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A Times Higher Education Book of the Week One of our foremost commentators on poetry examines the work of a broad range of nineteenth- and twentieth-century English, Irish, and American poets. The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar gathers two decades’ worth of Helen Vendler’s essays, book reviews,...

Tales From the Strange Mind of Me is a collection of short stories and essays written over a period of ten years. Each droaws on a memory or groups of memories about life and family. While theses stories don't necessarily reflect actual events, they do draw from the authors life and experiences. Each...

Postcolonial Borges is the first systematic account of geo-political and postcolonial themes in a range of writings by Borges, from the poetry and essays of the 1920s, through the prose and poetry of the middle years (the 40s, 50s, and 60s), to the stories of El informe de Brodie and the poems of...

Alain de Botton lesen heißt GLÜCK TANKEN. Alain de Botton ist dafür berühmt, unseren Blick für die vermeintlich belanglosen Dinge des Lebens neu und unerwartet zu öffnen, mit seinen Augen sehen wir, was uns zuvor nie aufgefallen ist. So begeistert er uns in seinen Essays für den Charme der...

About the book Countrywide is a collection of articles and essays about labour issues, university revenue, health, economy, security, electoral umpire-ship and other topical issues. It is inclusive of all human and social welfare issues and recommended for all readers interested in the advancement...

This book covers a broad and varied range of topics from religion to Israel and sermon improvements to politics. The authors controversial views are sharp, witty and against the grain. He is sure to offend Episcopalians, Jews, Roman Catholics, clergy, preachers, listeners and prudes. Readers...

The late writer and naturalist Ellen Meloy wrote and recorded a series of audio essays for KUER, NPR Utah in the 1990s. Every few months, she would travel to their Salt Lake City studios from her red rock home of Bluff to read an essay or two. With understated humor and sharp insight, Meloy would...

A fantastic collection of recent nonfiction essays, Tell You What contains live, wild, true stories from contemporary New Zealand. On the web and the wireless, in magazines and journals, at prizegivings and powhiri, New Zealanders are writing about the world. Essays and articles, speeches and submissions,...

Montaigne's stated goal in his book is to describe man, and especially himself, with utter frankness and honesty ("bonne foi"). He finds the great variety and volatility of human nature to be its most basic features, which resonates to the Renaissance thought about the fragility of humans....

Ahad Ha'am is mainly remembered as the 'father of cultural Zionism.' But these essays show him to be a major literary figure and an original thinker. His ideas have relevance today, both for confronting the future of Israel and Palestine, and for thinking about cultural pluralism in a democratic society.

Skyros Publishing is dedicated to reproducing the finest books ever written and letting readers of all ages experience a classic for the first time or revisit a past favorite. Theodore Roosevelt was the 26th president of the United States and one of the leading forces of the Progressive Era....

A Gift of Friendship … If you’ve ever wrestled with the realities of growing older, fallen into a funk after a health scare or struggled to grow your own vegetables, Susan Troccolo’s The Beet Goes On, is for you. Troccolo’s wise and hilarious essays are like taking a road trip with your best...

Travelers, Laura Bernstein-Machlay’s debut collection of essays, maps the author’s journey as she makes sense of her recovering city, the generations that preceded her, and her own definition of wife, mother, and home.  These intimate, humorous and heartfelt essays offer an honest, and discerning...

For the millions of wah kiu or "overseas Chinese," life in the world beyond China's borders is fraught with the question of identity. In these stories and essays, written over the past thirty years, Xu Xi explores the joys, fears, idealism, disappointments, dreams and lives of the wah kiu....