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"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 a brief essay in the Notes section of his Facebook page. Often just

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Setting out from middle-class California to invent herself as a European-style intellectual, Sontag raised the bar of critical discourse and offered up a model of a freethinking, imaginative, and sensual woman. This book offers a reflection on the work, influence, and personality of Sontag.

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"[Lombardo] has brought his laconic wit and love of the ribald. . . to his version of the Odyssey. His carefully honed syntax gives the narrative energy and a whirlwind pace. The lines, rhythmic and clipped, have the tautness and force of Odysseus' bow." Chris Hedges, The New York Times Book Review

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Two works that are resources for students on the path of self-development.

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The first collection of essays in English by the winner of the 2013 Cames Prize and the 2014 Neustadt Prize.

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Brief collage-style essays that explore the ephemeral and fractured nature of life in the digital age.

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A smart, sardonic, and entertaining collection of short nonfiction with broad reader appealAuthor is well-known as a firebrand; he was banned from the U.S. during a border incidentFeatures over 50 essays and diatribes on popular culture, politics, science, fiction, religion, and more

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Keepsake, guidebook, and wunderkammer of enthusiasms, Sturdevant's essays offer new ways of thinking about urban spaces and the contemporary Midwest.

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A young widow and her five dogs confront life.

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Eva Peron holds mythic status in Argentina and continues to arouse interest abroad, as is evident from such cultural productions as the musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice and the film by Alan Parker. This study offers a new dimension on her impact on literature (along with that of her husband), by extending the focus beyond the novel.

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Essays on animal rights, silence, mortality, eroticism, film, and language

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"We've tamed too much of our world, too much of our mind, too much of our soul. Doug Thorpe helps us understand what Thoreau really meant when he said that in wildness is the preservation of the world."

--Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature

"Doug Thorpe has thought deeply-as he has trekked deeply-into the terra

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This is a collection of ten essays which all focus on issues in Baier's recent work, and forms a companion to "The Rational and the Moral Order". The authors are well-known contemporary moral philosophers and the book includes a reply from Baier to their criticisms.

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In her first-ever collection of essays, poet and novelist Lorna Goodison interweaves the personal and political to explore themes that have occupied her working life: her love of poetry and the arts, colonialism and its legacy, racism and social justice, authenticity, and the enduring power of friendship.

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Ten years of poet and critic Garrett Capless writing on neglected figures of art and poetry.

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Ten years of poet and critic Garrett Capless writing on neglected figures of art and poetry.

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In 1976, the author visited friends on Palm Island and was shocked at the restrictions the Aboriginal people living there were forced to endure. He recorded their lives and stories in his first book. In the 1980s, Rosser went back to Palm Island and this book is an account of his experiences and the changes he saw in both the people and the place.

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This volume is a study of an ancient Chinese text called "the Xunzi", attributed to and named after Xun Kuang, or Xunzi (ca. 310-210 B.C.). It is divided into four chapters, covering: self-cultivation and the mind; heaven; ritual and music; and language and the way.

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The "Sefer Yetzirah" explores the point of infinity, kabbalistic astrology, Ezekiel's vision and the mystery of the 231 gates. The short, long and Saadia versions are included, and there is a digest on the major commentaries.

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A collection of essays that present the author's oeuvre, belles-lettres, essays and occasional pieces which range over autobiography, his French-Canadian heritage, the craft of fiction, American fiction, Australian fiction, and the work of such individual writers as Jack Kerouac, V S Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, Alice Munro, and Leon Rooke.

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