Regional & Cultural

A hilarious illustrated book about the joys and challenges of parenting\Parenting is hard. Babies poop, kids are messy and they never seem to want to eat th...

Before the notion of "political correctness" encroached on the ways people spoke, wrote, and conducted themselves in public and private, some of America's ...

The Harry Potter Books Were Just The Beginning of the Story... During the brief span of just one decade, hundreds of millions of perfectly ordinary peopl...

Elegant representations of nature and the four seasons populate a wide range of Japanese genres and media―from poetry and screen painting to tea ceremonie...

This novel offers a contemporary and explosive picture of the nuclear family, which pivots on the bizarre odyssey of a Japanese father and son.Categories: P...

The doctor's office is cool, white, sterile. But the doctor's words are searing: blood tests prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that Margaret and Arthur Crawf...

Presents The Nineteenth-century Short Story In Which A Governess Believes Her Two Charges, Ten-year-old Miles And Eight-year-old Flora, Are Being Haunted By...

A GLOBE & MAIL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR 2012 “Glover is a master of narrative structure.” —Wall Street Journal In the tradition of E.M. Forste...

This edition of "the most modern of eighteenth-century novels" reprints the text of the first edition of the volumes of Tristram Shandy as they appeared fr...

If you're not already acquainted—nay, infatuated—with the works of the man who the New York Times calls "the funniest man in America," you can get crac...

Using The Multiple Meanings Of Wake To Illustrate The Ways Black Lives Are Determined By Slavery's Afterlives, Christina Sharpe Weaves Personal Experiences ...

With grace and insight, celebrated writer bell hooks untangles the complex personae of women writers. Born and raised in the rural South, hooks learned earl...

The "hilarious and super-relatable" (Cosmopolitan) New York Times bestselling guide to living your best life, with a new foreword and updated material If y...

When the novel Brave New World first appeared in 1932, its shocking analysis of a scientific dictatorship seemed a projection into the remote future. Here,...

In this new biography, based on a reexamination of Thoreau's manuscripts and on retracing of his trips, Robert Richardson offers a view of Thoreau's life a...

The Friendly Dickens Helps You Turn The Pages Of A Masterpiece Like David Copperfield Or An Obscure Novel Like Nicholas Nickleby As Eagerly As You Switch Ch...

Nobel laureate Halldór Laxness’s Under the Glacier is a one-of-a-kind masterpiece, a wryly provocative novel at once earthy and otherworldly. At its outs...

How Does One Live? How Does One Do The Good Or Honorable Thing, While Flourishing And Feeling Happy? This Question Obsessed Renaissance Writers, None More T...

Here is a lovingly assembled, essential A-Z companion to Dorothy Dunnett’s brilliant Lymond Chronicles and the first five novels in the House of Niccolò s...

Anthony Trollope was a giant of Victorian letters whose works are still read avidly today. Now, in what is surely the definitive biography, the world's lead...

Preeminent Shakespeare Scholar James Shapiro Shows How The Tumultuous Events In England In 1606 Affected Shakespeare And Shaped The Three Great Tragedies He...

This Is The First Systematic Critique Of Edward Said's Influential Work Orientalism, A Book That For Almost Three Decades Has Received Wide Acclaim In Both ...

The Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz refashions the classic tales of Scheherazade into a novel written in his own imaginative, spellbindin...

Signatures: )(⁸⁻¹ A-2g⁸. Title Vignette; Head- And Tailpieces. Der Kirschbaum. Ein Kindergespräch Im Garten, In Prose: P. [427]-438. Einiges Von Und...

Benjamin And Barbara Harshav, Translations With The Participation Of Kathryn Hellerstein, Brian Mchale, And Anita Norich. Includes Bibliography.Categories: ...

Have you ever thought about how your seemingly insignificant life events have formed who you are? How intriguing it is to look back and discover how your cu...

The hilarious and controversial host of HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher has written his funniest, most opinionated, and most necessary book ever--a brillian...

Thomas Hardy once said that America had two great attractions: the skyscraper and the poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay. The most famous poet of the Jazz A...

Michael Reynolds's "masterpiece in the making" (Library Journal) concludes with a rich and sympathetic portrayal of Nobel Prize recipient Hemingway's final ...

From An Elementary School Principal And Popular Youtube Personality, Inspiration And Humor For Educators To Tackle The Challenges They Face Day-in And Day-o...

Journey with No Maps is the first biography of P.K. Page, a brilliant twentieth-century poet and a fine artist. The product of over a decade's research and ...

A responsive, refreshed, and media-rich revision of the best-selling anthology in the field The most trusted anthology for complete works and helpful edito...

An Affecting And Hope-filled Posthumous Collection Of Essays And Stories From The Talented Young Yale Graduate Whose Title Essay Captured The World's Attent...

Now in paperback, the New York Times bestseller that takes readers on a riotous journey through the mind of one of America's premier comics George Carlin'...

This Companion offers the most comprehensive overview available of modernist poetry, its forms, its major authors and its contexts. The first part explores ...

Pamela Banting. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 235-250).Categories: Literature & Fiction History & Criticism Regional & CulturalCanadia...

A Treat For All Lovers Of The Traditional Ghost Story: Here Are Thirty-five Well-wrought Tales Of Haunted Houses, Vengeful Spirits, And Spectral Warnings Fr...

Preface -- The Good Red Road -- Anodynes And Amulets -- Keep The Drum Playing -- Recovery And Transformation -- From The Inside: Looking At You -- Physical ...

In all six of its volumes The Broadview Anthology of British Literature presents British literature in a truly distinctive light. Fully grounded in sound ...

Here's a pot-pourri of stimulating reading...for moments when nothing but the most absorbing material will do! No more frantic searches at the last minute ...

Ecofeminist Literary Criticism is the first collection of its kind: a diverse anthology that explores both how ecofeminism can enrich literary criticism an...

a Critical Rethinking Of Theories Of National Imagination, the Dawn That Never Comes Offers The Most Detailed Reading To Date In English Of One Of Modern J...

This Norton Critical Edition reprints the authoritative Wesleyan text of Joseph Andrews, edited by Martin Battestin. An accurate text of Shamela (Fielding...

what Is Lost In Translation May Be A War, A World, A Way Of Life. A Unique Look Into The Nineteenth-century Clash Of Empires From Both Sides Of The Earths...

Critics across the country have raved about Joyce Carol Oates’s ground-breaking memoir A Widow’s Story, lauding its blazing honesty and raw emotion, ca...

The most-trusted literature anthology of all time, now in its 50th year. The Ninth Edition offers more complete works and more teachable groupings than eve...

Tracing The Genesis Of A Masterpiece, A Fitzgerald Scholar Follows The Novelist As He Begins Work On The Great Gatsby. The Autumn Of 1922 Found F. Scott Fit...

Simon Winchester. Maps On End Pages. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 251-253) And Index.Categories: ReferenceLanguage Study & Reference