Category: essays
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A Book of Essays
By: N/A
Price: $2.00
Publisher: Macmillan:
Seller ID: 9780770503413
ISBN: 0770503411
Condition: GOOD
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
By: N/A
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin:
Seller ID: 9780965188388
ISBN: 0965188388
Condition: GOOD
Killing the Messenger: 100 Years of Media Criticism
By: Goldstein, Tom
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Columbia University Press:
Seller ID: 9780231066037
ISBN: 0231066031
Condition: GOOD
Criticism of the press has flourished at times over the last one hundred years, especially during the first part of this century. For a 1920 issue of the "New Republic," Walter Lippmann and Charles Merz wrote a stunning indictment of the "New York Times" for botching the coverage of the Russian Revolution. The 1980s have been a fallow period for cogent press criticism, but the decade has been characterized by a series of upheavals crying for fuller scrutiny. Janet Cooke, a "Washington Post" reporter, was forced to return the Pulitzer Prize for a fabricated story about an eight-year-old heroin ... View more info
Gun Control (Opposing Viewpoints)
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Greenhaven Press:
Seller ID: 9781565106635
ISBN: 1565106636
Condition: GOOD
"Rhetoric, Religion, and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965: Volume 1 (Studies in Rhetoric & Religion)"
By: Houck, Davis W.
Price: $12.45
Publisher: Baylor University Press:
Seller ID: 9781932792546
ISBN: 1932792546
Condition: GOOD
Convertis du XXme Siecle (Premier Volume)
By: N/A
Price: $8.95
Publisher: "Casterman, Belgium": c1956
Seller ID: 10T019
Condition: GOOD
"Tight, soiled exterior with tanned spine, clean interior with age tanned pages, square. Hinge crease, rubbed corners. Authors: Gheon, Hyde, Stein, Jacob, Nicolle, Verkads, Copeman, Nagai, Merton, Raissa, Maritain, Carrel, Desvallieres, Bloy, Riviere, Jammes 246 pages, Text in French." View more info
Selections from Five Roman Authors - Nepos * Caesar * Sallust * Livy * Cicerro
By: N/A
Price: $16.95
Publisher: NY, St. Martin's Press / MacMillan & Co Ltd: 1959
Seller ID: 7-NT002
Condition: NEAR FINE
"As new except for slight softening of top of spine. No dust jacket (probably as issued). Brick red cloth with black title and designs. 9 selections in Latin and 30-page Latin vocabulary plus extensive commentary and notes in English. 142 pages, 4.75x7x.5. " View more info
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
By: N/A
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Penguin Books:
Seller ID: 9780143133568
ISBN: 014313356X
Condition: NEW
Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays
By: Sedaris, David
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Back Bay Books:
Seller ID: 9780316779425
ISBN: 0316779423
Condition: GOOD
In David Sedaris's world, no one is safe and no cow is sacred. Sedaris's collection of essays and stories is a rollicking tour through the national Zeitgeist: a do-it-yourself suburban dad saves money by performing home surgery; a man who is loved too much flees the heavyweight champion of the world; a teenage suicide tries to incite a lynch mob at her funeral; a bitter Santa abuses the elves. With a perfect eye and a voice infused with as much empathy as wit, Sedaris writes stories and essays that target the soulful ridiculousness of our behavior. Barrel Fever is like a blind date with modern... View more info
A Problem in Greek Ethics
By: N/A
Price: $6.99
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform:
Seller ID: 9781517110383
ISBN: 1517110386
Condition: NEW
Innamoramento e amore
Price: $49.95
Publisher: Italy, Garzanti Elefanti: 2001
Edition: (Seconda ristampa)
Seller ID: 7-2T005
ISBN: 8811674387
Condition: FINE
"As new - gift quality! Ventiduesimo saggi (20 essays) ""L'innmoramento tende alla fusione, ma alla fusione di due persone diverse. Perche ci sia innamoramento occorre che ci sia diversita e l'innamoramento e una volonta, una forza per superare questa diversita che pero esiste e deve esistere. "" " View more info
"China, My Great Teacher"
By: "Anderson, Sid"
Price: $16.95
Publisher: Xlibris: 2005
Seller ID: 7-5T025
ISBN: 141347103x
Condition: FINE
"As new - gift quality! Signed and inscribed by author. ""How you and China can learn and profit from the mistakes of the United States"" ""dedicated to Chinese students studying or proficient in English"" ""It's been said that there are more English learners in China than there are native English speakers in the whole world"" 126 pages." View more info
This Bewildered Age
Price: $18.95
Publisher: NY, "Dodd, Mead & Company": 1935
Edition: (1st edition)
Seller ID: 7-NT028
Condition: GOOD+
"Tight, clean interior, slight tilt to spine. SIGNED BY AUTHOR(?). No jacket. Light brown cloth with brown lettering. Sunned spine. Rough cut page edges. 12 essays reflecting on the changes to society and science in the ""current"" era (1930s). 5.25"" X 7.5"". 170 pages." View more info
"Bendiceme, America Latino Writers of the United States"
By: "Augenbraum, Quinn & Stavans"
Price: $24.95
Publisher: NY, The Mercantile Library: 1993
Seller ID: 6-DT004
Condition: FINE
"As new - gift quality! Appears unread. ""Selected talks form the Symposium Sponsored by The Mercantile Library of New York"" by Ilan Stavans, Arnold Rampersad, Juan Bruce-Novoa, Gary Soto, Virgil Suarez, Margarite Fernandez Olmos, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Julia Alvarez & Rudolfo Anaya. 66 page, perfect bound. 13.7x21.6x.5cm" View more info
The Order of Battle at Trafalgar and Other Essays
By: "Bayley, John"
Price: $23.95
Publisher: NY, Weidenfeld & Nicholson: 1987
Edition: (1st American Edition)
Seller ID: 02H004
ISBN: 1555841376
Condition: FINE/ Fine
"As new except for crease on front flap of Dust Jacket. ""collection of essays includes studies of Keats, Hardy and Philip Larkin…but concentrates especially on the great figures in the Russian tradition, from Pushkin, Turgenev, Dostoevsky and Tolstoy to...Pasternak, Akhmatova, Tsvetaeva, Solhenitsyn, Grossman & Brodsky..."" 224 pages 8.75x5.75"" (22.2x14.65cm)" View more info
Les enfants humilies: Journal 1939-1940
Price: $18.95
Publisher: France, folio #303 / Gallimard: 1973
Seller ID: 8-3P004
Condition: NEAR FINE
"Appears unread. Tight, light age tanning to pages, clean and square. Tiny creases on cover corners. Light age soil to top exterior page edges. ""Georges Bernanos (1888-1948) est le divin monstre de la littérature française."" Text in French. 222 pages. ""Ce livre a failli ne jamais voir le jour. George Bernanos, lorsqu'il l'eut acheve en janvier 1940, en confia l'unique copie corrigee a Henri Michaux qui rentrait en France...Bernanos le relut alors que, deja atteint d'un mal mortel, il etait alite en Tunisie-La presente reedition a ete corrigee en plusieurs poi... View more info
Cleopatra's Nose: Essays on the Unexpected
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Vintage:
Seller ID: 9780679755180
ISBN: 0679755187
Condition: GOOD
Camping & Tramping with Roosevelt
Price: $15.95
Publisher: "Amsterdam, Netherlands", Fredonia Books: 2001
Seller ID: 8-2T011
ISBN: 1589633091
Condition: FINE
"As new - gift quality! Reprinted from the 1907 edition. Contents: Introduction includes an extensive letter discussing ""Old World"" forms of animal life; ""Camping with President Roosevelt"" describes a 1903 trip to Yellowstone Park; and ""President Roosevelt as a nature-lover and observer"" gives detailed stories on the President's fascination with bird watching. 112 pages with 11 black and white contemporary photos." View more info
Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence in America
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Beacon Press:
Seller ID: 9780807004227
ISBN: 0807004227
Condition: GOOD
What's Wrong with the World
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Ignatius Press:
Seller ID: 9780898704891
ISBN: 0898704898
Condition: GOOD