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How to Cook a Wolf:
How to Cook a Wolf


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Written to inspire courage in those daunted by wartimes shortages, How to Cook a Wolf continues to rally cooks during times of plenty, reminding them that...
Consider the Oyster:
Consider the Oyster


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M.F.K. Fisher, whom John Updike has called our "poet of the appetites," here pays tribute to that most delicate and enigmatic of foods---the oyster. As she...
The Civility Solution: What to Do When People Are Rude
The Civility Solution



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"Though his new book deals with many kinds of incivility, Dr. Forni has devoted a sizeable chunk of it to workplace and high-tech rudeness . . . his approach to incivility is rooted in his academic career researching and teaching Italian literature. Some fundamentals of good behavior, he says, go back hundreds of years."—The Wall Street Journal
Psychiatric Power: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1973--1974 (Lectures at the Collège de France)
Psychiatric Power

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"[Foucault] has an alert and sensitive mind that can ignore the familiar surfaces of established intellectual codes and ask new questions . . . [He] gives dramatic quality to the movement of culture."—The New York Review of Books
Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the Collège de France 1977--1978 (Lectures at the Collège de France)
Security, Territory, Population

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"The English translation of Security, Territory and Population is a major event not only for Anglophone readers of Foucault’s work, but for all those concerned with understanding our present social and political condition. These lectures show that the trenchant analysis of biopower, 'power over life,' which Foucault had begun in the first volume of the History of Sexuality and which he pursues here in terms of technologies of security, led him to a decisively deeper and more radical formulation of his guiding problematic—what he called 'the government of the self and others'—the issue that would serve as the basis for all his subsequent work. Security, Territory and Population might thus properly be called the ‘missing link’ that reveals the underlying unity of Foucault’s later thought . . . Burchell’s translation is meticulous, supple, and attentive to the nuances of Foucault’s fluid lecture style. We all stand in his debt."—Kevin Thompson, Book Review Editor, Continental Philosophy Review, Department of Philosophy, DePaul University
"Society Must Be Defended": Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975-1976 (Lectures at the Collège de France)
"Society Must Be Defended"

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An examination of the relation between war and politics, by one of the twentieth century’s most influential thinkers From 1971 until 1984 at the...
Abnormal: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1974-1975 (Lectures at the Collège de France)
Abnormal

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"The importance of these lectures is that they are directly connected with two of Foucault's greatest books, Discipline and Punish and The History of Sexuality: An Introduction. Because they are clear and to the point, the lectures throw considerable light on the more difficult ideas and passages of their related published works . . . [Abnormal] looks at a set of what Foucault believed to be defining criminal cases of how the West has constituted and reconstituted what is normal and not normal behavior."—Charles Mudede, The Stranger
How to Be Alone: Essays
How to Be Alone



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"How to Be Alone reaffirms the novelist's prerogative to engage in social criticism. And Franzen's calm, passionate critical authority derives not from any special expertise in criminology, neurology, or post science, but rather from the fact that, as a novelist, he is principally concerned with the messy architecture of the self."—The New York Times Book Review
Farther Away: Essays
Farther Away



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In this incisive collection of speeches and essays, Jonathan Franzen returns with renewed vigor to the themes, both human and literary, that have long...
The Copenhagen Papers: An Intrigue
The Copenhagen Papers



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One day, during the British run of Copenhagen, winner of the Tony Award for best play in 1999, Frayn was presented with a curious package from a London...
Nobody Better, Better Than Nobody:
Nobody Better, Better Than Nobody


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Nobody Better, Better Than Nobody is a collection of five extended essays that appeared in The New Yorker from 1978 to 1986. In the tradition of A. J. Liebling...
Gone to New York: Adventures in the City
Gone to New York



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Welcome to Ian Frazier's New York, where every block is an event, and where the denizens are larger than life. Meet landlord extraordinaire Zvi Hugo Segal, and...
Lamentations of the Father: Essays
Lamentations of the Father



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Ian Frazier is unquestionably one of America's greatest living humorists, a writer with a distinct, generous sensibility and a thousand different voices. His...
Feeling as a Foreign Language: The Good Strangeness of Poetry
Feeling as a Foreign Language



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In Feeling as a Foreign Language, award-winning poet and critic Alice Fulton considers poetry's uncanny ability to access and recreate emotions so wayward they...
Looking for Anne of Green Gables: The Story of L. M. Montgomery and Her Literary Classic
Looking for Anne of Green Gables



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In June 1908, a red-haired orphan appeared on to the streets of Boston and a modern legend was born. That little girl was Anne Shirley, better known as Anne...
Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
Better



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"'What does it take to be good at something, when failure is so easy?' asks writer/physician Gawande . . . Diligence, ingenuity and 'doing right' . . . Gawande illustrates each of these qualities with stories from his own experience, [and] his observations of and conversations with other physicians . . . For young doctors . . . Gawande suggests five strategies: Ask unscripted questions, don't complain, 'count something' (be a scientist as well as a doctor), write something (to make yourself part of a larger world) and change in response to new ideas. A must-read for medical professionals-and a discerning, humanizing portrait of doctors at work for the rest of us."—Kirkus Reviews
The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling
The Long Recessional



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“Readable and reliable . . . [Gilmour’s] assessment of the political background of Kipling’s writings is exemplary.” —Earl L....
Can Poetry Matter?: Essays on Poetry and American Culture
Can Poetry Matter?



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"This book is destined to be a classic."—Michael J. Bugeja, Columbus Dispatch
Disappearing Ink: Poetry at the End of Print Culture
Disappearing Ink



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"Today people may read fewer poems than ever. But they listen to more of them—good news, says Mr. Gioia, for those who believe poetry is not now, and never will be, just for poets."—The Wall Street Journal
Many Circles: New and Selected Essays
Many Circles



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Many Circles collects the best of Goldbarth's three earlier essay collections, along with several new pieces. Goldbarth, whom Joyce Carol Oates has called "a...
Prince of Stories: The Many Worlds of Neil Gaiman
Prince of Stories



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Over the past twenty years, Neil Gaiman has developed into the premier fantasist of his generation, achieving that rarest of combinations—unrivaled critical...
Living in Hope and History: Notes from Our Century
Living in Hope and History



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"Gripping and important . . . A rare glimpse of the crumbling of the last bastion of colonialism, told by a writer of consummate skill."—Steven Harvey, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The Solitude of Self: Thinking About Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The Solitude of Self



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"What a potent book this is! What a boon to be reminded that politics, like art, demands bold thought and unceasing imagination."—Margo Jefferson, The New York Times
The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth
The White Goddess



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The White Goddess is perhaps the finest of Robert Graves's works on the psychological and mythological sources of poetry. In this tapestry of poetic and...
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