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Reducere. The Milkweed Ladies the memoirs of poet Louise McNeill, is written our deep affection for and intimate knowledge of the lives of rural people and t...

Reducere. Ukrainian cooking embodies national and ethnic tastes and reflects the spiritual and social awareness of Ukrainians. More than just a cookbook, Fes...

Reducere. "Vanquishes once and for all the notion that the prose poem is somehow inherently 'not a real poem.' Exhibits a sustained level of innate lyricism ...

Reducere. The mountains of southwestern Pennsylvania provide the setting for the most popular whitewater in America: the Youghiogheny River at Ohiopyle. Peop...

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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 ...

Digital transformation and demographic change are usually seen as two separate but threatening events. As Japan is the world's frontrunner in demog...

Elaborates on the "intercolonial intimacies" that shape a transpacific understanding of coloniality and latinidad.Publisher: University of Pittsbur...

Explores of role of fitness culture within modern Brazilian society.Publisher: University of Pittsburgh PressAuthor(s): Daniel SilvaNumber of pages...

At the nexus between environmental, urban, and water histories, Rivers Lost, Rivers Regained points out how the urban-river relationship can serve ...

Hello I Must Be Going, David Hernandez's fifth collection of poems, offers a unique take on poetry informed by works of art. With narrative and lyr...

Prelude explores the gay female experience through a poetic reconstruction of the girlhood and adolescence of Saint Catherine of SienaPublisher: Un...

This collection of poems reflects multiple voices around the theme of connections.Publisher: University of Pittsburgh PressAuthor(s): Gary GildnerN...

Reducere. In the steam-powered mechanical age of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the work of late Georgian and early Victorian mathematicians depend...

Reducere. Over the past two decades, scholarship in architectural history has transformed, moving away from design studio pedagogy and postmodern historicism...

Reducere. In about: blank, Tracy Fuad builds a poetics of contemporary dissociation. Funny, plaintive, and cutting, this formally inventive debut probes alie...

Reducere. This collection is divided into three sections. The first opens with the speaker's reflections on her childhood loss of her father and subsequent m...

Scientists have used models for hundreds of years as a means of describing phenomena and as a basis for further analogy. In Scientific Models in Ph...

Reducere. The title Little Pharma is both a doppelgänger and a cri de coeur: as the poet's dreamlike double, the character Little Pharma navigates the murky ...

Reducere. Poised on the precipice of mystery and longing, each character in Now You Know It All also hovers on the brink of discovery--and decision. Set in s...

The Poetics of Plants in Spanish American Literature examines the defining role of plants in cultural expression across Latin America, particularly...

Explores Public-Interest Science as a Potential Alternative to CommodificationPublisher: University of Pittsburgh PressAuthor(s): Hans RadderNumber...

Winner of the Frank Watson Prize in Scottish History, 2011 The relationship between science and civil society is essential to our understanding of ...

The Thicket opens into intimate encounters with the more-than-human world - rivers, birds, stones - and with a "you" that is not a person, necessar...

For twenty years, Ilan Stavans has been translating poetry from Spanish, Yiddish, Hebrew, French, Portuguese, Russian, German, Georgian, and other ...

Holoholo is the Hawaiian word for walking out with no destination in mind. In the three sections of this book, Barbara Hamby walks out into the cur...

Reducere. Toi Derricotte's story is a hero's journey--a poet earning her way home, to her own commanding powers. "I" New and Selected Poems shows the reader ...

Reducere. Peach State has its origins in Atlanta, Georgia, the author's hometown and an emblematic city of the New South, a name that reflects the American r...

Reducere. In Imperial, George Bilgere's sixth collection of poetry, he continues his exploration of the beauties, mysteries, and absurdities of being middle-...

Winner of the 2010 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry In her third poetry collection, Quan Barry explores the universal image of war as evidenced in Afgha...

Reducere. "Poet Alicia Ostriker is also a highly original scholar/teacher of midrash, the commentary and exegesis of scripture (the same root as madrasa, pla...

In Jan Beatty's fourth collection, The Switching/Yard, she takes us through the ravaged landscape of the American West. In unflinching lines of bur...

Reducere. "Trembles with belonging (and longing) and love and sex." --The New York Times "Nathalie Handal's Love and Strange Horses is riddled with provocati...

Reducere. Nicholas Rescher presents the first comprehensive chronology of philosophical anecdotes, spanning from antiquity to the current era. He introduces ...

In June 2015, Bree Newsome scaled the flagpole in front of South Carolina's state capitol and removed the Confederate flag. The following month, th...

Babel features more of the rhetorical acrobatics that fueled Barbara Hamby's earlier work. These whirlwinds of words and sounds form vistas, images...

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh PressAuthor(s): David HamiltonNumber of pages: 560Publication date: 2012Dimensions: 187 x 262 x 37Cover type: H...

Reducere. In poems initially inspired by Aeschylus' fifth-century B.C. trilogy "The Oresteia, " which chronicles the fall of the House of Atreides, Loose Str...

Reducere. In poems of compassion and social justice, Mihaela Moscaliuc probes borders and memory to work through, and further complicate, understandings of b...

Reducere. About the AuthorJessica Greenbaum is the author of Inventing Difficulty, winner of the Gerald Cable Prize, and The Two Yvonnes, chosen by Paul Muld...

Reducere. The Now describes the unique, and sometimes baffling, moment in which we live, a time defined by an immediate future of online wonderments, fake ne...

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Reducere. The Axion Esti is probably the most widely read volume of verse to have appeared in Greece since World War II and remains a classic today. Those wh...

Reducere. Florida Book AwardPerhaps Paul Kareem Taylor said it best in his piece called On the Road Again: Barbara Hamby's American Odyssey "Reading Barbara ...

Reducere. Voted one of the five best poetry collections for 2012 by Publishers Weekly, Animal Eye employs pastoral motifs to engage a discourse on life and l...

Reducere. In Codrescu's own words: "I wrote my first book of poems, License to Carry a Gun (Big Table, 1970), when I first lived in New York City, 1967-1970....

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. With the coming of the twentieth century, America was thinking on a grand scale. Barriers of communication and transportation were being overcome a...

Reducere. Business genius and hedonist, Charles Schwab entered the steel industry as an unskilled laborer and within twenty years advanced to the presidency ...

Reducere. Winner of theMihajlo Misa Djordjevic Book Prizeawarded by the North American Society for Serbian Studies Metropolitan Belgrade presents a sociocult...

Translingual Inheritance tells a new story of the early days of democracy in the United States, when English had not yet become the only dominant l...

Reducere. Teaching Queer looks closely at student writing, transcripts of class discussions, and teaching practices in first-year writing courses to articula...

In 1965, French microbiologist André Lwoff was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on lysogeny--one of the two types of ...

Models of Nature studies the early and turbulent years of the Soviet conservation movement from the October Revolution to the mid-1930s--Lenin's ru...

Reducere. A room's acoustic character seems at once the most technical and the most mystical of concerns. Since the early Enlightenment, European architects ...

National borders and transnational forces have been central in defining the meaning of race in the Americas. Race and Transnationalism in the Ameri...

Reducere. In her remarkable book, Sondra Horton Fraleigh examines and describes dance through her consciousness of dance as an art, through the experience of...

Reducere. In Ambient Rhetoric, Thomas Rickert seeks to dissolve the boundaries of the rhetorical tradition and its basic dichotomy of subject and object. Wit...

Reducere. Irish Presbyterians and the Shaping of Western Pennsylvania, 1770-1830 is a historical study examining the religious culture of Irish immigrants in...

Following the creation of the viceroyalty of R o de la Plata in 1776, the elites of Buenos Aires, C rdoba, and Montevideo turned time and again to ...

Reducere. Andrei Kozyrev was foreign minister of Russia under President Boris Yeltsin from August 1991 to January 1996. During the August 1991 coup attempt a...

This study explores the science and culture of nineteenth-century British arboretums, or tree collections. The development of arboretums was foster...

This volume honors and examines the founders of the philosophy of logical empiricism. Historical and interpretive essays clarify the scientific phi...

Beginning in the 1950s, an explosion in rural-urban migration dramatically increased the population of cities throughout Peru, leading to an acute ...

Reducere. Thirtieth Anniversary Edition Any number of writers could spend an entire season with an NFL team, from the first day of training camp until the la...

From migrations to pop culture, loss to la d rive, Life in a Country Album is a soundtrack of the global cultural landscape--borders and citizenshi...

Reducere. Process Philosophy surveys the basic issues and controversies surrounding the philosophical approach known as "process philosophy." Process philoso...

Reducere. The West Virginia mine war of 1920-21, a major civil insurrection of unusual brutality on both sides, even by the standards of the coal fields, inv...

Radiation Evangelists explores X-ray and radium therapy in the United States and Great Britain during a crucial period of its development, from 189...