'A PELICAN IN THE WILDERNESS: HERMITS, SOLITARIES AND RECLUSES'

COLEGATE, Isabel

Religion & Spirituality

Counterpoint

Kundun: Biography of the Family of the Dalai Lama

Kundun

Biographies & Memoirs

CRAIG, Mary

Leaders & Notable People

On Writers and Writing

A first-time collection of the essays and reviews of the late artist and critic, presenting his views on Bellow, Nabokov, Updike, and others, explores subjects ranging from religion to fairy tales, and from King Arthur to Walt Disney.

Literature & Fiction

Gardner,John

Essays & Correspondence

Deus Lo Volt! Chronicle of the Crusades

History

CONNELL, Evan S.

Europe

The Trouser People: A Quest for the Victorian Footballer Who Made Burma Play the Empire's Game

Marshall, Andrew

Historical

How did we come to adopt the strange notion of owning land?an exploration by one of Americas finest nature writers.. In this richly entertaining story that reaches back to the beginning of British common law and up to the most recent Supreme Court takings decisions, John Mitchell reveals how we came to accept a system of private ownership. Building upon the heartbreaking story of a tribe of praying Indians who bought into the colonists legal system and settled their own 2000-acre tract, only to be dispossessed and herded into a detention camp, he explores every variation on this important theme. In this richly entertaining story that reaches back to the beginning of British common law and up to the most recent Supreme Court takings decisions, John Mitchell reveals how we came to accept a system of private ownership. Building upon the heartbreaking story of a tribe of praying Indians who bought into the colonists legal system and settled their own 2000-acre tract, only to be dispossessed and herded into a detention camp, he explores every variation on this important theme. An hilarious visit to the Mitchell ancestral manor in Scotland, a brilliant panorama of the single vast grid in

Trespassing: An Inquiry Into the Private Ownership of Land

Business & Money

MITCHELL, John Hanson

Economics

Brings readers inside the insular world of the tonnara--the ritual trapping and killing of bluefin tuna--enacted by the fishermen of a Sicilian fishing village since the Stone Age.

Mattanza: Love and Death in the Sea of Sicily

Politics & Social Sciences

Maggio, Theresa

Social Sciences

Jesus Land - Memoir 1St edition by Scheeres, Julia (2005) Paperback

Julia Scheeres

Community & Culture

Chronicles one of the century's most significant technological developments in an engaging & anecdotal fashion. With character sketches, compelling stories, & scientific explanations that are easy to follow, the authors capture the brilliance, vision, & frustration behind the invention of TV. The inventors of TV were a diverse group of iconoclasts from different corners of the world -- including an Idaho farm boy turned college dropout, an eccentric, sickly Scotsman, & 2 Russian Americans. Traces their progress, from the lab. prototypes to the vicious courtroom battles for control of what would become an enormous market power. Photos.

Tube: The Invention of Television

Science & Math

David E. Fisher

Marshall Jon Fisher

Technology

Acclaimed poet and translator Robert Bly here assembles a unique cross-cultural anthology that illuminates the idea of a larger-than-human consciousness operating in the universe. The book’s 150 poems come from around the world and many eras: from the ecstatic Sufi poet Rumi to contemporary voices like Kenneth Rexroth, Denise Levertov, Charles Simic, and Mary Oliver. Brilliant introductory essays trace our shifting attitudes toward the natural world, from the old position” of dominating or denigrating nature, to the growing sympathy expressed by the Romantics and American poets like Whitman and Dickinson. Bly’s translations of Neruda, Rilke, and others, along with superb examples of non-Western verse such as Eskimo and Zuni songs, complete this important, provocative anthology.

News of the Universe: Poems of Twofold Consciousness

Poetry

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