Emily Murphy, a writer and journalist was told she could not be named a Canadian senator because she wasn't a “qualified person.” This, regardless of what she had contributed to her community as reformer and suffragette, ...
The former football player for the Miami Dolphins recounts his battle with post-football financial disaster, cocaine addiction, incapacitating medical problems, and a conviction for hyped-up drug charges that he fought all the way to State ...
" The novel did receive great publicity on its release, but even though it was heavily criticized it also became influential with a new generation of writers and aesthetes.
Because of his extreme sensitivity to the absurd and the grotesque in human affairs, des Esseintes, who is really a mouthpiece for Huysmans himself, has estranged himself from 19th-century society and leads a hermit-like existence in an ...
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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Both groups sprang from Citizens for a Sound Economy (CES), an organization founded and financed by the Koch brothers in 1984. The underlying vision was to reshape public support for a government like that which existed in the era of ...
Hans Eichner has enjoyed a distinguished career as one of North America's most productive and insightful literary scholars.
The book dramatizes the plight of abolitionist Quakers living in eastern North Carolina during the Civil War.
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Against the Grain, features the work of three studios of the Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professors at Yale.
This book accepts many of the criticisms of conventional theory but argues that the fundamental insights of economics are capable of reinterpretation and reinvention to deal with a host of contemporary concerns – social networks, ...
Against the Grain
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Against the Grain: Parody, Satire, and Intertextuality in Russian Literature
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