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Smells Like Dead Elephants : Dispatches from a Rotting Empire
Matt Taibbi
Paperback - $23.95
Matt Taibbi is notorious as a journalistic agitator, a stone thrower, a "natural provocateur" (Salon.com). His scathing, vibrant prose shines an unflinching spotlight on the corruption, dishonesty, and sheer laziness of our leaders. Smells Like Dead ...
Critical Essays on John Edgar Wideman
Bonnie Tusmith
Hardcover - $69.95
John Edgar Wideman is one of the most prominent African American writers today. He is the first author to have been awarded the Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction twice--once in 1984 for Sent for You Yesterday and again in 1990 for Philadelphia Fire. His ...
An an Anthology Regarding Merit Goods : The Unfinished Ethical Revolution in Economic Theory
Wilfried Van Eecke
Hardcover - $212.95
Van Eecke has assembled a collection of articles and papers that covers the issue of merit goods from a variety of perspectives, providing a single source for researchers and economist interested in the issue. The work begins with a thorough look at ...
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens : Womanist Prose
Alice Walker
Paperback - $26.95
In this, her first collection of nonfiction, Alice Walker speaks out as a
black woman, writer, mother, and feminist in thirty-six pieces ranging
from the personal to the political. Among the contents are essays about
other writers, accounts ...
What's Language Got to Do with It?
Keith Walters
Paperback - $124.95
From Tom Tomorrow on English as an official language to Clyde Haberman on words that shoot to kill to Roz Chast on the IMs of Romeo and Juliet to George Orwell on politics and the English language, this anthology of essays, news articles, cartoons, a ...