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'They Say / I Say': The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing, with 2016 MLA Update (Third Edition)

By: Graff, Gerald,Birkenstein, Cathy

Price: $2.00

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: October 2016

Seller ID: 293987

ISBN: 0393617432

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"They Say / I Say" identifies the key rhetorical moves in academic writing, showing students how to frame their arguments in the larger context of what others have said and providing templates to help them make those moves. And, because these moves are central across all disciplines, the book includes chapters on writing in the sciences, writing in the social sciences, and--new to this edition--writing about literature.
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Best American Essays 2002 (The Best American Series)

By: N/A

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Mariner Books: October 2002

Seller ID: 155925

ISBN: 0618049320

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads hundreds of pieces from dozens of periodicals, then selects between fifty and a hundred outstanding works. That selection is pared down to the twenty or so very best pieces by a guest editor who is widely recognized as a leading writer in his or her field. This unique system has helped make the Best American series the most respected -- and most popular -- of its kind.
From The New Yorker to the Missouri R...
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Carolina Quarterly Summer 2015

By: N/A

Price: $1.00

Seller ID: 150755

ISBN: 9110019952

Binding: New Trade

Condition: Used - LikeNew

Carolina Quarterly Winter 2014

By: N/A

Price: $1.00

Seller ID: 150766

ISBN: 9110019855

Binding: New Trade

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Circulatory Systems: Current and Connection

By: N/A

Price: $1.00

Seller ID: 150770

ISBN: 9110019820

Binding: New Trade

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Civil Disobedience and Other Essays (Dover Thrift Editions)

By: Henry David Thoreau

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Dover Publications: April 1993

Seller ID: 99721

ISBN: 0486275639

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Philosopher, naturalist, poet and rugged individualist, Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) has inspired generations of readers to think for themselves, to follow the dictates of their own conscience and to make an art of their lives. This representative sampling of his thought includes five of his most frequently cited and read essays: "Civil Disobedience," his most powerful and influential political essay, exalts the law of conscience over civil law. "Life without Principle" distills the essence of Thoreau's philosophy of self-reliance and individualism. "Slavery in Massachusetts" is a searing a...
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Confrontation Issue Number 115 Spring 2014

By: N/A

Price: $1.00

Seller ID: 150768

ISBN: 9110019839

Binding: New Trade

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Dead Certainties: (Unwarranted Speculations)

By: Schama, Simon

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Knopf: April 1991

Seller ID: 294406

ISBN: 0679402136

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Ecotone Fall/ Winter 2016

By: N/A

Price: $2.00

Seller ID: 151194

ISBN: 9110020039

Binding: New Trade

Condition: Used - VeryGood

FENCE VOL. 16 NO. 2 SPRING/SUMMER 2014

By: N/A

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Fence Magazine: June 2014

Seller ID: 286105

ISBN: 1934200913

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Fiction and the Unconscious

By: Lesser, simon o.

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Vintage: January 1957

Seller ID: 287231

ISBN: B005C7C82E

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Historical Essays

By: Henry Adams

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Nabu Press: January 2010

Seller ID: 173056

ISBN: 114272946X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
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Hooking Up

By: Tom Wolfe

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux: September 2000

Seller ID: 231321

ISBN: 0374103828

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Only yesterday boys and girls spoke of embracing and kissing (necking) as getting to first base. Second base was deep kissing, plus groping and fondling this and that. Third base was oral sex. Home plate was going all the way. That was yesterday. Here in the Year 2000 we can forget about necking. Today's girls and boys have never heard of anything that dainty. Today first base is deep kissing, now known as tonsil hockey, plus groping and fondling this and that. Second base is oral sex. Third base is going all the way. Home plate is being introduced by name.
And how rarely our hooked-up boy...
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Image and Insight: Essays in Psychoanalysis and the Arts (Psychoanalysis & Culture S)

By: Spitz, Ellen Handler

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Columbia University Press: September 1993

Seller ID: 100292

ISBN: 023107297X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Drawing on psychoanalytic discourse, the author of this work probes the use of words and images in contemporary culture. She draws upon a number of artistic movements and exhibitions to examine the emotional and intellectual responses to art.
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Me Talk Pretty One Day

By: Sedaris, David

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Back Bay Books: June 2001

Seller ID: 294690

ISBN: 0316776963

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A recent transplant to Paris, humorist David Sedaris, bestselling author of "Naked," presents a collection of his strongest work yet, including the title story about his hilarious attempt to learn French. A number one national bestseller now in paperback.
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Michel de Montaigne: Essays

By: Montaigne, Michel de, M., J. Cohen

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Penguin Classics: January 1959

Seller ID: 283451

ISBN: 0140440836

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Living at a time of religious strife and the decline of the intellectual optimism that had begun in the Renaissance, Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592) expressed in his writings both a deep skepticism about human affairs and a wide-ranging intellectual curiosity reflective of the age. Having witnessed firsthand the bloody armed conflicts, fanaticism, and persecutions that arose out of religious differences between French Catholics and Protestant Huguenots, Montaigne was especially skeptical about human claims to knowledge. For this reason he published not systematic philosophy but mere att...
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Narrative of Power: Essays for an Endangered Century

By: Randall, Margaret

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Common Courage Press: December 2003

Seller ID: 279829

ISBN: 1567512623

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Offering a feminist perspective on a wide range of topics, Randall is alternately passionate, angry, and humorous.

Looking at the choices we face in this war on terror, she writes, "In this picture we are asked to align ourselves, to take sides. But what if we believe there are other choices? Feminists have long been good at envisioning alternative choices. It is way past time for us to do so again."

About her father who succumbed to Alzheimer's disease, she offers a portrait of a man struggling to maintain a dignity even as his memory fades and of herself struggling to maintain...
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Noctua Review 2015

By: N/A

Price: $2.00

Seller ID: 152101

ISBN: 9110020470

Binding: New Trade

Condition: New - New

Noctua Review 2015

By: N/A

Price: $2.00

Seller ID: 152107

ISBN: 9110020446

Binding: New Trade

Condition: Used - LikeNew

Norte Dame Review Layers Number 40

By: N/A

Price: $1.00

Seller ID: 150760

ISBN: 9110019901

Binding: New Trade

Condition: Used - LikeNew

Notre Dame Review Outlines Number 39

By: N/A

Price: $1.00

Seller ID: 150763

ISBN: 9110019871

Binding: New Trade

Condition: Used - VeryGood

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Painting on the Page: Interartistic Approaches to Modern Hispanic Texts (Suny Series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture)

By: Feal, Rosemary Geisdorfer

Price: $2.00

Publisher: State University of New York Press: August 1995

Seller ID: 278988

ISBN: 0791426041

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Painting on the Page devises critical strategies that combine psychoanalysis, feminism, semiotics, and philosophy to examine late 19th- and 20th-Century Spanish and Spanish-American literature in relation to painting and to larger questions of art and literary history. The authors widen the theoretical lines to Hispanism, where approaches of this kind are rare. The book raises crucial concerns that relocate the art works and texts in question beyond the historical or aesthetic framework in which they have been traditionally placed.
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Pomegranate Soup: A Novel

By: Mehran, Marsha

Price: $1.00

Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks: September 2006

Seller ID: 293988

ISBN: 0812972481

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Beneath the holy mountain Croagh Patrick, in damp and lovely County Mayo, sits the small, sheltered village of Ballinacroagh. To the exotic Aminpour sisters, Ireland looks like a much-needed safe haven. It has been seven years since Marjan Aminpour fled Iran with her younger sisters, Bahar and Layla, and she hopes that in Ballinacroagh, a land of "crazed sheep and dizzying roads," they might finally find a home.

From the kitchen of an old pastry shop on Main Mall, the sisters set about creating a Persian oasis. Soon sensuous wafts of cardamom, cinnamon, and saffron float through the street...
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Protagoras and Meno (Penguin Classics)

By: Plato

Price: $1.00

Publisher: Penguin Classics: January 1957

Seller ID: 156331

ISBN: 0140440682

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Qualiteria: the Qpb Literary Journal

By: n/a

Price: $2.00

Publisher: QPB: January 1995

Seller ID: 162402

ISBN: B000HC5GGE

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Savage Reprisals: Bleak House, Madame Bovary, Buddenbrooks

By: Peter Gay

Price: $2.00

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc: June 2002

Seller ID: 131074

ISBN: 0393051188

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Focusing on three literary classics - Charles Dickens's Bleak House (1853); Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary (1857); and Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks (1901) - Peter Gay, a cultural historian, demonstrates that there is more than one way to read a novel. Typically readers believe that fiction, especially those that dominated the Western culture of the 19th century, is based on historical truth. Gay uses his examples to show that novels take their own path to reality. He discovers, by exploring their world, craftsmanship and their minds, that all three novelist share one overriding quality - a res...
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Scenes from Village Life

By: Oz, Amos

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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: October 2011

Seller ID: 279426

ISBN: 0547483368

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"Informed by everything, weighed down by nothing, this is an exquisite work of art." --The Scotsman

Strange things are happening in Tel Ilan, a century-old pioneer village. A disgruntled retired politician complains to his daughter that he hears the sound of digging at night. Could it be their tenant, that young Arab? But then the young Arab hears the digging sounds too. Where has the mayor's wife gone, vanished without trace, her note saying "Don't worry about me"? Around the village, the veneer of new wealth--gourmet restaurants, art galleries, a winery--barely conceals the scars ...
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The Columbia Literary History of the United States

By: Elliott, Emory

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Columbia University Press: April 1988

Seller ID: 276388

ISBN: 0231058128

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

For the first time in four decades, there exists an authoritative and up-to-date survey of the literature of the United States, from prehistoric cave narratives to the radical movements of the sixties and the experimentation of the eighties.

This comprehensive volume--one of the century's most important books in American studies--extensively treats Hawthorne, Melville, Dickinson, Hemingway, and other long-cherished writers, while also giving considerable attention to recently discovered writers such as Kate Chopin and to literary movements and forms of writing not studied amply in the past...
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