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How to Read a Poem And Fall in Love With Poetry
One of America's brightest stars in the field explains the meaning of poetry in everyday life, shows how to read it, and tells readers why poetry is important. - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 460843171
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Reunion and Reaction The Compromise of 1877 and the End of Reconstruction
Originally published in 1951, this classic work by one of America's foremost experts on Southern history presents an important new interpretation of the Compromise of 1877, forcing historians to revise previous attitudes towards the Reconstruction period, the history of the Republican party, and the realignment of forces that fought the Civil War. Because much of the negotiating occurred in secrecy, historians have known less about this Compromise than others before it. Now reissued with a new introduction by Woodward, 'Reunion and Reaction' gives us the other half of the story. - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 460843595
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Journeys
A collection of essays about journeys across Europe and China, the folkways of rural Texas, the streets of Bombay, and impressions of such diverse sites as Las Vegas, Stockholm, and the Athenian Acropolis - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 461124138
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Charles Babbage And the Engines of Perfection
This book chronicles the life and achievements of Charles Babbage (1792-1871), an English mathematician and inventor. Babbage devoted most of his life and expended much of his private fortune and government subsidy in an attempt to perfect his Difference Engines arid Analytical Engines, mechanical calculating machines that foreshadowed present-day calculators. Although he never witnessed the completion of one of these Engines, he is known as the 'grandfather of the modern computer' because of his original ideas. - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 461124294
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Texas An Illustrated History
Traces three hundred years of Texas history, from its earliest Indian inhabitants to the present, and discusses its transition from a rural to an urban society during the twentieth century - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 461124304
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Chapters into Verse Poetry in English Inspired by the Bible Volume 1 Genesis to Malachi
For generations, poets have turned to the Bible for insight and inspiration. What did so many creative minds find in scripture? Is the Bible still a vital source of poetic inspirations? Chapters Into Verse is the first comprehensive collection ever made of poems written in English inspired by the Bible. A ground-breaking anthology, it introduces readers to a distinct heritage of English poetry: the scriptural tradition. Though frequently ignored and sometimes suppressed, this tradition rivals the classical and is every bit as venerable. Drawing a unique map of the history of English poetry, the two volumes of Chapters Into Verse survey and define the literary legacy of the Scriptures from the fourteenth century to the present. Each volume is arranged in scriptural order, and every poem is preceded by the biblical passage that inspired it. Thus readers can conveniently witness the various ways sacred text has sparked the imagination of poets throughout the ages. Volume II follows the Gospels (harmonized) through Revelation. The collection features verses both famous and unfamiliar, from John Donne's meditative masterpieces to D.H. Lawrence's quirky expostulations. The editors have included poems by virtually all the prominent religious poets - among them, John Milton, George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, Edward Taylor, Christopher Smart, and Gerard Manly Hopkins. Included, too, are devotional and visionary works from a wide range of vintage poets - Edmund Spenser, Alexander Pope, Robert Burns, William Blake, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Christina Rossetti, Alfred Tennyson, and Robert Browning. Proving that the Bible is just as powerful a source of inspiration today as it was in the past, thecollection assembles a mixed congregation of modern and contemporary poets, such as Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop, Delmore Schwartz, Dylan Thomas, Robert Frost, Countee Cullen, William Butler Yeats, John Berryman, Robert Graves, Sylvia Plath, Allen Ginsberg, Lee Murray, Amy Clampitt, and Richard Wilbur. Of enduring interest to readers of both scripture and literature, Chapters Into Verse is truly a poets' Bible. In selection after selection, readers will encounter an astonishing variety of religious experiences, as a host of poets from many eras and many backgrounds respond to Holy Scripture spiritually, profoundly, and imaginatively. - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 461124218
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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri Volume 2 Purgatorio
Presented with both Italian and English text, this version of Dante's classic follows the poet's journey through Purgatory under the guidance of Virgil in search of Beatrice. - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 461124283
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Cultural Poetics in Archaic Greece Cult Performance Politics
'This book provides a fascinating insight into a range of cultural, historical, political and literary aspects of archaic Greece...the articles are very clearly written and usually execute the cross-disciplinary exercise with uncommon good sense.' -- Ancient History. 'Some of the most interesting work in classical studies in the past twenty years.' -- Classical Philology. This is a paperback reprint of a hardback originally published by Cambridge University Press in 1993, and derived from a seminal conference held at Wellesley in 1990. Among the scholarly community, the book is generally regarded as the first critical milestone in the cultural poetics movement, which lies at the intersection of New Historicism and classical studies. - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 461124461
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Teach Yourself Japanese Complete Course (Audio Cassette)
From Arabic to Portuguese, the languages of the world are brought within the revery of any beginning language student. Learners can use the Tevery Yourself Language courses at their own pace or as a supplement to formal classes. These complete courses are based on the very latest learning methods and designed to be enjoyable and user-friendly. Prepared by experts in the language, every course begins with the basics and gradually elevates the student to a level of smooth and confident communication. - Books Reading - New - 461719280
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Planting a Rainbow
A mother and child plant a rainbow of flowers in the family garden. - Books Reading - New - 461720363
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find
The primary purpose of every casebook in this series is to offer students a convenient self-contained reference tool that they can use to complete an introductory project for an introduction to literature course. The series features short stories, groups of poems, or plays because these are the genres most often assigned in college level introduction to literature courses. In selecting particular authors and titles we focus on those most popular with students and most accessible to them. - Books Reading - New - 461720383
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America's God From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln
Religious life in early America is often equated with the fire-and-brimstone Puritanism best embodied by the theology of Cotton Mather. Yet, by the nineteenth century, American theology had shifted dramatically away from the severe European traditions directly descended from the Protestant Reformation, of which Puritanism was in the United States the most influential. In its place arose a singularly American set of beliefs. In America's God, Mark Noll has written a biography of this new American ethos. In the 125 years preceding the outbreak of the Civil War, theology played an extraordinarily important role in American public and private life. Its evolution had a profound impact on America's self-definition. The changes taking place in American theology during this period were marked by heightened spiritual inwardness, a new confidence in individual reason, and an attentiveness to the economic and market realities of Western life. Vividly set in the social and political events of the age, America's God is replete with the figures who made up the early American intellectual landscape, from theologians such as Jonathan Edwards, Nathaniel W. Taylor, William Ellery Channing, and Charles Hodge and religiously inspired writers such as Harriet Beecher Stowe and Catherine Stowe to dominant political leaders of the day like Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln. The contributions of these thinkers combined with the religious revival of the 1740s, colonial warfare with France, the consuming struggle for independence, and the rise of evangelical Protestantism to form a common intellectual coinage based on a rising republicanism and commonsense principles. As this Christian republicanism affirmeditself, it imbued in dedicated Christians a conviction that the Bible supported their beliefs over those of all others. Tragically, this sense of religious purpose set the stage for the Civil War, as the conviction of Christians both North and South that God was on their side served to deepen a schism that would soon rend the young nation asunder. Mark Noll has given us the definitive history of Christian theology in America from the time of Jonathan Edwards to the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. It is a story of a flexible and creative theological energy that over time forged a guiding national ideology the legacies of which remain with us to this day. - Books Reading - New - 461720661
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Threshold Cambridge Pre-Ged Program in Science
Threshold: Pre-GED covers the same content areas as the GED tests, in an open, user-friendly format. This allows adult learners to concentrate on the content they need to achieve high GED scores. Threshold addresses the demand the GED makes for focused core instruction that sharpens students' skills in reading, writing, critical thinking, and problem solving. Throughout every text, questions in GED format call upon the content knowledge and reading strategies that adult learners gain by using Threshold. Biology, Earth Science, Chemistry and Physics are presented in meaningful and relevant context to the adult learner. - Books Reading - New - 461512370
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