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In this collection of essays, edited by Romila Thapar, and accompanied by her introduction, fourteen of India’s foremost scholars and specialists in various fields explore the challenges that lie before twenty-first century India in its quest for a democratic and just society. Globalization and...

This book rekindles memories of Milwaukee's County Stadium through detailed summaries of 72 games played there, and insightful feature essays about the history of the ballpark. The process to select games was agonizing, yet deliberate. The book could have easily been filled with memorable games by...

Gibt es einen inneren Zwang zur Literatur? Unterscheiden sich die großen Bücher von allen übrigen dadurch, dass sie geschrieben werden mussten? In seinen Essays über Franz Kafka, Samuel Beckett, Paul Celan, Knut Hamsun und andere große Autoren des 20. Jahrhunderts ergründete Paul Auster die...

Robin and the Honey Badger’s mission is to recharge biology with originality for you, the non-specialist reader. Exploring the Bio-edge is a series of e-essays presenting lateral thoughts in search of ever more interesting stories from biology. In this e-essay: the oarfish and the ocean sunfish...

For many of us, Abundance is something we deeply desire, long for, regularly affirm out- loud and inwardly fear will never come to us in as much measure as we would like. We tend to overrate affirmations and it's bringing about more frustrations and resistance as we see more and more people interested...

Blurbs forthcoming from Karen Russell, David Wroblewski, Lori Ostlund, Celeste Ng, and Andre Dubus III. Published to coincide with AWP conference in Los Angeles and with fall 2016 course adoptions. Marketing to three markets: readers of author biographies and memoirs, students of writing...

"The hunger for a feeling of connection that informs most everything I've written flows from a common break in a common heart, one I share with everyone I’ve ever really known."—Note Book Every single morning since early 2007, Princeton English professor Jeff Nunokawa has posted...

"The Strenuous Life" is a collection of essays and speeches by American President Theodore Roosevelt including the title speech 'The Strenuous Life' in which he argues that strenuous effort and overcoming hardship were ideals to be embraced by Americans for the betterment of the nation. Also included...

William Butler YEATS (1865-1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, mystic and public figure who was one of the driving forces behind the Irish Literary Revival. Rather than a discussion on good and evil as conditions of the human soul, this book is a collection of essays about art written between...

This vintage book contains Y. B. Yeats's 1912 collection of essays, "The Cutting of an Agate". The essays of this collection include: "Thoughts on Lady Gregory's Translations", "Cuchulain and his Cycle", "Fion and his Cycle", "Preface to the First Edition of the Well of the Saints", "Discoveries",...

Short stories, essays, excerpts from longer works, poems and doggerel, miscellaneous subjectsTwo mysteries, two historical essays, a short horror story (mild), humorous tales, critiques of two literary genres and an anonymous author, a brief travelogue, a stolen fairytale, a verbal cartoon...

More than sixty stories, poems, and essays are included in this wide-ranging collection by the extravagantly versatile Raymond Carver. Two of the stories—later revised for *What We Talk About When We Talk About Love—*are particularly notable in that between the first and the final versions, we see clearly the astounding process of Carver’s literary development.

"A glance at these 30 essays reveals Professor Slattery's astoundingly vast and varied range of scholarly interests....These disciplines function for Dennis as modes of knowing, modes of imagining." --Peter C. Phan, Ignacio Ellacuria Chair of Catholic Social Thought, Georgetown University. Elizabeth...

In den meisten Essays geht es um Entstehungsfragen, sowohl um die Werkentstehung im weiteren Sinne als auch um die eigentliche Erfindung des Textes bei der Niederschrift, die in Kafkas Fall oft kaum voneinander zu trennen sind (›Der Schreibakt und das Geschriebene‹). Pasley untersucht z.B. die...