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  • Joan of Arc and Sacrificial Authorship
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    Joan of Arc and Sacrificial Authorship

    A host of modern authors have portrayed Joan of Arc as a heroine. Identifying with the medieval saint and martyr as a figure of the artist, they tell her story as a way of commenting on their own...
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  • A Coyote Reader
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    A Coyote Reader

    Wily, raunchy, and heroic. A trickster, lecher, and supreme survivor. Such is the magical Coyote, that mythic Native American figure whose various roles are recounted here in a wonderful selection of...
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    Selected Letters of Hamlin Garland

    Hamlin Garland, a Pulitzer Prize-winner and author of more than forty books, was a central figure in American literary life for half a century. He was intimately involved with many of the major...
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  • Conversations with James Thurber Conversations with James Thurber
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    Conversations with James Thurber

    In Conversations with James Thurber this remarkable man who has been called America¿s twentieth-century Mark Twain and who was one of the great talkers of his time expresses his opinions on just...
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  • The Ring of a Bell The Ring of a Bell
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    The Ring of a Bell

    On a frosty November night in 1872, a warehouse fire, fanned by a chilling breeze, erupts into a conflagration that razes much of Boston's downtown. This sudden catastrophe propels Herb Andersen and...
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  • Ben Holladay Ben Holladay
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    Ben Holladay

    The red and black Concord stagecoaches that crossed the West in the 1860s, known to the Indians as "fire boxes," have been celebrated in Mark Twain's fiction and John Ford's films. Predating the...
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  • Slide Mountain
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    Slide Mountain

    The drive to own the natural world in twentieth-century America seems virtually limitless. Signs of this national penchant for possessing nature are everywhere-from suburban picket fences to...
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  • Models of Phase Transitions Models of Phase Transitions
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    Models of Phase Transitions

    ... "What do you call work?" "Why ain't that work?" Tom resumed his whitewashing, and answered carelessly: "Well. lI1a),he it is, and maybe it aill't. All I know, is, it suits Tom Sawvc/:" "Oil...
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  • Useful Star Names Useful Star Names
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    Useful Star Names

    Travel the universe when you open the breathtaking new book Useful Star Names: With Nebulas and other Celestial Features. Retired astronomy professor Thomas Wm. Hamilton invites you along as he...
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  • The Medieval Risk-Reward Society The Medieval Risk-Reward Society
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    The Medieval Risk-Reward Society

    The Medieval Risk-Reward Society offers a study of adventure and love in the European Middle Ages focused on the poetry of authors such as Marie de France, Chrétien de Troyes, Wolfram von Eschenbach,...
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  • Treasure and Empire in the Civil War Treasure and Empire in the Civil War
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    Treasure and Empire in the Civil War

    Across North America's periphery, unknown and overlooked Civil War campaigns were waged over whether the United States or Confederacy would dominate lands, mines, and seaborne transportation...
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  • A Decade in My Life - 1969 -1979 A Decade in My Life - 1969 -1979
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    A Decade in My Life - 1969 -1979

    I published my first booklet of poems Noon Moon Days in 1969 (age 19) after I had turned on, tuned in and dropped out. I figured if Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, Allen Ginsberg and other great American...
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  • Colonizing the Past Colonizing the Past
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    Colonizing the Past

    After the Revolution, Americans realized they lacked the common, deep, or meaningful history that might bind together their loose confederation of former colonies into a genuine nation. They had been...
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  • Conquering the Borderlands Conquering the Borderlands
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    Conquering the Borderlands

    In terms of United States history, the Borderlands are the territories, from "Alta California" to "La Florida," that formed the northern frontier of Spain's New World empire. Conquering the...
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  • The Year's Work in Medievalism, 2002 The Year's Work in Medievalism, 2002
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    The Year's Work in Medievalism, 2002

    'The Year's Work in Medievalism,' volume XVII, is based upon but not restricted to the 2002 proceedings of the annual International Conference on Medievalism, organized by the Director of Conferences...
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    Van Gross, M.D. of Philadelphia

    The culmination of a 25-year Essay and Poem Series beginning in 1997, Van Gross, MD of Philadelphia captures the final six years of this four-book journey.Leading off with the revenge packed Van...
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    New England Nature
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    New England Nature

    Since its founding four hundred years ago, New England has been a vital source of nature writing. Maybe it's the diversity of landscapes huddled so close together or the marriage of nature and...
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  • Natural Lives, Modern Times Natural Lives, Modern Times
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    Natural Lives, Modern Times

    "Piquant, and uncommonly eloquent."--Kirkus Reviews"Stutz is an eloquent advocate for the river and the region's preservation."--Publishers WeeklyThe Delaware River flows out of New York's Catskill...
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    Post45 Vs. The World

    Much of the work done on the Post45 literary field carries an implicitly Americanist perspective. Even the name of the field suggests a certain literary history, with certain assumptions and blind...
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  • Made to Stick
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    Made to Stick

    The New York Times bestseller that reveals why some ideas thrive, why others die, and how to make your message stick - now in a vibrant reissue'This book is a gift to anyone who needs to get a...
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  • Napoleon Sarony's Living Pictures
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    Napoleon Sarony's Living Pictures

    Napoleon Sarony was once one of the most famous names in American photography. During the Gilded Age, his grand portrait studio with its one-story-high marquee reproducing the photographer's...
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  • Molecular Dynamics in Biological Membranes
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    Molecular Dynamics in Biological Membranes

    There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. Mark Twain The recent explosion in ou. r knowledge of basis...
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  • New England Nature
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    New England Nature

    Since its founding four hundred years ago, New England has been a vital source of nature writing. Maybe it's the diversity of landscapes huddled so close together or the marriage of nature and...
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  • The Iron Whim
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    The Iron Whim

    The Iron Whim is an intelligent, irreverent, and humorous history of writing culture and technology. It covers the early history and evolution of the typewriter as well as the various attempts over...
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  • Archivo 126 Archivo 126
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    Archivo 126

    "Robinson Crusoe, the Connecticut Yankee, lone survivor of nuclear holocaust: how would these the creations of human hubris really fare removed fromthe support of their usual surroundings? Gilbert...
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  • Dancing on the Color Line Dancing on the Color Line
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    Dancing on the Color Line

    The extensive influence of the creative traditions derived from slave culture, particularly black folklore, in the work of nineteenth- and twentieth-century black authors, such as Ralph Ellison and...
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  • Hot Air by Charlie Suisman (Paperback) Hot Air by Charlie Suisman (Paperback)
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    Hot Air by Charlie Suisman (Paperback)

    A sequel to the award-winning novel Arnold Falls, Hot Air features the characters of the small, upstate New York town during the summer following the events of book one. The "incredibly funny"...
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  • ROYAL GRAND BERRIES ROYAL GRAND BERRIES
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    ROYAL GRAND BERRIES

    Royal Grand BerriesMark Twain's quote "The secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside", inspired me to create the burst of colorful recipes that resonates...
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  • St. Nicholas and Mary Mapes Dodge St. Nicholas and Mary Mapes Dodge
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    St. Nicholas and Mary Mapes Dodge

    St. Nicholas has been called the best children's magazine ever published, particularly during the tenure of its founding editor, Mary Mapes Dodge. From 1873 to 1905, Dodge worked to create what...
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    Funny Letters from Famous People
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    Funny Letters from Famous People

    Along the same lines as Bob Dole's GREAT POLITICAL WIT (140,000 copies sold), FUNNY LETTERS FROM FAMOUS PEOPLE is a political, historical and humor book wrapped up into one and stamped with the seal...
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  • Writing with Scissors
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    Writing with Scissors

    Men and women 150 years ago grappled with information overload by making scrapbooks-the ancestors of Google and blogging. From Abraham Lincoln to Susan B. Anthony, African American janitors to...
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  • George MacDonald George MacDonald
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    George MacDonald

    C. S. Lewis once remarked that his debt to George MacDonald's writings was ""almost as great as one man can owe to another . . . I know hardly any other writer who seems to be closer, or more...
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  • Havana Heat Havana Heat
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    Havana Heat

    A former star hurler for John McGraw's brawling Giants, Luther "Dummy" Taylor was also one of Major League Baseball's first deaf players. Havana Heat follows Taylor's life and fortunes when, after a...
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  • Integral Foam Molding of Light Metals Integral Foam Molding of Light Metals
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    Integral Foam Molding of Light Metals

    A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds. Mark Twain Metal foams show outstanding properties: Low weight, high rigidity, high energy absorption capacity, high damping capacity, etc...
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    Black Like You
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    Black Like You

    A refreshingly clearheaded and taboo-breaking look at race relations reveals that American culture is neither Black nor White nor Other, but a mix-a mongrel. Black Like You is an erudite and...
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    I Love Horses
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    I Love Horses

    I Love Horses gathers the most memorable quotes about horses ever written, recorded, or carried down through the ages, together with 50 fantastic photos of the prettiest horses available. Horses...
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  • PRESCRIPTION FOR ADVERSITY PRESCRIPTION FOR ADVERSITY
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    PRESCRIPTION FOR ADVERSITY

    A Prescription for Adversity makes the revolutionary case that Ambrose Bierce, far from being a bitter misanthrope, was instead both a compassionate and moral author. Berkove, focusing on Bierce's...
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  • The Best of Brush Country Bull 1977-1980 The Best of Brush Country Bull 1977-1980
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    The Best of Brush Country Bull 1977-1980

    A Depression-bred, Texas-style Mark Twain recaptures the life of the Brush Country and the heart of America. The best articles from the "Brush Country Bull" weekly newspaper column (1977-2005) in The...
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    25 Servings of SOOP

    Mark Twain, one of America’s greatest literary treasures, once said, “I apologize for such a long letter - I didn't have time to write a short one.”It takes great skill to tell...
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  • Incidental Smiles Incidental Smiles
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    Incidental Smiles

    A person endowed with a sense of humor has an inner 'richness' for it often brings incidental smiles on his face. No potion, no beauty aid, no pencils and brushes can embellish a human face as the...
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  • The Leisure Ethic
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    The Leisure Ethic

    At the turn of the last century, as routinized industrial labor made a mockery of the gospel of work, Americans increasingly sought fulfillment not on the job but in their leisure activities. This...
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