American Primitive, Paperback

Colson Whitehead, al carui roman Ruta subterana, incununat cu Pulitzer Prize, e tradus in peste 40 de tari, a avut un debut fulminant, ingenios si ...

Reducere. Dream Work, a collection of forty-five poems, follows both chronologically and logically Mary Oliver s American Primitive, which won her the Pulitz...

Reducere. At the height of the Vietnam War, a search and rescue squadron known as 'Vulture Squad' discovered dinosaurs existing within the confines of an iso...

Reducere. Throughout his life, Dr. Williams tirelessly defended and promoted the best in modern literature and art. He contributed widely to leading literary...

This book explores and contests both outsiders' projections of Mongolia and the self-objectifying tropes Mongolians routinely deploy to represent t...

Reducere. Illus. in full color. This story of how the Rainbow Crow lost his sweet voice and brilliant colors by bringing the gift of fire to the other woodla...

Reducere. Among the Early Evangelicals charts a new course for the Stone-Campbell Movement. While many historians have concentrated on the movement's America...

Reducere. Every culture has some system of knowledge to explain its place in the world. Some of these systems are more complex than others, but each has an i...

Reducere. Rarely do science and literature come together in the same book. When they do -- as in Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, for example -- th...

From its origins as a primitive Dutch outpost to the sprawling urban complex it is today, the defining characteristic of New York has been constant...

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

Reducere. Native American HistoryUntil surprisingly recently, most history books noted that America was discovered in 1492 by Christopher Columbus. The truth...

Reducere. Mead's anthropological examination of seven Pacific island tribes analyzes the dynamics of primitive cultures to explore the evolving meaning of "m...

Reducere. Colson Whitehead, al carui roman Ruta subterana, incununat cu Pulitzer Prize, e tradus in peste 40 de tari, a avut un debut fulminant, ingenios si ...

Reducere. • Autor distins cu Premiul Pulitzer pentru literatura Colson Whitehead, al carui roman Ruta subterana , castigator al Premiului Pulitzer, e tradus ...

Reducere. This historical memoir is told as the first-person eyewitness account of Robert Dean Binzer, a young man who follows his call to become a pilot and...

A Pluralistic Universe by William James: Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy. William James, January 11, ...

Reducere. The decorative art of the Indians of the American Southwest has long been recognized as one of the most beautiful art traditions in the primitive w...

Reducere. In this book, Bernard Rudofsky steps outside the narrowly defined discipline that has governed our sense of architectural history and discusses the...

A self-described "song-hunter, " the folklorist Alan Lomax traveled the Mississippi Delta in the 1930's and '40s, armed with primitive recording eq...

Contributor(s): Editor: Jerome RothenbergHailed by Robert Creeley as "both a deeply useful book and an unequivocal delight" and by the LA Times Boo...

After 'Hit Man' The New York Times bestseller Confessions of an Economic Hit Man documents John Perkins' extraordinary career as a globe-trotting e...

Reducere. Rockets, in the primitive form of fireworks, have existed since the Chinese invented them around the thirteenth century. But it was the work of Ame...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Story of Mankind was written and illustrated by Dutch-American journalist, professor, and author Hendrik Willem van Loon and publish...

Reducere. From This American Life alum David Rakoff comes a hilarious collection that single-handedly raises self-deprecation to an art form. Whether imperso...

Reducere. Few, especially in this country, realize that while Freudian themes have rarely found a place on the programs of the American Psychological Associa...

Reducere. First published in 1884, "The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State" is the groundbreaking treatise on the history of the nuclear f...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Catherine MarenghiEliciting comparisons to "The Glass Castle" and the works of Elena Ferrante, "Glad Farm" is a stunning ne...

Reducere. As a contributor to the literature and science of Freemasonry, Albert Gallatin Mackey was rightly considered one of the greatest American Masonic h...

Reducere. In 1917 Mabel Sterne, patron of the arts and spokeswoman for the New York avant-garde, came to the Southwest seeking a new life. This autobiographi...

Reducere. The Snail on the Slope is a neglected masterpiece by Russian science fiction greats Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, who thought of it as ther "most co...

Reducere. Louise Nevelson, one of the most important American sculptors of the twentieth century, was a beautiful woman who lived so audacious a life that by...

Reducere. DescriptionA collection of four critically acclaimed short novels.Box of Bones - Jim is an American expat teaching English in the Philippines. Afte...

Reducere. DescriptionWinner of the Pulitzer Prize for American Primitive, Mary Oliver has published twelve books of poetry and five books of essays. Her poem...

Reducere. DescriptionVolume 2: 1829-1852. In 1818, Mother Rose Philippine Duchesne, of the newly-founded Society of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, left France to...

Reducere. DescriptionVolume 1: 1769-1828. In 1818, Mother Rose Philippine Duchesne, of the newly-founded Society of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, left France to...