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Close Writing - Alice Butler

In Close Writing, Alice Butler reflects on the diaries, letters, publications, performances, lives, and afterlives of her most beloved queer feminist writers: Kathy Acker and Cookie Mueller. While the transgressive avant-garde writer Kathy Acker has developed a cult following in the decades since…

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In the Dark Room - Brian Dillon

Boldly combining the highly personal with the brilliantly scholarly, In the Dark Room explores the question of how memory works emotionally and culturally. It is narrated through the prism of the author''s experience of losing both his parents, his mother when he was sixteen, his father when he was…

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Wanton Motion in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture - Sara Landreth

How can words capture what it feels like to be a body moving through space? In charting how the aesthetics of motion mattered to eighteenth-century literature, print culture, theatre, and legal debates, Sara Landreth refocuses the period's fascination with the abstraction of 'selfhood' toward…

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The Storm and the Samurai - Nadine Cowan

Collins Big Cat supports every primary child on their reading journey from phonics to fluency. Top authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that children love to read. Book banded for guided and independent reading, there are reading notes in the back, comprehensive…

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Txtng: The Gr8 Db8 - David Crystal

This book takes a long hard look at the text-messaging phenomenon and its effects on literacy, language, and society. Young people who seem to spend much of their time texting sometimes appear unable or unwilling to write much else. Media outrage has ensued. "It is bleak, bald, sad shorthand,"…

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Introducing Literary Criticism - Owen Holland

From Plato to Virginia Woolf, Structuralism to Practical Criticism, Introducing Literary Criticism charts the history and development of literary criticism into a rich and complex discipline. Tackling disputes over the value and meaning of literature, and exploring theoretical and practical…

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Homeric Hymns. Homeric Apocrypha. Lives of Homer - Homér

Invocations, curiosities, and biographies connected with the famous Greek bard. Performances of Greek epics customarily began with a hymn to a god or goddess—as Hesiod's Theogony and Works and Days do. A collection of thirty-three such poems has come down to us from antiquity under the title…

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Advanced Media Arabic - El Mustapha Lahlali

Do you want to develop, enhance and refine your Arabic media language, translation and analytical skills? Then this is the book for you. It gives you a broad range of exercises on reading comprehension, speaking, writing and listening, based on a wide variety of media texts and audio materials. You…

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Reading Latin - Jones Peter

Reading Latin, first published in 1986, is a bestselling Latin course designed to help mature beginners read classical Latin fluently and intelligently. It does this in three ways: it encourages the reading of continuous texts from the start; it offers generous help with translation at every stage…

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The Wisdom of the Heart - Henry Miller

In this selection of stories and essays, Henry Miller elucidates, revels, and soars, showing his command over a wide range of moods, styles, and subject matters. Writing “from the heart,” always with a refreshing lack of reticence, Miller involves the reader directly in his thoughts and…

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Journals and Letters - Frances Burney

Novelist and playwright Frances (Fanny) Burney, 1752-1840, was also a prolific writer of journals and letters, beginning with the diary she started at fifteen and continuing until the end of her eventful life. From her youth in London high society to a period in the court of Queen Charlotte and her…

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Mrs Warren's Profession, Candida, and You Never Can Tell - George Bernard Shaw

Mrs Warren''s Profession, Candida, and You Never Can Tell are plays which give a clear sense of the range of Shaw''s first forays into playwriting. Together they showcase his early negotiations between his political and social concerns and the constraints and possibilities of the British stage at…

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Letting Stories Breathe - Arthur W. Frank

Stories accompany us through life from birth to death. But they do not merely entertain, inform, or distress us - they show us what counts as right or wrong and teach us who we are and who we can be. Though stories can connect individuals, they also can disconnect, creating boundaries between…

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Talk Stories - Jamaica Kincaid

‘Fresh, risky, improvisational and hard-to-categorize writing’ - Chicago TribuneTalk Stories is a collection of Jamaica Kincaid’s original writing for the New Yorker’s ‘Talk of the Town’ column from 1974 to 1983. In these early pieces Kincaid discovers New York’s many hidden secrets…

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Elementary Tagalog - Jiedson R. Domigpe, Nenita Pambid Domingo

This is the leading beginner Tagalog textbook and language learning package. Elementary Tagalog''s comprehensive approach will help students master Tagalog, the language of the Philippines, also known as Filipino or Pilipino. From learning to read Tagalog words and pronounce Tagalog sounds to using…

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Some Answers Without Questions - Lavinia Greenlaw

''A pointed, svelte but diverse work.'' Irish TimesPart memoir, part manifesto, Some Answers Without Questions is an elegant, important and spirited work of self-investigation; the result of decades of answering questions that don''t really matter—and not being asked the ones that do.''A delight…

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The Heart of Things - Richard Holloway

Richard Holloway is one of our most beloved public thinkers. Throughout his life he has turned to poets and writers to help answer the big questions, and for solace and guidance in the face of life''s challenges. Now he shares those poems and words which have been his own guide, offered in the hope…

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The Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume One - Aristotle

The Oxford Translation of Aristotle was originally published in 12 volumes between 1912 and 1954. It is universally recognized as the standard English version of Aristotle. This revised edition contains the substance of the original Translation, slightly emended in light of recent scholarship…

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Foundations Italian 1 - Carmela Murtas, Mara Benetti, Caterina Varchetta

A lively and popular introductory textbook teaching Italian to absolute beginners working in a classroom setting. A diverse range of dialogues, video clips, and reading passages deliver new material which is carefully practised in a wide variety of imaginative exercises, both individually and in…

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Sounds Appealing - David Crystal

It''s not what you say, it''s the way that you say it ... There have long been debates about ''correct'' pronunciation in the English language, and Britain''s most distinguished linguistic expert, David Crystal, is here to set the record straight. Sounds Appealing tells us exactly why, and how, we…

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How to Write - Gertrude Stein

An excellent introduction to the unique voice of Gertrude Stein — as well as a treat for her fans — this 1931 book presents the modernist author's thoughts on the art and craft of writing. Stein's experimental style reflects her love of refrain and rhyme, her dismissal of the conventional…

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In Praise of Messy Lives - Roiphe Katie

''Is there some adventure out there that we are not having, some vividness, some wild pleasure, that we are not experiencing in our responsible, productive days? . . . We are bequeathed on earth one very short life, and it might be good, one of these days, to make sure that we are living it.''In…

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Ovid Unseens - Mathew Owen

Ovid Unseens provides a bank of 80 practice passages of Latin verse, half elegiac and half hexameter.Taken from across Ovid''s works, including the Metamorphoses, Fasti, Heroides, Amores and Tristia, the passages help build students'' knowledge and confidence in a notoriously difficult element of…

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