Reducere. First published in 1977, Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes is the great literary theorist's most original work--a brilliant and playful text, gracef...
Reducere. These essays, as selected and translated by Stephen Heath, are among the finest writings Barthes ever published on film and photography, and on the...
Reducere. Trotsky was a hero to some, a ruthless demon to others. To Stalin, he was such a threat that he warranted murder by pickax. This polarizing figure ...
Reducere. A Lover's Discourse, at its 1978 publication, was revolutionary: Roland Barthes made unprecedented use of the tools of structuralism to explore the...
Reducere. Winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award This powerful drama of prison life is set in a house of detention where a group of young convicts...
Reducere. Introduction by Arnold Rampersad.Langston Hughes, born in 1902, came of age early in the 1920s. In The Big Sea he recounts those memorable years in...
Reducere. All But My Life is the unforgettable story of Gerda Weissmann Klein's six-year ordeal as a victim of Nazi cruelty. From her comfortable home in Bie...
Reducere. Night is one of the masterpieces of Holocaust literature. First published in 1958, it is the autobiographical account of an adolescent boy and his ...
Reducere. The Cartoon Introduction to Statistics is the most imaginative and accessible introductory statistics course you'll ever take. Employing an irresis...
Reducere. Is there any such thing as revolutionary literature? Can literature, in fact, be political at all? These are the questions Roland Barthes addresses...
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Reducere. The award-winning illustrator Grady Klein has paired up with the world's only stand-up economist, Yoram Bauman, PhD, to take the dismal out of the ...
Reducere. Stunning in its breadth and conclusions, The Age of Lincoln is a fiercely original history of the five decades that pivoted around the presidency o...
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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Bertolt BrechtTranslator: John WillettThis volume offers a major selection of Bertolt Brecht's groundbreaking critical writ...
Reducere. A newly revised version of a classic in American historyWhen The American Revolution was first published in 1985, it was praised as the first synth...
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Reducere. An accessible graphic introduction to evolution for the most science-phobic readerIllustrated by the brilliant duo Kevin Cannon and Zander Cannon, ...
Reducere. Newspapers today are filled with stories of corruption and strife in America's Chinatowns, reversing the popular view of Chinese Americans as a mod...
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Reducere. Winner of the Bancroft Prize The Minutemen and Their World, first published in 1976, is reissued now in a twenty-fifth anniversary edition with a n...
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Reducere. "I have noticed that sometimes I frighten people; what they really fear is themselves. They think it is I who scare them, but it is the dwarf withi...
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Reducere. With this brilliantly innovative book, reissued for the 100th anniversary of the beginning of World War I, St phane Audoin-Rouzeau and Annette Beck...
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Reducere. Short-listed for the Phi Beta Kappa Ralph Waldo Emerson Book AwardIn Ramp Hollow, Steven Stoll offers a fresh, provocative account of Appalachia, a...
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Reducere. The 9/11 Report for Every AmericanOn December 5, 2005, the 9/11 Commission issued its final report card on the government's fulfillment of the reco...
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Reducere. A black sergeant cries out in the night, "They still hate you, " then is shot twice and falls dead. Set in 1944 at Fort Neal, a segregated army cam...
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Reducere. How the Personal Became Political In the Fight to Grant Women Civil RightsThey forever changed America: Lucy Stone, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cad...
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Reducere. Born to slaves in 1862, Ida B. Wells became a fearless antilynching crusader, women's rights advocate, and journalist. Wells's refusal to accept an...
Reducere. Camilla Townsend's stunning new book, Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma, differs from all previous biographies of Pocahontas in capturing how sim...
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Reducere. Commissioned by the Circle Repertory Company, Burn This first appeared at the Mark Taper Forum in Los angeles in 1987 to near-universal praise. Set...
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Reducere. "Monday burn Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday Faulkner, burn 'em to ashes, then burn the ashes."For Guy Montag, a career fireman for whom kerosene...
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Reducere. Langston Hughes's stories about Jesse B. Semple--first composed for a weekly column in the Chicago Defender and then collected in Simple Speaks His...
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Reducere. American Transcendentalism is a sweeping narrative history of America's first group of public intellectuals, the men and women who defined American...
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Reducere. Undoubtedly the most influential advocate for birth control even before the term existed, Margaret Sanger ignited a movement that has shaped our so...
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Reducere. The Short Stories of Langston HughesThis collection of forty-seven stories written between 1919 and 1963--the most comprehensive available--showcas...
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Reducere. Taking on decades of received wisdom, David Waldstreicher has written the first book to recognize slavery's place at the heart of the U.S. Constitu...
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Reducere. DescriptionClash of Extremes takes on the reigning orthodoxy that the American Civil War was waged over high moral principles. Marc Egnal contends ...
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Reducere. Let's face it: From adenines to zygotes, from cytokinesis to parthenogenesis, even the basics of genetics can sound utterly alien. So who better th...
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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: William CrononForeword by: John DemosAfterword by: William CrononThe book that launched environmental history now updated. ...
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Reducere. A provocative new book that shows us why we must put American history firmly in a global context--from 1492 to todayAmericans like to tell their co...
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Reducere. The story of the Eric Canal is the story of industrial and economic progress between the War of 1812 and the Civil War. The Artificial River reveal...
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Reducere. The Hill and Wang Critical Issues Series: concise, affordable works on pivotal topics in American history, society, and politics. In this pioneerin...
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Reducere. Part of Hill and Wang's Critical Issues Series and well established on college reading lists, PRISONERS WITHOUT TRIAL presents a concise introducti...
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Reducere. Winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for HistoryEncounters at the Heart of the World concerns the Mandan Indians, iconic Plains people whose teeming, ...
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Reducere. DescriptionA quarter-century after its first publication, A Shopkeeper's Millennium remains a landmark work--brilliant both as a new interpretation...
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Reducere. Public sanitation and antibiotic drugs have brought about historic increases in the human life span; they have also unintentionally produced new he...
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Reducere. In the 1960s, Lyndon Johnson's Great Society and War on Poverty promised an array of federal programs to assist working-class families. In the 1980...
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Reducere. To the amazement of the public, pundits, and even the policymakers themselves, the ideological and political conflict that had endangered the world...
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