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These journal accounts of life as a trauma specialist in Kenya, Eritrea and Uganda present poignant, engrossing yet dist......more
In this concise, time-saving and highly readable book, I’ll be showing you how to avoid the blunders and hurdles in your......more
Shining a spotlight on everyday readers of the 21st century, Beth Driscoll explores how contemporary readers of Anglopho......more
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After he died on the operating table, Gary Lindberg woke up with most of his memories wiped clean. He vowed to recollect......more
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This volume argues that we must examine the boundaries in fiction and non-fiction crime writing with an awareness of and......more
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On April 29, 1981 American journalist George Thurlow was shot by members of the El Salvador Treasury Police on a jungle ......more
This book offers the first extended account of the mid-century rise of ’model women of the press’ women who not only sto......more
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"In her follow-up to The Ivory Tower and Harry Potter, Lana A. Whited has compiled a new collection of essays analyzing ......more
The object of this little Work is to afford such a view of the Technical details of Printing and Publishing as shall ena......more
Curated Fiction presents a new theory and methodology for developing, drafting and refining creative writing. At the int......more
Loren Miller was one of the nation’s most prominent civil rights attorneys from the 1940s through the early 1960s and su......more
#1 New York Times Bestseller Guthrie persuasively renders the evolution of a hard-won religious belief that makes room f......more
Emmy Award-winning international journalist Hala Gorani weaves stories from her time as a globe-trotting correspondent a......more
Embark on an enthralling journey through the life and cinematic legacy of Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, the legendary Eng......more
The Austrian Retrospective Bibliography (ORBI) of the Austrian National Library brings together bibliographical data on ......more
Across four parts of exploratory, creative and speculative essays, this book provides provocative frameworks and reading......more
Reading Bodies in Victorian Fiction challenges literary studies to attend to surfaces rather than interpretation through......more
Clive Bell was a pivotal member of the Bloomsbury Group. His marriage to Vanessa Bell and his, at times tempestuous, rel......more
South Dakota Crusader portrays a principled and accomplished man who spent the first half of his life preparing for nati......more
The first overview of music journalist Ralph J. Gleason, and a discussion of in what ways music journalists contribute t......more
The first computational study of reading to focus on audiobooks, this book uses a unique and substantial set of reader c......more
Long recognized as a cultural watershed and touchstone of modernity, the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair (World’s Columbian Ex......more
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*NATIONAL BESTSELLER* *A Good Housekeeping Reads pick* A hilarious and incisive exploration of the joys of reading from ......more
This book depicts the Early Modern book markets in Europe and colonial Latin America. The nature of book production and ......more
From 1998 to 2023, only 3.5% (or less) of Black book editors worked as full-time staff at American book publishing house......more
A charming collection of quotes about cats from our favourite authors, accompanied by artwork in the trademark style of ......more
This open access book is a unique study of the impact of lived experience on literate life, exploring how children’s rea......more
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Have you ever imagined how difficult it is to want to practice your faith and not be able to? Whether because your visio......more
The early years... 1998-2009 A Tip of the Hat collection - 2 volume series - excerpts from 22-years of writing, thoughts......more
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Katrina Makkouk’s study of modernist poet Ezra Pound’s Pisan Cantos is a great introduction to the work of the poet in g......more
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Ten Years a Bohemian (Dix ans de bohème in French), first published in 1888, is the autobiographical account of a young ......more
Rupa began on a Calcutta pavement in 1936, when D. Mehra, an impecunious but driven salesman, decided to try his hand at......more
This book explores the early evangelical quest for enlightenment by the Spirit and the Word. While the pursuit originate......more
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Beyond Pinocchio is a meticulous examination of renowned author Carlo Collodi’s primers and his debunking Italian bourge......more
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A novel is among the most intricate of human creations, the result of thousands of choices and decisions. In How to Rere......more
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A fresh reading of Aldus Manutius, preeminent in the history of the printed book. Aldus Manutius is perhaps the greatest......more
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