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On the Nature of the Universe
This is a new verse translation of Lucretius's only known work, didactic poem written in six books of hexameters. Melville's particularly literal translation of the use of metaphor is especially helpful to those looking at the text from a scientific or philosophical point of view. - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 461123977
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Against Nature A Rebours
As Joris-Karl Huysmans predicted in 1884, Against Nature (A rebours) was fated to be a novel like no other. Resisting the models of classic nineteenth-century fiction, it focuses on the attempts of its anti-hero, the hypersensitive neurotic and aesthete Des Esseintes, to escape Paris and the vulgarity of modern life. Holed up in his private museum of high taste, he indulges his pleasure in fine art and literature. A compendium of fin-de-siecle cultural decadence, Against Nature anticipates strains of modernism in its appreciation of Baudelaire, Moreau, Redon, Mallarme, and Poe. This new translation is supplemented by substantial annotation to enhance the understanding of a highly allusive work. - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 461123984
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Hecuba
In this new edition of HECUBA, a poet and a classical scholar have collaborated to produce a striking version of a play central to Euripides' dramatic vision. The translators have focused their attention on tonal texture, ranging from grief-stricken monodies and duets to lyrical choral verse, as well as on the problems created by political and forensic rhetoric. - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 461124214
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Strategies for Winning Science Fair Projects
Discover the Secrets of Science Fair Success with This Essential Guide . . . Written by a science fair judge and an international science fair winner, this must-have resource is packed with strategies and pointers for putting together a winning science fair project. Here you?ll get the nitty-gritty on a wide variety of topics, from the fundamentals of the science fair process to the last-minute details of polishing your presentation, including: *Choosing the right project for you *Doing research and taking notes *Using the scientific method *Writing up procedures, data, and conclusions *Creating eye-catching backboards *Handling pre-contest jitters *Dealing with difficult judges *and much more With insider tips, checklists, and solid advice from people who?ve been there, Strategies for Winning Science Fair Projects is the one guide you?ll need for science fair season and beyond. - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 461124754
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Goodnight Sweetheart
Molly Dearden is used to living in the shadow of her older sister, June. When their mother died when Molly was just 7 years old, June helped their grief-stricken father look after her in their home in the tight-knit Edge Hill district of Liverpool. This saga is set on the eve of WW2 in Liverpool, where life is about to change forever for one girl. - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 461405396
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Down the Yukon
'Amid the shouts and the cheers and the splashing of oars, it was pandemonium. 'Nome or bust!' I yelled. In the shadow of the Arctic Circle, Dawson City is burning down, changing forever the lives of thousands in the Klondike goldfields. All the talk is of Nome, nearly two thousand miles away, where gold has been discovered in the bevery sands. Jason Hawthorn is itching to join the new rush. He and his brothers have been cheated out of their sawmill, and Jason has vowed to buy it back. A race to Nome has been announced, with a $20,000 prize. Jason's partner in his canoe is the girl he loves, Jamie Dunavant, freshly returned from the States, as she promised she would. The Great Race across Alaska will be a grueling test for the two of them as they face the hazards of the Yukon River, two very dangerous men Jason has reason to fear, and the terrors of the open sea. Only their combined skills, courage, and mutual devotion can pull them through. - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 461117661
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My Beastly Brother
There are lots of things this beastly brother does to annoy his younger brother. After all, there are games that involve poison ivy and hide-and-shriek! But beastly or not, this big brother is not as mean and tough as he seems. Laura Leuck's frolicking rhyme about a sibling relationship is matched perfectly with Scott Nash's awfully fun illustrations. - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 461117662
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My Car
Sam describes in loving detail his car and how he drives it. - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 461117666
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The Game of Silence
Nine-year-old Omakayas, of the Ojibwa tribe, moves west with her family in 1849. - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 461117674
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On the First Day of Grade School
In this zany twist to the classic Christmas song, 'The Twelve Days of Christmas', a group of thoughtful students decide to give their teveryer a gift she wouldn't forget and so wrap up an array of living animals, including lizards and pigs, to present to her on their very first day of grade school. - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 461117732
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The Arden Dictionary of Shakespeare Quotations
In this enjoyable addition to the renowned Arden Shakespeare series, approximately 3000 quotations, both familiar and little known, are drawn from throughout Shakespeare's work, both plays and poems. Quotations are selected for their intrinsic interest and organised by topic, as being both user-friendly and stimulating for the casual reader, with speaker and play reference and with some annotation to give context to the quotations. - Books Reading - New - 461720441
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Ecce Homo How One Becomes What One Is
Ecce Homo is an autobiography like no other. Deliberately provocative, Nietzsche subverts the conventions of the genre and pushes his philosophical positions to combative extremes, constructing a genius-hero whose life is a chronicle of the incessant struggle to overcome himself. Written in 1888, a few weeks before his descent into madness, the book sub-titled 'How One Becomes What One Is' reviews all of Nietzsche's previous works so that we, his 'posthumous' readers, can finally understand him on his own terms. He reveryes final criticism of his many enemies--Richard Wagner, German nationalism, 'modern men' in general--and above all Christianity, proclaiming himself the Antichrist. Ecce Homo is the summation of an extraordinary philosophical career, a last great testament to Nietzsche's will. - Books Reading - New - 461720471
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Journal of a West India Proprietor Kept during a Residence in the Island of Jamaica
Matthew Lewis is best remembered as the author of the sensational Gothic novel The Monk. He was also a slave-owner, inheriting two large plantations and making two visits to Jamaica to investigate the Living and working conditions of his slaves. His anecdotal record, the Journal of West India Proprietor, offers a vivid account of plantation life from the slave owner's perspective. This edition provides full contextual background and includes Lewis' verse narrative The Isle of Devils, as well as a telling last Letter and extract from his papers. - Books Reading - New - 461720472
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Miss or Mrs? The Haunted Hotel The Guilty River
Wilkie Collins brought to the novella all the qualities for which his full-length fiction is renowned: gripping situations, an atmosphere of mystery and menace, and page-turning suspense. The fast-paced Miss or Mrs? (1871), with its extraordinary heroine, features attempted murder, blackmail, clandestine marriage, and commercial fraud. Eerie and psychologically absorbing, The Haunted Hotel (1878) is set in a modern hotel converted from an ancient Venetian palazzo that houses a grisly secret. The Guilty River (1886), one of Collins's most haunting tales, blends nostalgia and violence as two alienated men find themselves attracted to the same woman. All three novellas reflect the prevailing themes of Collins's later work: the exploration of legal aspects of marriage, his preoccupation with the figure of the Outsider in Victorian society, and the depiction of unconventional relationships. This edition sets Collins's novellas in the context of his literary career, and the late-Victorian reading public. - Books Reading - New - 461720474
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Thomas Hardy (Authors in Context)
In his novels Hardy was directly involved with the issues of the day, yet his fiction resonates with contemporary concerns. This book explores the interconnections between life and art, and shows how modern interpretations in film and television create new contexts in which to read the works afresh. - Books Reading - New - 461720478
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