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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In this urgent outpouring of American voices, our poets speak to us from the earliest days of the pandemic lockdown, addressing our collective fear, grief, and hope from eloquent and diverse individual perspectives as the pandemic continues to shape our lives **Featuring 107 poets, from A to ZJulia Alvarez to Matthew Zapruderwith work in between by Jericho Brown, Billy Collins, Fanny Howe, Ada Limon, Sharon Olds, Tommy Orange, Claudia Rankine, Vijay Seshadri, and Jeffrey Yang**As the novel coronavirus and its devastating effects began to spread in the United States and around the world, Alice Quinn reached out to poets across the country to see if, and what, they were writing under quarantine. Moved and galvanized by the response, the onetime New Yorker poetry editor and recent former director of the Poetry Society of America began collecting the poems arriving in her inbox, assembling this various, intimate, and intricate portrait of our suddenly altered reality. In these pages, we find poets grieving for relatives they are separated from or recovering from illness themselves, attending to suddenly complicated household tasks or turning to literature for strength, considering the bravery of medical workers or working their own shifts at the hospital, and, as the Black Lives Matter swept the globe, reflecting on the inequities in our society that amplify sorrow and demand our engagement. From fierce and resilient to wistful, darkly humorous, and emblematically reverent about the earth and the vulnerability of human beings in frightening times, the poems in this collection find the words to describe what can feel unspeakably difficult and strange, providing wisdom, companionship, and depths of feeling that enliven our spirits. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. In this urgent outpouring of American voices, our poets speak to us as they shelter in place, addressing our collective fear, grief, and hope from eloquent and diverse individual perspectives.One of the best books of poetry of the year . . . Quinn has accomplished something dizzying here: arranged a stellar cast of poets . . . It is what all anthologies must be: comprehensive, contradictory, stirring. The Millions**Featuring 107 poets, from A to ZJulia Alvarez to Matthew Zapruderwith work in between by Jericho Brown, Billy Collins, Fanny Howe, Ada Limon, Sharon Olds, Tommy Orange, Claudia Rankine, Vijay Seshadri, and Jeffrey Yang**As the novel coronavirus and its devastating effects began to spread in the United States and around the world, Alice Quinn reached out to poets across the country to see if, and what, they were writing under quarantine. Moved and galvanized by the response, the onetime New Yorker poetry editor and recent former director of the Poetry Society of America began collecting the poems arriving in her inbox, assembling this various, intimate, and intricate portrait of our suddenly altered reality. In these pages, we find poets grieving for relatives they are separated from or recovering from illness themselves, attending to suddenly complicated household tasks or turning to literature for strength, considering the bravery of medical workers or working their own shifts at the hospital, and, as the Black Lives Matter movement has swept the globe, reflecting on the inequities in our society that amplify sorrow and demand our engagement. From fierce and resilient to wistful, darkly humorous, and emblematically reverent about the earth and the vulnerability of human beings in frightening times, the poems in this collection find the words to describe what can feel unspeakably difficult and strange, providing wisdom, companionship, and depths of feeling that enliven our spirits.A portion of the advance for this book was generously donated by Alice Quinn and the poets to Chefs for America, an organization helping feed communities in need across the country during the pandemic. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Full of inspiring stories and valuable medical information, "Chicken Soup for the Soul: ""Say Goodbye to Stress! "will help readers manage their stress, no matter where their stress comes from.Everyone feels stressed out at some point in their lives. Many have trouble getting their stress under control and want help. This new book will encourage stressed out readers with its stories from people like them about how they resolved or rethought the stress in their lives, learned to let go of anxiety and worry, and improved their lives by handling stress. Plus relevant medical advice from renowned clinical physiologist and Harvard Medical School faculty member Dr. Jeffrey Brown. Chicken Soup for the Soul: Say Goodbye to Back Pain! is full of inspirational stories and practical medical information and advice. This new book with Harvard Medical School will help readers with back pain, whether it is occasional or chronic. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. * Philip K. Dick Award finalist* Locus Recommended ReadingHere are 33 weird, wonderful stories concerning men, women, teleportation, wind-up cats, and brown paper bags. By turns whimsical and unsettlingfrequently managing to be boththese short fictions describe family relationships, bad breakups, and travel to outer space. Vukcevich's loopy, fun-house mirror take on everyday life belongs to the same absurdist school of work as that of George Saunders, David Sedaris, Ken Kalfus, and Victor Pelevin, although there is no one quite like him. Try one of these stories, it won't take you long, but it will turn your head inside out."What other writer could make you start laughing halfway down the first page of a story about a man putting on a sweater? Thurber maybe, a long time ago. Buy this book."Damon Knight"These stories cannot be compared to anyone else's. There is no one in the same class as Ray Vukcevich. The stories are uniquely, splendidly, brilliantly original, a surprise in each and every one, and brimming with wit and laugh-out-loud humor. A stunning collection."Kate Wilhelm"The absurd and the profound are seamlessly joined through fine writing. Meet Me in the Moon Room is a first-rate collection.Jeffrey Ford"The 33 brief stories in Meet Me in the Moon Room defy categorization genre. A few toy with the conventions of science fiction; others branch off from trails blazed by Donald Barthelme. Moon Room will delight those who appreciated the risks Don DeLillo took in Ratner's Star."Hartford Courant"Eccentric short stories, which frequently give everyday life a loopy twist."Book Magazine"Ray Vukcevich is a master of the last line. Almost every one of his stories has a zinger at the end, but not the kind of zinger that chocks the reader or causes annoyance. Often it's a perfect line of dialogue that opens up the whole story. Vukcevich is ingenious with the short-story form. Although the stories read as playful vignettes, Vukcevich covertly works in ideas of self, identity, destiny, and obsession. And occasionally, the dangers of outer space."Review of Contemporary Fiction"Vukcevich is a master of radical recombinations, drawing from (amongst others) the Brothers Grimm, Dickens, Lewis Carroll, Kafka, O. Henry, Dali, Asimov, pulpish space opera, and the latest in nanotech to produce works that are all his own. Sometimes in as little as four or five pages, he deftly juggles so many ideas, emotions, and perspectives, it produces a curiously refreshing sense of vertigoa high with no hangover to follow. It would be.a great mistake to ignore the extraordinary talent of Ray Vukcevich."Locus"Vukcevich is a very slick writer, an authentic sprinter in an era of milers and all-out stayers. Vukcevich can do punchlines, but he does not rely on them. Indeed, his extraordinarily light touch when it comes to narrative closure is his most distinctive feature. Anyone who considers bizarre surrealism and casual absurditythe main stocks-in-trade of the fantastic ultrashort story writereasy clay to mold into narrative form has not given serious consideration to the matter of finishing."New York Review of Science Fiction"These stories niftily propel their characters down the blurred line between fantasy and psychosis, with effects spanning the gamut from melancholy to goofy, from plaintive to outraged. This is Vukcevich's gloriously mad world, and we are lucky to share it."Asimov's"The same antic spirit that imbued Vukcevich's mystery novel The Man of Maybe Half-a-Dozen Faces moves playfully through this first collection of fantastic fiction, whose 33 Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - A rich, multifaceted history of affirmative action from the Civil Rights Act of 1866 through today's tumultuous times From acclaimed legal historian, author of a biography of Louis Brandeis ('Remarkable' -Anthony Lewis, The New York Review of Books, 'Definitive'-Jeffrey Rosen, The New Republic) and Dissent and the Supreme Court ('Riveting'-Dahlia Lithwick, The New York Times Book Review), a history of affirmative action from its beginning with the Civil Rights Act of 1866 to the first use of the term in 1935 with the enactment of the National Labor Relations Act (the Wagner Act) to 1961 and John F. Kennedy's Executive Order 10925, mandating that federal contractors take 'affirmative action' to ensure that there be no discrimination by 'race, creed, color, or national origin' down to today's American society. Melvin Urofsky traces the evolution of affirmative action through labor and the struggle for racial equality, writing of World War I and the exodus that began when some six million African Americans moved northward between 1910 and 1960, one of the greatest internal migrations in the country's history. The author also writes of World War II, when women replaced men in factories and the issue of equal pay arose, and of Franklin Delano Roosevelt signing into law his last great New Deal measure for returning veterans-the Servicemen's Readjustment Act (the GI Bill), the most massive affirmative action program in American history. Urofsky tells the story of the struggles of blacks through the 1930s and 1940s, and how the southern states had to live up to the 'equal' parts of the 'separate but equal' formula. He writes as well about Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and the 1965 Voting Rights Act. He describes how Harry Truman, after becoming president in 1945, fought for Roosevelt's Fair Employment Practice Act and, surprising everyone, appointed a distinguished panel to serve as the President's Commission on Civil Rights, as well as appointing the first black judge on a federal appeals court in 1948 and, by executive order later that year, ordering full racial integration in the armed forces. We see Dwight Eisenhower sending in one thousand U.S. Army paratroopers and federalizing ten thousand Arkansas national guardsmen to protect black students trying to go to school; John F. Kennedy establishing the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity and naming Lyndon Johnson as its chair, with Kennedy understanding, as did civil rights leaders, that no matter how the government tried to eradicate racial discrimination, the key to progress involved private sector employment with decent paying jobs, which would pull black America out of poverty. Urofsky explores affirmative action in relation to sex, gender, and education and shows that nearly every public university in the country has at one time or another instituted some form of affirmative action plan-some successful, others not. In this important, ambitious, far-reaching book, Urofsky writes about the affirmative action cases decided by the Supreme Court: cases that either upheld or struck down particular plans that affected both governmental and private entities. We come to fully understand the societal impact of affirmative action: how and why it has helped, and inflamed, people of all walks of life; how it has evolved; and how, and why, it is still needed.

Paperback. Condition: Gut. No. 1: 127 p., No. 2: 130-276 p., No. 3: 278-438: Ill., No. 4: 440-566 p. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - No. 1: minimale Randläsuren, leicht berieben, No. 2: leichte Randläsuren, leicht berieben, Knick im Hinterdeckel, No. 3: minimale Randläsuren, leicht berieben, kleinere Anhaftungen auf Buchdeckel, Vorderschnitt weist kleine Flecken auf, einige Seiten weisen leichte Knicke auf, No. 4: minimal bestoßen, leicht berieben / No. 1: minimal edge wear, lightly rubbed, No. 2: light edge wear, lightly rubbed, crease on back cover, No. 3: minimal edge wear, lightly rubbed, minor adhesions on book cover, fore-edge has small stains, some pages have light creases, No. 4: minimally bumped, lightly rubbed. - MLQ 72:1 Articles David Gorman The Future of Literary Study: An Experiment in Guesswork Ashley Marshall Henry Fielding and the "Scriblerians" Stephen Knadler Back to "Oriental" Africa: Islamicism and Becoming African in the Early Black Atlantic Christopher L. Hill Nana in the World: Novel, Gender, and Transnational Form Reviews Marguerite Waller Carole Levin and John Watkins, Shakespeare s Foreign Worlds: National and Transnational Identities in the Elizabethan Age Eva Geulen Richard T. Gray, Money Matters: Economics and the German Cultural Imagination, 1770-1850 Christopher Lane Kent Puckett, Bad Form: Social Mistakes and the Nineteenth-Century Novel Michele Elam Werner Sollors, Ethnic Modernism Rebecca L. Walkowitz Jahan Ramazani, A Transnational Poetics Elizabeth Freeman Gillian Harkins, Everybody s Family Romance: Reading Incest in Neoliberal America / MLQ 72:2 Articles Eric Hayot On Literary Worlds Joshua Scodel Finding Freedom in Hamlet Raphaël Ingelbien and Benedicte Seynhaeve The Critique of Hamletism in The Wild Irish Girl and Corinne Charles Altieri Reading Bradley after Reading Laforgue: How Eliot Transformed Symbolist Poetics into a Paradigmatic Modernism Reviews John E. Toews Dominick LaCapra, History and Its Limits: Human, Animal, Violence Hassan Melehy Timothy Hampton, Fictions of Embassy: Literature and Diplomacy in Early Modern Europe Maureen Quilligan Bruce R. Smith, The Key of Green: Passion and Perception in Renaissance Culture Nicholas Dames Garrett Stewart, Novel Violence: A Narratography of Victorian Fiction Joycelyn Moody Katherine Adams, Owning Up: Privacy, Property, and Belonging in U.S. Women s Life Writing Bi-qi Beatrice Lei Alexander C. Y. Huang, Chinese Shakespeares: Two Centuries of Cultural Exchange Jessica Burstein Enda Duffy, The Speed Handbook: Velocity, Pleasure, Modernism / MLQ 72:3 Literary Value A Special Issue of Modern Language Quarterly Joseph Luzzi Introduction Articles Bruce Robbins Is Literature a Secular Concept? Three Earthquakes Jeffrey T. Schnapp The Chatter of People and Things Valerie Forman Early Modern "Neoliberalisms": England and the English Caribbean Richard T. Gray Imaginary Value and the Value of the Imaginary: J. G. Schlosser, E. T. A. Hoffmann, and the Convergence of Aesthetics and Economics in German Romanticism Roberto M. Dainotto With Plato in Italy. The Value of Literary Fiction in Napoleonic Italy Angela Sorby Who Wrote "Rock Me to Sleep"? Elizabeth Akers Allen and the Profession of Poetry / MLQ 72:4 Articles Ellen R. Welch Performing a New France, Making Colonial History in Marc Lescarbot s Théâtre de Neptune (1606) Geoffrey Turnovsky Authorial Modesty and Its Readers: Mondanité and Modernity in Seventeenth-Century France Allison Schachter Modernist Indexicality: The Language of Gender, Race, and Domesticity in Hebrew and Yiddish Modernism Review Article Matthew Levay Modernism, Periodically (Peter Brooker and Andrew Thacker, eds., Britain and Ireland, 1880-1955, vol. 1 of The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines; Robert Scholes and Clifford Wulfman, Modernism in the Magazines: An Introduction) Reviews ' Gregory Jay Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors, eds., A New Literary History of America Patricia Meyer Spacks Richard Maxwell, The Historical Novel in Europe, 1650-1950 Rolf Lessenich Julie Candler Hayes, Translation, Subjectivity, and Culture in France and England, 1600-1800 Peter Carafiol Michael Boyden, Predicting the Past: The Paradoxes of American Literary History Juliet Shields Jennie Batchelor, Womens Work: Labour, Gender, Authorship, 1550-1850 Philip Shaw Mary A. Favret, War at a Distance: Romanticism and the Making of Modern Wartime Michelle S. Liu Eric Hayot, The Hypothetical Mandarin: Sympathy, Modernity, and Chinese Pain Laura Winkiel Urmila Seshagiri, Race and the Modernist Imagination. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Volume 1 of a 2 v. set ; lxxx, 420 pp. ; 22 cm. ; full leather ; red label ; foxing ; front hinge shaken ; tiny fly pressed in margin of advertisement [!] ; "Lectures on Ecclesiastical History (1800), the first part of Campbell's divinity course to be published, was also the most controversial. Campbell intended these particular lectures for the press, no doubt because they concerned the nature and form of the Christian Church, matters that dominated his thought in the last years of his life. The lecture went to press virtually unedited. He traced the means by which a collection of small, independent, and egalitarian congregations were transformed into a multi-layered, hierachical and elitist government that was ultimately subjugated to the Bishop of Rome. His conclusion that early bishops were nothing more than congregational ministersimplicitly challenged the foundation of the Scottish Episcopal Church."--Jeffrey M. Suderman, Orthodoxy and Enlightenment: George Campbell in the Eighteenth Century ; Bookplate of William Speer. ; "The Reverend William Speer was born at Lower Marsh Creek, in York, now Adams county, Pennsylvania. He was graduated at Dickinson College, Carlisle, A. D. 1788. Mr. Speer was regarded with great respect by the people of his congregation. He was a man of highly respectable talents-a sensible, instructive, and evangelical preacher. His method of treating his subjects was sometimes too profound and abstruse for those whose minds were not disciplined to thought. But, by the more intelligent, he was viewed as a very profitable preacher. When among strangers, he was stately and reserved in his manners: but among his intimate acquaintances, he was cheerful and companionable in a high degree. He had a high standing in the judicatories of the church, as a judicious and sagacious counselor."--David Elliot, The life of the Rev. Elisha Macurdy, 1848 ; "The Speer family was of Scotch Presbyterian descent and according to family tradition lived in Ulster for at least 100 years before coming to America. In America they became ardent patriots, providing soldiers for the French and Indian wars and for the Continental Army of General Washington. They were also behind the Whiskey Rebellion which resisted prohibitory taxes on processed farm products. They rejected slavery and were behind the laws making Pennsylvania slave free. They were devout people, firmly believing in the goodness of God and faith in the future. The Speer family motto is : 'Dominus providebit,' or the Lord will provide."--George D. Speer ; "To the memory of the Reverend William Speer, Pastor of the united congregations of Greensburg and Unity. With a mind vigorous and discriminating, richly furnished with literature, he early consecrated himself to the service of Christ. In the pulpit he was profound, instructive and often eloquent. In deliberative assemblies, Pre-eminent; as a pastor, laborious, faithful, firm in maintaining doctrine and discipline; in manners, accomplished, grave and dignified; in friendships, sincere an steadfast. The relations of life he adorned by prudence and strict integrity; in his family, loving and beloved. His piety, consistent in life, triumphant in death. Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright; for the end of that man is peace." --Rev. Wm Brown ; Speer indicates in a handwritten note on the front endpaper that the original price for the set was $7 and that he purchased the set at auction in May of 1813 for $3 ; G. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very good condition, recently rebound in the style of the late 17th century in brown calf with discrete tooling, spine plain with five raised bands and new end papers. Containing 234 plates and three maps as called for, The plates and maps are in good+ order. Damage and loss to pp 123/124 otherwise text clean and bright and in very good order. On the reverse of the frontis piece in a seventeenth/eighteenth century hand a statistical account of the Bible - numbers of chapters, verses, words and letters (total 3,566,480) etc. etc. - a note at the end says "Three years was taken to complete this account" (probably the work of Thomas Addenbrooke) the frontis piece is by G. Freman engraved by J. Kip, the printed title page has the first or early ownership of Thomas Addenbrooke (the following page gives a list of the sculptures and discourses with the names of the patrons of same, the dedication by Richard Blome is to the Worshipful Jeffrey Jeffreys, followed by the Preface to the Reader, in all 10 pages of unpaginated front matter followed by 424 pages paginated (illustrations not included in pagination). [QP].

XIV, [2 blank], 232 pp.Rare first edition of the collected letters of an idler residing in Calcutta, which were separately published each month in the overland edition of the daily newspaper Calcutta star. We have found no other copy offered for sale in the past hundred years. The letters were very likely written by James Hume, editor of the Calcutta star, who arrived in Calcutta in 1839, also becoming a lawyer in the colonial Supreme Court there. The often long and humorous letters to various European friends contain his opinionated commentary on Indian news and on events in England, although the bulk of his writings are on Indian matters: almost every letter reports on unrest and fights in one or more parts of India, but he also comments on the habits of the Indian society. He continued to publish letters after this collection appeared. A highly interesting collection of letters written and printed in Calcutta, showing the immersion of a European in the Indian culture who wrote everything down in his letters. A "dairy" of colonial life in British India in the 1840s.Good copy.l Catalogue of printed books in the Library of the British Museum 25 (1889) , col. 79; cf. Jeffrey A. Auerbach, Imperial boredom: monotony and the British Empire (2018) , p. 172; Gary Simons, 'The Squab and the Idler: a cosmopolitan-colonial dialogue in the Calcutta Star between William Thackeray and James Hume', in: Victorian Literature and Culture 42 (2014), 3, pp. 387-406.