The Later Roman Empire, 284-602

A H : Jones

Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

Lives of the Greek Poets

Lefkowitz, Mary R.

"In this concise book... Braudel summarizes the broad themes of his three-volume Civilisation materielle et capitalisme, 1400-1800 and offers his reflections on the historian's craft and on the nature of the historical imagination... Taken as a whole, the book is provocative and stimulating. On occasion, it rises to revelation when two or three sentences of compressed but brilliant prose force us to reconsider the events of an entire century or the history of a continent." -- American Historical Review.

Afterthoughts on Material Civilization and Capitalism (English and French Edition)

Fernand Braudel

Business & Money

Alas, Alas, Kongo: A Social History of Indentured African Immigration into Jamaica, 1841-1865

Schuler, Monica

Management & Leadership

Documentary History of the First Federal Congress of the U.S., March 4, 1789-1791: Volumes 4, 5, and 6

Politics & Social Sciences

Bickford, Charlene Bangs

Politics & Government

In this major new collection, John Hollander displays the elegance, versatility, and wit that mark him as perhaps the most urbane poet in America. "In Time and Place" features a generous offering of new verse, an extended prose piece, and a series of prose poems previously available only in a rare, privately published edition.The tightly rhymed quatrains of the new poems demonstrate once again the freedom Hollander achieves through mastery of form. The consummate control with which he writes in memoriam to a lost love and a time of absence gives him opportunities to move through dimensions most poets never see. His purgatorial mock-journal--dwelling on loss and gain, on difference and effacement, on places and the place of writing--leads into a sequence of captivating prose poems, where imagination centers on the word and language celebrates its own creation.

In Time and Place (JOHNS HOPKINS, POETRY AND FICTION)

Literature & Fiction

Hollander, John

Poetry

This collection of stories profiles America's aging young, overeducated and undermotivated desperate characters whose relationships fall apart, explode in violence, or simply, slowly slide away

And He Tells the Little Horse the Whole Story (JOHNS HOPKINS, POETRY AND FICTION)

Barthelme, Steve

United States

Amazons: A Study in Athenian Mythmaking

Book by Tyrrell, Professor William Blake

History

Tyrrell, William Blake

Europe

Polemically set against the weightlessness of much recent discourse, this book explores the body as the ultimate testing ground for debates over language's ability to refer to the world.

Literature and the Body: Essays on Populations and Persons (Selected Papers from the English Institute, Vol 12)

Scarry, Elaine

History & Criticism

Maryland's Vanishing Lives

For more than two years, John Sherwood roamed Maryland's small towns and city neighborhoods, traveled Appalachian back roads, and sailed the Chesapeake looking for people whose work or way of life recalled the state's rich and varied tradition. Maryland's Vanishing Lives is his vivid account of the people he met on those journeys. Working in a country store or an old-time movie house, on a small tobacco farm or a weathered skipjack, Sherwood's subjects interest us as people, as stubborn survivors who have watched -- sometimes defiantly, sometimes wistfully -- as the world moved on.These Marylanders' stories poignantly show what happens to family businesses and ordinary folk in the face of new technology, suburban sprawl, franchise outlets, and changing tastes. But Maryland's Vanishing Lives is also an engaging celebration of pride and craft, and the ability to survive. In this collection of sixty-six short profiles, illustrated with memorable photographs by Edwin Remsberg, Sherwood preserves for posterity the lives of Marylanders who hang on to values and skills that are quickly disappearing.

SHERWOOD,John

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