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Mandy White, Diana Garcia, Marla Todd, Michael Haberfelner, Mike Cooley, R James Turley, Samantha L Nocera, Rob Fletcher, Soleil Daniels, Molly Roland, Lea Anne Guettler, Michael Merline, David Hunter, Chris Benedict, Debra Lamb, Juliette Kings, J. Harrison Kemp, WP aD

The warped minds of WPaD are proud to present this tribute to the bizarre:- People who eat Tide Pods turn into detergent-craving zombies- A gift of a fishing bobber turns deadly- A woman lost in the desert makes friends with an ancient creature- A hole inside a closet holds unknown mysteries- A grieving father consults a psychic to solve his daughter's murder- Two friends embark on a fantastic adventure during a game of Dungeons and Dragons

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Daniel Lea

This book offers readings of five of the most interesting and original voices to have emerged in Britain since the millennium as they tackle the challenges of portraying the new century. Through close readings of the work of Ali Smith, Andrew O'Hagan, Tom McCarthy, Sarah Hall and Jon McGregor, Daniel Lea opens a window onto the formal and thematic concerns that characterise a literary landscape troubled by both familiar and unfamiliar predicaments. These include questions about the meaning...

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David Brauner, Daniel Lea

This is a comprehensive and definitive study of the Man Booker Prize-winning novelist, Howard Jacobson. It offers lucid, detailed and nuanced readings of each of Jacobson’s novels, and makes a powerful case for the importance of his work in the landscape of contemporary fiction. Focusing on the themes of comedy, masculinity and Jewishness, the book emphasises the richness and diversity of Jacobson’s work. Often described by others as ‘the English Philip Roth’ and by himself as ‘the Jewish ...

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George Daniel Lea

SOMEWHERE BETWEEN HIGH HEAVEN AND LOW HELLBorn in blood . . . the first breath and all that follow, tainted by original trauma, echoing throughout every thought, every heartbeat; blossoming into more profound pain, until breath and thought both cease . . .What we grow accustomed to . . . what we can endure:The days bleed into one another, as we do; hurt defining every moment.No more. Now, all instants are one; pulsing brilliant, ecstasy and ...

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Daniel J. Doyle, Douglas A. Lea, Pietro Lorenzini, David S. Sims, Thomas J. Edward Walker, Cynthia Gwynne Yaudes

Illusive Identity is a transnational exploration of the evolution of working-class consciousness within modern Western culture. The work traces how the rise of popular culture blurred the definition and dulled the influence of class identity in Europe and the United States in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Chapters tackling changing class consciousness in Britain, Germany, Italy, and the United States offer rich insight into the movement from a traditional community...

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janan alexandra, David Baker, Susan Barba, Sarah Barber, Robin Becker, Lisa Bellamy, Dave Bonta, Elizabeth Bradfield, Joseph J. Capista, Stacie Cassarino, George David Clark, Grant Clauser, J.L. Conrad, Geffrey Davis, Noah Davis, Todd Davis, Alison Deming, Chard deNiord, Rebecca Foust, Hannah Fries, Michael Garrigan, Adam Giannelli, Margaret Gibson, Charity Gingerich, Andrew C. Gottlieb, Willard P. Greenwood II, Jeff Gundy, K.A. Hays, John Hodgen, Henry Hughes, M.J. Iuppa, Julie Swarstad Johnson, Kasey Jueds, Julia Spicher Kasdorf, Daniel Lassell, Sydney Lea, Diane LeBlanc, Xiaoly Li, Anni Liu, Marjorie Maddox, Kerrin McCadden, Abby Minor, Roger Mitchell, Nik Moore, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Leah Poole Osowski, Sean Prentiss, L. Renée, Jack Ridl, Christina Seymour, Neil Shepard, Julia Shipley, Betsy Sholl, David Shumate, Matthew J. Spireng, Eleanor Stanford, Jordan Temchack, Philip Terman, Chase Twichell, Lee Upton, Judith Vollmer, Ryan Walsh, Henry Walters, Jerry Wemple, Karen J. Weyant, Joe Wilkins, Emily Beam, Joe Beam, Allyson Comstock, Roberto D’Amanda, Ashley Hamersma, Gary Hawkins, Talley V. Kayser, Gwen Noll, Ray Noll, Henry Shearon, Quinlin Taylor, Sarah E. Allen, Carl Engstrom, Jerry D. Hassinger, Carolyn Mahan, Andrew L. Shiels, Hannah L. (Cave) Stout, Sarah Blake, Shara McCallum

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Wormsloe Foundation Nature Books

Northern Appalachia is one of the most biodiverse regions on Earth and home to a broad range of ecological and human cultures. With A Literary Field Guide to Northern Appalachia, editors Todd Davis and Noah Davis recognize and celebrate this diversity and the fact that humans are storytelling creatures who develop relationships with their landscapes at the intersection of art and science.A companion volume to A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia, this gui...

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Peter Barry

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Beginnings

Beginning theory has been helping students navigate through the thickets of literary and cultural theory for over two decades. This new and expanded fourth edition continues to offer readers the best single-volume introduction to the field.The bewildering variety of approaches, theorists and technical language is lucidly and expertly unravelled. Unlike many books which assume certain positions about the critics and the theories they represent, Beginning theory all...

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Thomas Sowell

The influence of intellectuals is not only greater than in previous eras but also takes a very different form from that envisioned by those like Machiavelli and others who have wanted to directly influence rulers. It has not been by shaping the opinions or directing the actions of the holders of power that modern intellectuals have most influenced the course of events, but by shaping public opinion in ways that affect the actions of power holders in democratic societies, whether or not tho...

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Bernd Heinrich

An enlightening look at animal behavior and the cycle of life and death, from "one of the finest naturalists of our time" (Edward O. Wilson).When a good friend with a severe illness wrote, asking if he might have his "green burial" at Bernd Heinrich's hunting camp in Maine, it inspired the acclaimed biologist to investigate a subject that had long fascinated him. How exactly does the animal world deal with the flip side of the life cycle? And what are the lessons, ...

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Helen Sword

Elegant ideas deserve elegant expression. Sword dispels the myth that you can’t get published without writing wordy, impersonal prose. For scholars frustrated with disciplinary conventions or eager to write for a larger audience, here are imaginative, practical, witty pointers that show how to make articles and books enjoyable to read—and to write.

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Brian Catling

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The Vorrh Trilogy

Prepare to lose yourself in the heady, mythical expanse of The Vorrh, a daring debut that Alan Moore has called “a phosphorescent masterpiece” and “the current century's first landmark work of fantasy.”Next to the colonial town of Essenwald sits the Vorrh, a vast—perhaps endless—forest. It is a place of demons and angels, of warriors and priests. Sentient and magical, the Vorrh bends time and wipes memory. Legend has it that the Garden of Eden still exists at its heart. No...

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Jonah Goldberg

“Fascists,” “Brownshirts,” “jackbooted stormtroopers”—such are the insults typically hurled at conservatives by their liberal opponents. Calling someone a fascist is the fastest way to shut them up, defining their views as beyond the political pale. But who are the real fascists in our midst?Liberal Fascism offers a startling new perspective on the theories and practices that define fascist politics. Replacing conveniently manufactured myths with surprising and enlightenin...