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A Book of Essays

By: N/A

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Macmillan:

Seller ID: 9780770503413

ISBN: 0770503411

Binding: Trade Paperback

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

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Killing the Messenger: 100 Years of Media Criticism

By: N/A

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Columbia University Press:

Seller ID: 9780231066037

ISBN: 0231066031

Binding: Trade Paperback

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 ...
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Gun Control (Opposing Viewpoints)

By: N/A

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Greenhaven Press:

Seller ID: 9781565106635

ISBN: 1565106636

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: GOOD

"Rhetoric, Religion, and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965: Volume 1 (Studies in Rhetoric & Religion)"

By: N/A

Price: $12.45

Publisher: Baylor University Press:

Seller ID: 9781932792546

ISBN: 1932792546

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

The Civil Rights Movement succeeded in large measure because of rhetorical appeals grounded in the Judeo-Christian religion. While movement leaders often used America's founding documents and ideals to depict Jim Crow's contradictory ways, the language and lessons of both the Old and New Testaments were often brought to bear on many civil rights events and issues--from local desegregation to national policy matters. This volume chronicles how national movement leaders and local activists moved a nation to live up to the biblical ideals it often professed but infrequently practiced.

Convertis du XXme Siecle (Premier Volume)

By: N/A

Price: $8.95

Publisher: "Casterman, Belgium": c1956

Seller ID: 10T019

Binding: Paperback

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."
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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

Binding: Hardbound

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. "
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Innamoramento e amore

By: "Alberoni, Francesco"

Price: $49.95

Publisher: Italy, Garzanti Elefanti: 2001

Seller ID: 7-2T005

ISBN: 8811674387

Binding: Trade Paperback

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. "" "
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"China, My Great Teacher"

By: "Anderson, Sid"

Price: $16.95

Publisher: Xlibris: 2005

Seller ID: 7-5T025

ISBN: 141347103x

Binding: Trade Paperback

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."
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This Bewildered Age

By: "Anspacher, Louis K. "

Price: $18.95

Publisher: NY, "Dodd, Mead & Company": 1935

Seller ID: 7-NT028

Binding: hardcover

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."
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"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

Binding: Trade Paperback

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"
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The Order of Battle at Trafalgar and Other Essays

By: "Bayley, John"

Price: $23.95

Publisher: NY, Weidenfeld & Nicholson: 1987

Seller ID: 02H004

ISBN: 1555841376

Binding: Hardbound

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)"
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Les enfants humilies: Journal 1939-1940

By: "Bernanos, Geolrges"

Price: $18.95

Publisher: France, folio #303 / Gallimard: 1973

Seller ID: 8-3P004

Binding: Paperback

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...
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Cleopatra's Nose: Essays on the Unexpected

By: "Boorstin, Daniel J."

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Vintage:

Seller ID: 9780679755180

ISBN: 0679755187

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Discoverers demonstrates the truth behind the aphorism that if Cleopatra's nose had been shorter, the face of the world would have been changed. Boorstin goes on to uncover the elements of accident, improvisation and contradiction at the core of American institutions and beliefs.
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Camping & Tramping with Roosevelt

By: "Burroughs, John"

Price: $15.95

Publisher: "Amsterdam, Netherlands", Fredonia Books: 2001

Seller ID: 8-2T011

ISBN: 1589633091

Binding: Trade Paperback

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."
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"Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements"

By: "Carruthers, Charlene"

Price: $7.45

Publisher: Beacon Press:

Seller ID: 9780807039823

ISBN: 0807039829

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: very good

A manifesto from one of America's most influential activists which disrupts political, economic, and social norms by reimagining the Black Radical Tradition.

Drawing on Black intellectual and grassroots organizing traditions, including the Haitian Revolution, the US civil rights movement, and LGBTQ rights and feminist movements, Unapologetic challenges all of us engaged in the social justice struggle to make the movement for Black liberation more radical, more queer, and more feminist. This book provides a vision for how social justice movements can become sharper and more ef...
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What's Wrong with the World

By: "Chesterton, G. K."

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Ignatius Press:

Seller ID: 9780898704891

ISBN: 0898704898

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Whats Wrong with the World By G.K. Chesterton This definite ideal is a far more urgent and practical matter in our existing English trouble than any immediate plans or proposals. For the present chaos is due to a sort of general oblivion of all that men were originally aiming at. No man demands what he desires; each man demands what he fancies he can get. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim o...
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50 Essays: A Portable Anthology

By: "Cohen, Samuel"

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's:

Seller ID: 9780312446987

ISBN: 0312446985

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

50 Essays: A Portable Anthology directly addresses students' and instructors' concerns that composition readers are too expensive and too large. With a net price of $21, less than half the size and price of comparable readers, 50 Essays meets the needs of a wide variety of classrooms. The carefully chosen table of contents presents enough familiarity to reassure instructors, enough novelty to keep things interesting, and enough variety to accommodate many different teaching needs. The editorial apparatus has been designed to support that variety of needs without being intrusive. In its second ...
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"Notes of a Hanging Judge: Essays and Reviews, 1979-1989"

By: "Crouch, Stanley"

Price: $6.25

Publisher: "Oxford University Press, USA":

Seller ID: 9780195055917

ISBN: 0195055918

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: very good

Stanley Crouch, the rarely acknowledged but epic nature of the Afro-American experience offers one of the most revealing paths through the spiritual and intellectual thickets of our time, exposing us to ourselves as often through art as through politics. In Notes of a Hanging Judge, Crouch portrays this century as an "Age of Redefinition" for the United States and identifies the Civil Rights Movement as one of its richest metaphors. Crouch explores the movement from all sides--its epochal triumphs and the forces that have nearly destroyed it, its great political and artistic success stories an...
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The Nature of Things : A collection of Articles and Poems as printed in the Valley Reporter

By: "Day, Ann B."

Price: $15.95

Publisher: "Waitsfield, VT", The Valley Reporter: 2004

Seller ID: 8-2H009

ISBN: 0976184508

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: FINE

"As new- gift quality! First edition, signed by author. Nature in the Mad River Valley of Vermont - essays, photos and a few poems written over the course of 30 years, organized by the seasons. 120 pages. 6x9x.4"" (15.2x22.6x1cm)"
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