Hope: A Literary History

When is hope a good thing, and when is it not? Adam Potkay creatively explores the cases for and against hope in literature, from antiquity to the ...

The splash from something enormous resounds through the sea-fog. In the stillness of a dark room, some unspeakable evil is making its approach. . ....

Reducere. The twin river hamlets of Lambertville, New Jersey, and New Hope, Pennsylvania, hold a special place in America's history. The tiny pocket of land ...

From the origins and exodus to the restoration and new hope, Kingdom of Priests offers a comprehensive introduction to the history of Old Testament...

"Reconstruction after the Civil War "explores the role of former slaves during this period in American history. Looking past popular myths and cont...

Reducere. DescriptionHip-Hop is the largest youth culture in the history of the planet rock. This is the first poetry anthology by and for the Hip-Hop genera...

Reducere. When your dog is diagnosed with liver disease it can be gut-wrenching to feel hopeless. Liver disease is often fatal with few options for treatment...

Reducere. This inspirational Encyclopedia of Verses of Social Thoughts: Hope, Promise and Better Future for Mankind is a new book of comfort and knowledge de...

Richard Rorty is one of the most provocative figures in recent philosophical, literary and cultural debate. This collection brings together those o...

Reducere. Renowned novelist, poet, playwright, and literary critic Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o was a student at a prestigious, British-run boarding school near Nairobi...

Reducere. International IMPAC Dublin Literary AwardA radiant family saga set in a century of Mexican history, by one of the world's greatest writers. Carlos ...

Reducere. The Color of Hope: People of Color Mental Health Narratives is a project that sheds light on mental health in communities of color by sharing stori...

Reducere. First published in English in 1965, The Reawakening is Primo Levi's bestselling sequel to his classic memoir of the Holocaust, Survival in Auschwit...

Reducere. WILLA Literary Award"Betsy Watry tells the tales of a dozen women, some of whom had short-lived adventures in Yellowstone National Park, but most o...

Reducere. In the name of Allah the History of Clarence 13X and the Five Percenters Vol. 2 is the follow up of the much anticipated In the Name of Allah the H...

Reducere. This literary work is an update of the History of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc. for the period 1960 to 2008. This book humbly takes up where Omega ...

Reducere. This literary work is an update of the History of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc. for the period 1960 to 2008. This book humbly takes up where Omega ...

Reducere. A collection of over 100 Czech recipes, many that are from my Babi, (Grandmother) Alma Benesh, and have been passed down from generation to generat...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Ray O'BrienBucks, just Bucks pleaseBucks County, Pennsylvania is a high profile area with national name recogn ition. It li...

Reducere. The Poetics of American Song Lyrics is the first collection of academic essays that regards songs as literature and that identifies intersections b...

Reducere. With the publication of Kafka's Curse, Achmat Dangor established himself as an utterly singular voice in South African fiction. His new novel, a fi...

Reducere. Carroll Quigley, American historian and professor at Georgetown University, died January 5, 1977, leaving behind a manuscript on weapons systems an...

Reducere. DescriptionFor generations, African Americans have enriched South Carolina's history, and the black families of Chesterfield County are no differen...

Reducere. C H Spurgeon said of this great Confession - "Here the youngest members of our church will have a body of Truth in small compass, and by means of t...

A novel of startling scope and ambition, Prague depicts an intentionally lost Lost Generation as it follows five American expats who come to Budape...

Reducere. "30 Must-Read Queer Fairytale Retellings For Pride" --Book Riot "Best LGBTQA Books of 2021" --She Reads "Eight Queer Young Adult Books Coming This ...

If you're both overcome and angered by the atrocities of our time, this will inspire a "new generation of activists and ordinary people who search ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe remarkable, improbable story of a small, makeshift library in the Syrian town of Darayya, and the people who found hope and humanity...

Reducere. With effortless grace, celebrated author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie illuminates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra's impassioned stru...

Reducere. Learn about music history in musical termsWhat distinguishes the major periods in music history: Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romanti...

A Child's History of England is a classic fiction novel by Charles Dickens. Dickens also published the work in book form in three volumes: the firs...

Reducere. DescriptionExplore the Captivating History of the Titanic When thinking about the worst known maritime disaster in history, it is impossible not to...

Reducere. DescriptionSince losing his knighthood, Crispin Guest has crafted a reputation throughout London. From the shadowy corners of the city to the exclu...

DescriptionTo all who say our democracy is broken―riven by partisanship, undermined by extremism, corrupted by wealth―history offers hope. In nearl...

Challenging both the bureaucratic one-party regime and the Western neoliberal paradigm, China's leading critic shatters the myth of progress and re...

Reducere. One of the most enigmatic figures in history, Helen went from being locked in a prison of darkness and silence, to one of the most well-respected p...

Reducere. The book of Isaiah uses both prose and poetry to engage readers in a drama of great emotion and intensity. Although the circumstances under which t...

WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY JORDAN B. PETERSON'Solzhenitsyn's masterpiece...The Gulag Archipelago helped create the world we live in today' Anne Appleba...

Reducere. Description: Everlasting hell and divine judgment, a lake of fire and brimstone--these mainstays of evangelical tradition have come under fire once...

Reducere. ""Miss Jane Pittman. She is one of the most unforgettable heroines in American fiction, a woman whose life has come to symbolize the struggle for f...

Reducere. In this authoritative biography, historian John Man brings Saladin and his world to life with vivid detail in ``a rollicking good story`` (Justin M...

Reducere. After traveling extensively throughout the Four Corners region of Colorado, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico, Richard Berkholz has produced a comprehen...

Reducere. Andrew Marlow, a psychiatrist, has a perfectly ordered life--solitary, perhaps, but full of devotion to his profession and the painting hobby he lo...

Reducere. Matthew Halland is an architect, intimately involved with the new face of the city, while haunted by earlier times of destruction and loss in its h...

Reducere. DescriptionCrisfield, once one of the largest communities in Maryland, is a city literally built on seafood: its foundation is comprised largely of...

A Civil War novel unlike any other: the story of a young man's journey through a nation blasted apart.Born in 1844, Liberty Fish is the descendant ...

Scores of wild species and ecosystems around the world face a variety of human-caused threats, from habitat destruction and fragmentation to rapid ...

DescriptionIt's 1923 and Annie O'Leary has made a rational and even beautiful life for herself on the back ward of a state asylum, where she's conf...

Reducere. Say "the Sixties" and the images start coming, images of a time when all authority was defied and millions of young Americans thought they could ch...

Reducere. ``If Julie Cantrell isn't on your reading list, she should be.`` --Lisa Wingate, national bestselling author of Before We Were YoursWhen two estran...

Woven from poems, prose, photographs, and drawings, Don Mee Choi's DMZ Colony is a tour de force of personal and political reckoning set over eight...

Reducere. Written between 1910 and 1929, Traces is considered Ernst Bloch's most important work next to The Principle of Hope and The Spirit of Utopia. This ...

This brutally gripping novel about the African-American Great Migration follows the three Moss brothers, who flee the rural South to work in indust...

Reducere. We seek the establishment of a democracy of individual participation governed by two central aims: that the individual share in those social decisi...

Reducere. In this book, Yelena Bailey examines the creation of the streets not just as a physical, racialized space produced by segregationist policies but a...

Reducere. DescriptionAt the turn of the twentieth century, as he composes a treatise on melancholy, Jacov Reinhardt sets off from his small Croatian village ...

Years after her brother Sam's suicide, Sarah Pelton remains unable to fully occupy her world without him in it. Now, while her surviving brothers p...

A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Charles Dickens's David Copperfield, an autobiographical novel ...

Reducere. A modern saga that could only have come from South Africa, written in gorgeous prose by the Booker Prize-shortlisted author Damon Galgut. Haunted b...

Reducere. Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Native American Studies. Women's Studies. For this issue of THE MADRONA PROJECT, editor Holly J. Hughes invited sixty-...

Reducere. The Sound and the Fury is the tragedy of the Compson family, featuring some of the most memorable characters in literature: beautiful, rebellious C...

Reducere. At a time when a lasting peace between the Palestinians and the Israelis seems virtually unattainable, understanding the roots of their conflict is...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this "dramatic and satisfying" (The Houston Chronicle) New York Times bestseller, a female psychologist becomes involved in the case ...

Reducere. The riveting narrative of an honorable Irish priest who finds the church collapsing around him at a pivotal moment in its historyPropelled into the...

Maria Sirena tells stories. She does it for money--she was a favorite in the cigar factory where she worked as a lettora--and for love, spinning go...

Shortlisted for the 2001 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award and for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2002, Helen Dunmore follows the lives of four ordin...

Reducere. Hailed as one of the best books of 2009 by the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, this vibrant portrait of 1930s culture masterfully explore...

In their lively and engaging edition of this sometimes neglected early play, Cox and Rasmussen make a strong claim for it as a remarkable work, rev...

"These stories describe in a beautiful, human way the mystery of the gospels. Never before have I been so helped in my faith journey by stories of ...

``Revolutionary love, revolutionary memory and revolutionary analysis are at work in every page written by Mumia Abu-Jamal ... His writings are a w...