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American Indian Stories, Second Edition

Zitkala-Sa

• Paperback | Engels
• American Indian Stories, first published in 1921, is a collection of childhood stories, allegorical fiction, and an essay. One of the most famous Siou... Lees meer

One Vast Winter Count

Colin G Calloway

• Paperback | Engels | History of the American West
• This magnificent, sweeping work traces the histories of the Native peoples of the American West from their arrival thousands of years ago to the early... Lees meer

The Lost Notebooks of Loren Eiseley

Loren Eiseley

• Paperback | Engels
• This indispensable collection is filled with marvelous autobiographical glimpses of Loren Eiseley at different points in his life-as a young, inquisit... Lees meer

Gravity & Grace

Simone Weil

• Paperback | Engels
• Simone Weil, the French philosopher, political activist, and religious mystic, was little known when she died young in 1943. Four years later the phil... Lees meer

Young, Black, Rich, and Famous

Todd Boyd

• Paperback | Engels
• The author chronicles how basketball and hip hop have gone from being reviled by the American mainstream in the 1970s to being embraced and imitated g... Lees meer

Contemporary Jewish Writing in Hungary

• Paperback | Engels | Jewish Writing in the Contemporary World
• Contemporary Jewish Writing in Hungary features works by twenty-four of Hungary's best writers who have written about what it means to be Jewish in po... Lees meer

Mad Love

Andre Breton

• Paperback | Engels | French Modernist Library
• Mad Love has been acknowledged an undisputed classic of the surrealist movement since its first publication in France in 1937. Its adulation of love a... Lees meer

Good Things

Jane Grigson

• Paperback | Engels | At Table
• A celebration of fresh daily fare lovingly prepared. "Cooking something delicious is really much more satisfactory than painting pictures or making po... Lees meer

Shakespeare and Company, New Edition

Sylvia Beach

• Paperback | Engels
• Sylvia Beach was intimately acquainted with the expatriate and visiting writers of the Lost Generation, a label that she never accepted. Like moths of... Lees meer

Buffalo Nation

Ken Zontek

• Paperback | Engels | Bison Original
• The gruesome story of the devastation of buffalo herds in the late nineteenth century has become uncomfortably familiar. A less familiar story, but a ... Lees meer

Jesus of Nazareth and Other Writings

Richard Wagner

• Paperback | Engels
• Near the end of his life, Richard Wagner supervised the publication of his collected writings, providing an extensive view of his thoughts about art a... Lees meer

The Firmament of Time

Loren Eiseley

• Paperback | Engels
• Loren Eiseley examines what we as a species have become in the late twentieth century. His illuminating and accessible discussion is a characteristica... Lees meer

Call Me Ahab

Anne Finger

• Paperback | Engels | The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction
• Imagine a Hollywood encounter between Helen Keller and Frida Kahlo, "two female icons of disability." Or the story of "Moby Dick, or, The Leg," told f... Lees meer

Things Seen

Annie Ernaux

• Paperback | Engels | French Voices
• "Annie Ernaux's work," wrote Richard Bernstein in the New York Times , "represents a severely pared-down Proustianism, a testament to the persistent, ... Lees meer