In Contempt, Paperback

Reducere. Love in the Time of Contempt is a gritty, hilarious look at the day-to-day interactions with teenagers and the tussled, frazzled and complex busine...

Reducere. Awards🏆Nominee (1998) - PEN/Faulkner Award - (Fiction)Contributor(s): Author: Mary GaitskillA New York Times Notable Book A man tells a story to a ...

Horn fought the Apache, and like many scouts of the day, he displays a mixture of admiration and contempt for the Indians he knew, among them Geron...

This book offers the term 'ecophobia' as a way of understanding and organizing representations of contempt for the natural world. Estok argues that...

Reducere. An NYRB Classics Original The hero of The Invisibility Cloak lives in contemporary Beijing--where everyone is doing their best to hustle up the lad...

The Time of the Toad is a searing classic about political repression in America by the legendary screenwriter Dalton Trumbo. In the early 1940s, Tr...

Reducere. Lawyer Thane Banning has just been released from prison after serving five years for a murder he didn't commit. A free man due only to a legal tech...

The House of Commons is the United Kingdom's key democratic institution. But it faces serious challenges which it is ill-equipped to meet. This boo...

Dolly Merishaw is a midwife and an abortionist in Victorian Toronto, and although she keeps quiet about her clients, her contempt and greed leaves ...

Whether celebrating Hogarth or savaging Hollywood, mocking modern manners or defending traditional English architecture, inviting readers to 'come ...

Publisher: Clean PublishingAuthor(s): Caitlin WalkerIllustration(s): 80 hand-drawn illustrationsNumber of pages: 216Publication date: 2014Dimension...

Reducere. "Mozart's honesty, his awareness of his own genius and his contempt for authority all shine out from these letters." Sunday Times (London). " In Mo...

Reducere. In a wild and battle-scarred galaxy, assassins, pirates, smugglers, and cutthroats of every description roam at will, fearing only the professional...

Niccol Machiavelli's The Art of War is essential reading for any student of military history, strategy, or theory. The format of 'The Art of War' w...

Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch Hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Baronetage; there he fo...

Reducere. The Vet's Daughter combines shocking realism with a visionary edge. The vet lives with his bedridden wife and shy daughter Alice in a sinister Lond...

DescriptionShakespeare's Pictures is the first full-length study of visual objects in Shakespearean drama. In several plays (Hamlet, The Merchant o...

Reducere. Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) was one of the most original and provocative thinkers of the nineteenth century. He spent a lifetime striving to un...

Reducere. DescriptionExplore the Deadliest War in American History No other war in the history of the United States has sparked as much debate and conflict a...

DescriptionFew issues created greater consensus among Civil War-era northerners than the belief that the secessionists had committed treason. But a...

Reducere. BRILLIANT, YOUNG AND AMBITIOUS, Annika Tritzchler defies the norms of 1930s Berlin by pursuing medical training in a venue traditionally dominated ...

London, 1958. Smoky jazz clubs, coffee bars and hip hang-outs. The young and the restless were creating a world as different as they dared from Eng...

Reducere. The Coming of the Holocaust aims to help readers understand the circumstances that made the Holocaust possible. Peter Kenez demonstrates that the o...

Reducere. Clarence Thomas, the youngest and most controversial member of the Supreme Court, could become the longest-serving justice in history, influencing ...

Reducere. Throughout history, personal liberty, free markets, and peaceable, voluntary exchanges have been roundly denounced by tyrants and often greeted wit...

Reducere. Detective Sergeant James Henderson of London's Metropolitan Police Murder Investigation Team is no ordinary police officer. His remarkable gut inst...

DescriptionThis Student Edition of Brecht's classic dramatisation of the conflict between free enquiry and official ideology features an extensive ...

Reducere. The first comprehensive volume to integrate social-scientific literature on the origins and manifestations of prejudice against disabled people Abl...

Reducere. One of the most powerful novels about the experience of war, first published in 1985Captured by Hirohito's soldiers at the fall of Hong Kong and tr...

Reducere. Nothing ventured, nothing banged. Ash I still don't know how it happened. One minute I was arguing with my arrogant competitor-our usual trash-talk...

Reducere. Rita Awards HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO? All Meg has ever wanted is to get away. Away from high school. Away from her backwater town. Away from her parent...

DescriptionThe Moral Letters to Lucilius is a collection of 124 letters which were written by Seneca the Younger at the end of his life, during his...

Contributor(s): Author: Bertolt BrechtEditor: John WillettEditor: Ralph ManheimAlong with Mother Courage, the character of Galileo is one of Brecht...

Reducere. These translations of Kitaro Nishida's philosophy of nothingness and the intelligible world are accompanied with a scholarly introduction that expl...

DescriptionMarian Forrester arrives in the prairie town of Sweet Water as a young bride -- beautiful, aristocratic, and spirited. To Captain Daniel...

The second book in the Patriots Series, by David Thomas Roberts, be prepared to stay on the edge of your seat as the saga continues.A U.S. Presiden...

Reducere. DescriptionA biography of Joseph of Copertino ( Cupertino), famous as "the monk who could fly." It was written by Brother Paolo Antonio Agelli and ...

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. From James Patterson, the world's #1 bestselling author: a young lawyer takes on the judge who is destroying her hometown--and ends up in jail hers...

DescriptionIn the heart of the Bible belt, only one thing could drive folks to set aside the good Lord's commandment to love thy neighbor--one of t...

Reducere. "Smith does more than illuminate what we're going through right now. She offers a model of how to think ourselves through a fraught historical mome...

Reducere. In PORN AGAIN: A MEMOIR, Josh Sabarra throws open the proverbial closet -- and bedroom --doors, taking readers on a Hollywood thrill-ride through g...

Reducere. DescriptionOriginally published in German in 1844, philosopher Max Stirner's "The Ego and Its Own" is an important and influential work that harshl...

Reducere. DescriptionThe human body is the locus of meaning, personhood, and our sense of the possibility of sanctity. The desecration of the human corpse is...

Reducere. DescriptionHEINOUS is his name. Money, murder, savagery and women is his game. Chicago, Illinois a.k.a. Chiraq is about to be forced to bow to a sm...

Reducere. DescriptionBENEATH THE FLAMES is an intimate combination of love, race, and life as an urban firefighter.A fire in a neighboring farmhouse has youn...

Reducere. The former Beatrice Hyde-Clare is having a little trouble adjusting to her new situation. Now installed as the Duchess of Kesgrave in elegant splen...

Academics tend to look on 'esoteric', 'occult' or 'magical' beliefs with contempt, but are usually ignorant about the religious and philosophical t...

DescriptionToo Good to Go, Too Bad to Stay is a simple, comprehensive guide that offers a 5-step plan to help men and women heal from a toxic relat...

Reducere. On December 17, 2006, The New York Times began a series of front-page stories about documents obtained from Alaska lawyer Jim Gottstein, showing El...

Reducere. " The Scarlet Letter is so terrible in its pictures of diseased human nature as to produce most questionable delight. The reader's interest never f...

Reducere. Is the cinema, as writers from David Denby to Susan Sontag have claimed, really dead? Contrary to what we have been led to believe, films are bette...

William Miller embarks on an alluring journey into the world of disgust, showing how it brings order and meaning to our lives even as it horrifies ...

DescriptionA Japanese manga legend's autobiographical graphic novel about a struggling artist and the first full-length work by the great Yoshiharu...

Reducere. Psychologist John Gottman has spent twenty years studying what makes a marriage last. Now you can use his tested methods to evaluate, strengthen, a...

Reducere. The Complete Poems of Kenneth Rexroth assembles all of his published longer and shorter poems, and includes a never-before-published selection of h...

Reducere. In Mapleton, love takes a village...Julia Derks loves the small town of Mapleton where she grew up and launched her business, On Deck Café. What Ju...

Reducere. She was frustrated Feeling second to the department again had begun to breed indifference and contempt in her relationship. As a mental health and ...

Reducere. What exactly is Bridget Jamieson so frantically trying to hide? Is there a stowaway buried under her skin? Or is it all a ruse? And to what end? Wh...

Reducere. Julian West is an aristocrat in 19th century America. He has all that he would ever need, a happy engagement, wealth, and a pleasant place to live....

Reducere. Hailed as a storyteller whose fiction is "a glowing work of art" (Wall Street Journal), Akhil Sharma is possessed of a narrative voice "as hypnotic...

Reducere. Amazing. It's the only way to describe the incredible transformation that took place in the life of John Newton. Newton was born in London in 1725....

Reducere. "With eighty men I could ride through the entire Sioux nation." The story of the Fetterman Fight, near Fort Phil Kearney in present-day Wyoming in ...

Reducere. Frank Lloyd Wright has long been known as a rank egotist who held in contempt almost everything aside from his own genius. Harder to detect, but no...

Reducere. Alexandra Fisher and Jonathan Dixon meet in a honky-tonk outside of Nashville and instantly share a mutual attraction. Raised Jewish in New England...

Reducere. To begin with I'd like to talk about my wife. To love means, in addition to many other things, to delight in gazing upon and observing the beloved....

Reducere. "As far as the education of children is concerned, " states Natalia Ginzburg in this collection of her finest and best-known short essays, "I think...

Reducere. From the New York Times bestselling author of the sizzling romantic suspense Love Lies Beneath Three female friends face midlife crises in a no-hol...

Reducere. Description"Possibly the best shocker ever written." -- The English ReviewDr. Edmund Bickleigh married above his station. Although popular and well...

Reducere. DescriptionA well-to-do, upper-class young woman, intelligent, fashionable, educated, strikingly beautiful, exploitative, selfish, and haughty, a d...