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Reducere. These exquisite love poems, some of them clearly addressed to women, were written by the visionary and passionate genius of Mexican letters, the se...

Reducere. Agamemnon, King of Argos, returns to Greece a victor in the Trojan War. He has brought with him the seer Cassandra as his war-prize and concubine. ...

DescriptionRealizing the century-old dream of a passage to India, the building of the Panama Canal was an engineering feat of colossal dimensions, ...

Reducere. This anthology of war literature includes some of the personal narratives, short stories, novel excerpts, drama, and poetry to come out of the Viet...

Reducere. And Her Soul Out of Nothing, Paperback

Scandinavia's most famous painter, the Norwegian Edvard Munch (1863-1944), is probably best known for his painting The Scream, a universally recogn...

Reducere. Aristophanes, a native Athenian and the leading exponent of Greek comedy, was born c. 450 BCE. Today forty-three of his plays are known by title; e...

Reducere. One of the very first books to take Stephen King seriously, Landscape of Fear (originally published in 1988) reveals the source of King's horror in...

Reducere. Joshua Nguyen's sharp, songlike, and often experimental collection compartmentalizes past trauma--sexual and generational--through the quotidian. P...

Reducere. DescriptionBlood Work reveals what happens to the self when the body is compromised by illness. These poems explore the struggle to remain whole in...

Reducere. On a chilly Monday in late spring, Sheriff Dave Cubiak is at the Green Arbor Lodge for lunch when a scream from a nearby medical conference disrupt...

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 ...

Reducere. It's a sparkling August day on Washington Island and the resonant notes of early classical music float on the breeze toward the sailboats and ferri...

Reducere. In the brutally cold winter of 1936, as his wife lies dying, Henrik Halvorsen takes their daughter with him on a perilous journey. Captain of the c...

Reducere. This intriguing anthology brings together a broad range of critical essays on girls' series fiction from established scholars such as Chamberlain, ...

Reducere. DescriptionOn a bracing autumn day in Door County, a prominent philanthropist disappears. Is the elderly Gerald Sneider-known as "Mr. Packer" for h...

Reducere. Who Am I? is the bittersweet memoir of a Chinese American who came to this country as a twenty-year-old graduate student and stayed to become one o...

Reducere. Detective, monk, father, herbalist, Crusader, sailor, Celt, friend-author Ellis Peters bestows all these attributes on her twelfth-century Benedict...

Reducere. In this startling group memoir, four friends--black and white, gay and straight, immigrant and American-born--use Toni Morrison's novels as a sprin...

Reducere. A fiercely honest exploration of the risks and rewards of contemporary relationships--and hookups--Sex with Strangers embraces the dizzying power o...

Reducere. Maureen Seaton traces the emergence of her identity in quick, droll, often surprising sketches. She finds herself alternately in the company of win...

Reducere. Jack Seabrook discusses The Fabulous Clipjoint in depth, as well as Martians, Go Home, The Screaming Mimi, and all of the other classic Fredric Bro...

Reducere. About the AuthorJacobo Timerman (1923-1999) was born in the Ukraine, moved with his family to Argentina in 1928, and was deported to Israel in 1980...

Reducere. For four decades, the American road narrative has been a significant and popular literary genre for expressing journeys of self discovery. These wo...

Stephen King's popularity lies in his ability to reinterpret the standard Gothic tale in new and exciting ways. Through his eyes, the conventional ...

Ice cream has a singular place in American cuisine as both a comfort food and festive treat. Fudge ripple is a consolation for a minor disappointme...

The classic television show The Twilight Zone explored the possibilities inhering in the ordinary. A Twilight Zone episode moved us by being poigna...

Reducere. Growing up, identical twins Paula and Artis speak in one voice--until they can't. After years apart, with lives, partners, and children of their ow...

Reducere. Pat Faunce yearns for more than his carefree New York life and his open relationship with Stu, an airline pilot. Above all, he wants to be a father...

Reducere. Dave Cubiak is backAfter tracking a clever killer in Death Stalks Door County, park ranger and former Chicago homicide detective Dave Cubiak is ele...

Devil s Lake State Park in Wisconsin is the most popular rock-climbing area in the Midwest. It features spectacular cliffs and other rock formation...

Reducere. It's the summer of 1945, and sixteen-year-old ruffian Milo Egerson has been shipped from his Minneapolis home to his great-uncle Ham's farm in rura...

Reducere. This is the first comprehensive, documented history of the soda fountain. For one hundred fifty years, this popular institution was a community soc...

Reducere. Vampires are the most fearsome and fascinating of all creatures of folklore. For the first time, detailed accounts of the vampire and how its tradi...

Reducere. Born to a wealthy family in West Africa around 1770, Omar Ibn Said was abducted and sold into slavery in the United States, where he came to the at...

Reducere. In this eminently readable story, Jerry Apps delves into the heart of small-town America. Reckoning with timely problems and opinions that divide u...

Reducere. Like that earlier grouse hunter Aldo Leopold, Mark Parman takes to the woods when the aspens are smoky gold. Here, in an evocative almanac that chr...

Reducere. When an artist dies we face two great losses: the person and the work he did not live to do. Loss within Loss is a moving collaboration by some of ...

Reducere. A landmark book in dance education is now back in print, its message as valid today as it was more than fifty years agoAbout the Author: Margaret N...

Reducere. The Driftless Area is the land the glaciers missed, an ancient landscape of bluffs, ridgetops, and steep valleys that long ago was a seabed. Coveri...

Reducere. June 12, 1952--only a local sportswriter showed up at the Eau Claire airport to greet a newly signed eighteen-year-old shortstop from Alabama totin...

Reducere. How and why do trout think? How do they decide where to eat and which food to eat? Why do they refuse to behave as predicted, stumping anglers by r...

Reducere. When Bunny Coburn was growing up, neighbors came together in times of hardship. No matter the trouble, they faced it with determination, camaraderi...

Reducere. DescriptionConjoined twins have long been a subject of fantasy, fascination, and freak shows. In this first collection of its kind, Millie-Christin...

Reducere. This anthology argues for the serious study of the literary oeuvre of Anne Rice, a major figure in today's popular literature. The essays assert th...

Reducere. Rights of Nature Rights of Nature Rights of Nature: A History of Environmental Ethics a History of Environmental Ethics a History of Environmental ...

Reducere. Nowhere in Africa is the extraordinary tale of a Jewish family who flees the Nazi regime in 1938 for a remote farm in Kenya. Abandoning their once-...

Reducere. DescriptionThe years 1907-1913 mark a crucial transitional moment in American cinema. As moving picture shows changed from mere novelty to an incre...

Reducere. For millennia, two biblical verses have been understood to condemn sex between men as an act so abhorrent that it is punishable by death. Tradition...

Reducere. Why do fish jump? Why don't lakes freeze all the way down to the bottom? Which lake plants are invasive? What are those water bugs? Is that lake he...

All about Skin features twenty-seven stories by women writers of color whose short fiction has earned them a range of honors, including John Simon ...

Reducere. More than thirty years after it was written, the autobiography of Carson McCullers, Illumination and Night Glare, will be published for the first t...

Reducere. This classic Swedish novel envisioned a future of drab terror. Seen through the eyes of idealistic scientist Leo Kall, Kallocain's depiction of a t...

AwardsMidwest Book Award (MIPA)DescriptionBetween A.D. 700 and 1100 Native Americans built more effigy mounds in Wisconsin than anywhere else in No...

Reducere. "It was a huge and powerful ship with a tall, handsome pilothouse and big smoking stacks, no place for a girl, though I loved it, I cannot tell you...

Reducere. During the Vietnam War the United States government waged a massive, secret air war in neighboring Laos. Two million tons of bombs were dropped on ...

This Element looks into how politics, social life, and communication intersect and create conditions of polarization and democratic decline. Drawin...

Reducere. DescriptionThis book is a supplement to the textbook Basic Technical Japanese. It introduces 100 new kanji and more than 1500 technical terms that ...

Reducere. Ravensbruck was the only major Nazi concentration camp for women. Located about fifty miles north of Berlin, the camp was the site of murder by sla...

Reducere. The third volume in this powerful trilogy, The Cattle Cars Are Waiting follows the tragic fate of the inhabitants of the ghetto. Chava Rosenfarb, h...

DescriptionNamed for its mythical leader Captain Rock, avenger of agrarian wrongs, the Rockite movement of 1821 24 in Ireland was notorious for its...

Reducere. As the Vietnam War grinds on and the Nixon presidency collapses, Del "Minnow" Finwick's small world in Wisconsin has blown apart. His father, a dep...

Reducere. In the wake of a brutal storm that lashed the Door County peninsula, Sheriff Dave Cubiak assesses the damage: broken windows, downed trees, and pil...

Reducere. Men I've Never Been recounts Michael Sadowski's odyssey as a boy who shuns his own identity--and, ultimately, his sexual orientation--in order to b...

Reducere. From the triumphant "Main Title" in Star Wars to the ominous bass line of Jaws, John Williams has penned some of the most unforgettable film scores...

Reducere. An explosive exposé of how British military intelligence really works-from the inside. This book presents the stories of two undercover agents: Bri...

Reducere. Winner of France's 2004 Prix de Flore for his memoir The Romanian: Story of an Obsession, Bruce Benderson has gained international respect for his ...

Reducere. Famous for iconic images of the rural Midwest such as American Gothic, Politics in Missouri, and Baptism in Kansas Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton, ...

Reducere. A comprehensive study of jazz great Charlie Parker, including details of record dates, more than 200 musical illustrations, and biographical materi...

Reducere. The first time Ravi Shankar was arrested, he spoke out against racist policing on National Public Radio and successfully sued the city of New York....