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Award-winning novelist Robert Wilson transcends the genre of spy novels in The Company of Strangers, a thrilling page-turner yet also an imaginative, and affecting tale of romance that takes you everywhere from Portugal to England to Cold War Berlin.
Sightings of flying saucers and other UFOs began to be reported across the globe both during World War II, as Western Civilization was virtually tearing itself asunder over ideological conflict, and directly after the war, when the means had been developed to destroy the human world and perhaps the globe itself. Today reports of sightings have been replaced by reports of abductions and examinations by aliens, but Jung's investigation is still relevant to anyone trying to understand this puzzling phenomenon, and its ultimate meaning.
In this startling new edition of his work, Whitman biographer Gary Schmidgall presents over two hundred poems in their original pristine form, in the chronological order in which they were written, with Whitman's original line breaks and punctuation. Included in this volume are facsimiles of Whitman's original manuscripts, contemporary - and generally blistering - reviews of Whitman's poetry (not surprisingly Henry James hated it), and early pre-Leaves of Grass poems that return us to the physical Whitman, rejoicing, sometimes graphically, in homoerotic love.
When Why Are We in Vietnam? was published in 1967, almost twenty years after The Naked and the Dead, the critical response was ecstatic. The novel fully confirmed Mailer's stature as one of the most important figures in contemporary American literature. Now, a new edition of this exceptional work serves as further affirmation of its timeless quality. Narrated by Ranald ("D.J.") Jethroe, Texas's most precocious teenager, on the eve of his departure to fight in Vietnam, this story of a hunting trip in Alaska is both brilliantly entertaining and profoundly thoughtful.
Where did we come from? Did life arise on earth or was it transported here from some other planet? What did the earliest primitive organisms look like? Were they based on RNA or DNA molecules, or on something we would hardly recognize today? And most importantly, do we have the power to reconstruct those organisms in the laboratory? Illuminating and deeply original, The Spark of Life presents the latest thinking from the frontiers of science. Rich in anecdote and crystal clear in its explanations of even the most complex phenomena, it is an important book on one of humankind's most enduring questions.
Joe Kavalier, a young Jewish artist who has also been trained in the art of Houdiniesque escape, has just smuggled himself out of Nazi-invaded Prague and landed in New York City. His Brooklyn cousin Sammy Clay is looking for a partner to create heroes, stories, and art for the latest novelty to hit America, the comic book. Drawing on their own fears and dreams, Kavalier and Clay create the Escapist, the Monitor, and Luna Moth, inspired by the beautiful Rosa Saks, who will become linked by powerful ties to both men. With exhilarating style and grace, Michael Chabon tells an unforgettable story about American romance and possibility. |
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Tocqueville: A Biography In his first major biography of the author of Democracy in America, Andre Jardin traces Alexis de Tocqueville's eventful life from his birth in 1805 to aristocratic parents in post-revolutionary France, through his trip to antebellum America as a young man, his adventures in Algeria, and his political career in France's Second Republic, to his return to writing and the publication of his other classic work, L'Ancien regime et la revolution, in 1856. Jardin also offers an illuminating critical analysis of Democracy in America, arguing that the concerns for just government that inform this famous work dominated Tocqueville's thought throughout his life.
Jason Elliot's travels in Afghanistan are told with evocative poignancy of a land racked through the centuries by invading armies. Ravaged most recently by the Soviet Army and now by internal strife Afghanistan endures. Whether telling the tale of the Afghan warrior beckoning the rocket-shy author to step out of the cold but protected shadows of a Kabul doorway into the warmth of the sun, or the harrowing tale of a mountainous truck ride under the light of a crescent moon, Elliot shares the beauty and poetic delicacy of a rough but resilient land.
Her name is Dinah. In the Bible, her life is only hinted at in a brief and violent detour within the more familiar chapters about her father, Jacob, and his dozen sons in the Book of Genesis. Told in Dinah's voice, this novel reveals the traditions and turmoil of ancient womanhood, the world of the red tent. It begins with the story of her mothers - Leah, Rachel, Zilpah, and Bilhah - the four wives of Jacob. They love Dinah and give her gifts that are to sustain her through a hard-working youth, a calling to midwifery, and a new home in a foreign land. Dinah's story reaches out from a remarkable period of early history and creates an intimate, immediate connection.
The End of "Isms"? This volume considers the state of, and future prospects for, the politics of ideology after the collapse of communism in the former USSR and east Europe. The contributors explore this topic with regard both to the universal intellectual trends and the specific ideological situations in the major countries and regions of the contemporary world. Some contributors regard the history of the modern state as a voyage towards a perfect condition of things and believe that this voyage will continue unabated, despite the fall of communism. Others, however, think that politics of ideology has lived its day and is now in the process of being replaced by the 'politics of modesty' concentrating on limited and pragmatically defined pursuits.
Diane Ackerman's new book, Cultivating Delight, celebrates the sensory pleasures she discovers in her garden. Whether she is deadheading flowers of glorying in the profusion of roses, offering sugar water to a hummingbird or studying the slug, she welcomes the unexpected drama and extravagance as well as the sanctuary her garden offers.
Peter Hall examines the urban consequences of the informational revolution, and assesses the value of new ideas such as sustainable urban development. He considers the cause and effect of economic decline in some cities and of spectacular growth in others. The rich he finds retreating into gated enclosures, the poor subsisting on welfare and the black economy. |
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The Company of Strangers
Flying Saucers
Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892
Why Are We in Vietnam?
The Spark of Life: Darwin and the Primeval Soup
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
An Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan
The Red Tent
Cultivating Delight: A Natural History of My Garden
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