Birds: Myth, Lore and Legend
Rachel Warren-Chadd and Marianne Taylor
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Why are owls regarded either as wise or as harbingers of doom? What gave rise to the fanciful belief...
Complete Poems
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2000 marks the centenary of "Lift Every Voice and Sing," James Weldon Johnson's most famous lyric,...
The Moviegoer
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Winner of the 1961 National Book Award 'The Moviegoer' is the dazzling novel that established Walker...
Bestsellers: A Very Short Introduction
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Lady Chatterley's Lover. The Blue Lagoon. Portnoy's Complaint. The Da Vinci Code. For the last...
The Law of the United States: An Introduction
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The Law of the United States offers an introduction and overview of the American legal system. With...
Conversations: Volume 2
Jorge Luis Borges and Osvaldo Ferrari
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Recorded during Jorge Luis Borges's final years, this second volume of his conversations with...
Homeownership, Renting and Society: Historical and Comparative Perspectives
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On the eve of the financial crisis, the USA was inhabited by almost 70 percent homeowning...
Imagining the American West Through Film and Tourism
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The West is one of the strongest and most enduring place images in the world and its myth is firmly...
Cy Twombly
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The American artist Cy Twombly (1928-2011) was one of the seminal artists of the second half of the...
Allen Ginsberg
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In this new critical biography of Allen Ginsberg, Steve Finbow re-examines the life, poetry and...