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Quotidiana

Quotidiana


Patrick Madden



Review "Words form constellations; they glitter on the pages. . . . There is a religiosity here, though not the usual kin...
Islam, Fundamentalism, and the Betrayal of Tradition : Essays by Western Muslim Scholars, Revised and Expanded Ed.

Islam, Fundamentalism, and the Betrayal of Tradition : Essays by Western Muslim Scholars, Revised and Expanded Ed.


Joseph E. B. Lumbard



Review "This book capably argues for a return to the true spirit of classical Islamic intellectualism, disregarding the d...
Rhetoric and Poetics in Antiquity

Rhetoric and Poetics in Antiquity


Jeffrey Walker



Review "Rhetoric and Poetics in Antiquity is an excellent book...Walker has provided an important, original, and insightf...
Cuisine and Culture: a history of food and people

Cuisine and Culture: a history of food and people


Linda Civitello



Review "...Tracing the connection between major historical events and their affect on different culinary traditions, this...
The White Album: Essays (FSG Classics)

The White Album: Essays (FSG Classics)


Joan Didion



Review “[Didion] can strike at the heart, or the absurdity, of a matter in our contemporary wasteland with quick, gr...
To Jerusalem and Back (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)

To Jerusalem and Back (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)


Saul Bellow



Review ''An impassioned and thoughtful book . . . Bellow delights in the liveliness, the gallantry of Israeli life--peopl...
Fat boys: a slim book

Fat boys: a slim book


Sander L. Gilman



From Publishers Weekly Today, many people tend to think of fat as a female (or, with a nod to Susie Orbach, "feminist") i...
Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002 (Modern Library Paperbacks)

Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002 (Modern Library Paperbacks)


Salman Rushdie



From Publishers Weekly Roughly one-fourth of these essays deals with the response of the media, various governments and R...
Philosophical Foundations of Historical Knowledge

Philosophical Foundations of Historical Knowledge


Murray G. Murphey



Philosophical Foundations of Historical Knowledge...
A CONVERGENCE OF BIRDS Original Fiction and Poetry Inspired by the Work of Joseph Cornell

A CONVERGENCE OF BIRDS Original Fiction and Poetry Inspired by the Work of Joseph Cornell


Jonathan Safran Ed. Foer



From Publishers Weekly When he was still a college student, Jonathan Safran Foer began writing to famous poets and writer...
Writers Under Siege: Voices of Freedom from Around the World (A Pen Anthology)

Writers Under Siege: Voices of Freedom from Around the World (A Pen Anthology)




From Publishers Weekly To mark 85 years of work assuring that oppressed writers are heard in their home countries and aro...
A Cultural History of Latin America: Literature, Music and the Visual Arts in the 19th and 20th Centuries (Cambridge History of Latin America)

A Cultural History of Latin America: Literature, Music and the Visual Arts in the 19th and 20th Centuries (Cambridge History of Latin America)


Leslie Bethell



Review 'The best collaborative history of the region currently available, or likely to be available for a long time to co...
Joining the sisterhood: young Jewish women write their lives

Joining the sisterhood: young Jewish women write their lives


Julie Pelc, Tobin Belzer



From the Back Cover Young Jewish women engage in almost every aspect of religious and cultural Jewish life, yet their uni...
Cuisine du Moi: The Heart of My Passion

Cuisine du Moi: The Heart of My Passion


Gavin Canardeaux



About the Author Gavin Canardeaux is the alter ego of Ben Canaider, a wine writer and the coauthor of Cooking Under the I...
The Moronic Inferno and Other Visits to America

The Moronic Inferno and Other Visits to America


Martin Amis



From Library Journal Using an engaging tone in which disdain and affection appear equally mixed, Amis looks at some of th...
For You Mom, Finally

For You Mom, Finally


Ruth Reichl



About the Author Ruth Reichl is the author of Comfort Me with Apples, Tender at the Bone, and Garlic and Sapphires. She h...
Homer's Odyssey: A Fearless Feline Tale, or How I Learned about Love and Life with a Blind Wonder Cat

Homer's Odyssey: A Fearless Feline Tale, or How I Learned about Love and Life with a Blind Wonder Cat


Gwen Cooper



Amazon.com Review Book Description Once in nine lives, something extraordinary happens... The last thing Gwen Cooper wan...
The Prose Works of Andrew Marvell (Volume 2)

The Prose Works of Andrew Marvell (Volume 2)


Professor Annabel Patterson



Review "This book provides a much needed properly edited, extensively and expertly annotated edition that has been wantin...
Gender and Genre: Essays on David Mamet

Gender and Genre: Essays on David Mamet


Leslie Kane, Christopher Hudgins



About the Author Christopher Hudgins was Chair of the English Department at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas for nine ...
Travel Writing 1700-1830: An Anthology (Oxford World's Classics)

Travel Writing 1700-1830: An Anthology (Oxford World's Classics)


Elizabeth A. Bohls, Ian Duncan



About the Author Elizabeth Bohls is the author of Women Travel Writers and the Language of Aesthetics, 1716-1818 (1995)....
A Hunter's Experiences in the Southern States of America (Cambridge Library Collection - History)

A Hunter's Experiences in the Southern States of America (Cambridge Library Collection - History)


Captain Flack



Book Description This is an entertaining and informative account of Captain Flack's experiences of hunting, shooting and...
Of Essays and Reading in Early Modern Britain (Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print)

Of Essays and Reading in Early Modern Britain (Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print)


Scott Black



Review "A timely and compelling exercise in criticism." —David Hill Radcliffe, Virginia Tech "The writing is ...
Veils (Cultural Memory in the Present)

Veils (Cultural Memory in the Present)


Hélène Cixous, Jacques Derrida



Review “This book is a significant event in contemporary French letters. Although Cixous and Derrida have often sign...
Virginia Woolf's Essays: Sketching the Past

Virginia Woolf's Essays: Sketching the Past


Elena Gualtieri



Review Highly recommended. Choice About the Author Elena Gualtieri is Lecturer in English at the University of S...
The Female Gothic: New Directions

The Female Gothic: New Directions


Andrew Smith, Diana Wallace



About the Author DIANA WALLACE is Reader in English and Head of Division of English at the University of Glamorgan, UK. H...
Victorian Aesthetic Conditions: Pater Across the Arts

Victorian Aesthetic Conditions: Pater Across the Arts


Elicia Clements, Lesley J. Higgins



Review 'Victorian Aesthetic Conditions does more than bring together some of today's top scholars in Pater studies. By co...
Virginia Woolf's Bloomsbury, Volume 1: Aesthetic Theory and Literary Practice

Virginia Woolf's Bloomsbury, Volume 1: Aesthetic Theory and Literary Practice


Gina Potts, Lisa Shahriari



Review "[A] lively and entertaining collection of essays that both refreshes common ground and... is unafraid to extend i...
Literary Paths to Religious Understanding: Essays on Dryden, Pope, Keats, George Eliot, Joyce, T.S. Eliot, and E.B. White

Literary Paths to Religious Understanding: Essays on Dryden, Pope, Keats, George Eliot, Joyce, T.S. Eliot, and E.B. White


G. Douglas Atkins



Review “Atkins is a complete master of the literary works he discusses and the secondary criticism surrounding them....
Patrick Pearse: The Making of a Revolutionary

Patrick Pearse: The Making of a Revolutionary


Joost Augusteijn



Review 'An important contribution to our knowledge of Ireland's most complex revolutionary. By providing a rounded portra...
The Friday Book (Maryland Paperback Bookshelf)

The Friday Book (Maryland Paperback Bookshelf)


Professor John Barth



Amazon.com Review A classic collection of essays now published in a new edition (with a new afterword by the author), Th...
Books Without Borders, Volume 2: Perspectives from South Asia

Books Without Borders, Volume 2: Perspectives from South Asia


Mary Hammond, Robert Fraser



Review 'Books without Borders offers an indispensable body of scholarship and theory.' - Leslie Howsam, SHARP-News ...
Books Without Borders, Volume 1: The Cross-National Dimension in Print Culture

Books Without Borders, Volume 1: The Cross-National Dimension in Print Culture


Mary Hammond, Robert Fraser



Review 'Books without Borders offers an indispensable body of scholarship and theory.' - Leslie Howsam, SHARP-News ...
Bram Stoker's Dracula: Sucking Through the Century, 1897-1997

Bram Stoker's Dracula: Sucking Through the Century, 1897-1997


Carol M. Davison



Review "A notable collection... This book is essentially Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Dracula, But Were Afrai...
Representing Lives: Women and Auto Biography

Representing Lives: Women and Auto Biography


Alison Donnell, Pauline Polkey



About the Author Alison Donnell is Lecturer in Women's Writing and Feminist Theory and Pauline Polkey is Senior Lecturer ...
Re-Orienting Whiteness

Re-Orienting Whiteness


Jane Carey, Katherine Ellinghaus, Leigh Boucher



Review “Re-Orienting Whiteness is a bold and lucid intervention into the burgeoning field of ‘whiteness studi...
The Culture of Christendom: Essays in Medieval History in Commemoration of Denis L.T. Bethell

The Culture of Christendom: Essays in Medieval History in Commemoration of Denis L.T. Bethell


Marc A. Meyer



Book Description The Culture of Christendom brings together original essays by distinguished historians on medieval Europ...
Essays on the Pleasures of Death: From Freud to Lacan

Essays on the Pleasures of Death: From Freud to Lacan


Ellie Ragland



Essays on the Pleasures of Death: From Freud to Lacan...
Rome, the Greek World, and the East: Volume 3: The Greek World, the Jews, and the East (Studies in the History of Greece and Rome)

Rome, the Greek World, and the East: Volume 3: The Greek World, the Jews, and the East (Studies in the History of Greece and Rome)


Fergus Millar



Review "Those who have learned much from [Millar] will be delighted with this volume, and will find much to stimulate ne...
Black Imagination and the Middle Passage (W.E.B. Du Bois Institute (Series).)

Black Imagination and the Middle Passage (W.E.B. Du Bois Institute (Series).)


Henry Louis Gates, Carl Pedersen, Maria Diedrich



About the Author Maria Diedrich is at University of Muenster. Henry Louis Gates is at Harvard University. ...
Bardioc. Band 100

Bardioc. Band 100


Perry Rhodan



Bardioc. Band 100...
Treasury Management

Treasury Management


Dirk Kaiser



Treasury Management...
Ernst Troeltsch: Kritische Gesamtausgabe - Band 17 - Fünf Vorträge zu Religion und Geschichtsphilosophie für England und Schottland German

Ernst Troeltsch: Kritische Gesamtausgabe - Band 17 - Fünf Vorträge zu Religion und Geschichtsphilosophie für England und Schottland German


Gangolf Hubinger



Review "This is a solid edition, which Troeltsch scholars, but also other theologians and historians will welcome."Anthon...
Ireland: Contested Ideas of Nationalism and History

Ireland: Contested Ideas of Nationalism and History


Hugh Kearney



Review “Kearney’s work has brilliantly illuminated, from a distinctive comparative perspective, Anglo-Irish rel...
Futurism: An Anthology (Henry McBride Series in Modernism)

Futurism: An Anthology (Henry McBride Series in Modernism)


Laura Wittman, Lawrence Rainey, Ms. Christine Poggi



Review “The definitive anthology of Futurist writings and artworks available in English, indeed in any language.&#...
A Landscape of Events (Writing Architecture)

A Landscape of Events (Writing Architecture)


Paul Virilio



Language Notes Text: English (translation) Original Language: French About the Author Paul Virilio has published...
Happy Days Were Here Again: Reflections of a Libertarian Journalist

Happy Days Were Here Again: Reflections of a Libertarian Journalist


William F. Buckley



From Publishers Weekly In this collection of slashing, energetic, acerbically witty columns and articles from the Nationa...
On Boxing (P.S.)

On Boxing (P.S.)


Joyce Carol Oates



Amazon.com Review Yes, the same Joyce Carol Oates who packs one of the most lethal punches in American literature also ha...
A Mighty Change: An Anthology of Deaf American Writing, 1816-1864 (Gallaudet Classics in Deaf Studies Series, Vol. 2)

A Mighty Change: An Anthology of Deaf American Writing, 1816-1864 (Gallaudet Classics in Deaf Studies Series, Vol. 2)


Christopher Krentz



Review ...a welcome addition to the study of deaf literature. -- Library Journal, December 2000 ...no scholar of deaf hi...