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Book cover for Tshikala K. Biaya: Enfant En Situation de Conflit Arme Et de Violence Urbaine. Bibliographie Annotee Et Signaletique

Enfant En Situation de Conflit Arme Et de Violence Urbaine. Bibliographie Annotee Et Signaletique

Tshikala K. Biaya
Paperback - $65.95

Co-published with the Obor Foundation, this volume of readings is published to assist in worldwide efforts to support publishing in developing countries. Recognising the crucial need for an indigenous publishing industry, the volume illustrates the g ...

Book cover for Sven Birkerts: Reading Life

Reading Life : Books for the Ages

Sven Birkerts
Paperback - $26.95

In 12 far-reaching and intimate essays, Birkerts reflects upon his first readings of classic texts, including "The Catcher in the Rye" and "Lolita," and what later encounters reveal about time, memory, and the murmuring transistors of selfhood.

Book cover for Sven Birkerts: The Gutenberg Elegies

The Gutenberg Elegies : The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age

Sven Birkerts
Paperback - $32.95

"[A] THOUGHTFUL AND HEARTFELT BOOK...A literary cri de coeur--a lament for literature and everything implicit in it."
--The Washington Post
In our zeal to embrace the wonders of the electronic age, are we sacrificing our literary culture? Renow ...

Book cover for Sven Birkerts: The Gutenberg Elegies

The Gutenberg Elegies : The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age

Sven Birkerts
Paperback - $24.95

"[A] THOUGHTFUL AND HEARTFELT BOOK...A literary cri de coeur--a lament for literature and everything implicit in it."
--The Washington Post
In our zeal to embrace the wonders of the electronic age, are we sacrificing our literary culture? Renow ...

Book cover for Holly Virginia Blackford: Out of This World

Out of This World : Why Literature Matters to Girls

Holly Virginia Blackford
Paperback - $52.95



Book cover for Walter Blair: The History of World Literature

The History of World Literature

Walter Blair
Paperback - $53.95



Book cover for Rosanne J. Blass: Celebrate with Books

Celebrate with Books : Booktalks for Holidays and Other Occasions

Rosanne J. Blass
Paperback - $80.95

Celebrate world holidays and promote the best in children's literature with 200 lively booktalks! A great tool for displays too!

Book cover for Harold Bloom: How to Read and Why

How to Read and Why

Harold Bloom
Paperback - $24.95

Bloom, the best-known literary critic of our time, shares his extensive knowledge of and profound joy in the works of a constellation of major writers, including Shakespeare, Cervantes, Austen, Dickinson, Melville, Wilde, and O'Connor in this eloquen ...

Book cover for C. C. Bombaugh: Facts and Fancies for the Curious from the Harvest-Fields of Literature a Melange of Excerpta

Facts and Fancies for the Curious from the Harvest-Fields of Literature a Melange of Excerpta

C. C. Bombaugh
Paperback - $75.95

The author collates his favorite selections from literature, none more than a page or two long. Includes Americana, Our national airs, Our historic characters, Our wonderlands, Our language, First things, Prototypes, Forecasts, Miscellanea Curiosa, F ...

Book cover for C. C. Bombaugh: Gleanings from the Harvest-Fields of Literature a Melange of Excerpta, Curious, Humorous, and Instructive

Gleanings from the Harvest-Fields of Literature a Melange of Excerpta, Curious, Humorous, and Instructive

C. C. Bombaugh
Paperback - $66.95

The author collates his favorite selections from literature, none more than a page or two long. Includes alphabetical whims, acrostics, alliteration, anagrams, the Bible, bouts rimes, the Cento, chronograms, churchyard literature, concatenation, or c ...

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