Book Description This is the first volume of essays on Bacon's The New Atlantis, a key text of Early Modern culture, incorporating the practical and visionary, utility and...
Похожие книги
Driven
Kashamba Williams
Book DescriptionThe theory of evolution connects us to the natural world, explaining how and why we are a part of nature. The idea of progress, on the other hand, projects...
Book DescriptionThis collection, which gathers fifteen stories by contemporary Indian women representing the varied languages and regions of their subcontinent, is now ava...
Book DescriptionOver the years, Pennsylvania has been graced with an abundance of writers whose work draws imaginatively on the state?s history and culture. Common Wealth ...
Book DescriptionThis Companion presents new essays covering the one hundred and fifty year history of the African American novel.
Book Description It has been almost a truism of European history that the French Revolution gave a great stimulus to the growth of modern nationalism. This collection of o...
Book Description1925. This is collection is the work of hundreds of readers of The American Mercury. With a few exceptions, every collector has confined himself to his own...
Book DescriptionThis is the sixth book in the Plays and Playwrights series. The book includes the complete scripts of twelve plays with permission and contact information ...
Book DescriptionIn this all-new, original anthology, today's top talents tackle good and evil and the many shades in between. In the tradition of "Buffy" and "Angel," thes...
Book Description"[E]ditors William R. Handley and Nathaniel Lewis [write an] astute introduction to this new collection of essays. . . . At the core of True Westis a clust...
Book DescriptionLeaving home is a dangerous business. Whether it's to walk across the street or travel to another continent, one never returns the same. Conjunctions: 44, ...
Book DescriptionAn anthology of fantasy stories selected by the eminent Medievalist and Fantasy scholar Tom Shippey, The Oxford Book of Fantasy Stories gathers together th...
Book Description To help stoke the Christmas spirit and provide a respite from the annual blizzard of commercialism and family obligations, these twenty tales offer a hear...
Book DescriptionInfamous shootist Buck Fletcher befriends a female victim of a range war and finds himself threatened by one side, courted by the other.
Book DescriptionMichel de Montaigne (1533-1592) is known for his innovative method of philosophical inquiry which mixes the anecdotal and the personal with serious critiqu...
Book DescriptionPublished for the first time and reprinted from the only surviving copy of the script, which was discovered in the CBS-TV vaults, Applause is proud to pres...
Book DescriptionWriters speculate on the future and the role of science fiction.
Book Description Ghosts are among us. On the other side of death, the spirits of departed souls have been part of human myths and beliefs as long as anyone can recall. Som...
"[Most of] these stories are portraits, in styles ranging from sly to harrowing, of how crimes occurred ... If you like all your characters living at the end of a story, t...
Every fourth page is aA full-color figurative painting, each one by an excellent artist.A The other pages have fiction on them, with only one color but lots of wordsA inc...