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Modernism and Magic
Edinburgh University Press 2012; US$ 112.00While modernisms engagement with the occult has been approached by critics as the result of a loss of faith in representation, an attempt to draw on science as the primary discourse of modernity, or as a hidden history of ideas, Leigh Wilson argues that these discourses have at their heart a magical practice which remakes the relationship between... more...
The Use of Imaginary, Historical, and Actual Maps in Literature
The Edwin Mellen Press 2013; US$ 179.95In this text, the author highlights unrecorded discoveries about how maps and literature are associated. Not only do maps give us a tool by which to understand a physical reality as it actually exists, but maps can support the realm of literary fiction - such as Tolkiens Middle Earth, or Stevensons Treasure Island. There are also maps that... more...
The Zombie Survival Guide
Crown Publishing Group 2003; US$ 14.99The Zombie Survival Guide is your key to survival against the hordes of undead who may be stalking you right now. Fully illustrated and exhaustively comprehensive, this book covers everything you need to know, including how to understand zombie physiology and behavior, the most effective defense tactics and weaponry, ways to outfit your home for... more...
The Performance of Nobility in Early Modern European Literature
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 50.00This valuable study illuminates the idea of nobility as display, as public performance, in Renaissance and seventeenth-century literature and society. Through detailed readings of major authors, David Posner examines the tensions between literary or imaginative representations of 'nobility', and the increasingly problematic historical position of the... more...
Ruminations on Twentysomething Life
Touchstone 2005; US$ 16.95IS THERE LIFE AFTER COLLEGE? In this sidesplitting follow-up to his smash hit, Ruminations on College Life, Aaron Karo takes readers on another outrageous journey -- this time through his early twenties. With hilarious anecdotes and irreverent observations, Karo captures the twentysomething experience like never before and answers the question,... more...
The Literature of Satire
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 35.00This is an accessible but sophisticated study of satire from the classics to the present in verse, plays, novels, and the press. Knight provides illuminating readings of a wide range of writers and sheds new light on the nature and functions of satire as a mode of writing. more...
A Companion to Satire
Wiley 2008; US$ 205.95This collection of twenty-nine original essays, surveys satire from its emergence in Western literature to the present. Tracks satire from its first appearances in the prophetic books of the Old Testament through the Renaissance and the English tradition in satire to Michael Moore’s satirical movie Fahrenheit 9/11 . Highlights the important... more...
Bootleg
HarperCollins 2010; US$ 10.99Nothing is too outrageous for Damon Wayans. Whether he's talking about family, celebrities, racism, relationships, politics, or sex, Damon takes no prisoners. And in Bootleg, he brings it all on, uncut and uncensored: Marriage... What are the scariest words known to man? "Till death do us part." Why not until my car breaks down? Or until I run out... more...
Jokes Every Man Should Know
Quirk Books 2010; US$ 9.95The Only Joke Book You?ll Ever Need Featuring: ? Nine Jokes about Heaven and Hell ? Eight Jokes Just for Kids ? Nineteen Jokes Definitely Not for Kids ? Six Jokes about Lightbulbs ? Seven Jokes about Bars ? The World?s Only Funny Knock-Knock Joke Plus alternate versions, roasts and toasts, historical... more...
Music of the Sky
World Wisdom 2010; US$ 9.99A collection of spiritual poetry from antiquity to the present, reflecting many styles and expressions of our experince of the sacred through the medium of poetry. Organized into three universal dimensions of spiritual life, the awareness of suffering and death, the experience of the depth of compassion and love, and the knowledge of the unity of... more...









