Essays, Hardcover

Reducere. Remembered Words is a selection of Alastair Fowler's essays on genre, realism, and the emblem (three interrelated subjects), published over six dec...

The provocative political thinker asks if it will be with a bang or a whimper After years of ill health, capitalism is now in a critical condition....

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Abbi JacobsonFrom the co-creator and co-star of the hit series Broad City, a hilarious and poignant collection about love, ...

DescriptionAchille Mbembe is one of the world's most profound critics of colonialism and its consequences, a major figure in the emergence of a new...

In this groundbreaking work of ecstatic criticism, Carole Maso shows why she has risen, over the past fifteen years, as one of the brightest stars ...

Arguably the most celebrated and revered writer of our time now gives us a new nonfiction collection--a rich gathering of her essays, speeches, and...

The city of Americus--seat of Sumter County, Georgia--has a rich past that stretches back hundreds of years. The people and events that shaped Amer...

Reducere. From award-winning TV comedy writer Kari Lizer (The New Adventures of Old Christine) comes a collection of hilarious essays about the challenges of...

Interpreting Scripture brings together N. T. Wright's most important articles on Scripture and hermeneutics over the last two decades. Many of the ...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. The idea of this book is that language is too interesting to be enjoyed exclusively by linguists.This is undoubtedly unfair to linguists--not peopl...

Reducere. For far too long, horror has been considered a male genre, made by men, marketed to men, and enjoyed by men. But in the last decade, we have seen a...

Reducere. Tsimtsum (contraction) and hitpashtut (expansion). These two kabbalistic terms aptly describe the thought of Bezalel Naor. Though diametrically opp...

Reducere. This book offers new perspectives on the environmental history of lands that have come under Russian and Soviet rule by paying attention to 'place'...

Reducere. From Goethe to Gundolf: Essays on German Literature and Culture is a collection of Roger Paulin's groundbreaking essays, spanning the last forty ye...

Reducere. This book 's radical theory of police argues that the police demand for order is a class order and a racialized and patriarchal order, by arguing t...

Reducere. "A celebration of the adventure that is other people." --Ariel Levy, author of The Rules Do Not Apply Lauren Groff, Elizabeth Kolbert, Pam Houston,...

After Ludwig von Mises's death in 1973, his wife, Margit von Mises, went through his unpublished and out-of-print essays and selected twenty-one of...

Contributor(s): Author: Adrienne RichEditor: Sandra M. GilbertAdrienne Rich was an award-winning poet, influential essayist, radical feminist, and ...

DescriptionIn the words of poet Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909), Sappho was "simply nothing less--as she is certainly nothing more--than the...

DescriptionAs a scholar of medieval languages and literature, J.R.R. Tolkien brought to his fiction an intense interest in myth and legend. When he...

An anthology of reviews, essays, interviews & film stories by this legendary writer.

DescriptionThis collection of essays, written by many of the foremost McGahern scholars, provides solid reasons for why the Leitrim writer has assu...

DescriptionContinuing his contribution to medieval Jewish intellectual history, Haym Soloveitchik focuses here on the radical pietist movement of H...

At the time of his death in the autumn of 2017, Robert W. Jenson was arguably America's foremost theologian. Over the course of a career spanning m...

Reducere. For ten years or so I've been putting down my thoughts on design, and technology, and ethics. Essays after essay. Some of those essays get turned i...

DescriptionThis book offers a comprehensive reassessment of ekphrasis: the verbal representation of visual art. Ekphrasis has been traditionally re...

Reducere. In Essays on Austrian Economics and Political Economy, Karen I. Vaughn takes us through her intellectual journey and career. As a neoclassical econ...

Reducere. I believe in dignity in all things, and it goes both ways, and while that attitude is modeled, the why-what-how has first to be shown, taught, and ...

From the creator of the iconic "Cathy" comic strip comes her first collection of funny, wise, poignant, and incredibly honest essays about being a ...

DescriptionIn the 120 years since the publication of his final poetry collection, Decorations: In Verse and Prose (1899), Ernest Dowson has become ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Essays defend, discuss, and critique specific theories of consciousness with respect to various psychopathologies.In Disturbed Consciousness, philo...

Reducere. North Dakota is regarded as flyover country, but extraordinary narratives play out on this improbable Great Plains landscape. North Dakota is the h...

Last season, Seagull Books published the first three volumes in a new series collecting essays and interviews by the late French thinker Roland Bar...

DescriptionThis edited collection offers an interdisciplinary study of Twin Peaks: The Return, the third season of a TV program that has attracted ...

Discover the ongoing relevance of the essential evangelical. In recent years, the label "evangelical" has been distorted and its usefulness questio...

Reducere. A powerful and provocative collection of essays that offers poignant reflections on living between society's most charged, politicized, and intract...

Reducere. DescriptionAs this bestseller predicted, Trump has only grown more erratic and dangerous as the pressures on him mount. This new edition includes n...

Reducere. The apostle Paul instructed Timothy to "preach the word . . . Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching" (2 Tim. 4: 2). This in...

Reducere. DescriptionThe eighty-five Federalist articles were written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay; three Founding Fathers who together ...

Reducere. Fascist Voices contains a unique and uncompromising collection of essays that appeared in Fascist Quarterly during the turbulent 1930s. This public...

Reducere. This book explores the exchange of music, musicians and musical practice between Britain and the Continent in the period c.1500-1800. Inspired by P...

Reducere. A two-volume hardcover set In The Heart of Torah, Rabbi Shai Held's Torah essays--two for each weekly portion--open new horizons in Jewish biblical...

One of our most vital and incisive writers on literature, feminism, and knowing one's self For nearly fifty years, Vivian Gornick's essays, written...

Reducere. This volume brings together a collection of seven articles previously published by the author, with a new introduction reframing the articles in th...

While these essays were written at different times and for widely different occasions over an entire career, they are grouped here for convenience ...

Reducere. For nearly four decades, poet, essayist, and small-town funeral director Thomas Lynch has probed relations between the literary and mortuary arts. ...

A deeper look at the creativity, art, expression, craft, and philosophy of landscape photography. More Than a Rock, 2nd Edition is a passionate and...

Reducere. The Southern Baptist Convention's Conservative Resurgence officially began in June of 1979. That summer the SBC elected Adrian Rogers as its Presid...

Reducere. Peter Singer is often described as the world's most influential philosopher. He is also one of its most controversial. The author of important book...

DescriptionFrom his arrival in Britain in the 1950s and involvement in the New Left, to founding the field of cultural studies and examining race a...

These highly original essays illuminate Virginia Woolf and a selection of other twentieth-century writers and artists. Based on detailed research a...

Reducere. The Wisdom of John Muir marries the best aspects of a Muir anthology with the best aspects of a Muir biography. The fact that it is neither, and ye...

Reducere. Christmas is a time for celebrating the birth of Jesus with family and friends; to gather together in sacred and jovial celebration of the Incarnat...

Reducere. It is time for an eco-liturgical liberation theology! One that hears the cries of the people and the earth and orients thinking and practices from ...

Reducere. Media studies has been catching up with McLuhan over the last 50 years. These essays are drawn from the most productive quarter-century of his care...

The Sound of the Shuttle is an eloquent and compelling selection of essays written over four decades by Belfast-born poet Gerald Dawe, exploring th...

In the late 1990s bands like Fugazi, Branch Manager, the Make-Up, Deep Lust, Quix*o*tic, Lungfish, Spirit Caravan, Scaramouche, Stinking Lizaveta, ...

John Dewey was America's greatest public philosopher. A prolific and influential writer for both scholarly and general audiences, he stands out for...

Reducere. There is a constant drumbeat of commentary claiming that STEM subjects--science, technology, engineering, and math--are far more valuable in today'...

Reducere. During the American colonial period, what would become the Midwest was the "backcountry, " or the area behind the coastal population centers. It wa...

How can we find stability in the Night of the World? How can we anchor ourselves in the void of existence, the great nothingness of the endless dar...

DescriptionWith remote waterways and unpressured trout, Wyoming's Wind River Range is the backcountry fly angler's mecca. In the alpine lakes and s...

Reducere. "Born in Tashkent, raised in Moscow and New York City, an editor in Odessa, a correspondent in Paris, there seems nowhere Davidzon hasn't been, no ...

Reducere. The library of America is dedicated to publishing America's best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritativ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe indispensable writings of our foremost voice on the current ecological and cultural crisis, more relevant now than ever, in a specia...

"The need for love lies at the very foundation of human existence." --XIV Dalai Lama The words of the Dalai Lama resonate within each of us, empowe...

Reducere. DescriptionWhat exactly is goodness? Where is it found in the literary imagination? Toni Morrison, one of American letters' greatest voices, ponder...

DescriptionBest-known for his corporate brand logos and art direction, Paul Rand (1914-1986) transformed commercial art from craft to profession, i...