In Poetry and Humanism, M. M. Mahood writes on the great religious poets of seventeenth-century England and their relationship to Renaissance humanism.
An elegant and richly evocative collection about the nature of paradise and the complexities of desire, these eight magical stories are about the Edenic spaces that people create in their lives and the serpents that subtly inhabit them.
"Zooks! At last, the culture, folklore, and mythology of computing. Here's the digital dirt from our computer age...collected and retold by Karla Jennings." -Cliff Stoll, author of The Cuckoo's Egg
"Giant Killers is one of the rare books that is fun to read, fascinating and educational about the realities of modern Washington lobbying. Mike Pertschuk has done a great service, with good humor and lively anecdotes." -Joseph A. Califano, Jr., former Secretary of Health and Human Services
In many respects early Pennsylvania was the prototype of North American development. Its conservative defense of liberal individualism, its population of mixed national and religious origins, its dispersed farms, county seats, and farm-service villages, and its mixed crop and livestock agriculture served as models for much of the rural Middle West. To many western Europeans in the eighteenth century life in early Pennsylvania offered a veritable paradise and refuge from oppression. Some called it "the best poor man's country in the world." The Best Poor Man's Country was the winner of the Albert J. Beveridge Award of the American Historical Society.
"BioGraffiti is a highly diverting mix of the whimsical and scholarly, of science and art. It will be read-and reread-by those interested in biology and life." -Paul R. Ehrlich
Fig Tree John was an enigma to the whites around him, a proud and mysterious man whose passionate tale unfolds in this long-neglected American classic now republished by Liveright.
On New Hampshire's thin, cold soil, strewn with rocks, generations of resourceful, tough, independent men and women created a landscape of meadows and pastures, of stone walls and weathered barns and clapboard houses, that has affected the American imagination.
Peter Theroux describes Los Angeles, the City of Dreams, from a variety of angles: he encounters the diversity of citizens and immigrants, attends movie premieres, smells the incense for sale on the boardwalk in Venice and drives along a six-lane highway.
"Readers who have come to expect Miss Chase to provide stunning evocations of time and place, particularly of nineteenth-century Maine, will not be disappointed by The Lovely Ambition." -New York Times Book Review
Zhores Medvedev, a Soviet biochemist and outspoken critic of the Soviet bureaucracy, who was railroaded into a mental hospital, and his brother, historian Roy Medvedev, who rallied the Soviet scientific and intellectual community in protest, together tell the story of "repression by psychiatry" in Russia today.
Articles by and about composers, beginning with Charles Ives and including Edgard Varese, Roger Sessions, Aaron Copland, Walter Piston, Elliott Carter, Stefan Wolpe, and others.
A definitive visitor's guide to the beauty and tranquility of South Dakota, covering not only historical sites and tourist attractions, but also hiking, hunting, fishing and camping as well as other forms of outdoor exploration.
Tim Matson surveys an often overlooked aspect of independent living-firelight.
Leave the inner city for biking the nearby country roads and lanes in the New York tristate area.
"Inspired by affection... Extremely witty and intelligent."-Publishers Weekly
"Lisa Williams brings us a poetry of intense observation yoked with equal force to celebration and cerebration."-Gregory Orr
Who would have guessed, three centuries ago, that William Penn's "greene" province and "countrie towne" on the Delaware would become the keystone of American industrialization and the source of some of the nation's most important business institutions?
To many Americans, Oregon is an idyllic, fruitful garden on the northwestern shore of a troubled urban nation. But, as author Gordon B. Dodds explains in this thoughtful history, behind that image lies the story of a state that has retained many of the conservative values of its first settlers while accommodating the forces of national development.
Named one of the top five books on dogs by the Wall Street Journal.
What life has really been like for most Mississippians is the story told in this intriguing history.
A wildly imaginative tragicomedy about a fantastical animal on the prowl and its affection for one troubled family.
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