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A study of the popular novelist Tom Robbins. Hoyser and Stookey show how Robbins deftly uses style and humour to depict the absurdities and injustices of our world. His novels constantly challenge perceptions of the world that people automatically label as normal.

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With its engaging alteration between past and present "Arcadia" offers a comedic and entertaining exploration of chaos theory, entropy, the Second Law of thermodynamics, iterated algorithms, fractals, and other concepts culled the realms of math and science. This guide provides students a comprehensive critical introduction to the play.

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Tom Stoppard is widely regarded as one of the leading contemporary British playwrights. "Arcadia" is considered by many critics to be Stoppard's masterpiece, a work that weds his early career love for words and ideas with his later career emphasis on storytelling and emotional engagement. This guide provides an introduction to the play.

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The famous tale from the Brothers Grimm included in this book is only one of the stories from around the world about a very diminutive but resourceful character trying to earn his or her place in the world.

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While The Right Stuff and The Bonfire of the Vanities remain perhaps his best-known works, Tom Wolfe's journalism and fiction continues to enjoy a large audience, perhaps chiefly because of the variety of his subjects and his controversial approach to them.

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Tom Wolfe's writings inarguably have had enduring cultural impact through the decades, starting with his short stories in the 1960s and the publication of his first novel, "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" in 1968. This work covers Wolfe's life and literary output to date.

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Deemed unsuitable for the Channel Front, lend-lease Tomahawks and Kittyhawks instead became the staple fighter of the Desert Air Force in 1941-42, flying with the RAF, South African and Australian squadrons. This title details accounts from flying aces on their flights and their aircraft.

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"Tomahawk and Musket: French and Indian Raids in the Ohio Valley 1758".

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Lively and accessible in style, this book is written for both an academic readership and the wider audience of gamers and those interested in popular culture.

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Wyatt Earp, leader of the so-called good guys, was charged with stealing horses in the Indian Territory in 1870 and jumped bail. Becoming a buffalo hunter and gambler, he got into several scrapes and earned a reputation as a gunfighter. He got fired from a police job in Wichita for beating up a political rival.

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The playwrights of these three funny, moving and provocative plays were chosen from 390 entrants to write a contemporary female response to Noel CowardsTonight at 8.30.

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"New expanded 21st century edition"--Cover.

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Written in a style that is clear, simple, and informal writing style, Davidian artfully mixes the history of counterpoint with an outline of its structure, placing musical examples from J. S. Bach side by side with those from The Beatles to illustrate the universality and currency of counterpoint in music analysis and composition.

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"Explores a crucial but elusive aspect of writing, tone, across fiction, creative non-fiction, and electronically-generated prose"--

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"Explores a crucial but elusive aspect of writing, tone, across fiction, creative non-fiction, and electronically-generated prose"--

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This work is part of the "Continuum Contemporaries" series giving readers accessible and informative introductions to 30 of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential contemporary novels. It contains a biography of the novelist and a full-length study of the novel.

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This book is a revealing look at the life and work of Nobel laureate Toni Morrison.

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Morrison describes herself as a black woman novelist, and all her novels deal with African American characters and communities. This is the only book-length study to discuss all of Morrison's novels published to date.

This study analyzes in turn each of Morrison's novels.

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Cutting-edge scholarly guide to Toni Morrison's most recent work with emphasis on Morrison's examination of African-American progress and leadership at key moments in American history.

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Cutting-edge scholarly guide to Toni Morrison's most recent work with emphasis on Morrison's examination of African-American progress and leadership at key moments in American history.