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by Jonathan Swift
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Jump into Jonathan Swift's take-no-prisoners parody of seventeenth-century Christianity. Equal parts uproarious humor and incisive satire, A Tale of a Tub dissects the foibles and shortcomings of three brothers, each of whom represents a different branch of the Christian religion. Swift, himself...
by Jonathan Swift
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
From the master of satire, Jonathan Swift, comes a collection of his classic satirical works. "A Modest Proposal and Other Satires" includes the following works: A Tale of a Tub, The Battle of the Books, An Argument Against the Abolishment of Christianity, A Modest Proposal, A True and Faithful Narrative,...
by Jonathan Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2005
In 1202, zealous Western Christians gathered in Venice determined to liberate Jerusalem from the grip of Islam. But the crusaders never made it to the Holy Land. Steered forward by the shrewd Venetian doge, they descended instead on Constantinople, wreaking terrible devastation. The crusaders spared...
Therapy
An Alex Delaware Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2004
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Behind the yellow crime-scene tape, a brutal tableau awaits. On a lonely lovers’ lane in the hills of Los Angeles, a young couple lies murdered in a car. Each victim bears a single gunshot wound to the head. Though the female remains unidentified, her male companion...
Brooklyn Is
Southeast of the Island: Travel Notes
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
For the first time in book form—a great writer’s classic celebration of the essence of Brooklyn.
In 1939, James Agee was assigned to write an article on Brooklyn for a special issue of Fortune on New York City. The draft was rejected for “creative differences,” and remained unpublished...
Neill of Summerhill (Routledge Revivals)
The Permanent Rebel
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
A. S. Neill was arguably the most famous child educator of the twentieth century. He was certainly the most controversial. All over the world, countless parents and teachers have been shocked, delighted or inspired by his subversive ideas about education, or by a visit to ‘that dreadful school’...
James Wright
A Life in Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
The authorized and sweeping biography of one of America’s most complex, influential, and enduring poets
In the extraordinary generation of American poets who came of age in the middle of the twentieth century, James Wright (1927–1980) was frequently placed at the top of the list. With a...
by Jonathan Lethem
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2005
A boozy ex-military captain trapped in a mysterious vessel searches for his runaway son, an aging superhero settles into academia, and a professional "dystopianist" receives a visit from a suicidal sheep. Men and Cartoons contains eleven fantastical, amusing, and moving stories written...
Memoirs of a Not Altogether Shy Pornographer
Selected and Introduced by Jonathan Lethem
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
In this funny and telling portrait of the artist as a young pornographer, Bernard Wolfe chronicles his own unlikely entrance into the world of letters. The year was 1936, and Depression laden America had no great need for a Yale Phi Bete whose primary talent was for words. After working variously...
As by Fire
The End of the South African University
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
What are the real roots of the student protests of 2015 and 2016? Is it actually about fees? Why did the protests turn violent? Where is the government while the buildings burn? Former Free State University vice-chancellor Jonathan Jansen delves into the unprecedented disruption of universities that...
Time Bomb
An Alex Delaware Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2003
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Jonathan Kellerman's Guilt.
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By the time psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware reached the school the damage was done: A sniper had opened fire on a crowded playground, but was gunned down before any children were hurt.
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“Virtually...
Osama
The Making of a Terrorist
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
How is it possible for one middle-aged Saudi millionaire to threaten the world's only superpower? This is the question at the center of Jonathan Randal's riveting, timely account of Osama bin Laden's life and role in the rise of terrorism in the Middle East. Randal traces the current sources of Osama's...
Revolutionary Ideas
An Intellectual History of the French Revolution from The Rights of Man to Robespierre
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2014
Historians of the French Revolution used to take for granted what was also obvious to its contemporary observers—that the Revolution was shaped by the radical ideas of the Enlightenment. Yet in recent decades, scholars have argued that the Revolution was brought about by social forces, politics,...
A Revolution of the Mind
Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2009
Democracy, free thought and expression, religious tolerance, individual liberty, political self-determination of peoples, sexual and racial equality--these values have firmly entered the mainstream in the decades since they were enshrined in the 1948 U.N. Declaration of Human Rights. But if these...