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Explains why fantasy in the Harry Potter and Dresden Files novels cannot adhere strictly to scientific laws, and when magic might make scientific sense in the muggle world. This title discusses exoplanets and how the search for alien life has shifted from radio communications to space-based telescopes.

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Wolf Island recounts three extraordinary summers and winters L. David Mech spent on the isolated outpost of Isle Royale National Park, tracking and observing wolves and moose on foot and by airplaneand upending the common misperception of wolves as destructive killers of insatiable appetite.

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Grass shaped by wind, stone grooved by rain - poems with the small, relentless power of nature.

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A vivid portrait of one of the blues' most influential female artists, and the popular poetry of her lyrics.

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The first bilingual collection of her poetry in English

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How women figured in the expansion of the national body of the Japanese empire

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Women in Public dismantles and reassembles the humor, absurdity, and terror that inform interactions with gender, sexuality, and amorous consumption.

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A collection of stirring stories from women who found adventure and enlightenment in the wild takes readers on a raft through the dangerous rapids of a river in Borneo, hiking the Appalachian Mountains alone, and scuba diving off the coast of Mexico. Original.

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Women Write Iran is the first full-length study on life narratives by Iranian women in the diaspora. Nima Naghibi investigates auto/biographical narratives across genresincluding memoirs, documentary films, prison testimonials, and graphic novelsand finds that they are tied together by the experience of the 1979 Iranian revolution.

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Women Write Iran is the first full-length study on life narratives by Iranian women in the diaspora. Nima Naghibi investigates auto/biographical narratives across genresincluding memoirs, documentary films, prison testimonials, and graphic novelsand finds that they are tied together by the experience of the 1979 Iranian revolution.

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This collection examines Gothic fiction written by female authors in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Analysing works by lesser known authors within a historical context, the collection offers a fresh perspective on women writers and their contributions to Gothic literature.

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This book discusses the representation of women's memories of the dictatorship in the recent work of seven Chilean novelists.

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Alison Hoddinott writes about the history of crime fiction set in Oxford from the early decades of the 20th century to the present. Her emphasis is on novels written by women and the ways in which their fiction deals with both the mystery and its solution and with the situation of women within the university and in the wider community.

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Touching on the works of Emerson, Thoreau, Proust, and Plato, among others, this title outlines the problem of duality in modern thought - the separation of the mind and body, word and referent, intelligence and mystery, human and natural - and makes the case for a fuller kind of nature poetry, one that strives to overcome this false separation.

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Humorous and wildly inventive poems from a master of absurdist poetic theater.

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A chronicle of the rewards and challenges of building a life on a farm in backwoods Maine

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Marjorie Welish breaks new ground as she explores uncharted territory within lyric poetry.

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For more than twenty years, Richard Kostelanetz has been a consistent iconoclast and advocate of the avant-garde in American poetry.