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BOOK SEVEN in Reyna Young’s (Bay Area horror host Miss Misery) outstanding Young Adult MONSTERS series! Jimmy has been very naughty this Christmas. Little does he know that there's a Christmas Creature who steals naughty children away every year. When his grandmother comes over on Christmas...

The collected poems of David de Young. 70 poems touching on topics from Elvis, to Hostess Twinkies, to late-life fatherhood. This is David de Young's first anthology of poetry, assembled from poems written over thirty-three years, from 1984 to 2017.

The gorgeous poems of Michael T. Young’s The Infinite Doctrine of Water offer the rewards of deep reflection. The poet’s sharp eye and attentive ear capture the delicate light and shadow of urban life and personal memory. New York and Jersey City provide the backdrop for subtle yet incisive meditations,...

"It has true spiritual importance for contemporary American literature."-Edward Hirsch Upon its initial publication, acclaimed poet Li-Young Lee's memoir The Winged Seed: A Remembrance (1995), received an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. In lyrical prose, Lee's...

What is the meaning of life? In today's secular, post-religious scientific world, this question has become a serious preoccupation. But it also has a long history: many major philosophers have thought deeply about it, as Julian Young so vividly illustrates in this thought-provoking second edition...

Das Standardwerk ›Hannah Arendt. Leben Werk und Zeit‹ zur größten Philosophin des 20. Jahrhunderts Hannah Arendts Leben und Werk wird hier in der definitiven Biographie von Elisabeth Young-Bruehl beschrieben. Als Schülerin Arendts konnte sie den Nachlass der großen Philosophin sowie deren...

"North Korea is not just a security or human rights problem (although it is those things) but a real society. This book gets us closer to understanding North Korea beyond the usual headlines, and does so in a richly detailed, well-researched, and theoretically contextualized way." ---Charles...

This is the second Selection of Poems book that Mr. Young has written. In the second book he has attempted to put to paper some of his inner feelings about what he sees as he looks out upon the world.Like before he has written about his own personnel feelings and how he dwells upon the things that...

Seven months and twenty-three agreeably ill-assorted vessels are what were required to transport Gavin Young, by slow boat, from Piraeus to Canton. His odyssey teemed with excitement, adventure and colour. Gavin Young's account memorably distils the people, places, smells, conversations, ships and history...

The language of contemporary cultural theory shows remarkable similarities with the patterns of thought which characterised Victorian racial theory. Far from being marked by a separation from the racialised thinking of the past, Colonial Desire shows we are operating in complicity with historical...

Published a mere 37 days after the tragedy, Filson Young’s Titanic laid to rest public speculation and rumour with its firsthand account of the sinking of the great ship. For the first time since the Titanic left Southampton on April 10, 1912, the public had a full and detailed view of life on the...

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) was one of the greatest writers and German philosophers of the nineteenth century. His work influenced figures as diverse as Wagner, Freud and Nietzsche. Best known as a pessimist, he was one of the few philosophers read and admired by Wittgenstein. In this comprehensive...

Barbara Arrowsmith-Young was born with severe learning disabilities that caused teachers to label her slow, stubborn—or worse. As a child, she read and wrote everything backward, struggled to process concepts in language, continually got lost, and was physically uncoordinated. She could make no...

Arthur Young was an English writer on agriculture, economics, social statistics, and campaigner for the rights of agricultural workers. Arthur Young is considered the greatest of all English writers on agriculture; but it is as a social and political observer that he is best known, and his Tour in Ireland and Travels in France are still full of interest and instruction.