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The Art of Memory in Exile
$38.00In The Art of Memory in Exile, Hana Píchová explores the themes of memory and exile in selected novels of Vladimir Nabokov and Milan Kundera. Both writers, Píchová argues, stress…
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The Baltimore Orioles
$21.95With a legacy that spans two fiercely loyal baseball towns a half-nation apart, the Baltimore Orioles—originally the St. Louis Browns—rank among baseball’s most storied teams. One of the fifteen celebrated…
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The Biology of Horror
$32.00Unearthing the fearful flesh and sinful skins at the heart of gothic horror, Jack Morgan rends the genre’s biological core from its oft-discussed psychological elements and argues for a more…
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The Bitch is Back
$35.00Although the “bitch” has always commanded a prominent spot in popular culture—television, movies, art—she virtually disappeared from the work of the second wave of feminist writers in the late 1960s…
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The Chicago Diaries of John M. Wing 1865-1866
$20.00The personal—and often intimate—diaries of fledgling journalist and entrepreneur John Mansir Wing create a unique portrait of a rough-and-tumble Chicago in the first few years following the Civil War. Wing…
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The Collected Works of John Dewey, Index
$75.00This cumulative index to the thirty-seven volumes of The Collected Works of John Dewey, 1882–1953, is an invaluable guide to The Collected Works.The Collected Works Contents incorporates all the tables…
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The Conquest of The Illinois
$19.50Written only a decade after George Rogers Clark’s conquest of Illinois, this firsthand account shows the region as it existed in the 1770s, explains how British occupation affected Kentucky settlers,…
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The Construction of Negotiated Meaning
$35.00Based on five years of close observation of students, writing and collaborative planning—the practice in which student writers take the roles of planner and supporter to help each other develop…
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The Creation of an Ethnic Identity
$55.00Analyzing the development of a Swedish American identity The Creation of an Ethnic Identity: Being Swedish American in the Augustana Synod, 1860–1917 analyzes how Swedish American identity was constructed, maintained,…
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The Dark Matter of Words
$39.00Timothy Walsh’s study of the function and significance of absence in literature demonstrates its centrality in terms of both literary technique and philosophical consequence. Textual gaps, narrative lacunae, and strategic…
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The Daybreak Boys
$29.00“Who howled … and were dragged off the roof waving genitals and manuscripts—Allen Ginsberg, “Howl””Beat.” A single-word synthesis describing this group of disaffected heroes of the subculture who used the…
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The Early Essays and Ethics of Robert Boyle
$44.00The first major collection of Boyle’s writings to be published since Thomas Birch’s eighteenth-century edition of his works presents material hitherto available only in the archives of the Royal Society.This…