In the Lateness of the World, Paperback - Carolyn Forche

Carolyn Forche is one of America's most important contemporary poets. Her later collections are visionary works drawing on work written over many y...

"An undisputed literary event." --NPR "History--with its construction and its destruction--is at the heart of In the Lateness of the World. . . . I...

An examination of kinship and uprootedness, Gathering the Tribes is the first volume of poetry by Carolyn Forch and the 71st volume of the Yale Ser...

Reducere. Placed in the context of twentieth-century moral disaster--war, genocide, the Holocaust, the atomic bomb--Forche's ambitious and compelling third c...

Reducere. "Blue Hour is an elusive book, because it is ever in pursuit of what the German poet Novalis called 'thelost] presence beyond appearance.' The long...

Reducere. IN THE BEGINNING: CREATION MYTHS FROM AROUND THE WORLD is a beautifully illustrated and informative collection of creation stories from 15 cultures...

During the Salvadoran Civil War, a young poet becomes an activist in tumultuous national circumstances. Relevant to the upsurge in strong-man polit...

'A visionary look at how quality food should replace money as the new world currency' Tim Spector'Hugely ambitious and beautifully written...destin...

Reducere. The Storyteller's Goddess is a collection of more than 30 stories from 20 cultures that celebrate the goddess. They are organized around seven heal...

French Canadian workers who paddled canoes, transported goods, and staffed the interior posts of the northern North American fur trade became popul...

Count down your world with an amazing mix of numbers, facts and statistics

A comprehensive exploration of familiars and their many forms and powers - Explores witch's familiars in folklore, shamanic, and magical traditions...

Publisher: BackPage Press LimitedAuthor(s): Graham HunterNumber of pages: 450Publication date: 2012Dimensions: 229 x 150 x 36Cover type: Paperback ...

For decades Denmark has ranked at the top of the world's happiness surveys. How is it that these 5.6 million Danes are so content when they live in...

DescriptionThere is an old adage that says, "Truth is stranger than fiction." This is the way it was told in the fascinating stories about the famo...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Michael WinicottThe story of Oprah Winfrey is one that will remain relevant to all generations. It is one that every person...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Ghassan HageIllustration(s): 1 halftones, 5 line drawings, 2 tablesNumber of pages: 256Publica...

Max Scheler's Cognition and Work first appeared in German in 1926, just two years before his death. The first part of the book offers one of the ea...

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Reducere. New York Times bestselling author of Labor DayWith a New PrefaceWhen it was first published in 1998, At Home in the World set off a furor in the li...

Readers of Damaged and Running With Scissors are set to be particularly absorbed in this chilling but ultimately uplifting account of a childhood o...

Vanessa has been reaching for the stars since she was a child, and is determined to get into her dream Ivy League university. Zach is a talented ar...

A gripping account of Scott's disastrous Antarctic exploration, published in Vintage Classics for the first time, and with an introduction by Sara ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Joseph Koletar"In the three years following the September 11th, 2001, terrorist attacks, the Federal Bureau of Investigatio...

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Fado is the story of a young singer, Luisa, who arrives home to her apartment in Surrey, BC, to find her mother, Rosida, collapsed on the floor, we...

A feisty girl from a family of ranchers lands a job as a daredevil stunt girl in the early days of silent film in this adventurous and funny cross ...

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From the author of the Tiara Club series comes a gently satirical fairy story for our times, illustrated by one of today's finest artists, Angela B...

Following a recent UNICEF study of child well-being indicating Dutch children as the world's happiest, the authors who are married to Dutchmen and ...

The beloved fable about loving your home from four-time Caldecott Honor-winner Leo Lionni. A young snail dreams of having the biggest house--or she...

Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks have offered concepts, categories, and political solutions that have been applied in a variety of social and pol...

A story of real modern Africa, a schools focus for 2014, inspired by the 2012 Olympics and seeing the Ethiopian team training in Richmond Park. Fro...

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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 Oldest Story in the World is a brooding, daring, idiosyncratic exploration of the secret strength of storytelling, in which Phil Cousineau addr...

Reducere. On September 15, 1963, a Klan-planted bomb went off in the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Fourteen-year-old Carolyn Maull was j...

Reducere. Offering a unique approach to presenting environmental health, Maxwell's Understanding Environmental Health: How We Live in the World, Third Editio...

Reducere. When James Ogilvie arrived in America in 1793, he was a deeply ambitious but impoverished teacher. By the time he returned to Britain in 1817, he h...

Reducere. This book features beautiful photographs and fascinating information on all the major animal habitats of our world. Readers will travel through sav...

DescriptionMongooses are a remarkable and fascinating group of small carnivores, with 25 species occurring in Africa and nine in Asia. They live wi...

Publisher: Olympia PublishersAuthor(s): Violet BearNumber of pages: 38Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 624 x 195 x 6Cover type: Paperback / softba...

Reducere. Born in Rwanda, known as The Land of a Thousand Hills, Faustin Rusanganwa would have never thought he would one day become a refugee from his own c...

Reducere. Your biggest enemy just might become your best friend. In this lovable parable, the feared alligator, Fred, not only saves the lives of a family of...

Reducere. In celebration of the 200th anniversary of Amherst College, a group of scholars and alumni explore the school's substantial past in this volume. Am...

Offers expectant parents a chance to choose a name for their newborn from a list of countries, each with a list of names. This book offers a descri...

Reducere. The messages in this audiobook/book from Jesus, channeled by Gina Lake, will help you be in the world with greater peace and happiness. In these me...

Publisher: The Collins PressAuthor(s): Patricia AhernNumber of pages: 232Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 197 x 129 x 18Cover type: Paperback / so...

Reducere. "The Greatest Thing in the World" is the enduring sermon on love and kindness by Henry Drummond, a respected and popular nineteenth-century Scottis...