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Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary (ND Ward Phillips Lectures)
N. Katherine Hayles
University of Notre Dame Press, 2008
Electronic Literature--Outstanding
This is an excellent book by well-qualified scholars of an on-trend subject. It is an essential book for all University teachers of writing classes and introductory literature classes. It is highly recommended for all literature professsors--undergraduate and ...
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White Noise: Text and Criticism (Viking Critical Library)
Don DeLillo
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1998
Get this edition!
I've sometimes asked myself why I don't get a library card and save the money I spend buying books. This book answered that question, because the reviews and essays featured in this edition provided such insight and enlightenment that I was inspired to return to the ...
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City Life
Witold Rybczynski
Scribner, 1996
What Went Wrong?
This book attempts to answer the question-an important one to my thinking-"Why don't our cities look like the great ones: Paris, Rome?" Rybczynski, a student of architecture and city planning discusses the history of American blunders from the highway to the ...
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White Noise (Contemporary American Fiction)
Don DeLillo
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1986
Consumptive Consumerism
White Noise / 0-14-007702-2
White Noise, arguably Delillo's best work, carefully explores a world where consumerism has, almost literally, consumed us all, to the point where we become empty shells of people.
The extended family in the book have been reduced by ...
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Learning to Labor: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs
Paul Willis
Columbia University Press, 1981
Still The Best Ethnography in Sociology
I came to Dr. Willis's Learning To Labor as a Ph.D. student at York University, Toronto. I was profoundly moved both theoretically and personally. Willis gives us a theoretical way of articulating macro and micro perspectives which shows how the two arise in ...
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Insurgents, Terrorists, and Militias: The Warriors of Contemporary Combat
Richard H. Shultz, Andrea J. Dew
Columbia University Press, 2006
A useful guide for military planners
The book rely's on four case studies. Somalia, Chechnya, Afganistan and Iraq. The thesis is that after the end of the cold war, the wars will be fight in an unconventional scenario against clan based militias. It give a useful brief history in each case looking for ...
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Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War With a New ...
Eric Foner
Oxford University Press, USA, 1995
Excellent background
This book is an excellent background study for anyone interested in the origins of the Republican Party in the 1850's before it became the Party of Jefferson Davis and Southern social conservatives in the 1970's and 1980's.
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Beyond Trend: How To Innovate In An Over-Designed World
Matt Mattus
How, 2008
"The world's most noteworthy creative leaders share certain traits: They are inspired by a constant desire for originality, they have a sturdy respect for those with true talent, and they are consciously driven forward by a relentless pursuit of excellence." --Matt Mattus Now that marketers have discovered the value that design brings to their ...
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Diana Vreeland
Eleanor Dwight
William Morrow, 2002
Mad about her boldness!!!
I too, waited on pins and needles as Ms. Dwight's book was delayed and delayed. I had preordered it and it was a considerable wait. It was worth the wait. I bought it and read it in a couple of sittings, loved it so much I bought copies and sent to dear friends. One ...
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The Jungle (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Upton Sinclair
Penguin Classics, 2006
Two great authors for the price of one!
The Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition of 'The Jungle' is worth buying for Eric Schlosser's foreword alone, let alone Upton Sinclair's gripping expose. As author of Fast Food Nation (which is a bit of 'The Jungle' of our time), Schlosser wastes no time in underlining how ...
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An Introduction to Plato's Republic
Julia Annas
Oxford University Press, USA, 1981
an excellent book on the Republic..
The Republic covers many subjects and it's not possible for someone to write a comprensive book on the Republic. Most of the book written on the Republic usually focus on few particular subjects (the most notable one is justice). An Introduction to Plato's Republic is ...
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The System of Comics
Thierry Groensteen
University Press of Mississippi, 2007
Deep allround analysis of comics
This book gives you not only a description of the comic book evolution but also tools to better understand this ever evolving media. Groensteen is an undisputeable expert who has a extensive knowledge of visual arts.
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The Triangle Fire
Leon Stein
ILR Press, 2001
Great historical account of a true American disaster
As a Professor of Fire Science I am constantly seeking out books having to do with great historical fires in American. These books are to be used as course research papers by my students and typically are not available via the library network. I trust many of my ...
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Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles
Overlook TP, 1989
Hardboiled, and hard to put down!
A goldmine for any fan of Chandler's Marlowe novels and short stories, I couldn't put this book down. It finally gave context to the vistas I had only been able to imagine previously, and I'll never be able to pick up any hard boiled detective story set in Los Angeles ...
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American Writers at Home
J. D. McClatchy
Library of America, 2004
Space and Writing
I found this book to be quietly revolutionary in its very conception. The author and photographic collaborator set out to show how physical space influenced and stimulated various well known American writers. They look at both the writer's residence and personal ...
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