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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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Revolutionary Romanticism is an anthology of writings by leading artists, scholars, and revolutionaries that discusses the relationship between romantic art and political radicalism.

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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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This edition provides a representative selection of the key works of Sir William Jones (1746-94), one of the foremost Orientalists and intellectual pioneers of his generation. The volume provides convenient and reliable points of access to Jones's work.

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Moving west-from Singapore to America, from New York to California-a woman examines the myth of "finding home" even as she comes to terms with its impossibilities.

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Socrates and others discuss the epistemological and metaphysical puzzles of Parmenides, presenting a new conception of the Theory of Forms, with aims to define the meaning of the Sophist. English translation with notes and introductory essay.

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