Iser examines what happens during the reading process, and how it is basic to the development of a theory of aesthetic response, setting in motion a chain of events that depends both on the text and the exercise of certain human faculties.

Act of Reading: A Theory of Aesthetic Response

Literature & Fiction

Wolfgang Iser

History & Criticism

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Evolution

Science & Math

Colin Patterson

General information on materials, tools, and procedures of shoemaking precede detailed directions for making custom-designed and custom-fitted moccasins, shoes, boots, and sandals

Make-it-yourself Shoe Book

Clark, Christine Lewis

Woman of Letters: Life of Virginia Woolf

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ROSE, PHYLLIS

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In addresses written for a wide general audience, one of the twentieth century's most prominent thinkers, Claude Lévi-Strauss, here offers the insights of a lifetime on the crucial questions of human existence. Responding to questions as varied as 'Can there be meaning in chaos?', 'What can science learn from myth?' and 'What is structuralism?', Lévi-Strauss presents, in clear, precise language, essential guidance for those who want to learn more about the potential of the human mind.

Myth and Meaning

Politics & Social Sciences

Claude Lévi-Strauss

Anthropology

Comprehensive and balanced, this classic exploration of the history of the English language combines internal linguistic history and external cultural history—from the Middle Ages to the present. Emphasis is on the political, social and cultural forces that affect language.   Reflects the latest trends and statistics of the last ten years in a revised and updated chapter 1, English Present and Future. Provides a new section on Gender Issues and Linguistic Change in Chapter 10. Includes a thorough revision of Chapter 11, The English Language in America, including updated material on African American Vernacular English. Discusses Black English and varieties of English in Africa and Asia, as well as varieties in the United States, Australia, and Canada. Includes a map of American dialects. Provides examples of twentieth-century vocabulary.   For multilingual readers or anyone who wishes to develop a well-rounded understanding of present-day English.

History of the English Language

Reference

Albert C. Baugh

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Incisive, straightforward, and eloquent, this third and concluding volume of F. A. Hayek's comprehensive assessment of the basic political principles which order and sustain free societies contains the clearest and most uncompromising exposition of the political philosophy of one of the world's foremost economists.

Law, Legislation and Liberty: The Political Order of a Free People v. 3: A New Statement of the Liberal Principles of Justice and Political Economy

Hayek, Friedrich A. Von

Politics & Government

Auschwitz Inferno: Testimony of a Sonderkommando

Filip Müller

In this remarkable book Jung sets himself face-to-face with 'the unvarnished spectacle of divine savagery and ruthlessness.'

Answer to Job: Researches into the Relation Between Psychology and Religion

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Jung, C. G. (trans R. F. C. Hull)

Psychology & Counseling

Arabian Nights: Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night

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