris and of a young writer’s struggles by one of Spain’s most eminent authors. This brilliantly ironic novel about literature and writing, in Vila-Matas’s...

Told in the haunting voice of Lilith, the heroine of "Dawn", this book is thestory of Lilith's only son, Akin. Though he resembles a normal human, Akin isthe first "construct"--part man/part alien.

Shares wrenching accounts of the everyday violence experienced by emancipated African AmericansWell after slavery was abolished, its legacy of violence left deep wounds on African Americans’ bodies,...

"A true poem," Walt Whitman proclaimed in 1852, "is the daily newspaper"--and American culture was never the same again. Like a blast of cold air in a stuffy drawing room, Whitman's campaign to give...

A major reexamination of the novelist Vladimir Nabokov as "literary gamesman," this book systematically shows that behind his ironic manipulation of narrative and his puzzle-like treatment of detail...

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A Professional Lola is a collection of short stories that blend literary fiction with the surreal to present the contemporary Filipino American experience and its universal themes of love, family,...

An award-winning neurologist on the Stone-Age roots of our screen addictions, and what to do about them.The human brain hasn’t changed much since the Stone Age, let alone in the mere thirty years of...