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Quotidiana

Quotidiana


Patrick Madden



Review "Words form constellations; they glitter on the pages. . . . There is a religiosity here, though not the usual kin...
Islam, Fundamentalism, and the Betrayal of Tradition : Essays by Western Muslim Scholars, Revised and Expanded Ed.

Islam, Fundamentalism, and the Betrayal of Tradition : Essays by Western Muslim Scholars, Revised and Expanded Ed.


Joseph E. B. Lumbard



Review "This book capably argues for a return to the true spirit of classical Islamic intellectualism, disregarding the d...
Rhetoric and Poetics in Antiquity

Rhetoric and Poetics in Antiquity


Jeffrey Walker



Review "Rhetoric and Poetics in Antiquity is an excellent book...Walker has provided an important, original, and insightf...
Cuisine and Culture: a history of food and people

Cuisine and Culture: a history of food and people


Linda Civitello



Review "...Tracing the connection between major historical events and their affect on different culinary traditions, this...
The White Album: Essays (FSG Classics)

The White Album: Essays (FSG Classics)


Joan Didion



Review “[Didion] can strike at the heart, or the absurdity, of a matter in our contemporary wasteland with quick, gr...
To Jerusalem and Back (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)

To Jerusalem and Back (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)


Saul Bellow



Review ''An impassioned and thoughtful book . . . Bellow delights in the liveliness, the gallantry of Israeli life--peopl...
Fat boys: a slim book

Fat boys: a slim book


Sander L. Gilman



From Publishers Weekly Today, many people tend to think of fat as a female (or, with a nod to Susie Orbach, "feminist") i...
Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002 (Modern Library Paperbacks)

Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002 (Modern Library Paperbacks)


Salman Rushdie



From Publishers Weekly Roughly one-fourth of these essays deals with the response of the media, various governments and R...
Philosophical Foundations of Historical Knowledge

Philosophical Foundations of Historical Knowledge


Murray G. Murphey



Philosophical Foundations of Historical Knowledge...
A CONVERGENCE OF BIRDS Original Fiction and Poetry Inspired by the Work of Joseph Cornell

A CONVERGENCE OF BIRDS Original Fiction and Poetry Inspired by the Work of Joseph Cornell


Jonathan Safran Ed. Foer



From Publishers Weekly When he was still a college student, Jonathan Safran Foer began writing to famous poets and writer...
Writers Under Siege: Voices of Freedom from Around the World (A Pen Anthology)

Writers Under Siege: Voices of Freedom from Around the World (A Pen Anthology)




From Publishers Weekly To mark 85 years of work assuring that oppressed writers are heard in their home countries and aro...
A Cultural History of Latin America: Literature, Music and the Visual Arts in the 19th and 20th Centuries (Cambridge History of Latin America)

A Cultural History of Latin America: Literature, Music and the Visual Arts in the 19th and 20th Centuries (Cambridge History of Latin America)


Leslie Bethell



Review 'The best collaborative history of the region currently available, or likely to be available for a long time to co...
Joining the sisterhood: young Jewish women write their lives

Joining the sisterhood: young Jewish women write their lives


Julie Pelc, Tobin Belzer



From the Back Cover Young Jewish women engage in almost every aspect of religious and cultural Jewish life, yet their uni...
Cuisine du Moi: The Heart of My Passion

Cuisine du Moi: The Heart of My Passion


Gavin Canardeaux



About the Author Gavin Canardeaux is the alter ego of Ben Canaider, a wine writer and the coauthor of Cooking Under the I...
The Moronic Inferno and Other Visits to America

The Moronic Inferno and Other Visits to America


Martin Amis



From Library Journal Using an engaging tone in which disdain and affection appear equally mixed, Amis looks at some of th...
For You Mom, Finally

For You Mom, Finally


Ruth Reichl



About the Author Ruth Reichl is the author of Comfort Me with Apples, Tender at the Bone, and Garlic and Sapphires. She h...
Homer's Odyssey: A Fearless Feline Tale, or How I Learned about Love and Life with a Blind Wonder Cat

Homer's Odyssey: A Fearless Feline Tale, or How I Learned about Love and Life with a Blind Wonder Cat


Gwen Cooper



Amazon.com Review Book Description Once in nine lives, something extraordinary happens... The last thing Gwen Cooper wan...
The Prose Works of Andrew Marvell (Volume 2)

The Prose Works of Andrew Marvell (Volume 2)


Professor Annabel Patterson



Review "This book provides a much needed properly edited, extensively and expertly annotated edition that has been wantin...
Gender and Genre: Essays on David Mamet

Gender and Genre: Essays on David Mamet


Leslie Kane, Christopher Hudgins



About the Author Christopher Hudgins was Chair of the English Department at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas for nine ...
Travel Writing 1700-1830: An Anthology (Oxford World's Classics)

Travel Writing 1700-1830: An Anthology (Oxford World's Classics)


Elizabeth A. Bohls, Ian Duncan



About the Author Elizabeth Bohls is the author of Women Travel Writers and the Language of Aesthetics, 1716-1818 (1995)....
A Hunter's Experiences in the Southern States of America (Cambridge Library Collection - History)

A Hunter's Experiences in the Southern States of America (Cambridge Library Collection - History)


Captain Flack



Book Description This is an entertaining and informative account of Captain Flack's experiences of hunting, shooting and...
Of Essays and Reading in Early Modern Britain (Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print)

Of Essays and Reading in Early Modern Britain (Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print)


Scott Black



Review "A timely and compelling exercise in criticism." —David Hill Radcliffe, Virginia Tech "The writing is ...
Veils (Cultural Memory in the Present)

Veils (Cultural Memory in the Present)


Hélène Cixous, Jacques Derrida



Review “This book is a significant event in contemporary French letters. Although Cixous and Derrida have often sign...
Virginia Woolf's Essays: Sketching the Past

Virginia Woolf's Essays: Sketching the Past


Elena Gualtieri



Review Highly recommended. Choice About the Author Elena Gualtieri is Lecturer in English at the University of S...