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Reducere. What does the Bible hide and to what extent can we trust the Holy Scriptures? The "archaeology" of biblical texts yielded many interesting and surp...

Reducere. What does the Bible hide and to what extent can we trust the Holy Scriptures? The "archaeology" of biblical texts yielded many interesting and surp...

Reducere. The author of collection book of poems has contributed frequently to American Poetry Review, Antaeus and Field. His previous books include Wrecking...

Reducere. About the AuthorTORY DENT'S (1958-2005) Selected Poems draws from her three books. Among her awards, she was the winner of the 1999 James Laughlin ...

DescriptionHarry Potter meets Final Fantasy in this subversive original graphic novel where race, history and magic collide. When St. Ivory Academy...

Reducere. The United States Naval Academy has no monopoly on heroes - naval, marine, or otherwise. But over the last ten years, the most popular living autho...

Reducere. Asian American Literature in Transition Volume Three: 1965-1996 offers a multidisciplinary perspective on the political and aesthetic stakes of wha...

The truth behind the Gospel accounts of the Nativity, updated to include the latest research--a classic by a renowned scholar, hailed as "masterly"...

When this book first appeared in 1972, Karsten, a former naval officer, was taken to task for its portrayal of the Naval Academy and the officer co...

DescriptionDavid Poyer is a Naval Academy graduate, retired naval officer, and Distinguished Visiting Writer at USNA. His novels have been required...

Reducere. Description A new vocabulary for African American Studies As the longest-standing interdisciplinary field, African American Studies has laid the fo...

Reducere. DescriptionAmong the many brave Jesuit missionaries who explored the early American Southwest, one star shines brightly: Padre Eusebio Franciso Kin...

Reducere. Process Philosophy surveys the basic issues and controversies surrounding the philosophical approach known as "process philosophy." Process philoso...

Reducere. All histories of Hollywood are wrong. Why? Two words: Colonel Selig. This early pioneer laid the foundation for the movie industry that we know tod...

Reducere. Play is how children explore, discover, fail, succeed, socialize, and flourish. It is a fundamental element of the human condition. It's the key to...

Reducere. James Dalton Trumbo (1905--1976) is widely recognized for his work as a screenwriter, playwright, and author, but he is also remembered as one of t...

Reducere. Emory Upton (1839-1881) is widely recognized as one of America's most influential military thinkers. His works--The Armies of Asia and Europe and T...

Reducere. Presiding over the liturgy takes more than following instructions. Good presiding is artful presiding. It is knowledgeable and inspirational. It fa...

Reducere. DescriptionRewilding, a relatively new ecological term, means to return an area of land to its original state. Reveling in letting go of the damage...

Reducere. `` Sure to become] a classic in the field. Highly recommended.`` Library Journal..``. full of surprises and intrigues and written in a beautiful st...

Reducere. Food studies, once trendy, has settled into the public arena. In the academy, scholarship on food and literary culture constitutes a growing river ...

Reducere. This visual guide details 60 years of NASA's history through the patches astronauts wore on their space missions Celebrate 60 years of the U.S. spa...

DescriptionAre homecoming games and freshman composition, Twitter feeds and scholarly monographs really mortal enemies? Media U presents a provocat...

Reducere. A leading expert challenges the prevailing gloomy outlook on higher education with solid evidence of its successes Crushing student debt, rapidly e...

Reducere. DescriptionMusic and war, war and music--these are the twin motifs around which Bradford Morrow, recipient of the Academy Award in Fiction from the...

Reducere. Peter A. Redpath, Ph.D., is retired Full Professor of Philosophy at St. John's University, New York, and author/editor/co-editor of seventeen philo...

Complete facsimile of all the steel-plate engravings, containing 134 maps, colour coded for troop positions, covering campaigns and battles from th...

Reducere. It's time for the littles of Enchanted Brook to become aquatic problem solvers! Beckett is anxious about learning to swim because he's not a water-...

Reducere. DescriptionRhythm constitutes an untapped resource for understanding poetry, making legible a range of ways poetry affects us that cannot be parsed...

Reducere. Now available in paperback, the award-winning retrospective by Linda Gregg, "one of the best poets in America" (Gerald Stern)Worlds out of time sti...

Reducere. Mainly mesostics inspired by music, mushrooms, Marcel Duchamp, Merce Cunningham, Marshall McCluhan, etc. and includes "Mureau"-composed from the wr...

Contributor(s): Author: John AltonForeword by: John BaileyIntroduction by: Todd McCarthyFew cinematographers have had as decisive an impact on the ...

Reducere. John Herndon "Johnny" Mercer (1909-76) remained in the forefront of American popular music from the 1930s through the 1960s, writing over a thousan...

A capsule of the imaginative life of the individual, Some Trees is the 52nd volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Comparing him to T. S. Eliot...

Reducere. Poetry Collection by Temple Cone: Temple Cone is Professor of English at the United States Naval Academy and the former Poet Laureate for the City ...

Reducere. Includes lectures, essays, diaries and other writings, including "How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse)" and "Juilliard Lectu...

Reducere. In They Are Sleeping, Joanna Klink tests the limits of solitude, setting her poems in places where our grip on "self" is loosened and blurred--cave...

Robin Dreeke is a 28-year veteran of federal service, including the United States Naval Academy, United States Marine Corps. He served most recentl...

When Norman Maclean sent the manuscript of A River Runs through It and Other Stories to New York publishers, he received a slew of rejections. One ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Vanessa K. ValdesA Black Puerto Rican-born scholar, Arturo Alfonso Schomburg (1874-1938) was a well-known collector and arc...

DescriptionTime Out is a dignified and effective method of discipline, endorsed by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Psychologica...

Reducere. This new, compact Selected Poems offers for the first time a balanced survey of Robert Creeley's entire sixty years of poetic accomplishment. It sh...

Reducere. Over 60 brilliant stories, poems and essays from ?dozens of small presses, ?as selected from 900 presses worldwide by ?more than ?200 distinguished...

Reducere. Filled with revelations about the origins and making of American Graffiti, Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Return ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe first edition of Counseling-Infused Audiologic Care was selected by the American Academy of Audiology as one of the top 25 audiology...

Reducere. DescriptionWritten over three seasons in a Vermont cabin, these poems act as a reflecting pool, casting back mortality, consciousness, and time in ...

Reducere. This collection of ninety-six stories was first published in 1953 and presents the best of Erskine Caldwell's short fiction from his most productiv...

Reducere. "Every man should read this book." --Jay Heinrichs, author of Thank You for Arguing75 women writers, ages 20 to 89, were invited by editor Gina Bar...

Reducere. After years of occupying a vexed position in the American academy, Philippine studies has come into its own, emerging as a trenchant and dynamic sp...

Breastfeeding is natural, but it is not entirely instinctive for either mothers or babies. The Nursing Mother's Companion has been among the best-s...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Roderick A. FergusonIn the post-World War II period, students rebelled against the university establishment. In student-led...

Reducere. dark // thing is a multifaceted work that explores the darkness/otherness by which the world sees Black people. Ashley M. Jones stares directly int...

Reducere. Drinking Dry Clouds is Gretel Ehrlich's storytelling in full swing. This inspired collection opens during World War II with the stories of cowboys,...

Reducere. "Harryette Mullen is a magician of words, phrases, and songs . . . No voice in contemporary poetry is quite as original, cosmopolitan, witty, and t...

Reducere. -Presents Functional Methods approach developed by William L Johnston DO FAAO -2 basic level courses that cover all body regions -Presents a unique...

Saul Alinsky, according to Time Magazine in 1970, was a "prophet of power to the people, " someone who "has possibly antagonized more people . . . ...

Reducere. This expanded edition includes more Elvis with 33 classic photos. Academy Award nominated actor, Nick Adams, first person account details his close...

Reducere. "The spinal cord is a vital part of the central nervous system even a small injury can lead to severe disability. In the US, there are approximatel...

Reducere. With The Glass Globe, celebrated poet Margaret Gibson completes a trilogy distinguished by its meditative focus on the author's experience of her l...

This... is a brilliant work." --Choice Sternberg] has written a very important book, both for his comprehensiveness and for the clearly-avowed fait...

Reducere. Komunyakaa vividly evokes his childhood in Bogalusa, Louisiana, once a center of Klan activity, and later a focus of Civil Rights efforts. He portr...

DescriptionSylvia Ji's haunting, seductive and psychedelically tinged portrayals of women offer a whole new slant on femininity, and blur the line ...

Reducere. Best known for Neon Vernacular, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1994, and for Dien Cai Dau, a collection of poems chronicling his experi...

Reducere. The Insistence of God presents the provocative idea that God does not exist, God insists, while God's existence is a human responsibility, which ma...

Reducere. Nicholas Rescher presents the first comprehensive chronology of philosophical anecdotes, spanning from antiquity to the current era. He introduces ...

Reducere. Sleep paralysis feels like being awake and aware in bed as someone--or something--holds you down. In this revised and updated 2nd edition of his cl...

"The people are missing" is a constant refrain in Gilles Deleuze and F lix Guattari's writings after the 1975 publication of Kafka: Pour une litter...

Higher education occupies a difficult place in twenty-first-century American culture. Universities--the institutions that bear so much responsibili...

Reducere. In Sisterlocking Discoarse, hair is a medium for reflecting on how academic leadership looks, performs, and changes when embodied by a Black woman....

Reducere. The publication of Stony the Road We Trod thirty years ago marked the emergence of a critical mass of Black biblical scholars--as well as a distinc...