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  • Nationalism
    Rabindranath TAGORE
    Nationalism’ by Rabindranath Tagore is a compilation of lectures written in lucid, metaphoric, poetic prose during the ’First World War’ and the ’Swadeshi movement’ in India. It explicates the idea of moral and spiritual growth for the welfare of people, making it even more relevant in today’s environment of violence. These lectures bear testimony of its eternity and cannot be ...
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    9,57 €

  • The Practice and Representation of Reading in England
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    123,99 €

  • Wild Ride
    Bia Lowe
    A collection of personal essays on topics as diverse as the nature of allergies, a meditation on bats, and the significance of 1974, from a writer with a uniquely acute and sophisticated voice. ...
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    14,00 €

  • Religion, Literature, and Politics in Post-Reformation England, 1540 1688
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    124,13 €

  • Reading Seminars I and II
    In this collection of essays, Lacan’s early work is first discussed systematically by focusing on his two earliest seminars: Freud’s Papers on Technique and The Ego in Freud’s Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis. These essays, by some of the finest analysts and writers in the Lacanian psychoanalytic world in Paris today, carefully lay out the background and developmen...
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    46,45 €

  • In Our Own Voices
    Khafre K Abif / Khafre K. Abif / Khafre KAbif / Teresa Y Neely / Teresa Y. Neely / Teresa YNeely
    New in paper 2003. A timely and intellectually stimulating collection of essays by twenty-five culturally diverse librarians who share their experiences in the transition from library school to library work. Includes an appendix of ethnic and professional associations and library school programs for use in professional development and financial aid. ...
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    108,82 €

  • Fifty Days of Solitude
    Doris Grumbach
    A New York Times Notable BookFaced with a rare opportunity to experiment with solitude, Doris Grumbach decided to live in her coastal Maine home without speaking to anyone for fifty days. The result is a beautiful meditation about what it means to write, to be alone, and to come to terms with mortality. ...
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    15,54 €

  • F.R. Leavis
    A collection of new studies on one of the best known and most important British literary critics of the twentieth century. The book is divided into four sections: documentary analysis of Leavis’s practice as a teacher, drawing on seminar notes, lecture handouts, reading lists and other material; new bibliographical data, including a detailed account of Leavis’s project to turn ...
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    122,57 €

  • Nature and Other Mothers
    Brenda Peterson
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    14,25 €

  • Reasonable Creatures
    Katha Pollitt
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    13,30 €

  • Old Songs in a New Cafe
    Robert James Waller
    The author of the phenomenal #1 national bestsellers The Bridges of Madison County and Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend now presents a collection of his reflections on life, love, loss, and longing--a timely treatise on the emotions of the heart, the powers of the imagination, and the infinite possibilities of being. ...
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    21,38 €

  • Writing It Down for James
    Kurt Brown
    The second volume of the Writers on Life and Craft Series, with lectures by David Wojahn, Linda Hull, Alan Cheuse, Pattiann Rogers, and Gary Paul Nabhan. ...
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    13,25 €

  • The Brooklyn Reader
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    17,78 €

  • The Substance of Things Hoped For
    Breslin / John Breslin
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    17,66 €

  • Cultural Politics at the Fin de Siecle
    Kee Yong Lim / S. Ledger / SLedger / Yong Lim Kee Yong Lim
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    39,20 €

  • More Letters from the American Farmer
    J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur
    This is a critical edition of the essays that J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur (1735-1813) wrote in English but did not include in Letters from an American Farmer. First published in 1782, Letters from an American Farmer is an eighteenth-century cultural masterpiece. Written in English by a French-born immigrant, it is a collection of semiautobiographical writings in epistolary...
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    126,90 €

  • La Vie de Saint Alexis
    T. D. Hemming
    This is the first critical edition of a neglected version of the Life of Saint Alexis found in a late twelfth century manuscript written in England containing several other saints’ lives, and now, after many adventures, in the Bibliothèque nationale. ...
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    46,19 €

  • Montaigne Amongst The Moderns
    D M Marchi
    '. . . an original book that attempts and succeeds in understanding the idea of Modernity from the reworking of Montaigne’s Essais. · Philippe Desan'. . . a most significant contribution to Montaigne studies . . . thoroughly researched, well conceived and composed . . . which will reach out and be of interest to a wider audience than scholars and student of French thought and ...
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    163,03 €

  • Blood, Bread, and Poetry
    Adrienne Rich
    Examining the connections between history and the imagination, ethics and action, she explores the possible meanings of being white, female, lesbian, Jewish, and a United States citizen, both at this particular time and through the lens of the past. ...
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    17,40 €

  • Next
    Eric Liu
    Who really are the 'twentysomething' Americans? In this anthology of lively and intelligent, original personal essays, sixteen diverse and talented writers aged 24 to 32 cut through the stereotypes and reveal through their own stories the true face of their generation. Humorous, ironic, satiric, or angry, the eight men and eight women contributors grapple with how coming of age...
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    17,46 €

  • Old Songs in a New Cafe
    Robert James Waller
    From Robert James Waller comes a wonderful collection of 19 essays--all of them as romantic, reflective, and timeless as readers have come to expect from the author of The Bridges of Madison County--a celebration of life and loss, of what things still can be. ...
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    29,87 €

  • Staying Put
    Scott Russell Sanders
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    17,01 €

  • A Writer’s Eye
    Eudora Welty
    A Writer’s Eye: Collected Book Reviewsby Eudora Weltyedited, with an introduction by Pearl Amelia McHaneyAlthough she is eminent primarily as the prize-winning author of classic works of fiction, Eudora Welty is notable also as an astute literary critic. Her essays on the art of fiction and on the writers who enlarged the range of the short story and the novel are definitive pi...
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    49,88 €

  • Emerson and the Conduct of Life
    David Robinson
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    136,64 €

  • Locke, Literary Criticism, and Philosophy
    William Walker
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    112,05 €

  • New Essays on ’Daisy Miller’ and ’The Turn of the Screw’
    Vivian R. Pollack / Vivian RPollack
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    25,18 €

  • Death and Representation
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    40,45 €

  • Will Rogers’ World
    Bryan B. Sterling / Bryan BSterling / Frances N. Sterling / Frances NSterling / Will Rogers
    Will Rogers still touches us more than a hlf century after his death in this comprehensive collection of his pithy commentaries about goverment, presidents, business, and philosophy. ...
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    12,74 €

  • Paradise of Bombs
    Scott Russell Sanders
    Winner of the Associated Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction. ...
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    16,29 €

  • Carnival, Hysteria, and Writing
    Allon White
    Before his death from leukemia a the the age of 37, Allon White had become known as one of the most important literary and cultural critics of his generation. Carnival, Hysteria, and Writing represents a summation of the work which, as Stuart Hall explains in an extended introduction, transformed cultural studies in the 1980s. ...
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    78,05 €