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Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
Description
"The idea of verse, of poetry, has always, during forty years spent working primarily in prose, stood at my elbow, as a standing invitation to the highest kind of verbal exercise - the most satisfying, the most archaic, the most elusive of critical control. In hotel rooms and airplanes, on beaches and Sundays, at junctures of personal happiness or its opposite, poetry has comforted me with its hope of permanence, its packaging of flux." Thus John...
Author
Series
W.L. Moody Jr. natural history volume no. 29
Publisher
Texas A&M University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Perhaps nothing about nature calls to us as deeply as wild animals. To see an enormous whale leaping out of the water, the eerily human eyes of a gorilla, or the comical waddle of a penguin; to hear the ethereal howl of a wolf or majestic roar of a lion--these experiences change us. Around the world, animal populations are threatened by loss of habitat, pollution, climate change, overhunting, and poaching--and yet wildlife-based tourism is growing...
Author
Publisher
Phaidon Press Limited
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Since The Metropolitan Museum of Art's founding in New York City nearly 150 years ago, generations of artists have found boundless inspiration in its galleries. "The Artist Project" celebrates the role that great art plays in spurring creativity in the twenty-first century. Interviews with 120 international contemporary artists discussing works from The Met's collection that spark their imagination offer new insights into art, museums, and the creative...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The hobbit: an unexpected journey: Follow Bilbo Baggins, who along with the Wizard Gandalf and 13 Dwarves, led by Thorin Oakenshield - is swept into an epic and treacherous quest to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kinfdom of Erebor. Runtime:2 hours, 49 minutes.
The hobbit : the desolation of Smaug: Out heros escape the giant Spiders and Wood-elves of Mirkwood before encountering the mysterious Bard, who smuggles them into Lake-town. Finally, reaching the...
Author
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"The first genocide of the twentieth century remains unrecognized and unpunished. One hundred years later, Turkey continues to deny the slaughter of over a million Ottoman Armenians in 1915 and the following years. What sets the Armenian genocide apart from other mass atrocities is that the country responsible has never officially acknowledged its actions, and no individual has ever been brought to justice. Here, the authors visit historic sites and...
Author
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
c1993
Language
English
Description
Hours after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Japanese forces launched a devastating attack on U.S. troops in the Philippines. In May 1942, after months of battle with no reinforcements and no hope of victory, the remaining American forces, holed up on the tiny island of Corregidor, suffered a humiliating defeat, and 11,000 fighting men became prisoners of war in the largest American capitulation since Appomattox. Those lucky enough to survive the brutal...
Author
Publisher
Meteor House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
To mark Philip Jos? Farmer's 100th Birthday, Meteor House is proud to present a mammoth collection worthy of the Grand Master. With over fifty pieces spanning seven decades, The Philip Jos? Farmer Centennial Collection goes far beyond the typical "best of" anthology by including classic science fiction, poems, articles, tributes, speeches, and more, all from Farmer's magic pen. This mammoth collection boasts an introduction by Joe R. Lansdale, a foreword...
Author
Publisher
Globe Pequot
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Since its founding four hundred years ago, New England has been a vital source of nature writing. Maybe it's the diversity of landscapes huddled so close together or the marriage of nature and culture in a relatively small, six-state region. Maybe it's the regenerative powers of the ecosystem in a place of repeated exploitations. Or maybe we have simply been thinking about our relationship with the natural world longer than everyone. If all successive...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Starting with his first collection, Anxiety, in 1947, published in the wake of the Holocaust, R=zewicz's poetry is haunted by the failure of our civilization to save humanity. His poetry after Auschwitz is an anti-poetry: simple, minimalist, powerful, and raw. The denial of history, our ruthless exploitation of nature, excessive consumerism, and the commodification of everythingùincluding dissentùare the targets of his more recent kaleidoscopic...
1056) Queer objects
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Queer lives give rise to a vast array of objects: the things we fill our houses with, the gifts we share with our friends, the commodities we consume at work and at play, the clothes and accessories we wear, various reminders of state power, as well as the analogue and digital technologies we use to communicate with one another. But what makes an object queer? The sixty-three chapters in Queer Objects consider this question in relation to lesbian,...
1057) Coyote stories
Author
Publisher
Mint Editions, an imprint of West Margin Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"'We who lived the days of tribal life before our destruction began remember with gratefulness our storytellers and the delight and joy and richness which they imparted to our lives. We never tired of their tales, though told countless times. They will, forsooth, never grow old, for they have within them the essence of things that cannot grow old. These legends are of America, as are its mountains, rivers, and forests, and as are its people. They...
Author
Publisher
University of Utah Press
Pub. Date
©1995
Language
English
Description
Based on the most up-to-date archaeological and historical research, Rio del Norte is a tour de force, highlighting the upper Rio Grande region and its diverse peoples across some twelve thousand years of continuous history. Over eleven millenia ago, Paleoindians tracked mammoth and bison in the Rio Grande Basin. As the Ice Ages ended and arid conditions caught hold, the place of the Paleoindians was taken by bands of hunters and gatherers who long...
Author
Publisher
University Press of Florida
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Did Richard the Lionheart really die from a simple crossbow wound, or was there foul play? Who are the two infants buried in Tutankhamun's tomb? Could a skull found in a tax collector's attic be the long-lost head of Henri IV? In When Science Sheds Light on History, Philippe Charlier, the "Indiana Jones of the graveyards," travels the globe to unravel these and other unsolved mysteries of human history. To get answers, Charlier looks for clues in...
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